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1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

No. A lot of you guys are too literate to be worth the time it takes to explain why. 

You might want to edit that, champ.

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    You need to relax dude.  Maybe catch a Gay Pride event in East Austin this weekend.

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23 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

If he had lost to Bama, especially if it had been a heart breaker, we would never hear the end of it. But since we won it gets conveniently forgotten by the doomers. I'm here to say, fuck that shit. It happened.

Since you didn't answer the question, I'll ask again: are you really unable to discern the difference in circumstances between the two games or are you just being purposefully obtuse?

8 minutes ago, Gandalfish said:

If they manage to get that 8th win, does the thread get renamed?

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“30 point Steve” 

45 minutes ago, Poe It Up said:

He’s never won 10 games in a season before, so I’m from Missouri until I actually see it. As great as the Bama win was, it’s not the only data point. 

It’s like people deliberately misconstrue the criticism. 

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7 minutes ago, Gandalfish said:

You might want to edit that, champ.

You quoted it, so fuck it. It was a stupid question either way.

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1 minute ago, Js1 said:

“30 point Steve” 

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2 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

You quoted it, so fuck it. It was a stupid question either way.

God forbid anyone post anything in this thread that isn't sandy-vagina, black-pill, whining.

Have a Lexapro (or two) and enjoy the brisk weather today.

We are finally beating the teams we are supposed to, even if not the way we should given our talent advantage. That's tangible progress as a program. I am nervously optimistic as there are a number of difficult games ahead of us, so the season can very well turn out to be disappointing when it's all said and done.

Most of us are happy that we are 7-1 and some are not happy because of how we have played lately. Both positions have some merits, so I don't understand why one party has to admit to being wrong. We can be happy with our record and still want our coach to improve because it will take a lot of improvement to get to the playoffs and win a game or two.

12 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

Since you didn't answer the question, I'll ask again: are you really unable to discern the difference in circumstances between the two games or are you just being purposefully obtuse?

I absolutely get the difference. Just pointing out that if we had lost the Bama game it would get brought up every 2 seconds as proof that "he cant win the big game". But since he did win that game, the goalposts moved to a new definition of what a "big game" is. And they should, in a sense. But it is still a relevant data point for those who have doubts about his ability to beat a team he has never lost to at home.

4 minutes ago, Gandalfish said:

God forbid anyone post anything in this thread that isn't sandy-vagina, black-pill, whining.

Have a Lexapro (or two) and enjoy the brisk weather today.

I'm pissed off because the tire warning lights on my dash this morning. Stupid rapid drops in temperature leading to denser air!

Just now, bad_teammate said:

I'm pissed off because the tire warning lights on my dash this morning. Stupid rapid drops in temperature leading to denser air!

I’ll be posting on the wives thread shortly. She must’ve been in a hurry this morning since I have not heard about her car being broken yet.

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3 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

I’ll be posting on the wives thread shortly. She must’ve been in a hurry this morning since I have not heard about her car being broken yet.

Drove by discount tire. Line for tire pressure was 13 deep and around the corner 😂

59 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

We are finally beating the teams we are supposed to, even if not the way we should given our talent advantage.

 

We absolutely should have beaten OU. There is no excuse for that game.

Just now, Tex Pete said:

We absolutely should have beaten OU. There is no excuse for that game.

We should have, but losing to them is not like losing to Maryland,Tech, or KU at home. It was a toss-up game given the talent parity.

2 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

We should have, but losing to them is not like losing to Maryland,Tech, or KU at home. It was a toss-up game given the talent parity.

There are some people that will not ever be okay with us losing to OU. Period.

It’s a rivalry game. Even if this OU team is “meh,” far more talented teams have gone into Dallas and lost. It happens.  Ask OU about how losing to 5-7 Texas in 2015 derailed their whole season. Oh wait, they made the CFP 

Next week, it’s gonna be “Alabama would win by double digits if we played now.”
It wouldn't be double digits, but Bama absolutely would be full of piss if we played them again. I'm not sure Sark could get his team to match their level. And if I had to make a bet to save the house, I'm taking Bama.
If they manage to get that 8th win, does the thread get renamed?
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1 minute ago, Brothahorn said:
2 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:
Next week, it’s gonna be “Alabama would win by double digits if we played now.”

It wouldn't be double digits, but Bama absolutely would be full of piss if we played them again. I'm not sure Sark could get his team to match their level. And if I had to make a bet to save the house, I'm taking Bama.

