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Every passing down is a new opportunity to watch our futility play out.
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A compilation of Manning's woes. You could make a long youtube video on this. "I'm perfectly fine." Are you sure about that? You don't look perfectly fine to me. Might not be physically injured, but you're not perfectly fine.
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Manning is Rick Ankieling his career here.
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I really like our punter!
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This level of rage feeds me. This is why I had to come on this thread. It wasn't for sunshine and rainbows. It's because I can't watch this horrible shit isolated in my own anger. I hate that sword gimmick.
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Malachi Nelson playing the game with Arch, "Anything you can do I can do better!" Can you throw the ball across your body like this? Oh, can I!
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The good news is that the penalty allows us to gain more yards before we reach the 20. Silver linings everywhere!
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That was my thought. "Well, the silver lining is that we actually got yardage on the interception. Still a bad interception, though."
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He's not dropping the ball over there, that's for sure. Well, his defense just dropped the ball on that 3rd and 22.
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Not that baffling. Hire the wrong coaches over and over again.
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I'm not that picky. Frankly, while I'd be disappointed if we never win a national championship again in my lifetime in football, I'm just pleased we're relevant again. I can't believe we've had two long strings in my lifetime where Texas was irrelevant, but here we are. I remember all the whining about Bowden finishing in the top 5 at FSU 14 years in a row, but so many people concentrated on how few titles he won. I know OU fans were frustrated that they'd make it to the playoffs and then get blown out over and over again, but I'm envious of their conference championships. I certainly feel like this team can make the playoffs, reach the semis, and then we'll see what happens. And it's not like I look at this roster and worry that the window is closing. We look set up for success for a while as long as Sarkisian is here and locked in. I feel like some people could at least be in more of a wait and see mode. I guess folks are, but their emotional chips seem like they're being pushed to the under expectations side of the ledger. But that's their business. I just know I don't share the same sentiment of a lot of our more vocal participants here.
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I really like Louisville's personnel. Somewhat undersized at the left pin, but that's pretty normal outside of the top recruiting goliaths like Texas and Nebraska. And Petersen/Chicoine is one heck of a combo if you're going to be slightly undersized.
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Our fan base has been a collection of mewling vaginas. It's not their fault. I'm sure this is exactly how they view the rest of their life. We all had expectations of a dominant team. Because that's not what we're seeing, we're acting like spoiled brats. Maybe I've tempered my expectations a leeetle bit since the preaseason? But not by much. The only player/position I'm truly concerned about is Conner Stroh. I just don't think that guy has it. I remember thinking the same thing about Mike Williams, and then he had an unbelievable final season, but I don't believe that's what we're seeing here. He just doesn't have whatever it takes to be successful as an OL. Footwork, meanness, strength, balance. He's a fish out of water out there. Not real high on Hutson, either, but I've seen so many mediocre to poor centers at Texas in my lifetime, what's another one? The rest of the team I see all kinds of potential. I realize that means they haven't done it, yet, but I remain optimistic it will happen. And the defense looks outstanding, as we all expected.
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It's similar to softball, but worse. Connie Clark managed to have two separate pitchers who were the best in the sport at the time, at possibly the position in all of team sports where that can make the biggest difference. But it was always abominable how poorly the program performed overall. I look forward to this coaching search. This is the kind of thing Del Conte constantly knocks out of the park. I just wonder how many titles our new soccer coach has already won. I will be so excited when Angela Kelly is gone. I thought we had her on the ropes a couple of times, then she'd Steve Lavin her way into another year.
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It's crazy how much more accurate field goal kicking has become in my lifetime. I looked on that list for who is the highest percentage kicker that retired before 2000. It's Nick Lowery, at #75.
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Again, you're still overreacting. I saw the thread come up. I read the last few posts. I thought we were talking about Texas as kicker U. You didn't give a lot of context in your post. Sorry not sorry if I missed what you were referring to.
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If we're only talking NFL, btw, the clear 3rd choice is Phil Dawson.
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Overreact much? My gosh, if I gave a rat's ass what you thought about me, you might have hurt my feelings.
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Well, Erxeblen if we're talking college. Minus a few fraud charges here and there.
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I'm sure Bukauskas is going to be outstanding, but I don't understand why we don't simply go after the best punter prospect in Australia.
