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8straight said:
October 13th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Unless you have stood next to Colt you probably don’t realize that he has some size to go along with his other talents.
I like Gundy. I guess you could say he made the right QB choice. It’s tough when a billionaire is looking over your shoulder all the time.
Mockingbird said:
October 13th, 2008 at 9:02 am
“2. Alabama: Yes, the Tide has an argument, but do you really think Texas would struggle with Tulane or Kentucky?”
Which is what I say to SEC co-workers. Look at the full body of work.
How many D1a teams has Clemson beat in 6 games — and is that Bama win really a big deal, right now?
Chris Simms said:
October 13th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Sam Bradford plays with a virtuosity seldom seen. To put it in terms of this rivalry, the kid has Chris Simms skills and Jason White brains.
“Chris Simms skills?” Keep dreaming. I doubt if that kid is capable of turning over the ball even half as often as I did.
lowery said:
October 13th, 2008 at 10:27 am
You were pretty god damned good Chris.
steven said:
October 13th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Odds are high that Texas and Penn State will roll into the MNC game, and I like Texas’s odds in that match up. Bama could make it if they run through the SEC slate, but the odds of that happening are little less likely. Hopefully, Bama falters down the line. They are team I’d just care to avoid.
There do not seem to be too many high caliber teams in college football this year, which is a plus for Texas. The only teams that could possibly knock off Texas are USC or one of top SEC teams. Aside from them, any loss Texas suffers for the rest of the season will be cause they aren’t play up to par or cause of some major chance fluke. And with the character of this particular Texas team and they way they play, the chances of either happening on the way to a MNC are not that high. Also, this Texas team is only going to continue to improve and get better and better as the season goes on. If you are a Horn fan, as the saying goes, the future is so bright we gotta wear shades.
Scipio Tex said:
October 13th, 2008 at 11:37 am
A week ago you had Alabama crowned as the clear best team in college football, steven.
We’d whip Alabama, BTW. And the rest of their schedule is a layup with the exception of a trip to Baton Rouge and the SEC title game against Florida/Georgia.
Alabama has a garbage QB and passing game. They’d be lucky to score 14 on us.
Penn St, Florida and USC are actually tougher matchups for us.
steven said:
October 13th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Alabama has a garbage QB and passing game. They’d be lucky to score 14 on us.
Yeah, I admit it can seem that way with this Bama team and some SEC teams in general, but that shouldn’t mean you should go and start picking a fight with one of them or start wanting to pick one. I don’t care about the rankings or how the hell they look, off and on, in a game or two, here and there. That conference is by far (and I mean by far) the most physical and most athletic conference in the nation. If Bama goes through that slate unscathed (and I don’t care how they look doing it), then that would suggest that they are pretty formidable team. Look I’m not saying Texas couldn’t beat them, but I also wouldn’t be thinking that the odds were in our favor of coming out on top against them, either. Just look back on the LSU and OU game a few years back for reference. I don’t believe that LSU looked all that pretty boy going through that conference while OU did, but LSU sure did physically beat up on the Sooners in the one game where they met up.
Penn State plays in the B10 which is on the slow footed side, to put it kindly. Probably Penn State does not have the physicality or the outright overall team speed to have better odds than us of winning.
USC? Don’t know much about them. But, from what I have seen, I haven’t been too impressed with Sanchez. Colt is clearly the better QB and the last time we played USC, their O-line and excellent QB play is what gave us troubles. I would say that both are not as good for USC this year. Unless their D is better than it seems right now, I doubt their O with an inconsistent Sanchez leading it could keep up with us, even if our D allowed the game to turn into a shoot out. And also I think Texas is just really freaking good this year. Almost comparable to the 2005 team, and, in my opinion, better than that team in many ways. If we can put a running game together (and I believe we can with Fozzy. I think he will make that much of a difference.), then I would be tempted to consider this team about as good as or even better than our MNC team and certainly better than that team on a consistency basis, week in and week out.
Florida? Haven’t seen much of them, but they have no run game which is not good considering Tebow is an inconsistent passer and a questionable decision maker in the passing game. He also is probably an overrated runner as well. He runs like a Mack truck, but he is about as slow as one as well. The physicality of Florida’s lines on both sides of the ball seem to be somewhat questionable this year. And I know, they just shut down LSU’s running game, but then you can do that alot easier when the other team has difficulty throwing as LSU does. It seems that if you aren’t overmatched by the speed of Florida’s midget, fast as hell, skill players, then you can seriously put a dent in the progress of their O.
