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  1. Just now, Al_4_ISU said:

    FSU and Clemson make a lot more sense in the SEC, IMO.  At least in an actual logical sense, not a "college football 2024" sense.

    From a regionality standpoint and rivalry standpoint yes.  From a TV and recruiting perspective, no.  SEC already owns Florida and the southeast.  Why add a new brand there that dilutes your recruiting for existing members, and adds eyeballs you already have anyway?  Might be a few net-new FSU and Clemson eyeballs but I bet they already watch SEC a ton.  No way that's worth the $60-80M/yr ESPN would have to pay out.  Especially when ESPN has them at a bargain rate now.  It's gonna be a lawyer war for awhile.

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  2. 15 minutes ago, CastHorn said:

    Press Man is the answer. Teams with lesser talent have had success throwing off the timing of Penix. Let Watts & Brooks get hands on these boys. 

    Press man with inside leverage disrupting the free release slant, with cover 2 safeties over.  4 man rush with edges focused on setting the edge (they like to run outside), DLs run stopping between the tackles and giving interior push, and LBs in zone. Switch to nickel on 3rd and medium+ or when they go 4+ WR.  Accept Penix throwing for 300+ if it's mostly between the 20's and make him consistently execute underneath and give the Dline more opportunities for interior pressure.  It's a risk and Penix definitely can execute against it but I see it like stretching out the risk...the more times he passes like DKR says 3 things can happen and 2 of them are bad.  More passes, more opportunities for bad stuff for UW and good stuff for Texas.

    The key to doing all of that is run stopping with an honest box and not having to walk down a safety, but I think we can.

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  3. On 12/12/2023 at 7:38 AM, Post Oak said:

    Is it OkState orange?

    I put it next to a workout shirt I'd call more burnt orange.  The hoodie isn't offensively bad; but it's like that old UT shirt that you have held onto for 10 years and gotten washed out like it was left in the sun too long.  That said, it's incredibly comfortable, so...

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  4. 22 minutes ago, statsman said:

    What is the deal with Stoops? I thought his XFL stint was a way of getting his name out there again, for a HC job (NFL? College blue blood?), but I never see it mentioned. 

    I think he was fucking around in semi-retirement.  He's got a bunch of side businesses, they have a tequila brand now, etc

  5. On 12/8/2023 at 6:49 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    No big deal if you’re hurting offending other people as long as you didnt mean to? You’re better than that. However your intent can come into play. If your intent was ignorant or coming from a non-harmful place, then your apology might save your job.

    Suggestion: if anyone believes intent should be interpretation factor, call someone at work the n-word but tell them it’s from a place of love and respect. See how that goes.

    Are we talking hard or soft-R?

  6. Here's the problem w/ McAfee: it's actually not that he's a clown.  There are plenty of clowns on TV; hell Corso at his best was a clown.  The problem is he tries to make it all about HIM, as if he's bigger than the game.  Spoiler alert Pat: you're not.  Everything from the wife beater shirts, to his sycophant posse sucking up to him on his show, to his own simulcast from the end zone at the Bama game is all "look at ME" shit.  And if people aren't looking at him enough, he yells louder, does something more outrageous.  I get it, I'm old, OK boomer, etc.  FTR I'm Gen X.  I guess there are plenty of people who like that shit now or he wouldn't be a thing.

    I'm a College Gameday casual these days, I'll flip it on in the morning as I'm getting ready on a Saturday or prepping the BBQ.  The thing that really turned me off this year was when he shit on Wazzu for no reason, then after he got dragged for it on Twitter, he started whining about how HE was being disrespected and maybe he should not do Gameday anymore as a result.  Again, all about Pat.  It's like he expected this big uprising of support for people to stroke him and say "Oh no Pat, don't leave, we LOVE you, those mean old Wazzu fans are the bad ones don't listen to them!"  Instead he got...

    Episode 2 Whatever GIF

    TL;DR fuck Pat McAfee.  I'm sure in a few years the next iteration of him will show up wearing fewer clothes and trying to be more outrageous.

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  7. If I'm UW, it's slants, slants, and more slants.  If Texas wants to keep "everything in front" of them and give that awesome 7+ yard cushion, sure I'll take 5-10 yard slants all day fucking long.  Penix can make that throw in his sleep.  Eventually we creep up and Odunze hits a double move deep and our slow safeties can't get to it.

    After that I'm running 4-5 wide, and have a couple of checkdowns.  If Penix needs them it's there and if not, take the top off.  Once the safeties to back off to respect the bomb, run, but not just counters - reverses, jet sweeps, quick hitters that go away from the interior DL.  Mix in some screens to punish overpusuit in the D-line and slow down that rush.  Will also move the pocket with rollouts, cut the field in half for Penix and get away from DL pressure.

    The gameplay itself isn't rocket science: the longer a play lasts, the worse for Texas and the better for UW.  If Penix can let the route develop either via rollout, play-action, screen, trick-play, etc our secondary has demonstrated they won't hold up, and UW receivers are big, strong, and have NFL catch radius.  50/50 balls are more like 60/40 balls for them.  Any play for UW either needs to be a super quick hitter like a slant, or something that builds the protection in for longer developing.  Then once we concede the honest box with pressure, Penix can do his thing.

