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2 hours ago, Had Enough said:

Just out of curiosity, what was criminal about it?

 

There are elements of the here and now college football world I don’t like, but it’s opened up the potential of the University of Texas.  I’m going to say Sark ends it as the most accomplished football coach at Texas.

Let’s win a NC in football under him before we crown him.

 

 

(We CAN win one this season)

Posted
8 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

When I was a kid I lived at Astroworld. I'd get a season pass and then a bunch of Moms would take turns carpooling about 4 of us before the theme park opened and then pick us up after it closed. I didn't go every day, but I went a bunch. There's only so many times you can ride the same rides, and pretend like you're picking up girls who live on the other side of Houston that you will never see again, before a bit of hijinks ensues.

I had several favorite pranks I'd pull. There were two sets of cars on their own tracks on opposite sides of the theme park. You rode them around on a cement track with a metal guard rail in the middle so you couldn't drive it off the track. There was one pedal, which you pressed to make it go, but if you let your foot off completely it didn't coast to a stop. It braked. It's amazing to me those things basically burned fuel all day long because they were never turned off, but different time. One set was a convertible sports coup. The other was a model T style.

In any case, we'd get in one of the cars, drive about midway around the track, jump out and clamber over the chainlink fence. Then we'd run around a corner and peek back. Invariably, people would see us get out of the car and jump over the fence, but they wouldn't know what to do about it. So they'd sit there. Over a short period of time the cars would stack up not going anywhere behind the vehicle we abandoned. Eventually one of the underpaid teenagers manning the ride would wonder why isn't anyone going? Look around, see the abandoned car in the middle of the track, and have to run over there to drive it around so everyone else could enjoy the ride. I would laugh my ass off that no one would get out of their car and just go drive it around themselves because they didn't want to break the rules.

There was also a fake mountain in the middle of the theme park. The idea of it was to have something that sort of emulated the famous Disney castle, that would be a landmark for the theme park as a whole. Only, Astroworld didn't have as much capital to spend as Disney, of course, so it was done on the cheap. There was a ride inside called the Alpine Sleigh Ride, which was ostensibly a roller coaster, but not really. They had some cheap animatronics that were few and far between that you could look at as the ride lazily went around the mountain. The appeal wasn't the ride, which was terrible. The appeal was the supercharged air conditioning in an attempt to emulate a swiss mountain. So people would ride it to get a break from the overwhelming Houston heat. 

Well, since the ride wasn't exactly dangerous, and wasn't really all that popular other than the aforementioned reason, security could be a bit lax. You weren't exactly fastened in. So we'd clamber out of the car halfway through the ride, and spend the next little bit jumping out from behind corners to scare the ever living shit out of people who were on the ride. Then we'd get into an empty car and ride it back down. You'd think we would have gotten caught after dozens of times doing this, but worker morale wasn't exactly top notch. They just didn't seem to care as long as we didn't hurt anyone.

Fast forward a decade later. I'm serving in the Navy in San Diego. I convince some other sailors that it would be fun to go to Disneyland. I don't know how I did it necessarily, but I convinced 3 other guys to take the road trip to Los Angeles. While I understood the dynamics of Disneyland as a business venture, and that Disney had made a mistake in announcing the project so that third party developers bought all the land around Disneyland and locked it into a smaller footprint, I didn't really get what that meant. Disney didn't have enough land to keep adding rides. Any new ride they installed, they had to take one out. What this meant eventually is that they had to focus on a demographic, and the demographic they chose was the pre teens, It's a Small World animatronic type rides. We had smuggled a lot of booze in to the park and then mixed it with coke, so we were pretty sloshed and bored out of our minds. This is before the movies came out, so I had to convince my sailor buddies about this iconic ride we had to go on called Pirates of the Caribbean. It's still more of the same, but midway through I decide I'd relive my Astroworld glory days, and clamber out on the stage and start drunkenly dancing among all the robots. 

In case you weren't aware, even back in the 90s Disney's security protocols are a mite more stringent than Astroworlds. 

I immediately hear this voice of God cracking down on me, "Get back in the boat!" I scurried over properly chastened and leaped back into my seat. My friends and I were looking at each other thinking, "we're cooked now." As the ride is coming out of the tunnel heading towards the exit, I can see a phalanx of security personnel waiting. I have a feeling they might be there for me. So I look around at my friends and tell them, "See you guys later," climb over the brick wall next to us, and take off. 

A short while later I see my friends running around the corner laughing, "They thought it was the people ahead of us! They were excitedly pointing at us and we just ran!"

Ah, different times. Can't get away with that kind of stuff any more, that's for sure. 

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Posted
3 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

And my Dad was awesome. Hilarious. Erudite. Took over pretty much any room he was in by his sheer presence. When the world wide web came about we started posting on the GoBig12. It was hilarious watching Dad become this larger than life internet personality. Not because it was some kind of surprise, but because that's how it always went. 

