Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (Charlie Strong is Norman Dale)

[FrancoBevo]

The reason Coach Strong has strength in his conviction is because he understands the foundation of success on a football field. All the X and O mambo jumbo doesn't mean squat if you are not physical or if you cannot block or you cannot tackle. I have no doubt that the results on the field will turn recruiting momentum, as people learn of his character, recruiting momentum will turn. I'm not at worried and I cannot wait to see what this team looks like in the fall.

 

[VALonghorns]

Great read Ketch---really enjoyed the Hoosier/Hackman comparisons.

Greg Robinson is best prospect in this draft

 

[memhorn]

Did you watch Dave sing Long Black Veil with Emmy Lou Harris?

Thanks for the great read.

 

[Ketchum]

Re: Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (Charlie Strong is Norman Da

Originally posted by bigjoehutch:
Great as always, Ketch, but your Oscar "will wins" could not be further off. 12 Years a Slave will win most everything. You have to remember that a) most of the people that vote for these things are old men that never go to a movie theater and watch Gravity on the screener they were sent, which takes SO much away from the movie (I know this because I just described my grandpa), and b) 12 Years a Slave will get votes simply because of the guilt factor.
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Such a stupid thing to say. It actually has a couple of things really going against it.

a. The British voting block miht view it as too American of a movie.
b. The harshness of the movie is too much for people.

 

[Ketchum]

Originally posted by golfpr3145:

Really good stuff Ketch. Your relating the movie Hoosiers to Strong coming in is absolutely the best analogy I've ever read. One of your staff made the comment in one of his pieces that he though some of Strong's rules for the players were a "little lame". You nailed that reaction in your Hoosier comparison. Everyone thinks that they know what's best for the program but the reality is that their ass isn't on the line and the person whose ass is on the line, and is responsible, has a plan and has the success to back up that plan. I'm excited about what Strong brings to Texas and very interested to see which players want to play for Texas and which ones are the "pretenders" you talked about.

Thanks for the kind words.

 

[Ketchum]

Originally posted by memhorn:
Did you watch Dave sing Long Black Veil with Emmy Lou Harris?

Thanks for the great read.

I did not. Got a link?

 

[Indyhorn]

Proudest Monkey, Grace is Gone

Texas Hoops playing like a team that feels its work is done. They'd better win two more games in the regular season or that final ten and eye test could very well send us to the NIT- not to mention the seeding aspect of the NCAA tournament

 

[TexasJiggerNaut]

#1 - The Space Between - best he's ever done and will ever do.
#41 is a great song, and his # 2.

You and Me is a pop ditty undeserving to be on the list.

 

[forlornhorn]

Now I'm worthless until I find my copy of Hoosiers and watch it. It's been too long.

Adding to the frustration: the challenge of getting my teenage son to watch it with me if he's got something else going.

 

[memhorn]

Originally posted by Ketchum:

Originally posted by memhorn:
Did you watch Dave sing Long Black Veil with Emmy Lou Harris?

Thanks for the great read.

I did not. Got a link?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA3RKUHhN5A

Does this work as a link? My first attempt to do one.

Besides the great lyrics and great duet, I think this song is great at capturing Dave's guitar style.

 

[Ketchum]

Originally posted by Indyhorn:
Proudest Monkey, Grace is Gone

Texas Hoops playing like a team that feels its work is done. They'd better win two more games in the regular season or that final ten and eye test could very well send us to the NIT- not to mention the seeding aspect of the NCAA tournament

Stop. They played like a team playing on the road against a top 5 team playing a motivated A+ game.

They aren't going to the NIT...

 

[Ketchum]

Originally posted by forlornhorn:
Now I'm worthless until I find my copy of Hoosiers and watch it. It's been too long.

Adding to the frustration: the challenge of getting my teenage son to watch it with me if he's got something else going.

I watched it while I wrote my column yesterday. It's money each and every time.

 

[Dave C2]

Originally posted by Ketchum:

No. 2 - Five more Hoosiers quotes that I wanted to use for various reasons …

"My practices aren't designed for your enjoyment."

Yes, I can hear Strong telling the Longhorns this in the first week of spring football.

"I know everything there is to know about the greatest game ever invented."

Said by every Texas fan on the Internet.

"You know, if everyone is as nice as you, country hospitality is gonna get an awful name."

Strong while reading Orangebloods.com one hour into the job.

"You are in the Army. You're in my Army. Every day between three and five."

