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  1. 3 hours ago, DanTheHorn said:

    Put me in the camp that thinks Texas will be no where near the top of the lists. Here is who I see in front of us for each team unless we are number one.

    Alabama Crimson Tide - Auburn, LSU and Tennessee
    Arkansas Razorbacks - Texas!
    Auburn Tigers - Alabama, Georgia, LSU
    Florida Gators - Georgia, LSU and Alabama
    Georgia Bulldogs - Florida, Tennessee, Auburn
    Kentucky Wildcats - Who knows and who cares
    LSU Tigers - Alabama, Ole Miss maybe Texas in the future
    Mississippi State Bulldogs - Alabama, LSU, Ole Miss
    Missouri Tigers - Oklahoma
    Ole Miss Rebels - LSU, MSt
    South Carolina Gamecocks - Who knows and who cares
    Tennessee Volunteers - Florida, Alabama even Georgia before us
    Texas A&M Aggies - TEXAS!!!!, they pretend to not like LSU
    Vanderbilt Commodores - Who knows and who cares

    Now that I thought about it more your post may be worthy of message board genius.

    I think this is kind of pointless because at some point giving a shit about an opponent saturates at 100%.

    Yes, we are almost always at 100% give-a-shit against OU, but did we give less of a shit playing Bama the last two years, or even playing LSU in 2019?

    Texas when good will get a 100% give a shit at every SEC opponent that has fans I think (e.g. not Vandy) The main difference compared to the Big 12 is 1.) In that conference we were the super bowl for everyone even in years that we completely sucked and 2.) Our fans will actually get up for a few of these opponents as well. It was hard to get up for anyone other than OU (and in the old days, Nebraska) in the Big 12.

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  2. Is the idea that Nahlin made a push to make OTF an IT property? I can see how he would feel like OTF was benefiting a lot from IT content and resources, but I can also see why Bobby (and, apparently, Gerry) would tell him to fuck right off with that lol.

  3. Ian is a pretty terrible radio personality and not special as a writer, but his football takes can be interesting. It's pretty clear the hasn't played a down competitively and that has pros and cons. The good news is that he isn't shackled by conventional wisdom the way that your typical meathead football commentator is. The bad news is that when he misses he can miss big and say embarrassing things.

    His analysis of Herman's QB run game is an example of what I like about him. Everyone knows that running the QB "provides an extra blocker in the box", but Ian's theory that the ability to dial the QB running up and down was the primary source of Herman's ability to overachieve in big games was an interesting observation that I hadn't seen other commentator's make. I remember a stay that Bill Connelly had about how Herman's teams were ridiculously "lucky" year-in and year-out and I think it make sense that there might be something systematic about that.

    Another example is the 3-3-5 defense. We all know that this has taken over the big 12, but I really haven't seen anyone else anywhere in the country discuss the mechanics of this defense and why it works to the extent that Ian has.

    Now, when he is writing about scouting HS prospects that's obviously way out of his zone and I'm gonna skip over that. And at his root he is a message board poster who is prone to extreme homerism clouding his vision. IT also seems to have a bigger quota for him than he has bandwidth to generate. Still, sometimes he can write interesting stuff.

  4. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    The thing that's crazy to me about Ian Boyd is that he is actually employed and paid for his shit takes, and paid and employed by some people I respect, to boot.

    One has to imagine that the pay for this position is quite low. I believe Ian lives in the middle of nowhere in Michigan. I can see how IT likes the steady stream of filler content to keep the board engaged.

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  5. I also hated the British museum; it's a bunch of random artifacts from other places that the British looted during the colonial era. I prefer museums that have more of a consistent narrative. One that I did enjoy was the museum of London.

  6. I don't know how you can be a fan of Texas basketball and watch this team without being impressed by what Terry has done this season. How many seasons have we had with talented rosters that played top 10 ball at some point in the season only to meltdown later in the season and in March? This team has a good roster but it's not loaded with first round picks by any means. IMO we have had several teams with better rosters that were much worse than this team on the court, even with Barnes who was a very good, if flawed, coach. I think there are plenty of long-term question marks about RT in charge as far as roster management, player development, culture building, etc, but he has done an excellent job of guiding us through this season.

