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  1. Herman has a strong track record of getting his guys up for big games and tomorrow is as big as it gets in the regular season. No doubt we win tomorrow.
    This take is parroted all the time by sushine pumpers but it's dumb as fuck. Herman has literally zero wins of consequence at Texas. He has several embarrassing outings in big games and multiple losses to teams he had no business losing to as well.

    Punked by Maryland at home.
    Wastes heroic defensive efforts at USC.
    Spots OU three touchdowns.
    Gets all the breaks against OSU at home and still can't top 10 points.
    Neutered by TCU.
    Punked by Tech at home.
    Embarrassed by coachless Maryland team in chaos.

    The only thing Herman has done reliably at Texas is lose meaningful games.

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  2. The Tom Herman road to redemption and restoring hope to the UT fan base begins with a big victory on Saturday night. I can’t wait for the haters to be proven wrong. Herman’s track record in big games is excellent. Sam definitely improved in the Tulsa game. Liked his pocket presence. I’m still sticking with my preseason prediction of 9 wins. We win 20-10.
    Yeah he fucking crushed it against marquee opponents last year

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  3. yeah I hope Beto finds the right tone for the debates when dealing with Cruz.  Not completely sure what that is.
    Don't take Ted's bait and highlight the grandstanding cunt he is by offering actual ideas.

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    He's basically openly admitting he thinks the voting public is dumber than shit and will believe this.

     

    And he is probably right about 4 million people. SMH. A vote for him is a total lack of self respect.

     

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  5. Panel of ESPN folks mostly took Boise, FWIW. Most had it close and high scoring. I'm interested to get a look at OSU against a team with a pulse. They have the talent to win going away but Boise is sneaky.

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  6. I hear you and love that you are passionate, but it's okay to not care, too, (in my belief system at least).
    I find it really hard to believe that you don't care given how frequently you post in the political sub?

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  7. 8 hours ago, Walden Ponderer said:

    Sam and Shane would both be starting on several other teams, and if a coach used them properly, both would be a helluva lot better on those other teams.

    We'll never know, though, because just like CJ and LJH, they currently have a position coach who ought to be bagging groceries for a living.

    Agreed. Shane would be a huge problem for us at Tech, TCU, OSU, or OU. Sam would rush for 300 yards on us at KSU. A QB guru like Gundy or Riley probably also has him sit, learn, and plays him to his strengths when his time comes. That's just in the conference.

    Ehlinger obviously needed more time mentally. The kind of guy who is nowhere near ready as a young guy but could have had a coming out party as a RS JR or something. Unfortunately his bad habits are probably ingrained by now. Shane was a bit more ready mentally, but got beat up physically as a true FR, and the played behind that awful OL last year and had coaches call the game like he was Sam. Le sigh.

  8. 32 minutes ago, TexasFan21 said:

    That will allow Roach to spin down and play his true position besides running around clueless.

    This will pay a lot of dividends. He is useless at MLB, which is not his fault. Even if someone else useless is out there, at least he can wreak havoc as an edge hybrid. Weird to me that that's the direction they went in the first place but it will nice to seehim get back to being a big plus defender.

  9. 4 hours ago, EZ$ said:

    We have to win period, but if we are actually going to have a chance in the B12, we have to win convincingly.  

    Yes, I’ve seen the same 2 games all of you have, but I’m holding on to hope that everything clicks and we become the 9-win team that mostly everyone expected before the Maryland kickoff.  I mean, how could we possibly get this much worse???  Basically we just lost Poona and Dickson from the bowl game in which we beat a lot better team than Tulsa, this USC and probably even Maryland.

    Our complete suckage makes no sense....

    Our suckage makes plenty of sense.

    Mizzou fell somewhere between Baylor and Tech last year in terms of team quality. "But muh six game winning streak!!!" Go look who they beat and tell me even last year's shitty Texas team doesn't pound every single one of those teams. We beat them because they sucked ass and we were more motivated to be in our first bowl in three years. Dickson is already a top 5 NFL punter and will be so for 15 years. He is very possibly the best college punter ever. He also is the main reason we won the bowl game, and had a lot to do with the defense having strong performances as well.

    Poona made the Seahawks, a team known for stout defense, and would have been a third round pick or better if just another couple inches taller (dumb). We also lost three other guys on D who are on active 53 man NFL rosters right now, and not for shitty defensive units either. The defense lost a staggering amount of talent that is not easily replaced. No one wanted to admit it during the offseason. Fine. Kool aid is tasty, I get it. After two games I am shocked the fan base is still expecting a top tier defense. It really should have set in by now that we are not going to replace Poona, Holton Hill, Malik, and sure as fuck not replacing Dickson. B Jones has tools and might be able to approximate Elliott but the jury is out there. At best, this unit will be a solid B/B+ after a year of experience and reasonable injury luck.

    The offense barely has a modicum of talent to improve upon... You can multiply zero productivity by 1000% but it's still zero. I admit I fell into the trap here. I expected major regression on D but I thought an offseason and spring of coaching in the same system would help with Sam's decision making. I thought the new offensive philosophy was code for Herman asserting more control and that we'd see much more coherent and effective gameplans. I thought the OL would be able to improve to something approaching average (this has actually happened, it seems). But again, reality is plain as day. Sam is still a low football IQ player and our offensive strategy is still laughable. Hand has done nice work, though. Credit where it's due.

