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Triston27 commented on the blog post Getting to Know the Wildcat Defense ago
I’m all for hitting the edge. As long as it isn’t via the option.
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Bob in Houston commented on the blog post Part I of the Obese Hoops Preview: Phoenix My Ass 14 minutes ago
Excellent stuff, General. For all the stuff that coaches preach, including Barnes, about being accountable and doing your job, the idea that Texas runs the Phoenix offense is lip service to what that really means. To Texas, it has meant freelancing and (for the most part) first guy that gets open or can get his
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Hiphopopotamus commented on the blog post Getting to Know the Wildcat Defense 18 minutes ago
I’m not sure I’d call Fitzgerald undersized, but I do think this is a team we can hit the edge against (if Jake is running well) and move the pile on (if Toben is running well). Not impressed with their linebackers.
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Hiphopopotamus commented on the blog post He Said What? 21 minutes ago
I’m with you Ben.
I suppose if we were to go winless the rest of the way and finish 5-7, then maybe you start evaluating seriously next year. In the After Todd era.
But my original feelings remain the same:
1. I’m not convinced we could hire anyone better.
2. Even if we could, I think it
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Hiphopopotamus commented on the blog post He Said What? 21 minutes ago
I’m with you Ben.
I suppose if we were to go winless the rest of the way and finish 5-7, then maybe you start evaluating seriously next year. In the After Todd era.
But my original feelings remain the same:
1. I’m not convinced we could hire anyone better.
2. Even if we could, I think it
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Nordberg commented on the blog post GameWatch Week 10 28 minutes ago
Did you use breakfast as a verb? Interesting.
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Nate Heupel commented on the blog post GameWatch Week 10 29 minutes ago
“…usually a fiber-rich muesli bought fair trade from Andean Indiginos”
“After my exfoliating regimen, making a lease payment on my Range Rover, and my Scientology self-affirmations…”
I am now more convinced than ever that the “character” of Clipper Cooper is actually just a slightly modernized depiction of your actual youth. The line “Guilt is the gratitude
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uthookem commented on the blog post Part I of the Obese Hoops Preview: Phoenix My Ass 52 minutes ago
Very nice article. I am looking forward to part II.
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Hiphopopotamus commented on the blog post GameWatch Week 10 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
Scipio: No mention of the Sunflower Showdown?! Tell me you won’t be watching that one on pins and needles.
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Vasherized commented on the blog post GameWatch Week 10 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
While Scipio sits Bay-side on the rooftop deck in a Toby Gerhart jersey admiring the Cormorants while dining on a quinoa/flaxseed/semolina mash, we’ll be throwing washers, eating baby backs, calling in bets, and watching HenryJames grope hot coeds. Hopefully they’re girls this time.
Given your vast resources, why not just fly in for gameday every week?
I
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The General commented on the blog post Part I of the Obese Hoops Preview: Phoenix My Ass 1 hour, 54 minutes ago
Wrong, batate. Greg Davis was bad with Roy, and was only good with Vince when he removed himself from the equation.
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Timothy Preston commented on the blog post Part I of the Obese Hoops Preview: Phoenix My Ass 7 hours, 35 minutes ago
Transcendant big men > transcendant point guards.
This is a generalization, but the Spurs dominance over just about everybody can be summed up by that idea.
My offensive hopes for this team are pinned to the notion that we finally have enough high level players, particularly offensively, that can consistently exhibit recognition for counter moves out of
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Scipio Tex wrote a new blog post: GameWatch Week 10 7 hours, 43 minutes ago
One of the coolest things about living in California, aside from paying taxes that makes Belgians wince, is the fact that college football is in full swing as I breakfast: usually a fiber-rich muesli bought fair trade from Andean Indiginos. After my exfoliating regimen, making a lease payment on my Range Rover, and my
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bigdukesix commented on the blog post Order has been restored to the universe 8 hours, 33 minutes ago
Your triumphs mean nothing. You can sit on it and rotate.
I fear no reprisal.
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bigdukesix commented on the blog post Order has been restored to the universe 8 hours, 35 minutes ago
HenryJames is the George Steinbrenner of Barking Carnival. Feared by some, mocked by many, loathed by all.
I’m definitely tired of all of his macho head-games.
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dick commented on the blog post FLV Bets: Week 10 10 hours, 48 minutes ago
a la SJSU/Boise last week.
There really isn’t that much good stuff out there this week.
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Huckleberry commented on the blog post FLV Bets: Week 10 12 hours, 1 minute ago
Yeah, that was a lucky cover. Would still play it this week, but the Yellowjackets got outplayed most of the game.
But you have to get some of those because you know you’re going to take bad beats over the course of the season, too.
