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  1. 2 hours ago, squeegeedegg said:

    Between the 2017 and 2018 classes... Who has truly elite athletic talent?  Jamison, who gives up size and strength... Then Thompson, who took years to be decent at football, and Gary Johnson

     

    Don't say Eagles 

    Huh?

    Well 2017 also had Cosmi, who if you’re getting talked about as a potential 1st round LT that’s pretty elite positional athleticism.

    Then 2018, Overshown was a 5* certain places on athletic ability alone. Same with Jalen Green (player QB IIRC). Coburn is a great athlete at NT (chased down a couple of sweeps today at 330). Joshua Moore was a track star and Christian Jones was a kid who played soccer at 6’ 6”.

    It ain’t talent dude, it’s coaching.

  2. 10 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    How is that a bad analogy? I can give you a hundred more examples if you'd like. 

    Championships are won by teams.

    This is obviously true - Dan Marino is an all time QB despite zero rings. 
     

    But, in college, a great QB will almost always lift his program to previously unreached height, e.g. Drew Brees winning a Big Ten title at Purdue. Pat Mahomes - idk what to tell ya. For the most part, I don’t think looking at team success is a terrible metric to use when considering how “great” a QB is.

  3. 37 minutes ago, Hozz said:

    I mean, yeah.  Patterson is a better coach than Herman.  You disagree?  Sam is setting records here.  Is Duggan going to do that at TCU?  Honestly, I have no fucking idea because I don't follow them.  Maybe he is relatively better for them than Sam is for us, but I highly doubt it.  Sam is the third best QB Texas has had in the 40 years I've been watching.  Not good enough for you?  He's not the reason we lost today even though he had a bad game.

    Obviously Patterson is a better coach than MENSA. But if you’re arguing that Sam needs better coaching, in addition to the better talent he already has, to outplay Duggan even 1 out of 2 games, you’re kinda making my point for me.

     

    Look at it this way: if we have Colt of VY behind center today, we all know we’re not losing. I don’t think we lose with even a Jalen Hurts back there. We lost today. Sam isn’t some irreplaceable talent being held back by those around him.

  4. 14 minutes ago, Hozz said:

    This is a shit take.  Duggan had a great game.  He's not going to play like that most weeks and TCU will be lucky to be a .500 team.  If Duggan ever has a season, numbers wise, better than Sam, I'll be shocked.  This game was typical TCU v Texas in the Big 12 era, Patterson coaching circles around our fucking idiots.

    Lol. Check out last years TCU game where (freshman) Duggan also outplayed Sam—

    https://www.espn.com/college-football/game?gameId=401112132
     

    Coaching too though right?

     

    Also - the point that senior Sam should be head and shoulders better than Duggan is a shit take? A shittier take than Sam is a great QB trailing only Vince and Colt in UT history as has been stated over and over?

  5. 7 minutes ago, ioueleventybilliondollars said:

    Do you think Duggan would have fared better than Sam if he had played QB for Texas today?

    Maybe - he’s a more dynamic runner, probably slightly lesser passer.

     

    But that’s kinda my point - people wanna run around acting like Sam is some generational Texas QB who would be great if not for his coaches, when the reality is a true sophomore who’s been practicing for a few weeks is his equal. This loss isn’t all on Sam, but to act like he played great and the rest of the team let him down is burying your head in the sand.

  6. ~2/3 of Sams passing yards came on 3 plays, 2 of which were schemed wide open (Eagles stop and go and Ingram wheel). The other was a pretty good (12ish yard) throw to Wiley that he turned upfield for a long run. 
     

    With that context, go look at Duggan’s stat line against Sams. Now ask yourself which team’s skill talent you’d rather have. That’s our issue. I don’t think anyone is saying Sam sucks, but this idea that he’s a heisman quality player or irreplaceable is a joke.

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  7. He’s just not very good. Great QBs don’t have complete blow up halves multiple games a year. Great QBs can hit their guys in stride where Sam consistently makes guys adjust to catch the ball.

     

    Face it - he’s the best we’ve had in a very long string of bad players at the position, but even somebody like Ash would’ve had a comparable career (if not better) if not for the injuries.

     

     

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  8. 46 minutes ago, victory88 said:

    Chris Brown is a bad bad man!  Not only did he ball out later in the year, he also had one of the best plays against LSU of all our DBs.  I think he’s going to play himself into the draft, no doubt in my mind.

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    Also funny to look back and recall he was supposed to be the package throw in to get Dontavius Jackson 

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  9. Interesting to hear LSU might be interested in Cain. I like that dude, I get that people think he’s slow, but I was impressed with his highlights - just makes plays and IIRC there’s a decent number of plays of him putting someone on their ass which is a way underrated skill for a WR. 
     

    Im surprised his offer list looks like it does unless he’s just one of these kids that doesn’t report his offers.

  10. So if ACC/Big 12/SEC all play, and PAC and BIG don’t (I don’t see how a spring season is realistic) how does NCAA handle eligibility and roster numbers? 
     

    Are they going to allow the schools that don’t play to have a bunch of 6 year guys and rosters over 85 the next few years? If not, I don’t see how there’s not a mass exodus from those leagues.

  11. 14 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

    This isn’t a massive loss in and of itself, but that 2019 class is getting murdered by attrition.

    It’s almost like having to largely rely on OOS backup plans when you miss on all your in-state targets because you went 7-6 the year before can backfire. 

    The real bummer in this is 3 of the losses have been freak health issues. Then Shepherd was the flakiest of flakes who was always unlikely to maximize his potential.

  12. 21 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

     

    im interested in how the sec defenses look in the next few years now that more and more sec teams are running a more spread, uptempo style offense. 

    It won’t matter; the narrative will change to “the future of football!” And how exciting these 52-48 games are. When it was happening in the B12 it was a gimmick though.

    You already saw it last year; how many times did you hear Burrow is a system qb? Yet that’s all anybody could say about Mahomes or (to a lesser extent) Murray who are both better than Burrow. 

    I’m gonna go wash my mouth out now for saying something nice about that Sooner fuck.

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