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  1. On 11/28/2019 at 10:36 AM, Hagbard Celine said:

    last year's coach of the year.

    i'm sick of hearing excuses why he would never work here.

    i've watched 50% of this board twist and convulse itself in to rationalizing meyer.

    so fuck it.

     

    Pirate to Texas.

    fight me.

     

    happy thanksgiving.

    Makes Les Miles look like a game day genius.

     

    Never found a lead too big to squander.

     

    And the guy, while funny, is a world class Switzer style jerk.

     

     

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  2. 18 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    That was some crazy stuff today.

    As I was driving to a family funeral I listened on the satellite radio. When I parked at church it was 14-0 with Tech rolling. I come out of church and turn on the radio and it was 42-24, that's some crazy-ass turnaround.

    First two drives were a lowlight reel for the season.  Bad execution, stupid mistakes, bad play calling, awful tackling, playing in slo-mo.  Crowd was about to check out.  Then the offense got it together and the defense found enough.

  3. 18 hours ago, Deej said:

    Did he tell the band, or the crowd? It wouldn't surprise me one bit if Big12 refs warned the crowd.

    I wonder if it was the same guy who called the two late hits on UT( one picked up), and personal foul (when the UT player got punched and was relatively restrained in response), and ignored the body slam on Johnson and the late full push out of bounds on the receiver when he had already cleared the white area (forget which one-sure its discussed somewhere on these 43 pages).  Just unreal the obvious cheap, dangerous stuff they let Tech get away with.  Its like somebody was paid by some gamblers.

  4. 17 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

    All credit to the crowd that did come out but it was nowhere near 75 to 80% full.  Maybe 2/3, at best.  At best.

    I think it was 75-80%, but a lot came in the 2nd quarter when they figured out it wasn't going to pour.

  5. 18 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

    God bless Del Conte for everything he has done - and he's done a lot.

    But our game day, the in game, environment is an unbridled joke, maybe more than it's ever been.  It's fucking laughable and beyond.  And that is on Del Conte. And no one else.  The University of Texas isn't a pro team, and never will be. Fuck all these transplants he, Polonsky in her past and everyone else that you are trying to cater to.  It's a college football game - driven by the fans and the band.  Not by the desire to be a fucked up, audio-driven, whored out beyond recognition Vegas night club.  Pretty much every second of dead air in the stadium is an all out assault, and battery, on one's senses.  Punctuated by some hell-bent desire to push 95 decibels over the JumboTron - whether it be some stupid Tiff's Treat delivery, a Bill Haley and the Comets song, for god's sake, incessant ads or everything else in between. And there's a lot in between, not to mention that insufferable Bob Cole.   Let the game, band and the crowd be the focal point of the game.  There is no need to manufacture some god awful product that is just polluting the environment, and doing nothing else. 
     
    It's hard to come up for air in our stadium given the maniacal lunacy being driven down our throats.   At some point maybe some sanity will prevail.  Polonsky was the devil that drove this for years.  I thought Del Conte had neutered her impact overall.  I guess not in this respect.  

    Ads were kind of over the top, but at least they were amusing.  As for the manufactured noise, it was NOTHING like you get at Georgia and Tennessee, which I've been to recently, and I understand the rest of the SEC and lots of places around the country.  Texas still had the focus much more on the band and hasn't gone whole hog on the trend around the rest of the country.  You cannot talk to the person next to you without shouting at Tennessee.  Georgia is almost as bad-they've moved that way the last couple of seasons.

  6. On 11/18/2019 at 3:33 PM, SA-KC_Horn said:

    Losing is losing no matter how it looks.

    We all had high expectations after the Sugar Bowl, now we're back to square one.

    We lost our whole defense.  If you weren't drinking the Kool-Aid, you knew we wouldn't repeat last year.  But you certainly wouldn't expect as bad as we have looked.

