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  1. People have been complaining about Bo's D being "light in the pants" all season. Not enough beef for conference play, Big 10 play, etc. Bo's "speedy, light" D was custom built to stop Mizzou and I think they'll do it. Plus, missery doesn't know how to deal with the success of finally beating OU. I think they'll have a letdown vs NU next week. They're a real good team, but I think we take them out.
  2. Some cool characters from Lonesome Dove left Texas for a better life on the great plains.
  3. I think a lot of it is on the position coaches. Mac McWhorter is a terrible O line coach. We're just now realizing it because these past two years are the first time in forever that we haven't had multiple future NFL guys, including some first rounders, on our O line. Now that the talent level is a notch lower, the line went from a strength to a huge liability. That screams coaching to me, specifically that a coach's defects were covered up for years by simply having better athletes than the guys on the other side of the ball most of the time. And WR coach Bobby Kennedy should be on the hot seat, too. Malcolm Williams, John Chiles, and DeSean Hales were all highly regarded 4-stars that haven't developed at all. Our routes are sloppy and there are way too many drops. Freshman Mike Davis looks to be better right now than guys that have been in Kennedy's system for two or three years. And then there's the playcalling. See avatar. But as bad as it is, we're not heading back to the 80's by any stretch. Worst case this year looks to be about 7-5, and we hardly lose anyone to graduation (Curtis Brown is the only one worth anything), plus we've got a 5 star tackle coming in along with Malcolm Brown next year. This is a dip in the road, not a decline, we'll be contenders for the conference again next year (not that y'all will care, lol). That quote you're responding to is mine, not Junior's. But the rest of your post speaks to what I'm talking about. It just makes no sense that with all of those four- and five-star kids on your roster that you would EVER have a dip in talent level. Your coaches are smack in the middle of prime prep football country, and should have zero problems diagnosing talent properly. I cannot fathom how they could be the flagship school in a talent-rich state, the school that all the Texas kids originally want to go to (A&M/Tech being fall-backs, and on down the list), and yet still have that kind of underperformance. There are only two explanations I can see: 1) Your coaches simply are not that good at gauging talent, and recruit the wrong kids (see: Rex Burkhead), or 2) Your coaches are not very good at teaching football to these kids once they get them. I think what you're saying is it's the latter, which begs the question, why are they still at UT? Don't forget, another reason UT dropped off the planet for nearly two decades was because they ALSO got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. When the rest of the SWC got tired of being held down by the State Legislation, they started cheating to try to do anything to beat UT. UT started getting lit up by SMU and some other programs, so they started cheating as well. The whole conference got caught. Rumor has it that when UT ratted SMU out, SMU turned around and did the same to UT. At one point in the mid 80's EVERY team in the SWC was on NCAA probation.... not investigation, probation (except Rice, Baylor, and Arkansas). Remember Broadrick Thomas? He wanted to go to UT, and was on his way but said all the NCAA investigators were calling him day and night to ask if he'd been offered or taken money from UT... he said he got tired of it and just decided to go to Nebraska instead. So I'm sure that being put on NCAA probation also helped put a dent in all the resources that UT had at it's disposal.
  4. Legend has it, he was born with that tattoo...
  5. Your second point is EXACTLY what I was thinking. There is NO reason these bitter little... people wouldn't want to break it off in our hind ends.... so why aren't they? There's a lot of UTerus dirt under the rugs they don't want coming up in court. Most of it petty little crap just in a vain attempt to spook NU into not leaving. But you gotta wonder if there's some BIG stuff under that rug?
  6. I'd like to see TM get nothing but passing reps in, and not get hit one time.
  7. WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?! lmao!
  8. Right, and if the government didn't take our money and give it to someone else, the world would be so much better off. Because, deep down inside, we know that all human beings are incredibly charitable people who would give up their grossly oversized meal portions and big-screen televisions for the sake of our less well off brothers and sisters living down at the homeless shelter. Anyways, yeah this is about to get way out of hand, so I'm gonna go argue about whether Taylor Martinez is faster than Eric Crouch or something stupid like that. Out. Maybe that's what he was getting at. If more people would freely give to the more needy, we wouldn't have to bork up what was once the greatest economy in the world with something like socialism or communism.
  9. That's what happens when you have a entire conference made up of texas schools, and the state of texas legislation making sure that the University of texas gets taken care of first and foremost (their flagship university). It's been going on for the last 100 years. Not hard to wrack up massive wins that way. I'm with you though, I didn't even know they had a team growing up, they'd ran the corrupt vice ridden den that was the swc into the ground.
  10. Let's not forget what really happened. The majority of those personal foul penalties he got at NU were incorrect calls. The tackle vs. Baylor, the hit against Tyrod Taylor two years ago, several others that I'm not recalling immediately, were judgment calls that most likely shouldn't have been thrown. As bad as this hit was, let's not rewrite history. Don't forget the "horse collar" he got called vs Gabbart when he basically grabbed a hand full of shirt on Gab's numbers and pulled him to the turf.
  11. This is why I just hope they leave the Michigan OSU rivalry completely alone. Tradition is an odd thing. I was in the service overseas when the NU vs OU game went by the wayside and I didn't know much about it until after it happened. If I were an OSU or Michigan fan I'd scream like a child as loud as I could if a change in the date bothered me. I guess the best thing is to see what they announce for sure in the next few months, and then really raise cain if need be. There'll be a whole year to do it before the deed is done.
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