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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Sounds like, per Sooner Scoop, that Fasusi has some heat issues holding him out. -
Crap! I forgot to mention- the feds were zeroing in on Thompson for dealing drugs, and interviewed Switzer about him. Switzer got in the phone to Thompson and told him to get rid or hide all the evidence. I’m not a lawyer, but I think this is obstruction? No charges on Switzer, though.
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Texas Football 2025 - Kicking the Sonofabitch In
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I agree, but also- Blalock and Sendlein were multi year NFL quality starters, Scott would have been without his rookie injury, Studdard was a NFL journeyman and Will Allen (like Lole this year) decided he was good, he had accomplished what he wanted to. -
I had started a series of posts about the misdeeds of Sooner football a few months ago, but stalled out in1982, with Switzer evading jail for DWI and penalties for Insider Trading. How do you describe the malfeasance, shenanigans and felonies (or, as Switzer described it, “the doping, raping and shooting”) of Sooner football in the 1980s? How can it be done justice? You just have to dive in. First, let’s talk about coaching. Texas had figured out how to use assignment defense to shut down the Sooners wishbone (required comparable athletes, and the Horns had them in the early ‘80s). Switzer made a coaching decision- he was switching to the pro set “I”. He recruited a QB, Aikman, and a RB, Marcus Dupree (he won a bidding war for DuPree’s services). Dupree was an immediate star, but Switzer only got a couple of years out of him (he describes in his book how it was all DuPree’s fault, and also blames the “advisor” from back home- the same guy the Sooners were giving money to to secure DuPree’s commitment. Imagine that- a bought player doesn’t stay bought). The pro set wasn’t working, mainly because Switzer had no clue how to coach it nor how to find assistants to coach it. They abandoned the “I”, returned to the Wishbone they knew, got Aikman injured running it, and he transferred to UCLA so he could begin his HoF career. Bosworth, the Boz, was another of Switzer’s stars. Switzer enjoyed all the attention gained from his brashness, until that same brashness attracted too much attention from regulatory bodies, curious about payments and PEDs, at which point the Boz was let go. But, OU was winning. Texas was down, they really only had to beat Nebraska in the Big 8, and if they didn’t have Miami (coached by Jimmy Johnson, who knew the Sooners all too well), there were few teams that could beat them. They won the MNC in 1985. They had a lot of talent, enabled by their total no -concern with character. The crimes piled up- an ugly gang rape in the dorm (later, Aikman, who had no respect for Switzer, said he would not let his girlfriend around his teammates), drug dealing by starting QB Charles Thompson, and a shooting of one player by another. It all came to a head and Switzer resigned. In his book, Switzer says none of that was his fault and he shouldn’t have been pressured to resign. What he doesn’t say- a key assistant coach and running buddy of Switzer, Scott Hill, was arrested and sent to jail for selling cocaine. The university was under pressure to investigate whether Switzer was also dealing in cocaine. By resigning, Switzer avoided having to answer those questions. How good of a coach was Barry Switzer? I’d say, probably as good as Bobby Collins, another guy with an amazing winning percentage that no other program wanted to hire to coach a rules abiding program. His success was almost entirely a creation based on his willingness to cheat.
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The most annoying thing about Tech is the way they get up to beat you, and so you have to make an effort in kind. You get no credit for beating them but a loss screws up your season. Luckily, Texas wins 3/4 of the time, but what a chore it is. The fun with the Ags is that Tech got up for them, too, and won a lot more often.