  7. On 11/17/2019 at 12:50 PM, 2300 Nueces said:

    It appears TH is far too emotional.  All the cast off coaches getting gigs at Texas is an example of this.  Critical thinkers with a winning edge would look for an actual winner with fresh ideas but alas we are busy reviving the careers of the average to poor coach.

     

    Elite Coaches - X's and O's matched with elite talent, they tend to attract each other.  Think Riley and his QB's.  They win with young and older players

    Average Coaches - These guys preach culture (alignment) and rely on older high talent guys to get wins.  Younger players rarely develop until they "learn on the field" or wash out.

    Poor Coaches -  These guys lose with whoever plays for them.  They have a chaotic culture and have no ryhme or reason in their schematics. 

    TH is average.  CS is poor.  MB is average.  SS is poor.  Mackovic was average.  I am convinced that Belmont does not want to risk losing face with what may come from rolling the dice and getting an elite coach.  Belmont is comfortable with average and can expect a lock down culture which does not rock the boat or risk embarrassment.  Belmont is also comfortable with a poor coach as long as he is the "right" guy, see Shaka Smart.  Get used to average to below average results, it's the Texas way.

    Mack Brown is 7th all time in wins.  He was not average (at least prior to 2010).

  8. On 11/17/2019 at 9:18 AM, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

    Those of you that think they are the same or that he is worse have blocked out the Charlie years for your own sanity’s sake.

    Texas will never have a coach as bad or worse than Charlie Strong. He was that bad.

    David McWilliams was better than Charlie!

    We have had 3 consecutive losing seasons twice.  Once in the 30s.  Once with Charlie.  The question is whether the OP is as stupid as Charlie Strong or just has an alcohol induced memory lapse.  I can't answer which of the two is true.

  9. On 11/17/2019 at 12:46 PM, Godzillatron said:

    Watching the OU- Baylor game reminded me what good coaches and a well-coached team can do. OU got their shit pushed in during the first half. Then they did this incredible thing that the Texas coaches seem incapable of doing: they adjusted to what was happening on the field! Pitched a shutout in the second half by adjusting on defense. Scored 34 points by adjusting to what the defense was doing.


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    Actually Texas did adjust.   Did you see the offense the first 29:15 of the game?

    Actually it looked more unfocused that unprepared.  Sam was off.  Receivers constantly dropping passes.  D line got whipped.  O line couldn't move people for RBs.  They should have been very motivated.  Now they are out of the ccg.

  10. On 11/17/2019 at 9:51 AM, AnTiM said:

    I have never seen players at this stage of the season look like they have no clue what to do.  Looking at TCU, Baylor, and KSU, it simply has to be coaching.  I have no clue who would be better, but at this point it can't get much worse.

    Where were you when Charlie Strong was coach?  We've been there, done that, already.

  11. On 11/17/2019 at 12:35 AM, Mantis Toboggan, MD said:

    What I think this defense is missing is later delayed, more disguised, more elaborate, safety blitzes that take a guy out of coverage but get a guy on the qb once every 25 times we try it, rather than the 1 in 15 blitzes we are running now

    We're missing a D lineman who can beat his blocker.  All you need is one and it makes everyone better.

  12. On 11/17/2019 at 6:09 PM, Snacks said:

     

    I was camping Saturday and didn't see the game until now..

     

    Several of our players tried to make an odd looking arm/shoulder/spin move to make a tackle... Enough attempts that this is something someone is trying to get the team to do. There's no way that many people are making the same move, multiple times, by coincidence.

     

    It looks like someone is trying to teach "alligator tackling" but without having ever tackled anyone...

     

    Or like a bunch of people have dislocated shoulders...

     

    Or like a bunch of rugby guys with no pads...

     

    Or like they watch it on YouTube without anyone explaining it... Maybe with music over instead.

     

    I can see what's supposed to happen, but it's not right for every tackle, and we're not good at it when it is the right tackle to make.

     

    An I making this up?

     

    Actually Saturday was better than what they have been doing most of the season.

