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Posts posted by gmr548
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I think the double standard for coaches vs student athletes is legit, and it can't just be ignored. I also think amending the transfer rule to allow for no-eligibility-lost transfers if a coach takes another job/is fired/whatever pretty much alleviates that issue.
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Odd that Thompson, the theoretical better fit opposed to Rising, would want to try to transfer when Rising is as well. If Rising leaves he has a shot to compete for the backup spot nextv year, abd either way could very well see real time if (when) Ehlinger has to sit in 19 and 20, and is the elder statesman for the 2021 competition.
RJ got these guys scared.
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Would anyone really be surprised if Sam decided to come back for his senior year?
Question answered in username.
Also, Sam won't have a choice to make. Coming out early won't even be on the table.
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May not be popular but I don’t like needing a running QB yo run this offense. Too many chances for injuries like we’ve seen.
I'm with you 100 percent. The way Ehlinger is used is even harder on the body - more Tebow or Klien than Vick or Young. Perhaps Rising thought the same thing.
Ideally, the OL and RB groups continue to progress so QB runs can be used more selectively.
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Hmm. There was always gonna be a logjam at the position with Rising and Thompson in the same class and stuck behind Sam. I figured we'd see one of them transfer or two after Ehlinger left and there was a competition between those two and Johnson. Also interesting is that this would seem to put the Buchele transfer question to bed - I'd think the inside track to QB2, which in turn is the inside track to QB1 in 2021 (or earlier if Ehlinger gets injured) would be enough to keep Rising here as opposed to burning a year of eligibility sitting out or at a JUCO. If Buchele isn't leaving and is holding onto that backup spot, that changes the calculus a bit. Wasted year of eligibility either way in that case.
Another angle - Rising is the more traditional pocket passer between he and Thompson, yes? Maybe seeing up close and personal what the QB position is asked to to in the running game in this offense made him think he wasn't a fit or would be better off elsewhere, especially with Thompson and especially Johnson being more talented runners.
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Amazing how Republicans will stretch the bounds of reason to make this a democrat shutdown.
R: "Give me a billion dollars so I can buy these magic beans!"
D:: "No. Those are stupid."
R: "Sign this bill or I will shut down the government! That will create all kinds of havoc and hurt Federal employees!"
D:: "You're being ridiculous."
[Mitch McConnell addressing Congress]"...Now we have a government shutdown, all because the Democrats refuse to support a commonsense magic bean buying policy."
This gives the GOP way too much credit. Magic beans would be any infinitely better investment than a border wall.
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Transatlantic flights suck regardless of who yoy fly with because you're in an airplane for 10 hours from Texas. In my experience the European carriers to usually have marginally better food and stuff like that, but ultimately who gives a fuck? Get it over with as cheap and as quick as you can.
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How are we feeling about the future with two signees and one maybe along the OL in this class? I know amazing linemen don't grow on trees and you've got to take the best of what you can get when you can get it, but man I want to see us get to where we can dominate at the LOS every week. A couple of those drives against ISU were among my favorite moments of the season just because I was so hype about the physical dominance being displayed. After all the worry about facing one of the best defenses we were going to see during the regular season, we were able (at key times) to just straight up shove them all the way down the field. So good.
Class is still definitely incomplete. I don't put too much stock in recruiting rankings for OL because it's the hardest positron to eval, but I do like the look of Johnson and Hoofkin. Both move really well for their size and definitely have the athleticism and talent to shine if they take to choaching and put in the work. We're pretty thin in terms of numbers on the interior, even if you count Hudson, who we should probably assme will never play at this point, so it will be interesting to see if one or both of them starts at guard.
Overall, I think the unit is still a year or two away from being really good, but it's pretty incredible for it to be where it is now compared to where it was a year ago.
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This is kind of cherry picking. Quick look at 247 shows #2-5 haven't signed and three of those four are considering/leaning USC. 22 is also a selective cutoff given that SC signed 23 and 24.
Still, the overall point stands. California is wide open. Texas should be one of the schools best positioned to exploit that. And it also makes you wonder - if Helton was struggling after perennial top 5-10 classes, how's it gonna look when a bunch of elite talent isn't coming in to reload?
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"University's"UCF competing against SEC teams for recruits now, so there's that...
