cool college town smack dab in the middle of some of the most amazing scenery this country has to offer. Rocky Mountain National Park is their neighbor.
Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (3 things Shane can do to be like Colt)
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cool college town smack dab in the middle of some of the most amazing scenery this country has to offer. Rocky Mountain National Park is their neighbor.
That is an excellent point, and one that is easy to overlook. May lightening strike twice, ten years later.
And while I am underwhelmed by the expansion candidates as a whole, of the pool we have to choose from, I think UConn and UCF are no brainers.
4 Longhorn practice nuggets and 4 nuggets on soccer. Let's try to up that 1:1 ratio next week to something like 10:1, and that's coming from a soccer fan.
You can say Shane has plenty of talent to work with, but you also can't name me a single player on the 2016 starting offense that would start for the 2006 team. That team began the season ranked #2 in the country for a reason, just like this one begins the season unranked.
The other thing working big-time against Shane to recreate what Colt did in 2006 is the lack of a redshirt season. He did enroll early, but he is still a full year younger and a full semester behind Colt in development ahead of his first start. Don't think I need to remind anyone of the track record of UT quarterbacks who redshirted compared to those who didn't.
The other thing working big-time against Shane to recreate what Colt did in 2006 is the lack of a redshirt season. He did enroll early, but he is still a full year younger and a full semester behind Colt in development ahead of his first start. Don't think I need to remind anyone of the track record of UT quarterbacks who redshirted compared to those who didn't.
Good stuff.
- If Buecehele is just good, Texas can win at least seven games. He will need a defense that doesn't force him to play from behind.
- Cincy does seem like a lock. Not looking forward to that November road trip.
- Can't understand why Brian Jean-Mary isn't being considered by more schools to become their next DC.
- When you remember that many rape victims never speak out, the situation at Baylor was/is probably 10 times worse than we can imagine.
- Hopkins should have been all in. Can't go on strike for a day. Either all chips in or don't play.
- If Buecehele is just good, Texas can win at least seven games. He will need a defense that doesn't force him to play from behind.
- Cincy does seem like a lock. Not looking forward to that November road trip.
- Can't understand why Brian Jean-Mary isn't being considered by more schools to become their next DC.
- When you remember that many rape victims never speak out, the situation at Baylor was/is probably 10 times worse than we can imagine.
- Hopkins should have been all in. Can't go on strike for a day. Either all chips in or don't play.
This is how I look at it when comparing the stinkers of Mack Brown to Charlie Strong. I'd define stinkers as games where you either lose by 18+ points or your offense fails to score 10 or more points in a game. Here's how they compare:
During Mack's meaningful tenure at UT from 1998-2009 (before he quit on the job and things got off the rails), in 12 seasons and 155 total games played, Mack lost 7 games by 18+ points and had 7 games where his teams failed to score 10 points.
In 2 seasons and 25 total games played, Strong has lost 9 games by 18+ points, and had 7 games where his teams failed to score 10 points.
Mack averaged one stinker every 17.2 games. Charlie has averaged one stinker every 2.8 games. In fact, Strong could go the next 10 seasons without a single stinker game and he would STILL have more than Mack had in his first 12 seasons.
Boston is on my to do list for a trip. Would not suck.
That is a really good article. I can see the media partners being okay with UConn and one of the Florida schools. They at least have upsides.
regarding BJM, our defense was awful last year. I think a little more success is needed
Just checked and that 66-3 was the year before Mack got here. My bad.
I'll leave the OU comment in though
Day's eagle (two iron shots and one putt on a par 5) on 18 to put a little heat on Walker was great stuff.
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How the hell do you people consider yourselves Texas fans and not know how to spell MacK Brown?
The plus side of that for Shane is not only that he's an early enrollee, but he's in a system that probably runs 70% more total reps in practice than the Longhorns were running under Davis in '05/'06 - just a massively different approach to practice pace. Buechele was splitting snaps no worse than 50/50 through much of the Spring while Colt was getting scraps during his redshirt season. By the time Buechele takes the field against ND, I'll wager that he'll have thrown as many or more practice balls than Colt had when he took the field against tOSU. How much that will matter under live fire remains to be seen, but it's probably accurate to think of him as something between a redshirt freshman and a garden-variety thrown-into-the-fire true frosh.
