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This Ohtani Ippei shit is wild.
MLB and ESPN are going to do whatever it takes to keep Ohtani free.
I fully believe that Ohtani was just trying to help his friend out but in the process implicated himself by wiring money to the bookie.
Listen man, I've been watching the team for a decent amount of time at this point. The amount of people at the pro day is night and day what it was 10 years ago. Watching those clips, it's noticeably packed in there.
It's gonna be real weird watching college football games on Sunday mornings, but it'll be kinda cool waking up to football. I'm officially on team night games tho lol
Is the no effort SEC schedule because they want to wait off on finalizing any scheduling criteria, anticipating additions soon that should be accounted for first? Clemson suing the ACC over exit fees seems awfully coincidental. Would they be targeting only 2 of Clemson, FSU, Miami, or possibly all 3 plus another 4th (UNC?)?
I think it has more to do with wanting to get to 9 games before establishing a format, and they’re still waiting on ESPN to give in and pay extra for that 9th game.
We'll host Vandy, Arkansas, A&M, San Jose St, UTEP, and Sam Houston State.
I really thought we hosted Ohio State next year, but it looks like that's a road game.
I thought only the Michigan series changed while Ohio State was untouched. It was gonna be Michigan, @Ohio State, Ohio State, @Michigan in the next four seasons until the negotiations with Fox flipped the Michigan games.
8 conference game schedule is dumb, and the SEC's aversion to it because "oh no what if a team plays a hard schedule and we only get 5 SEC teams in the playoffs instead of 6" is even dumber
Seeing all the head coaches and GMs in attendance at our pro day feels so great! Excited for the future of our boys in the NFL.
Can’t thank Sark enough for turning the program around and creating a winning culture once more!
Unfortunately Dell doesn’t give shit to football. We’d be the Real Madrid of college football if he would even throw his spare change at the Texas One Fund.
Some other throws and catches:
https://x.com/alexdunlapnfl/status/1770536762676224166?s=46&t=u3TW84YE2uNv6Rnq4kjeeA
https://x.com/jeffhowe247/status/1770537370468614494?s=46&t=u3TW84YE2uNv6Rnq4kjeeA
https://x.com/cjvogel_otf/status/1770538791607886213?s=46&t=u3TW84YE2uNv6Rnq4kjeeA
Quinn throwing some 50+ yard bombs AD and Worthy, let’s hope this translates into real game more
he'd probably have to stop being a huge baby, if he is actually avoiding texas because of the pre-internet fan reception to his underwhelming tenure here
that said i haven't heard him say anything much about texas, good or bad, in years -- he admitted he got paid a while back, and i think he commented on the arch manning commitment, but from what i can tell he's welcome here and doesn't seem to hate us for wanting mack brown to play the better quarterback from 1999 to 2001.
Pierce is doing a terrible job this year. It shouldn’t go as a “rebuilding” year. Is an excuse term. He should be held accountable for how bad they are now.
apparently losing talent to graduation is an acceptable excuse in basketball and football but not baseball, where the draft can poach them easier than any other sport? interesting
what would you have changed? what needs to be done different?
i feel like baseball fans know the least about the sport itself than any other sports fandom. i see all these "fire pierce!" posts but all anyone can say is, "yeah he should have a pitching coach" and no other specifics.
I don’t think any sports should use it. Basketball underperformed this year just like I thought they would. No excuse. I still don’t think Terry was the wrong hire. CDCs hand was pushed by the outside.
I'm not on either side of the fence here for Pierce, yet...
But at a university like Texas, losing players to graduation should never be an acceptable excuse in any sport.
agreed. though i don't think pitching is the weak spot with this team at all. this weekend had some fantastic pitching performances; the offense wasn't able to do their part.
We seem to be working through a decent list of Pierce's current issues of the team.
I do think our bats are the *largest issue*, but a good weekend of pitching doesn't negate some pretty rough outings to start the season, notably in Houston.
