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  1. 6 hours ago, BigVegasHorn26 said:

    Why do you even bother following this team?  You're the biggest defeatist, pussy, and whiny bitch I've ever come across on any fan board.  Maybe find somewhere else to let your vagina bleed.  

    Pot, meet kettle.

    This team is a pretty similar to 2012 in quality on both sides of the ball and overall record/success. This team does feel a lot like 2012, except the embarrassing bed shitting was moved from Dallas to Landover and Stillwater. The poster you quoted also pointed out that 2012 was a good year, which it was, relative to those before and since. Hardly whining. I don't know what your deal is, but calm down a bit.

  2. I think our chances to win against UGA are pretty minimal but I'd obviously take the Sugar Bowl over the Alamo Bowl for all kinds of reasons. I do think our guys will be a lot more motivated to play UGA in a major bowl than to play Utah in the Alamo Bowl. Iron sharpens iron - getting our guys, particularly the younger ones, experience against an opponent of that quality in what will be a pretty lively atmosphere is definitely a good thing.

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  3. 27 minutes ago, Hamttx said:

    He will be a damn good NFL corner if he gets matched up with an Earl Thomas type safety. His biggest problem is worrying about fucking up. He spends far to much time trying to pick his poison during the route. Once the receiver starts into his route it is too late. He should have already decided {through communication with the safety} if he is going to take the inside or the post. If he decides the inside, stay on that. If it is the post the safety has to help him over the top should he get beat. Christ guys the receiver knows where he is going, the defender does not.

    It is why Sherman took way to much credit for his play. It was Thomas patrolling the top side that scared receivers. They knew they would get bombed if he cane in hot. 

    This. Boyd will find a niche in the NFL. It won't be as a lockdown corner, which is what we are basically asking him to be. As a #2 CB or a Nickel with good Safety help he will be a decent NFL player. The less he thinks the better.

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  4. Just got back into Austin. Haven't read Surly at all since the game. My take, for what it is worth, after seeing it live:

    1.) We lost the line of scrimmage. We couldn't really establish the run, they pressured Sam a fair amount, we had zero pass rush, and while we defended the run well most of the game, we couldn't stop it when we absolutely needed to on their six minute closeout drive.

    2.) We are just a dumb fucking team from the top down. It was telling when they showed the Academic All Conference selections from each B12 team on the jerrytron and we had very, very few contributors on the list. I can't even count the stupid/ sloppy mistakes. How many times did we give ourselves 1st and 15? We were constantly out of position and conceding the edge on OU's predictable bubble screens as if we'd never fucking seen one before. 13 games in and our DBs still have no ball skills and therefore draw flags, and no one on the defense understands angles. Hegar and Boyd, who should be senior leaders, both committed mind-numbingly stupid penalties that really hurt us. That we could just whiff on a corner blitz on our own two is equally stunning. Honestly, I was shocked at how generally unprepared this team looked. Add to that the complete dumbfuckery at the end of the first half and this was a really, really bad game for the coaching staff.

    3.) The officiating was putrid. It was clear they wanted one team to win. Yes, it went both ways to an extent - the crew was laughably incompetent. And yes, the majority of our penalties were deserved. OU was clearly playing under a different set of rules, though. They were given free reign to do the things we consistently drew flags for. I criticized the coaching staff above but I don't know what a coach is supposed to tell his guys to keep them motivated and believing when it is pretty obviously not a level playing field. I'm not sure Texas played well enough to win if that is removed but that shit definitely wears on you over the course of a game.

     

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  5. 8 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    The system is beyond broken. 

    Alabama can go two straight years losing to Georgia in the championship game, and still make the playoffs. 

    They will get the benefit of playing the next best team in their conference with nothing on the line and a playoff berth locked up for the second straight year.  

    Figure Skating 

    Alabama did not lose to UGA in the championship game last year. They didn't even get to the game.

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  6. 5 hours ago, Moby Ric said:

    With the shittiest home schedule I have ever seen next year for Tech, and they hire a nobody from nowhere you will not see the Dallas crowd coming to town and dropping money for hotels, restaurants and football tickets.  This is a bad, bad move.

    If someone was voluntarily driving from DFW to Lubbock to watch Tech football they aren't about to stop because of a coaching hire. They'll be very thirsty for kool aid in July just like we are.

  7.  I'd enjoy seeing the same thing happen to Kyler Murray*, so meh.  Whatever.  And it's not like their defense can actually accomplish shit.  
    *Actual size may vary.  
    Half of Kyler Murray would require a microscope to actually see so you probably wouldn't see anything.