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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
SL Xpress replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
To be clear, I was being a jerk about those Greg Davis offenses. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
SL Xpress replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I remember the days when we were sandbagging on offense until the OU game. And then we sandbagged for that game, too, just to be safe. One thing I will tell you, when I rewatch the game and I'm watching an offensive lineman consistently getting beat, and then I look closer to see who it is, and the number 79 seems to come up often, that's not about Sarkisian preparing for later on in the season. That's a guy who is challenged to perform the task that has been assigned to him. What I don't know is what's going on in practice? What kind of struggles is Neto Umeozulu demonstrating? Is the witness protection program Nate Kibbles apparently entered into that effective? What happened with putting Robertson at center and moving Hutson over? Maybe Stroh is simply the best option in terms of splitting snaps with Umeozulu, but his future acumen isn't being demonstrated to these laymen eyes. All I know is that when Hutson and Stroh are lined up next to each other on the interior, I don't feel like right now that's a lineup geared for success. And I don't think it has much to do with Sarkisian scaling up the offense. That said, I do feel like he is going out of his way to give Arch Manning passing reps. I also wonder if Manning is being told to go through his progressions rather than taking off. I have some mixed feelings if that is the case, and I don't know if it is anyway. I still think the main thing that's not being executed consistently enough is Manning getting the ball into the receivers' hands, and the receivers actually holding on to the ball when he does so. Also, the offensive penalties were not helpful. When your average down and distance is 3rd and 9.7 yards to go, that's not good. Against San Jose State. My hope is that we see improvement in that aspect tomorrow. I do know there are a lot of people on this board who are more down on this team than I am. I continue to hope and expect great things from these guys. Sure, they'll need to show improvement to do it, but we're two games into the season. We have UTEP and Sam Houston State, then let's see what we look like in Gainesville. If we look like hammered shit against Florida I'll have some serious concerns about the season. But I've always pointed at that as a healthy barometer for what kind of progress has been made from the opener until then. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
SL Xpress replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I feel like game threads are their own animal. Part of the reason to participate in something like that as a collective is to have an avenue for cathartic release instead of simply screaming into the ether. The cray crays on those things also provide a benefit to the rest of us by allowing us to realize as emotionally unstable as we are when the team isn't meeting our expectations, "at least I'm not as bad as THAT guy," whoever it is. -
Yeah, I have mixed feelings. I love Kahahawai. I do think she should have transferred if she wanted a post collegiate career. Game reps matter. But she loves it here. I hope it pays all kinds of dividends to her both on and off the court. But Spears is a rock star. For long term purposes, I'd prefer she closes out sets. But we have success with it. Dunno. Like I said, mixed feelings. It'd be great to close out her career with a ring. 3 national championships would not be a bad way to spend your collegiate career.
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Yeah, Gary regularly looks like she's heading to the concession stands to go get a ball if that's what it takes. I mean, she just had the amazing play against Stanford, and then follows it up with this. I fell in love with Skinner in 2023. Her backrow attack seemed undefendable at times. I believe she was hitting over .400 off the BIC. She played on the national team that summer, the same way O'Neal had done the year before. I don't really blame the team's woes on her. There was a lot going on with that group. The setter stuff especially was an issue. Remember how slow Skinner started in 2023, primarily trying to get adjusted to Swindle and vice versa? NIL may have had something to do with her coming to Texas initially, but I can guarantee it wasn't any kind of big payday. Even now volleyball players aren't making the same kind of money other women's sports are bringing in, but back when Skinner transferred the whole NIL stuff was in its infancy. Also, she kind of saved our bacon. Remember we had just lost Skylar Fields to USC. That had the potential to be a debacle. Instead we really got an upgrade at the position in all kinds of ways. Look, Elliott has earned all kinds of allowances, so I don't really mean to criticize the guy. But sometimes I feel like we get enamored with who we can bring in, rather than bringing in the right people. Transfers have been such a big part of our success even before the portal was a thing. But I never liked bringing in Wenaas. I hate being critical of her, because she had a really good tournament in 2023, and she always seemed to be a good teammate, but I wasn't in love with her at Minnesota. Watching her as a starter for two years about did me in. And I always wondered about the Carlsen commitment. We just seemed on such a roll at the time. We flipped Ames, which was huge. Got Spears and Vander Wal. Got Harvey. Got Rutherford. Lauenstein announced for Texas. It just seemed like everything was going our way. "In Elliott We Trust." But things just never worked out there with Carlsen, and it seemed to destroy Swindle's confidence. I feel like Elliott took the program culture a little for granted, and thought it would just magically work. I still don't understand Rutherford's year. That was as big a misuse of talent as I've seen at Texas. We were just never able to get her going. I do think handling that NIL stuff can be a distraction. Sometimes Texas kind of puts it on players to create their own NIL opportunities, giving them tools, but expecting them to go out and hustle themselves. Which is kind of how it should work in some ways, but it's tough for anyone to tell when they've overcommitted themselves until after they've done it. In any case, this is the best start we've had to the season since 2022. It's not just about the wins, although those absolutely matter. Those regional host positions are really critical. But it's how the team is playing. Even with the mistakes and errors, it just feels like natural growing pains. There's a joy on the court I didn't always see the last two years - the amazing tournament run excepted in 2023. I missed that. Both Gary and Stafford are home run transfer additions. I don't know how I feel about the Binney/Kahahawai double sub, but it's keeping them involved with the team, and we are having some success there. Binney had a great save on that Louisville play, too, which allowed Gary to do her superwoman act.
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