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  1. Brandon Baker taking over for Cam Williams in more ways than one.
  2. Okay okay okay. More of this. I don't care about the result. I just want to see Arch not look like complete poo.
  3. I would agree with a lot of that. Right now I'm in the moment, and the moment is telling me this is the apocalypse unfolding. But the truth is what I've seen beats pretty much everyone on the schedule other than Georgia. But Arch Manning has to improve. The moment was definitely too big for him. Maybe that's normal given the circumstances, but it was still disappointing to see. I'll say this. I watched Colt McCoy his first two years as a starter and thought, "Well, he'll get recruited over." He threw a bunch of interceptions, and more than that, he seemed to throw so many passes that should have been interceptions that weren't. Then in 2008 and 2009 I thought, "well, that opinion didn't age well. This dude is a magician." There are 3 games before we head to Gainesville. Manning simply has to get better. This is not a starting level division I performance.
  4. "It's not over yet," says Gus. Narrator: It's over.
  5. That's the way it looks to me. They did just overcome the illegal formation penalty.
  6. So I feel like Fox just trolled Bjork a little bit. This offseason he changed the third quarter/4th quarter song from Hang on Sloopy. OSU fans were pissed. Going into commercials at the end of the 3rd quarter Fox just played the song.
  7. Why will it be unbearable? He's looked like ass. If he didn't have all this hype he'd still be hearing it this week. I know he can throw better than he has today, but to be perfectly honest the moment has been too big for him so far.
  8. He could be fielding it on the second bounce like Silas Bolden did.
  9. Why? 1984 to 1986 was the beginning of the end. Very akin to 2010 to 2013. I don't want to appear ungrateful, but it is what it is. 1984 to 1997 and 2010 to 2022 were our dark periods. Those were the coaches during those periods. Akers earned his right to be on that list.
  10. We're Genghis Khan. To the rest of the SEC: "If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you."
  11. The Longhorn Weekly coaches show that Craig Way hosts with Steve Sarkisian had Jamaal Charles and Duane Akina as guests, and the two of them told some fun stories about the 2005 game. It's worth a listen, IMO. And I don't usually say that about the coaches shows. They talked about Charles' catches and runs, including the 8 yarder on 3rd down and 6 to convert a first on the winning drive. They also focused on his tackle of AJ Hawk on the interception VY threw. He missed the tackle the first time, popped up, hurdled over two defenders (Craig Way interjected to say that Charles had the best time in the hurdles his senior year in high school) and then decleated Hawk at the 18 yard line to save the touchdown. Sarkisian used the conversation in part to talk about the fact Charles had 16 snaps in that game as a true freshman, but Charles made those snaps extremely impactful. Akina talked about how Charles was the best safety he never got to coach. After Charles made the tackle Akina said over comms he needed him in the DB room. He didn't realize Mack Brown was on the head set at that moment but Brown immediately responded, "Not a chance."
  12. Warned? I'm excited! Arkansas fans are too downtrodden to be truly insufferable. They're just filled with hate. And Aggies...well, I don't have to tell anyone on this board about Aggies. They're short bus special.
  13. ...Fred Akers, David McWilliams, John Mackovic. There's definitely a list.
  14. This may have been posted somewhere, but Alabama's starting defensive tackle Tim Keenan is out for a few weeks with a high ankle sprain. He underwent a tightrope procedure to help. "Redshirt freshman Jeremiah Beaman and true freshman London Simmons are next in line to step in for Keenan." This is in addition to starting RB Miller being out with a collarbone injury, and starting tackle Roberts out with a concussion. The key is whether they're ready to go for Georgia on September 27. Especially Keenan.
  15. It's really strange for me because coming into the SEC I thought Georgia may be the only sane, rational and educated fanbase. It's almost embarrassing how wrong I was, but moreso for UGA people. Rural Georgia is a special place. Having one of those troglodytes bark at you is something special. It's like they caught rabies. I would say Alabama is the most sane, rational, educated fan base in general. They're having a moment after the retirement of Saban and of course they're going to be full of themselves in different ways, but I do believe they're more rational about their team than Georgia fans are. And there's no inferiority complex whatsoever, while everyone in the SEC other than Bama has some of that going on, whether they admit it or not. Ohio State fans are just plain delusional. I honestly believe that comes from never having any real downturns. When your delusions are validated every year, not only is it difficult to recognize them as such...but are they even delusions any more? Anyway, we're well on our way to being most hated in this conference with a bullet. Just need to win at a high rate for a couple of years and it will be complete. We're practically there as it is.
  16. He points at his dick when he says soul.
  17. There are a lot of hot women in the Phoenix area, no question, and especially on that campus. Of course, there are just a ton of students. Allegedly more than 80,000 on campus, with another 60k+ online.
  18. I don't know anything, but my gut tells me Steve Sarkisian the former college baseball player is going to be patient with whatever decision Jonah Williams wants to make, regardless of how we feel about it.
  19. You're right. I don't get it. Arizona State is not the caliber of the other marquee opponents, and comparing Arizona State to Texas doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever. It makes sense to you, and that's all that matters.
  20. I've watched goal posts being torn down from fans after wins against Texas teams with a losing record. Ain't nobody doing that with Arizona State. You're making a false equivalency. When Texas comes into town it makes for a big time game regardless of how good the team is. That's just the power of the brand. Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame have the same kind of draw. So does Alabama and USC. It's odd to compare Arizona State to those Texas teams.
  21. At least those 2011 and 2012 teams were pretty much hot garbage. The 2000 and 2003 teams were pretty good and had no business coming out of there with that outcome. Same with the shutout in 2004. The whole approach to that game was terrible. Also, while Mack Brown beat Stoops 6 times, he only won 2 conference titles. That made a big difference, too. Even when he won he couldn't win.
  22. Michigan. Ohio State. Notre Dame. LSU. Arizona State.
  23. A few comments on this. Texas tried for decades to get Michigan and Ohio State on the schedule for a home and home. Those programs did not want to come down to Austin in September. There were talks of making the game later in the season, but with OU locked in, and neither program really wanting to interrupt conference play, they couldn't work it out. That's why Texas hadn't played either program in its history until the 2000s. There was a time when Texas was trying to play Notre Dame as much as possible, but the Domers didn't want to lock in their schedule with Texas with so many other teams they wanted to play regularly. Heck, there was a time when Deloss Dodds was under the illusion he could get Notre Dame to join the Big 12 to replace departing teams, or at the time teams that were threatening to depart. As far as us not playing A&M hurting college football, did it really? One of the qualities I really admired about Dodds was his sheer pettiness. I loved that he refused to play UH in anything after Bleachergate and the whole debacle that led up to it. I loved that he refused to play A&M in anything after they left for the SEC. I think this is the right thing to say, but if we ever left the SEC for some reason, it wouldn't bother me not to play the Aggies any more. And no one actually cares about OU/Nebraska any more. I get a little nostalgic about the great games in that series, but I'm old. Those games haven't been any more relevant to college football for a long long time than the Arkansas/Texas battles of the 60s. Also, we do have Arizona State as the marquee game in the future. If Dillingham is still there they'll have something, but otherwise it's a trip to Phoenix. Not a trip to play the Sun Devils. The chances of that matchup mattering aren't great. But that game will be played at the edge of my mortality, if I even make it that far, so I'm not terribly concerned one way or another.
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