I need to watch Ripley again. It's been at least a decade.
Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (Kool-Aid, Lemons and Salt)
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Rainmaker = JAGGreat thread...been digging through it all game...the Ravens tying this game up seems more improbable than a Fr QB bringing ou from way down to beat the Horns
just one point to make...
gotta find a Top 10 spot for The Rainmaker
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If a sports fan hasn’t watched playoff baseball this season…..they’ve missed some of the best sports ever. It’s been amazing to watch, and since DISH network dropped foxsports southwest….meaning the Rangers…I didn’t watch a single game all year. These playoffs have reeled me back in.
Does them having two weeks to prepare for Texas not concern you?
This has the feel of the 2019 game, only thing is the Cowboys are without Hubbard and Wallace.
I don't think they are constructed offensively to run a race with Texas.
The fact that Texas has been such a different team at home all season has me thinking this is a double digit win.
Travesty that you left The Good Shepherd off this list. One of Damon's best performances and miles better than any of the kung fu served up in the Bourne films.There's a universe out there where this column is nothing more than me channeling my inner Nick Naylor from the movie Thank You For Smoking and give you the biggest spin job possible coming out of a pretty horrible weekend on the Texas football landscape.
In another universe, perhaps I'd just focus on a few truths from 30,000 feet up about this program that Saturday once again revealed in the face of the brightest lights the sport has to offer. A very strong case can be made that the reality exposed in the universe where the focus is on the blinking red worrying signs on both sides of the ball shouldn't be ignored.
Then there's the universe that exists where I just say what I want to say. Some of its ugly. But, it's real.
In trying to decide which option to choose, I've decided to choose violence. I'll do all three and let the pieces fall where they fall. We're at the midway point in the season and the Longhorns are a borderline unranked 4-2 team. A 360-degree view of where things stand is probably the best idea, even if it's not exactly the thing that everyone reading it will want to consume.
No. 2 - Let's start with the burnt orange Kool-Aid. ...
For all of the flaws that emerged on the offensive side of the ball in the final 45 minutes of Saturday's game, we're still talking about a unit that ranks 1st in the Big 12 in scoring (44.5), total offense 480 yards per game), rushing offense (245 yards per game) and passing game efficiency (176.2).
The only Texas offense in the history of the program to pull off such a thing over the course of the entire season is the freakishly historic 2005 team.
The Texas offense features a quarterback that is on pace to have the best passing efficiency season in school history, a running back that some people believe is the best player in the country and a freshman wide receiver that leads the Big 12 in both receiving yards and receiving touchdowns.
There are going to be some games on the remaining schedule, all of which the Longhorns will be favored in when the Longhorns will be able to overwhelm teams with its offensive firepower. Oh, all of the offensive firepower is set to return in 2022.
None of this is insignificant. It's actually a huge important deal. The addition of Steve Sarkisian to the Texas program has elevated the offense from the very good territory into the statistically elite of the elite family.
If the only thing we wanted to do was make you feel good 24 hours after the OU loss, I'd just keep writing about this ridiculous offensive trio.
No. 3 - Fool's Gold ...
Yet, there's a little bit of fool's gold inside of this shiny statistical offensive force and it centers around an offensive line that has been manhandled in the two biggest games of this season thus far. The skill positions on this team mean this team has a chance to drop 50 in every game it plays, but the offensive line play that it owns puts the program in a problematic position when it plays against the 10-20 percent of the teams across the country that can truly punish such uneven offensive line play.
Sarkisian was hired to get Texas to championship levels, but it's hard to hide being deficient in the trenches, which Texas most certainly is on the offensive side of the ball.
The real rub with this discussion is that there's no quick solution to this problem. Years of disappointing recruiting results up-front on the offensive side of the ball have left the program lacking the type of viable long-term options that would make you believe the answers to the current riddle are already on campus.
In general, Texas needs better offensive linemen. Plural.
It's tough to say when the Longhorns can get the offensive line play at a level where it can remotely match the play it receives from the skill positions, but it's likely to take years. Plural. Even if the Longhorns can land a couple of five-stars in the next month, it might be a couple of seasons before those young players are ready to perform like men.
There's no great answer for the here and now. It's a roster limitation that puts a ceiling on just how good this team can really be. In reality, there's nothing special about the Oklahoma or Arkansas defensive units, yet they were able to suffocate Texas when those games were left to be decided.
