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1 minute ago, DanTheHorn said:
Wow we still have someone that thinks that the main dependency as to weather this team can achieve its goals is based on the talent on campus and their development. Aside from injury there is only one thing that will cause this team to fail and that is Steve Sarkisian's inability to rise up to the challenge and not get outcoached during a game. Sarkisian always starts of with a great plan since he has had the chance to sit at his desk and analyze it for hours but his main bingo card line is "The Film" because he sure as hell can't see what coaches are doing to him with adjustments during a game and must look at the film after getting outcoached.
It’s certainly hot in Texas, but I doubt weather will be a significant factor.
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6 hours ago, LateAughtsHorn said:
It feels like you're looking at this whole thing in a vaccum. You seem to be basing your entire argument for us sucking this year on Quinn being raw as a true freshman and one player (Bijan) leaving.
I love Bijan, but as amazing as he is, an elite rb is a luxury, not a necessity. I'll take a better overall offensive unit (OL, QB, WR) over any single rb, even one as good as Bijan.
But if just saying we suck in 2023 because one player left and our young qb struggled is "real football discussion" to you, then continue on.
The poster you quoted never said we are going to suck. That’s just a stupid football board straw man. Pointing out legitimate areas of concern while 90% of this board does their usual August swim in an ocean of practice report koolaid does not equate to “sucking”.
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1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:
I was hoping there might be udpates from a 995 site.
There is a decent discussion about our football team and its possible flaws amidst the usual sea of “gained 20 pounds of muscle” and “the light finally came on”. That’s not a bad thing. If you prefer, just head on over to 9.95 to see some commitment tweets from recruits who never visited our campus while we wait for McKinley on 9/1.
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1 hour ago, KeysPhoneWallet said:
Three issues from last years team stand out to me:
(1) terrible completion % to worthy
(2) terrible ratio of sacks/pressures. Gotta land those.
(3) terrible 3rd & long defense.
How has the team addressed each of these going into this year?
(1) solution: QB skill development / WR roster development. Last year a ton of stuff was forced to worthy, but this year I hope the sheer amount of worthy non-worthy targets will remove a ton of those incompletions. Spreading the ball around must be the name of the game this year. I also think Quinn just chucked it up to worthy for lack of a better idea and I hope his skill level has improved that he sees more alternatives and makes better choices.
(2) solution: better secondary play. it always felt like things just slipped right through our fingers. The secondary needs to play better which will force the qb to hold for that extra second we need instead of finding some open guy right at the last second. Also, hopefully pass rushers returning are better than they were a year ago.
(3) solution: secondary, and improved sacks/pressures. It never felt comfortable in 3rd & long, too many times we gave those up extending drives when they should have been killed. We’ve got to tighten the net we put around the offense so they can’t slip through and do this bull shit again this year.
What do other people think?I’m somewhat with you. My biggest question mark for the year is Sark, but otherwise I would say it’s the below three things. I’m very hopeful on 1 and 2. Overall, this staff has done an incredible job of infusing talent all over this roster.
1. Ewers - can he make the necessary leap. Obviously supremely talented. He has an A+ play caller, A+ tackles, and A+ receivers; there is no excuse. I don’t love his overall vibe for a quarterback, but that could all be bullshit. I’m hopeful.
2. Interior Offensive Line - the woes are well documented. Bijan made a lot of chicken salad out of chicken shit last year. DJ Campbell obviously has NFL talent and in theory should be an improvement at RG, but a true sophomore is still pretty young on the offensive line.
3. Pass Rush - I’ll be surprised if we have anything better than a tepid pass rush (can Collin Simmons pull a Ewers and enroll now?). Fortunately our secondary should be very good if Catalon can stay healthy.
This team should be able to out talent every team on our schedule other than Bama, but I’m from Missouri with Sark.
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6 hours ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:
Also, any vegetarian restaurant suggestions?
It’s a little trendy/high end so Im not sure about a 10 year old, but abcv is awesome. Or just any Indian place.
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25 minutes ago, NorLa Horns said:
my lord. they gonna wear that poor gymnast girl plumb out!
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16 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:
Not a single check mark on offense to 2015. Connor Williams would play- but probably not at tackle- likely at guard.
Williams would only play at Guard if Jones couldn’t slide to Guard. Williams is absolutely a better college tackle. I also feel like I remember Kent Perkins being much better than Hayden Connor, but I’ve tried to block that period out so I could be wrong.
