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Hornius Emeritus

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  1. 1 hour ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

    Doesn't Zachariah Branch have issues with catching? I really wanted him for his speed earlier in the season, but someone on here mentioned he's fast but can't catch. 


    They had him returning punts and kickoffs. In fact, he was the only punt returner they had this year. I doubt they would have him back there if he has trouble catching the football.

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  2. 16 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

     

    I get what you guys are saying but, in terms of wins that resulted in a national championship the WVU win gave them one. And this win today gives them a shot. 

    I’m not an ND fan by any stretch and in 1988 we damn near beat them but, fucked it up, like we always do. I still think the game with WVU is a bigger victory than the win over FSU.

    We’ll just agree to disagree. 


    I don't think you're understanding what I was saying. This is their biggest win since 1993. That is a true statement. That isn't saying that this is a bigger win than 1993, but that it's their biggest bowl win since then.

  3. 15 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

     

    I’d say since 1988 when they beat WVU for the national title. In 1993 they beat #1 FSU and then the next week lost to BC and then beat A&M in their bowl game to finish #2, behind FSU. Still, don’t think they officially claim 1993.


    They still haven't won the national title this year.

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  4. 1 hour ago, hook me said:

    the only reason i could see it not being called on the Taaffe hit was that they considered him a runner right at the time of contact and since there were no other indicators (crown of helmet or launching) they let it slide. Should have been called by the letter of the rule if you ask me but I don’t mind it not being called when it wasn’t an attempted knockout hit and it was very very close.



    The ball was tipped by one of our players at the line of scrimmage.

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  5. 15 minutes ago, Hate said:

    It's gotten to the point where I am nervous on extra points as well. 


    The dude has not missed an extra point as a Longhorn. He's been perfect.

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  6. 4 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    Holy shit you are so dumb. Ewers is a very good college QB who is now experienced and has been coached by a good QB coach. He would be a very valuable transfer target. If you would apply as critical an eye to all the other QBs in college, which is who his competition is for market value, it would be easy to see he's one of the top 2 or 3 potentially available targets if he stayed in college and transferred. 

    This entire forum is the same as fan forums always are, absurdly overcritical of their own QBs and severely ignorant when it comes to QB evaluation. In just the last two weeks we've seen plenty QBs that surly morons had said they'd rather have than Ewers be complete and total garbage in the postseason (Rourke, Jennings, Milroe, Sellers, etc.) and plenty of others who demonstrate what struggling at QB in college actually looks like (e.g., the complete catastrophe of QB play in the Las Vegas Bowl).


    If I could give this 1000 likes I would. Great comment, Huck.

    Everybody always thinks that what they don't have is better than what they do have. 

    You never know what worse choice at QB your bad choice kept you from.

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  7. You know, the Russians had thousands of possible futures in 1991. They had a nascent democracy in the palms of their hands and chose dictatorship --- again.

    I'm starting to wonder if George Kennan was right in 1946:

    "At bottom of Kremlin's neurotic view of world affairs is traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity. Originally, this was insecurity of a peaceful agricultural people trying to live on vast exposed plain in neighborhood of fierce nomadic peoples. To this was added, as Russia came into contact with economically advanced West, fear of more competent, more powerful, more highly organized societies in that area. But this latter type of insecurity was one which afflicted rather Russian rulers than Russian people; for Russian rulers have invariably sensed that their rule was relatively archaic in form fragile and artificial in its psychological foundation, unable to stand comparison or contact with political systems of Western countries. For this reason they have always feared foreign penetration, feared direct contact between Western world and their own, feared what would happen if Russians learned truth about world without or if foreigners learned truth about world within. And they have learned to seek security only in patient but deadly struggle for total destruction of rival power, never in compacts and compromises with it."


    They are somehow psychologically incapable of being democratic, despite seeing the benefits on their televisions and in their daily media, at least for a while. Frustrating. Perhaps it's because they have to defend an area more than 22 times as large as Texas with a population roughly 3.5 times that of Texas.

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