Tuesday Sundry

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Whoops!

Bill Connelly’s 2011 Texas preview at Sbnation is worth a read this morning as well.

http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2011/8/9/2352288/2011-texas-longhorns-football

Also, the fun stat nerd tidbit:

http://www.footballstudyhall.com/2011/8/9/2349535/mccoy-the-magician-fun-stat-nerd-tidbit-texas

I am typically not a fan of firing coordinators. I feel blaming offensive coordinators and/or play-calling is both lazy and misguided about 95 percent of the time. It is a cop-out designed for misplaced rage. However…

…Greg Davis just had to go. Colt McCoy’s passing downs magic act (which we’ll discuss in today’s Fun Stat Nerd Tidbit) disguised and bailed out an offense that had otherwise been trending toward underwhelming for quite some time. Standard downs struggles hinted at problems with play-calling and execution long before 2010, and when McCoy left, it was like taking off Vader’s helmet.

Blake Gideon arrived late to help out after Scott had already left the scene

golf clapping in approval

I don’t think Christian Scott will be coming back.

awful lot of chatter on 247 that Aggy to SEC is a done deal… granted, sounds like their sources are all Aggy boards.

How is Vaccaro the most important player on defense besides Randall? I would take Acho, Robinson, Jeffcoat, and a number of other guys ahead of Vaccaro, who I think is remarkably athletic, but not anywhere near the league of Earl Thomas or Mike Huff.

An Aggie lawyer’s take on the LHN contract.

http://marooncarrot.blogspot.com/

apparently sources outside of A&M are stoking the fire as well…

http://bloghawgs.com/2011/08/09/aggies-to-secede/

Well, that sucks. But just remember…Kenny Vaccaro is….MACHETE!!!

What’s even better than the SportsBizMiss deconstruction of aggy comprehension (or lack thereof) of the LHN contract are:

1. The aggy comments; and
2. The link to an ISU fan site where even they see how silly the aggys are behaving.

I don’t ever want A&M to leave the Big 12. Who else would amuse us so?

At this point, the ags just need to go. And who the heck cares if we ever play them again? Tradition is a good thing, but sometimes certain traditions just need to die out. Let the landscape change.

And I know this isn’t the blog post for it, but it occurs to me that 1) the plans for the network were pretty well known last year and all this wailing about high school games is a bit much, 2) the ags have the branding and fan base to start their own network and should really be mad at their administration for not doing so and,

3) It really seems to me that showing high school games would be much less of a recruiting advantage than showing the day to day lives of the players. Potential players will get to see how they would be showcased during practice reports, weight room reports, etc. And it will highlight the facilities and “family atmosphere” of the team, showing kids what they would be getting into. And lastly, it seems that a pretty effective way around showing high school games would be to have a weekly series on recruiting where the coaches talk about the recruits they are going after, why they like them, etc. What kid doesn’t want to hear a coach at Texas pumping him up and saying why they need him? I know it isn’t the same, but it could be a pretty dang good stopgap if done correctly.

Sorry for the venting. I’m so tired of this whole thing. Just get to the SEC and hope they clean up recruiting before you get there.

Blake Gideon arrived late to help out after Scott had already left the scene.

Did he stare down Lovely Rita after she was safely on the sidewalk?

OK, then.

Sasha, all wailing and knashing of teeth aside – coaches cannot comment on players that have not signed a LOI. Mack Brown cannot tell a reporter how great he thinks Jonathan Gray will be next year, so that show is off the list. Seems a lot of smoke coming from the A&M to SEC direction.

burntorangehorn,

Our secondary is the biggest weakness on paper with youth at the corners and Gideon roaming center field helmet down, so steady safety play from Vaccaro is key until our young DBs get up to speed.

We know what we have with the LBs. It’s one of few position groups other than DE without any question marks.

Here’s another great writeup by Frank the Tank putting the kibosh on aggy moving plans to the SEC:

http://frankthetank.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/the-jump-to-conclusions-game-why-angry-aggies-arent-enough-to-move-texas-am-to-the-sec/

Blake Gideon arrived late to help out after Scott had already left the scene.

Very well done.

KT: That’s right. I knew that. That is what I get for multi-tasking at work.

omg. my soothsayers hat came in. they even got the size right.

hmm . . . lessee. a&m to the sec is a done deal. they pretty much unimpress this season, not unlike the nebs, and limp into the sec, where they fit in just below arkansas most years.

oh, boy. their going to the sec did open up this state for sec recruiting. both the ags and the sooners are feeling the hit, and the horned frogs are a bit less comfortable. we don’t seem to be affected much for texas kids, especially after the 2011 season we had, but the odd thing is that sec kids seem more comfortable coming here. the sooners are hitting the west coast so hard that they don’t seem bothered, but the ags are squealing like stuck pigs. dodds has just now again made it plain that we are NOT interested in hooking back up with the ags.

that thing makes my head smart.

After reading that SB Nation article, I’m even more pessimistic and depressed

Tired of aggie whining. Don’t just wish ’em gone… fucking ENCOURAGE them to leave.

All of our issues with aggies aside, the school brings plenty to the table for any conference, even ours. Their leaving would be a hit, but not necessarily a fatal one.

Go. Don’t go. Don’t give a shit, but STFU.

Joetx – Thanks for the link to Frank the Tank. He makes some good points, but misses the most important ones:
 http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2011/8/9/2353827/texas-a-m-to-stay-in-college-station#storyjump

As usual, Spencer nails it.

Ransom, let me take this opportunity, with my first post on this site after 3 years of reading, to say this:

Unpossible.

In other LHN news, Disney just beat earnings estimates, of which ESPN-related network fees was a huge component….anybody think they’re going to toss in the towel in the face of an extra-loud TAMU-trum?