Pat Moorer in off-season workouts.

"I would hope you would support who we are. Not, who we are not. These six individuals have made a choice to work, a choice to sacrifice, to put themselves on the line 23 nights for the next 4 months, to represent you, this high school. That kind of commitment and effort deserves and demands your respect. This is your team."


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So, when does Strong get his team in the locker room and tell them that he loves them?

This post was edited on 2/24 9:18 AM by Dave C2

 

[dallashorn02]

At the very least, I'm hopeful this culture change can officially eliminate the 40-50 point ass kickings from the Sooners as well as performances like BYU last year giving up 600 yards rushing. These games each of the last 3 years were so embarrassing at a national level the team fell completely out of the rankings altogether and as a result, largely irrelevant for the remainder of the regular season.

Those type of losses just kill recruiting because of the negative momentum and energy it generates within the media.

 

[Ketchum]

Originally posted by Dave C2:

Originally posted by Ketchum:

No. 2 - Five more Hoosiers quotes that I wanted to use for various reasons …

"My practices aren't designed for your enjoyment."

Yes, I can hear Strong telling the Longhorns this in the first week of spring football.

"I know everything there is to know about the greatest game ever invented."

Said by every Texas fan on the Internet.

"You know, if everyone is as nice as you, country hospitality is gonna get an awful name."

Strong while reading Orangebloods.com one hour into the job.

"You are in the Army. You're in my Army. Every day between three and five."

Pat Moorer in off-season workouts.

"I would hope you would support who we are. Not, who we are not. These six individuals have made a choice to work, a choice to sacrifice, to put themselves on the line 23 nights for the next 4 months, to represent you, this high school. That kind of commitment and effort deserves and demands your respect. This is your team."


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So, when does Strong get his team in the locker room and tell them that he loves them?

Damn skippy!

 

[Ketchum]

Originally posted by dallashorn02:
At the very least, I'm hopeful this culture change can officially eliminate the 40-50 point ass kickings from the Sooners as well as performances like BYU last year giving up 600 yards rushing. These games each of the last 3 years were so embarrassing at a national level the team fell completely out of the rankings altogether and as a result, largely irrelevant for the remainder of the regular season.

Those type of losses just kill recruiting because of the negative momentum and energy it generates within the media.

I think the elimination of those types of embarrassments is a safe bet.

 

[AlpacaCorch]

Originally posted by Ketchum:

Originally posted by dallashorn02:
At the very least, I'm hopeful this culture change can officially eliminate the 40-50 point ass kickings from the Sooners as well as performances like BYU last year giving up 600 yards rushing. These games each of the last 3 years were so embarrassing at a national level the team fell completely out of the rankings altogether and as a result, largely irrelevant for the remainder of the regular season.

Those type of losses just kill recruiting because of the negative momentum and energy it generates within the media.

I think the elimination of those types of embarrassments is a safe bet.

I honestly think the players would be afraid of what Moorer would do to them if they let themselves get embarrassed on the field.

 

[HornDog]

Ketch -

Best write up you've ever done IMHO! Great analogy. I think we will know a lot about this team after the BYU and UCLA games early next year...

 

[HORN4LIFE512]

Great read Ketch!

I'm with you on Rousey.

Love me some Candice Swanepoel. How about getting an interview with her? Maybe see if she has any likes in sports, favorite team, etc... You would probably nut at the sound of her voice talking to you. Lmao!

Hook Em!!!

 

[Ketchum]

Originally posted by HORN4LIFE512:

Great read Ketch!

I'm with you on Rousey.

Love me some Candice Swanepoel. How about getting an interview with her? Maybe see if she has any likes in sports, favorite team, etc... You would probably nut at the sound of her voice talking to you. Lmao!

Hook Em!!!

Good idea! I'm on it.

 

[DustinMcComas]

Originally posted by HORN4LIFE512:

Great read Ketch!

I'm with you on Rousey.

Love me some Candice Swanepoel. How about getting an interview with her? Maybe see if she has any likes in sports, favorite team, etc... You would probably nut at the sound of her voice talking to you. Lmao!

Hook Em!!!

Don't give him ideas. That's my assignment.

 

[Jim DeLoach]

Outstanding movie analogy, Ketch. The best one you've ever done. And I always enjoy them.

 

[Bigmonkey]

Just watched the entire five minutes of Fallon and Timberlake ... that's five minutes of my life I'm never going to get back. Thanks a lot. Timberlake is talented, but that clip just shows you don't have to have talent to be a rapper.