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  8. My fundamental take on these two teams hasn't really changed since October - both are good, but flawed, and are well-equipped to exploit the other's weaknesses. OU as a favorite is fine but -8 is just silly. The X factors at this particular point in time probably shift things a bit towards OU: Playing on turf benefits OU's style of play, OU seems to be healthier and Ehlinger's injury is an unknown, and OU has the motivation of revenge and the CFP at play.

    I was more bearish than most on this Texas group through the off season but consistently called a win over OU because I liked the matchup. I still do. Ultimately, I just trust Texas to get the 2-3 stops it needs to get more than I trust OU to do the same. Which is basically what happened in October. So fuck it, let's run it back. Fuck OU.

    Texas 48

    Oklahoma 45

  9. Yeah, that was why I said a few pages ago that I'm not sure if I would have fired Kingsbury this year. Bowman, Carter, and Duffy were all limited by injuries, and their defense really has improved. Tech had to know that there was going to be some "on the job" training with Kingsbury, and that it would take a couple of years for him to figure out the head coaching thing. 
    That said, I was never a big fan of Kingsbury, but his firing is really the end of the era of the high scoring, track meet Big 12. Patterson, Rhule, Miles, Herman and Campbell are moving the league in a different direction. 

    That end of an era take might be a wee bit overstated...

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  10. 445 here. High teens, like 17k or something. Photos make the seats seem okay but the jerrytron also seems like a huge buzzkill. Lesson learned on going through the school for this game. Requested for the Sugar Bowl as well so hopefully they don't completely fuck us all over like this there as well.

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  11. They're going to score with big plays even if you drop 8, so I say we live and die with multiple blitz looks all day. Force the quick throw and make the tackle. 

    This. Pressure them all day. The turnovers we got the first time around were both ultimately dumb plays by Murray that weren't completely forced, but came when he had to make a play while feeling the heat. Vary the rush/spy responsibilities between GJ and Foster and let the chips fall where they may.

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  12. Yeah...and going to the Sugar Bowl because we lost to OU would be shittiest Sugar Bowl berth in history. 

    I want to beat OU as bad as anyone. But if we do lose and end up in the Sugar, I will still be very happy to get to go down to NOLA and play UGA. The shittiest Sugar Bowl bid is miles better than the best Texas or Alamo Bowl bid. Enjoy it.

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  13. Looking at current CFP rankings as a proxy for seeding - after this weekend, an eight team playoff with five P5 autobids, highest ranked G5 champ, and two at large could give us this first round slate on December 16/17...

    #1 Alabama vs #8 Texas (Fuck OU) in Tuscaloosa

    #2 Clemson vs #7 Washington in Clemson

    #3 ND vs #6 UCF in South Bend

    #4 Ohio State vs #5 Georgia in Columbus

    I would volunteer Texas as tribute to see that.

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  14. 4 minutes ago, northernwv said:

    Just stopping by to let you guys know that WVU can't go to the Sugar Bowl instead of you 

    http://wvmetronews.com/2018/11/27/sugar-bowl-out-of-picture-west-virginia-texas-big-12/

    We have been going back and forth on the selection process for the Sugar what seems like weeks. My original understanding was that it was in fact the league runner up but there had been a lot of conflicting info. Thanks for sharing.

  15. If we lose a close one to OU, I'd be shocked if the committee dropped us below WVU. We finished 2nd in the conference and they finished 4th. Sure, we'd have one more loss than they do but we will have played TWO more games (remember, their game against a decent NC State team was cancelled). Then again, this committee smokes crack so who knows?
    Let's just win and we won't have to sweat any of this.

    I agree that logically, if they were going to give WVU the nod because of H2H they would have kept them there ahead of us after the OU game. All we did was beat Kansas. If they saw WVU's 8-3 as comparable to our 9-3, then them losing to an OU team ranked well ahead of both of us should not have really moved the needle. Similarly, were Texas to lose a close game to #5, does that really warrant dropping from #14 and moving an idle WVU ahead?

    No. But as you said it's all make believe. Hopefully Texas wins and makes this moot.

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  16. We're 14th, West Virginia is 16th. That doesn't bode well for us staying ahead of them and getting the Sugar Bowl bid if we lose and Oklahoma makes the playoff. Oh well, guess that means we have to kick Oklahoma's ass.
    Came here to post this. We won't drop much if we lose but they'll slot WVU right in front of us.

    Also lo fucking l we aren't making the playoff

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