Everything posted by Horn of Gabriel
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Gotta get prepared for Monday's press conference...
Good that we don't have one. There is nothing, not a damn thing that Sark or any coach can say in a post-loss presser that will make anyone happy. All he can say is "We didn't play well enough to win and that's on me, I take full accountability for the loss, congrats to OU." But that's boring and a dozen reporters have stories to write and need content so they ask the same tired questions over and over. Then the coach resorts to coach-speak to avoid 1) throwing his own players under the bus, or 2) making excuses/sounding whiny. And the second the coach slips up and admits a player screwed up or an official missed a key call or whatever there will be multiple posts here about "there goes Sark blaming the players" "there goes Sark making excuses, not our standard!" ...we complain about coach speak but the problem is us. We don't accept the truth.
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Tell me about your truck brand
I have a 2020 GMC Sierra. Inside is nice but the screen is tiny compared to the current Ram and Ford. 4x4 is good, I've towed a few times but it's not my main use case. I like the pro tailgate or whatever they call it for carrying oversize stuff in the bed. The interior materials are good but not awesome, I'd put Ram, Ford, and Toyota ahead. Haven't had any reliability issues with it yet. It's a shade too big but all the full sized trucks are like that now.
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Media/$9.95-er postgame analysis articles (Week 6)
So tie game you go 3-and-out after burning a minute and they get the ball back same place they got it anyway with the same or more time left on the clock. Your comment reads "if in hindsight we would have done this other thing and it would have worked perfectly and we won that would have been great." yeah no shit
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Outcoached
You forgot the part where the FATE faction overlooks any/all improvements year-over-year in recruiting, game planning, or results (such as Alabama) because the only acceptable result is to be 12-0 and win the national championship each year. And lays 100% of everything at Sark's feet because he's he coach! Ewers made a bad decision throw into the DB for an INT? Shoulda coached him up better than that Sark! "Call the touchdown play Sark!!!" These are the same type of people who use the term "money whip" with regard to coaches and players as if we're fated to get positive results because Texas is rich. Spoiler: we're not. We have improved every year that Sark has been on campus and the trend line is still pointing up overall. This isn't Herman who was immature and a shit recruiter or Strong who was shit overall and just looked lost. Fate people need to stop being a prisoner of the past. And BTW most people were roundly criticized on that thread comparing this year to 2005, there is no comparison. As Alan Greenspan would say "irrational exuberance." Yeah I'm hope. But I temper hope with logic. You can be hopeful and acknowledge our shortcomings and areas we need to improve. Anyone ready to cut bait on Sark due to FATE as defined above needs to be ready to get another Herman or Strong, because that's a real possibility.
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Media/$9.95-er postgame analysis articles (Week 6)
This narrative needs to die, it's wrong. Ewers and the offense was in rhythm with the hurry up and it was keeping OU on their back foot. It was also negating a Venebles strength of matching the defensive call to our alignment and tendencies, plus subbing. You give much of that up when you slow it down. The assumption baked into your comment above is that we would still have moved the ball down the field by going slow, which is NOT a given. The thing to get annoyed with is the flip from aggressive (staying with the hurry up) to conservative (kicking a FG and not going for it when they're in FG block alignment on 4th and 5 and we come out in the offense). Still, we took the lead. This loss is a team loss but the defense is more on the hook. Playing prevent is playing for OT with 1:17 left. Gabriel really only had to drive 35 yards for a FG which is not a problem in soft zone.
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Texas vs ou - 11am on ABC
Lulz about people talking about "I could be the biggest donor EVAAAAR" ....are you one of the 756 Billionaires in the US? If so I applaud you and wonder what you're doing on Surly. Otherwise, I'm reminded of what someone here once said: "...and I have the biggest most satisfying dick on the Internet"
- Texas vs ou - 11am on ABC
- Texas vs ou - 11am on ABC
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3rd and 9
People gonna hate on Sark and it wasn't the best call although we DID score and take the lead. Can't say for certain what woulda/coulda/shoulda happened otherwise. Other choke moments in the game: * JT Sanders having the ball in his hands and not being able to come down with the TD in the first half * Dropped INT in the endzone * Ewers 1st INT which was braindead * Ewers fumble/not sliding * Entire D-line not being able to get pressure after all we heard was how we outclassed them at the line of scrimmage on D-line * 1st and goal from the 1 yard line turning it over on downs after we heard how we outclassed them at the line of scrimmage on O-line * Multiple lack of focus pre-snap (e.g. not biased/opinion-based/Rig XII) penalties * Lack of PK adjustments to DGs scramble. We played timid and scared. We looked shocked at the physicality of OU. Our vaunted line of scrimmage play was ass. JT's injury hurt, and i'm sure Major's did as well. Credit to the OU fuckfaces for executing, we didn't. If we don't shoot ourselves in the foot with the stuff above we could have won by 10-14. But we did, they didn't and we lost. Now we need to win out and hope to see OU again in Dallas for the BigXII championship and just play better.
