Everything posted by Paul Wesley
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2021 CFB Polls/Rankings
This is about the time each season where the preseason rankings are having waaaaaay too much influence. Most teams have played 5 games (over 40 percent of their games), and we have a reasonable amount of data. So... Aggies at #26? Are you serious? The team whose biggest wins are vs 2-3 New Mexico and a squeaker vs a garbage 1-4 Colorado? They haven't earned a single one of those votes (their own fans would agree). There are 19 teams in the "others receiving votes" - including the Leach team that just beat them in their building - and I'll bet almost all of them can point to better wins than Colorado and New Mexico. Texas at 23 is probably about right. Not a ton of teams above us who we can bitch about. The table is set for us to claim a top-10 ranking. Taking out their Texas losses, we've already beaten: Louisiana (4-0) Texas Tech (4-0) TCU (3-1) ... which is a decent body of work. I'm ignoring Rice. No one gets credit for beating a team full of chemical engineers and computer science majors. ... and our next two opponents are: OU (5-0) Oklahoma State (5-0) It's very unlikely we'll find ourselves at 6-1, but I refilled my flask and booked my hotel room in Dallas just in case. See you at the Cotton Bowl.
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Fuck Big 12 refs
Yeah, the fact that the officials were directed to make the same call on our opponent the next week, and then we haven't seen it called again for SIX YEARS... just undeniably illustrates that there are some pregame directions being given that are well outside of "call it fair and call it both ways."
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
They're gonna be 3-3 with 6 games to play. It's very unlikely they'll beat anyone with a pulse (Auburn, LSU, Ole Miss). Prairie View is a gimme (that they should be embarrassed for scheduling). They're gonna have to go 2-0 at Mizzou and vs South Carolina at home. Not sure they can do it.
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klanaggy pirate @ soldier texums :: 6pm SECN
these guys cannot count
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klanaggy pirate @ soldier texums :: 6pm SECN
He shouldn't. But he will.
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klanaggy pirate @ soldier texums :: 6pm SECN
4th down on espn for the game
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Tech vs WVU: The John Denver Bowl
No shit.
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Tech vs WVU: The John Denver Bowl
Really? Tech seeking to be 4-0 outside of the Texas game For TCU, 3-1 Louisiana is 3-0, favored to be 4-0 after tonight. I mean, we've got deficiencies and issues all over the field, but if you're talking "body of work" to this point, there's no way you'll find 25 teams with a better resume.
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Tech vs WVU: The John Denver Bowl
Halftime Tech 17 WV 0
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Tech vs WVU: The John Denver Bowl
WV is short their incisors, several molars, and literacy.
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Tech vs WVU: The John Denver Bowl
End of first Q Tech 14 WV 0
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[Surly Official] Texas @ TCU Game Thread - 11am on ABC
Yeah, we had a lot of short yardage situations where I'd like to see us with Roschon in the wildcat and Bijan beside him. Maybe have KR come across for jet sweep potential. Have Wiley in there for a little short jump ball. Instead, we're just running all these straight-ahead handoffs, we're not giving the defense a single thing to defend except Bijan... We're just counting on good O-line play, and that's not a great bet for us. ... and yeah, I know he made a couple superhuman runs to get first downs and ice the game, but our performance in the last 6 or 8 short-yardage situations is kind of shitty given what we've got on the roster. We could have easily scored anther 12-15 points by just converting a few red-zone 3rd and 1.
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[Surly Official] Texas @ TCU Game Thread - 11am on ABC
Also, covered (for me anyway) I'm just sayin'
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[Surly Official] Texas @ TCU Game Thread - 11am on ABC
Yeah, that was my thought on that drive too. TCU is just selling out 100% to chase Bijan. We need to take some of these free 5-10 yards on keepers and slow them down a little bit.
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[Surly Official] Texas @ TCU Game Thread - 11am on ABC
I'm pretty sure he thought, "This is way too easy. Letting me through unblocked... must be a screen." Except, no... no screen. Just terrible O line.
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[Surly Official] Texas @ TCU Game Thread - 11am on ABC
Yeah, a flagrant take-down. I remember some NBA coach bitching about a Pat Riley defense -- I think when he was with the Heat -- and saying something like, "It's genius. They just foul you on every possession and they know refs are just going to let some of it go." That is definitely happening with that TCU right tackle. He's just doing a desperation take-down on every passing play.
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[Surly Official] Texas @ TCU Game Thread - 11am on ABC
How do you un-call a flagrant hold? They were about to be in 2nd and 25.
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[Surly Official] Texas @ TCU Game Thread - 11am on ABC
100%
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[Surly Official] Texas @ TCU Game Thread - 11am on ABC
announcers can fuck right off
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Casey Thompson
Naga…. Naga… NagonnaplayatTexas
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Casey Thompson
I have decided that one of the burdens of being a Texas fan is that nearly every game you watch, the other team will have a really good player who Texas didn't offer. And the announcers will mention it relentlessly for 3+ hours. It's tiresome. I mean, we have about 20 scholarships each year, and there are thousands of high school seniors who would come here if offered. The chance of the Texas staff picking *exactly* the 20 best players who want to come here every year... is ZERO percent. Getting the best 20 out of those thousands is statistically FAR more improbable than picking a perfect NCAA bracket. So you're going to line up against really good players who you didn't offer. Every year. Nearly every week. It's not a fucking storyline that deserves the amount of air time that it gets. That said, coaches have to do a reasonably good job evaluating talent. I mean, we went the better part of a decade with Case McCoy, Jerrod Heard, and Tyrone Swoopes lining up under center, not to mention a decade of poor O-line play, and that's kind of inexcusable given our resources.
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The Guitar Pron Thread
A friend has one of those mahogany Martins. They're nice guitars. Celery, I love the sound of the Matchless. Remind me what model you have?
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30 Years Ago Today
Yeah, like Boom says, "Nevermind" was a milepost kind of album, and there haven't been very many of those. "Sgt Peppers" signaled what was possible with modern recording gear. Van Halen's first record featured a new level of guitar virtuosity, and ushered in 13 years of spandex and hairspray (In the words of Bill Burr, "When I was a kid, you dressed like a girl and sang about the devil. Now *that* was music."). The hair metal that VH inspired was the dominant sub-genre of rock music right up until the opening chords of "Teen Spirit." Immediately, the hairspray and the spandex -- all of it was over. The sound, the clothes, the haircuts, the cities that represented the cutting-edge ethos -- everything changed overnight. "Nevermind" did that. I would add Van Halen's debut to Boom's list of albums that changed the course of musical history. My own .02 as an aside here: Just like VH brought on a parade of terrible imitators (Warrant, Poison, etc), "Nevermind" brought on a parade of no-talent copycats with way too many layered dirty guitars (Creed, Nickelback). Ugh. Anyway, "In Utero" was hugely anticipated as a follow-up, but the band didn't want to make Nevermind 2. Instead, they worked with a different producer/engineer (Steve Albini), whose sound was far less polished. I think the fact that the band pushed back against the label and chose to take a more low-fi, DIY path... it still inspires a lot of rock fans to proclaim it as the band's best work. Personally, I think the songs on "In Utero" take a big step back, and I'm not wild about the Albini sound.
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2021 transfer RB Keilan Robinson
I thought the same thing earlier in the year... How awesome would RoJo have been as a wishbone QB?
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TCU game week.
I thought he'd do great things at UT, but he had some facepalm plays (TCU, LSU) and just sort of fizzled. Transferring out and starting over again was probably best for everyone. And it's not like we were left with an empty running back room. I'd definitely rather see the Robinsons and RoJo get the carries, and the mop-up touches can go to Brooks.