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  1. The Big 10 has never had an interest in OU. Ever. That shit is hilarious. You think the SEC holds its nose in its dealings with OU? Ha. The Big 10 appropriately views that institution and its base as regrettable trash. I also enjoyed the part where, in a thread expressing angst over being called out by the league for obvious in-game cheating, one of the posters attempted to accuse the rest of the league as being cheaters while OU remains virtuous. That truly is a fanbase of the basest metal.
  2. This is correct. Moore didn’t want Momma’s family hovering around his life moment by moment.
  3. Healthy? Uh, okay. They just lost a starting CB for the year. He underwent surgery this morning. They have multiple starting DLs and several backups who aren’t even practicing. The QB is in a boot. Several WRs are still out. The availability report will tell us what we need to know next week, but Napier isn’t known for taking it easy at practices during their off weeks.
  4. Sankey wholeheartedly admits that they have a strategy for dripping out schedule information to maintain heightened interest. I doubt they just roll it all out tomorrow. I’m betting no dates and I’m kind of dubious about them even telling whether the games are home or away.
  5. No shit? That has nothing to do with my response. I've taken the position, which I thought was a given until reading these last few responses, that they're not going to repeat match-ups for Texas and OU before pitting them against the rest of the conference first.
  6. The whole point of having locks is to enable the conference to move the other match-ups around with impunity. Every school in this conference wants a Texas home game. They've talked about that for 3 years on SEC radio and Sankey's said as much, adding "and Oklahoma" into that sentiment, but we all know that OU isn't moving the needle in the same way. The notion that Sankey is going to tell people at Auburn or SCar or LSU "no" in order to put Vanderbilt and Kentucky back on UT's schedule is purely overthought fan fiction.
  7. I have a hard time being flippant about Bama and I have a hard time taking Missouri seriously. Missouri is good again this year, on paper. Let’s see how things look after they face October.
  8. So we go: -Texas State -Ohio State -UTSA to open and then we know we 9 of the following 10 teams: -OU (lock) -ATM (lock) -Arkansas (lock) -Alabama -Auburn -Ole Miss -LSU -Missouri -South Carolina -Tennessee That is going to be a gnarly bitch of a schedule. Should be a lot of fun. The missed opponent is going to be a really big deal. I'm guessing all of the teams that Texas has rarely played will be on there, SCar, Tenn, Auburn, Ole Miss. Then you have the game in Baton Rouge that makes up for the 2020 miss. So you're left with an argument over ratings and money for UT/Bama versus the fact that it's been longer ago that Texas last played Missouri. I'm guessing no Missouri. Wow.
  9. Lott's been offered DK Moore money and he's not believed to be nearly as good. There's a lot of expense now and continuing in the Texas WR room, so Lott would have to really want to come to Texas. The dad hasn't given up hope, at least.
  10. The last line in the SEC press release is targeted directly at ATM or Arkansas, or both. Not saying only them, but certainly at least one of them. They can both eat shit, regardless.
  11. -SMU sucks. I've been able to watch them a few times and they're just not very good. They play defense as though they're allergic to 3 and outs. -BC is mediocre. I don't know, we really don't have enough data points on any of these teams yet. I've seen enough of Clemson to agree with the premise that 3-9 is possible and not making a bowl game is plausible, but from an alleged talent perspective, Clemson will have more talent than of the team left on the schedule. If Swinney can right the ship, they could easily also finish 8-4 or even 9-3. He's written something similar before and from what I can tell, it's some sort of inside baseball riff on Klubnik's dad being a known asshole in Westlake.
  12. I guess I have to give credit to Treaty Oak for the phenomenal troll job, here. You idiots taking his post seriously is quite something to behold.
  13. Guys, can you please all not be idiots? Holy shit. I read this thread when it updates. BO&W is an idiot and has no impact on my behavior.
  14. You are actively engaging in a nonsense conversation with an unserious, uninformed, bandwidth-draining clown. Reading what he wrote through your quotes reminded me of his existence and why he’s on ignore and usually forgotten. My goodness, what an idiotic premise.
  15. I will admit that the score in this game shocked me.
  16. Tech looked okay yesterday. Utah continues to get the benefit of the doubt to open every season and why they do is beyond me. That team looked like dogshit. I’m guessing they’ll do very Texas Tech stuff here shortly, like coming down and losing to a well-coached Houston team.