    We also happen to know that Terry is a damn good recruiter, and he actually even assembled some high end talent at UTEP, including Souley Boum (I don't know the details of why he didn't win more there, but in any case that program is not UT). The guy knows the UT program.. I don't usually buy into this sort of thought but I think there is something there with UT basketball. We are an odd program in that we have a rather unusual mix of unlimited resources and immense access to talent, but also a contradictory combination of middling fan/student enthusiasm yet extremely high expectations. Our former NBA players might be a more important part of the program than at any other school, and many of them played for RT. Shaka definitely did not get UT basketball and Chris Beard did.

    And I completely agree that if we replaced Terry we would get absolutely destroyed by the media and it would be setting up the next guy for failure, whether that is fair to us or not. We know from Shaka Smart, Tom Herman, Charlie Strong, etc, that any coaching hire is an unknown that might fail. I see hiring Terry as having a higher floor and no lower of a ceiling than hiring any other coach would be, outside of the aforementioned Jay Wright / Brad Stevens tier of guys that aren't coming.

    I will say that if we were going to hire a different coach Sean Miller would make a lot of sense. He is damn good and I hope we can beat him on Friday.

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  7. I've only been to A&M games in Kyle when they were playing us. I'd have to say that those games were definitely loud, big time college football environments. The swaying and singing has a bit of a soccer feel that is fairly unique. That said, obviously playing against "TU" is the absolute fucking super bowl for A&M, and I wouldn't say that those games were louder than truly big games in DKR. The biggest issue with DKR is that we don't play OU there, and in general nobody gives a fuck about the rest of the big 12. So you typically only get big games with top notch OOC foes like Bama or LSU. The Bama crowd was absolutely insane. It was definitely up there with, and maybe even above all, the all time loudest games I can remember which would include the second half of Okie State in 2004, Missouri in 2008 and WVU in 2012.

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  8. 11 minutes ago, BramonceTaylor said:

    He’s Gilbert with a shitty arm. That’s both his talent and the staff’s faith in him compiled. 

    Card is more accurate than Gilbert but I can kinda see it. Both have the deer in headlights thing in the pocket going on for sure. Even though he looked like a goof doing it, Gilbert was at his best running the ball a lot (see Nebraska 2010), which is probably true for Card as well. Luckily we have an actual team now with WRs and RBs and don't need mediocre QBs to do VY/Colt impressions.

  9. 2 hours ago, Spider2YBanana said:

    Card is literally just a faster Case. 

    I don't see that one at all. Card is the opposite of Case, he has a good arm he is just ridiculously slow and indecisive going through progressions. Case actually was a pretty quick thinker who got the ball out he just didn't have the arm to get it there.

    A faster/slighter of build David Ash I could see. Honestly "faster Case" is probably Casey Thompson lol. Case's arm was one of the worst I have seen in D1 football in the last 30 years, though.

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  10. Question from an Omaha noob that is going to the first two games: Where should I buy tickets? does it matter? Are there team sections or is it randomly mixed? I assume we'll have a big advantage vs. ND but I know there will be plenty of Sooners and Ags.

  11. 10 hours ago, tokamak said:

    FWIW, Sagarin has it like this right now (overall ranking in parentheses):

    1. Texas (10)
    2. SMU (22)
    3. Texas A&M (29)
    4. Baylor (34)
    5. TCU (37)
    6. Texas Tech (48)
    7. Houston (63)
    8. UTSA (72)
    9. Sam Houston State (94) (#6 in FCS)
    10. Incarnate Word (135)
    11. North Texas (141)
    12. Stephen F. Austin (142)
    13. UTEP (146)
    14. Rice (159)
    15. Texas State (160)

    Today I learned that Sagarin fucking LOVES us right now. He's got our SOS at #26.

    The Massey composite (a shitton of random ranking systems averaged together) has us at #9.

    ESPN FPI has us at #8. Bill Connely's SP+ on the other hand has us all the way down at #27 for whatever reason.

  12. 9 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    FWIW, I had a friend who would know rant about how he thinks Day’s overrated and the chickens were going to come home to roost more sooner than later. That was a few weeks ago and he’s someone who talks to folks within the program and on the recruiting front. 

