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  1. 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.
  2. My dad was raised a Texas fan and then was recruited by DKR. Tore his knee up his senior year as a CB and had offers pulled from everywhere. Ended up choosing Rice over Tulane. He raised his boys to be Texas fans and has been as big a diehard as any person I’ve ever known who actually went to Texas, me included. The t-shirt whines have simply never passed muster for me.
  3. Oh man. The Spider2Y clown is negging Sydney Thomas? That is the most on brand shit ever. It’s fucking perfect. Hahahhahahaha. What an ultra-maroon.
  4. Also, no carnies. Small hands and smell like cabbage and such.
  5. I hate to derail someone working on shouting that mouthbreathing imbecile back into a corner, but the t-shirt fan shaming is bullshit. Texas has one of the biggest t-shirt fan followings in the world and Texas benefits mightily from it. You're excluding a lot of fans when you start down that path, and it's a silly position.
  6. 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.
  7. Sure, I guess. It feels like a fall from grace, but I've lived long enough to know that there are far more disappointing outcomes than 8-4. That Georgia game is going to be like Fayetteville in 2021, with the offense and defense trading roles. It really doesn't take much on the road for a game against quality talent in a hostile environment to get out of hand, irrespective of how good someone's defense is. Why would I take 8-4? Because I prefer it to 5-7. You've made it clear in multiple threads that you don't really see how 5-7 could happen and then you start extolling the virtues of a likely 9-3 playoff team or some such, and, hey, you do you. For me? I remember 2021, 2010, 1997, 2014-2016. Some things I learned from those years include key insights like "winning poorly sure still beats the fuck out of losing" and "I enjoy watching a sport I love a lot more when Texas wins its game on Saturdays" and "offseasons suck a lot less coming off of decent seasons versus asshole-flavored seasons". I am not living in some fantasy realm that 10-2 will happen or that 9-3 gets Texas to the playoffs and if those things don't happen, then change needs to happen and that will only come after a 6-6 type season. I don't think a certain record is going to be the impetus for Sarkisian making some changes. He's either honestly introspective, which I think he is, or he's an idiot. There's no way he's looking at the offensive woes this season and not considering various changes. This team's beta is too massive to expect consistency and competency all of a sudden. Arch Knoblauch is a below average college QB who fails to get the basics right on a weekly basis. His coach goes into what the coach himself has labeled "playcallers block" at least once a game and often for entire halves. That's also indicative of poor prep and planning during the week, btw. Beyond all of that, this offensive line is dogshit and we're back to DJ Monroe World in which we might have one playmaker every now and then and that's mostly on special teams. Fuck me, fuck you and fuck Seven Win Steve for this. I feel like I need a cigarette. You can live with this approach and choose to be completely disappointed in the year. If this team finishes 10-2, I will kiss your bare ass in front of the tower and give you 30 minutes to draw a crowd. I, and clearly others, am choosing a path of far less disappointment. Give me some ugly wins and I've reset my expectations outside of 2-3 of those accordingly.
  8. 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. 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.
  9. If you could be guaranteed an 8-4 finish to the regular season, yet you do not get to pick the wins and losses, would you take that record, right now? I would take 8-4 if I could, without hesitation. 2 of the last 3 games involved one of the worst Texas offenses I have ever seen and one of those games also included a lackluster defense. I feel like the chances of seeing more abysmally shitty offensive performances over the next 5 games are really high and there's a solid chance that the defense plays like asshole again as well. A blowout loss to Georgia feels inevitable and an embarrassment in Starkville feels very plausible. 5-7 is more likely than 10-2. Hell, 9-3 would fucking stun me. My biggest problem with all of this is that there is no excuse for it. This is year 5 and Sarkisian has been given every resource. This is his doing and the offense is his bailiwick, yet the offense looks like an FCS unit. Also, name a QB that has been on a Texas roster and actually gotten better during their time on campus while Sarkisian and Milwee have been running that room. Like, name a single one.
  10. I enjoyed watching the camera shots of the Nebraska fans looking despondent in the stands tonight. Some of those people were heading to very dark places, and I enjoyed seeing the beginnings of them heading there.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. I’m not saying Raiola sucks, but I’m a year and a half into watching the guy and I just rarely find myself saying “wow!” while watching him.
  15. 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.
  16. 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?
  17. See, this is putting in work now. We need to workshop this and see where we can take it.
  18. Ha. I don't like how the guy handled his Texas exit, but I'm not actively trying to sabotage his career. Is imitating a crazy black man's voice the audio version of committing blackface? I'm assuming so, and therefore, yeah, I'm good.
  19. 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.
  20. 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?
  21. This almost never works out well. The small running back out of San Antonio did this, the DE out of the Golden Triangle, those two immediately come to mind. See ya, bud.
  22. OU reporters are saying that OT Simmons is a go for Saturday against South Carolina. Dude couldn't walk on his own this past Saturday, but he's going to be out there at full speed this coming weekend. Either he's a complete pussy or this is a Jerry Schmidt special. Also, OU has never scored more than 2 offensive touchdowns against an SEC opponent since joining the conference. There's a shot that that holds true into the winter break.
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