Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (A historical comparison you might like...)
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They actually have a few really, really great songs in the last 25ish years.
Texas has generally been its best when it is obscenely talented and not really close to that when it hasn't been.
I agree. I'm just pointing out that we shouldn't require a huge talent advantage in order to be competitive. I don't know if it's game day coaching, evaluations, development or culture but over the last 25 years it's pretty hard to argue against the premise that this program has underperformed for the amount of talent it has had.
That completely discounts the differences in today's offenses than those 25 years ago, particularly for a QB, not to mention the training HS QBs are afforded in today's game. Brown was a better QB then you give him credit for. As for Simms and Applewhite, Brown had a bigger pair than both of them combined.
Mmm, sorta depends on how the season ends. I mean, if we win 8 or 9 games, again, has he really been a program changer? I guess technically you could argue he changed the program from crap to above average.
My definition is turning it from a 5-win program to a team that can win every game. Obviously, that is the expectation at Texas. We know that was not the reality for multiple years.
True, but the defenses were also much more elementary back then, as well, particularly at the college level. Brown was great in a couple of big games, but I don't know that would brag about him having bigger balls. He was on one 10 win team. And he was not the best player on any of his teams.... he won something like 20-22 games as a starter, and he had 2 borderline HOF backs behind him most of the time. I didn't say he wasn't good...I would rather roll Sam out tomorrow vs OU than James Brown, any day of the week.
Major beat Nebraska in Lincoln to end a long home winning streak, so I am not so certain.
I, like others, am questioning your definition of a strike zone..... by rule, at or just above , the belt is not HIGH ( non strike, thus a called ball)
I am back enjoying the NBA. There are incredible players balling right now. The playoffs are going to be fantastic.
That '98 NU team was a significant drop from their '96 & '97 teams. In '98 they only 5-3 in the Big 12 and ended up with 4 losses on the season.
UGH
There should be more.
Mack was 1 play away in 3 years from racking up 3 more, 4 years if you count his last BigXII game. . .1 stinking play. . .. . but that is coulda/shoulda/woulda
Yep, , , and love me some Sam but no title, no Top 5. . . .
Crash was Da Man
Found myself listening to the Eagles Sunday night trying to ease the sting of putting down my beautiful girl.
I can find 10 other songs worthy of Top 10 consideration, those guys were AMAZING.
Witchy Woman
Tequila Sunrise
Seven Bridges
James Dean
On the Border
After the Thrill is gone
Lyin' Eyes
In the City
As I mentioned in another thread, my 1st concert was the Eagles warming up for Jethro Tull. . . I'm not going to list the year.
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That only happened because James paved the road. That 1996 team loses by five touchdowns if James doesn't instill the confidence that team needed. He did that No one else. Just ask his teammates.
a. I secretly love Witchy Woman.UGH
There should be more.
Mack was 1 play away in 3 years from racking up 3 more, 4 years if you count his last BigXII game. . .1 stinking play. . .. . but that is coulda/shoulda/woulda
Yep, , , and love me some Sam but no title, no Top 5. . . .
Crash was Da Man
Found myself listening to the Eagles Sunday night trying to ease the sting of putting down my beautiful girl.
I can find 10 other songs worthy of Top 10 consideration, those guys were AMAZING.
Witchy Woman
Tequila Sunrise
Seven Bridges
James Dean
On the Border
After the Thrill is gone
Lyin' Eyes
In the City
As I mentioned in another thread, my 1st concert was the Eagles warming up for Jethro Tull. . . I'm not going to list the year.
b. I'm sorry about your loss. Beautiful dogs.
Tyrone Swoopes, Jerrod Heard, and Shane Buechele could not win any game. I doubt we ever predicted a 10-win season for any of them. We have shown way more confidence in Ehlinger, and that's the difference.
It's just that he hasn't completely repaid that confidence.
Frankly, it was hard to know from week to week what you were getting with Sam in his junior season. Some of that was injuries. Some is on the coaching. Some is on him.
To be fair, Sam was playing with a bad rib injury last season. It was downplayed by everyone in public, but we know that injury was an issue for him. TCU and Baylor were his only bad games. If I remember correctly, he actually sustained the rib injury against TCU since that was before the second bye week.
Ironically, Sam threw for more yards, had more passing touchdowns, more rushing yards, and a higher passer rating in 2019 than in 2018. He had more interceptions and less rushing TDs, but you still believed Texas had a chance to win every game, which couldn't be said during that three-year time span before he stepped on campus.
You think everyone in the B12 is running Base D's. Hell, half of Todd Orlando's issues the last 2 seasons is defense was so complex that his young guys spent all their time on defense thinking, instead of playing, especially the guy's who replaced injured starters. While I agree there was no defense in the B12 last season anywhere close to '96 Nebraska, a LOT of the defenses back then would give up 70 to today's offenses...
Hey, it is not like he sucked. JB generally gave every team he played for a fighting chance.
TCU and Baylor were not his only bad games. He had four games below a 125 rating.
I think that's a low bar compared to the five guys ahead of him.
That's fine. Is this a podcast about Sam in general? What are we dueling over?