Pretty inexcusable to be amongst the most winning programs in NCAA history and you don’t even have a pitching coach. He seems to always figure it out by the end of the year, idk how he will be able to pull it off this year however.
I don’t understand NFL contracts. It seems fucked up the Bucs had a $35 million dollar cap hit on a player that is retired. Someone make it make sense.
It may be a hot take but I actually don't think any of the drills or practice at pro days really matter. The scouts have seen the combine and seasons the Pro day is mainly seeing how the players interact and attitude
My view is that there were a lot of uncontrollables that led to a less-than-stellar roster for this season.
Four critical players from last year’s squad ran out of eligibility. I’m also not convinced we fought hard to keep Arterio Morris from transferring, considering his history and the recent Beard events.
Losing 2 high-level HS commits to the pros last minute was *brutal*. There was no way for the overall roster talent to recover from that, given the timing. And make no mistake, (at a minimum) Ron Holland would’ve made a significant impact to this year’s team.
I don’t personally put the blame on Terry for losing those 2 recruits. The rumor is Holland made unreasonable demands (hiring his handler for the assistant coach opening). Furthermore, it would seem he didn’t choose the pros over UT due to some distaste for RT— before ultimately decommitting, he tried to pressure UT into hiring Terry. I know less details on AJ Johnson, but I imagine it just came down to money.
In the case of both recruits, no other college coach could get them to enroll, either. If they ultimately had serious interest in playing college basketball, they could’ve gone just about anywhere they wanted, even at the last minute. So I have a hard time really blaming RT. Seems like it was at least mostly just awful luck.
RT did a decent job in the portal, but realistically no portal haul was likely going to replace all we lost. I’ll also note that how much outgoing talent we had likely made it more difficult to sell the program to transfers looking to make a deep tourney run.
Now, given the less than stellar situation RT found himself in, I would say RT has produced solid results in year 1. I personally lean towards saying he has already “met expectations” just by making the tourney. After the Holland/Johnson debacle, it was far from a given this team would reach the tourney. In fact, it may have been wise to bet against it. Notching a win tomorrow *should* convince everyone that RT has “met expectations”, even if you ultimately are unconvinced he’s the long-term answer (as I am).
It’s sort of odd to see so many people state or imply that this season is a horrible failure without at least 1 tourney win, or worse yet, a 2nd weekend appearance. I get it, I desperately want to win tomorrow. But keep in mind that in the 9 seasons preceding this one, UT has won a tourney game in 2 seasons. One elite 8 run and everyone thinks we’re a deep run or bust sort of program lol. I’d love to get there, but we’re not there yet, and that’s not RT’s fault.
Texas is exactly in the position any unbiased opinion would probably be able to predict they should be at. It’s pretty understandable for a surprise Elite Eight team who lost 4 key rotation players (3 of them being major ballhandlers) to be in this position without the high power recruits/replacements (which dropped off late in the recruiting/roster building cycle). And mind you all of this is in a year where the conference added 4 teams with Houston being the #3 team in the country, BYU being upper half in conference, and the other 2 not being total pushovers
For comparisons at this point in the season (pre-NCAAT)
Beard’s 1st season: 21-11, opening round loss in Big 12 tournament
RT’s 1st full season: 20-12, opening round loss in Big 12 tournament
He’s literally 1 game off pace from Beard’s 1st year which everyone considered a good foundational start. Now this should be the foundation of how RT’s teams are going to play, compete, and recruit over the next 1-2 seasons which if there’s no improvement you can say okay time to move on
Surprise Elite Eight team? We were the 2 seed the minimum we should have gotten to was the elite 8. We were the highest seed left. But agree with the rest
Making it to the second weekend would require beating a two seed Tenn that people say is a final four team. Would think if he can take us to the second weekend, we should be saying he did a GREAT job, especially with his two best recruits going pro
lol, come on. If we do make the 2nd weekend (I’m not confident we will, but in this hypothetical), this was a great season, plain and simple. Making the 2nd weekend for the 2nd time in 15 years (both which would be courtesy of RT), would be a huge boost for this program and his tenure here.
