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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Spoilered below is a write-up of snapcounts, PFF grades, and advanced stats for the Texas game. There are parts of this post that are objectively disturbing if you're an okie, and hilarious if you are not. It's long, but for those interested in, you know, actually college football discussion, a lot of it is worth the time. Highlights: -Not a single OU offensive player scored well enough to classify as a starter ranking. Most of the higher ranked guys played a few snaps or were skill guys. -The OL sucked but Kanak and Mateer sucked worse. -The defense had a good but not great game, with multiple guys putting up quality starts. -Wisner created 7 missed tackles, which is comical. -
OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I've quoted the write-ups from the beginning pages for OU's offense, defense, STs and schedule. I think I whiffed on like one thing - Ole Miss not finishing the season ranked, as they definitely look like a top 15 team. Credit to Kiffin there. Beyond that, what we witnessed on Saturday should not be considered an aberration for this season for OU. They're going to finish the season out of the top 25 and struggling to get to 7-5 with the back-loaded schedule. The SCar game is kind of huge. OU is what I thought and said they were - mediocre, wildly overrated offense and offensive talent with an absolutely shitty OL, TE and WR group and they're truly mediocre at RB. Nagy lit money on fire with Ott. The defense is solid, led by the front 4, with questions in spots behind them. The schedule was going to be rough and they had to win early to have a winning record. Meanwhile, they'd get overhyped by their own mouthbreathing idiots such as Ikard, Plank, and Lehman, and then the national media would follow. Steele had them 9th in his rankings and they were one of his top surprise teams. He can't help himself with OU. Saturday was fun, and so will the rest of the season. Their posters on their boards are back to the spot where they're all as flummoxed as we are about why Joe Jon Finley and Demarco Murray are on staff, and wondering what happened to Bedenbaugh. Many are now condemning Arbuckle as perhaps more flawed than their media spinners were breathlessly proclaiming him to be this spring and summer.- 851 replies
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“Lambasting”. If I ever actually lambasted you, you’d know it. Congrats on calling the sooners getting the guy back, never mind that he had no business playing and it showed. Enjoy the flowers.
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How did this condescending follow up age for you? Do any introspection, or nah?
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No need for prayer, even. Just realize you’re responding to a mad man. A desperate fool at the end of his pitiful rope.
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I guess. I have heard UF guys from last year forward, players, SBB, Doering and Rutledge, other talking heads discussing them, and the Texas game never comes up. Not once. It’s like it didn’t happen because they were wracked with injuries. I’m kind of torn about revenge as a motivator and what it can unlock in sports. Against a rival is one thing, but against a random conference foe? I just remember Galveston Ball beating us 51-3, and 34-0 my first two years on varsity. My senior year, they came to see us finally and our coach picked that as the Homecoming game for revenge. “Payback’s a motherfucker!!” we screamed as we ran through the paper banner onto the field. Walking off the field losing 69-14, I’m just not sure the revenge angle made all that much of a difference when they were better coached and far more talented. They’re still a talented team. They have a QB who has flashed dynamism on the field, albeit last year before adding a shoulder injury and 25 pounds of bad weight. I hope everyone here is right, to be sure.
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I'm of the opinion that this game sets up as a dead cat bounce for Lagway and the gators. They're not stupid. They know their coach is likely toast. Lagway knows he's getting dragged by his own team's fanbase and the Internet. They're finally back at home and they get to play a team/brand that never lacks for hype. They have no special disdain or reason to not like Texas, but they're tired of all of the bullshit and Texas is as good of a brand as any to try and exorcise some demons. That doesn't mean Texas will lose or come in unprepared or scared. Texas has an advantage over most teams when it comes to road preparation, simply related to the volume of tough, big away games these guys have played. Texas will also be tired of beating up on themselves and the sisters of the poor they've been playing. They also need to show everybody something and shut some of the noise up for their own mental health. So I'm expecting a true rock fight with Texas ultimately prevailing due to better health, better talent and depth, and better coaching. I will be stunned by Texas blowing Florida out and stunned if Florida really has stereotypically just quit on their coach and program. I know they're in basically the same spot as Arkansas last week, but surely these guys have more pride than that, right?
