Thatās interesting. I know he hasnāt killed it at UCLA but I canāt recall a head coach from a big program taking a coordinator job at another school without being fired. The rumors of Kelly taking an NFL coordinator job made some sense, but this seemsā¦odd? Iām sure thereās more to the story that Iām not privy to.
Me either. The guy has a pattern of injury at a young age and has the build of a DH/1B. Heās perhaps the best hitter in baseball. The primary objective should be to keep him healthy at all costs to keep his bat in the lineup.
Yeah, I think Bouton basically wrote that Walker was a racist in Ball Four. Like you say, it isnāt difficult to believe that given his age/time.
And it also isnāt difficult to imagine that a young Black man from California in the late 60s/early 70s may have found an old guy nicknamed Dixie to be a racist, an an old guy in the late 60s/early 70s from the south might have thought the young Black man to be a pain in the ass. Cultures were clashing in that era.
Itās simple - a collective, chronic inferiority complex. Thats why they feel the need to shout from the rooftops about how great they are; itās why their coaches feel the pressure to say things that are laughably wrong like āweāre the flagship;ā itās why they constantly pretend that theyāre better than Texas at everything, even though theyāre objectively worse at (almost) everything; itās why they cannot be even remotely objective when it comes to the object of their inferiority, which is why they will forever say āAustin is terribleā and āAggie underrated player X is so much better than Texas overrated player X,ā and why they spend so much time thinking about and are undefeated in hypothetical fantasy contests. Itās pretty pathetic, really.
Iād say this is obviously someone being intellectually dishonest by attributing Charlie Strongās and Tom Hermanās shortcomings to the current Texas program, but, considering the source, āintellectually dishonestā may be giving too much credit.
Thatās fair, but also fair to note that Brown has only presided over one draft and wasnāt really in a position to acquire prospects via trade in 2023, and he was hired fairly late in the offseason a year ago (not to mention that there seemed to be weird power dynamics with Dusty last season). Not necessarily defending him, but I just donāt think we have enough time yet to assess progress at all. I donāt really have an opinion on Brown yet.
I have no idea what these peopleās skillsets are, what their jobs actually require, or really what they even do. Thus I donāt know if these changes are terrible or terrific. But if I had to guess, it is probably somewhere in between. Thats my hot take for the day.
I guess not explicitly, but thereās an entire page about different QB stats and how JJ McCarthy rates in a presumed effort to figure out how high he should be drafted.
For Christās sake, NFL teams donāt give a shit about their college stats. Sure they care about on-field performance in general, but theyāre primarily looking for ability, physical attributes, etc.
And all metrics are āmade up.ā Theyāre all imperfect. Football is a complex sport with lots of players on the field and lots of variables; you canāt account for all of that statistically. That doesnāt mean that imperfect metrics tell you nothing, it just means they donāt tell you everything - theyāre not either perfect or useless. (And if TD passes thrown in college had any correlation to NFL success, then all the Leach QBs like Symons and Cumbie and Harrell would have been stars.)
These are the best:
These are the worst:
I didnāt like the 90s ones because they got rid of orange; that was dumb. Going to red and black was even weirder and it sucked. Fucking Drayton.
The current ones are kinda boring but theyāre navy and orange and the old logo so I like them. I wish theyād bring back the orange caps though:
Rainbow ones were good.
In 1957, the University of Texas villainously seduced Texas Tech University and lured it to the Southwest Conference, thus striking the blow that directly led to the disintegration of the once-proud Border Conference. A sort of canary-in-the-coal-mine, this is the first instance of what became an unscrupulous pattern of brazen conference-icide committed by the University. UTās Machiavellian, ruthless cunning over the decades - during which it repeatedly took the shameful, disgusting act of adapting to the economic realities of major college sports - is primarilyā¦nay, solely responsible for the cruel and unjust treatment of victimized ex-affiliated institutions.
Trading Kenny Lofton for Ed Taubensee is unforgivable.
Losing Neris is whatever. His results were good last year, but the underlying metrics suggest the regression is coming.
I suppose this is what you do when you look at, you know, the actual rosters of the teams who will be playing in 305 days and you donāt like what you see.
Well, not what you do; what they do.
Donāt disagree with this, but I like that Morris is bringing Z Robinson with him from the Rams. Heās supposed to be very well-regarded, and hopefully he is bringing a McVeigh-esque scheme to Atlantaā¦I think that would be a good situation for Bijan. (Of course, they still need a QB.)
If I were betting on the spreads I just saw, Iād easily take KC (+4.5) and DET (+7.5). I think both games will be close.
I havenāt had a favorite NFL team since 1995, so I donāt really care that much who wins or loses, but KC is starting to get boring like NE was for 20 years, and LJ is fun to watch, so hoping to see BAL win. And I guess Iām pulling for SF because I like Shanahan and their general scheme/style, but DET is entertaining too, and their crazy sonofabitch coach is fun with his risk-taking style.
Murphy is starting to get more R1 attention it seems. He will probably test very well. Iām starting to think heāll be the highest pick among UT players, with a good chance of going in the first.