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  1. Very reminiscent of John Mackovic in that regard. Mackovic would occasionally do infuriating things offensively to "prove" that he could. They often blew up in his face.
    Specifically, I recall losing to Baylor in 1997 despite Ricky Williams carrying the ball 31 times for 241 yards and 2 TDs (7.8 yd/carry avg. and being completely unstoppable), Mackovic went away from giving him the ball in the 4th quarter and we lost 23-21. But at least JM was the smartest guy in the stadium that day.
    Mackovic almost got his butt whipped by a fan that day. But there were bars/gate that prevented access to him.

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  2. Anything that helps build thier confidence in themselves and eachother.

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    I've been a stalker on these boards and its predecessors for years. My name originated due to my feelings for Big 12 refs, but I'm really feeling the same towards youth sports. But this quoted statement is huge and believe it has been reiterated throughout this thread. So I ask as you continue to progress with your kids that you continue to keep in mind all the kids. Let your coaches know that great opportunities should exist for all of them. Give them opportunities to build confidence. And memories that last a lifetime. Even if they are done with sports two to three years down the road. And I'm not a give everbuddy a participation medal guy but rather a give everyone a legit opportunity to win that medal guy. This isn't just about confidence on the field but in life.

    I've got two that have ventured into middle school sports. We've played club volleyball and select baseball in addition to rec ball. We've got a third just showing interest. All 3 are very different in levels of skills and strengths. I get why they don't get all the playing time but holy hell they have not been given what they've earned in my opinion. It has reached its peak now. I'm mad. I'm disappointed and disillusioned. I'm disheartened and truly dumbfounded. And others get every opportunity to fail over and over again. After watching kids, mine and their friends, play multiple sports and reflecting on my days, I've come to the conclusion that for 95% of kids it's all about reps and confidence. Elite athletes are rare and some you think are elite-ish are probably more confident with significantly more reps. In our case as parents, we've wondered what we did to tick people off as to impact our kids playing time and opportunities. We try to temper our biases of our kids and say maybe they're just not that good. But there are instances that have happened that have me convinced it is simply not our biases but a genuinely warranted frustration. And disappointment. And general pissed offedness.

    I enjoy winning and lose my mind when it comes to Horns athletics but damned have we not lost our minds, collectively not necessarily individually, with respect to youth sports. And I include myself in that with respect to my own kids but in different manner than I view how others have lost their minds. For many I don't think it's a win at all costs mentality but more of a win at all costs mentality that aligns with let my favorites reap the benefits.

    So keep them all in mind and I'd even suggest be a bit more specific in post game congratulations rather than the generic "good game Lil'Shep" which can be difficult when opportunities are limited. And do not act surprised when a kid does well when actually given the opportunity. Be genuine and honest but not give the implication "you usually aren't any good but you've played well today."

    Anyway, sorry for the length of the post and making it about me.

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  3. I mean- we should be better than OSU. We are more talented. I really like Our OC. But Herman is a boat anchor that will make us lose. 
    Should we like our OC? Is Tommie meddling?

    The first play today. Greg Davis reincarnated. But we did show a different look. That is Greg Davis genius. Run a different look but still poorly timed and for something we don't do well. The reverse/end around on 3rd and 2 late.

    The late play call to Brewer to end the game. Very nice but maybe better is a more crucial situation.

    Wiley is a bit Jeremy Shockeyish/Soldieresque. He's our most elite pass catching weapon. But not used enough.

    Anybody else notice Bijan in the pass game late versus OU? Anybody notice him in the pass game since?

    Personnel choices. WRs were moved in and out all game. Not real sure how you develop consistency that way. And as a QB, you absolutely believe in some guys more than others. That same QB shouldn't have look to see who is in every other play.

    Brewer has a place/use in this offense. I'm not sure defenses are matching person groupings. We sure as heck don't when our defense is on the field. I don't think Baylor did much. Wiley is our TE in the pass game since D Thomas. And he's probably better down the field. Wiley stays on the field and you do some game planning around. Brewer has less duty but still used as a pass catcher on play action. But never ever split out in 4/5 wide. EVar.


    So who is inbred? Herman or Yurcich or both.

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  4. You dang Cowboys fans. I almost feel sorry for you.