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Flippability goes from ME >> AZ > NC > CO. Cory Gardner will be a heavy lift with his pro-weed message. Thom Tillis is a junior senator with a weak incumbency advantage. McSally will get a bruising in the 2020 primary and will be headed for another coin flip reelection. Collins likely retires in 2020 and that seat turns blue.
The OP is correct that everything else is a tough sell for Democrats. TN is fools gold, as is TX most likely. Joni Ernst is one of those tea partiers who benefited from a favorable environment in 2014, so she could be vulnerable against the right candidate.
A Republican is not winning CO with Trump on the ballot, pro weed incumbent or not. It isn't like the D will be Jeff Sessions. It is the most likely flip, IMO. Generally agree with you on the rest.
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622. Wow.
I don't mind being high - like it actually - but getting stuck in the corner sucks ass. I'm in the 15k range on loyalty apparently. What's worse is that tickets in that section can be had for barely more than half of what we paid through LHF, inclusive of fees. Sigh. Sugar was the only bowl I requested for - figured it would be a high demand game, new years in NOLA and a big name opponent and all. Never again. Feeling real dumb right about now.
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Came to respond to a discussion on DL recruiting I had over lunch along these lines. It isn't that I think any of these DL are necessarialy bad takes on an individual level, but the best teams in the country, with the exception of OU, have outstanding DL play, and the best DLs out there aren't relying on 'tweeners to play in the middle. Especialy in a three down scheme. I'll be honest, I didn't know Sweat was projected to DT, so knowing we at least have a depth/ develooment piece there makes me less concerned. But until we reel in a few more really top flight prospects on the DL we're going to have a hard time moving into that top tier.I meme'd about "Sweat is a DT" earlier but I'll admit that I don't actually know what the coaches will do. I think that's where he ends up but maybe he does excel as a DE. I'll be happy with that too.
We've shown that we don't have only one way to play DT. Nelson and Poona are pretty different. Graham has gotten some run there too in practice. We even started putting Roach there pretty regularly in passing situations later in the season. As long as our DL are quality players, we'll be fine. We're not going to end up in a scenario where we have a ton of great DEs but start a scrub at DT.
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1 hour ago, Hiphopopotamos said:
What are you talking about? This team mostly plays one DT. Last year they took two of the best in the state, and this year they grabbed a kid they see with a lot of potential.
It plays mostly one DT, and as we've seen this year, the DT needs to be a really high level player for it to function as designed. Nelson is a solid run defender but going from Poona to him was probably the single biggest personnel drop off on the field and it showed big time. Showed even more when he was dinged up orout and we had to rely more on those behind him.
With the group on campus now, the defense should and indeed has injected some four-man fonts, which require more bodies. Also, three of the five (correct me if I'm forgetting someone - Christmas, Wilbon, Chislom, Coburn, Ojomo) DTs on the roster next year are going to be SRs. Getting 1-2 DTs this year should have been pretty important from a depth and competition standpoint from 2020 on. Not to mention Ojomo is a year yonger than his classification suggests and could be looking at missing a significant chunk of winter conditioning and spring ball. Coburn and Ojomo were both good takes but you can't tell me with a straight face that you feel good about riding those two as your only two contributing DTs after next year.
58 minutes ago, ztejas said:What a load of horseshit. We beat OU, played them tough in our rematch, beat the dog piss out of ISU, and should have beat WVU. And that was with a pretty average OL and DL.
So either you're defining "elite" in an extremely strange, specific, manner or you're being ignorant of what the results have told us this season.
The results have pretty clearly told us that we're decent, not elite, and that we still have work to do pretty much everywhere. I don't know how you could take away anything other than than, to be honest.
We beat OU. We also gave up 222 yards rushing at over 7 ypc. Still over 150 yards at over 5 ypc if you remove the long Murray QB counter (on which OU laughably botched their blocking assignments but it didn't even matter). We did not have a significant pass rush and gave up 45 points. The OL played its best game of the year that day, no doubt. But this is the OU defense we're talking about. We also lost to OU in a game where the pass rush was utterly, embarrassingly neutered. While the run was defended well, when push came to shove we couldn't stop them on the ground the six minute game drive that put the game away. The OL could not generate push and gave up as much pressure as it has all year against an OU defense that is a national laughing stock. In no way can you come away from those games really confident in our OL/DL.