Otherwise, yikes that 2015 roster is ugly. The secondary in particular is holy shit bad.
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48 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:
it is just very hard for me to imagine a scenario where this team finishes 7-5. even 8-4 feels like a stretch. 9-3 seems like a much more likely floor.
If we go worse than 9-3 with this talent and this schedule, buckle up for a nice run of mediocrity
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10 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
Is that mostly post-Murdoch? Or has it always been like that. My sense of it is that it hasn't, but I'm not sure.
I assume the former, but I became a reader post-college, which was after the News acquisition.
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1 hour ago, Dahobbs said:
Personally, I would reconsider life choices that led you to posting a link to a WSJ opinion piece, particularly without providing the text in spoilers or at least some sort of summary. Anyway, my prediction is that the article is mostly bullshit. 2023 Q2 EV sales are up 50% over 2022.
As an avid reader of the WSJ, I can confirm that their opinion section is suited for people with 2 digit IQs. It’s basically the Tyler Morning Telegraph opinion section with mass distribution. About once a year I accidentally read something so mind-numbingly stupid that I cancel my sub. They always get me back with some silly promo a few days later.
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15 hours ago, McCroskey said:
Thread needs some heater stories. Like asap.
Posted in the Vegas thread, but caught a nice little heater on Saturday at the Bellagio while flying high on mushrooms with four buddies. One of my friends was rolling. The rest of the table was going crazy, and could not understand why we were supremely more chill than they were. Each of us cashed out doubled up.
Of course got wiped out the night before, so it was much needed.
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1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:
I'd take that 2009 line over any line we've had up to this football season.
I remember thinking our line in 2018 being pretty decent with Anderson and Cosmi at tackles.
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I’m not really a Vegas guy, but was convinced to go with a couple guys this past weekend. Friday night was a typical shit show, but Saturday was a really fun day.
7:50 tee time at Paiute with incredible 70 degree weather.
Took mushrooms around 2pm and played craps for a few hours at the Bellagio. After getting wiped on Friday night, all four of us doubled up at a great table and finished slightly up for the weekend.
Went to some dim sum place to come down and relive the day.
Flight back to the east coast was rough on Sunday. I’m getting too old for this shit.
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9 minutes ago, Red Five said:
Maalik is probably the least-mobile QB on our roster.
Quinn looked like a 47 year old man on most of his scrambles last year.
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17 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:
Yea, I prefer the Oyster bracelet to the Jubilee as well.
I love the classic, brushed oyster bracelet, but the polished center link they put on the DJs, GMTs and Daytona is just way too blingy for me (subjectively of course).
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1 minute ago, Laga4 said:
This for sure. When he showed up I was thinking Kenneth Sims good.
If we get half of that this year, we're good.
This for sure. When he showed up I was thinking Kenneth Sims good.
If we get half of that this year, we're good.
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1 hour ago, Auto Driller said:
The tone of the practice reports really does seem different this year. This team is as close to “complete” as we’ve had in over a decade.
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58 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:
I think it’s an interesting way to show how we’ve been failing to land truly elite talent under CS and Herman. They both had some highly rated classes, but they got very few 5 stars to campus. From 2013 to 2021, we landed like 4 consensus 5 stars. Sark landed 6 in just 22 and 23 and will probably be adding another 3-4 for 24. It’s a completely different level of talent than we’ve landed since Mack’s prime.
Yep. We had 5 composite 5 stars just from 2018-2021 (Sanders, Bijan, Sterns, Foster, Whittington, not including Bru), then just 2 (Darius James and Malik) from 2013-2017. Of course we had like 9 from 2010-2012, but I digress.
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I’m pretty bearish on Sark in general, but even I have to give the guy his props. This is the best overall recruiting stretch (taking into account balance across position groups, particularly important groups) since before Mack gave up after 2005, right?
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Not to interrupt the erudite discussion re Ben Chode, but what time are we getting that sweet sweet commitment today?
Donald Trump indicted (again), the 1000% apolitical news thread (again)
in Daily Texan
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Brat has probably sent his grandkids like 25 emails this year alone with a subject line “FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD:” about some combination of Hunter’s laptop, Hillary’s emails, Obama’s birth certificate and/or tan suit, or whatever else they are currently spoon feeding the masses. Probably not asking the right guy.