If that were the only major personnel issue on the team, it would be one thing, but the Texas defense has fallen back in the abyss that includes all teams ranked 100+ in the country on that side of the ball. You cannot win championships at this level without playmaking monsters off the edge and the reality os that the Longhorns don't have a single player right now in the program that can get to the quarterback on a regular basis.
As is the case with the offensive line problem, the only answer to the problem is adding players in recruiting that can't help immediately and might not be in place for action before the 2023 season.
Sarkisian can coach the hell out of some offense, but he can't create personnel pieces that don't exist on both sides of the ball with the snap of his fingers.
This reality needs to be part of the thought process that shapes expectations for everyone that cares about the program. There will be moments when the skill guys can overcompensate for these issues, but there will be days like yesterday when the reminder of the distance towards elite still exists.
No. 4 - I can't shake this ...
Finally, I have to shout out the thing that I feel like is the elephant in the room with this team.
If we eliminate the fantastic first quarter against Oklahoma and the fairly meaningless fourth quarter against Arkansas, the 2021 Longhorns have been outscored 78-27 in the other six quarters of action against its two toughest opponents.
That's freaking horrible and inexcusable. In fact, it's so horribly one-sided in its awfulness that the fact Texas was outscored 45-20 in the final three quarters against a vulnerable Sooners squad that hasn't pushed anyone with a pulse around all season is the thing that stands out to me about the game as much as anything.
The truth of the matter is that Texas had such a big lead that it masked what was taking place on the field until the game was almost over.
Well, there you go... something a little sweet, something a little sour and something that will make you vomit in your mouth. My work here is done.
No. 5 - The greatest single-game wide receiver performance in school history ...
Before Saturday afternoon, only two receivers in the history of the Texas program had ever recorded 200+ yards receiving in a game.
Tony Jones was a small piece of TNT that dropped 242 yards against Pittsburgh in a game called the Bluebonnet Bowl from 34 years ago and 22 years later, Jordan Shipley caught 273 yards of passes in a game against Central Florida that has somehow faded from my memory as a thing that actually happened.
Roy Williams never broke 200. Neither did Devin Duvernay (although he came really, really close).
True freshman Xavier Worthy dropped a 261-yard bomb on the Sooners, highlighted by bookend touchdown receptions to start and end his afternoon.
Considering the opponent and the full context of the game, it's hard to argue that any receiver has ever delivered a better performance.
In the aftermath, it needs to be said that Worthy has been the Big 12's best receiver at the midway point in the season and has done almost as much in six games as a freshman than Roy Williams did in 12 back in 2000. Worthy is first in the Big 12 in receiving yards, first in receiving touchdowns, second in yards per catch and is tied for the longest reception.
Where would this team be without him?
No. 6 - More randomness with a day to chew on things ...
... Bijan Robinson is on pace for a 1,578 yards and 16 touchdowns rushing this season through 12 games.
... I'm still stunned that Keilan Robinson and Roschon Johnson didn't so much as get a whiff of a touch against Oklahoma and that Texas running backs position as a whole was a non-factor in the Texas passing game. Where was the wheel route? Just once?
... The loss of Jordan Whittington to a clavicle injury means that Worthy is going to need to be the alpha dog in the passing game, a role he clearly seems capable and eager to fill. Joshua Moore is going to need to be the player he was on Saturday each week. The disappearing acts will need to stop because the proven targets on this team beyond those two at the receiver position are minimal. Texas really needs Moore to rise to the occasion.
... It's concerning that Texas' three worst performances of the season have all been away from home. It makes trying to determine realistic expectations for the upcoming visits to Waco, Ames and Morgantown tough to figure out.
... Cameron Dicker is averaging more yards per punt in 2021 than Michael Dickson did in any of his seasons at Texas. By more than a yard.
... In the final 45 minutes of the game on Saturday, Casey Thompson completed 14 of 26 passes for 212 yards and two touchdowns (147 rating).
... Junior Angilau is very quietly having a very good year.
... Oklahoma has registered 18 tackles for loss against Texas in the last three seasons, while Nik Bonitto has recorded five sacks in the same three-year window.
... It's not just Keondre Coburn that hasn't had the season that was expected. Why does it seem like Moro Ojomo's development has hit a brick wall?
No. 7 - About A&M's win over Alabama ...
You guys can poo-poo what happened in College Station all you want, especially if it's what you need to do coming out of the weekend. Hey, I get it.