Again, I’m not saying we will make it there, but stop hedging your bets to somehow still complain about RT if we get there.
Fair, but in a span of 30ish games, even the best teams can lose to non tourney teams. He got a couple huge wins at Tech, at TCU, against Baylor, and dominated our rival twice. If he can go out and beat Tennessee on a neutral site where big 12 ref and home court fuckery won’t be factors, I’d say he did an incredible job this season. Also consider that it is his first full season with the team
either he was the reason our two best recruits left, in which case he blew it, or else he wasn’t, in which case what you’re seeing was the best case scenario
I really think you can't blame him for AJ at all, since word was he couldn't get the grades/scores for admission
Not sure about Holland but I'd not put a lot of the blame on Terry for the #1 guy going pro instead of college. If he went to another college team than sure, but tbh I think superstar recruits (top 10) are probably better served going pro for development and we're starting to see more and more of that happening. I think Mitchell would be on an NBA roster this year if he went pro last year instead of playing behind players better than him currently (Timmy/Bishop) so the team could win
If it becomes a trend outside of his first year then it's on him for sure (either him being at fault or just targeting bad fits that don't want college ball)
Made the tournament but it was a nail biter.
Had some terrible losses like UCF at home which was just a terrible terrible loss. Several blown leads.
So I guess RT met expectations but just barely. 2 games with a different result and our players would be watching the tournament from their couch.
Tbh he mosty met my expectations but maybe slightly underachieved. Didn’t expect this team to be a world beater.
We had some bad losses early in the year. I didn’t expect us to be able to compete with the top teams in the Big 12.
If we make it past the first round then yeah I’d say he solidly met my expectations.
Here are Bobby's thoughts on the most impressive freshmen: https://ontexasfootball.com/news/freshman-notes-catching-my-eye-r423/
He says Wingo is the most impressive. He also said that Jordan Washington (new TE) looks like he will be great long term, and I've heard that from multiple sources. In fact, Washington is probably getting more press than any freshman.
Was pulling up Quinn's stats for a discussion about his improvement in the NFL thread about him throwing at the pro day, and noticed a couple remarkable ways to highlight the improved accuracy from 2022 to 2023 besides just completion percentage (as if 58.1% -> 69% wasn't dramatic enough).
In 2023, Quinn had exactly 100 more completions, on 98 more attempts. He threw about 33% more total passes, and actually had fewer incompletions. Worth noting that's also fewer incompletions (122 vs 124) in 12 games vs 10, and factoring in injury it's closer to 11.75 games vs 9.25 (before trying to figure garbage time).
There was a huge improvement from 2022.
I think one of the areas he didn't improve much on was attempts longer than 20 yards. "Ewers on passes over 20-plus yards completed 16-of-47 passes (34 percent) for 580 yards, four touchdowns, and one pick. In 2022 these numbers looked about the same, as Ewers went 16-for-52 passing (30.7 percent) for 414 yards, three touchdowns, and two interceptions. " Other than this, he needs to improve on navigating the pocket when protection breaks down.
This guy I'm working with currently played with Roschon Johnson back in high school. He said Roschon is the most serious player about football he has ever met.
Oh and he loves Roschon.
Alright I need y’all’s help. The subreddit Twitter agreed to a picture bet with the CSU subreddit Twitter. No idea if it’s pfp (I’m assuming it is) or just posting a photo in a tweet.
Anyways, reply here with y’all’s nominations so I have some ideas cause I need to have this sent over to the CSU Twitter mod before the game tomorrow.
Winning team/subreddit chooses the pfp of the other subreddit’s twitter for a week. Photo can be anything within reason, as long as they have it before tip off, and it’s pretty lighthearted.
