Flotsam

These videos upset me in many ways.

Lache Seastrunk will make you feel better Sailor…oh wait, nevermind.

See the field in person before you overreact to the paint color (Orangebloods fans style). It is actually quite a nice looking field.

Newy,

You’re assuming I haven’t seen the field, which would be wrong.

It’s off.

Unless I’ve gone colorblind, which is entirely possible from having to work in this inhumane underground sweatshop.

Greatest. cover. ever.

I feel ya, Sailor.

I am partial to the run below because the camera angle shows his ridiculous acceleration very well.

There now are approximately 18 different shades of “burnt” orange in various places around our stadium.

In the first video, check out Jonathan Scott(?) get a great block off the line and make it to the secondary and block the safety (Nic Harris, maybe?) while JC is spinning. God, those guys were good.

As great as that run was, three Sooners basically tried to tackle eachother instead of Charles. As Longhorn fans we all recognized that technique instantly.

It was also the only significant run I recall that Charles ever busted through the tackles and took to the house. He liked the sidelines.

When Ron Franklin says, “he’s gone” with 65 yards to go, it brings a tear to my eye.

Listen, I apologize if I’ve mentioned this before, but there is footage out there of Whaley’s last track meet in high school. You have to see it. I haven’t seen the actual film, but I have seen a photo montage, which may make it more hilarious. Anyway, the guy gets blown out, I mean left in the dust, in something that looks like the 200 by some 220 pound defensive end backup from a Dallas private school. A whiteboy. I saw the stuff with my own eyes. I am not sanguine about this dude ever contributing from the TB spot while on campus.

Maybe he can get his shit together, who knows. He’s overweight and won’t be a contributor this year, that I promise.

Maybe we need to recruit the white boy. We could always use more tight ends.

Think we can spin Whaley down to a DT?

maybe whaley can just be the token fat guy

“Think we can spin Whaley down to a DT?”

Whaley and Tevin Mims are about the same size, so I don’t see why not. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if Whaley weighed about 290 four years from now.

I am, obviously, also not really feeling Whaley at TB, particularly in our scheme, which is like kryptonite to RB’s like Whaley.

“particularly in our scheme, which is like kryptonite to RB’s like Whaley.”

I think we’ve established this is true of anyone with the phrase “TB” after their name.

Not to completely discount the guys we have on campus, but it’s looking more and more like we won’t have a potential game-breaking RB like Charles on campus until at least 2011/12.

We have no idea how Shead’s ridiculous numbers in 1A will translate at the college level, which makes landing Aaron Green and/or Malcolm Brown imperative.

Whaley did have legit track speed as a junior. Looks like he is on his way to playing defensive end. We better offer another back this year.

Why can’t we cherry pick a RB in this class? Go find three or four smaller, Charles/Ramonce-like backs that you like and tell them that our leading rusher from the RB position ran for like 300 yards last year, and that we have no screaming studs either on campus or on the way.

There’s this guy – I’m thinking he has elegibility left:

why cant we give desean hales some looks in the backfield, i know he wont be able to pick up any kind of blocks but that kid can f’n burn

In regard to Brown, he’s not the burner you’re looking for. We have him on campus already times 2 or 3.

Whaley to TE. I’ve been saying it for months.

You dipshits are going to be eating so much crow in the next several years.

http://videos.utexasclan.com/view.php?id=7110

Whaley screen for TD in Army Bowl

It’ll be interesting to see if Mad Dog and the August Austin heat will knock a few pounds off of Whaley, and at least get him to fullback size.

You rang?

“You dipshits are going to be eating so much crow in the next several years.”

Nothing would please me more than if Whaley rushed for 8,000 yards and won four Heismans.

Well, Erin Andrews sitting on my face might please me more, but now we’re just arguing semantics.

You dipshits are going to be eating so much crow in the next several years.

I hope Whaley breaks out at Texas as much as the next Longhorn fan, but did you seriously just post a clip of Whaley where he took two steps, turned around, caught the ball, turned around again, and ran in a straight line with nobody touching him as evidence that he’s a badass? It’s not even like he pulled away from anyone in that clip.

