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  1. I am an old guy. This WSJ article made it sound like Creatine is good for old guys. https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/creatine-health-fitness-benefits-63cdff4f?st=w3fcn2&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink Does anyone have experience with this? For general conditioning and aging help? Anything to avoid when shopping for brands? Thoughts on the right amount? Any suggestions? Thanks
  2. Auburn-OU (Sep. 20) should be a fun watch/listen. I expect both teams to put it all out there and each QB (Arnold and Mateer) to try to hero-ball to victory.
  3. I listened to a Sooner podcast last night. It was fun as they tried to figure out what the worst part of last year was. They rehashed getting destroyed by Texas, trailing (temporarily) Maine and others, before deciding on Arnold’s late fumble against Missouri to lose the game. They are trying to gin up the hope now. Their logic is inconsistent, at best: -the OL has to be better, because it was just so awful last year and some new guys are coming in to join with the old guys (I call this the “there is so much shit here that there must be a pony in here somewhere” logic) -the offense has to be better because it was so poorly coached last year (probably something to this) -Mateer was the most highly sought QB in the portal. (Ok, who was second? Beck?) -Texas can’t be as good, after losing so much to the draft. (Another way of putting it- “the guys that backed up their players that left early for the draft can’t be as good as our players that wouldn’t have been drafted). -Auburn will suck, because Jackson Arnold. - They expect an elite defense. I don’t know. Sounds like a lot of hope and cope.
  4. Those were the fans, trying to cope. Their leaders thought they had Texas right where they wanted it- forced to be on their schedule, forced to share viewers and attendance, underpowered due to being in a second tier conference. They were so pissed off when the stars aligned for Texas to leave for a better deal, and Texas chose to do so.
  5. Do you remember the precursor to the BCS? The bowl alliance?
  6. The ACC and B12 (and ND!) better be careful. They might just convince the SEC and B1G to run their own post season tournament. It will turn whatever the B12 and ACC run out into a NIT.
  7. Why wouldn’t the NFL love it? Back in the ‘40s, NFL scouting involved buying a preseason annual and seeing who it said were the best players. Players at major programs had much easier NFL paths than those from minor programs. In the ‘60s, teams (led by the Cowboys) realized that there was real talent at smaller programs, often better than those considered stars at big programs. They expanded their scouting departments (and formed scouting consortiums) so they could cast their nets wider. Now, all programs are looking for talent at least one level down. That’s why there are more draft picks than ever at SEC and B1G schools. The talent is rationalizing itself before they are draft eligible.
  8. TCU got their home game sellouts against a blue blood program, with national TV broadcast. They got them every year, against Texas or OU. Now, you just have to generate the excitement against TT and OSU.
  9. SMU attendance is a funny thing. From 1981-1982, SMU went 21-1-1, and still drew only 27k in Texas Stadium for league games (not against Texas, of course.) Ztejas is right about last year- they neared 35k for many ACC home games. In 2023, home games at SMU averaged in the low 20,000s.
  10. Another good campus job- I was Rlection Judge for Jester East. Easy money, you get to hire your friends, and it looks great on a resume. I think you contact the Travis County clerk for availability
  11. I think Venables broke a primary rule of HCing last year- “You hire your OC for his offense”. He inherited Lebby’s VeerNShoot (Briles) offense and promoted Littrell (from the Leach-Mangino Air Raid tree) to coordinate it. Disaster. Now he has Arbuckle as OC, to run a different style Air Raid (more QB running), and the hire would not be as hopeful if Arbuckle didn’t bring his Qb, Mateer. I have no idea how good of an OC Arbuckle is. He might be a Lincoln Riley starter kit, or he might be a Sterlin Gilbert.
  12. The first game being in Baton Rouge is the clue. I think the way they played TCU- as the game approached, they threatened to cancel unless it was moved to ATT, and thee schools compromised by canceling the Baton Rouge game. Maybe I’m wrong. OU has played at Ford at least once. Maybe it’s not a big deal to LSU. It was in 2013, though.
  13. It doesn’t have to be ATT (and, Lord, is ATT a horrible place for college football). The announcement says “Dallas” as the site. There is a large stadium in Dallas, available for games. That stadium has a history with SMU football. Some used to call it “the house that Doak built”.
  14. That is something, considering that the SoonerScoop posters regularly ask their moderators why Joe Jon Finley hasn’t been fired yet (which annoys the moderators to no end. “We don’t know why he still has a job! Quit asking!”). Occasionally, someone will whisper that last year’s starter, Bauer Sharp, who they bitched about constantly, might have a nice finish to his career at LSU, where he portaled.
  15. Sure, but that’s how it worked for TCU- they planned a home-and-home, then LSU insisted on ATT (they saw it as a recruiting showcase and they wanted a lot of exposure), and it ended up as a one-off at ATT. I fully expect, at some point, for LSU to say, “We’re not playing this in a 35,000 seat stadium, are we?”