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dick commented on the blog post FLV Bets: Week 10 13 hours, 5 minutes ago
If you can harness the power of Huck and Trips, you can win big. Vanderbilt was winning late in the 3rd quarter against GT and then GT turned it on luckily in the 4th. GT was looking like the wrong play.
Good call on Michael Floyd coming back, he’s a big difference
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The General wrote a new blog post: Part I of the Obese Hoops Preview: Phoenix My Ass 13 hours, 13 minutes ago
Below you will find Part I of IV of my Obese Hoops Preview. Les Disfrutan!
Vegas note: Odds on all four parts being written and published currently: 50 to 1, which makes the Texans winning the Super Bowl a slight favorite, and the Cowboys a prohibitive favorite.
Moving on.
Vasherized ate the cover and practiced the mantra in
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SizzleChest commented on the blog post Order has been restored to the universe 13 hours, 38 minutes ago
HJ has a bedazzled Yankee skin for his Treo. The fag.
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Bob Along commented on the blog post Order has been restored to the universe 14 hours, 37 minutes ago
EyesOfTexas, I can tell by your list that you are a wise and discerning individual with exquisitely impeccable taste…
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dick commented on the blog post FLV Bets: Week 10 15 hours, 25 minutes ago
Yeah I knew the UTEP RB ran wild on UH and he looked skilled when we played them but obviously they couldn’t do anything against our D (nobody has).
I think SMU should be more than 1 unit, your writeup seems to agree as well. I followed Huck’s computer and already took the
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dick commented on the blog post FLV Bets: Week 10 16 hours, 6 minutes ago
Does UTEP have a good running attack compared to Tulsa? I really do want to know. Is this a big game for UH with CUSA implications?? They are like Tech in that way, very easy to predict whether they get up or not for games.
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Jorgrama commented on the blog post Looking @ UCF 16 hours, 18 minutes ago
Scipio, you are correct. My bad, I was still locked into my early season thinking when we hadn’t covered hardly anything. Now we’re 3 out of 8. It will be interesting to see what they do this week.
It has been said, but naturally this is a good time to start pouring
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BrickHorn commented on the blog post Order has been restored to the universe 16 hours, 19 minutes ago
I’d still hit it, monkey foot be damned!
Me too. But I’d insist on talking like Charlton Heston and referring to her as a “damned dirty ape.”
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Scipio Tex commented on the blog post Looking @ UCF 16 hours, 24 minutes ago
yojimbox -
The secondary is awful if you can and are willing to go deep. We’ll see.
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Euclid wrote a new blog post: Predict-a-North for Dummies 16 hours, 30 minutes ago
Not really for dummies, just a simplied version of the probability based Predict-a-North. This version simply requires you to pick the winner or loser of each game and it will let you know who will be the Big XII North champ.
Hit the “click to edit” button to predict your own winners, the formulas will automatically
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Black Scholes commented on the blog post UCF May Be Shoeless Saturday 16 hours, 31 minutes ago
If the Jordan kid is on a scholie, it’s a douche move on his part.
If he’s not then why the hell is he going to college in Orlando? UNC has Larry Drew’s and Terry Davis’s kid on the team (although to be fair both can play); I’m certain they could make room for a
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yojimbox commented on the blog post Looking @ UCF 16 hours, 39 minutes ago
Their secondary is awful, though. Basically, if you want to score on them, just throw. Everytime Marshal threw on them, it was 20-30 yards. The only reason Marshal lost that game was because they kept fumbling the ball away in the fourth quarter. Otherwise, I expect Colt to attack the secondary and make them his
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Oklahoma State Post-Mortem 17 hours, 1 minute ago
On the Thomas pick, this was the third time, by my count, that the pokes ran the slant underneath the clearing slot receiver. The two times before OSU picked up good yardage on an easy pitch and catch. The third time we robbed the route with Thomas which looked to be done pre-snap
hobbeshorn said:
October 25th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Not sure it matters after #15….any could beat any
Joe Pfäffikon said:
October 25th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Why dont you rank them according to how good they are.
uthookem said:
October 25th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
I really only care about the top 3, but, BUT, USC is not #4. I’m not sure who is, but losing to UW (even if they started a backup, probably 5* recruit no less) is no reason for losing to UW.
As far as the top 3, it’s a mess. Texas is showing a lot of defense, but no one believes in the Big XII offenses this season (for good reason). Against OSU will show us something.
UF and ‘Bama are not as good as advertised. Kind of like finally getting to fuck your girlfriend on prom night only to find out she was reemed by the backup center on the football team…it’s still good, but not quite as great as you were thinking it would be.