    This team will compete in the B12 because the conference sucks outside of three, maybe four teams. It is definitely capable of beating USC, who has looked equally dysfunctional. Six, seven, even eight wins is not totally out of the question (OSU might suck, WVU has to stay healthy and we get them late, and you never know with OU, so we may pick one of those off) at this point just because of how down a majority of this conference is but make no mistake this is and will continue to be a very unimpressive team. 9-10 was never going to happen and that people are still clinging to that absolutely blows my mind. It is straight up more likely that we go 3-9. 

  10. PR's delegate to congress is an accomplished conservative and affiliated with the national Republican Party so I don't think it would be the layup many consider it to be. Social conservatism would play big down there - abortion, gay rights, etc. Perhaps that ship has sailed with Trump though, can't imagine the approval ratings are high. I don't see how anyone could be against them becoming a state for any reason other a bluntly political one. It would be right in the middle in terms of population - it really is odd how we, and even PR to an extent, have been cool with nearly 4 million American citizens being disenfranchised.

    DC is a little different in that it was straight up designed as a federal district but you still end up disenfranchising 750k. City of transplants and all but still. As pointed out above, smaller states get votes...

  11. They forgot LJH. I will be there getting my day drink on, nice and loud, though I know we are probably looking at a fifth consecutive loss.

     

    Edit: Honestly I hope they smash Ohio State too.

     

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  12. I'm hoping that there is some sort of Bradley Effect at work.  It has been argued that the "hidden Trump supporters"  --  those who intended to vote for Trump but would not say so publicly  --  skewed the polls in 2016.   http://ideas.repec.org/a/bpj/statpp/v8y2017i1p41-63n5.html    Maybe the opposite is going on here:  people intending to vote for Beto but unwilling to say that out loud and open themselves up to ridicule from their Republican friends and neighbors.  

     

    Maybe. It's possible with younger folks raised in conservative families or maybe a traditionally R married woman who doesn't want to rock the boat at home. Though honestly it seems to me like most Republican defectors are pretty open about it because it's as much voicing objections with where the party has gone as it is about supporting O'Rourke.

     

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  13. He's got better odds of winning than Trump had.
    That's right in the ballpark of the most optimistic predictions for Trump. Not to say that means it's going to happen, because Trump needed a perfect storm much like Beto does, but odds wise it seems similar. Unlike Trump, though, Beto has to win a straight up popular vote. All about GOTV in a race that close.

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  14. Where did you see that Crosswind is affiliated with Rasmussen?

    I saw it classified as a Rasmussen/pulse opinion research poll on the list of polls for the race on 538 (just the one I check to view all polls since it's typically updated pretty fast).

     

    Looking into it, I think they may have it misclsssified - Crosswind doesn't lost any rasmussen affiliation of their site or anything but they call their poll the Texas pulse.

     

    Maybe there's something there behind the scenes, but sorry if that ends up being wrong.

     

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  15. It may be the case that all those 8-9 win projections by Texas fans were not all that reasonable.  Maybe if we had returned everyone from last season, but it was clear the defense would take a step back this year and so the offense would need to make a pretty massive jump for that prediction to come to fruition.  

    The groupthink on this site was all about making the ridiculous assumption that the defense would weather the loss of four guys on 53-man rosters right now, not to mention one of the best punters in CFB history, and more or less maintain the same level of play... All while the offense found a way to go from historically bad to above average.

     

    Kool aid is a hell of a drug.

     

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  16. Away from the name thing; I didn't realize that the 47-44 poll yesterday (within MOE) was Rasmussen affiliated. That means it's pretty close to best case scenario for Cruz.

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  17. LJH, Boyd, Roach (he is being woefully underutilized and I feel like Orlando is getting a pass), are the three guys I think could see the field damn near anywhere. I bet a Saban or a Patterson would love to have those guys. A few iffy guys after that. Jury out on Jones, C and G Johnson. Chris Nelson is solid but not spectacular.

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  18. Beto has been within the margin of error in at least of three of the most recent polls. He is probably still truly down a few percentage points but in a race that close it becomes a turnout/GOTV contest. His issues with Latino voters are probably not going to get fixed by election day at this point so if he wins it is going to be because the young and the educated in the cities show up in droves and stop abdicating total control of elections to fox news olds. I'm still not sure I believe that will happen.

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  19. USC OL has been putrid, Texas has shown a major absence of physicality and explosiveness in the defensive front seven.

    USC has not defended the run well, Texas OL has looked uninspiring on the ground, Ingram is gone, and pay calling has been suspect.

    Both teams have mistake prone freshmen DBs on the field and are dealing with injuries to starters in the secondary, but neither QB has proven to be able to take advantage of that (at least jury is out on Daniels - we know Sam can't on a consistent basis).

    Something's gotta give and it's there for the taking.

    I really want to believe this team can sieze the moment and capitalize on a chance to change the narrative and build momentum/confidence going into conference play. However the one thing this coaching staff has proven consistently adept at, and the one thing these players have shown they will do regardless of who is coaching them, is coming up short and finding ways to lose winnable games. I have no reason to believe that changes now. Hope I'm wrong.

    USC - 27

    Texas - 21



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