The reality of what happened on Saturday is that Texas let an opportunity for the program to shoot into the stratosphere in terms of momentum slip through its fingers and the Aggies did not.
A&M has been pointing to the A&M game in. recruiting for the last nine months as the moment when the Maroon Death Star would be operational. While you wouldn't say that is exactly the case, A&M football delivered on its promise to kill the Alabama dragon and delivering on that kind of stage is going to be impactful in recruiting.
It would certainly be naive to think that the kids that visited College Station last night won't be impacted by the spectacle that was produced.
In a recruiting world of fine margins, A&M got a big shot in the arm last night, especially with regards to 2023 recruiting.
What its impact translates to in terms of results remains to be seen, but last night is exactly the kind of moment that Jimbo Fisher has been praying for.
No. 8 – BUY or SELL …
(Buy) He certainly is this season when you consider that he's probably fourth string at best right now on offense and he has the talent to upgrade what is currently available on the defensive side of the ball. I don't think he'd be a difference-maker of the highest order, but his talent suggests he'd help more on defense than offense. Of course, he wants to play offense and that desire is going to stand paramount to everything else for now.
(Sell) His decision will come down to a number of factors, but it's not going to be the thing that it comes down to. The legitimacy of the program compared to the likes of Georgia, Alabama or Clemson will matter every bit as much. They aren't going somewhere that feels like a reach or a step down.
(Buy) I think the thing that kept him from five-star status was not having a senior season. His talent is as plain as day.
(Sell) I had this team at 4-2 through this point of the season in my pre-season prediction.
(Sell) I think his first call might be a return to Alabama's Pete Golding.
(Buy) Texas should be Oklahoma State.
(Buy) 100-percent IMO.
(Buy) Saturday wasn't a lost cause. Playing Oklahoma in a game that everyone was talking about all weekend will help with regards to the Longhorns selling a story that they are a few blue chip players away from being what they want to be. That prize just isn't as good as what was available of what A&M was able to achieve later in the day.
(Sell) It's at a Big 12 level, but not at the high end of the SEC level.
(Sell) There are no aces up the sleeve for either area. What you see if mostly what exists.
(Buy) If by contender you mean on the national level.... buy.
(Sell) I don't believe that at all. You shouldn't, either. It's just that we're in the 2021 season and that's not helping in there here and now.
(Sell) Not really.
No. 9 - Scattershooting on the sports weekend ...
... I'm not sure I have any idea what happens the rest of the way in this college season. We might be looking at pure chaos in December.
... Cannot believe we live in a world where Iowa is ranked No.2 in the nation.
... Every team in the top 10 not named Georgia feels really sketchy to these eyes.
... What on earth did Texas unleash in Caleb Williams?
... One month after totally stomping the Texas offense, the Arkansas defense gave up 52 points to Ole Miss. Yeesh.
... LSU is going to need to open up the checkbook at the end of the season buy its way out of hell.
... The Cowboys won't win the Super Bowl, but this team might be more fun than any team in the NFL and I can live with that.
... The Texans played their guts out on Sunday. It feels like they deserved better than to lose to the Patriots.
... I really should have drafted Derrick Henry.
... If Mason Crosby happened to be a cat, he'd have used up 8 of his 9 lives prior to making the game-winning field goal.
... No way Tyson Fury was losing after coming to the ring like this.
... Deontay Wilder needs to move on from Fury. That 11th round sealed that deal.
... I've been completely aloof to the start of the MLB post-season. I mean... I know what's going on, but I've watched very little of it.
... The USMNT went to Panama with a white towel in hand upon its arrival and I'm kind of shocked by the gall of it all. Fellas, y'all better get three points at home this week.
No. 10 - Top 10 Matt Damon Movies ...
He's one of the biggest movie stars in the world. He's believable as Will Hunting or Jason Bourne or a nerd on Mars.
It's time to rank his best stuff.
10. School Ties
9. The Informant!
8. Ocean's 11
7. The Talented Mr. Ripley
6. Rounders
5. The Martian
4. Saving Private Ryan
3. The Departed
2. The Bourne Series
1. Good Will Hunting
We'll never know what would've happened.
Things we know now:
- Sark didn't bench a struggling QB. Did not work out.
- Riley did bench a struggling QB - twice. Worked out both times.
