Post Tech Drunken/Hungover Drivel

Very cutesy.

uhhh . . . Thanks.

General, I am impressed by the food and beverage review you managed to slip into your football analysis.

The t.v. announcers were somewhat subdued, though Musburger got a little excited when he remembered the bass-boat clip they had of McCoy and Shipley. And you missed a clip of Shipley playing the guitar (passably) and singing (without a mic; which, all things considered, was probably a wise move on the producer’s part).

CTJ endorses the use of #8 smiley-face, by the way.

3) We can break this down one hundred different ways, argue, and obsess incessantly (and we will do all of this until OU), but the bottom line is that our offensive line is doing a really bad job.

After watching what I’ve been told is the most athletic, experienced OL in college football history for a good bit of the Washington game I felt a lot better about ours.

It’s all relative I guess.

RE: #‘s 11, 12 & 13. Greg Davis giveth and Greg Davis taketh away. Thought the first half was as inept a half of offensive football I had seen Texas play in….a week. Pretty much a carbon copy of Wyoming without the sudden TD drive to end the half. A mixture of Davis’ dreaded East-West offense (negating our size/speed advantages) and Colt over-throwing open receivers. Still not much answer for a decent defense sitting on our bread-and-butter intermediate routes.

Credit Davis for speeding the tempo after halftime, feeding the ball to Tre Newton and dusting off some wrinkle plays that actually worked in a game that meant something. Credit Colt for settling down and hitting Shipley and Buckner consistently.

RE: #17 and horseshit PF calls on Muck and Randall.

Those calls were part of about a five minute stretch in which the officials lost their minds and I thought the game had been instantly teleported to Lubbock. Tech’s previous possession had ended in a TD on an egregious pick play. Right after the bogus PF’s you mention, there was a blatantly obvious hold on the corner that was not flagged in which the Tech blocker reached out and grabbed the back of Acho’s jersey from behind. Muschamp did a nice job giving the refs an earful on the pick play and Tech did get flagged for the next one later in the 4th that helped us.

This is shaping up as a weird year all over the country with multiple upsets and no one really settling in and dominating. Despite the undeniable concerns you summarize nicely mixed in with Fear and Loathing in Austin, I am happy/relieved with the win.

Mustburger did point out that the insurance policy that the McCoy’s took out on Colt was “completely legal.” So we have that going for us, which is nice. He also went into a fit at one point and called Emmanuel Acho “achoo” about 3 times in a row. Other than that it was par for the course.

I did enjoy being able to rewind my DVR and watch tub of goo Ruffin McNeil jump up and down celebrating a play. His pants defy physics. My buddy correcly pointed out that he bears a striking resemblance to Grimace.

Grimace reference make General giggle.

General, great stuff. Your’s is the only Barker post on the Tech game so far.

3) is our OL that bad and, if so, is there anything that can be done before the OU game?

4) UT did not play that well in the first half last year against OU. Colt had 3 WRs in his circle of trust last season: Ship, Quan, and Collins. Quan and Collins are gone. Ship caught 11 against Tech. Unless Venables is completely stupid, he will double team Ship. It might be a good idea to rest Buckner for a game or two so that his leg can heal before the OU game.

5) Colt is throwing high quite often but that seems like it might be correctable.

6) Colt will be throwing to Malcolm next Saturday. I noticed that GD called a screen to Chiles immediately after Chiles dropped the snap in wild horn formation. Good for GD. Pretty sure that GD wants to get Chiles and Malcolm integrated into the offense so that Colt has at least 5 WRs to throw to against OU. My guess is that Chiles has moved ahead of Malcolm (in Colt’s circle of trust).

7) Tre is doing great but hasn’t Tre Newton gotten most of his snaps in the 2nd half when the opposition D is beat down a bit? Is there any way that Tre runs as well against OU as he did against Tech? Presumably we have seen (in the Tech game) most of the new wrinkles the horns would normally have unveiled in the OU game.

Musberger and Herbstreet are Big 10 guys who desperately want UT to lose so that some Big 10 team has a chance for the MNC. Musberger was blatant and Herbstreet was more subtle.

9) Muschamp coached DBs in the NFL so maybe he can will give Akina some direction.

When protecting a lead, GD needs to be much less concerned about quick strikes and more concerned about down and distance and ball control. The D line was quite tired by the end of the game and the offense needs to help them out by giving them a rest by stretching drives out.

When Colt is passing inaccurately, GD needs to call short passes to restore Colt’s confidence.

As for Mushberger and Herbie’s commentary, the only stand out thing was every time Mushburger said “red raiders”. I was watching the game with a friend who was not much in to football (I know, blasphemy), and since we’re in Georgia, he also doesn’t care about Texas football. But the moment Mushburger said “red raiders”, my friend looked at the screen and said “Did he just call them the rump rangers?”

From then on, neither of us could keep a straight face. By the end of the night they became the Texas Tech Butt Pirates.

And all this was accomplished without alcohol. I’m a talented person, I tell you.

UGA:

Watching the game sober with a friend that knows nothing about football sounds like an epic thrashing. Unless this “friend” happens to be a hot chick. In which case, carry on.