Bama? I’m just afraid that they would run right over us. And I know, we have been great against the run, and traditionally so, but then, just look back to the USC game and how their physical O-line just manhandled our D. Tackles. Possibly Bama could do something very similar to us, especially when you consider our D has been reconfigure to an extent to handle the spread, not ram it down your throat, old school O’s. And probably Bama’s D is better than either Florida’s and better than OU’s. I would say that Bama’s D is more athletic than OU’s and I also don’t see them wearing out at the end of the game against us, either. So given all that, I would just care to avoid Bama in the MNC, and any SEC team for that matter, but especially Bama. I think it is pretty clear that they are the class of the SEC right now.
Anyway, that’s my take on the matter. Again not saying I’m right, but given what I have seen so far, that’s how I view it as of now.
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EyesOfTX said:
October 14th, 2008 at 3:30 am
I think I’d have to rank Penn State over Alabama at this point. ‘Bama has one truly impressive win, the first two quarters over Georgia (which Georgia followed by whipping ‘Bama all over the field in the last 2 quarters), and otherwise has shown to be good, but not all that great. Penn State has been kicking ass every week, and is finally getting the recognition it deserves. Almost.
HenryJames said:
October 14th, 2008 at 4:40 am
I don’t think it was as much Georgia ‘whipping Bama all over the field in the last two quarters’ as it was Alabama sitting on a huge lead. But they sometimes play down to their level of competition, and that is something we have yet to do.
steven said:
October 14th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Hey, never suggested what I wrote was exciting or even worth reading. Yea, I probably doze off if I had to read me, too.
Oh, I got to see the Texas/OU game one more time. We were clearly the better team. If we played them ten times, I figure we would win 7 or 8 times. Only the refs kept that game close. Without their assistance and incompetence, we would have held the Sooner O to 3 TDs or so. Our defense was more than a match for them. Also, it seems that the Sooners have no confidence in their corners. Probably why the middle was so open for the entire game. The Sooner D may not be as good as everyone believes, although they might not be tested again in B12 play. Just saying that Bama may not have the same weakness as the Sooners in the secondary.
steven said:
October 14th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Also, don’t know how anyone can think that Penn State could run with Bama. Hasn’t the last couple of MNC games and the overall sorry play of the B10 been enough to strongly suggest that a B10 would have difficulties matching up with a top notch SEC team. It seems to me that aside from OSU, the B10 does not have the athleticism to match up with the best of the best, and, even, Penn State seems to reflect that an extent. Bama would probably maul Penn State on both sides of the ball.
Also, is there a better defensive end out there than Orakpo. I guess there is one out there somewhere, but I have not seen him yet. ‘Rak is probably the best DE Mack has ever had at Texas. He is the one who puts that final exclamation point on this D of ours this year. My guess is that he will end up being a 1st round pick or a 2nd, at worse.
Art Vandelay said:
October 14th, 2008 at 10:51 am
steven reminds me of one of your kids toys that goes off at 3am for no reason. You stumble in the darkness, stepping on a stray Power Ranger before tossing the toy bus in the backyard. You can still hear the toy in the distance… “the wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round……”
Gene Claude said:
October 14th, 2008 at 11:01 am
I love the logic of:
1. Is there a better defensive end out there than Orakpo?
2. No!
3. He’ll be a first or second round pick.
I have nothing but kind things to say about Orakpo. Please do not misconstrue.
But I’m supposed to bother reading claptrap like this? There are, on average, four defensive ends taken in the first round of the NFL draft. In the immortal word of Ralph Wiggum, it is unpossible to simultaneously argue a player is the best at his position, then use the NFL draft as evidence of such, then support your argument by pointing out that your Number One may not be in the top four.
HenryJames said:
October 14th, 2008 at 11:05 am
But I’m supposed to bother reading claptrap like this?
It’s steven. Of course not.
Colby said:
October 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am
steven reminds me of one of your kids toys that goes off at 3am for no reason. You stumble in the darkness, stepping on a stray Power Ranger before tossing the toy bus in the backyard. You can still hear the toy in the distance… “the wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round……”
No need to be a dickhead, especially by resorting to ad hominem attacks without putting forth your own thoughts. Not all of us can write like Scip, and it’s not as if you’re very entertaining yourself there, Art.
Gene Claude said:
October 14th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Colby, I understand that sentiment, but you probably aren’t following (and I don’t blame you), steven’s incredible ad hominem rants on other Mizzou boards.