Neither ISU or WVU has elite talent on either line. Far from it. You know that. Also, "should have" beat WVU is debatable and counts for jack shit either way. You feel good about the DL watching that game? You also left out the part where Maryland gashed us on the ground, the OL has not generated real movement in the run game all year, and we haven't controlled the LOS on both sides from start to finish against anyone, Tulsa and Kansas included, all year long.
I would define an elite OL/DL as a unit that is capable of controlling the game against most opponents, a unit that has to be schemed around. A unit like that probably has multiple NFL players, though it doesn't necessarily have to.
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This. Ranking overall classes is very simplistic. It doesn't take into account value of positions or roster need. Our class ranks high cause it's chalk full of high ranking skill guys and defensive back seven. Not to say it isn't a good class out that those guys aren't important, because it is and they are, but only bringing in one OL and a handful of project DL with no true DT leaves a ton to be desired.You just listed 2 of the 3 most important positions on the field as areas where we have "gaps."
That's a problem. It's been a problem. And if it continues to be a problem, the program is going nowhere, no matter how many great DBs and WRs we sign.
As we're likely to see in the Sugar Bowl, we don't have the horses to compete in the trenches with elite teams. Until we do, we won't be there ourselves. Bigger picture, OL could be starting to turn the corner, and Johnson plus a depth/project take and a JUCO/grad transfer probably keeps it on schedule. But DL, particularly DT, is in a rough spot. As it stands, at best this class treads water up front, which keeps it from being a resounding success, top ten ranking or not.
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On 12/9/2018 at 11:11 PM, ramirezut said:
Anyone know if the water is relatively warm in San Sebastian/Bilboa in late May?
We've heard so many good things we're planning on cutting 2 days in Barcelona short just to check it out.
We were in far SW Spain around that time and the water was pretty cold. It just hasn't ha that long to warm up from the winter months at that point. We got in for short periods here and there, but what was being in the sun all day and even doing some light hiking in the area. As cold or even slightly colder than the California coast (though I've only been in the pacific in September, not May). I can't imagine the water in San Sebastian wold even be that warm.
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Clearly. That sucks ass.You have some catching up to do.
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Likely to miss on Hoofkin??
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You're probably right, but hopefully we at least make him say no. Multiple times.That'd be nice, but it doesn't appear we have a pre-existing relationship from his crootin days. If I had to venture a guess, I would say Colorado and Georgia would be likely.
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Yup. Even OU is iffy on value unless we're talking two ranked teams. More of a convienence/pick your seat thing than a money saver.The CCG and this bowl game have taught me my lesson. From now on the only seats I get through LHF at my season tickets and the RRSO.
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I'm not inclined to get bogged down in the weeds debating a once in a decade situation anyway, and certainly not when you've again selectively addressed only a portion of my post. Call it a three-way tie for first (in which Tech comes out a clear third in tiebreakers) and muse about hypothetical conference structures if you want, but the fact is the eight team playoff covers the vast majority of the bases in the vast majority of years. If that means an 08 VT gets in over an 08 Tech once a decade, then oh well. Tech had their avenues to qualify in that scenario and couldn't. It's still far superior to the existing system.Texas Tech did not finish third in their division. They finished in a three-way tie for first. In a better conference setup, 10 teams with a round robin and no divisions, Texas, OU, and Texas Tech would all finish as split conference champs. So technically, all three of them would be conference champions. As it was, they were co-divisional champs and the Big 12 simply selected one of the 3 teams to represent the South in the championship game.
Texas Tech finished in the top 8 in computer rankings at the end of the regular season. VA Tech finished somewhere around 17th or 18th. There are no amount of mental gymnastics that can reasonably show that VA Tech deserved to go over Texas Tech.
If you actually care about fairness/deserving teams and want the bases all covered 100 percent of the time, go to 16 with every conference champion. But of course, that will also include some 8-4 squads.
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6 hours ago, Machinator said:
Not good news for the long term.
After Friday’s practice, there emerged two injured freshmen.
DT Moro Ojomo sustained a lower-body injury (leg/ankle). According to a source, it was so bad that they had to take him to the hospital. We’ll keep you updated on whether or not it is as serious as it sounds, but for a guy who needs the Spring, this is no bueno.