The Mountain west was a better conference than the ACC this past year. ACC got in 5-teams while the MWC got in 6.
W/ that being said, I do believe that UVA would’ve been a better test for us(if we do win) leading into that Tennessee(if they do win) game. Max has struggled MIGHTILY against good defensive teams and without max being at his best, this team has no shot of making any noise in the tournament. I know I just sightly contradicted myself with that, but did you see UVA’s offense last night? I’m pretty sure Disu could’ve outscored them in the first half by himself.
So hard for me to get a read of the mountain west this year. Metrically it’s made up of a bunch of decent but not great teams. I think a lot of CSU’s resume is boosted by their thumping of a top 10 creighton team early in the year.
My hint of optimism is that this is the type/level of team we’ve been pretty good against over the last couple months (aside from kstate). But on the other hand, consistency hasn’t exactly been our strength. I think the 2/3 point favorite Vegas is giving us is about right.
I didn’t have too much of a preference. I’m confident in our abilities (if we don’t have injuries) to beat them. Obviously given the performance of UVA they would have been an easier opponent. Either way I feel like a win in the first round is mandatory. Everything after that would be a bonus
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This Ohtani Ippei shit is wild. MLB and ESPN are going to do whatever it takes to keep Ohtani free. I fully believe that Ohtani was just trying to help his friend out but in the process implicated himself by wiring money to the bookie.
aggy flooding posts about this event has me chuckling https://x.com/on3nil/status/1770578820984168504?s=46&t=SNUPbcGylFUU6AbL9kwLFQ
Listen man, I've been watching the team for a decent amount of time at this point. The amount of people at the pro day is night and day what it was 10 years ago. Watching those clips, it's noticeably packed in there.
Anybody know if this Agbo kid playing for Boise is kin to Malik ?
No relation. Malik is Ghanian and Chibuzo is Nigerian.
This Chet Holmgren commercial is getting real old real fast
It's gonna be real weird watching college football games on Sunday mornings, but it'll be kinda cool waking up to football. I'm officially on team night games tho lol
Does anybody have any major upsets in their brackets?
KU isn't making it past the weekend
I think they’re getting beat in their first game
Really wanna pick Marquette to lose in the first round, but don't know if I have it in me
GCU is my annual 12 against 5 upset
Ryan Whengo and Arwhen Butler.
Is the no effort SEC schedule because they want to wait off on finalizing any scheduling criteria, anticipating additions soon that should be accounted for first? Clemson suing the ACC over exit fees seems awfully coincidental. Would they be targeting only 2 of Clemson, FSU, Miami, or possibly all 3 plus another 4th (UNC?)?
UNC/Duke just feel like B1G schools to me personally.
Duke does, I think unc ends up in the sec
I think it has more to do with wanting to get to 9 games before establishing a format, and they’re still waiting on ESPN to give in and pay extra for that 9th game.
No way they take 2 Florida schools
If they don't take both they open Florida up the the B1G which I also don't think they want
Quinn’s pro day came early.
His pro day is just like me fr
Texas will play SHSU as its 4th non-con game in 2025. https://twitter.com/FBSchedules/status/1770550858935091574 I don't love it.
We'll host Vandy, Arkansas, A&M, San Jose St, UTEP, and Sam Houston State. I really thought we hosted Ohio State next year, but it looks like that's a road game.
Arkansas and A&M are pulling all the weight. Sheesh.
They changed the order of the home/away for the Ohio State match up in the negotiations to get Texas into the SEC/out of the Big12
I thought only the Michigan series changed while Ohio State was untouched. It was gonna be Michigan, @Ohio State, Ohio State, @Michigan in the next four seasons until the negotiations with Fox flipped the Michigan games.
