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  1. 24 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    Worries more about the opponent scoring 40 than us scoring 30

    Only OU got to 40 and they needed a complete letdown by our defense to do it.  Of the remaining opponents only Tech has the scoring potential on paper.  But the Raiders are far less explosive than OU.  They have been able to sustain drives against bad defenses.  Texas tends to give up a few big plays but snuff out drives.  WVU barely averages 40 PPG.  The Longhorns are much better than the average defense that stat was compiled against.

    I understand the skepticism and outright disbelief at where we are today.  A decade of disappointment and wandering in the wilderness has left us all gun shy about believing that Texas could be one of the top teams in the country again.  I am almost pathologically analytical but I feel the same nagging doubt.  Fortunately the data says that Texas is a damn good team so I have to believe it until we have evidence to the contrary.

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  2. 2 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

    I just can't understand why someone feels obligated to write these 'Oh aggy was so great when I visited' stories...

    I mean who does that?! 

    Is it the same person everytime?

    Do they enjoy the fact that they're lying?

    Do they justify it by assuming someone feels this way?

    I can't wrap my mind about this to understand it.

     

    It's the Vanity Sizing of internet message boards.

  3. 11 hours ago, SteelEER said:

    In WVU’s defense, as I stated in a different thread, we have been crushed by injuries at the LB position and our LBs right now we’re safeties this past Spring. We are expected to get at least one starter back by November. IIRC both are in the 6’2” 230 range. Not exactly Levon Kirkland size wise,  but light years better than what’s out there now.

    Dana has liked running it and our OL has the size, but our RB committee is not what it usually is. DL is always a challenge as it is for most “non-elite” programs. That’s why 2 of our starters are grad transfers.  The 3-3-5 works best when you have a NT around 6’2” and 330+ that cannot be budged by one blocker. We haven’t had that kind of NT in forever. 

     

    It wasn't a criticism so you don't need to defend anything.  It's a reasonable decision on the part of the WVU coaching staff based on the sort of offenses they face every week in the Big XII.  I don't know what the exact situation is in Morgantown but I suspect there were other LBs are campus.  Perhaps they weren't ready to assume coverage responsibilities yet.

  4. Texas has faced 3 ranked opponents and scored a minimum of 31 points in those games.  And the 31 was against TCU.  Does anyone see a defense as good as TCU's or even close left on the schedule?  This Longhorn squad can score.  I worry about a slip up against Tech or OkSt but not about the fundamental ability of Texas to put up points.  WVU can beat the Horns' B game so our guys will have to play up to their ability to assure a win there.  Thank God it's in Austin this year.

  5. I'm not real worried about UW.  Their schedule so far has been very weak.  They lost to one of the only 2 teams with winning records.  They were locked in a 1 score game with 0-5 UCLA right to the end.  Their best win at this point is probably @ 3-2 Utah.  The Huskies' schedule from here gets much tougher.  They are at Oregon, then CU, at Cal, Stanford, at OSU, at WSU.  If UW doesn't turn it up a couple of notches there are 2 losses in that schedule.

  6. On 10/6/2018 at 8:28 PM, hookem48 said:

    Riley reminds me of Mackovic.

    All they signs are there.  His offensive genius persona, the way his recruiting skews to that side of the ball and the destruction of a program tradition of playing tough, hard hitting defense.

  7. 20 hours ago, gmr548 said:

    Auburn does not have a better resume than Texas. Maybe they will at the end of the year, but their future schedule is not relevant. My post was made to point out that LSU losing at Florida is a lot more forgivable than Texas losing to Maryland at a "neutral" site. I really don't understand what you are trying to get at?

    Auburn and LSU seem to have "better" losses than Texas.  They certainly don't have better wins.  AU's signature win is Washington and UDub is struggling to beat the dregs of the Pac12 while facing no other ranked team.  LSU has only beaten Miami and Auburn of note.  I'll gladly put OU, TCU and USC up against that.  Add in the fact that the Maryland loss was early and fading fast in relevance and I think Texas can state a very good case for being best 1-loss team TODAY.

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  8. 9 minutes ago, Zharkov said:

    If all this locker room lunacy is true... does it help, or hurt, that ousux has a week off before TCU?

    Best to let the egotistical jackasses stew for an extra week without any outlet for their frustrations.  Makes it much more likely they'll turn on each other.

  9. 1 minute ago, Katfid54 said:

    Good idea. Then each month can be made up of 36.5 days, 3,650 centidays, and 36,500 millidays.

    The metric system needs to incorporate the milliHelen.  A unit of beauty sufficient to launch one ship and burn down a small neighborhood.  Much more useful than most of the existing units of measure.