  16. What stadium do you think they will host LSU in? AT&T? Cotton Bowl?
  17. Agree with all this. Texas’ interests will be in the minority of any mass vote, though. UT needs to form bonds with the very few other schools in a similar situation (likes sports success, has large resources)- ND, tOSU, Michigan, (ugh) Oregon, UGA, USC, (sorry, but true) TAMU, maybe Florida, PSU and others, to prepare to split off if needed.
  18. Looking at Phil Steele’s roster comparison from 2024 preseason… Ratings of (2025) draft eligible (3rd or later year) players: QB: Ewers (6 in nation), Arnold (too young) RB: OU’s Sawchick (11, he just portaled out, I think), Sam Franklin (68, I have no idea who this is), No Texas player listed, Blue was drafted. WR: Bond (11, UDFA), Burks (12, coming back), Anderson (15, portaled), Boldin (49, UDFA), Farouq (52, portaled), no Golden listed (1st round) TE: Helm (25, drafted), Sharp (48, portaled) Center: Majors (25, UDFA), Hickman (33, returning?) G: Banks (1, huge fuck up by Steele, some NfL guy must have told him Banks projected as guard, drafted 1st round), Conner (36 drafted), Campbell (38, returning), no Sooners T: sexton (68, returning), no Cam Williams (drafted) DE: Burke (11, passed by Simmons), Sorrell(23, drafted), Downs (43, UDFA) DT: Collins (19, drafted), Broughton (27, drafted), Damonic Williams (33, bad draft grade and returned), Lole (53, GA) OLB: T. Moore (5, returning), Stutsman (7, drafted), Lewis (21, returning), Finley (43, portaled) ILB: Gbenda (65) CB: Barron (17, 1st round), G. Williams (34, returning?) FS: Bowman (3, drafted), Taaffe (23, AA, return) SS: Mukuba (15, drafted) You see a trend- Texas players typically either outperformed the expectations or were supplanted. Sooners…not so much. Unit Rankings for preseason 2024- QB: Texas (1), OU (43) RB: Texas (10), OU (21) Receivers: Oklahoma (6!), Texas (19) OL: Texas (2), OU (47) DL: Texas (18), OU (21) LB: OU (2), Texas (4) DB: OU (2), Texas (16) Again, Texas units mostly met or exceeded expectations, OU not so much. Texas seems to be better at scouting and coaching players and positions.
  19. From 2000-2023, the Sooners held onto a belief that there was just something in the water in Austin that made football players soft and stupid, and that OU was just faster, smarter and toughler. Last year, they started to grudgingly admit that Texas was better (but not by as much as it looked! Texas had an easy schedule, and Littrell was retarded!) They have taken steps to get better this year. They see that Texas’ 2023 starting lineup is now almost fully gone to the NFL. They are believing again. Texas needs to spank them again. It’s the only way. I’m pretty sure that their schedule, from the Texas game on, will wear their one deep lineup down. They host Auburn early, in their first SEC game. Jackson Arnold will probably be the Auburn QB. I suspect that their three games Venables has circles are Michigan in week 2, Auburn and Texas. If he loses to Auburn (QBed by Arnold) and Texas, Venables might not finish the season.
  20. As far as player and unit comps- OU is biased, we’re biased (or, at least, I am biased), but Phil Steele will have both player and unit unbiased rankings to check.
  21. More roster reviews: This serves to show how so many fans just tune out on other teams, once their team has played them. They don’t think DJ Campbell is that impressive (despite his temptation to enter the draft). They didn’t watch Goosby play late in the season, in relief, so he doesn’t exist, to them. They don’t seem to remember Lefau, despite his large role in the RRS gameplan. They would have been thrilled to sign Brad Spence in the portal or Tyanthony Smith out of HS, but they didn’t, so they don’t really exist.
  22. I was looking at the FSU Warchant board. You have to wade through a lot of constant talk about their standing offers to join the SEC and B1G (once they free themselves from the ACC), and oh- which one should they choose?- but, once clear, I saw their comments about Marvin Jones, Jr. portaling to the starting DE at OU. They aren’t upset. They don’t miss him. They don’t wish him well. They think he half-assed it for them last year.
  23. This is awesome, from the SoonerScoop mailbag this week: I get it- their portal QB and RB have produced. Yes, DT is a worry for Texas. But, it is clear they have not paid attention to Colin Simmons, even after he ran down Hawkins in the RRS last year. Also, the four position groups he has rated better than Texas are the four that they probably have the most NIL committed to. Got to keep the fans interested.
  24. Thanks. I appreciate that LHF and TexasOne have different structures, and purposes. My concern was with the one commingled funding source- donors. The Big Cigars (all of whom probably have suites) are the ones the school calls upon for special funding- new facilities, fleeing a crappy conference, firing a coach and signing a five star WR. My concern was that, as a fan, I don’t want that big donor to say he is tapped out from paying for a new swim center weight room, and can’t help with the roster. You’ve satisfied my curiosity that this shit is managed, and that was all I needed.
  25. Of course they can. The right strategy, of course, is to start using the detached body parts of the first men to die as crude tools and weapons, in order to defeat the gorilla.
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