He’s not a burner, but those are FBS bound corners and safeties who couldn’t catch him (one gave up and the other had a bad angle).

Its not proof that he’s a speedster. Its proof that he’s not “too slow for RB” as has been the talk. The DT talk is just silly.

He had a 5-yard head start in a 30-yard race.

The DT talk is intentionally silly. Have you seen our DT depth chart?

So as not to disappoint my many fans, I will report that I actually calculated that the last finisher in the 2A Boys’ 100 meter dash final at the state meet could hold off Usain Bolt in a 30-yard race with a 5-yard head start.

The good news for Whaley is that Traylon Shead’s time in the 1A final wouldn’t hold Bolt off in that scenario.

Good lord.

You have to show your work in order to get credit.

His straight line speed is fine. It is the quickness and hip flexibility that is lacking. Only Hills and Whitaker have that at Texas now.

100*1.09361329833771/9.59 = 11.4036840285475
100*1.09361329833771/11.18 = 9.78187207815481
11.4036840285475-9.78187207815481 = 1.62181195039271
30/9.78187207815481 = 3.0668976
3.0668976*1.62181195039271 = 4.97393117831074 < 5

Q.E.D.

Units cost extra.

Should I be depressed because I can follow what Huckleberry calculated, and it makes perfect sense?

Why do you multiply by 1.0936…? Not that it matters since it factors out.

He’s converting meters to yards.

Kid ran in and flashed the Horns. Gotta like that.

Is the debate about whether the kid could be a bad ass running back or whether the kid can be a bad ass running back in our offense?

1 meter = 1.09…. yards

It doesn’t factor out because one product is subtracted from the other, not divided by the other. If I hadn’t multiplied there I would have had to divide the 30 and the 5 by the same value later on.

Nate -

Yes.

I think the argument is about both. Some of it is whether Whaley will ever be a good running back at this level, some of it is resignation to the belief that our offensive staff can’t utilize that type of back even if he does (true or not).

I’d like to apologize to Vasherized, though. Normally I try to limit my threadkilling to HenryJames posts.

Well, you certainly have done your best to kill it. Or to put it to sleep.

In regard to Whaley, I’ll take bets from anyone that wants to make them that Whaley never runs for more than a 1200 yards at Texas in his career, much less in a single season. Cash bets on the net are dumb, so let’s bet for Internet superiority. It shouldn’t take long to win for me, since he’ll be at another position by next year, or he’ll have transferred. Few things have been more obvious.

Make it interesting. If you lose, you have to either adopt Huckleberry’s posting style or post as ‘scally’ on all public boards for a year.

I would have thought without converting up front you would get this for the last line.

(y/(m/s))*(m/s)=y

Huckleberry / 2 = CloseToJumping

The purpose of this post was to spread a general sense of malaise, instill a renewed appreciation for calculus, and to lure CTJ into spontaneous Internet betting.

By those measures it’s a success. All it’s missing is a little mysogyny.

Moral of the story: Jamaal Charles is faster than Chris Whaley or any other back on campus for the next two years unless we decide to buy one at the last minute.

Q.E.D.

I know for a fact that when Whaley’s fate comes to pass CTJ will show up to obnoxiously beat his chest and ruthlessly heckle anyone who dared to disagree whether anyone takes his bet here or not. Otherwise I’d totally do it just to make sure.

For more good news it’s looking like Aaron Green isn’t really an option for us so it’s time to start talking about how Bradley Marquez is clearly the better prospect.

@Huckleberry

Impressive maths, but it was a 47 yd catch and run.

Recalculating with 47 gives 7.7924 > 5

So Bolt beats the poor 2A kid by almost 3 yds.

What that means, I don’t know, but good for Usain.

I guess the question is, does Usain have eligibility, and has Mack called yet?

Whaley = Melton (I hope)

I thought that the field color was spot on. Or at least it matched the nike dryfit shirt I was wearing.

I really like that Marquez’s units, way better than Green’s

This made the back of my eyes hurt.

“He had a 5-yard head start in a 30-yard race…”

on the plus side though, he also had a 5-yard lead at the end.

although I’m not convinced he’ll help anyone win CTJ’s bet…