    That's what I'd do anyway...

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  8. 4 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

    Personally I loved the beauty contest aspect and it worked for what it was. The 12 team playoff is going to remove a lot of what made CFB special and unique. OSU-MICH would have been basically worthless this year.

    The beauty contest is and was trash, the bowl system is the biggest joke in the world.  Multiple teams claiming MNCs?  Never settling it on the field?  Yuck.

    OSU/UM will still have a lot of meaning.  Getting the conference championship for one, getting over on your rival, and getting a top 4 seed bye.  That bye is huge, it's one fewer game to win to win it all.

  9. 1 hour ago, troph said:

    So why wouldn’t we get super physical in the first 5 yards giving the DL an extra second and throw off routes? 

    I love press coverage and disrupting the slant with inside leverage but 1) they are really good at beating it with large, fast, physical receivers, 2) we haven't demonstrated outside of TTech and oSu that we can really do it (plus UW aint TTech-level receivers), 4) our safeties aren't built for it (yet, we don't have the speed or skill there), and 5) missing in zone means you give a 10-20 yard gain and hopefully keep shit in front of you and limit YAC but missing in man press means you give up 75 yard TD's, but maaaaybe get a few INTs.  High risk, high reward.  UW is built to annihilate that.

    I loathe soft zone, but I won't be mad if we do it here, mix in zone blitzes and get to Penix while taking away the run game.  He can execute all the way down the field but better to make him complete a dozen passes per drive than 1 slant that breaks for 60+.

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  10. 1 minute ago, oh_snap said:

    Hold on, that needs more context.  Let’s not forget the alliance was formed because the SEC was negotiating with Texas and OU in the dark while also setting up the 12-team playoff. Some would consider that was done in bad faith.
     

    I watched FSU play against UL and UF, so I can see why the committee dropped them. And it’s fine to think fsu simply got screwed, that’s fair too.

    But it’s disingenuous to blame the alliance (much less a member institution for the conferences action) for not having a 12-team playoff this year.  

    Fair enough, but the negotiation for TX/OU to move to the SEC and the 12-team CFP are totally different issues.  Regardless of whether it was bad faith or not, the expanded CFP would have significantly helped the ACC.  By getting into their emotions over TX/OU and putting the breaks on the 12-team, the alliance and by extension the ACC fucked themselves.

    It's also hilarious to laugh at the so-called "Alliance," when the B1G immediately turned around and fucked a fellow alliance member by raiding them.  "We looked each other in the eyes..." LOL

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  11. 1 minute ago, Michael Knight said:

    Are you people dense, am I taking crazy pills? Oregon losing makes them a 2 loss non championship team, they would be eliminated from playoff convention. Oregon winning means they go to the playoffs and a 1 loss Washington team has an argument that they should go to.

    It's nowhere near as clear cut as you think:

    • UW winning as undefeated PAC champion is in.  UO losing is 2-loss and out, but UW in that CFP spot is unmovable.
    • UO wins they are 99% in as PAC champion and the committee love they've gotten.  UW with 1-loss is definitely out unless there is chaos elsewhere as non-conference champ.

    That 1% on UO winning only becomes relevant if Alabama and Texas also win.

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  12. 7 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    In a sense, we are still, to some degree, at the whims of a beauty contest. I totally agree we need to expand the playoffs, but short of giving the  P5 conference champs auto bids and then some sort of ranked wild card system (which still creates a beauty contest issue), I don’t know how you don’t end up with somebody complaining that “We did x, y, and z, and it’s total bullshit that this other team is in and we aren’t”

    The gravity of the beauty contest argument means a lot less when it's two teams arguing over who should be #12 or 13.  The bowl system was the ultimate beauty contest, pining for those days is putting the car into reverse and mashing down on the gas.

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  13. 2 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

    Rage all you want, I didn’t design the system.  I’d have left it the way it was 25 years ago and just let the writers pick after all the dust of the New Years Bowl’s settled. 

    This is a joke, right?  Right?

    You'd prefer a system where WRITERS who 1) admit they don't watch many of the games, 2) are homers, and 3) include people like Kirk Bohls unilaterally declare a MNC based on teams that DIDN'T settle it on the field?  A system that dis-incentivizes marquee OOC games so you can retain a perfect record by loading up on creampuffs, where multiple teams end the season undefeated and all stake a claim to the MNC, and where the very best teams rarely if ever play each other at the culmination of the season?  A system where fat cats in cheesy colored ill-fitting blazers travel around on boondoggles to see the top teams as part of their pseudo money laundering bowl setup? That's the system you'd prefer?

    The 4 team CFP isn't perfect but it's a million times better than the BCS, which was a billion times better than the bowl system.  The 12-team CFP will be nirvana for people who actually enjoy seeing, you know, the best teams actually play against each other and settle it on the field.

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