    Several things. Andy Dalton is not the best backup QB in the league. Whoever hyped that up is a goob. I'd for sure take Colt over him. Andy never did that much to deserve high draft status or years as starter. I might take Tyrod Taylor. Probably wouldn't take B Hoyer.

    Now, I didn't really watch too much of the game but I did see the nonDPI call resulting in an interception. Killed the drive. I saw Gallup drop a TD. I did see some poor pass blocking and some WRs that were tightly covered. From what I had seen earlier this year Daks pocket was not this inconsistent.

    You were without the best holding tackle in the league then lost your best olineman. Zeke's fumbles decidedly gave the Cards momentum. But worse it kicked the teams confidence, which is markedly different without your usual QB. Add an unfortunate pick and a dropped TD and well you have little chance.

    This is a Cards defense that has football players on it. Andy had few reps with these guys and this offense made worse due to 2020. Any eva luation of the QB in this situation should be "let's wait until next week."

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  5. Watching Texas Football Overdrive.

    We did come out ahead on the time issue, but not convinced there was proof Sam did not get the first.

    But I am curious on the Kerstetter personal foul on the Sam run to the 1 in the first half. There should have been a check for a 1st. That was blown off. If its deadball, then it possibly should have been first down from the 18.


    And if someone writes about an officiating error, shouldn't they get the details correct? Maybe I can't read but thought it said Sam didn't get back to the los. He was well past the los.

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  6. Hey yo

    I don't really remember this play.

    But I do remember us preliminarily getting a 1st down run from Sam which was overturned and resulted in a 4th down run for a 1st. That play chewed up additional time. From the stadium view, there was no justification to overturn. Granted that view was not great to make a determination.

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  7. PFF on the top 10 Week 6 performances from NFL draft prospects - Cosmi:
    Texas has been airing the ball out like no other team this season, and Cosmi is a big reason why. On 70 pass protection snaps against Oklahoma on Saturday, Cosmi didn’t allow a single pressure or record a single downgrade. And 38 of those 70 qualified as true pass sets for us. That’s some impressive stuff from the redshirt junior left tackle, who now has an 89.8 pass-blocking grade on the season.
    As someone else previously mentioned, this makes the coaching worse. You've got one side locked down but you won't help the other side out.

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  8. man, thank god you registered and started posting here, otherwise where else would we get our fix multi paragraph posts which all say the exact same thing over and over- namely that Sam Ehlinger is perfect has never done anything wrong as a QB ever. don't know what we'd do without your hard headed, juvenile, delusional rants in this thread.
    Thanks.

    Think I said yesterday was his worst game this year. If he plays well, we win. All we needed was one more play to win so that goes for a lot of guys. And I said nothing about drops in the OU game. TCU yes. The OU game was a team cluster.

    I'll give you another on your crucify Sam list. On the crappy throw to Black that got overturned, Schooler was wide open too for big, big yards.

    People like him because he gives big effort. Wonderful human beings like yourself are overly critical. And I realize some may be overly positive about all his game.

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  9. Hey did yall know Sr Colt McCoy held the ball too long in the Big 12 championship vs Nebraska? Did yall know he missed some reads? Did yall our defense dominated that day? Or what about him throwing away the 1st half versus Tech in 08.

    Did Vince Young play well when we scored 0 against Ou? That was his 3rd year here right? Did yall know he threw 2 picks at OSU? In the Horseshoe. At night. Limas Sweed better than current WR. Dave Thomas yep better than any TE. Jamaal Charles and Ramonce. Both more explosive than anyone we currently have.

    As far as I know you nimrods have no clue what Sam is being asked to do. Dropped passes were the huge issue along with penalties that did us in vs TCU. Oh and a fumble. Ou he played a lot worse, but he gave us chances. Sorry playcalling and inopportune penalties were again very costly.


    Some of you are projecting an reasonable standard. And with 11 rushing attempts, there's not much opportunity to misread anything. Lack of a consistent running game. Lack of consistent pass pro. Inconsistency at WR. If you have all those things, you will likely have some inconsistencies at QB.

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  10. Sam has been perhaps the worst individual player on the field for Texas for two weeks now. Maybe he’s injured or more to the story. I don’t know. I just know he’s made maybe a couple dozen bad run reads, wrong reads in the passing game and poor throws. He stands out for his mistakes more than anyone.
    This is wrong. At least the first sentence.