WR Al’Vonte Woodard broke his collarbone during a collision. No word on the severity of the injury, but he also needed these extra bowl practices and workouts.
Fuck. That really sucks about Ojomo. Hope it isn't as serious as feared and that he gets well soon, even if he misses the bowl. We are so dangerously thin at DT, just can't afford to get behind schedule on development at that position.
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I'd also be cool with 16 and agree that the only reason to expand there is to include all FBS conference champions. Your at large teams in that scenario this year would be ND, UGA, Michigan, Florida, LSU, Penn State (just going by CFP rankings).I think that's overkill but I wouldn't be mad about it when it also gives the G5s a seat at the table. It would be silly to expand to a 16 team playoff to include Wazzu, Kentucky, Texas, WVU, etc. over G5 champions.
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On 12/14/2018 at 4:44 PM, S11 said:
1- Nobody is arguing it’s a bad system- just that making one tweak to the rules would get a better slate of teams.
2- The argument is also that in a season with a deep field of teams with zero or one loss it makes little sense to give a golden ticket to a team who lost four or five times simply because they lucked into a weak division and pulled one upset.
Personally I would take all the 2008 one loss P5 champs (4 teams), all three 2008 one loss runner ups, and both 2008 undefeated Utah and Boise from that year before I’d even consider a 4 loss squad champ or not.
That’s nine teams. You’re already leaving out someone (probably tech due to 40 point loss) so why screw over a second team that has at least a decent argument like one loss UT/Bama who narrowly lost to good teams once or an unbeaten G5 team like Boise that beat Oregon that year?
The poster I was quoting said that winning your conference shouldn't entitle you to anything, implying that a system in which P5 champions get an autobid is a bad system.
To your point, I don't necessarily disagree, someone is always getting left out. It used to be number three, now it's five, in an eight or 16 team scenario, it's nine or 17... Eight is never going to be overwhelmingly more deserving than nine, nor 16 over 17, etc. Two at-large spots allows for two of the most "deserving" teams to get in with clear qualifying criteria for six of the spots (P5 champs plus highest ranked G5 champ).
On 12/14/2018 at 5:10 PM, Phoenix said:So your argument is that an 11-1 P5 team, with its only loss to a top 5 team, does not deserve to get in versus a different P5 team that has 4 losses against much worse competition. But, because of where the 4 loss team is located on the map, in a region with a bunch of shitty football teams, they deserve to get in.
Just want to make sure we are on the same page here.
Do you think the NFL playoffs are not legit because the Dallas Cowboys, who objectively suck ass, will get a home game while the LA Chargers, a top five team in football, will have to go on the road, and two of three teams that are pretty clearly better than the Cowboys - the Colts, Titans, and Ravens - will miss the playoffs essentially due to geography/arbitrary conference alignment? Of course not, because the Chargers/Ravens/Titans/Colts all had opportunities to improve their lot and couldn't make it happen. Same reasoning applies.
When you intentionally leave out the context of the situation we're debating, then of course it sounds silly. In a vacuum, no I don't think 8-4 Team A should necessarily get a spot over 11-1 Team B. However, when you consider that:
1.) Team A won a P5 conference championship on the field.
2.) Team B got absolutely humiliated by infinity plus one points in its loss.
3.) Team B finished third in its division.
4.) Team B is ranked well below two other one-loss P5 at large teams as well as an undefeated G5 champion.
Then, yeah, I'm okay with 8-4 VT going over 11-1 Tech there. Maybe if Tech doesn't get absolutely smoked by OU they end up ranked ahead of Texas, whom they beat. Also keep in mind that 2008 is basically a unicorn and is a situation that repeats itself very rarely. Three one-loss P5 non-champs happens maybe once a decade. As I mentioned above, no system is perfect. But an eight team playoff with P5 champs, top ranked G5 champ, and two at larges is going to include every single team with a legit argument in most years. It's a lot better than what exists now, gives everyone a legitimate chance at the start of the year, and still gives the "deserving" teams that slip up a chance.
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Cam Rising is on the transfer portal...
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Austin is far from California. Sometimes it's that simple. We'll see how it plays out.