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Magus Ossis

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  1. High stress games with amped up players and crowds increase to opportunity for emotion to help drive the game farther from the expected outcome in either direction. Clearly, either team could win. Injuries, fluke turnovers, and the like can move the result several TDs from where it "should" be. With that said, Texas played Alabama in a similarly amped up environment. Both teams took their best shots. Texas benefited neither from a preponderance of flukes nor other particular events that would move the result in our favor from where talent, skill, coaching, etc "should" have had it. We beat Alabama on their field by double digits, and they are a decent benchmark. Both Texas and OU have had good and bad quarters of football. Both are undefeated. Only Texas has been tested against an opponent remotely of the quality it will face this weekend, and Texas has passed the test. I can't predict the future, but my reason tells me covering by Texas is likely.
  2. Launching most of old the old team was one of the reasons given before the season why he was going to fail. He is most certainly coaching up this team with the help of well-chosen staff. This. If it was so obvious how close the game should have been, the line would have been much smaller. He has not built a championship contender there. He won't blow out any top 10 teams this year. But this is a transformation and re-launch of a moribund football program of impressive proportions. He was unafraid to violate the conventional wisdom. Everyone said he wouldn't win 4 games, and now when he wins more than that, people will say his wins are crappy. It says more about those commenting than about coach.
  3. Texas 34 OU 13 Texas rushes for 220
  4. They are an untested gaggle coached by the likes of Venables and his comfort hires-- maybe 3 good coaches on the staff. We have beaten everyone we've played by double digits, including handing most of our opponents their only loss. We are a tough, unified team that plays better as the game goes on. Last year OU quit in spectacular fashion. And Texas is supposed to be the team concerned about the mental aspect of this game? Really? I know we've been in the desert a long time, but try to step back and see.
  5. He seems to be teaching them something about not quitting. This alone can change the course of one's life.
  6. Bone injuries certainly fall under HIPPA. As stated above, however, the average guy on the street has no duty to protect health information under HIPPA.
  7. Our only away games OOC should be one every two years from H/H series against out of state opponents that are marquee teams and/or desirable travel destinations. An exception could be playing at NRG for a "return home game" against Rice or in the Alamo Dome (with plenty of seats allocated to Texas) against e.g. UTSA. We already play in Dallas. We don't need to sacrifice our home game opportunities to give money and the chance to play spoiler to Tech, Baylor, TCU, Houston, OSU, etc. We gave Baylor their going away present already. If they miss us, they can save the dump we took on their face and bring it back out to sniff it occasionally.
  8. This is the part that gets me. Let the team doc look at him. If somehow there is no doc around, let the trainer look at him. When in doubt (especially at a level of play as big-time as P5 FB), put him in a boot and on crutches until you get an MRI. There is pretty much 0% chance of a routine MRI of the ankle, the same study one would use definitively to diagnose and characterize sprains in high-level athletes, missing a talus fracture. Any idiot should know that you start out protecting the patient in case the injury you hope didn't occur actually did.
  9. While alumni gave $20 handshakes to players etc, there has always been an enormous gulf between the coordinated large-scale bag operations at some schools and the spotty officially discouraged misbehavior at others. When aggy coaches were directing fedex cash deliveries, Texas was making athletes report what they drove and how they afforded it. Now we are institutionally in the game.
  10. It varies based on whether this is osteochondral, posterior process, lateral process, body, or neck. Best case for him is if it is a simple lateral process fracture. There is a high risk of AVN with more serious neck fractures. That’s super bad. Even if this heals up (and it can be slower than the average bone 6 week time), significant and early arthritis does occur with lots of these.
  11. A little talar fracture can be analogous to a little pregnant. Here's hoping the kid recovers from this without serious long-term ankle problems.
  12. Texas 42 KU 23 KU total offense 350
  13. The curse can’t be lifted until every piece of his treasure is returned and the blood of one of the betrayers is spilled.
  14. Or have the stadium play clips of "they'd rather lose to Alabama and Georgia than KSU and ISU" and "Take care of business in Austin" on a loop to a highlight reel of us beating Bama, ISU, KSU, and some Sugar Bowl vs UGA.
  15. Rape and murder U the others
  16. The relegation model would not necessarily have to have a major impact on either the $ going to each school or to the teams available for the media contract if the relegation is internal to the PacWC or the B12. You arrange the schedule so that both the upper and lower divisions play complete round robins at their respective levels. Unless/until those leagues get more members, you probably have some cross-division games. You might protect a rivalry or two. If two conferences introduced the model, they could arrange inter-conference play between select upper and lower division teams from each. You make the lower level teams ineligible for the CCG (if you have one) and CFP autobid. All the teams are still technically part of the same conference snd same TV deal with the networks.
  17. Fourth quarter teams tend to win tough games. We have looked like a serious fourth quarter team this year. One will never be able to assess the present without accounting for the past, but things change and the present is never the past. Are we going to the CFP? I don't know. Will we win the b12 this year? I don't know. Am I concerned about our ability to win b12 road games this year? No. As stated elsewhere, statistics almost demand that even very good teams lose occasionally, and losses are more likely on the road than at home, so a road loss is a strong possibility. But 2 would surprise me. Many people who never expected us to beat Bama will be hard to convince that beating them soundly is a reason to change their paradigm for evaluating Texas under Sark.
  18. I’m not sure whether this is meant to imply any culpability on Sanders’ part. We have a non-CU player taking a terrible cheap shot on a CU player, and you have other people who don’t play for CU reacting inappropriately to the cheap shot. This. The death threats are wrong, they’re a big deal, and that guy should have thought about it more instead of trying wrongfully to injure a human.
  19. Texas 38 Rape Bears 17 290 yds
  20. It has been 700 days since aggy won a true road game
  21. It is still extremely early in his career, but through 2 games he is averaging just over 6 YPC rushing. This would, if continued, break the previous record for NFL RBs held by some dude name J Charles 🤘
  22. Saban win Steve living up to his nickname
  23. I would never. My guess is that you would never. I hesitate, after all the things they've done publicly and proudly, confidently to rule out anything foolish or unethical aggy might do. Even Tech was dumb enough.
  24. I'm not sure which US stadiums have it yet, but hybrid turf seems like the best solution to me. It is grass reinforced by synthetic fibers through the root level to minimize tearing up of the field with use. It requires water, of course, but that can be done with reclaimed water and minimal evap if the field is designed properly. Also, to the extent it uses water, a large percentage of that water goes to fixing carbon out of the atmosphere. Please no CR replies arguing about climate change. I'm not taking a position on that with this post.
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