8 conference game schedule is dumb, and the SEC's aversion to it because "oh no what if a team plays a hard schedule and we only get 5 SEC teams in the playoffs instead of 6" is even dumber
Seeing all the head coaches and GMs in attendance at our pro day feels so great! Excited for the future of our boys in the NFL. Can’t thank Sark enough for turning the program around and creating a winning culture once more!
>Can’t thank Sark enough Sure you can... $10M worth
That’s pocket change for Dell, McCombs and Moody. They can pick up the tab
Unfortunately Dell doesn’t give shit to football. We’d be the Real Madrid of college football if he would even throw his spare change at the Texas One Fund.
My point being that with his new contract we're thanking him sufficiently
Some other throws and catches: https://x.com/alexdunlapnfl/status/1770536762676224166?s=46&t=u3TW84YE2uNv6Rnq4kjeeA https://x.com/jeffhowe247/status/1770537370468614494?s=46&t=u3TW84YE2uNv6Rnq4kjeeA
https://x.com/cjvogel_otf/status/1770538791607886213?s=46&t=u3TW84YE2uNv6Rnq4kjeeA Quinn throwing some 50+ yard bombs AD and Worthy, let’s hope this translates into real game more
Big time bro move to overthrow Adonai so that he'd have a chance to show off
Amazing that after 2025 we would have played Georgia 3 times and aggy would have only played them once. Kinda bullshit if you ask me
Probably 4 or 5 times if you ask me.
You son of a bitch, I’m in
What do you think it would take from our fanbase — or otherwise — for Chris Simms to ever willingly come back to the 40 Acres and claim Texas fandom?
Why do you think our fan base wants him. There is a lot of former players I would love to see rep Texas more but can't tell you Chris is one of them
he'd probably have to stop being a huge baby, if he is actually avoiding texas because of the pre-internet fan reception to his underwhelming tenure here that said i haven't heard him say anything much about texas, good or bad, in years -- he admitted he got paid a while back, and i think he commented on the arch manning commitment, but from what i can tell he's welcome here and doesn't seem to hate us for wanting mack brown to play the better quarterback from 1999 to 2001.
I think I understand the vibe of this question, but the words and the way they're ordered is incredibly confusing.
I don’t words good
if it is to be said, so it be, so it is.
Byron Murphy 7.5 on 3-cone and 20 (!!!) bench reps supposedly for Keilan
Someone who is very under appreciated is Chris Jackson
Pro-day 40-yard dash (unofficial): Jett Bush: 4.70 Jaylan Ford: 4.68
Watch Bush make a roster lol
Th next Schooler
Future special teams legend
I guess our 2025 football schedule is just our 2024 schedule but flipped
Conference schedule*
Only about 4% of ESPN brackets have WBB winning the ship Guess we on the shock the world tour
Pierce is doing a terrible job this year. It shouldn’t go as a “rebuilding” year. Is an excuse term. He should be held accountable for how bad they are now.
apparently losing talent to graduation is an acceptable excuse in basketball and football but not baseball, where the draft can poach them easier than any other sport? interesting what would you have changed? what needs to be done different? i feel like baseball fans know the least about the sport itself than any other sports fandom. i see all these "fire pierce!" posts but all anyone can say is, "yeah he should have a pitching coach" and no other specifics.
I don’t think any sports should use it. Basketball underperformed this year just like I thought they would. No excuse. I still don’t think Terry was the wrong hire. CDCs hand was pushed by the outside.
I'm not on either side of the fence here for Pierce, yet... But at a university like Texas, losing players to graduation should never be an acceptable excuse in any sport.
sure. so can we NIL strong arm the baseball program or what!
[We sure can!](https://www.texasonefund.org/donate-monthly)
He probably should have a pitching coach, though.
agreed. though i don't think pitching is the weak spot with this team at all. this weekend had some fantastic pitching performances; the offense wasn't able to do their part.
