Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (A question for the ages...)
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QE accomplished more in a much harder conference…not sure who could ever believe that Sanders had a better career in college than QE, and isn’t that what we care about? Drafting is mostly about pro potential, not necessarily college results and as a Texas fan, I care much more about how a player performs in college than their draft evaluation. Colt is a legend, has his number retired and he was drafted as the last player of the third round.
Two thoughts about Before Sunrise:
1) Julie Delpy is one of the hottest women to ever live 2) If you know Germans and Austrians the way I know Germans and Austrians, the scene on the bridge with the two Austrian actors who are in the play "Bring me the head of Wilmington's Cow" is one of the funniest scenes in movie history.
1) Julie Delpy is one of the hottest women to ever live 2) If you know Germans and Austrians the way I know Germans and Austrians, the scene on the bridge with the two Austrian actors who are in the play "Bring me the head of Wilmington's Cow" is one of the funniest scenes in movie history.
Great 10 thoughts Ketch!
Re: Ethan Hawk movies
What about “Taking Lives”?
I’m surprised no one has mentioned this one! It’s a top 3-4 movie in my book. If you haven’t seen it, it’s an early 2000s thriller with a really interesting plot twist or two in the storyline. Angelina Jolie plays the perfect “Angelina Jolie character”… not to mention, there’s one epic scene that displays her, uh ummm, “perfection”.
That’s kinda my feeling too. Be better off getting a package deal for the pick and fill some holes.
If you think NFL scouts believe Sanders was truly a better QB in college (vs has more NFL potential)...ok. I thought the point of re-ranking was to show how they performed in college vs their pre-college ranking.
Thanks for taking my B/S this week. I was a bit long, and, in the future, I will try to shorten them.
I understand that people can reasonably conclude that CDC did not 'have' to hire RT when Beard was let go., and while I concede that CDC could have hired someone else, I think the fallout from the national media was something that CDC was trying to sidestep. Take a look at the chronology:
I understand that people can reasonably conclude that CDC did not 'have' to hire RT when Beard was let go., and while I concede that CDC could have hired someone else, I think the fallout from the national media was something that CDC was trying to sidestep. Take a look at the chronology:
- 1973-Texas hired its first Women's Basketball Coach and its first black Head coach of any sport, Rodney Page.
- To my knowledge there were no other black HC's in any sport at Texas until Charlie Strong was hired in 2014 (if there were any in between, please let me know) and if that is correct that is over 40 years between the hiring of a black HC in any sport; and even if there were others, certainly there were no black HC's at Texas in the Big Three sports.
- Shaka Smart was hired in 2015.
- Strong was fired in 2016. Strong did not produce, but the first black HC of the Big Three sports was gone...and fairly quickly, but the firing was definitely justified.
- The Eyes of Texas controversy was a big social media story in 2020; football players demanded the song be banned; Tom Herman was let go in part due to his handling of this controversy.
- December of 2022 Beard was fired amid another controversial big social media story this time dealing with women's issues.
- Rodney Terry stepped in and guided the team to the Elite Eight and most national college basketball pundits suggested this good man had proven his loyalty and competency to the University of Texas and must or at least should be made HC and many were shocked he was not made the HC before the season ended.
The point of the re-ranking is to rank them in the order of their finish with the data in front of us.
It wasn’t great but I “borrowed” a stream anyway so it didn’t cost me anything.
That is 100% conjecture. You have no verified basis to say “everyone missed on”. It’s an opinion.
CDC isn’t some woke clown. He knew there would be more than a days worth of fallout.
He is the best in the business and this is one of the reasons why.
There are absolutely was a way to control the narrative. CDC was very passive aggressive and it bit him in the rear.
There's almost no example in sports where you can site a similar example having a shelf life of 48 hours in today's media cycle. It was a non-sensical Boogieman. Texas basketball as a brand doesn't move the needle for 48 hours, no matter what. The only people that think thats getting talked about on First take 36 hours later are Texas fans.
I’m pretty sure the negative recruiting against Texas the institution would continue for a whole lot more than 2 days.
Texas dismissed 2 AA coaches back to back. Then we can another after an Elite 8 Run?
CDC didn’t jump the gun or get stupid and passive. CDC is the Man for a reason. He is better at his job than you me and all the Texas fans bloviating on the interwebs.
Can you give me just one example of something like this happening?
I've written about this in the past and I write about it in real rime. He lost the narrative. That was avoidable.
Yeah it would have lasted about 30 minutes. The news cycle moves so fast and nobody gives a shit about that hire in the bigger picture anyway.
Regarding Allen and Woodson, aside from the fact that they played different spots in the secondary, and were both former ASU Sun Devils, I think BOTH are worthy of HOF induction. Allen was a cornerback, a premier position, then and now, and Woodson was a safety. Allen did end up with 31 more INT's during his career (54) than Woodson (23), and he housed 6 more of them (8) than DW (2), so he was the flashier player. I don't know about better overall player, since their positions required different things. Eric Allen getting in is NOT the reason Woodson is not in, and I hope the veteran's committee rectifies that soon.
Eric Allen was never the best player on an all-time great team. By the time we got to 1995, you can say that about Woodson and the back end of the dynasty. He was that good.
