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Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
Horn of Gabriel replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Mostly because I don't think Arch can hit enough of those plays to make a difference. Sark is obviously going to be running Arch more so I'd be run blitzing to wreck Arch on those, and if he is trying to throw he shows a propensity to hold the ball for way too long which will create sacks. The 3-high shell limits explosives. -
Texas Football 2025 - Careening Towards the Abyss
Horn of Gabriel replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
We are going to wreck Sam Houston, but then this problem on offense will get worse before it gets better. If you're a SEC defensive coordinator, you're licking your chops. Texas has a QB that is having trouble with basic short and intermediate passes, but sees his strength as the deep pass, but is easily rattled. What do you do? 3-high safety shell to take away any deep ball - UTEP did this Single cover the WRs who the QB can't hit anyway in short passes and/or play soft zone - all SEC defenses can do this easily Stack the box to kill the run game that the Texas O-line can't push anyway - cantwait.gif Blitz over and over Even if Arch stumbles into a handful of slants or seam passes, SEC defenses are going to make him dink/dunk down the field now - because he can't do it. And we can't run it well enough either. -
Media/$9.95-er postgame analysis articles (Week 3)
Horn of Gabriel replied to satyanash's topic in Football
Waddlington has obviously read Rippetoe's Starting Strength Basic Barbell Training and subscribes to the methods described there as "Strength = Ability to Apply Force against an External Resistance." What he leaves out is that Rip also says that a novice will demonstrate incredible strength gains for months or even years, especially a genetically gifted 18-year old, even in a sub-standard training program. Basically if you weight train an undertrained novice, they will progress, period. Of course a better program with a Novice Linear Progression is always best. If Waddlington is going to go with Rippetoe, the better definition would be Power (aka Explosion), which is the ability to express Strength rapidly. The standing vertical jump is a good examples of demonstrating and measuring power production vs. squat or deadlift for strength. Unfortunately, power is less trainable than strength, it's very genetic. Nowadays, kids showing up are usually trained. They've been doing weight training for 5-8 years at least. They're beyond the novice phase and into intermediate where the gains are slower. So the training programing needs to be different. I suspect that while yes maybe the S&C program could be improved, the issue in the o-line is less raw power and more technique (pad level, leg drive), genetic gifts, and especially coordination. It's not lack of strength that is making our O-line trip on their own feet and fall on their face, or dive and miss a cut block, or miss on a reach or combo block. https://startingstrength.com/article/the-state-of-strength-conditioning-coaching -
Media/$9.95-er postgame analysis articles (Week 3)
Horn of Gabriel replied to satyanash's topic in Football
I can't for the life of me figure out why Paul Waddlington, who maxed out as an undersized LB/EDGE in H.S., has a following. He's not a coach, aside from his kids peewee team. He doesn't have experience. I guess he uses big words to sound smart? He points out obvious stuff and uses rhetorical traps to call anyone who would disagree with him stupid? -
2024 Texas GameDay Stadium Experience Thread
Horn of Gabriel replied to TrashMaster G's topic in Football
Can you say more about this? The model that @MrBig posted I think looks great, even if not feasible/practical. Today our stadium looks like someone threw it together using 4 different lego sets. But you know what makes people not give a shit about what the stadium looks like? Winning. -
I Don't Want To Make This Poll, But its unfortunately necessary.
Horn of Gabriel replied to immamac's topic in Football
Why the hell not? Saban had the stones to pull his QB in the national championship game. If we're worried about recruiting elite QB talent, which is worse: 1) If you're a total failure we will keep trotting you out there to get destroyed and then mocked after your post-game presser until you crater the season and then transfer, or 2) We will give you every opportunity to grow and succeed and make the best of your talent - and we will always put the needs of the team over the individual. Nothing is guaranteed at Texas including the QB spot and if you're an elite talent you should welcome that ability to come in and win the spot by outplaying the other 5*'s around you. -
Coach Sark Press Conference 9.15 - 11:30am
Horn of Gabriel replied to BigOrange1's topic in Football
To be fair, I said we shouldn't have a rebuilding year. We've had rebuilding decades due to bad coaching hires. -
Coach Sark Press Conference 9.15 - 11:30am
Horn of Gabriel replied to BigOrange1's topic in Football
First, Texas should never have a rebuilding year. We're Texas. Second, in the age of the portal, there is zero excuse for a rebuild-year. Texas can go pluck almost any player at almost any position they need if they feel they are too young, too inexperienced, or too injured. If we have a rebuilding year, that is 100% on Sark and his coaching staff. Either: Arch balled out in the Spring/Fall camps and Sark didn't anticipate that he confidence would get shot by a bad game vs. OSU - in which case it's Sark's fault for not contingency planning, or Arch truly sucks because he can't handle the pressure of being the guy or didn't play strong HS competition - in which case it's Sark's fault for mis-evaluating Coaching is a zero sum game. You're either a winner or a loser. Right now Sark is 2-1, so great for him but we can all see where this season is going: 9-3 is our ceiling. 7-5 or 6-6 is more likely, with losses to OU, A&M, and Georgia. Texas has the #2 team talent composite rating in the nation. You can't go 7-5 with that. Even 9-3 is embarrassing barring major injuries. -
Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
Horn of Gabriel replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
Ah I see the guilt-by-association and guilt-by-accusation fallacies have come out -
Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
Horn of Gabriel replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
I agree with you. -
Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
Horn of Gabriel replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