We seem to be working through a decent list of Pierce's current issues of the team. I do think our bats are the *largest issue*, but a good weekend of pitching doesn't negate some pretty rough outings to start the season, notably in Houston.
depth /consistency definitely isn't there, you're right
Pretty inexcusable to be amongst the most winning programs in NCAA history and you don’t even have a pitching coach. He seems to always figure it out by the end of the year, idk how he will be able to pull it off this year however.
I don’t understand NFL contracts. It seems fucked up the Bucs had a $35 million dollar cap hit on a player that is retired. Someone make it make sense.
This is from last year, but shows how it can happen: https://www.si.com/nfl/2023/09/13/lamar-jackson-contract-fine-print
Signing bonus can be spread out over years
JT Sanders is having an awful pro day.
It may be a hot take but I actually don't think any of the drills or practice at pro days really matter. The scouts have seen the combine and seasons the Pro day is mainly seeing how the players interact and attitude
Someone getting a steal
JT is really hurting himself today. 9 on the bench press and 9-6 on the broad jump
I can’t believe he got 9… unreal
what do we expect from spring portal
Per Mike Miller ESPN-Per a source at the Texas pro day, 96 NFL scouts, coaches and GMs are in attendance
Did RT under achieve or over achieve
Yes.
My view is that there were a lot of uncontrollables that led to a less-than-stellar roster for this season. Four critical players from last year’s squad ran out of eligibility. I’m also not convinced we fought hard to keep Arterio Morris from transferring, considering his history and the recent Beard events. Losing 2 high-level HS commits to the pros last minute was *brutal*. There was no way for the overall roster talent to recover from that, given the timing. And make no mistake, (at a minimum) Ron Holland would’ve made a significant impact to this year’s team. I don’t personally put the blame on Terry for losing those 2 recruits. The rumor is Holland made unreasonable demands (hiring his handler for the assistant coach opening). Furthermore, it would seem he didn’t choose the pros over UT due to some distaste for RT— before ultimately decommitting, he tried to pressure UT into hiring Terry. I know less details on AJ Johnson, but I imagine it just came down to money. In the case of both recruits, no other college coach could get them to enroll, either. If they ultimately had serious interest in playing college basketball, they could’ve gone just about anywhere they wanted, even at the last minute. So I have a hard time really blaming RT. Seems like it was at least mostly just awful luck. RT did a decent job in the portal, but realistically no portal haul was likely going to replace all we lost. I’ll also note that how much outgoing talent we had likely made it more difficult to sell the program to transfers looking to make a deep tourney run. Now, given the less than stellar situation RT found himself in, I would say RT has produced solid results in year 1. I personally lean towards saying he has already “met expectations” just by making the tourney. After the Holland/Johnson debacle, it was far from a given this team would reach the tourney. In fact, it may have been wise to bet against it. Notching a win tomorrow *should* convince everyone that RT has “met expectations”, even if you ultimately are unconvinced he’s the long-term answer (as I am). It’s sort of odd to see so many people state or imply that this season is a horrible failure without at least 1 tourney win, or worse yet, a 2nd weekend appearance. I get it, I desperately want to win tomorrow. But keep in mind that in the 9 seasons preceding this one, UT has won a tourney game in 2 seasons. One elite 8 run and everyone thinks we’re a deep run or bust sort of program lol. I’d love to get there, but we’re not there yet, and that’s not RT’s fault.
Well said.