It's nearly impossible to beat the same team twice in a year if the teams have similar level of talent. So I feel like it's a blessing in disguise to lose the first game if the second one is for all the marbles.

2 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

Next week, it’s gonna be “Alabama would win by double digits if we played now.”

Like most teams, we were much healthier in game 2 in September than game 9 in November. 

16 minutes ago, Brothahorn said:
2 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:
Next week, it’s gonna be “Alabama would win by double digits if we played now.”

It wouldn't be double digits, but Bama absolutely would be full of piss if we played them again.

Having lost to us already?  Sure.  Having not played us yet -- i.e., our 3rd noncon game that happens to come in November?  Different argument.  Why would they be "full of piss"?

2 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

I'm pissed off because the tire warning lights on my dash this morning. Stupid rapid drops in temperature leading to denser air!

Low pressure = less dense = rain

I better remember that since I had Boyles law, Charles Law and the Universal Gas law pounded into my brain for 4 years. Otherwise, I better give my diploma back.

21 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

I have had this sense that Sarkisian still cannot believe his eyes with the execution errors.  He calls stuff that, if executed, would work, but often isn't executed.  He must get these guys doing this stuff pretty routinely in practice only to have it blow up in his face come game time.

And it may explain why he a) thinks this will work in game time and b) thinks it's important to attempt and execute, during game time, as opposed to practice.

It was worse when the talent was less than it is now, but it still seems like a thing.

The simple way to say it is we don't have Alabama talent yet, or early 2000s USC.  I think Sark intellectually understands that, but cannot believe the way these guys fuck up his playcalling from time to time.

I get a different vibe from Sark. To me he seems like the coach that runs a play 3 times in practice and it fails. On the 4th it looks really good and on the 5th it looks great and he calls it game ready. Then he is surprised when he is 2 out of 5 in the red zone.

Let's just hope KSU goes down as one of those random CFB match ups that Sark unequivocally owns. 

I'll believe until he proves me otherwise

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On 10/9/2023 at 11:45 AM, closetojumping said:

I stayed away this weekend, assuming the board would be loaded with doom and gloom and then a bunch of rationalization. After clicking around, it looks like things held together here somewhat nicely. 

That considered, now I'm worried about things here in the opposite direction. The general optimism towards the rest of the season across numerous threads creates the impression that a whole herd of you guys aren't prepared for what's actually going to unfold. That could lead to utter catastrophe when the inevitable happens, leading to numerous psychotic breaks for stunned denizens of this board and I'd hate to see it/hear about it.

The reality is, Steve Sarklostagain still hasn't done a fucking thing in his career to merit receiving the benefit of the doubt from the fanbase and posters on this board. He's never won more than 9 games, he's been outcoached on numerous occasions, and he's a born loser at heart, reflected repeatedly in a career of inexplicable losses. 

Seven Loss Steve's entire head coaching history reflects a penchant for winning games that surprise people and then following that soon enough with an inexplicable loss or seven. 

2009 - UW plays LSU close to open the season, then pulls a wild upset of USC in week 3 before going 5-7 with headscratching losses to a failing Weis-led ND program that went 6-6 and ended up firing their fat idiot head coach to end the year and then a loss to an eventual 4-8 ASU team that lost all 5 games they played after beating UW.

"but closetojumping, UW was 0-11 in 2008! he can't be dinged for the turnaround in that season!" - wait, there's more.

2010 - After upsetting 18th ranked USC on the road in the Colesseum, Seven Win turns around the next week at home and shits the bed against an ASU that had lost 3 straight and went 6-6.

2011 - No real surprising wins this season, but ol'Seven Loss did find a way to climb into the dumpster and light his team on fire by losing to an Oregon State that was 2-8 at the time and finished 3-9.

2012 - a 3rd straight 7 win season. Steve Sarkloseian took some early losses against good teams and brought his team roaring back to a 7-4 record and 4 game winning streak before bending his Washington team over and letting a 3-9 Washington State team just buttfuck it into oblivion in the annual rivalry game. He had some big time "we're back!" wins this season, beating #7 Stanford and #Oregon State.

2013 - Finally, a retooled roster with all of Seven Loss' own players! UW marches out to a 4-0 record before getting buzzsawed by the #5 and then #2 teams in the country, the latter in blowout fashion. Not the end of the world. Then, they headed to Tempe, still ranked, and were beaten by 4 touchdowns via a Todd Graham-led ASU team on no one's radar. At 8-4, and showing an obvious trajectory towards titles, USC calls Seven Win Steve home!