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How not to sit with Blow U
I sat on the OU side in the early 2000's during one of mackbrown-texasfootball's patented 60-point beatdowns. It was...unpleasant. #CSB
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Fuck Brett Yormark
11am games draw the best TV numbers. It’s the reason FOX has “big noon” instead of “big Saturday night”
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Texas vs Baylor - 6:30pm on ABC [An XXX fucking 38-6 Texas]
Our regular rotation of OOC games should include: Cupcakes who will cash a check to take a beating at DKR-TMS: UTSA UNT UTEP Rice Texas State (now in the Sunbelt!) and if we need more we can choose from plenty of relatively close schools like La Tech, La Monroe, Tulsa, New Mexico, NM State, etc. Low-end but still brand names, if they're willing to accept 2 for 1's. Wyoming Nevada Fresno St. Purdue Minnesota Oregon St. (they will regress to their mean) Washington St. Boise St. Memphis Tulane (for the away trip mostly) Virginia Indiana Army, Navy, AF Northwestern Rutgers Hawaii High-end brands, home & home: Michigan Ohio St. USC Washington Oregon Penn St. UCLA North Carolina Clemson Florida St. Miami Michigan St. Wisconsin
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Tell me about Mel Tugger (that’s gold, Jerry!)
Wait in instances like this can players transfer in-season? Or can they just enter the portal in anticipation of moving post-season?
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Iowa - Glorying In the Nepotism of the Ferentz Family
Ferentz must have a Mack Brown-Texas Football level hold on that administration. Iowa is a decent brand, maybe they feel like high-floor low-ceiling is their best case and are willing to give the keys over to Kirk to retire on the job while getting his kids paid?
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Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
Wait, did Herman ever win 4 in a row?
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New SEC divisions and pods thread (Page 38 starts recent discussion)
"...and in the back of the end zone there's Xavier Worthy, diving for the ball...he caught it! Oh but Bob it looks like he landed in the prickly pear patch (sponsored by Deep Eddy) again...yeah he's probably done for the day. Another receiver falls victim to the cacti." We'd make so many great memories
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Realignment talk not going away
Going negative $25MM YoY means the athletics departments are cutting entire sports at that point. Most of these schools are already subsidizing the AD either with direct transfers or high student fees. It also makes any type of long term planning very difficult or impossible - how do you spent on facilities or fund raise at that point, it's super tough. Same reason the PAC schools turned down Apple's earn-it offering; it's lack of guarantees. On top of all that, the low/no/negative rev sports are typically women's sports so now there's a Title IX issue on top of all of that...
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Casey Thompson
Wonder if he's going to medical RS...year 7 here we go!
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UTSA without Frank Harris.
Does losing to Army mean that surly is done meatriding Traylor now? There were many posts last season and summer about "I hope we bring in Traylor when Sark inevitably fails" "doing more with less" "just biding his time for Texas to call him up" etc (all paraphrased). Well he just lost to a service academy by 8, at home. That sure as hell ain't our standard.
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Colorado vs Colorado State - ABC
I'm going to enjoy seeing USC and that fuck Caleb score 10,000 points on these guys.
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K-State at Missouri - 11am on SEC network
Is that the squints ref who fucked us on the reg?
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Hey PK -- What would you say you do here?
As evidenced by your prior take on PK, agreed.
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Hey PK -- What would you say you do here?
- Hey PK -- What would you say you do here?
Slow brained isn't always about the people. Sometimes it is. It's also about not having to think and process and react as much because the formations, calls, alignments, etc have changed every year with a different DC. Just having that consistency makes the same player look smarter and faster. "A bad plan executed well is better than a good plan with shit execution." - Hey PK -- What would you say you do here?
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