    76 touches. 2 turnovers. This week. Easily his worst game throwing. There are two other players who killed drives on minimal chances. No doubt some of his touches are all his doing. The first turnover - his WR could have helped out in not letting that happen and actually it's on them to do their damndest to make sure it doesn't happen. On the 2nd, keep in mind it was 2nd and goal from the 19. Physically and mentally that many touches is too much to expect for anyone..

    Last week. No way, no how was he the worst. He throws for over 400 if his guys make a few catches and avoid some penalties. His only int last week was a miscommunication.

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  11. I was kind of in and out.  Did OU get through the game w/o a holding (O-line) call?  Curious because they got called for holding twice in the 3 mins or so of the K State game I saw.
    Anybody? Anybody? I don't remember any on the offensive side.

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  12. A friend of mine is with a company that provides stat analysis for college teams. Their book said that Texas should have gone for 2 at 31-23, but not at the end of regulation or in the 2nd OT. 
    This is correct. You miss it here then you still need to score anyway. If you miss the first, you get second shot.

    You get it then you get 7, you win.

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  13. He wasn't good today.

    But when you have so few rushes from your RBs and your OL is not able to pass block consistently, there is play calling to blame.

    Eagles asked to come out in OT and not sure he came back. 3rd and 9 should not have Ingram and Brewer in there. Brewer was in far too many plays. Wiley had too few plays. Not many drops today except Washington's. Penalties hurt us again. Limited practice reps doesn't help. Yeah everybody has gone thru covid but we've got transfers, injuries that haven't helped.

    Of all the issues we had, I'm not sure Brewers usage versus Wiley may have been the biggest screwup.



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  14. Mack's main problem at the end was whiffing on the QB recruiting, starting in 2007. If he had seriously recruited Luck or Griffin, he may have had another national title and 2010 wouldn't have been the clusterfuck that it was. He was still getting just about anyone he wanted back then and didn't go hard after these guys, because he was all-in on GG. 
    But yeah, he was cranking out Herman-esque seasons with the likes of Case and Ash. His floor was basically Herman's ceiling (2010 being the lone exception). 
    Not entirely QB by the time Mack left. The roster outside of a few upper class guys was not good.

    2013. ISU dead ball strip and score fumble won us the game. Vs. Baylor did you know we averaged 1.6 yards. PER PASS. Baylor had more INT return yards than we had passing. Vs. Oregon we upped that to 2.4 yard per pass. Oregon also had more pickoff return yards that we had receiving. OSU routed us at home. Pretty sure OU was as poor as they've been since 1998 in that 2013/2014 time period hence hiring Lincole Riley in early 2015.

    The starting oline in those last two games probably had over 100 career starts and produced 17 points. Our TD drive versus Baylor. 7 plays. 11 yards. All but Espinosa were gone the next year. By game 2 or 3 the following year Espinosas career was done and we had 5/6 career starts total in game 2 or 3. Remember we moved an undersized defensive lineman to offensive tackle and make a make shift oline. So limited experience/talent/size/cohesion linemen were responsible for protecting our small town, losing record as a high school QB and true freshman eventually converted to WR QB.

    Last Olineman that was drafted. Recruiting class of 2004 in Tony Hills. Strong recruited 1 in year 1. Herman recruited one in year 1 (maybe two).

    The Big 12 got better after Brown left. TCU, Tech and Ku were probably as bad as they've been in 2013. WVU had Millard at QB and took us to OT. Our talent was not good or deep. He was going to be in major trouble had he stayed.

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  15. Yes, we got screwed, and yes, I'm quoting myself to see what you guys think about these two plays we may have gotten away with.  Both are close.  The first one looks much more like PI/holding from the replay angle compared to real-time play.  That was definitely a game changer non call as it was 3rd and 5 with a minute left before half.   The second play pissed me off because I expected it to be called given how the refs were screwing us and it displayed a lack of discipline. What say you Surly? 
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    Green play. More often than not considered incidental. No call.

    Duggan play. Almost more awkward than anything. Should never be called. That's not to say some wouldn't have called it. If that's all TCU has to question, then they'd take it every game.

    The TCU WR screen in the screenshot above was ironically the possession after Jones was called for being downfield. Terrible non call.

    Now, the Ossai roughing the passer play. Not sure that's debatable, but we had dpi down the field which was not called but TCU ends up no worse off.

