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  1. 1 hour ago, Sgt. Slaughter said:

    To be fair, I don’t watch the games because the offense is shit and out of sync this year. 

    Hahahaha. It is to laugh. …

    This is year 5. Steve Sarkisian has been given everything. EVERYTHING he has ever asked for or needed with this program. Many people have spent real money to support this fucking dipshit. He’s coaching a soft offense with a shit run game. Maybe you’re too dumb to grasp all of this, but the only pussies involved with this program are those coaching the offense, the finesse bitches on the OL and the QB who shrieks every time he hears footsteps. 

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  2. 20 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Arch might be worse than you.  You know who beat OU and aggy and could absolutely hit wide open crossers over the middle?  Case McCoy.  I said Arch wasn't Case McCoy at the beginning of the year.  I ddin't think I'd be correct in saying that because it was aspirational. 

    I find myself watching other teams during the week with three things making me regularly envious:

    1) teams in the red zone not running slowly developing dogshit runs up the middle.

    2) offensive lines that can actually move an LOS on a running play.

    3) QBs hitting wide open WRs roughly 5-15 yards down the field. 

    The last one probably makes me the most ragey. Texas hasn't had a competent RZ approach in years and good OLs in the running game might as well be a myth at this point. But having a QB who cannot hit the broadside of a barn? That's new bullshit. 

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  3. October 21, 2023. Mississippi State beat Arkansas in Fayetteville, 7-3. That was MSU's last SEC win. They've lost 15 SEC games in a row. That will be heralded throughout the CFB media world and on social media when they break the streak two years later, this coming Saturday night. 

    I hope that isn't the case, but I've been a Texas fan for a long time and that just kind of feels like some Texas football bullshit. 

    19 hours ago, TornACL said:

    You older Surly posters probably remember the 1991 Texas at Mississippi State season opener. One of the absolutely most disappointing games I can ever remember.

    We were coming off of the Shock the Nation 1990 tour, and despite the 46-3 Cotton Bowl loss, the defense was gonna to be good and Gardere was back at QB.  14 year old me was absolutely convinced that we were gonna run the SWC, get back to the Cotton Bowl and win this time. Texas was back baby. 

    Instead, we had like 200 yards of offense, looked totally impotent, and those hillbillies celebrated like free Oxy and crystal meth had dropped from the heavens.

    I fear that Saturday's game will at times bring bank brutal memories of that day. And so I think I will get drunk Saturday afternoon. 

    Go Horns.

    This pretty much me exactly. I was stunned and pissed after that 1991 MSU game, but I'd only been watching games since the loss to Georgia in the Cotton Bowl 7 years earlier and didn't fully understand things just yet. 

  4. 9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Yeah, the French toast at Bardot is fucking unreal.

    It’s been a running joke with our group for years. Take a murse or fannypack to the brunch and then tuck away what you don’t eat of the french toast loaf into that, and then just randomly pull it out and snack on it while at the craps or blackjack table later in the day. If I saw someone do that, I’d likely have a cardiac arrest on the spot from an explosion of laughter. 

    My wife ordered it one time. We had deviled eggs to start and I had a benedict of some sort. She knocked down about 1/8 of the french toast and asked me to help. I think I took down another 1/8 and we asked for the check. No regrets. It’s delicious anyway.  

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  5. 7 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:

    I said wow 9 times tonight.  One fully extended shovel pass, one left handed throw under pressure, and 7 sacks.

    The first two, you’re right. The left handed pass was terrific. He also placed a throw perfectly on a guy’s chest deep and the dude dropped it, but, man, there’s not much else. 

  6. I opted to go to the Wizard of Oz with @SydneyCarton and another buddy while everyone else did other stuff after our Friday brunch at Bouchon. A couple of things pertaining to the last page+.
     

    1) I hadn’t seen the Wizard of Oz since childhood and I had low expectations. Just wanted to see what the hubbub about the Sphere was all about. I was personally blown away. It’s a sensory explosion and the story/film is still terrific, to boot. It’s 75 minutes and that is perfect. Get the 300 or 400 section seating for tickets if you do it. Lower than that missed some experience. 

    2) I used to push for our group to go to Mon Ami Gabi for brunch when we’d visit. It’s fallen off. Bardot and Bouchon blow it out of the water for brunch these days. If you’re in the Venetian, don’t overthink it. Take Bouchon, make sure you at least try the scrambled eggs and whatever soup they have that day, and never look back. 

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  7. 19 minutes ago, Iguana said:

    "Also, OU has never scored more than 2 offensive touchdowns against an SEC opponent since joining the conference."  ?????

     
    1st OKL 13:11 OKL - Gabriel,Dillon 9 yd run (Schmit,Zach kick), 5 plays, 22 yards, TOP 01:03
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    2nd OKL 05:23 OKL - Walker,Tawee 1 yd run (Schmit,Zach kick), 10 plays, 75 yards, TOP 04:04
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    14

     

    3rd OKL 10:21 OKL - Walker,Tawee 1 yd run (Schmit,Zach kick), 13 plays, 75 yards, TOP 04:39
    27
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    4th OKL 00:15 OKL - Anderson,Nic 3 yd pass from Gabriel,Dillon (Schmit,Zach kick) 5 plays, 75 yards, TOP 01:02
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    Sadly, this took effort. 

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  8. On 10/13/2025 at 3:03 PM, Red Five said:

    I drank for about 18 consecutive hours, finishing with martinis with the milfs at the Anatole bar at about 1 a.m. Top 5 Texas/OU experience for me, going back to 1988. 

    I was at a table with my wife drinking Manhattans until the end of the ATM/Florida game at that bar in the Anatole. Ships passing in the night, sir. 

