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  1. Thanks for this answer. you are the first person I've read who says Ohio St. definitely had better players. Earlier today I watched the last two minutes or so of our loss to Washington, and noticed one position group that had problems, similar to this year and that was offensive line.
  2. nothing good can come from this biased "reporting", but hopefully Sark and CDC can ignore it and he will go away. Surely Mack can find something to do other than try to stick his opinions in where they are not asked. Maybe Tulane can offer a part-time gig.
  3. I think I hit the wrong emoji. I agree with the above.
  4. Who is the other older man? I imagine he works for UT? Facilitating Mack's greeting?
  5. yep, and he left behind three young children and a beautiful wife. He was due to attend his first board meeting at Luby's as CEO in Arizona I think. His predecessor, Mr. Erben, I think, allegedly told him to "blame me" if there are any uncomfortable questions. Since he missed the trip, all of us in management assumed the stress was work-related, but like I said, we didn't jump and down getting upset. We just kept on coming to work.
  6. As a nearly retired educator who loves college football, I have all of these off-season questions that make me think..hmmm. Analogy- I worked for what used to be a very well known cafeteria for 8.5 years, in the 1990s.. It was a total beating, but I learned to cook and run a business in 3-4 years. I stayed too long, ate too much delicious food. During that time asst. mgrs and assoc. mgrs worked 70+ hours per week, totally oblivious to the outside world. GM's for the most part worked 35-40 hours per week and made big $. When our CEO checked into a Motel 6 in San Antonio one year and cut his own throat to kill himself in the early morning hours, mgrs. did not flee the company like crazy. We kept on working. Why? We were too tired to leave or were totally brainwashed to ignore the outside world? I finally left years later after family events made it happen. Do the assistant coaches have much of a say in what the gameplan will be? Iow, assume they are working 80+ hour weeks, similar to my mgt. job. Example, flashback to November 1983, and Coach Fred Akers has been tinkering with the QB lineup all season. It comes down to the Aggy game and Akers decides on the golden-armed Rick McIvor. Rick throws 4 TD passes, totally surprising aggy, and we win 45-13 to finish 11-0. We're on the verge of a NC, after we win against Georgia in the CB. Pretend there is a meeting after the game and If an asst. coach said something like, "You know Georgia's probably working on nothing but McIvor for the next five weeks," would that have gained any traction with any of the top coaches? I don't think anybody would have given it a second thought, but we will never know. For younger people, McIvor was still accurate passing on a very blustery, windy, day at the CB, which is known for tough winds, Ward missed two FGs, and we dropped probably 7+ passes. Had Akers come out with the running QB, Rob Moerschell, in the 2nd half, Georgia would have been totally surprised, we would have scored at least a TD to go ahead by a comfortable margin, and we would never have to endure the nightmare of the dropped punt. One national championship missed. There are plenty of other examples of what ifs that would lead us to many more national championships. Go to the recent one, of course. Ohio St. knew the play that was coming at the 2 yard line. How? Why were we at a coaching disadvantage at the 2 yard line, but we were at a coaching advantage the entire game against their wide receivers? Are defensive coaches just smarter than offensive coaches? Do we not scout ourselves? Or is that even a thing? Same scenario of questions - our OL vs. OhioSt. DL. Are we always going to be at a coaching disadvantage, or is this just one game when Ohio St. had better coaches? Does anybody think Ohio St. just had better players? I think we are exactly where we need to be wrt NIL and players. We just need to improve our coaching. I'm not keeping track exactly but I bet the tush-push has about a 99% accuracy rating for getting one yard. We just need someone to run it.
  7. We're not PU without Dickson. I think the question could be "which position has the most players playing five years in the league?" My guess is DB. We're not PKU without Justin.
  8. In the great, famous words of Billy Packer, "This game is ovah!"
  9. Rams are fighting, at least.
  10. That guy is definitely the man of the hour, day, possibly season for catching and holding that ball so well. l
  11. Call it hindsight, I guess, but do you think different ideas were thrown around once our coaches realized we had a 3rd quarter problem? And we had plenty of great reps from Arch, in the games early in the season. All we had to do was have Arch come out and run the first series of the 2nd half in two or three games in a row, it seems to me. This was so much easier to handle than the stupid 2009 situation, I think, when Mack fucked up by refusing to let GG pass when he was allowed to go in and mop up. Doesn't QE improve his focus, etc. when he sees Arch moving the ball in the 3rd quarter? Got to look at Saban. Remember he sat whichever starting QB it was and went to the backup in the 3rd or 4th quarter? Wasn't it the final game? Unbelievable. Is Saban the only coach with the balls to do that?
  12. This was indeed the #2 waste of defensive talent in UT history, only behind the 1983 team. #1 ranked D all season, and if memory serves correctly, all senior starters drafted into the pros, and a backup senior drafted as well. Many people maintain that if Fred had started Rob Moerschell at QB in the 1984 CB, we would have an additional NC to our name. Instead we had Rick McIvor throwing darts at receivers who dropped many passes in the CB and the infamous dropped punt by Craig Curry in the 10-9 loss to Georgia. The strange factoid of the day is that nobody knew that game lost us the NC while it was being played. We didn't know it until Miami upset Nebraska 31-30 in the Orange Bowl, in the best bowl game I have ever seen until the 2003? Fiesta bowl, Ohio State vs. Miami, the game when Miami's great RB got hurt, and then of course the top two bowl games ever, the 2005 Rose Bowl and the 2006 Rose Bowl.
  13. Whichever Walker it is, he definitely flew over the goal line on a regular basis, and don't think we would have any problem recruiting some young man to jump over the line to score TDs.
  14. 2nd chance at the lead.....dont' waste it.
  15. 3rd down from the 3, and throws incomplete....will Dan Quinn go for it? incomplete in end zone. don't know if you can make a case for flag or not.
  16. 1st and goal at the one, Daniels does the rollout pass run option and has to throw it away. 2nd and goal at the one, handoff for negative yards.
  17. So, the reason I think I remember this guy. Round Rock High School, I'm a freshman in the band, and we go to Killeen for the first time, and this guy runs roughshod over us, and the score might have been 21-0 at the end of quarter one. Or I might be confusing this with the Temple game. Either way, it made a serious impact. We won every halftime and lost almost every football game.
  18. Walker, John 45 OB 6-1 210 Fr-HS Killeen, TX (Killeen) Walls, Herkie 11 QB-WR 5-8 146 So-1L Garland, TX (Garland) my Texas football brain is still working!!! from the 1980 roster! Check out Herkie's height and weight!
  19. Nope, somebody is messed up here. I just saw a picture of #36 Adrian Walker and it says 1991. The Walker I am thinking of is at least 1985 or earlier. hmmm. For some reason I think he was #45, but don't know.
  20. ok,. thanks. So Adrian is from Killeen or Temple? I'm old now.
  21. Skins haven't looked this good since Riggins and Company....and that's a LONG TIME!
  22. woo! Now that is a cool punt return!
  23. HA! Baker is not used to seeing holding calls.
  24. I don't think Daniels is ok. more than a cut.
  25. 1st down commanders, by an eyelash.
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