The question for Wolves IMO is whether Traore can be consistent. Four goals and four assists isn't enough. If he can hit double figures, they've really got a chance.
Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (The reality of where Texas stands heading into 2020...)
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The Watchman isn’t even top 5 this year IMHO.
Off the top of my head this year that are considerably better: Mr In Between, Mayans, Righteous Gemstones, Vikings and any other show not named The Watchman.
Why are you unwilling to discuss the LHN? It seems fairly damn pertinent to Longhorn sports? Do you think it hurts or helps our programs? No comment- go ahead and answer if Herman is the coach in three years or if Texas wins 10 games next year, The LHN impacts our recruiting, our ability to find a new conference affiliation.
You ducked a more compelling question in my view.
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I almost included Williams in my group as well. You and I are on the same page, for real.
Do you feel like Herman has been wasting some time, though, through three years?
I totally agree with you, but Texas isn't as far ahead into its five year plan as it needs to be IMO.
fair enough.
I'd argue there's some recency bias for me in Watchmen. I'm still riding a super high with that show.
The way Herman handled the press conference later that day seemed to be a clear indication in my mind that he received a talking to.
It's crazy how high of a level it takes at the quarterback position to win a national title. Pretty good of even very, very good just isn't good enough.
I would say that Texas hasn't recruited at the levels of Alabama, Clemson, Ohio St, Georgia or Florida (UM tenure) since what, the 60's? Mack Brown had some great classes but they were not filled with the studs of the listed schools over the past decade.
2020 Top 100 Recruits (Rivals)
Clemson - 8 (3 in the Top 10)
Alabama - 10
LSU - 8
Ohio St. - 9 (2 in Top 10)
Georgia - 6
ATM - 5
Texas - Bijan
Nice work.
I'd only say that FNL only had two seasons this decade. I consider it more of a last decade show, like The Office.
What adjustments would it take to enable the results which would make the 20s an acceptable decade for rational fans (if rational fans exist.) I understand that there are no simple solutions to complex problems.
a. I'm not unwilling.
b. I don't think it's much of an issue, if I'm being honest. I think it has had a very underwhelming impact, both good or bad.
I suppose I just don't find the LHN to be a compelling conversation piece.
I never really got into ut outside of a couple of episodes. I know it makes a lot of other folk's Top 10 lists.
Same with me re: Succession. I can't get it out of my head. I've also been rewatching Veep, which REALLY holds up well (perhaps too well, sadly).
* The development of players has to improve significantly.
* Attrition numbers need to decline to a degree. Maybe from 12-13 per year to 8-9.
* Coaching has to improve.
* More national top 75 recruits in recruiting.
* Tremendous quarterback play.
I would completely sign off on anyone that wants to call Veep the best show of the decade. It really is tremendous and every season was sensational.
Agree to your statement regarding hierarchy of calls. I’m simply saying I feel the play could have been blown dead before the fumble was in question in real time. And in this day in age of retrospecting calls, it would not have surprised me to see the call go a few different ways after review.No, but he would have gotten forward progress back to where he initially caught the ball if he hadn't fumbled it. I have literally never seen a forward progress call made on a play where there was a question of possession to begin with.
I'm sure there is a hierarchy of calls where determination of possession supersedes determination of progress.
Fun football times we live in.
That was what I thought you would say. I think he could be a great H-Back type player in the mold of what Taysom Hill does with the Saints and you could add a few wrinkles in the offense with him. I want him to stay at Texas and I am rooting for him because he showed what being a great team player he was this year.
Right, but we are all still waiting for Tom to be elite.
I’m not sure how I feel about Urban. Not personally, but as a pro coach. I mean, he fits in, but I’m trying to get my head around it. If nothing else, it would be interesting and must watch.
Fair enough Ketch- but you said it’s past time for Texas to look at a new conference affiliation- and the LHN certainly is huge in that regard.
That's true. Perhaps next week a specific question with that angle? I promise I'll take it.
Way to hang in there, boys! We got through it. I bought my OB sub when Charlie got hired.
I’m renewing my sub.
How many episodes of the watchmen did it take to get you really interested? I struggled to get thru the second episode. I haven’t looked at what kind of following it’s got but to me it seemed to be a one and done season show. Do you think it has the legs to renew for multiple seasons? If you haven’t tried Mr In Between, give it a watch and I’d be curious to hear your thoughts. It’s dark yet hilarious, admittedly that’s an odd combination.
Sure. There seems to be no limit to the ways supposedly educated officials can mangle rules interpretation, mostly as a result of twisting the rules to meet the result they "believe" should be arrived at. Happens in the legal realm all the time as well.
It is very difficult to divorce yourself from your feelings and apply rules without prejudice.
I think that's why we constantly see changes in rules. You get one bad result, a la the Dez Bryant non-catch or the Megatron non-catch, and the knee jerk reaction is to change the rule. Of course every time we change the rule a new event comes along causing us to readjust the rule over and over again.
Of course there is also just a lot of human error. There's no accounting in my mind for a play like the obvious pass interference that wasn't called in the OU game. Whether or not it ultimately mattered is not the point. My knee jerk reaction to something like that would be to have a group of 3 officials who watch the game remotely and have the power to overrule a call or non-call like that if they all 3 agree there was about to be a blown call like that. Of course the problem would end up being they would overreach at some point and overturn something that wasn't really cut and dried enough. Just see the myriad of plays that are reversed now when there's nowhere near 100% certainly a call has been missed.
Seems there is no accounting for the human condition.
Great write up. The description of where Texas football stands relative to the big boys was right on the $$. Ketch needs to reprint it once a week during the summer or we all know what will happen. Its like the coating on eyeglasses that progressively darkens in sunlight. Except with OB, the tint starts in Feb as baby aspirin, and as Spring turns to Summer that color darkens up to the darkest shade of BURNT ORANGE beauty.