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As bad as AD Mitchell's fumble into the end zone was, he poured gasoline on the fire by getting called for a hold on a what would have been a lead-taking score late in the game. Whoops. Hope it doesn't impact his playing time.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
What I understand is that the dad is attempting to let the player make the decision, but is steering to the reality that money isn't everything, and you're probably not going to wind up living and working in Oregon. You're also mixing some Finley recruitment into these thoughts, I think. I've been told that Texas wouldn't take Finley for free at this point, but we all know there can be a gap between what is said and what is done, so who knows? Regardless, Jermichael Finley seems like a turd. -
Some of the Florida 247 posters can be entertaining. Here's another image from them:
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Here's an article where Sun Belt Billy is basically caught either lying or completely clueless about injury, this one being to rotational Nickel Back, Aaron Gates. SBB announces yesterday that Gates will be back soon and they have good injury news on him. Today they announce that Gates has a torn labrum and will be undergoing shoulder surgery tomorrow, likely ending his season. There's other injury news in the article, including mentioning that starting DT Bett has a knee injury from the Miami game and isn't working out. That's like the 4th or 5th DL to go down. Fans and reports are not happy on their 247 site with one reporter implying that Napier is so checked out, he hasn't been paying attention to his staff's injury updates.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Lest anyone accuse us of being idiotic dreamers, my working assumption is that Pittman either retires or reunites with Smart at Georgia. Their boards are pining for the guy while also hating on Searels. I don’t know why, but the term “hard retard” is hilarious to me. It’s coming to text chains near you. I’d like a Delorean so that I could go back to that day in the earlier times of this board when you were on the verge of being crowdsourced on the $9.95er board and I stepped in and defended you from exile. There’s not a day goes by I don’t feel regret. Not because you’re on here, or because they think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid poster who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can’t. That kid’s long gone, and this old man is all that’s left. I got to live with that.- 7404 replies
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
closetojumping replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
The food talk ran its course. Bring it back further and I move that we start reporting and negging. Pittman was known as an awesome OL coach before he got the Arkansas gig. I’d take him as analyst, right now. -
Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Snapcount tracker for ATM from the Auburn game. Notice how little depth is being deployed by these guys. An injury here or there and they really start looking proper fucked. -
Sun Belt Billy gets Dallas Wilson back from injury this week, so UF is pumped about that. They also expect 2 other WRs to play in Sturdivant and Mizell. Things don't look as positive on the defensive side of the ball.
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Vogel has a pretty good view on UF statistically spoilered below. Highlights: -UF can't get to the QB. They're second to last in the nation in sacks this year. -DJ Lagway threw a fantastic deep ball last year. He's not doing much well this season. -It's not just that UF can't throw. They can't run the ball either.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Fair. I am a great compartmentalizer. The only time I ever think about the Charlie Strong era is when someone here brings it up, and then I think about it only long enough to dismiss it. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
That is literally impossible. Conner was asymptoting towards the worst runblocker in Texas history. He was scraping near an area under the curve known as The Jason Glynn Experience and you do not want a player anywhere near that realm. Stroh might actually be the worst runblocking lineman in Texas history, but that's only mildly worse than Conner. I'll get shit for this, but this post reminds me of the thought I had last year when Kelvin Banks got hurt. "Why does it have to be one of the guys that you don't want injured?" -
My relatives have been harping on the Petrino hire since day 1 last season. When we were up for last year's game, the tailgate chatter was hyperfocused around losing big to Texas so Petrino could take over. It's a bizarre fixation. I laughed listening to Arkansas fans bitch to me about Texas not beating them badly enough. Bizarro world.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Apparently Neto denies the Armenian genocide and has taunted Kyle Flood by printing out box scores of Rutgers' 2015 football season and taping them all over the coaches' office. He's persona non grata accordingly.- 7404 replies
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Grant me whatever you want, call me whatever you like, I don't give a shit. You've clearly had to change your handle at least once in order to keep posting here, so your thoughts seem really valuable. Beyond that, this post reflects some combination of instability, imbecility, and insecurity. I don't know if that mix is going to work well for you with my posting behavior. You may want to put me on ignore for your own good.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
closetojumping replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
The problem is that Sarkisian wants to run IZ until he's blue in the face. He couldn't last year because of the RB room, but he's damned sure back at it again this season. -
That was part of my point. I'm not saying quality candidates can't come out of Arkansas, but that doesn't really change the overall position of the school within the academic hierarchy of the US. And yeah, I no longer hire out of the Ivies unless it's Penn and try to avoid Stanford for similar reasons. Conversely, LSU and OU are off-limits for just producing almost nothing but incompetence. LSU should just be closed. Their output is doing more harm than good for any economy they wind up being a part of in this country.
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