  17. I have a hard time getting worked up about a recovering true freshman WR against the Texas defense. I know the guy was a big time recruit, doesn’t matter.
  18. Sun Belt Billy's Gators are all kinds of injured. They lost a starting DB, Dijon Johnson, to what is likely a torn ACL in the first quarter last night. They lost another guy getting regular snaps at one of the DB spots, dude named Bates, to a busted shoulder later in the game. They had 3 starting DLs out for the Miami game with serious injuries and lost another one in the 3rd quarter who couldn't walk off the field under his own power. Finally, the transfer WR, Sturdivant, left the game and never returned in the 3rd as well. They had a litany of injuries going into the game, so maybe this week helps them recover? Unlikely if SBB is still in charge. He's known for running tough, physical practices throughout each season, particularly in off-weeks.
  19. Clemson was just manhandled today by Syracuse. The box score is both deceptive and hilarious. Syracuse had 300 yards in the first half and then tried to take the air out of the ball in the second half. Meanwhile, Garrett Riley went full Joe Tiller. His RB was averaging over 8 ypc, so Riley decided to throw it 60 times against one of the better man coverage teams in the country. Strong work. Clemson’s acclaimed front 7 is garbage. For a guy who gets more credit for his recruiting ranking and physical traits than anything he’s ever done on the field than any other defender in college football, Peter Woods continued to do nothing. Zero impact on the game. The draft honks will still laud him and some idiot franchise will no doubt draft him high in the first. TJ Parker was also a nonentity for much of the game. Whiteboy Awesome Cade Klubnik went an amazing 6 yards per attempt. He statpacked in the final 20 minutes of the game after Syracuse went up by 20. Clemson is now 1-3 for the first time since 2004. We are witnessing the beginning of Late Stage Mack time for Dabo Swinney. It’s delicious.
  20. You asked "what is actually going on?" and got responses to that question. "what is the staff doing about it?" is a different question. Also, expecting the staff to comment on anything regarding Yips Manning's treatment is a level of naivete I wouldn't have otherwise attributed to you.
  21. The truth is that the coaches and players are as confused by Farce Manning's in-game collapses as anyone else. He's looked great in practices for years and looked great in the fall camp run up to Ohio State, right until he bounced the ball to Moore on the first pass. Do you think reporters like Burton can publicly say that? It's hardly productive for even me to say that, but I'm kind of sick of the middling discussion you guys are all having about the coaching staff as it relates to Arch Ankiel. There's no grand conspiracy to elevate a guy because of his name. He's not losing practices. Other guys aren't performing better. The guy looks fine and then is going out in games and melting all the fucking way down. Maybe he's always wanted to be in theatre and this is his grand interview as performance art in an effort to gain entry to Juilliard and then he can put this whole football thing behind him? This is just bizarre shit. I do think one of the biggest things Sarkisian can help course correct on is removing 3rd and 4th reads for a bit. Sounds absurd, but that's an issue, from my perspective. He needs to be: primary, secondary, check down/run/throw it away - 1, 2, 3. Dude is taking too long to go through progressions and then panic throwing.
  22. Hey man, how in the fuck can you be as big a fan as you are of this sport and not know that the ACC only plays 8 conference games. Come the fuck on.
  23. QBs can will teams to victory. In my lifetime, I’ve seen James Brown, Vince Young, Colt McCoy and Sam Ehlinger do it. I played on a few teams where someone simply refused to lose on a given day and it didn’t matter what adversity came our way. Some of that is the magic that makes football and sports great. No amount of analytics or reason or ā€œclutch doesn’t existā€ dork nonsense gets to remove that from the equation, sorry. Just shut the fuck up if your argument, declaratively, is ā€œStroh must be the option, trust the coachesā€. No thanks. We are witnessing one of the worst OL performances at the P4 level, ever, if they continue to play Stroh. He’s not just incompetent, he’s harmful. I don’t remember seeing anything this bad with guys playing under Tim Nunez and Mac McWhorter, which is stunning. There’s something emotional going on with some decisions being made right now. Anyone trying to reason their way out of this is incorrect and can get fucked.
  24. @MrBig hey man, what the fuck are you doing? Jesus fucking Christ, you football board idiots.
  25. I hope so. I blame you for the UTEP game.
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