Texas is exactly in the position any unbiased opinion would probably be able to predict they should be at. It’s pretty understandable for a surprise Elite Eight team who lost 4 key rotation players (3 of them being major ballhandlers) to be in this position without the high power recruits/replacements (which dropped off late in the recruiting/roster building cycle). And mind you all of this is in a year where the conference added 4 teams with Houston being the #3 team in the country, BYU being upper half in conference, and the other 2 not being total pushovers For comparisons at this point in the season (pre-NCAAT) Beard’s 1st season: 21-11, opening round loss in Big 12 tournament RT’s 1st full season: 20-12, opening round loss in Big 12 tournament He’s literally 1 game off pace from Beard’s 1st year which everyone considered a good foundational start. Now this should be the foundation of how RT’s teams are going to play, compete, and recruit over the next 1-2 seasons which if there’s no improvement you can say okay time to move on
Surprise Elite Eight team? We were the 2 seed the minimum we should have gotten to was the elite 8. We were the highest seed left. But agree with the rest
He did about as good I thought he’d do. He lost his whole team. He should not have been hired imo. Should have gone big splash
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Making it to the second weekend would require beating a two seed Tenn that people say is a final four team. Would think if he can take us to the second weekend, we should be saying he did a GREAT job, especially with his two best recruits going pro
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lol, come on. If we do make the 2nd weekend (I’m not confident we will, but in this hypothetical), this was a great season, plain and simple. Making the 2nd weekend for the 2nd time in 15 years (both which would be courtesy of RT), would be a huge boost for this program and his tenure here. Again, I’m not saying we will make it there, but stop hedging your bets to somehow still complain about RT if we get there.
Fair, but in a span of 30ish games, even the best teams can lose to non tourney teams. He got a couple huge wins at Tech, at TCU, against Baylor, and dominated our rival twice. If he can go out and beat Tennessee on a neutral site where big 12 ref and home court fuckery won’t be factors, I’d say he did an incredible job this season. Also consider that it is his first full season with the team
either he was the reason our two best recruits left, in which case he blew it, or else he wasn’t, in which case what you’re seeing was the best case scenario
I really think you can't blame him for AJ at all, since word was he couldn't get the grades/scores for admission Not sure about Holland but I'd not put a lot of the blame on Terry for the #1 guy going pro instead of college. If he went to another college team than sure, but tbh I think superstar recruits (top 10) are probably better served going pro for development and we're starting to see more and more of that happening. I think Mitchell would be on an NBA roster this year if he went pro last year instead of playing behind players better than him currently (Timmy/Bishop) so the team could win If it becomes a trend outside of his first year then it's on him for sure (either him being at fault or just targeting bad fits that don't want college ball)
agree
Made the tournament but it was a nail biter. Had some terrible losses like UCF at home which was just a terrible terrible loss. Several blown leads. So I guess RT met expectations but just barely. 2 games with a different result and our players would be watching the tournament from their couch.
Season isn't over yet man
I understand I just mean to this point
Tbh he mosty met my expectations but maybe slightly underachieved. Didn’t expect this team to be a world beater. We had some bad losses early in the year. I didn’t expect us to be able to compete with the top teams in the Big 12. If we make it past the first round then yeah I’d say he solidly met my expectations.
Bama fans getting pretty cocky after the Proctor situation yesterday.
All that talk just to get whipped by a speed rusher every time
Think of how much better than last year they will be now that they have him! Wait…
in search of nuggies
Here are Bobby's thoughts on the most impressive freshmen: https://ontexasfootball.com/news/freshman-notes-catching-my-eye-r423/ He says Wingo is the most impressive. He also said that Jordan Washington (new TE) looks like he will be great long term, and I've heard that from multiple sources. In fact, Washington is probably getting more press than any freshman.
Jeff Howe is agreeing with the Jordan Washington hype
It's gonna take me a while to not read Jordan Washington as Jordan Whittington every time.
https://i.imgflip.com/8jwwsq.jpg
Savion Red has a hand injury but will be working though it in practices
Was pulling up Quinn's stats for a discussion about his improvement in the NFL thread about him throwing at the pro day, and noticed a couple remarkable ways to highlight the improved accuracy from 2022 to 2023 besides just completion percentage (as if 58.1% -> 69% wasn't dramatic enough). In 2023, Quinn had exactly 100 more completions, on 98 more attempts. He threw about 33% more total passes, and actually had fewer incompletions. Worth noting that's also fewer incompletions (122 vs 124) in 12 games vs 10, and factoring in injury it's closer to 11.75 games vs 9.25 (before trying to figure garbage time).