  13. 4 hours ago, Irieguy said:

    Anybody saying they would rather K State have the ball down 7 with 1:40 remaining rather than a chip shot to win is crazy. The way we played it guaranteed that Texas would never lose in regulation. Any other option leaves losing in regulation as a possibility. And Bama and LSU have shitty kickers. We don’t. 

    The best kicker in college football missed a 26 yarder in OT that would have won Georgia's game vs. South Carolina.  

    You want the TD with about 3 seconds left.

  14. 13 hours ago, dcar00 said:

    I'm not against going for 2 but I thought ISU had all the mo and was stuffing Hurts.  of course, I know nothing about their kickers so if Al says they suck I will assume they suck and you need to have a reliable kicker in OT

    Underdogs going for two overwhelmingly miss (unless they score too quick, in which case the other team goes down the field and wins with a FG).

    I understand him doing it, but ISU was having to fight for yards every play.  It would be two nothing plays, then a big one.  Hurts was hurt so he wasn't as dangerous as usual.  I would have kicked.

    Now they still almost did it despite interference.  If the guy wasn't pushed down, he probably could have held onto it.

  15. 16 hours ago, EMAWesome said:

    How do you say it? Furk? Ferk?  My takeaways from the game.  (I turned it off after you scored after the long punt return.  I knew K-State was finished after you got the lead out to more than one score.)

    1.   Your offensive line and defensive line controlled our offensive and defensive lines.  We couldn't get our defense off the field in the second half and couldn't keep our offense on it in the second half.  You wore us down in the end.

     

     

    Like I said after the game last week.  KSU's lines overperformed last week and manhandled OU. UT's underperformed and got manhandled by TCU.  It was going to come back to the norm.

     

     

  16. 30 minutes ago, scottsins said:

    The guy next to me summed it up best.

    “Who do you trust more...Dicker as the clock runs out OR our KO coverage/defense with 40 seconds left or whatever?”

    Oh, if Tom intentionally took that penalty, I would be impressed. To think of that in that game situation would be pretty remarkable.

    You take the 7 point lead.  And you have the kicker kick it out of bounds, giving it to them at the 35.

  17. 1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

    i think they ran sam on 1st and 2nd downs as safe runs. if he could easily score, then score. if it looked like he couldn't score, then go down at the line of scrimmage. no sense fighting for it and risking a fumble.

    i've watched the replay a few times of that sequence and it looked like we were half ass trying to score those two plays.

     

    1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

    i think they ran sam on 1st and 2nd downs as safe runs. if he could easily score, then score. if it looked like he couldn't score, then go down at the line of scrimmage. no sense fighting for it and risking a fumble.

    i've watched the replay a few times of that sequence and it looked like we were half ass trying to score those two plays.

    Right.  You ALWAYS score the TD if you can.  Sam took the knee on 2nd and 3rd down when he got in traffic to avoid having someone try to rip the ball from his hands.  He was going to score if it was there.  Bama-LSU in the game of the year missed two extra points.  And this is KSU where special teams are always good.  You don't put it on the kicker if you can score the TD.

  18. 34 minutes ago, SA-KC_Horn said:

    IDK, but the DBs changing from 10yds off the WR, to a press coverage was on point. Whoever the fuck made that adjustment, please stand up. 

    Maybe the coaches were watching TV.  The announcers were complaining about that the whole first half.

  19. 2 hours ago, Bill Lumbergh said:

    I had my kids birthday party last night and only got to watch until it was 14-0. Expected to come home and see we'd been blown out...it really looked like the wheels were coming off.

    Nice surprise to see the score when we got home, and enjoyed watching the second half to see how the hell it happened.

    Still a ton of problems to fix, but I honestly didn't think this team had fighting back from 14 down in them at this point in this season.

    Have all of you just become Texas fans this season?  Have none of you seen Sam Ehrlinger play?

    We've got a bunch of people here who aren't just glass half empty type people.  You will argue that its really more like 90% empty.

    There are lots of problems, but giving up is not part of this team.

     

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