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  9. 5 minutes ago, kilroydos said:

    He did hit 1300 in '23, but it's not working this year.  I don't know how much of it is his fault. 

    I don't think Ikard's plan is for the whole slate of offensive position coaches to go, but they've got to get on the same page.  Bedenbaugh doesn't want to coach his line to set the same way for every play (to accommodate the RPO), but that's what he's having to do right now.  That means no push in the run game, no blocking support by TEs that can't do it, and no space for the WRs to get clear because of the aforementioned.

    The plan to abandon the run for this year is that he doesn't think you can re-install a package in the middle of the year that fixes the set issues, so you abandon the RPO and just use short passes in place of the run to backs who can catch a little.  You hope it pulls people up off of the deeper zones and then you get Mateer a little time with a slower rush and more space downfield.  You also hope it stops OLs from getting rolled up on, which has been the source of half of the OL injuries this year.

    It would require a LOT of humility from the staff and you probably still need to get rid of JJF for not finding a single TE who can block worth a damn and Murray for not being able to identify, land, and develop a RB with any vision. 

    If you could swing the scythe, who would you keep on the offensive coaching staff? 

    My view is this:

    -Joe Jon Finley was a bum at ATM and he's been a bum at OU. I don't know what he's doing with his charges, honestly. It almost seems like guys get worse as the season moves forward. We saw that with certain groups under Mack Brown, everywhere under Strong, and in a lot of places with Herman. No one hires a perfect staff, so there's nits to pick across any staff in the country, but JJF stands out as one of the worst position coaches I could name anywhere right now. Some of that is due to familiarity, but not all of it. 

    -Jones could well be a victim of circumstance, but we're nearing a point where it doesn't matter. Injuries decimating the WR room? Two years in a row? That's a shame. Also a shame? There aren't any actual dudes in the room in the first place and the statistics bear that out. This is from a program that seemed like it produced a top 3 round WR pick every year for two decades. 

    -Murray is saved only by Finley in terms of being the worst assistant on any staff I can think of right now. He can at least recruit, I guess, but he does nothing with those recruits once they get to campus. It also seems like he actively finds a player in the RB room to dislike and beat up on each year. The RB room is where highly ranked 4 stars and 5 stars go to die. Sawchuk, Tatum, Barnes, Ott - they are all within the last 2 years of being complete busts or mediocrities. Maybe some got hurt? Who cares? The excuses might be legitimate, but they aren't improving the situation. 

    -Bedenbaugh is enigmatic, at this point. He was once considered one of the best in the business and had guys going in the 1st round it seemed like every year. He fell asleep in recruiting and ignored the portal for a few years and now the product on the field is absolute dogshit. This is another spot where the group seems to be devolving as the seasons wear on, particularly the past two years. Again, injuries can be part of the problem, but cry me a river. Every program in the country deals with building OL injury issues as the season continues because this is a brutal, violent sport, especially in the trenches. 

    I have zero faith in Arbuckle to make solid hires simply because he hasn't been around long enough to know what he's doing in that regard. I'd been hiring talent for 6 years when I was 29 and shit was still somewhat of a mystery to me. Unless he's a savant, how the fuck is he going to know who to poach or promote? Venables is part of why you're in this offensive mess. One thing about Nagy is that he is connected throughout CFB and the NFL when it comes to coaching personnel. Maybe he's a legitimate asset on this front if OU does decide to clean house offensively. 

    Also, Schmidt is outdated and from a different era. I don't see OU looking bigger, faster, or meaner than any other P4 team they're playing. They outplayed Michigan and Auburn, but they didn't have a size or speed advantage to my naked eye. Against Texas? They looked smaller and slower across the board. Are you guys seeing something differently? 

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  10. 14 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

     

    What CTJ doesn't say here, but which should be obvious, is that he's now planning several calls into Pauly Finebaum where Lewis Livinstone is going to gas about how he and his nephew Parker have been cooking meth in a trailer in Vidor every summer since he was 10, which by coincidence, was also the first year Parker stole a car and crashed it into a tree just to feel something. 

    In the forthcoming weeks we're going to hear some very interesting members of the Stroh family hitting the airwaves, who I will remind all of you are Aggies, talking about how the ginger folk are some of the most efficient and successful fentanyl mules China has ever employed. 

    See, this is putting in work now. We need to workshop this and see where we can take it.

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  11. On 10/15/2025 at 3:51 PM, A-Tex Devil said:

    Going next month (UT-GA weekend) and staying at Circa, I think.  We are all almost or just past 50, so this is a sportsbook (Circa is just spectacular for this), poker, craps, trip and maybe catch a concert if one is in town (2 years ago we caught Built to Spill and The Hold Steady randomly playing the same gig, which was awesome as I love THS and BtS is one of my buddy's all time favorites).  But overall, we look and play the part of dork dads on vacation.

    I rarely spend any time at good restaurants on these trips (and it's been two years), because degenerate, but want to find a spot this time for one excellent meal. What's a favorite steakhouse where we can come out of the sports books or off the tables and walk into with our untucked short sleeve Poncho, Vuori chinos, baseball cap, and ON Clouds (you know, the West Austin dad uniform) without looking like complete slobs.  I figure we'll need to go to the strip unless someone can convince me on V&A or Andiamo because they are downtown.

     

     

    Dude, the steakhouse at Circa is just fine. The bartenders are also slutty and hot. I forget the restaurant name, but should be easy to find. I went with my wife for a change of pace from the strip a while back. Not our thing, but it would fit your thinking.  

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  12. 5 hours ago, satyanash said:

    The main exports of the Texas Empire are currently syrup, timber, gabagool, and lots of meth.

    Empires have been built on less. 

    Outside of OU, what is the actual footprint a result of? Who played someone in New England and south Georgia?

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