Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (Goodbye LSU, hello Manhattan season-opener?)

[bbussell1]

K-State in Manhattan for the opener after they've already played a warm up roadie at WVU. You can put an L in the books for that one.

And then we play 9 straight without a break because we've taken our off week before the season started? No thanks on that schedule.

 

[txfight]

True, but with so few fans this year? Hard to believe we're going to be intimidated this year when we clearly hve a much better team and will be favored by 14 points.

Agreed, but Manhattan Kansas is the place where dreams go to die.

 

[SarkAfterDark]

All the Right Mibes and Collateral are very underrated Cruise flicks.

 

[Williamhill2034]

Definitely in the next 5-6 movies.

Risky Business and Cocktail are classics

 

[RLong68]

What is the actual story with Overshown? Is he dealing with a personal issue or is he sitting out because The Eyes of Texas is still a thing?

1. You aren't going to get the "actual story" on Overshown for whatever reason. See Malcolm Williams circa 2009.
2. Although we won't get the "actual story" on Overshown, just reading tree leaves it's not really about The Eyes.

 

[thepickles]

What is the actual story with Overshown? Is he dealing with a personal issue or is he sitting out because The Eyes of Texas is still a thing?

No Overshown would suck. High hopes for him this year

 

[tex17]

Born on the Fourth of July is top 5 easily.

 

[Travis Galey]

Hope? Maybe blind, but hope?

Well I hope so too. Even if the evidence to date says otherwise.

 

[Ketchum]

This Tottenham fan enjoyed the hell out of that win today. I had a smile on my face all day long.

glad to hear it!

 

[jah4550]

I just don’t see any way there will be high school or college football this year. 2020 suks the big one. Thanks China.

When you blame others, you ignore what you could have done better. The US, you might think, has collectively been stupid and dysfunctional in how it has tried to deal with this if you look at our curves vs. the rest of the world. And about 1/3 of the country still thinks this thing is a hoax. They know better than the doctors fighting it and the scientists. And some of our leaders seem to buy into the same conspiratorial theories or follow the lead of those that do. Its crazy how people can be so selectively stupid. In any case, I think we could have substantially improved our response if we hadn't politicized a pandemic. But we could blame all of China as you suggest (as Trump encourages us to do). We could also be hostile to any Asian we see since this pandemic started in Asia. Maybe we can even beat up a few Asians if we see them on the street since its their fault. But since we are going down this path, we need to punish the army and everyone from Kansas as the Spanish Flu started at an army outpost in Kansas. Or maybe we should punish the entire US? Maybe the US should make reparations to the rest of the world for the Spanish Flu.

All satire aside, can we stop blaming China and focus on what we can and should do better to minimize this. It's not about the next election.

 

[jah4550]

Why limit to conference games? I don't mind reducing the number of games if we have to do that, but I would much rather ditch Kansas than LSU. I think we have a real shot at taking LSU down and I don't want to give up that opportunity.

 

[utex1970]

Ketch,

I have always enjoyed your writing as it pertains UT sports. However, since you got sucked into the "futball" world I end up completely tuning out the remainder of you stories th second you mention soccer.

Same with UFC ...I’m on here for UT sports and movie ratings!!

 

[Ketchum]

Oh and tom cruise movies:
1. Eyes Wide Shut
2. Collateral
3. Magnolia
4. Tropic Thunder
5. Risky Business
6. Ghost Protocol
7. Minority Report
8. Top Gun
9. Mission Impossible
10. Last Samurai

Massive amounts of love for Eyes Wide Shut!

 

[dkrieger]

I just don’t see any way there will be high school or college football this year. 2020 suks the big one. Thanks China.

This is not on China but rather the mightier than thou attitude of the American people. China has theirs under control as does most of the rest of the world. Where are we? Oh yeah still thinking about being deprived of our rights while the virus runs rampant through the United States

 

[Ketchum]

You can't really not list Top Gun as a top 5 movie. I mean, it's only the movie that singularly made Tom Cruise the star that he's been for 30+ years now. FWIW, his roles in Outsiders and Tropic Thunder are relatively small. Particularly Outsiders.

You can't leave out Top Gun. It's like claiming "Let's Stay Together" isn't a Top 5 Al Green song.

