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  1. 2 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    What am I missing here? 

    Couldn't get playing time at Georgia and wasn't even a full time starter for an atrocious offense like Miss State. 1 reception for 18 yards at Miss State. Maybe he can block. 

    They are leaking like a sieve, anything to gain some "momentum" in recruiting. IMO 

  2. 2 hours ago, Mr. Drummond said:

    JImbo could sell, and when backed by recruiting money, legal or not, could recruit quite well.   His blind spot at both aggy and florida st was Oline.    I'm not sure why he refused to see it - he sure as hell knew DL was important.    He must be the only offensive coordinator in all of football to treat the Oline as an afterthought.  

    I don’t think you remember a one Thomas Herman, Mensa. Recruiting OL is hard. 

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  3. 1 hour ago, Cajun said:

    Middle finger rep is cool and all @Bobby Layne, but damned if I’m not curious to find out why my just relating what Finebaum said on his show would garner such a response.

    Care to give some context?

    Haha he does that to me too from time to time, so does pilots error and cairn horn. Random negs, it actually makes me laugh now. At first I was puzzled but it’s harmless. 

  4. 8 hours ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

    https://theathletic.com/5107249/2023/12/02/quinn-ewers-texas-football-big-12-championship/

    Quinn Ewers fulfills his Texas destiny: Longhorns return to top of Big 12, at last

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    By Max Olson

    Dec 2, 2023

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    ARLINGTON, Texas — You’re not going to get tears of joy from Quinn Ewers, nor will you get fiery emotion. After the finest performance and the biggest win of his life, you get the same old Quinn.

    As he stepped down from the trophy stage, a Big 12 title belt over his right shoulder, he didn’t glance around with glee to see all those fans in burnt orange partying inside AT&T Stadium. He didn’t respond to a childhood dream come true with childlike wonder. He stayed cool, calm and quiet, more pleased than thrilled.

    That’s what it took for Texas to utterly dominate No. 18 Oklahoma State. This 49-21 triumph, the Longhorns’ first Big 12 championship since 2009 as well as its last, was Ewers at his very best. He wanted to go out and show everybody what he looks like when he plays what he calls his “true game.” On Saturday, Ewers was absolutely the truth.

    “I told these guys to come out here and play like no one’s seen us play before,” he said. “Show them what Texas football is really about.”

     

    GO DEEPER

    Khan: Texas is a champion again, whether headed to the CFP or NY6. And the Horns are here to stay

    We were given definitive proof of just how special Texas’ ballyhooed quarterback can be at his best. His career-high 452 passing yards on 35-of-46 passing easily shattered the Big 12 title game record, and four first-half touchdown passes set the tone on a day when the Longhorns had everything to prove and no interest in messing around.

    “I thought Quinn was lights out today,” Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said.

    On this big-time stage, Sarkisian’s offense turned into a scary symphony. The line kept the quarterback comfortable. The backs could break a big run at any moment. The pass catchers constantly created separation. The head coach was deep in his bag of tricks. The quarterback threw with clinical precision. And there was nothing Oklahoma State could do to stop any of it.

    The theme of the day, over and over again: Ewers put the ball where it needed to be and his dudes did the rest. Xavier Worthy turned a quick out into a 54-yard gain. Adonai Mitchell caught an Ewers dime in stride after a filthy double move and went for 62. Tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders was open all day for eight catches and 105 yards. Even their 6-foot-4, 362-pound monster T’Vondre Sweat found a way to get wide open on his goal-line touchdown catch.

    Texas’ playmakers combined for 342 yards after the catch Saturday, the most by any offense against a Power 5 defense in college football all season. Ewers connected with nine different players for 18 passes of 10-plus yards. One of the biggest reasons why this team got this far by Year 3 under Sarkisian: Texas has true difference-makers and knows how to use them.

    On Monday, the head coach told his team exactly how this game would be won.

    “He didn’t want us coming out throwing jabs,” running back Keilan Robinson said. “We gotta come out throwing haymakers and uppercuts. We wanted to end it from the jump. And that’s what we did.”

     

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    — Texas Football (@TexasFootball) December 2, 2023

    Ewers ensured this game was over well before they hit the fourth quarter. He was the hero without trying too hard to be heroic. When the first read was there, he threw it on time and accurately. When he needed to go through progressions and take his time, not once did he look nervous. That’s what mature quarterback play looks like.

    The third-year sophomore has come a long way in his short time at Texas. It was the opportunity for moments like these that made him come home two years ago.

    “There’s no better feeling, honestly,” Ewers said, “especially for the guys who just dreamed of playing here and coming to their state. Accomplishing something to this magnitude has been just nothing but a blessing.”