2014 - Seven Win's best year to date, he takes a USC team, ranked 15th to open the year, and they finish ranked #20 with underdog wins against two ranked opponents while also inexplicably losing a slap fight to a Boston College team that would finish 7-6.

2015 - Uneven Steven had USC open at #8 and then plummet out of the top 25 at 3-2 when he was seen visibly drunk on the sidelines during a loss to an unranked UW team and eventually fired for repeating the behavior the following week at practices.

2021 - No valued win in this 5-7 season of rebuilding! a 7-3 roster, but Texas did have standout losses to eventual 7-6 Iowa State, 2-10 Kansas, and 6-7 West Virginia.

2022 - We can argue about Texas Tech but Texas should have won that fucking game. Seven Win Steve freezing up with his playcalling against Tech, TCU, and Okie State played critical roles in the eventual 8-5 season.

2023 - If you can't find the next headscratching loss, you're not alone. No one else seems to be able to on this board either. I'll help you out though.

It is likely going to be among one of these opponents, and will likely be at least two of them, given history:

@UH

BYU

KSU

@TCU

@ISU

Tech

I've bolded my best bets, but it could happen with any of them.

Stop talking about the playoffs or rematching against OU. Texas doesn't have the coach for that. We're staring down the barrel of a 9-3 regular season. Sarkisian has said privately that he views bowl games as prep for the next season and the outcome doesn't concern him one way or the other. I'm assuming a banner year is in order here, and we see another career high 9 win season at 9-4. 

You can keep all of the receipts on this that you'd like, but you're not going to need them. 

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14 is a multiple of 7. Just saying in case it becomes relevant. 

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We need a moniker for 10 Win Steve. It is imperative if we’re to expect him to get to Eleven Win Esteban. 

Steven is Tipene in Maori and is Tapani, Tahvo or Teppo in Finnish.

16 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

We need a moniker for 10 Win Steve. It is imperative if we’re to expect him to get to Eleven Win Esteban. 

Steve Sarkdiezian 

16 hours ago, Henry Hill said:

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CTJ is the absolute king of negativity on the football board. Putting him on ignore a couple people of weeks or so back makes this forum easier to read. What an absolutely miserable way to go through life always looking for any reason to spew out some hate about a coach where it has clearly become personal to that poster to say the things it does.

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2 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

 

There’s some “pragmatic” douche bags in here who will say they can find that same type of stretch with late Mack or herman and point to how it doesn’t mean anything lol. It’s almost not even worth trying to be positive on surly, there’s more “critical” assholes than actual fans of Texas. It’s embarrassing. I promise you somebody is finding ways to poke holes in this iowa state win as we speak. I hope sark defies all the odds and has a run equivalent to Royal! 

7 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:

There’s some “pragmatic” douche bags in here who will say they can find that same type of stretch with late Mack or herman and point to how it doesn’t mean anything lol. It’s almost not even worth trying to be positive on surly, there’s more “critical” assholes than actual fans of Texas. It’s embarrassing. I promise you somebody is finding ways to poke holes in this iowa state win as we speak. I hope sark defies all the odds and has a run equivalent to Royal! 

So what you’re saying is, Winning Is Hard?

30 minutes ago, immamac said:

yes we do. 

Go for it. 

1 minute ago, Jewish Wang said:

So what you’re saying is, Winning Is Hard?

No, what we are saying is everyone can suck our proverbial Jewish wangs tonight! 🤘

42 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

We need a moniker for 10 Win Steve. It is imperative if we’re to expect him to get to Eleven Win Esteban. 

10 win Stephanos

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Yes, I know I posted this in another thread, I don't give a shit, it belongs here too.

 

Sark shitting on Campbell during his post game presser

 

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3 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said:

Yes, I know I posted this in another thread, I don't give a shit, it belongs here too.

 

Sark shitting on Campbell during his post game presser

 

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6 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said:

Yes, I know I posted this in another thread, I don't give a shit, it belongs here too.

 

Sark shitting on Campbell during his post game presser

 

Is it shitting on Matt Campbell or Breece Hall? Not sure if Campbell ever took ownership of that. 

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sounds like Sark is learning the game...

 

 

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Sark has a bit of an edge to him and I'm here for it.

6 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

Sark has a bit of an edge to him and I'm here for it.

You don’t just throw for more yards in a game vs aggy than anyone else in history and not have any edge.

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