Probably a little. Depends on where you look. The pac-12 had a bunch of good ones this year.
Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (The chance was there for the taking)
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Honestly, whatever one needs to help them self sleep at night is fine with me.
What happened in the Baylor game didn't happen in vacuum. It happened one week after Sark put Ewers on training wheels... 5 days after he failed to give him a strong vote of confidence.
Sark came in after a pretty uncontrollable year from a social standpoint.
That team with all of its poison won a higher percentage of games than this one.,
Schindler’s List could have easily been #1. Such a profound movie about light in the absolute darkest of hours.
There was a great interview with his wife Kate Capshaw years ago about him coming back to their hotel room late, which isn’t his custom even during filming and having to hear him break down over a particularly vivid and gruesome scene- I think it was the one where Liam Neeson and his girlfriend were horseback riding above the scene where the Nazi troops were on a rampage against the Jewish population…
It’s splitting hairs when it comes to ranking his top movies but IMO he’s always been America’s top filmmaker in my generation rivaled only by George Lucas
Some of my fellow olds may even remember what I believe was his first production- “Duel” that was on an ABC movie of the week- with Dennis Weaver playing a salesman being chased by an angry Truck driver for reasons that were never clear but which made it equally scary.
I expect the interior of the DL to be as good as anywhere in the Big 12 next year.
22 plays in a row from the same guy that Sark had throw it 49 times in Stillwater.
The preseason poll that was posted by this board. I remember it.
What are your expectations for the season. Success? That’s subjective perhaps. Expectations…many on the board got what they expected.
We all wanted what you wanted too @Ketchum .
Dude, really great column. A few things.
No, we don’t need to be saying success right now. There were a few areas of successful improvement as you mentioned, but four losses is never a success, maybe a decent improvement but certainly not satisfying or successful. Not making the conference championship this year in a very average big 12 is all you need to know. And it can’t be a success if we have four losses and no sure fire QB. Period.
I still can’t believe Joe Burrow had that video game season after the film he laid down to that point. I didn’t hear anyone shouting he was an untapped gold mine either. Still one of the more shocking light switch flips I’ve ever seen. Not a bad idea for a column. Biggest light switch flips of all time, for the longhorns or nationally. If Ewers can flip the switch even half that far next year, we are in business.
The Heisman trophy just follows Lincoln Riley around. He’s Heisman Jesus. F*ck.
No, we don’t need to be saying success right now. There were a few areas of successful improvement as you mentioned, but four losses is never a success, maybe a decent improvement but certainly not satisfying or successful. Not making the conference championship this year in a very average big 12 is all you need to know. And it can’t be a success if we have four losses and no sure fire QB. Period.
I still can’t believe Joe Burrow had that video game season after the film he laid down to that point. I didn’t hear anyone shouting he was an untapped gold mine either. Still one of the more shocking light switch flips I’ve ever seen. Not a bad idea for a column. Biggest light switch flips of all time, for the longhorns or nationally. If Ewers can flip the switch even half that far next year, we are in business.
The Heisman trophy just follows Lincoln Riley around. He’s Heisman Jesus. F*ck.
and he took it out of the hands of the guy that had otherwise kept the game close. we agree.
I thought you were going to debate me again this week about how Ewers' situational awareness wasn't an issue.
I don't think he's quite that hitched. There is another.
I'm kind of used to it. After all, once you've been blamed for global warming, you just get used to it.
So, to appease (develop) one player, the remaining twenty-one had to suffer one or two lost games?
He literally didn't praise Ewers at all other than to say he had made some strides.
That was after he put him on training wheels in Lawrence. The kid has a ton of upside, but let's not ignore the reality of what happened because it hurts our feel goods.
I absolutely think you caused global warming. I’m just saying I agree with you about the team expectations section.
Great write-up. While I agreed with Anwar’s assessment of the season as a success, you make a very persuasive argument for why is wasn’t. Conference titles and major bowls should still be the standard at UT. The past dozen years have been such a beat down, for it to finally look like there’s light at the end of the tunnel feels like success at this point. For me, the OL improvement with all the young talent is HUGE. That gives me as much hope for the future as anything else.
well, I predicted 8-4, but that doesn't mean it was a success. My rules are my rules and they never change.
I might be the only one consistent on the matter.
Oh, I think it was a tremendous mistake not to bench him against TCU and cost this program dearly. But after watching Sark do that, and also do the same thing against OSU, I'm not sure how much his words mean. His actions speak much louder, including prioritizing Ewers development/ego/whatever over getting his team into the Big12 championship.
I speculate Quinn Ewers is facing true adversity for the first time in his life. I relate, I had always had school come to me pretty easily- until law school, where there was a curve and I got my rear kicked. I rallied, but it took a whole lot of introspection and finding discipline I had never needed before that point. How Ewers deals with innate talent not being everything it takes at this level to succeed will decide his future. If not, Hello Arch (not a bad backup plan).
I think Ketch has written in the past the college team with the most experience QB has a huge advantage. See TCU this year with Max Duggan. Seriously, given we had a first-year starter at QB and played a lot of true freshman on the OL, the knocks we took this year were inevitable. 8-4 was my season prediction, and we hit it. The trend is is distinctly upward, and we are built more soundly on the OL and DL than we have been since Mack Brown. The foundation is in place.
If Ewers is better next year- then we're cooking with grease- if we have have to deal with another 1st-year starter at QB- it will be a little tougher, but our OL will be much better for a first-year QB starter and our young RBs.
Grind Quinn Ewers, grind. Be mentally resilient and take your humblng and use it to get better. Do the gameplan book work, watch all the film, and focus on the QB mechanics details. If you do, greatness can be yours.
I think Ketch has written in the past the college team with the most experience QB has a huge advantage. See TCU this year with Max Duggan. Seriously, given we had a first-year starter at QB and played a lot of true freshman on the OL, the knocks we took this year were inevitable. 8-4 was my season prediction, and we hit it. The trend is is distinctly upward, and we are built more soundly on the OL and DL than we have been since Mack Brown. The foundation is in place.
If Ewers is better next year- then we're cooking with grease- if we have have to deal with another 1st-year starter at QB- it will be a little tougher, but our OL will be much better for a first-year QB starter and our young RBs.
Grind Quinn Ewers, grind. Be mentally resilient and take your humblng and use it to get better. Do the gameplan book work, watch all the film, and focus on the QB mechanics details. If you do, greatness can be yours.
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His actions from the last few weeks have been what I'm pointing at.
If he’s the mystery transfer wink twice.
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