    Texas has had 10 different starting quarterbacks since Colt McCoy last led this program to a Big 12 championship in 2009. Each and every one of his successors has been burdened by the weighty expectations of not just being The Guy at Texas but the expectation they needed to ascend to savior-level greatness in order for Texas to get back to contending for national titles.

    Ewers, the No. 1 overall recruit in his class out of Southlake Carroll, knew what he was signing up for when he committed to Texas in 2020. He knew how it would look when he decommitted two months later. He knew exactly what it meant to this fan base when he transferred home from Ohio State and finally joined the Longhorns in December 2021.

    When a fan base puts all of its hopes and dreams on you, making you an icon before you’ve ever played a snap, praying you become the best they’ve ever seen and judging you harshly if you aren’t, then you better be made of the right stuff. It takes a lot more than just thick skin to deal with it on a daily basis. Early on in their careers, it wasn’t always a ton of fun to be Vince Young or Colt McCoy.

    There were times last season when Ewers’ confidence could’ve been seriously shaken. He didn’t look like a five-star when he faced Oklahoma State last October in Stillwater. Texas could’ve run away with that one, too, after rolling to a 31-17 lead in the second quarter. But Ewers didn’t have it on that windy day in Oklahoma. He completed just 19 of 49 passes, lost the lead and tossed two interceptions in the fourth quarter in a 41-34 loss that dropped his team to 5-3. If Texas wins that game, it would’ve played for a Big 12 title.

    That low point was still fresh in Ewers’ mind this week as he prepared for revenge. But it was the moment when he messed up Saturday that showed his growth. Ewers, backed up to his own 29-yard line, fired a pass to a wide-open Worthy but couldn’t see Oklahoma State linebacker Nickolas Martin lurking. He took the interception down to the 3-yard line, setting up an easy score to cut the Cowboys’ deficit to 28-14.

    A year ago, maybe that’s the play that starts the Texas meltdown. Not this time. Ewers went right back out and guided a 10-play, 82-yard touchdown drive to erase any momentary momentum.

    “His response, like it’s been all year, was tremendous,” Sarkisian said.

    When faced with the intense pressure of taking on No. 3 Alabama in Tuscaloosa, he stuck to playing his game and lit up the Crimson Tide. When an AC joint sprain in his throwing shoulder knocked him out for two games in the middle of the season, he came back ready to thrive. He’s completed 71 percent of his passes for 1,246 yards and eight touchdowns over this defining four-game stretch during which Texas had no room for error.

    We’re watching him play with more confidence than ever. When that’s the case, you get a Texas team that can play with anybody. This team sent a clear message Saturday that, if they’re let into the College Football Playoff, they’re going to be a problem.

    Three weeks ago, word began to get out starting with a report from Orangebloods.com that there was growing momentum behind Ewers returning to Texas in 2024. Perhaps it was the injury setback. Perhaps it was an assessment of the quarterback draft class and the sense that Ewers wasn’t approaching first-round status. Maybe he’s just having a heck of a time in college.

    Many took that revelation as a surprise, believing that Ewers going three-and-pro had been the scripted plan all along. But the journey is never as straightforward as we expect, even for five-star phenoms.

    After knocking out the Cowboys and taking home the belt, Ewers didn’t speak on what he plans to do next, nor did anyone ask. Sarkisian did not waste much time stumping for why his team belongs in the top four. Why get worked up about the future when you’re a program that has been chasing this very moment every day since 2010?

    The kid whom everyone hoped would put Texas football back on top did just that while playing the best game of his life. This year, the hype was actually real. And after a decade of stumbling, at long last, the Longhorns looked unstoppable.

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  5. 6 hours ago, SamMan said:

    Bumping this shit as @Thatguy did previously with another thread to remind people how fucking ridiculous some of you are. I told myself after reading this fucking thread at the time that if Texas went forward and achieved everything that was still in front of them, I was going to rehash these petty grievances. “Oh, he told the kids to go have fun…what a fucking pussy. He’ll never win anything with that disposition.” You morons are fucking pussies for believing that bullshit makes a goddamn difference. Even for the football board, your low-grade, downmarket, paint-by-numbers ideas about what football is, and what it takes to be successful, are so aggie-esque, it is an embarrassment. Fuck y’all.

    Signed,

    Big 12 Fucking Champs/CFP #3 Seed

    P.S. To the motherfuckers on other threads who: a) were “so done with Quinn” and clamoring for Maalik early in the season b) were seriously suggesting Quinn wouldn’t even start if he returned next year…

    0d1725f301944d511121867a0e1ee7152cb5a5b0
    Sorry you had to suffer through all of those lamentable fucking wins.