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  10. 1 minute ago, po elvis said:

    playing one team in a bowl game that might not match up as well against you or might not give a shit about the game (some players are now skipping bowl games to save themself for the NFL) says nothing about what kind of team you have. you have to play a schedule full of teams that are at a certain level. teams of different skill sets that can test your team in different ways each week.

    Yes sir.  And the problem with giving in to UCF would be to validate a model I don't think any of us support: play a mediocre conference schedule supplemented by total crap non-conf and hope to sail through to the playoffs.  Teams in weaker conferences need some pressure to force them to upgrade their OOC scheduling.

  11. 5 minutes ago, JBJ said:

    The problem specifically with UCF is that their non-conf SOS is ranked #125: SC State, UNC, FAU.  (FAU is the best team of that bunch.)

    They won't play a ranked team all year and their toughest opponents are Temple and Cincy.

    I wouldn't mind seeing an undefeated G5 team in the playoff, but that's a schedule that half of P5 teams would have have a good shot to go undefeated at - a group that would include teams like Purdue and Virginia, who would be happy just to make a bowl.  

    And I'd be righteously pissed if they took the spot from my team.

    Exactly.  Even assuming the cause is correct, UCF is beyond flawed as the messenger.

  12. 1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    VY was also sick for that game, and was under orders not to run much because those fuckers can and will take cheap shots to ruin our season. 

    The offense was opened up a little the following 2 games. 

    Those orders made me and biggie a bunch of money.  We flew into Vegas 2 days before the NC game then drove in early that morning.  One of the prop bets on the board at MGM was VY's rushing yardage in the game.  Some idiot had set the over / under at 47.5 yards.  Enough people had seen it and bet it to move the over to -125 by the time we caught it but we emptied our wallets on that one then went up to our room and scraped together every spare dollar we could find to bet that too.  Then we walked down the Strip telling everyone in Texas gear about that stupid line.  By the time we drove out the next morning the sports book had the over at -185.

    The only thing I can think of is that the book makers looked at the aggy game and the conf CCG where VY hardly had to run when setting that line.  They obviously should have looked that the prior Rose Bowl instead and realized that USC's defense was not up to Michigan's standards.

  13. Just now, Huckleberry said:

    That's the correct explanation but the pass was not caught 20+ yards downfield. PFF college can be pretty questionable in their work. Not a big deal on an individual play basis but it happens enough that I question their product sometimes.

    Thanks Huck.  Just going from memory on that one.

  14. 10 minutes ago, CycleTex87 said:

    This is incorrect.  In the VY era (and Bama ever since), games against any but the top one or two teams in the league are over for all intensive porpoises by midway through the second quarter, never mind halftime.  Third quarter is for subs to get some needed experience.  And then the subs beat them like a drum for a while.

    Respectfully, memory is often a tricky thing.  In 2005 that NC squad was clinging to a 5 pt lead at Collie Station in the 4th quarter.  Pino hit an incredibly long FG to make it an 8 pt lead.  He made it a 2 score game with another FG at less than 3:00 on the clock.  VY had 19 net rushing yards that day.

  15. 2 minutes ago, Katfid54 said:

    Can someone explain how Sam was 1-1 for 15 yards over the middle of the field on passes longer than 20 yards?

    Pass to the back of the EZ for LJ.  Technically the pass is credited as a 15 yard pickup.  He actually caught it over 20 yds from the LOS.

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  16. The biggest tribute to the OL play was the fact that OU couldn't stop that outside zone play to the boundary.  Not one time.  Even when they knew it was coming, even when they used goal line defensive packages they couldn't stop Ehlinger and often enough couldn't even touch him.  Beck (I think Brewer in one case) caving in the corner and cutting off the LBs pursuit angles was a thing of beauty.

    One time OU tried hard.  The LB jumped outside to beat the TE and DL got penetration playside, either a 3-tech or DE.  Beck seals the LB outside and Sam calmly cuts it back to the A gap, strolling into the end zone.  OU did much the same on the prior play 1st and goal and Sam picks up 6 yards.

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  17. In the OP I mentioned opposing DCs distorting their defenses in response to the Mensa offense.  On rewatch, that already happened in the OU game.  After Beck's catch on 3rd and 20, OU called a TO to get out of nickel and substitute in 3-4 personnel to defend on 4th and short.  After converting, we don't run tempo but we did get back to the line quickly.  OU can't substitute, which leaves their stand up DE Mark Jackson in coverage against Tre Watson on the wheel route.  Mismatch, fade to black.

    This all occurs because Texas can run QB power from their base 11 personnel and OU can't defend it with their 3-3-5 base nickel defense.  They go big for short yardage and can't get back into their base afterwards.  Good play design but even better use of the clock situationally to keep OU in the wrong personnel package.

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