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Frank Drebin

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  1. Touchdown passes against OU with Greg Davis as OC Chris Simms -- 0 TDs and 8 interceptions in 3 games (well, he threw a touchdown to the wrong Roy Williams in 2001) Vince Young -- 3 TDs in 3 games Colt McCoy - 6 TDs in 4 games Gilbert -- 0 in 1 game David Ash -- 1 in 2 games Case McCoy -- 4 in 2 games Simms was the worst of all these Greg Davis QBs against OU.
  2. He was plenty part of it. Because every other quarterback under Greg and Mack seemed to manage to throw touchdowns against OU.
  3. They put him on the radar at the combine. His arm strength was slightly below the average combine participant that year. He threw a pretty ball. His arm strength was just vastly overrated because he threw every short pass as hard as he could needlessly. Again, he was an above-average QB. If you think he was "very good" I will just have to agree to disagree. And his records in games that really matter bear that out. It is nice he beat A&M, who was shitty those three years in the waning Slocum days. Or a 5 loss LSU team that Dennis Franchione's Alabama team beat by 30 in Baton Rouge. The big wins people cite were not that big. Shitty and unranked A&M three times. Unranked 8-5 LSU. 7-7 Nebraska. K State was a damn good team in 2002. That's his best win. And even then the offense managed two touchdowns. I cannot say he was even good given his shittastic record against OU and what he did against Colorado in the Big 12 Title game. Four interceptions and a fumble against top 10 Oregon in 2000 Holiday Bowl. I think a segment of our fanbase got to where they would oversteer praise for Simms in response to the deplorable treatment and criticism he received. Sam was better than Simms. Ewers was too. Ash was on his way to being better.
  4. He started 32 games at Texas and played in 41. He played a lot at Texas. We have a lot of shitty QBs in our top 10. See passing yards -- Gardere and Brett Stafford are still there.
  5. US News law school rankings are effectively based on the average LSAT of entering 1Ls. They have other criteria. But LSAT scores drive it all. So what happened is the A&M name got them an influx of new applicants. And they were able to be more selective. The easiest way to manipulate the rankings, and I assume they do this, is to take smaller incoming 1L classes of 1Ls with high LSAT scores and a shitload of transfers (which do not count into LSAT metric). Some schools are notorious for doing this -- NYU is one.
  6. I think you touched on what should make Wisner better on a per play basis. Last year he had to shoulder to much of the load. He was worn down by the end of the season. I love Wisner. I think he is just a football player. I bet he averages closer to 5.5 per carry this season. And does more in the passing game.
  7. I'd agree with that, but the gap is not significant. I also think Sark is better at using TEs than pretty much any coach in the country. He would scheme Sanders and Helm wide ass open the last three years. So we will see.
  8. Maybe so. But basically every other QB we had under Mack and Greg was able to pass for touchdowns against OU. Including scrubs like Heard, Swoopes, and Case McCoy. Chris has some responsibility for how he played against OU.
  9. I used to see Chris and Rod Babers at Red River Cafe early mornings back then. I used to go there after working out before class. Chris was riding high after that Colorado beat down.
  10. I think Heard has the single game yardage record for a Texas QB.
  11. Nothing about that night was good.
  12. I never hated Simms. I thought he and Applewhite were both average to slightly above average QBs. I would have started Simms also after Major wrecked his knee. Simms was one tough bastard and his teammates loved him, so I did respect him. He was not a championship level QB. But we had other much bigger problems on those teams. Greg Davis. A joke of an OL coach who squandered all sorts of elite talent. A DC (Reese) who was really good against the option (that we maybe faced every other year) and standard offenses but coached against the spread and especially the Air Raid like a retard. The Simms haters were disgraceful. The Simms lovers were idiots. His arm was nowhere near elite like all the experts in our fanbase claimed. He just threw every pass as hard as he could. Kind of a bizarro Ewers. Simms has as many passing TDs as I do against OU. I'd take Ehlinger all day over Simms or Applewhite but not sure he is what you need to win a championship. I kind of rate him about like Quinn. Make me choose, and I would take Ehlinger because he could play through an injury much better than Quinn.