Like this steven
October 14, 2008 at 10:26 am • Edit “ut dude” may ass! More like, a pathetic, phoney baloney attempt by a Mizzou fan impostering as a Horn and pretending to give Mizzou the respect and adulation of the mighty mite Tiggars, you folks over here seem to so desire and crave – in your dreams. That post just about sums up and encompasses all the repressed and suppressed hopes and dreams of the respect with which Mizzou fans everywhere so desperately wished their mighty mite Tiggars were viewed by the rest of the CFB world and not just the po’ sisters of the north which they tend to beat up on lately. Oh, come on and give me a break. That you Mizzou Tiggar homers don’t have even have enough balls to come out and just stand by such statements as true blue Mizzou fans and not as impostering Horns is telling of just how much confidence you folks really have in your mighty mite Tiggars, when they are about to go and face a real and legit CFB team. I would say that you folks don’t seem to have much at all, and I am not saying that there is any fault in that. Hell, I wouldn’t have much either if I was unfortunate enough by fate and circumstance to be stuck rooting for that flimsy and flea led team of yours.
Look, I ain’t gonna be going anywhere for this coming week, so I be wrong and Mizzou actually comes to play down here in Austin, then I will be around to eat all the crow that the one or two visitors around here have to give, but I don’t think that is gonna happen and, from what I can tell, you folks on here don’t seem to be too confident that is gonna happen either. God, its good to be King. Too bad you Mizzou mighty mite Tiggars will probably never know how it really feels to be in the drivers seat of CFB. Hook’em Horns.
Gene Claude said:
October 14th, 2008 at 11:25 am
As for thoughts on this game, I have plenty, but I’ll save those for a more coherent post.
I do hope some of you guys will come over and read whatever claptrap we throw up at atomicteeth about the upcoming game. I need to watch the OSU tape (too depressed to do so yet), but it seemed that OSU did a fantastic job of jacking with Daniel/Christensen’s presnap reads and disguising coverages, and they had a very good read on our run tendencies and stunted their line to try to take away the point of attack.
My biggest and best hope for having any luck against UT is that Brown/Muschamp don’t feel like they need to game plan too much for Mizzou. I have a lot of confidence our offense can move the ball against defenses that Christensen/Daniel can decipher pre-snap, even one’s as stout as UT’s.
Art Vandelay said:
October 14th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Colby – there are 752 reasons to write what I did… but here is one shining example. Read the original post, and all the subsequent comments.
steven said:
October 14th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
I love the logic of:
1. Is there a better defensive end out there than Orakpo?
2. No!
3. He’ll be a first or second round pick.
I usually will not respond to something like this, and this is probably the last time I ever will from you, GC. Not that I’m upset or anything, it’s just a waste a time. Now, GC, I know you are looking for something to knock me down with, but surely you can do better than this.
Look, if you interpret those statements in a static sense, without the innuendos or connotations, then, yes, of course, it ends up logically inconsistent. But then, whose statements would not be so, if you took them in the same way?
What I was implying was that I am not so certain that ‘Rak is the best around, but just from my limited scope and based on the play of our previous DE’s, I believe he will go higher than them in the draft and possibly even land in the 1st round.
If you are not just bent on looking for contradictions, there is a level of uncertainty in my statments that is obvious, even to the casual reader, and I was just attempting to hedge against that uncertainty. Just wanted to say this for your sake, cause you don’t want to go around life and continue to argue like this. It won’t be good for you. To put it another way: arguing like that is about as bad as the way I write. Now do you understand? Now is what I just stated so hard to comprehend?
steven said:
October 14th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Actually, now that I think about it, you incidentally bring up a pretty good point. What your above post reflects is that a world without subjectivity is inherently flawed and would, by its very own nature, self-contradict.
In other words, a world that is completely objective and without subjectivity is impossible and incomprehensible. This is a good point, because most people who seek to know tend to forget this basic truth and, ironically almost as if by instinct, end up attempting to eradicate all traces of subjectivity, in their efforts to eliminate all traces of uncertainty from knowledge itself. By doing so, they believe they can finally achieve that elusive sense of certainty.
Obviously, as your little example points out, this is an impossible and futile task from the start and, quite poasibly, why our libraries are so big and so full such thick ass books that no body but weird ass dorks bothers to read. All those books, while well written, are attempting to accomplish an endeavor which from the very start is futile and impossible. Is it any wonder they end up being so thick and yet so irrelevant at the same time?
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