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gmr548

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  1. Broughton should be back. He has a COVID year and would barely be a UDFA at this point.
  2. Honestly I forgot he had eligibility left. Sneaky COVID years still out there. I do feel for a kid who has put four years in and meets that end but I hope it’s true. He is maxed out, not a pro prospect, and the safety position badly needs an upgrade. Collins played pretty well this year. I assume he got the “look at Sweat/Coburn” sell and will be in the first rotation. If he works and plays with the contract year motivation Sweat did he could definitely be an all SEC type and make himself some money. He’s two years older and wiser, and probably has an easier time accepting that his pro prospects are likely better at S than CB. At least that’s the narrative I’m running with if that ultimately comes to fruition.
  3. Easily number one home and home series I want to see Texas play. Yes please to a football trip to Seattle in September. Our AD clearly hates us booking trips to Ohio, Georgia, Florida, and Arizona (yes I realize the middle two are off the books), all of which are varying degrees of shitty and hot.
  4. I see. My memory is hazy. Thanks to Michigan for playing school too hard.
  5. lol shut up He wasn’t watching the game on TV. It takes a second to realize the ball is out from where he was. The ball was lost between the bodies of three guys. Washington players are standing around too. Gunner Helm is closer and stands there the entire time while Worthy tries to get into the pile but I don’t see you bitching about Helm. It was loose on the ground there for a moment, I wish he had executed the recovery better, but that’s not exactly something WRs practice.
  6. Well, off the top of my head Texas has no Sweat, Jones, or Whittington so it’s a two-way street. Michigan doesn’t look like such a dumpster fire and maybe Worthy sticks with them. Hell, Tom Herman goes 10-3 and might not get fired.
  7. Well that seems consistent with current aggy strategy
  8. Yeah I think you basically take best available DB at this point. If that’s a corner then cool. Move Austin Jordan to safety where he belongs
  9. I don’t understand how we as a fanbase cannot understand the value of experience at QB given we’ve witnessed since 2010
  10. Uh, I said goodbye to friends and cleaned up the remnants of our little watch party. This morning I was slow to log on for work because my head hurt and I was tired from a few too many beers and shitty sleep, but I got there eventually. I’ve wasted time posting on Surly. There’s not much to deal with. Ran into a really good team in their own right that happened to be an atrocious matchup. If Penix and Co abusing the Texas defense in route to victory wasn’t on your radar of possible outcomes then either remove the burnt orange shades or pay more attention. Texas won the Big 12 and competed for a national championship, they exceeded my preseason expectations by a significant margin and it was a really fun year. Last night was house money honestly. The OU loss lingered in my mind much longer and more intensely (and still does to an extent). You can actually feel excitement for the future without ODing on a ridiculous degree of Kool Aid. That takes the edge off.
  11. If Brooks leaves there is a compelling argument Blue is the best RB on the roster. I did not expect to type any part of that sentence at the end of this season. Tashard Choice is a witch.
  12. Y’all responding in agreement to this are making me think I’m crazy. This seems like bait from a texags user fantasizing about past Texas failures. Texas went 12-2 and won the Big 12 going away (literally and figuratively). First Texas team to win any hardware in 14 years. Qualified for the CFP and was a top four team any way you slice it. Will probably finish top 3 in the AP poll. Put up a 10 point road win against Nick Saban’s SEC champion Alabama. That is what this group will be remembered for, not what could have been. They lost a national semifinal game as a 4 point favorite, where a lot of people (accurately as it turns out) outside of Texas fans/media thought the wrong team was favored. Oh well. This is nothing like 2001 Colorado. Good lord. If 01 Texas had beaten Colorado again and got wrecked by an all time Miami team, would re remember that as a failure or tip the cap and be proud of the conference championship? Honestly purely on the morning after scale last night is not even the most frustrating loss this year. OU was way harder to swallow.
  13. That good lines exist outside of the SEC and always have? I wouldn’t think much about it. I also don’t think Washington won the LOS handily. They won in a critical area - pass blocking - and that was the single most important subset of the LOS battle given what Washington was bringing in terms of passing offense and what Texas was bringing in the back end. Texas defended the run well, ran the ball very well (not enough most would say), and while Washington did get home a couple times it’s not like Ewers was running for his life all night.