I thought the kid wearing the Pizza Hut tablecloth as a shirt was going to jump on Justin when they went into the crowd. Now that would have been worth five minutes.

 

[HornScott10]

Ketch,
I agree with a lot of your opinions on where 12 Years stands as the best movie as the acting and story is so powerful, but I actually think Cuaron deserves best director. The technological requirements of shooting a scene for Gravity are unmatched and the undertaking and overall scope of the vision needed to produce a movie like Gravity should be rewarded I think.


The technology involved basically is the worst possible scenario of animation and the worst possible scenario of a live-action shoot. There were different technologies that were involved that we created. What they all have in common is that they had to be pre-programmed. [Editor's note: It was a maddening, circular scenario: They knew that at the end of the actors' shoot, they'd have, basically, the voices of Bullock and Clooney as well as their faces ? which would be lit appropriately for the scene ? as the basic structural and timing elements around which they'd then animate. So they needed to conjure the finished product before the shoot in order to get the actors to do what would work.[/I]] So when we went to the shooting stage, everything was set in stone, meaning that we could not do adjustments, and meaning that the actors, there was very little room for actors to do changes, because the scene had to be exactly that length of time ? the timing was written in stone. The positions were written in stone. It was like, At that exact moment, [Sandra], you reach out with your hand like that. [/I]Everything was so millimetric. It was a testament to Sandra and George how they went through with all these technical, psychological limitations around them, how they make it seem effortless. Everything was very uncomfortable for the actors. [/I]

 

[Copperhead Road]

Originally posted by Ketchum:

All question-asking aside, [Manziel's] short-shuttle time of 4.03 highlights the strength of his athletic skill set, much more so than straight-line speed or anything else.

As a comparison, only four CB's and WR's ran better at last year's combine, and it wasn't by much (4.01, 4.01, 4.02, and 4.02 respectively). Tavon Austin ran a 4.02. Manziel has elite change of direction skills on par with the quickest NFL DB's/WR's.

LINK

But as far as top end speed, he will get caught from behind in the NFL.

 

[El Mahico]

Man you people watch a lot of tv.

 

[WTexasHorn]

I have zero complaints about Charlie Strong thus far...none, nada. He's doing everything right to this point in my book and I'm loving the hardline, yard dog crusade he's on. Exactly what Texas needed, PERIOD.

Geoff,

Herb made the right call. That was a NASTY liver shot and every bit as legit as any conventional KO to the head. Ask Oscar De La Hoya's liver after Hopkins put him down. Fans are too caught up in highlight reel KOs. McMann dropped her hands to grab her side and was NOT defending herself and was about to get pounded out. Excellent stoppage in my book. The most underrated tool in combat sports is the body shot. Beautiful, precision execution by Rousey.

As for McDonald, he can stand in line a while longer after his last few stinkers. Impressive win over Maia but I'm not ready to throw him back in to title contention just yet. I like your idea of him taking the loser of the Condit/Woodley fight and then maybe putting him in with the surging Saffiedine. THEN he can jump back in for the title shot.

UFC 171 in Dallas is going to be quite the welterweight division dream. 6 of the top 12 fighters facing off. Got my tickets...can't wait.

 

[Ketchum]

Originally posted by Bigmonkey:
Just watched the entire five minutes of Fallon and Timberlake ... that's five minutes of my life I'm never going to get back. Thanks a lot. Timberlake is talented, but that clip just shows you don't have to have talent to be a rapper.

I thought the kid wearing the Pizza Hut tablecloth as a shirt was going to jump on Justin when they went into the crowd. Now that would have been worth five minutes.

You realize that anything you do for five minute represents five minutes of our life you'll never get back. I've never really understood that particular expression.

For instance, i'll never get the 45 seconds I spent replying to this post.

 

[Ketchum]

Originally posted by HornScott10:
Ketch,
I agree with a lot of your opinions on where 12 Years stands as the best movie as the acting and story is so powerful, but I actually think Cuaron deserves best director. The technological requirements of shooting a scene for Gravity are unmatched and the undertaking and overall scope of the vision needed to produce a movie like Gravity should be rewarded I think.