Now, the surrounding talent disparity is...substantially larger.
a. I think Burt or Collin Johnson would/could have started on that 2005 team. Jordan would have started as a freshman in 2004.
b. I think the redshirt season advantage from Colt is somewhat washed away by the early arrival of Buechele this spring. Other than scout team work and suiting up for games, it wasn't a major advantage IMO.
I don't think you're right. I KNOW you are. It's sad and pathetic. I've bad mouthed Dallas and Jerry on this board, to my dad, and they don't want to hear it. I get no pleasure from it, but they're a dysfunctional organization. Not all Cowboy fans, but many have they're head in the sand. Jerry has been doing the same things since Jimmy left and hasn't learned anything. Every 11-12 win season is mirage with no real bedrock to stand on.
Honestly, I just show up for the game and that's it. I don't read anything about the team anymore. I'm pretty much indifferent, but I still love to watch the games with my Dad. That's about the only reason to watch anymore, at least for me.
I've been to Ames for a game. The Arby's was exquisite.
Please forgive the nostalgia from 1969, but I would love to see a Red Zone offense that looks like: RB - Foreman, Warren & (pick your #3 RB; QB - Swoopes/Heard; Formation - Wishbone.
As far as the upcoming political contest: I'm pretty sure that most of the alumni of A&M, Baylor, TCU, W.V., OK, OK State, Kansas & Kansas State will line up with "The Donald". That alone is enough to get me lined up on the other side.
As far as the upcoming political contest: I'm pretty sure that most of the alumni of A&M, Baylor, TCU, W.V., OK, OK State, Kansas & Kansas State will line up with "The Donald". That alone is enough to get me lined up on the other side.
Regarding the future of the Big 12; It seems a foregone conclusion that the current national order will fracture and leave us with 5 or Mega conferences. If every thing is going to change anyway, I suggest that, as it always has been, is the logical organizing principal. How does a Big 12 of Texas, OK, OK State, Missouri, Arkansas, LSU and U of H, plus (fill in with the best of the weak rest). I have included U of H because of its bright future (Tier I), and because I'm sick of the SEC cherrypicking Texas talent.
"Am I crazy for thinking that Dicock Origi needs to be Jurgen Klopp’s first-choice striker ahead of Daniel Sturridge? He’s more consistent, has a higher work-rate and plays with as much pace as anyone in the Premier League."
Ketch - if history is an indicator, Sturridge will be healthy enough to make maybe 20 starts this year, so Origi will get plenty of time. Reds were a different team when Sturridge got back to form last spring. Hopefully the new MFs will be up to speed, and still holding out hope that our defense can rise up.
Ketch - if history is an indicator, Sturridge will be healthy enough to make maybe 20 starts this year, so Origi will get plenty of time. Reds were a different team when Sturridge got back to form last spring. Hopefully the new MFs will be up to speed, and still holding out hope that our defense can rise up.
Most sensible geography, affordable away games for teams, cheap and fun road trip, good basketball program and fan support, North Mississippi as a recruiting area especially for Bball, and not the least, FedEx is going to pay whatever it takes to get them in including developing facilities, Big12 championship game, etc. Frankly, it makes a lot of sense when you consider all of the options are pretty weak and you will need all of them to step up immensely over the next several years to preserve the conference.
Ames is basically Northern College Station. It's a College Town with a huge emphasis on engineering and veterinary medicine. The biggest difference is the fan base is comprised of nice people, who aren't used to winning (at football) and they pat you on the back when you show up in burnt orange and your team doesn't penetrate the 50 yard line on more than 2 possessions en route to leaving a goose egg on the scoreboard. It's like going to a game in Lincoln without all the smug, forced hospitality.
Don't get me wrong, I'd rather stay in Boston or Denver when traveling to away Longhorn games. But with a game at Iowa State you can stay 30 minutes away in Des Moines, a very underrated city. Give me that over Manhattan (2 hours from KC), Lawrence (an hour from KC), Morgantown (2 hours from Pittsburgh), Stillwater (an hour from OKC) or anywhere in Utah if the Big 12 added BYU (except Park City, that place is awesome.) I'll concede that I haven't been to Morgantown and Stillwater, and maybe those are fun cities to stay in for a game. But let's not make Iowa out to be a wasteland.
And that Arby's is BADA$$!!
That's a fair point about the number of practice reps that Gilbert fits into a practice compared to the number of reps that all teams in 2006 ran during a practice.
Let's just hope that Buechele gets the majority of reps during fall camp rather than giving all his reps to Swoopes/Heard before naming Buechele the starter the Monday before Notre Dame.