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Senior Citizen Issues - Assisting Your Parents
statsman replied to ROFL BOX's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
…on a lighter note,… I hope I haven’t shared this one before, but if I did, it’s probably good enough to repeat. On the subject of siblings not pulling their share (or even any share) of the load,… My MIL lives ten minutes away. We bought the house for her to live in. We pay the mortgage. Wife’s siblings, who live three hours away, made it clear they can’t help. My BIL, who is the apple of MIL’s eye, came to visit a year ago. Know what he did to help out? He prepared a list of things for me to fix or take care of in the house! Awesome, dude! Thanks! -
OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I have to confess that I read SoonerScoop. They believe that the 2023 RRS is the baseline for the rivalry, much more so than 2022 or 2024. That was a game where they played nobody before Texas, worked on tempo and QB draws in practice without ever putting them into a game before Dallas, had the Texas signals stolen, profited from very untimely injuries to Majors and Sanders, and still would have lost had the game been 59 or 61 minutes. This year, they have to play two important games before Dallas. I expect it to be a game, and sure, Texas could lose, but their hill to climb is a lot taller and steeper. -
You are getting off easy with this small amount of abuse. I have seen Tech boards. There is no way they would tolerate any Longhorn “Glory Days” posts
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Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
The OOC road record since 1994. I ran a search on Stassen.com, for the SEC teams, since 1994. It stops I. 2023 (Stassen hasn’t added2024 yet). This period involves a lot of conference switching, and I’m not parsing TAMU’s SEC record pre-2012. https://stassen.com/cgi-bin/records/multi-conference.pl?start=1994&end=2023&team=Rice&team=SouthernMethodist&team=Baylor&team=Houston&team=Texas&team=TexasChristian&team=TexasTech&team=Arkansas&team=TexasAM Against P5 teams, Arkansas went 3-2 on the road, because they’re pussies and don’t play many P5 series OOC. They did win three games, though. Baylor went 2-5 on the road. UH went 9-27 OTR, OOC. Clearly, they were looking for games. Rice went 3-38 OTR, OOC. SMU went 3-28 Texas went 6-6. TAMU went 1-5 if you count the Denver game, 0-5 if you don’t. TCU went 10-3. TT went 2-8. The Ags have two problems, as I see it. They’re pussies and don’t play very many P4 teams OOC. Second, they suck. -
I have no idea why we are getting a lot of pics of guys we don’t know from past TT teams that went 7-5 or 8-4, when TT is supposed to contend in the B12 this year? Who are those guys?
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Au contraire- he was senior director of the Senior Bowl. Do you not realize what that means? Clearly, he is better at senior directing than the senior director of the East West Shrine game or the (one has to laugh) senior director of the Blue Gray Game. He has a well earned reputation for being willing to talk to the professional NFL scouts that come to watch Senior Bowl practices. I have heard from several in the know Sooners that he is a scouting savant. OU snatched him up before the Kansas City Chiefs could. -
After you’re done explaining to us how our program has worked, why don’t you go to MD Anderson and fill the Oncologists in on how they treat cancer, and maybe, while you’re at it, tell the Pope what he doesn’t get right about Catholicism.
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The thing is- Adrian Peterson was also getting benefits from Big Red Auto. OU cut loose Bomar (disappointing in development as QB), a backup OL, and kept the star RB. If Mateer were a disappointment, and this exact story popped up, the AD would cut him loose immediately
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Yeah. I bought Texas lower level CFP CG options early last year, for $150 each. I walked into the Buckeyes semifinals game with those options, a refundable Atlanta hotel reservation and exchangeable airline tickets to Atlanta a week later. It was very comforting to go into that game, knowing that if Texas won, I was covered for the CG without having to stress and wrangle for getting to it. Sure, they made money on me, but I don’t regret it.
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You dumbass. I’m going to help you apply some critical reasoning. Look at how many SWC championships Royal won. How many times he finished in the top 5. Compare it to his regional and national peers. Now, go look at how many (how few, actually) NFL players he coached. There are surprisingly few. (Hilariously, a large percent were WRs that were targeted about ten times per season at Texas). His predecessor and successor both had more future pros per roster. Royal was not building teams by outbidding the competition for the sure thing blue chips. He didn’t want boosters buying players because he didn’t want to cede control. When Royal was told that a rival school was starting to really cheat, He’d call their HC on the phone and tell them that if they didn’t put a stop to it, he was going to the NCAA. He could do that because he didn’t fear reciprocity. He was happy recruiting, just relying on the natural advantages of UT. Now, go back to explaining how to win at college football from your Lubbock perch. I’ll hand it to you, Techsters- y’all have played in bowl games I never knew existed.