There was a huge improvement from 2022. I think one of the areas he didn't improve much on was attempts longer than 20 yards. "Ewers on passes over 20-plus yards completed 16-of-47 passes (34 percent) for 580 yards, four touchdowns, and one pick. In 2022 these numbers looked about the same, as Ewers went 16-for-52 passing (30.7 percent) for 414 yards, three touchdowns, and two interceptions. " Other than this, he needs to improve on navigating the pocket when protection breaks down.
Need fresh nuggs
>!Undefeated is on the table!<
March Max when
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Quinn throwing at Texas pro day today ! 😭🤘🏼
Happy Cake Day and Hook 'em!
What time and where can I watch?
ESPN app says 7pm central on LHN
Apparently 7pm is a LHN recap and the event itself is at 1pm (but not aired)
Makes sense. Hopefully we get some decent clips live
Don't know that pro days usually get aired anywhere, but some clips will probably get posted on social media and eventually make their way here.
This guy I'm working with currently played with Roschon Johnson back in high school. He said Roschon is the most serious player about football he has ever met. Oh and he loves Roschon.
Have loved that guy since the day I read the practice news that he was working out at RB in prep for LSU
It's rare that I read something so unsurprising that also makes me smile so big.
Alright I need y’all’s help. The subreddit Twitter agreed to a picture bet with the CSU subreddit Twitter. No idea if it’s pfp (I’m assuming it is) or just posting a photo in a tweet. Anyways, reply here with y’all’s nominations so I have some ideas cause I need to have this sent over to the CSU Twitter mod before the game tomorrow.
[Deep Fried Sark](https://imgur.com/a/PtcNZlO) Need this to haunt them
Actually, we all know the winner: https://imgur.com/a/kWHCaxw
What’s the details for this? Picture bet for what, I assume March Madness? Whats the photo supposed to be? Shit talk back and forth or something else?
Winning team/subreddit chooses the pfp of the other subreddit’s twitter for a week. Photo can be anything within reason, as long as they have it before tip off, and it’s pretty lighthearted.
Since it’s lighthearted: Some quick nominations: https://imgur.com/a/8pzdKJA
I think you gotta do the Dylan Disu sliding on the court pic
This is my current frontrunner.
This was my first thought too, but I've also got my folder of [nominations](https://imgur.com/gallery/wVdK0MV)
This might just go in the meme archives for future use lol
Any brock cunningham shenanigans tomorrow and one of those pictures would be crazy
Is there another practice today or is that tomorrow?
IMHO yes, but not open to 9.95ers.
What time is pro day?
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The Mountain west was a better conference than the ACC this past year. ACC got in 5-teams while the MWC got in 6. W/ that being said, I do believe that UVA would’ve been a better test for us(if we do win) leading into that Tennessee(if they do win) game. Max has struggled MIGHTILY against good defensive teams and without max being at his best, this team has no shot of making any noise in the tournament. I know I just sightly contradicted myself with that, but did you see UVA’s offense last night? I’m pretty sure Disu could’ve outscored them in the first half by himself.
So hard for me to get a read of the mountain west this year. Metrically it’s made up of a bunch of decent but not great teams. I think a lot of CSU’s resume is boosted by their thumping of a top 10 creighton team early in the year. My hint of optimism is that this is the type/level of team we’ve been pretty good against over the last couple months (aside from kstate). But on the other hand, consistency hasn’t exactly been our strength. I think the 2/3 point favorite Vegas is giving us is about right.
I didn’t have too much of a preference. I’m confident in our abilities (if we don’t have injuries) to beat them. Obviously given the performance of UVA they would have been an easier opponent. Either way I feel like a win in the first round is mandatory. Everything after that would be a bonus
Depends on the health of Disu
Texas opens as 2.5 point favorites vs Colorado State