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Things we also know:
- Riley has had way more time in establishing his program and a QB's surrounding players
- Sark is in his first year back as a head coach and doesn't have the continuous experience that Riley does
Yes, Riley is more developed as a head coach at this point. Sark is a work in progress.
I'm gonna skip the football stuff and go straight to the nutmeat of your post - the Matt Damon movie ratings.
No. 10 - Top 10 Matt Damon Movies ...
He's one of the biggest movie stars in the world. He's believable as Will Hunting or Jason Bourne or a nerd on Mars.
It's time to rank his best stuff.
10. School Ties
9. The Informant!
8. Ocean's 11
7. The Talented Mr. Ripley
6. Rounders
5. The Martian
4. Saving Private Ryan
3. The Departed
2. The Bourne Series
1. Good Will Hunting
I'm not sure about 9-10 but that's a top-8 that's tough to argue with, both in terms of inclusion and ordering. I'd have flipped Rounders and Saving Private Ryan because you get a full movie of Mike McD vs a half movie of Private Ryan, because McD is just a more compelling character than Ryan and because there's no way Damon's Private Ryan takes a hand off Johnny Chan with pocket Aces, mush less rags...
The Informant! and School Ties are quality but I have a hard time leaving out Dr. Mann in Interstellar. Great heel turn that I didn't see coming. Overall, one of your better rankings (up there with your Eva Cassidy takes) and far better than your UT RB rankings completely ignoring Earl Campbell (I kid)!
Is there anyone else that has started their head coaching career as good as Riley?
51-8 as a head coach (86.4% win pct.), all four seasons as Top 7 finishes (two Top 4), and all NY6 bowl games so far. This can't be sustainable right?
Agreed. There's usually an inclusion/omission that makes me shake my head but this was a pretty unf***withable list, even if I could nitpick it a bit based on personal preference. Now, I'm not sure if Ketch has done a Top-10 Ed Norton movies, but that would be a tough list to put together. Here, the #1-6 are pretty set in stone with a clear top-3 and a clear second 3. Norton takes would be all over the place.
If I was going to rank by performance and not by the weight of the movie as a whole, it might look like this.
10. The Informant
9. Interstellar
8. School Ties
7. Courage Under Fire
6. The Departed
5. Rounders
4. The Talented Mr. Ripley
3. The Bourne Identity
2. The Martian
1. Good Will Hunting
I was trying to weigh Damon's impact on each movie while also taking into account the quality/re-watchability of the movie itself (hence no Courage Under Fire on my list - I just can't get into rewatches of that). I thought that's what you were doing as well...
If we were going to rank solely on performance, my top-3 would be the same as your original list.
1. GWH - Has to be number 1. Iconic character and movie and seeing as he cowrote it, he'll never have a bigger impact on a movie again.
2. Bourne - I saw a poster crapping on this as "kung fu" nonsense but the original Bourne was a fantastic action thriller and the subsequent entries had a level of revenge that elevated the franchise beyond mere CIA martial arts badassery.
3. Departed - Everyone was excellent in this but Damon's performance was a nice understated take in a film where Nicholson, Wahlberg and Baldwin ("world needs plenty of bahtendahs!") go big.
Then:
4. Rounders - Helps that the script gave him so many quotable lines, even in voice-over narrative spots but this is probably a more definitive Damon role than anything remaining.
5. Ripley - Just going off performance, this edges out The Martian for me.
6. The Martian - I love that he seems to be having so much fun in this role. Says a lot about your resume when your work as Nick Watney OR Colin Sullivan could be left out of your top-5 performances.
I'd round it out with:
7. Interstellar
8. Adjustment Bureau
9. The Informant!
10. Saving Private Ryan - edges out We Bought a Zoo and Stillwater for me. Not a ton of screen time but he makes the most of it.
And for what it's worth, I can rewatch the hell out of Bagger Vance despite it being a pretty cringe/bad movie so if I was doing movies based on re-watchability with zero weight given to his performance or critical analysis of the movie, it would probably sneak inside my personal top-10.
I like that list. I'll just say this about The Martian performance. I think very few actors could pull that role off the way that he did. That script required a movie star's performance and a movie star performance he gave.
School Ties is one of the most underrated movies of all time.There's a universe out there where this column is nothing more than me channeling my inner Nick Naylor from the movie Thank You For Smoking and give you the biggest spin job possible coming out of a pretty horrible weekend on the Texas football landscape.