  13. WR is not close. Maybe Wingo narrows the gap. But Ohio State is special at WR.
  14. I am stealing this from IT, but it pretty strongly refutes your argument. Here is link. https://www.on3.com/teams/texas-longhorns/news/whose-offensive-line-is-more-experienced-texas-or-ohio-states/ Ohio State has two projected starter with three years at their school. Texas has three players that can say they they have been in the meeting room and on the practice field with Kyle Flood. Texas has 12 combined years of listening to Steve Sarkisian in team meetings, offseasons being built up by Torre Becton. Ohio State has 10 combined seasons in Columbus. Consistency has to matter. However it isn’t just the consistency. Something often lost in the counting OL experience shuffle is that Cole Hutson has 1,314 career snaps and 13 starts from the 2022 season. When counting both offensive lines, he comes in just shy of the second most experienced OL in the upcoming game. Texas not only has the edge on years in the system, they hold an edge in career snaps among the projected starters. Texas has 3,670 snaps to Ohio State’s 3,312 total career snaps. When counting total starts, Ohio State gains a slight edge with their 49 starts over Texas’ 45, but again it is far from the lopsided nature that has been sold by some. Granted there is something to be said about the accuracy of the grades from PFF, and the small sample size for the Longhorns. But the PFF grades come in with a strong Texas lean. Only one Longhorn in 2025 registered a grade lower than 62.5, the best from a projected starter grade for Ohio State. The gap between the two teams experience is much smaller than advertised, and might even be flipped as to who is the most experienced. Both offensive lines will have their hands literally full of the best defenders each team may likely face in 2025.
  15. Also they weren't stopping VY from first and goal, which is what it would have been. And had we had to run 1-3 plays to score, USC never has the time to drive the field for a field goal before half. At best for USC it's Texas kicking a FG to end the half. So subtracting the field goal they were able to get it's net Texas 6 points, which is what we got after we rushed the XP. At worst, we score a TD in the next few plays and they don't get a FG. So it is Texas plus 9. Whatever, what happened that night ended up awesome.
  16. We have had a chance to laugh at Tech a lot, despite them spoiling a couple seasons like 2008 and to a lesser extent, 2002. But one of the funnier things I ever saw was when we played at Lubbock in 2004. I was doing some hunting in the area so went to the game. This is when VY started taking off and when Greg Robinson was the DC. (Robinson's scheme was as good against the Air Raid as Carl Reese's was bad). We were absolutely skull fucking them up and down the field. It was 48-14 in the fourth quarter and one of their midget WRs had just picked up 20 meaningless yards against our third string corner. The WR got up and started talking shit to the DB right in his face. The DB just pointed at the scoreboard.
  17. Earl Thomas is the best Texas DB since I started paying attention in middle school (1990). Aaron Williams is too low on that list.
  18. OTF is really good. We are lucky they’re out there. But if you listen to more than a couple hours per week it will be repetitive. There just isn’t that much to talk about.
  19. Watch. The. Tape.
  20. Niblack listed 5th string TE on their depth chart behind a bunch of scrubs. Didn’t they pay him a bunch of NIL? Wasn’t Liucci talking him up in the spring as big get from tu?
  21. I do.
  22. If he does not beat out Reed, he will portal.
  23. They must. Because if you look at experience between Texas and Ohio State OL, it's almost equal # of starts and snaps. If you look at the PFF ratings of those snaps from last season, Texas is way, way ahead of Ohio State and pretty much all of us are taking a wait and see approach. Not to mention they have to play our front 7, which is better than theirs. We can absolutely lose. But if we play a relatively clean game and do not go worse than -1 in turnovers, we should win by 7 or more.
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