  14. The only two teams that have run through the SEC at consistent 10+ win clips are Bama and Georgia. Recruiting at a top 5-10 level hasn’t stopped A&M or LSU from failing to hit that mark plenty of times. Especially adding a ninth league game (I’m assuming this happens here in the next couple years), when these elite recruiting programs are going to play each other more often and simple math tells you there’s more Ls to go around, I would not expect to be the Bama and Georgia of recent history. That much more so with the likes of Ohio State and Michigan on non conference schedules, and I’m sure more upper tier programs to come. If you expect consistent 10-win seasons that’s great but that’s on you when you’re disappointed. And that’s okay The sport is changing man. 9-3 is going to be a coin flip for a playoff appearance. If one of those Ls is to a marquee OOC opponent you’re in the mix for a CCG spot. Competing for championships is the bar for me.
  15. Yeah. I felt it last night and reflecting this morning I definitely think the moment was just a little too much for Texas, both staff and players. Many eventually great teams/programs come up short in these kind of situations before ultimately getting to the top. The hope is that this ends up being a building block.
  16. Part of defending an offense like that is keeping them off the field. Michigan isn’t going to get out possessed 13-2 in a quarter. They will be committed to the run in a way Texas never was. Their defense is also just better, particularly on the back end and rushing the passer. They just matchup with Washington a lot better than Texas does. It will be an interesting contrast of styles for sure. Washington absolutely can win - Michigan is not at all equipped to chase UW down if they get out to a lead - but I lean Michigan because I think they will dictate the terms/style of the game like UW did to Texas.
  17. Yep. Texas was never, ever going to win this game with Penix having as much time and room to work as he did. There is not a college secondary that can cover Washington if the game is put on their shoulders. It is what it is.
  18. Despondency probably takes an early lead until NSD 2. Texas takes control of the offseason with a big spring game victory. Despondency tries to come back with 105-110 degree heat indices starting in June and continuing for so long that it feels like summer never ends. It may never cool off in Texas but the Kool Aid will be flowing for the trip to Ann Arbor and provide some relief. We’ll see how it goes from there. Ultimately I’m taking Texas, but despondency covers.
  19. In the vacuum of a single game I agree but stupid procedural penalties have been a consistent theme under Sark. Especially with the emphasis he puts on motion, not having that cleaned up after three years is an indictment on the staff. I’m not going to sit here like I think it’s a huge one because I don’t, but when you’ve got experienced guys still setting the team back because they able to execute sets pre snap it tells me you’re not effectively teaching.
  20. Undoubtedly this, for starters. I did not have this team sniffing the CFP this year. Last night stings with the way it went down but it was kind of house money for me. It was a great season. A season that will be a part of program lore. Sark absolutely deserves credit for building the program up to a place where that can even come together at all, let alone the fact that it actually did. Texas did not look out of place last night in a CFP semifinal. Yeah, they lost because they had a few too many miscues and the NFL QB and WRs, plural, on the other side balled out; but Texas went out and competed at the sport’s highest level. As a fan that’s all you can really ask for at the end of the day. Every champion has some luck and breaks go their way and that wasn’t there for Texas last night. Oh well. I will say I had a sneaking feeling that Sark’s deficiencies as an in game coach could bite Texas in this one and I do think that was the case. Sark has no doubt elevated the floor of this Texas program to the point where the expectation of competing for a 12-team playoff spot on a near-annual basis is reasonable. As long as they continue to bring in and develop talent like they have I think that’s the case. And really that’s all I’m looking for as a fan. I can live with quite a few 8-9 win seasons, especially assuming we’re eventually looking at a 9 game SEC schedule, as long as there is 1.) A winning record vs OU, and 2.) Some 10+ win upside years every few years where the team competes for a conference and national title. After this year I think Sark is capable of meeting that bar so consider me converted. But I’m not sure I believe Sark will ever put together 2-3 games against similar talent and quality coaching to actually win a national championship though. But hey, Mack Brown didn’t have any hardware… until he did. He’s no doubt earned the opportunity to lead the program into the SEC with the full support of the fanbase and admin for the foreseeable future.
  21. The first time Texas touched ball in the 2006 Rose Bowl was a muffed punt that set USC up in Texas territory and led to a USC TD. I assume you turned that game off too? I will say I couldn’t help but laugh when Texas jumped offside on both the first offensive and defensive snaps of the game. Very on brand.
  22. At 10-2 with 12 playoff spots and very possibly a SEC CG appearance? Yes, probably so.
  23. 10-2/9-3 is competing for a 12-team playoff spot and a SEC championship berth if one of those Ls is Michigan. I think we need to know what Ewers is doing before making any serious predictions about next season but if you wouldn’t take that you are dumb. That is the reasonable bar for success.
  24. This is the staff change I want to see long term. I know they aren’t shaking shit up after this year but the secondary looking completely lost has been a consistent theme while the front has improved. Replacing PK is simply not justifiable but Terry Joseph’s body of work as CB coach and passing game coordinator is dogshit after three years
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