In another universe, perhaps I'd just focus on a few truths from 30,000 feet up about this program that Saturday once again revealed in the face of the brightest lights the sport has to offer. A very strong case can be made that the reality exposed in the universe where the focus is on the blinking red worrying signs on both sides of the ball shouldn't be ignored.
Then there's the universe that exists where I just say what I want to say. Some of its ugly. But, it's real.
In trying to decide which option to choose, I've decided to choose violence. I'll do all three and let the pieces fall where they fall. We're at the midway point in the season and the Longhorns are a borderline unranked 4-2 team. A 360-degree view of where things stand is probably the best idea, even if it's not exactly the thing that everyone reading it will want to consume.
No. 2 - Let's start with the burnt orange Kool-Aid. ...
For all of the flaws that emerged on the offensive side of the ball in the final 45 minutes of Saturday's game, we're still talking about a unit that ranks 1st in the Big 12 in scoring (44.5), total offense 480 yards per game), rushing offense (245 yards per game) and passing game efficiency (176.2).
The only Texas offense in the history of the program to pull off such a thing over the course of the entire season is the freakishly historic 2005 team.
The Texas offense features a quarterback that is on pace to have the best passing efficiency season in school history, a running back that some people believe is the best player in the country and a freshman wide receiver that leads the Big 12 in both receiving yards and receiving touchdowns.
There are going to be some games on the remaining schedule, all of which the Longhorns will be favored in when the Longhorns will be able to overwhelm teams with its offensive firepower. Oh, all of the offensive firepower is set to return in 2022.
None of this is insignificant. It's actually a huge important deal. The addition of Steve Sarkisian to the Texas program has elevated the offense from the very good territory into the statistically elite of the elite family.
If the only thing we wanted to do was make you feel good 24 hours after the OU loss, I'd just keep writing about this ridiculous offensive trio.
No. 3 - Fool's Gold ...
Yet, there's a little bit of fool's gold inside of this shiny statistical offensive force and it centers around an offensive line that has been manhandled in the two biggest games of this season thus far. The skill positions on this team mean this team has a chance to drop 50 in every game it plays, but the offensive line play that it owns puts the program in a problematic position when it plays against the 10-20 percent of the teams across the country that can truly punish such uneven offensive line play.
Sarkisian was hired to get Texas to championship levels, but it's hard to hide being deficient in the trenches, which Texas most certainly is on the offensive side of the ball.
The real rub with this discussion is that there's no quick solution to this problem. Years of disappointing recruiting results up-front on the offensive side of the ball have left the program lacking the type of viable long-term options that would make you believe the answers to the current riddle are already on campus.
In general, Texas needs better offensive linemen. Plural.
It's tough to say when the Longhorns can get the offensive line play at a level where it can remotely match the play it receives from the skill positions, but it's likely to take years. Plural. Even if the Longhorns can land a couple of five-stars in the next month, it might be a couple of seasons before those young players are ready to perform like men.
There's no great answer for the here and now. It's a roster limitation that puts a ceiling on just how good this team can really be. In reality, there's nothing special about the Oklahoma or Arkansas defensive units, yet they were able to suffocate Texas when those games were left to be decided.
If that were the only major personnel issue on the team, it would be one thing, but the Texas defense has fallen back in the abyss that includes all teams ranked 100+ in the country on that side of the ball. You cannot win championships at this level without playmaking monsters off the edge and the reality os that the Longhorns don't have a single player right now in the program that can get to the quarterback on a regular basis.
As is the case with the offensive line problem, the only answer to the problem is adding players in recruiting that can't help immediately and might not be in place for action before the 2023 season.
Sarkisian can coach the hell out of some offense, but he can't create personnel pieces that don't exist on both sides of the ball with the snap of his fingers.
This reality needs to be part of the thought process that shapes expectations for everyone that cares about the program. There will be moments when the skill guys can overcompensate for these issues, but there will be days like yesterday when the reminder of the distance towards elite still exists.
No. 4 - I can't shake this ...
Finally, I have to shout out the thing that I feel like is the elephant in the room with this team.
If we eliminate the fantastic first quarter against Oklahoma and the fairly meaningless fourth quarter against Arkansas, the 2021 Longhorns have been outscored 78-27 in the other six quarters of action against its two toughest opponents.
That's freaking horrible and inexcusable. In fact, it's so horribly one-sided in its awfulness that the fact Texas was outscored 45-20 in the final three quarters against a vulnerable Sooners squad that hasn't pushed anyone with a pulse around all season is the thing that stands out to me about the game as much as anything.