    This is correct. Anyone who doesn’t understand Ohio State’s 80 fucking years of good fortune as a program should look it up. Fuck those assholes and never whiffing on a coach. They’re due for about 40 years of ineptitude, dammit. 

    Mack was our best hire over like 50 years. Whereas OSU's worst hires are basically Mack equivalents...

  13. 7 hours ago, BHMCruiser said:

    Tennessee is just totally, totally fucked. 

    The reason they were good was because recruiting was basically regional and they had access to part of Mississippi and all of South Carolina. Tennessee is a barren wasteland of football talent. Then Spurrier went to South Carolina at the same time Clemson started getting good, and that killed South Carolina as a recruiting spot. Combined with the super-regional/national draw of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Auburn and to a lesser extent LSU, Tennessee is boxed in and basically shares the same recruiting area with Kentucky. Even if Tennessee LOCKS DOWN the state of Tennessee in terms of recruits, they can't even field a good football team. 

     

    They're dead

    I don't know if I agree. If you draw a circle around Knoxville there is still plenty of talent, even if it is across state lines. A lot of competition, yes, but still. I think they can be good, but I'd be shocked if Huepel is the answer. IMO that dude is an equivalent coach to Applewhite. At a blue blood school that guy should be a position coach.

     

  14. 27 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    One thing Mack Brown did well early on and through the VY years was allow players to make their own decisions regarding position choices, but not really. I've seen other coaches do it as well, so hopefully this is how Sarkisian handles it. Basically, let the players think they're making the choice but highlight repeatedly the opportunity at another spot until the player gives it a go after "asking" to do it, or then they just tell the guy he's going there and the guy transfers.

    It's been 23 years, so don't shoot me if my memory is way off on this, but I feel like one of the first things they did when they got to Texas was show DD Lewis the RB depth chart and the LB depth chart and then asked him about an interest in taking some spring reps at LB. Maybe they did that with Babino at S vs LB and I'm schmearing DDL over that premise as well, but I don't think so.

    Note: This isn't passing judgment on the correctness of Brown's staff getting guys to move, since it was a mixed bag. Nor is it claiming DD Lewis was a badass at LB, as I think anyone around at the time knows how I felt about his play while on the 40.

    Note Note: Also not talking about the dumb shit the Brown staffs were doing in the back half of his tenure after getting lazy and needing to fill various gaps on the depth chart by pulling guys from other positions because of evaluation fuckups.

    The transfer portal/mindset might make this a bit more difficult. Where a kid before might have given another position a go, today they can just transfer somewhere else.

  15. 3 hours ago, closetohumping said:

    Your user name is familiar

    I never really made the transition to Surly after whatever happened to Shaggy happened. Need to get back in it. But I posted on shaggy for a decade and hornfans (God help us) before that. Have also posted on 247 (several years ago) and IT (still do but mostly just read).

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  16. Just now, TotallyLegit said:

    So, correct me if I'm wrong, but you're saying that Bama's defense has gotten "worse" because their offense has gotten better and scored more?

    More like, the SEC is playing Big 12 football now, and their fans haven't adjusted expectations accordingly yet.

  17. 7 minutes ago, Getafix said:

     

    Well, if you put it that way, then we are all "Team Insanely High Expectations," Bob.

    The only UT D's in the modern era that would rank that high are '01, '05, '09, and perhaps '08? I know Bama recruits well but funny to think about wanting to fire the DC after a year like that.

  18. 5 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    It just means the guy hasn't interviewed his candidates yet, after his first option fell through. Golding has been Saban's golden boy. I'd like to see exactly where the "Bama is firing Golding after the NT game" bullshit started. Might it happen? Sure, Saban churns through staff. Is it going to? Where did the original thread of that notion start to get pulled? It comes across as bullshit and I haven't seen any smoke from Texas or Bama on it, but maybe there's something that I missed as this thread flies by here.

    Bama has a top 5 defense by efficiency metrics.

     

    If you want Golding fired you either a.) Have insanely high expectations for Bama's  annual performance or b.) Are a moron that still doesn't understand how pace affects raw counting statistics.

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