Rebuilding the Barnes Corp

Moultrie would be a great get. The notion that we run the Phoenix Suns offense makes me chuckle. I suppose we have CONCEPTS of the Phoenix Suns offense, but no desire or teaching to actuall y execute them.
 
The Sepoys, for the gunpowder era Indians. The Rajputs will be the 10th century dudes. Goddamn I love Deadliest Warrior. Too much, really. Did you see the total Guidos they had for the Jesse James vs. Al Capone face off? Hilarious.

I know nothing about the Rajputs, but I am very excited to see the legion. I too thought the atlatl would have been more effective. I still think it would be in group vs group battles.

The show kind of frustrates me with it’s focus on weapons, basically making the assumption that each warrior class is elite / highly trained. I get that each sim is supposed to represent an average warrior of that class, but look at the Spartans. Their weaponry was very standard, but we all know they kicked a bunch of ass because of how much they practiced.

The Phoenix Suns & the Indianapolis Colts – causing fans angst in Austin. If the Longhorns would just run those schemes, they would be unstoppable. Peyton Manning & Steve Nash have nothing to do with it.

That’s not aimed at you, Nickel. It’s the mindless, drooling ones with unrealistic expectations that read at a 2nd-grade level and believe that Texas will mudhole everyone in every sport because they are now running the same offenses that are run in pro leagues.

Cotcher, you are probably right but on the other hand Texas can build with better athletes than most other teams in the country. It’s not a terrible idea for Texas to mirror some pro-schemes where it is feasible.

Also, the beauty of the small-ball offense is that it works without loads of super talent provided you have plenty of shooters and a pro-level magician at point.

Scipio: yeah well I was just focusing on the players necessary to make it work. Last year’s team was full of talented players who just all lacked the basic skill of shooting. If you have loads of 3 pt shooters and a guard who can find them you will have success in college basketball no matter how simplistic you are in scheme or development. If they weren’t so tiny the DJ ‘horns could have been in the final four (or if they hadn’t been paired against Memphis).

And I was very satisfied with the Jesse James episode, it had everything that makes that show great. I love when they find enthusiasts for some backwards or evil group of people (like the ninja) who are living vicariously through these non-existent identities. The unintentional comedy takes it to another level.

Watch the look on the former Canadian special forces guy’s face when the jackanape with the golden chain tells him how the brass knuckles makes him a match for the special forces guy. “uh huh, let’s maybe see a demonstration of that.”

In an attemp to see what was coming up for the rest of the season, I found out that they did a sort of winner’s bracket encore to season 1. Hopefully they’ll do a replay soon.

I’m with you Rover. The unintentional comedy brought on by the chest swelling and trash talking is the best part of the show. The second best thing is the impressive use of skills that are obsolute and completely useless to destroy pig carcasses and body molds that have everything from blood to bones.

Zu – lu. ZU – LU! ZUUUU — LUUUU!

“Total Guidos”??! I think one of the worst forms of punishment is to just ignore.

Cross “sepoy” off the list of things I thought I might know about and Scip didn’t. I learned about it as I learn about everything, by playing Scrabble. I’m that cool.

Oh, and that was the list by the way. Now I’m off to brush up on my obscure Norse mythology. I’m gunning for you Scipio Tex.

Can we get a thread that combines Deadliest Warrior and Conference re-alignment? I feel we’re really slighting the two topics.

The best thing USA soccer has going for it is our draw. I expect us to survive group, and then look really uninspired in group play. Just like the highschool team that finished third in district with a 6-4 record going up against a Lake Travis type.

Well if yer a zulu who digs Pearl Jam or blog fer barkin Carnival or yer sum kinda noertic orickul psychic yer probly jussa terrrist. I am not capable of making that distinction.

Sepoys didn’t look so good against the Chinese though. But yeah, bullets will stop a human phalanx.

As to the US team — I don’t like some of Bradley’s selections, but I understand his decisions. Except for Kljistens and Pearce — those are indefensible. The US team will play Bradley ball — we won’t hold possession, we’ll pack the middle of the field, and we’ll look to counter attack and score off of set pieces. Unfortunately, they style is more effective against stylish, technical teams like the Spanish (and yes, even Brazil) than it is against middle of the road teams like the ones in our draw. I anticipate the US team scoring less than 3 goals in the first round — and possibly advancing anyway. I think we can draw against England, beat Algeria, and lose to Slovenia. We could also lose all 3. A counter-attacking team is a wild card, but it can’t afford any mistakes. We will not do well if we do not score the first goal and we’ll do better if the other team presses. I think 1-1-1 might get us through. I’d be shocked, happily, if we do better than that.

The wild cards for the US team will be, in descending order: (1) whether Dempsey gets hot — he is a legit goal scorer and easily our most creative player but he can be very, very lazy; (2) whether Stuart Holden is healthy and ready to get stuck in — he can give us legitimate width and a good outside shooter, which we will need, if he’s back on top of his game; and (3) whether Donovan will actually track back and link up the forwards and the defensive center midfielders. I expect everyone else to be who they are — Bradley should be between Donovan and Edu, passing the ball and disrupting the other side’s play maker, Altidore should win headers and make a nuisance of himself up front with his speed and power, Gooch and Demerit need to win every header, Bornstein/Pearce will be regularly toasted on the outside, and Howard needs to play like Friedel. That’s the recipe for limited success and ugly football.

The best part of Deadliest Warrior is definitely the purported weapons experts. They must troll obscure websites and Ren Faires constantly to keep those dudes coming.

Pearl Jam’s best was No Code. I don’t get why everybody comapres Creed to Pearl Jam. That’s like comparing Def Leppard to Led Zeppelin.

Hopefully Joseph and Thompson help Texas offense run more smoothly.

Texas should have a very talented Basketball team next season on paper. I hope Texas team plays up to their potential and wins it all.

I also hope Texas gets that kid from UTEP.

“Which team wore down in the 2008 and 2009 contests again.”
Exactly.

For the record I’m not a huge Pearl Jam fan but they are certainly better than Creed and clearly paved the way for that style. That’s probably a big part of why I don’t love them, I hate all the post-Pearl Jam bands.

Also, we’ll go ahead and say:
Terminator 2:Ten
Aliens:Vitalogy

and for Creed
My Own Prison: The Rock
Human Clay: Armageddon
Weathered: Pearl Harbor

One thing that you can say for Mack Brown and just about anyone works for him, is that they are willing to adapt and improve. Say what you will about Mack, Madden, Davis, etc… they are better than they were ten years ago. I’m not sure you can say that about Stoops.

Of course, ten years ago Stoops won a championship. While you might argue that Mack has improved and taken the edge neither have a great edge in overall accomplishment this decade.

Rick Barnes running the Phoenix offense is one of the greatest fallacies repeated on the Longhorn interwebs. I commend Rick getting out in front and branding his lack of a system the “Phoenix offense” before the media started roasting him for his teams lack of offensive cohesiveness.

As usual with the Barnes program we are talking about the future and “next year” starting to sounfd like Cub fans.