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  16. Yep and as much as people are shitting on the roster, it's a night and day difference from what he walked into in 2017.  Hypothetically, if he was fired at the end of this season, the only positions where we need to recruit immediately better is OL, OL, and maybe WR. Everywhere else is pretty good.
    This is not entirely true. Depth is considerably better now. But look at NFL rosters of what he inherited. He had the following:

    DL - Ford, Roach, Omenihu, Elliott
    LB - Jefferson, granted he can't stick but he fit the profile
    DB - Elliott, Hill, Boyd, Jones
    WR - Duvernay, Johnson
    OL - Williams
    P - Dickson

    Other guys who at least flashed - Chris Warren, Jean Delance, Beuchele.

    Brown left the cupboard barren save a small handful of upper classmen.

    I'm not talking about college production or how you felt about their abilities while here but how the NFL perceived their skills in either drafting or thinking holy shit this free agents good, let's get him some playing time. And there are two still in college who are very solid.

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  17. Patently false.
    You hear what you want to hear, which in this case is the victim card.   Play the fuck out of it, but don't make up shit you THINK I said.
    My last retort. You are welcome to yours. But yeah that's pretty much your stance in this thread. Shipley punt return = equal only poor non call that impacted game in an attempt to "steal" it from us.

    But perhaps it was not clear. I have seen posts through the years of yours that heavily implies that singular play was clearly most impactful play of the day. And the only reason we were in the game. I've pointed out several reasons why that's a more difficult call than some with a higher probability to be missed. Even picked up. One official could have simply said his head was in front. But yes in this thread you do not wish to debate the game. Perhaps you have in the past so I will concede that point.

    This is a Texas board. So take that in context.

    And the old SWC foes, Nebraska, and others have played the victim card directly at us for years and years. That includes Tech. Hell, I'm kinda a Tech fan. West Texas folks are good people. But it's a bullshit mentality towards us.

    You're right that officiating across the board in the 12 needs work. I have no idea with certainty there is bias against Texas but I sure as hell guarantee there is no preferential treatment and hasn't been for years. But you sure exhibit the potential for refs to exhibit bias towards us. Little butt munches all across Texas and up thru the midwest thinking Texas "steals" shit.

    But again, there is no excuse to miss this one versus OU. That's Big 12.

    Then notice the non call on OPI vs TCU. Our D was playing better in half 2. I believe this was a 3rd down conversion. It impacted the play. It impacted possession. It was not bang bang. There were two choices to flag. That's the unacceptable variety. And yeah its probably Big 12 officials but when combined with all the unusual calls there will be other questions.2c54e0d801ba69b1976dde8692ecc239.jpg94fcd13e3d986eaa20dc9bcfa2aebe60.jpg

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  18. You don’t even fucking know me, Mr I’ve been on the board 10 Minutes...
     
    I’ve already said I’m not debating that game, and people want to keep bringing it up as an example.  I have posited multiple times that the officiating is fucked up in the Big XII.  Nowhere have I said it just started this season.
     
    Carry on with the wailing and gnashing of teeth.
    You're right I don't "know" but I've been reading this board and it's predecessors for years. And you don't want to debate but seemingly always chirp up on this game and act as the punt return was the only play.

    But simpletons like you do need to consider the dynamics of officiating. In the picture above, approaching half the players are contained in a small area. On a punt, they're spread out width wide and covering 40 to 50 yards running full speed. A block in the back shouldn't be missed but it is a bit more understandable given the dynamics of that play. There are not enough officials to observe all 22 at once on a play like that for the entirety of the play. More difficult angles also are likely created due to all the movement. Not all misses are the same. Holds by the Oline right in front of the QB should never be missed especially when maintained for multiple seconds.

    Now the above is inexcusable to miss. You can't see the ref but you know he's back there. Unobstructed view. He only needs to call one. Orakpo is one step away from getting a hit on Harrell. Maybe a change of possession fumble. Maybe Harrell gets hurt. It provides Rylan Reed or whatever the hell his name is unwarranted confidence to continue the practice throughout the remainder of the game. One he uses to later injure Orakpo.

    On Saturday, TCU had more penalties. But if you look at the circumstances, ours were far more consequential/impactful. Pre snap penalties, tripping the ref, those are pretty much gimmes. Many of those were TCUs calls. And no doubt, every game has missed calls go for and against each team for varying reasons but it is the circumstances around those.

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