The truth of the matter is that Texas had such a big lead that it masked what was taking place on the field until the game was almost over.
Well, there you go... something a little sweet, something a little sour and something that will make you vomit in your mouth. My work here is done.
No. 5 - The greatest single-game wide receiver performance in school history ...
Before Saturday afternoon, only two receivers in the history of the Texas program had ever recorded 200+ yards receiving in a game.
Tony Jones was a small piece of TNT that dropped 242 yards against Pittsburgh in a game called the Bluebonnet Bowl from 34 years ago and 22 years later, Jordan Shipley caught 273 yards of passes in a game against Central Florida that has somehow faded from my memory as a thing that actually happened.
Roy Williams never broke 200. Neither did Devin Duvernay (although he came really, really close).
True freshman Xavier Worthy dropped a 261-yard bomb on the Sooners, highlighted by bookend touchdown receptions to start and end his afternoon.
Considering the opponent and the full context of the game, it's hard to argue that any receiver has ever delivered a better performance.
In the aftermath, it needs to be said that Worthy has been the Big 12's best receiver at the midway point in the season and has done almost as much in six games as a freshman than Roy Williams did in 12 back in 2000. Worthy is first in the Big 12 in receiving yards, first in receiving touchdowns, second in yards per catch and is tied for the longest reception.
Where would this team be without him?
No. 6 - More randomness with a day to chew on things ...
... Bijan Robinson is on pace for a 1,578 yards and 16 touchdowns rushing this season through 12 games.
... I'm still stunned that Keilan Robinson and Roschon Johnson didn't so much as get a whiff of a touch against Oklahoma and that Texas running backs position as a whole was a non-factor in the Texas passing game. Where was the wheel route? Just once?
... The loss of Jordan Whittington to a clavicle injury means that Worthy is going to need to be the alpha dog in the passing game, a role he clearly seems capable and eager to fill. Joshua Moore is going to need to be the player he was on Saturday each week. The disappearing acts will need to stop because the proven targets on this team beyond those two at the receiver position are minimal. Texas really needs Moore to rise to the occasion.
... It's concerning that Texas' three worst performances of the season have all been away from home. It makes trying to determine realistic expectations for the upcoming visits to Waco, Ames and Morgantown tough to figure out.
... Cameron Dicker is averaging more yards per punt in 2021 than Michael Dickson did in any of his seasons at Texas. By more than a yard.
... In the final 45 minutes of the game on Saturday, Casey Thompson completed 14 of 26 passes for 212 yards and two touchdowns (147 rating).
... Junior Angilau is very quietly having a very good year.
... Oklahoma has registered 18 tackles for loss against Texas in the last three seasons, while Nik Bonitto has recorded five sacks in the same three-year window.
... It's not just Keondre Coburn that hasn't had the season that was expected. Why does it seem like Moro Ojomo's development has hit a brick wall?
No. 7 - About A&M's win over Alabama ...
You guys can poo-poo what happened in College Station all you want, especially if it's what you need to do coming out of the weekend. Hey, I get it.
The reality of what happened on Saturday is that Texas let an opportunity for the program to shoot into the stratosphere in terms of momentum slip through its fingers and the Aggies did not.
A&M has been pointing to the A&M game in. recruiting for the last nine months as the moment when the Maroon Death Star would be operational. While you wouldn't say that is exactly the case, A&M football delivered on its promise to kill the Alabama dragon and delivering on that kind of stage is going to be impactful in recruiting.
It would certainly be naive to think that the kids that visited College Station last night won't be impacted by the spectacle that was produced.
In a recruiting world of fine margins, A&M got a big shot in the arm last night, especially with regards to 2023 recruiting.
What its impact translates to in terms of results remains to be seen, but last night is exactly the kind of moment that Jimbo Fisher has been praying for.
No. 8 – BUY or SELL …
(Buy) He certainly is this season when you consider that he's probably fourth string at best right now on offense and he has the talent to upgrade what is currently available on the defensive side of the ball. I don't think he'd be a difference-maker of the highest order, but his talent suggests he'd help more on defense than offense. Of course, he wants to play offense and that desire is going to stand paramount to everything else for now.