CrazyJoeDavola said:
October 25th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
I’m not usually one to engage in transitive property-based debates, but it’s amazing to me how much fallout USC is allowed to dodge each and every year.
I mean, Oregon loses to a team that’s widely voted in the top 10, sometimes even in the top 5, and they’re behind USC, which loses to a team that might go 6-5 on the year.
Obviously, next week will tell the tale … unless UO does something Pac-Tennish like beat USC and then lose to Oregon State, thus ceding the title and Rose Bowl AGAIN to the Trojans.
Tangential thought: The ACC is the most entertaining league in the country this year. Hell of a lot more interesting than the SEC, Big 12 and Big 10, at any rate.
The Calvinist in me suspects we’ll somehow end up with an Iowa/Florida MNC game.
bigdukesix said:
October 25th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
I like USC at 4, just to see the anger it provokes from the rabble.
BEHorn said:
October 25th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Decent excuse for SC’s loss, given their injured QB. Not sure the same thing happens with Matt “Just Drive the Bus, Don’t Crash It” Barkley at the wheel.
UT wildcatter said:
October 25th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
UH-31 Mississippi State-24 in StarkVegas
CrazyJoeDavola said:
October 25th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Yeah, I guess. But then again, one of the reasons that USC gets so much run every year is due to their highly publicized recruiting machine. And yet even with SoCal QB pipelines and allegedly top-notch transfers, they can’t overcome an injury to a true frosh whose best quality thus far is that he doesn’t screw up?
CloseToJumping said:
October 25th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
I don’t much agree with big pieces of this poll. I still may not fully understand the blogpoll process though. Is it designed to reflect an author from the site’s personal feel for who’s what? Or is it supposed to be a reflection of how the site thinks all of the blogs view the CFB world?
USC isn’t #4. It is placating to the norm. The backup QB excuse is also weak when people throw it out there. It would have been Barkley’s 3rd game. Contrary to what idiots like to say or type, he didn’t win the Ohio State game on that big drive. McKnight owned that drive and gets an amazingly small amount of credit for it. USC was not prepared to play Washington that day.
Alabama goes to 1 with wins like the one Texas had over Missouri. Texas goes to 3 with wins like Bama had over Tennessee. Florida has done nothing in any given week to merit #1 over either of the other 2 teams.
I don’t need you to explain Cincinnati to me.
Georgia Tech is a borderline top 15 team. Probably more like top 20. The ACC remains a high average, zero anomaly conference. They just are right now. I don’t know what the stats say about them, as I haven’t looked, but from watching them a bunch, they are a team that can be thrown on. A competent passer will make them look dumber than Jacory Harris did.
It pains me to type it, but I think Pittsburgh and UH are both top 15 teams capable of being in the top 10. I have bet against Pitt several times lately, only to watch roll someone. Lewis is a terrific back. Just excellent for a Freshman. They have a very good team.
Snead is having off the field issues that are not going away. I wouldn’t count on them to get right any time soon.
I like WV enough to think that they’re a top 25 program.
CrazyJoeDavola said:
October 26th, 2009 at 12:02 am
CTJ, obviously you and I are of similar minds on USC. Of course, usually when I’m really starting to boil about how much they get away with is about the same time they start wrecking shit again in the Pac-10. If form holds, they’ll beat UO by three touchdowns.
I’m not sure what if anything’s to be done about the widely disparate interpretations of SEC vs. Big 12 performances. I guess that’s what goes with the territory when you have two major media entities as significant shareholders in your operations. Understanding it doesn’t make it any less infuriating.
I was at the UH/SMU game Saturday. The game was actually a lot closer than the score would indicate. UH’s defense is truly awful - the Ponies could have hung a lot closer if they hadn’t had a couple of dropped balls early on.
Additionally, there were stretches of the game where UH’s offense didn’t do much at all. Porous O-line play, no one getting open downfield, Keenum dumping the ball off well short of the first down marker, outside runs getting strung out and stuffed. Very familiar stuff.
I think UH got bored, and I also think SMU simply didn’t have the athletes to keep up - and they pulled that OU/Tech soccer bullshit where a guy falls to the turf like he’s been shot just about the time the other team is working up a head of steam.
That’s all a long way of saying I think UH is a top-10 team in the same way that Tech was last year. Certainly capable of overwhelming their opponents, but just as likely to utterly cave on any given night.
Sumlin and Holgorsen run a totally legit offense, though. I was pretty jealous watching it in action, not only Saturday but against Tech as well.
Pitt I’d buy, simply because Wannstache usually has a good defense. The Big East round robin between them, WV and Cincy is going to be really interesting. Reminds me of a couple of years ago when you had a similar situation with WVU, Louisville and South Florida. And Rutgers as well, IIRC.
houston cooooooogs said:
October 26th, 2009 at 2:16 am
UT wildcatter said:
October 25th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
UH-31 Mississippi State-24 in StarkVegas
why does this score keep getting overlooked?