    The Revenge Tour continues in New Orleans on New Year’s Day. I hope you losers stay your ass on the fucking couch, so you can race over here and bitch about hearing what the ESPN mics caught Sark saying to his players during the pregame stretch period or something, and how it is an absolute disgrace and entirely antithetical to winning football.

    /rant

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    Well said sir, well fucking said. 

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  6. 8 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

    So I eat crow. I also want to apologize to anyone I have offended by being frustrated and snarky on this thread in particular. Like many of you football is my escape. That and this forum. 
    I lost my cousin to suicide last March. I lost my uncle to a heart attack (totally unexpected) who was like a surrogate father to me on May 7, 2023. His wife, my mom’s sister, was diagnosed with early onset dementia in her early 60’s, four years ago,  and she passed away horribly in an Alzheimer’s home on September 28, 2023. I was with her when she passed away and took her last breath. 
    UT football mostly stunk throughout my childhood but my dad a UT grad was a super fan. He died in 2005 during the MNC season right before OU weekend.

    a lot of you bleed orange like I do. With the losses I have had the past year and 9 months though I have been harder on Sark and the team than I should have. I’ve been beyond frustrated with the past 13 plus years of UT football. Even before those few great years of VY and Colt which I cherish. I want Sark to succeed. It’s great for him and us. It’s great for the players. 
    I’ve been around long enough though to realize that criticism is sometimes warranted and it doesn’t mean we want the person fired. Sometimes we are wrong. I am often wrong. But when you’ve experienced the past two years I have you learn to NOT get your hopes up always waiting for the other shoe to drop. 
     

    Hookem! Proud of the team and Sark and coaches! What a hell of a year! 🤘🏼🤘🏼

    Dammit, I'm sorry for all that you've been through recently. I am glad that you're here and a member of this board so don't ever take any of my shit talking the wrong way please. It's never meant as anything but my opinion. The back and forth banter we have is what makes this place special. I hope we beat the hell out of washington then give michigan a fight for their life because fuck bama and having to play them again lol. I hope your dad is smiling at the thought of us winning the last conference title we will ever play in the big 12. 

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  7. 9 hours ago, jw4381 said:

    Already claimed my crow. But I'll gladly take another helping here and now.

     

    Haha my bad, I was just looking at the beginning of this year and those stood out. There isn’t a single person on here who hasn’t said something they regret or were horribly wrong about. Hell I compared our roster to Kansas’s that first season sark took over in my quest to fight for the corches haha. Bad take then and it still is today. I think we can all agree that winning feels good no matter who was right about it though. Hook em 

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  8. On 1/4/2023 at 5:37 PM, Nicole44 said:

    I don’t think I am a weirdo for wanting Sark to get an OC. He is part of a dying breed or diminishing group of HCs that are still the main play caller. There is a damn good reason for this. He’s never had one. As a HC he has not won a MNC or a CCG. He did it his way albeit (not sober) at USC and Washington. As an OC he was part of MNC teams. Big success there. He can’t be both. He won’t win dick doing things the same way he always done things. He’ll get what he’s always got. But in two years this conversation will be more clear when he’s GOT ALL HIS guys…and y’all will be making excuses cuz we are in the SEC. 

     

    On 1/4/2023 at 4:10 PM, jw4381 said:

    And back to the topic, Sark will continue to be a middling coach until he stops calling the offense. He needs to manage the game and yell at the refs, and then we'll be rolling.

     

    On 1/4/2023 at 4:19 PM, JFKFC said:

    I think Josh Heupel makes around $5 million a year. He has 5 season as a head coach. Three of those seasons he has had double digit win totals. Is that better than Sark? 

    Lots of gold from this thread haha

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    The criticism is one thing but it’s the absolutes that were baffling. Sark should have won more right away because a good coach would with the talent herman gave him. Hurr durr. Sark can’t be the HC and OC, hurr durr. PK should be fired and sark needs to be an actual head coach, hurr durr. His evolution from day one to right now has been nothing short of fantastic. Culture, staff, recruiting, and winning…off the fuckin charts. Surly is a magical place tho and we need those critical, pragmatic douche bags (not in a mean way lol) to offset the sunshine pumpers like myself. I still think Sark has a chance to finish one day as our next Royal. Callin it now. 

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  10. 3100 yards and 21 TD’s with only 6 INT’s for Quinn, that’s missing two games against shitty passing defenses. We are about to be 12-1 and big 12 champions. My goodness guys, what a hell of a ride this year has been. Haven’t felt like this in a long time 

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  11. Refs can really fuck up momentum. Bullshit delay call cost us points, bullshit holding gave them a TD, and now we just had the air smacked out of us with that targeting call that was total trash. These last two quarters of this shit conference can’t go by fast enough 

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