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I get that, but I watched CFP CG prices before the ND-tOSU game last year, out of curiosity, and they seemed to go up near Gameday and time. The 2006 Rose Bowl was a game where we heard a lot of stories of guys showing up at the stadium with $1k in cash and not getting in. Showing up in Miami without tix may be a better strategy if Texas is playing a non-blue blood program.
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No fanbase ever got more mileage from a win than OU did with the2023 RRS. If the game is 59 minutes long, Texas wins. If it’s 61 minutes long, Texas wins. But, they have that result established as the baseline for their expectations. (And they followed up that win by coming down from their emotional high and losing to KU and Okie State, missing the Big 12 CG).
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The B12 really is kind of interesting, in a freakish way. Its parity is kind of a strength, even though it lacks for bell cows. It has six members (UH, TCU, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and ASU) that crawled out of the wreckage of dead/dying conferences, and are always looking to scramble up. It has other schools like TT, ISU, KU that have seen their foes of over a century abandon them, and they believe they just need a little boost in order to rejoin them. I can’t think of a Big 12 member that is happy where it is. They are like crabs in a pot, all willing to climb over each other to get out. But, know what? I’ve never seen a crab crawl out of the boiling pot. I can’t think of a Big 12 member that will get picked for promotion. (I want to say ASU, due to demographics, but we’ve been saying that for 50 years).
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I pussed out. Price for 300 level options was $260 each for Texas (highest of any team), $20 over my target price,…and I bought ‘em anyway.
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I am in line with an estimated 20 minute wait. I am thinking if the option for the upper deck is less than $240, I’ll buy and if more, I’ll pass
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20 years ago, I was trying to convince a friend whose teen son was accused of something bad at school, that had been referred to the police, that he needed a lawyer. He felt his son was innocent, and didn’t see why he needed one. I convinced him by saying that it might be a mistake to assume that police officer is like Stabler on “Law and Order”, trying to get to the truth. That maybe he is just a bureaucrat, trying to work a list of assignments down, and if he can close a case by convincing them to plea to a lesser charge (by threatening a bigger charge), he’d do it. That an attorney would keep the police honest. He asked his parents for money, hired an attorney, and now admits it was the best money ever spent.
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
statsman replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Oh, it would be great (although it probably won’t happen). A 6-6 OU where Venables gets to say, “Mateer was a Nagy/Stephenson hire”? Delicious. -
I am sorry, but I’m going to have to say out loud what all of us are thinking- if there is one thing that we know about winning football at Tech, it’s that Texas Tech does not know one goddamned thing about winning football. If Tech did, then at least once in the last 100 years it would have had a great team. It is remarkable that in a state where small fucked up private schools find their way to major bowl games, Tech hasn’t been to one since a four way tie in ‘94 allowed it to get soanked by a shitty Trojan team. Rice has a better football history than Tech. Tech’s floor and ceiling is like that crazy room in “Being John Malkovich”. But, that’s fine. Carry on with explaining to us how Tech is going about building a winning program. I’m sure y’all have it all figured out.
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Ok, I recognized Spike Dykes. Is it bad that I don’t know who any of those other guys are in Iceman’s pictures? I’ll have to take your word for it on Lubbock. Confession- I had my SATs sent to TT. I was going to be the first in my family to go to college and I wanted to study engineering. We had been living in Fort Benning, Georgia when Dad retired from the army and moved to Texas. I knew that in Georgia, if you wanted to study engineering, you went to Georgia Tech, so in Texas… I figured it out when TT sent me an informational booklet that, I kid you not, had the pages and cover actually cut in the shape of a cowboy boot! There is a lot of truth to the saying, “Get your grades up or get your guns up!”
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