Grange95 said:
October 26th, 2009 at 4:07 am
Iowa is undefeated with home wins over Michigan and Arizona, and ROAD wins over Penn St. (only loss for a preseason Top 5 team), Wisconsin, and Michigan St. A much better resume than USC, TCU, or Cincy.
beowulf said:
October 26th, 2009 at 4:15 am
If my observations of this weekly Blogpoll are correct, you rank the teams according to their year long body of work but with a very stong emphasis on how they performed in their last game. If that’s the case then Texas should be the #1 team or at tleast #1a or #1b, most likely with Florida.
I can’t get worked up in any form or fashion over where any team is ranked after the first 3.
October 26th, 2009 at 5:00 am
About time you saw the light regarding ‘bama. What’s this like 2 offensive TD’s in their last 3 games?
Groundhogday said:
October 26th, 2009 at 5:19 am
Good rankings. I agree with Grange. Until Iowa loses, they should be ranked at 4. Does anyone remember Ohio State and how ugly their season was when they beat the U for the NC? Not saying that Iowas is that team but they are winning and that’s all that counts. Until further notice they should be 4, USC at 5, TCU at 6….
Crushed Larynx said:
October 26th, 2009 at 5:50 am
If we lose to the #12 Gundy-aggy in the no wake zone, do we get to hang out at #4 like the LA bed shitters?
parlinhall said:
October 26th, 2009 at 6:19 am
Where have we come as a society when a home loss to Iowa State in a 9-7 contest means being dropped from the polls?
Travis said:
October 26th, 2009 at 6:46 am
The more I watch alabama, the more I start to come back to earth in realizing that they will not beat florida , it will be close because of their defense but there is no way that their QB can win a game like that. Florida will do exactly what tennessee did but with better results, load up against the run and make them throw.. Greg Mcelroy is to young and inexperienced to make his way through his reads, the game in his head is on super speed, I can only imagine how fast it would be going under the lights on primetime against the gators and st. tebow.
Agree completely on TCU, they are legit… I’d like to see them against alabama in the sugar bowl that would be a hell of a match up.
We might as well just make the top 12 the entire SEC because the ” team speed, and defenses in the Sec are just so much better than anything being played outside of the south, and every game is a classic” - We all know that if Texas and USC were in the SEC they might get lucky and beat vandy every couple of years but they would just be another miss st… I am so sick of hearing how great these wins are against these so so ball clubs.
Scip- after watching that game, how are you feeling about where we are? Can we feel good about where we are heading on offense, or was that just more mizzou being mizzou instead of us making progress? I don’t want to put my homer glasses on, but the more I see everyone else I feel better about our chances to get it done in pasadena.
spider said:
October 26th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Wait, wait, wait. Do the rankings for Florida and Alabama include SEC ref.’s?
Do the computers take the SEC ref.’s/no SEC ref.’s into account, like they do for home/hostile/neutral field?
spider said:
October 26th, 2009 at 7:04 am
Come to think of it, when the coin drops at the SEC championship game, I fully expect all the zebras’ heads to erupt like something out of Videodrome. I mean, how will they choose? The SEC demands an undefeated flagship team.
DOES NOT COMPUTE ::: BOOM!!!
Blount said:
October 26th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Beating SoCal and Losing to OSU will leave us a full game ahead of the Trojans despite our Beaver problem.
BatesHorn said:
October 26th, 2009 at 7:15 am
Having watched Georgia Tech 3 times this year on the East Coast, I can tell you they’d destroy Iowa outright. If we are going to ding non power conference undefeated’s (Hi! Boise St.) for their slackass breathern, why does Iowa get to get away with having a bunch of Nancy’s for opponents?
whoopspat said:
October 26th, 2009 at 7:53 am
‘Snead is having off the field issues that are not going away. I wouldn’t count on them to get right any time soon.’
Can you elaborate? I hadn’t heard anything.
patronsaint said:
October 26th, 2009 at 8:12 am
If you believe your own joke, why rank Florida 1?
CloseToJumping said:
October 26th, 2009 at 9:25 am
whoopspat-
He’s sort of a Darin Erstad/Zac Greinke combo of problems, from what I’ve heard.
UT wildcatter said:
October 26th, 2009 at 11:27 am
What about the boyfriend he left back in Austin?
Please come to Austin for the Winter.
And he said, hey ramblin’ boy, why don’t you settle down
Oxford ain’t your kind of town
There ain’t no gold and there ain’t nobody like me
I’m the number one fan of the man from Stephenville