Almost everyone else was whale shit at the bottom of the ocean, though. 

I’d have given a lot to have been able to have a few Johnnie Walkers with him after Texas beat USC.

Posted
14 minutes ago, Kwix said:

Probably a larger contingent of the fan base thinks he can't possibly be any good for the exact same reason.

But... I don't think that many people know CTJ.

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Posted
22 minutes ago, Kwix said:

Probably a larger contingent of the fan base thinks he can't possibly be any good for the exact same reason.

I'm beginning to think there's an undercurrent to this conversation that originally went over my head. 

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Apropos of nothing, I understand Disney World is a very popular place for dads to walk out on their families. Mid way through the day, they head to the bathroom, walk to the front gate, and keep on going.

Posted
2 hours ago, Helobious said:

Ctj thought we were getting Garrett Gray or Jake Oliver 3.0. I’m not sure if he realized Livingstone is a 6’4 actual track star. He’s an athletic freak, hard to imagine him becoming a jag. 

Wow! Who knew his real name was Estacionar Piedravivo?

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Posted
49 minutes ago, lilMAC25 said:

Let’s win a NC in football under him before we crown him.

 

 

(We CAN win one this season)

It’s still the preseason so let’s put the cart before the horse.  I’m not crowning but merely polishing it ready for wear.

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Posted
39 minutes ago, GoldAppleCorps said:

Apropos of nothing, I understand Disney World is a very popular place for dads to walk out on their families. Mid way through the day, they head to the bathroom, walk to the front gate, and keep on going.

Happiest place on earth…for some. 

Posted
38 minutes ago, GoldAppleCorps said:

Apropos of nothing, I understand Disney World is a very popular place for dads to walk out on their families. Mid way through the day, they head to the bathroom, walk to the front gate, and keep on going.

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Posted
1 hour ago, SL Xpress said:

It was a huge waste of Earl Campbell's talent. Instead of lining him up 10 yards behind the line of scrimmage with a lead blocker allowing him to get a full head of steam, he was lined up a yard or two behind the quarterback and sent into the interior of the line. 

Makes sense.  An era of system over function.  As Wing T kid, I’ve grown to have a personal dislike for that offense.  The halfback with his hand in the dirt.  Too restrictive for vision and less explosive/quick to the hole, in my opinion.  Nevermind are more restrictive QB run game.

 

2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

 

I use PFF a lot and pay the sub. I will say, they’re weakest in their analysis with the secondary. Probably a function of access to footage or something. 

Is there anything in particular that stands out on the secondary?

I don’t spend much time looking at the secondary but have found their matchups versus opponents curious a time or two.  For example, I believe they tagged Hill on the Henderson screen for a TD.  So probably more of what I’ve questioned would be matchups, which I’m not sure correlates to grading.  I do not know that for certain.

Posted
4 hours ago, BachelorTrek said:

If Sark runs the Akers' 1-2-3-Punt predictable non-offense on the opening series, I'll be pissed.

 

For the young-uns on the board, this was Texas Coach Fred Akers' offense:

1st Down: Badly-blocked Run into the center of the line -- stuffed/TFL
2nd Down: Repeat of the Badly-blocked Run into the center of the line -- stuffed/TFL
3rd Down: QB does a 7-step drop to setup to pass, gets sacked/crunched by a jailbreak defensive blitz 
4th Down: Punt

 

If you saw it for years from the stands in Memorial Stadium like I did, you'd never forget it, too.

Sorry to divert from the Disney talk but this triggered me. I remember going to see UT play UH in the Astrodome in 1983. UT won 9-3 and I was never so pissed after a win in my life. Mossey Cade intercepted a pass and returned it to the UH 1 yard line, you guessed it, FG. Walking out of the stadium I remember seeing UT's total yards for the game was 90 something. It was embarrassing. 

After the 1984-1989 stretch I decided I'd never again be mad after a win.

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

Makes sense.  An era of system over function.  As Wing T kid, I’ve grown to have a personal dislike for that offense.  The halfback with his hand in the dirt.  Too restrictive for vision and less explosive/quick to the hole, in my opinion.  Nevermind are more restrictive QB run game.

 

Is there anything in particular that stands out on the secondary?

I don’t spend much time looking at the secondary but have found their matchups versus opponents curious a time or two.  For example, I believe they tagged Hill on the Henderson screen for a TD.  So probably more of what I’ve questioned would be matchups, which I’m not sure correlates to grading.  I do not know that for certain.

I just find their ratings to be askew with CBs more than anyone. I’ll have watch guys, see them get picked on, and then they’ve got a higher grade than the CB on the opposite side of the field who the opposing team was avoiding like the plague. If memory serves, the returning starting CB for Ohio State had a higher grade last year than his drafted counterpart and the dude returning was holding/PI machine who was almost always in danger of getting burnt. 