The technology involved basically is the worst possible scenario of animation and the worst possible scenario of a live-action shoot. There were different technologies that were involved that we created. What they all have in common is that they had to be pre-programmed. [Editor's note: It was a maddening, circular scenario: They knew that at the end of the actors' shoot, they'd have, basically, the voices of Bullock and Clooney as well as their faces ? which would be lit appropriately for the scene ? as the basic structural and timing elements around which they'd then animate. So they needed to conjure the finished product before the shoot in order to get the actors to do what would work.[/I]] So when we went to the shooting stage, everything was set in stone, meaning that we could not do adjustments, and meaning that the actors, there was very little room for actors to do changes, because the scene had to be exactly that length of time ? the timing was written in stone. The positions were written in stone. It was like, At that exact moment, [Sandra], you reach out with your hand like that. [/I]Everything was so millimetric. It was a testament to Sandra and George how they went through with all these technical, psychological limitations around them, how they make it seem effortless. Everything was very uncomfortable for the actors. [/I]

I don't completely disagree. What he did with Gravity was pretty ground-breaking.

 

[Bevotex]

Have I mentioned lately how much I hate being a Cowboys fan right now and how little optimism I own for the future? Yes? Well, get ready to hear it a lot in the coming years as his ineptitude reaches two decades running.

AMEN, I'm so sick of jerrah and his snot nosed kids, just can't jump off the ship...

 

[-Kirby-]

I'm sorry, but who gives a sh*t about Collins and his 10 day contract? Am I suddenly supposed to care because he prefers penis instead of vagina?

The guy isn't even a JAG.

 

[Ketchum]

Originally posted by El Mahico:
Man you people watch a lot of tv.

Not really. I only have a few shows I watch.

 

[Ketchum]

Originally posted by Kirby4286:
I'm sorry, but who gives a sh*t about Collins and his 10 day contract? Am I suddenly supposed to care because he prefers penis instead of vagina?

The guy isn't even a JAG.

You don't have to care, but it is a notable moment, as tolerance and acceptance of other humans becomes more of a universal call, regardless of sexual orientation, religion or any other difference between everyday people. That actually is something that should be celebrated.

We live in a world where walls don't get broken down unless someone breaks them down. His bravery will have a positive impact, whether you care if he likes penis instead of vagina or not.

Some of these reactions baffle me, but I suppose they shouldn't.

 

[Ketchum]

It's a bit of a downtime for me TV-wise. I think my only TV shows I'm consistently watching right now are:

True Detective
Under the Gunn

Other than sports, I think that's it for now until some of my other shows return from hiatus.

 

[Bigmonkey]

Imagine if it went the other way - that you could, in fact, get those five minutes of your life back. I think a fair amount of time I'd end up doing the same thing. I probably would have watched that video again ... maybe I'd get the song references the second time through.

On the Cowboys ... I feel your pain. I had been a Dallas Cowboys fan since I was about seven years old. I remember watching Super Bowl X against the Steelers, the victory in Super Bowl XII, the pain of the Dwight Clark catch, the firing of Landry and the hope and turnaround under Jimmy Johnson. I remember Barry Switzer and the parade of coaches that have followed, and the ongoing hope-and-inevitable-crash that comes with Tony Romo. This year I officially divorced the Cowboys, filing my papers and sending official notice to Jerrah and the team. When one party continues to do stupid, destructive things, when over and over again they promise to change and then refuse to do so, eventually you have to just end it. Cut off the relationship. Accept that it's just not going to get better, no matter how many times they promise or how many new draftees they pick up.

So I took up with the Broncos this year, jumped on that bandwagon with everyone else. I divorced the Cowboys about two weeks before they played the Broncos, and I'll admit that I was pretty happy when Tony Romo Romo'ed the end of that game. I knew it was going to happen that way, just like you know your alcoholic ex-wife will have one too many at her 20th HS reunion and end up passed out in the bathroom, only to wake up the next morning, apologizing and saying it will never happen again. Sure, honey, but in the meantime I'm going to leave you here.

I admit I'm still curious about my old flame, wondering how they'll mess up the draft this year, what awful contracts they'll give to free agents, how many stupid mistakes Romo will make. I feel like that stalker ex on Facebook, reading draft day stuff about the vaunted 'War Room.'

It's hard, changing like that, but in the end I know it's for the best. I don't want my kids to grow up thinking that their football team is doomed, that meddlesome owners will only make stupid decisions, knowing that you'll always blow a lead in the fourth quarter or throw a critical interception in a two minute drill.

Above all, I don't want my kids to be haunted by the Jerrah Jones skeletor face. Seriously, that's some scary stuff there.