Sometimes the right answer is the most obvious one.

 

[Ketchum]

The same scenario would play out if regular season was played with LSU in week 2. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

One game carries no significance in the greater quest of winning a Big 12 title, while the other game defines it.

 

[Ketchum]

I’m not the biggest TC fan, but not having “Born on the Fourth of July” in the top 10 makes this list wrong. He’s been nominated for an Oscar 3 times, (Magnolia and Jerry Maguire being the other two), and when that movie came out in 1990, there was big buzz about him winning the Oscar for that role. It’s got to be at least in the Top 10, at worst replacing your current #10.

I gave it very, very, very serious consideration. I don't think I've watched it in 30 years, which probably hurt it.

 

[Ketchum]

I don't know if I quite have the answers.

Texas probably never wins conference titles in 1995/96, but the passing game records that Colt McCoy eventually broke would have been higher.

 

[dkrieger]

I don't. But, I don't know that about the UK, either, and they are doing 2,000+ tests every week and getting almost zero positives.

The one key word that seems to be escaping everyone is discipline. They have it we do not

 

[Ketchum]

Four pages and no one has asked? Whats the book you've wanted to write for the last decade?

Kind of a definitive tell-all book about this industry.

 

[Ketchum]

We romanticize Top Gun but we recently went back for a rewatch with the kids, thinking it was a classic. It doesn’t hold up. The acting was so corny. A 5 foot 6 Tom Cruise stepping into the middle of Val Kilmer’s chest, “That’s right, I AM DANGEROUS.” Good lord it’s bad.

Few Good Men is clearly number 1 and for my money American Made is an easy number 2.

It was always campy.

That's part of its glory.

 

[Ketchum]

Ketch, why is playing at Manhatten intimidating with only 20,000 fans present?

Historical reasons.

 

[Ketchum]

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What is the actual story with Overshown? Is he dealing with a personal issue or is he sitting out because The Eyes of Texas is still a thing?

The former.

 

[Ketchum]

In the Ivy League where football is a money loser, not a money maker, and sports in general take their rightful place as minor distractions at an institute of higher learning, they made the decision to cancel all fall athletics.

This would be a good time for collegiate athletics model across the U.S. to be reexamined for purpose and fit in our higher education system.

A lot of people lose in a big way without football.

The romanticism may no longer exist, but the bill paying does.

 

[Ketchum]

Risky Business and Cocktail are classics

His resume is a monster.

 

[Ketchum]

Well I hope so too. Even if the evidence to date says otherwise.

We can't run in circles forever.

 

[Ketchum]

Why limit to conference games? I don't mind reducing the number of games if we have to do that, but I would much rather ditch Kansas than LSU. I think we have a real shot at taking LSU down and I don't want to give up that opportunity.

You can't ditch conference games.

 

[Ketchum]

The one key word that seems to be escaping everyone is discipline. They have it we do not

Our history as a nation shows that when pressed, we usually show it.

 

[Ketchum]

Ketch,

I have always enjoyed your writing as it pertains UT sports. However, since you got sucked into the "futball" world I end up completely tuning out the remainder of you stories th second you mention soccer.

That was like 25 words out of 5,000.

 

[RLong68]

You can't leave out Top Gun. It's like claiming "Let's Stay Together" isn't a Top 5 Al Green song.

Sometimes the right answer is the most obvious one.

Or like saying Godfather I & II aren't top 5 Al Pacino movies.

 

[Ketchum]

Or like saying Godfather I & II aren't top 5 Al Pacino movies.

bingo

 

[Change My Name]

We romanticize Top Gun but we recently went back for a rewatch with the kids, thinking it was a classic. It doesn’t hold up. The acting was so corny. A 5 foot 6 Tom Cruise stepping into the middle of Val Kilmer’s chest, “That’s right, I AM DANGEROUS.” Good lord it’s bad.

Few Good Men is clearly number 1 and for my money American Made is an easy number 2.

I really like Top Gun and will continue to rewatch it, but you're right. It's not a very good movie.

 

[Ketchum]

I really like Top Gun and will continue to rewatch it, but you're right. It's not a very good movie.

Blasphemy!

 

[Change My Name]

Blasphemy!

 

[Ketchum]

perfect use of gifs. attaboy.