(Sell) His decision will come down to a number of factors, but it's not going to be the thing that it comes down to. The legitimacy of the program compared to the likes of Georgia, Alabama or Clemson will matter every bit as much. They aren't going somewhere that feels like a reach or a step down.
(Buy) I think the thing that kept him from five-star status was not having a senior season. His talent is as plain as day.
(Sell) I had this team at 4-2 through this point of the season in my pre-season prediction.
(Sell) I think his first call might be a return to Alabama's Pete Golding.
(Buy) Texas should be Oklahoma State.
(Buy) 100-percent IMO.
(Buy) Saturday wasn't a lost cause. Playing Oklahoma in a game that everyone was talking about all weekend will help with regards to the Longhorns selling a story that they are a few blue chip players away from being what they want to be. That prize just isn't as good as what was available of what A&M was able to achieve later in the day.
(Sell) It's at a Big 12 level, but not at the high end of the SEC level.
(Sell) There are no aces up the sleeve for either area. What you see if mostly what exists.
(Buy) If by contender you mean on the national level.... buy.
(Sell) I don't believe that at all. You shouldn't, either. It's just that we're in the 2021 season and that's not helping in there here and now.
(Sell) Not really.
No. 9 - Scattershooting on the sports weekend ...
... I'm not sure I have any idea what happens the rest of the way in this college season. We might be looking at pure chaos in December.
... Cannot believe we live in a world where Iowa is ranked No.2 in the nation.
... Every team in the top 10 not named Georgia feels really sketchy to these eyes.
... What on earth did Texas unleash in Caleb Williams?
... One month after totally stomping the Texas offense, the Arkansas defense gave up 52 points to Ole Miss. Yeesh.
... LSU is going to need to open up the checkbook at the end of the season buy its way out of hell.
... The Cowboys won't win the Super Bowl, but this team might be more fun than any team in the NFL and I can live with that.
... The Texans played their guts out on Sunday. It feels like they deserved better than to lose to the Patriots.
... I really should have drafted Derrick Henry.
... If Mason Crosby happened to be a cat, he'd have used up 8 of his 9 lives prior to making the game-winning field goal.
... No way Tyson Fury was losing after coming to the ring like this.
... Deontay Wilder needs to move on from Fury. That 11th round sealed that deal.
... I've been completely aloof to the start of the MLB post-season. I mean... I know what's going on, but I've watched very little of it.
... The USMNT went to Panama with a white towel in hand upon its arrival and I'm kind of shocked by the gall of it all. Fellas, y'all better get three points at home this week.
No. 10 - Top 10 Matt Damon Movies ...
He's one of the biggest movie stars in the world. He's believable as Will Hunting or Jason Bourne or a nerd on Mars.
It's time to rank his best stuff.
10. School Ties
9. The Informant!
8. Ocean's 11
7. The Talented Mr. Ripley
6. Rounders
5. The Martian
4. Saving Private Ryan
3. The Departed
2. The Bourne Series
1. Good Will Hunting
Plus it’s a great movie to show your kids about right & wrong.
The young cast with future stars was incredible.
I told Anwar that he needs to watch it, but I don't think he believes me.
The Martian was the rare movie where my wife and I loved it, our parents all loved it and our teen daughters seemed to like it more than most. For a non-franchise movie, that was a HUGE movie and you're probably right: maybe 2-3 people could pull that role off. Really well-cast movie all around. Donald Glover stole scenes, Michael Pena stole scenes, Ejiofor and Daniels were both superb.
you are not alone.
Five Bold Predictions for Texas' game against Oklahoma State
It’s time to be BOLD.
longhornswire.usatoday.com
Texas wins by at least 13
and your comment on OSU's offense is telling because in most prior seasons it would be OSU's usually high scoring offense that wins the race. MulletMan isn't lighting it up this season so far.
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Ouch. this considering Riley has 4.5 years of head coach experience compared to Sark who has 6 years total. Sark should be ready for this job. that was in part the reason the UT brain trust jetted Herman, right? he wasn't ready?
let's be honest here. UT forced out Brown and look where that got us? OU under Blobbo Stupid ... Bob Stoops .. hired an innovative offensive mind in Riley who revitalized OU's stale offense. then he turned over a caddy program to Riley who turned it into a Ferrari on offense. Riley's only problem is his defense is a broken down Ford. if he ever fixes that .. he can win multiple national titles.
Yes it seems like to me that there are systemic problems on a fundamental basis. This football program seems to be jinxed for whatever reason.