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Posted
50 minutes ago, GoldAppleCorps said:

Apropos of nothing, I understand Disney World is a very popular place for dads to walk out on their families. Mid way through the day, they head to the bathroom, walk to the front gate, and keep on going.

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Sell Mortimer Sell said:

After the 1984-1989 stretch I decided I'd never again be mad after a win.

I can relate to that; in 1999, I told my family I kinda felt sorry for OU.

I will never, ever, EVER make that mistake again.

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Posted
3 hours ago, Had Enough said:

Just out of curiosity, what was criminal about it?

 

There are elements of the here and now college football world I don’t like, but it’s opened up the potential of the University of Texas.  I’m going to say Sark ends it as the most accomplished football coach at Texas.

Jesus!!!....so far Sark has made it to Fred Akers status....almost.   If he wins one he will make it to Mack Brown territory. He has LOTS of wins to achieve before he makes it to the rate air of St DKR.....

I say this and I love the guy, but goddammit!!!

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Posted
2 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I just find their ratings to be askew with CBs more than anyone. I’ll have watch guys, see them get picked on, and then they’ve got a higher grade than the CB on the opposite side of the field who the opposing team was avoiding like the plague. If memory serves, the returning starting CB for Ohio State had a higher grade last year than his drafted counterpart and the dude returning was holding/PI machine who was almost always in danger of getting burnt. 

That's a pretty common flaw with judging DBs. I remember that being an issue with Jammer... the best DB on the field is the guy with 45 snaps and no other statistics.

Posted
2 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I just find their ratings to be askew with CBs more than anyone. I’ll have watch guys, see them get picked on, and then they’ve got a higher grade than the CB on the opposite side of the field who the opposing team was avoiding like the plague. If memory serves, the returning starting CB for Ohio State had a higher grade last year than his drafted counterpart and the dude returning was holding/PI machine who was almost always in danger of getting burnt. 

Gotcha.  That probably is where it gets into the unknown.

Posted
28 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

It’s still the preseason so let’s put the cart before the horse.  I’m not crowning but merely polishing it ready for wear.

Fair.

Posted
6 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

That's a pretty common flaw with judging DBs. I remember that being an issue with Jammer... the best DB on the field is the guy with 45 snaps and no other statistics.

I was in law school when Babers and Jammer played together.  Going to the games, I always thought Babers was a much better cover corner.  Jammer did other things better.

Posted
10 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

I can relate to that; in 1999, I told my family I kinda felt sorry for OU.

I will never, ever, EVER make that mistake again.

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Posted
8 minutes ago, oldhorn2 said:

Jesus!!!....so far Sark has made it to Fred Akers status....almost.   If he wins one he will make it to Mack Brown territory. He has LOTS of wins to achieve before he makes it to the rate air of St DKR.....

I say this and I love the guy, but goddammit!!!

Don’t run from expectations.  Like it or not, we are one of the favorites to win it all this year.  Ohio State and UGa lost more than we did.  We are going to match up well with anybody and everybody.

Sark, CDC, the NIL crew have built this for sustainability as far as us common folk can see.

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Posted (edited)

There’s a new Anthony Hill Mic’d up clip on Instagram. Two take aways. Hill blasted Wisner in pass protection, but Wisner stayed in front of him somehow. That was cool. Stroh had a terrible rep at Guard on a goaline situation, someone just tossed his ass. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, GoldAppleCorps said:

Apropos of nothing, I understand Disney World is a very popular place for dads to walk out on their families. Mid way through the day, they head to the bathroom, walk to the front gate, and keep on going.

This reminds me of a Rodney Dangerfield joke: "I got separated from my parents at the beach. I went up to a cop and asked if he could help me find them. He said, I don't know kid, there are so many places they could hide."

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Posted
4 minutes ago, CastHorn said:

There’s a new Anthony Hill Mic’d up clip on Instagram. Two take aways. Hill blasted Wisner in pass protection, but Wisner stayed in front of him somehow. That was cool. Cole Huston had a terrible rep at Center on a goaline situation, someone just tossed his ass. 

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11 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

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I retract that statement, it was Connor Stroh at RG. My fault yall. I seen a big ass white boy lined up inside and jumped to conclusions. 

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Posted
Just now, CastHorn said:

I retract that statement, it was Connor Stroh at RG. My fault yall

lol trying to start a meltdown?

Posted
5 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

And my Dad was awesome. Hilarious. Erudite. Took over pretty much any room he was in by his sheer presence. When the world wide web came about we started posting on the GoBig12. It was hilarious watching Dad become this larger than life internet personality. Not because it was some kind of surprise, but because that's how it always went. 

Your dad was PhxHorn on that site right? He was a really cool dude…

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