Actually, I’m the chick. And the no alcohol was done for 2 reasons:

1) Friend can’t drink due to medical conditions. And “massively hungover” is not a medical condition. As in “could lead to death quickly.” medical condition.

2) I had already polished off nearly all of a bottle of wine the night before. I was not particularly in the mood to drink.

Never said he “knows nothing”, just that he wasn’t in to it very much. But watched it because I wanted to watch both the Texas and the Georgia game. (I have to have some small loyalty to my grad school.)

Still, the Texas Tech Rump Rangers nearly made me fall off the couch. And I did when he continued it with the Texas Tech Butt Pirates.

The more “r”-based alliteration Musberger can rattle off, the better.

“Returning Red Raiders ready redshirt running-back Ryan Roberson for the Red River Rivalry.”

If UGAHorn is in fact a chick, that almost makes up for the fact Tim still posts here. I know stirring the pot is good for business, but that dude flat wears me out with his idiocy.

kafka – some very good observations. I would probably tend to give Herbstreit a little more credit for objectivity than you do but I may be somewhat biased as I generally find him more listenable to than the rest. It does give me an opportunity to say f* Columbus though.

Watching the cushion our DBs gave the Tech WRs made me ill. I’ve long since given up on Akina; I think watching the Michigan WRs run free in the Rose Bowl was my final straw with him. He has some strengths, but apparently he’s too old to learn and unwilling or unable to address his weaknesses.

Spot on re Davis, but that kind of strategic thinking on his part is wishful thinking. Unless he saw someone do it against us recently or it’s somewhere in his notes in one of his Shanahan binders.

I did not realize Muschamp had coached in the league. Had to look it up. Interesting.

Very solid points and enjoyed the visual of coed’s filling the empties. I decided to watch Florida/ Tebow/ Danielson earlier in the day so I could back up my smack of how Tebow is overrated…not Florida necessarily, but Tebow. It pained me. As if I was the 65 year old Crossing School Guard/ Concession stand worker/ ESPN Gameday sign approver having to allow “Austin has UT, Lubbock has Herpes” sign in after being passed a $20.

Urban is an offensive genius not due to his play calling but due to his recruiting of speed and talent. The offense is boring. Tebow and Cody Johnson would compete in a small town for their after college flag football team @ QB. I’ve often wondered if my views were biased; hence the reason for me watching a full Florida game. I’ve wondered if the state of Florida or Ohio viewed VY as an overrated player…the answer is “no” thanks to national coverage of the MF’er making incredible historical plays. I can’t say the same for Tebow.

Why is Danielson all over his sac. I have some playing history and feel knowledgeable of the game, but am very impressed w/ the BarkingCarnival team. There’s got to be something more than what I witnessed.

Final thought, Colt had the flu all week and played the weakness as I would have. Not mention to anyone and just play balls to the wall no excuses. It was leaked by some insiders but didn’t get up to the broadcast booth. Now after watching the Florida game, I would have thought Danielson would have turned the booth upside down searching for excuses for Tebow’s terrible play but he didn’t. Now, imagine if Tebow had the flu…top story on ESPN and would have been an automatic Heisman after week 3.

It would appear that Colt is playing too confident and forcing the issue more than he has in the past. I wish that he would be content to throw the ball into the stands more often rather than take the ten yard sack after he has held the ball for over five seconds.

On the option play he made a mistake that would get a JV QB a blistering from the Coach. That being not taking the ball quickly to the end forcing him to commit and not be able to fall off and make the play on the pitch man. Those in my area that were screaming how stupid the GD play call was need to be screaming for GD the QB Coach to correct the mistake of a player.

GD made a great move in the second half by bringing in a TE, gaining the sixth blocker while Tech did not reciprocate and bring another defender into the box as well. In the first half we had five blockers on six defenders leaving one man unblocked on every running play. With the TE we now had six on six. On the Counter (which I have heard many bemoan that we do not run enough of) the defense brought the Safety into the box very late and the blockers did not have time enough to make an adjusting line call. Everyone in my area was screaming at the stupidity of Greg Davis but sometimes you have to tip your hat to the other teams DC.

On the topic of tipping ones hat to the other teams DC, the Tech DC has done an incredible job in the last two years of turning their defense from a twenty dollar street walker to a $500 an hour escort. Kudos to him

Yassir:
Have to agree with you, Colt rarely throws the ball away (ever).

You are on the right track about the option play but it should also be mentioned that Tech brought up a safety to the run side so Colt should have optioned out of the play (but did not). There was no way that play had a chance at working because Tech had UT outnumbered at the point of attack.

Re: the use of the TE, my guess is that Mack is mostly passing in the first half to wear out the opposition DL (i.e. because they are rushing the UT QB so much). Mack then runs much more in the 2nd half when the opposition DL is tired. Mack has been very clear in the past that it is much easier to run the ball in the 2nd half than the 1st half. This approach works if you are protecting a lead.

I was elated to see UT run more in the second half because I thought Tech was vulnerable to the run and because I wanted the horns to run clock.

What did you think of the wild horn plays (one big run by Chiles and one drop of the snap by Chiles)?

Great recap General! Made bail last night so all it well.