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gmr548

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  1. I don’t think that’s unpopular at all. I think it’s fairly obvious. I think all signs also continue to point to him declaring anyway.
  2. Cook was pretty good in 2021-22. Whatever Orlando was asking of him wasn’t working but he was pretty effective as a nickel/safety under PK. This. Obviously you lean on the run game a bit more than normal but you have to run the full offense. And frankly Sark clearly curtailed the vertical elements of the offense this year given Ewers’s struggles in that department. If anything my worry is he’s going to get deep shot happy with a new QB with a big arm.
  3. Kinda blows. He had a nice start to the season and Texas could have used him back with a couple injuries on the defensive front. Best of luck to him I guess, seems very odd.
  4. Yeah Texas will be fine in this one as long as they take care of the ball. Skeptical they can get through the rest of the schedule without Ewers but this *should* look like the WVU game with Card last year. Steady diet of the run game, set up some easy throws, contain a limited BYU offense.
  5. I work at a non-profit that tends to attract a left-leaning demographic in terms of talent. That said, despite it not being uncommon for government and policy being a relevant discussion topic in my line of work, the work environment is surprisingly politically neutral and I know senior management goes out of their way to be neutral for fundraising/regulatory purposes. As a liberal myself I still prefer it that way. We have a mission and it is not political advocacy. There are other avenues for that.
  6. If there is any 5 star QB prospect going into college open to staying 5 years I would think it is Arch Manning. You may have heard his family isn’t exactly hurting for money. QB is right there with OL in terms of positions that benefit from staying in school. Eli was in school 5 years. Peyton came back for his senior year. By all accounts there seems to be an emphasis from him and his family on enjoying the experience and prioritizing development over a given timeline like playing in year 1, draft by year 3, whatever. I’m not necessarily saying he is a 5 year guy but it’s more likely than 3 IMO.
  7. I forgot to add that ND-Clemson and FSU-Pitt are also 6-day windows for either 11am ABC or 2:30 ABC/ESPN. So really Texas could still end up basically anywhere lol
  8. Washington-USC is the ABC prime time game. Penn State- Maryland is the afternoon FOX game. Nebraska-MSU is 11am FS1. Seems like we will either be 11am FOX or prime time FOX/FS1 . I think afternoon FS1 is available but I think that’s probably a Big 12 undercard game. One other wild card to consider is that FOX has World Series Game 7 if it goes that far, I’d think that could bump Texas to FS1 in evening.
  9. Attending KSU so hoping for evening kick just for that reason, but also a home field advantage is definitely going to be needed and that will basically not exist at 11am. Crowd needs time to get good and rowdy at tailgates.
  10. This how I feel about Tech. I don’t care what is or isn’t on the table for the post season at that point or who’s playing QB for either team. If they can’t get up for that game at home and make Tech regret making the trip then idk what I’m doing following this program.
  11. I feel like it’s an incomplete. My bar for the year was 9-3, beat OU, make CCG. That’s 1/3. Meh. The 1-2 punch of losing to OU and not even qualifying for a Big 12 CCG with this team, given the state of the conference this year, is big yikes. But you have to account for the QB injury. Those bars kind of go out the window with your backup playing down the stretch. And then the Bama win is hanging out there. It’s not a real achievement in the sense that it ultimately means little without following it up with hardware but at the same time a signature win is a box that hadn’t been checked.
  12. I’m definitely penciling in a loss to KSU. I don’t think they get through the November road games without a L either and I think 0-2 is more likely than 2-0. TCU and ISU both present obvious ability to exploit Texas (TCU through the air against a bad secondary, ISU by frustrating the Texas backup or injured QB-led Texas offense) and one of them is probably a L at this juncture. So Texas outperforms the 7-win Steve baseline this year primarily due to weak schedule, but really doesn’t achieve much of significance, and then settles back in at 7-5 next year replacing a QB and entire receiving/TE corps in the SEC.
  13. I think we’re going to end up in a weird grey area for the year at like 9-3, No CCG appearance, loss to OU, but being able to point to extended starting QB absence and the win over Alabama, who at this point is looking like a 10+ win team and favorite to play for the SEC title out of the West. Is that a success? I don’t even know.
  14. Don't know if I got mine in in time to be counted. Did not catch much football this week outside of the second halves of Ohio State-Penn State and Oklahoma-UCF, and Texas going up 21-0 on Houston. Honestly I have no idea what to do with Texas given the Ewers situation. I kept them in place for now but I think it's possible this is a low-end top 25 team going forward. Pretty much entirely based on score watching. Have been impressed with Ohio State's defense this year and I went ahead an put them in the top spot with wins over PSU and ND. Rest of the top 10 stood pat and 10-25 shuffled around based on some H2H results and UNC's bad loss. 1.) Ohio State 2.) Georgia 3.) Washington 4.) Oregon 5.) Florida State 6.) Michigan 7.) Oklahoma 8.) Texas 9.) Penn State 10.) Notre Dame 11.) Alabama 12.) Oregon State 13.) Duke 14.) Ole Miss 15.) LSU 16.) North Carolina 17.) Utah 18.) Miami 19.) Clemson 20.) Missouri 21.) Kansas State 22.) USC 23.) Louisville 24.) UCLA 25.) Tulane
  15. Yeah I don’t want to absolve PK because the buck stops with him, but the Gideon/Joseph combo was not particularly impressive when hired and was put in place before the DC. PK’s defenses churned out NFL DBs at Washington yet the secondary is in year 3 of being terrible. There’s obviously an issue; I’m assuming Sark is not going out looking for a new DC for better or worse but if the trend line continues I don’t see how you don’t take action with position coaches on the back end.
  16. You should fully expect a season high passing day for Slovis if this is accurate
  17. I don’t necessarily agree with that with regard to Bama. I think getting better over the course of the season is generally overblown and a borderline myth unless you’re relying heavily on very young/new guys at several key positions. But you do see teams regress - or at least fail to adapt over the course of the year as tendencies and weaknesses become more apparent and opponents dial in to countering/exploiting them. That’s coaching for sure.
  18. This is sort of hard to do without knowing much about the prognosis for Ewers but I’ll go 9-3. Texas and Kansas State are trending in opposite directions and I don’t see Texas putting up much resistance to what KSU is doing on offense right now. I think that’s a loss with or without Ewers and likely ugly without him. No one else on the schedule is particularly good but Sark will manage to drop one of the two road games especially if Ewers is out or limited. They might be able to win both if he’s close to full strength. I have a hard time imagining team losing to Tech at home. They are very bad.
  19. BYU is not good and less well equipped to exploit Texas’s defensive weak points than Houston. Hard to imagine them getting past 21 points and Texas should be able to top that at home regardless of who’s playing QB. On the other hand, not sure this team should be favored by 20 over anyone right now given the trend line and injuries. Texas will be very easy to defend without Ewers. Probably a rock fight.
  20. So he’s done for the year then. Good to have some closure.
  21. I didn’t see the collapse but it seems the team is regressing over the course of the season. That’s an indictment on coaching and all I really have to say re: Sark that I haven’t before.
  22. Seems like K State is getting their shit together. They will likely win in Austin if this Ewers injury is remotely serious
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