Sure freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. But to say cancel culture doesn't exist is asinine. https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlynborysenko/2020/02/12/the-dark-side-of-metoo-what-happens-when-men-are-falsely-accused/ Dershowitz recounts his side of the story in the book Guilt By Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #metoo. His case is particularly interesting because it started before the #metoo movement and continues today. When asked if he noticed a difference between perception before and after, he said it was very noticeable. “There’s no question. Before the #metoo movement, I had won. It had gone away. I had the submission, I had the tapes, the recording, the emails, I had a full investigation by the former head of the FBI who said it was false, I had a judge who struck it [down], the lawyers had withdrawn it...it was over! It was completely over. And then the #metoo movement came, and suddenly it was resurrected.” “If you call a women a liar, even if you didn’t do [what you’re being accused of], you’re guilty of calling a woman a liar, so there’s no way out. If you don’t deny it, you’re thought to be guilty. If you do deny it, you’ve committed an additional political sin, so it’s a trap. And it feels just horrible...They either assume your guilt or they assume you shouldn’t be asserting your innocence. ... Dershowitz described the challenges he has faced in being accused, including the financial cost of fighting the accusation, to the embarrassment of having to tell every potential client of the claims while he is pursuing it in court, to the impact it has had on his family, including his grandchildren: “It’s been terrible. No one who knows me believes it, none of my personal friends. Even those who are really upset at me about the Trump thing don’t believe it because they know I’m not that guy. I’m not a player. But it has still had a terrible impact on my grandkids who are in school where people believe everything that’s said, and on my children. It’s had a terrible impact on us. I’m a victim, and no one wants to treat me like a victim.” Or if Dershowitz is too powerful/monied to possibly be a victim, how about this guy who was anonymously and falsely added to a list of "Bad Men" and was chased out of his work at the Washington Post and had to take the only thing he could get: janitor at Dave & Busters: https://nypost.com/2020/02/01/being-wrongly-metood-has-ruined-my-life/ A side note to the accusations leveled at me was the claim that an “HR file at The Washington Post,” where I was an editorial aide from 2005 to 2008, existed that presumably backed up the accusations. The Post keeps scanned personnel files on all employees, so a file on me does exist. But when I called the newspaper for verification, I was told my file contains no mention of accusations, investigations or disciplinary actions. (Ed. note: The Washington Post declined to verify this.) Baffled, I reached out to the former co-worker I had assumed was my accuser, a female reporter in my office whom I felt sure had at times found me rude or inconsiderate. She said she didn’t write my entry and didn’t know who did. Obviously, I’m drawing attention to the list now. I’m tired of trying to hide in plain sight, of feeling psychologically broken for actions I never took. The top of the Sh-tty Media Men spreadsheet admonished readers to take the allegations with a grain of salt because its charges are uninvestigated. But in my experience, more than a few people have equated inclusion on the list, regardless of the alleged offense, as proof that a man is undeserving of ever being hired or heard from. And there are many others as well who were given career death-penalties with scant evidence as part of these various movements, not for things they said or did, not under adjudication by a jury of their peers with evidentiary rules, but by the mob seeking blood. -
Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
Horn of Gabriel replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
At some point as a society we went from: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." To: "When you say something I disagree with, you are the embodiment of evil and must be silenced." Whenever I walked through the West Mall, I would laugh at the chuckleheads shouting from atop their milk crates. I even remember going to see a few speakers on campus who had very different views than I did and thinking "well, that guy is an asshole." But it would have been antithetical to me to want to tar and feather them. A few wedge issues where there is a black/white worldview and you fall to one side or the other have amplified this problem. To pick one from both sides: abortion and Palestine. Many people have heartfelt views on either side of those issues. It's very easy to cast the "others" on the opposite side as uncaring and evil. If you believe "words are violence" all of the sudden you are justified, in fact obligated to shut them down, shout them down, silence them, de-platform them, and demand their firing. And if you extend that, all of those consequences should not just be reserved for the speaker but also anyone who follows them, anyone who provides them with a platform, anyone who scheduled them so speak on campus and so on. There are plenty of proximate causes for the coarsening of our society: softer parenting styles, everyone-gets-a-trophy culture, social media, but my candidate is the rise of narcissism. Plenty of studies have shown that narcissism has increased, especially in the past 15-20 years since social media became widespread. It tracks: in an influencer-culture, where it's all about look-at-me, you become the center of your own world. Any disruption to that is a Bad Thing for you. When you're surrounded by amplification of your worldview by the algorithms, your internal antibodies will be strongly programmed to reject any opposing view. #MeToo, Cancel Culture, DEI, and now their analogues on the right-side have taught those who seek power that you can "defeat the evil" by getting people fired, shouting them down, getting corporations to stop working with them, or removing them from a platform. Give that mouse a cookie and he wants a glass of milk, and it leads to more.- 309 replies
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Arch Manning: Doing his best JAG impression to fool scouts
Horn of Gabriel replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
Maybe Sark secretly prefers playing rested and NFL-ready KJ Lacey, but is just playing Manning to protect his draft stock. -
Arch Manning: Doing his best JAG impression to fool scouts
Horn of Gabriel replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
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WTF is up with Colin Simmons? I’m at the game and looks s-l-o-w, slow BGO, getting locked up 1v1 against the tackle.
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