BYU Game Week From The Asset

I’m hoping the REDACTED bit will be obvious to us after the game. Otherwise I’ll go crazy thinking what it was or will be.

I think Ash is catching a pass this week. They kept lining him up as a receiver against Rice in the Wildcat. I just gotta feeling.

Or Ash as Harris.

Awesome, building off last weeks game. Brick by brick this young team should contend for a title in 2012. I am glad this game is not on the Longhorn Network. Personally I think it sucks! I live in Colorado and dish network, direct tv and comcast don’t carry the channel. Couldn’t even watch the game at Longhorn Alumni bar because no bars use Verizon FIOS. I think the Longhorn Network sucks for fans like me. Missed the Rice game and I guess I am going to miss the Kansas game too. Wish they showed all the games the way they did before.

Thanks, JS. Will be interesting to see whether the Cougars or the Longhorns improve more this week. Saw Steve Young interviewed on the LHN. He dutifully predicted a Cougars win, 28-21, this Saturday.

Texas 38 BYU 7
Lots B&B Bergeron & Brown along with play action and then……..deep ball(s)
Of course at least one “Harsin” per quarter

“Also, they’re as fired up about this game as they’ve been since OU last season. They’re ready.”

“Something else to note, Okafor, Wilson, and Jeffcoat are pretty fired up about the challenge because they know they’ll have opportunities to get to BYU’s QB. They’ve been sky high in practice.”

“I get the feeling that Mack wants the team to accept BYU’s physical challenge and punch them in the mouth in the run game.”

The above statements have me more excited than all the talk of what plays and schemes we’re gonna throw at them. This team was lacking in excitement and passion all year last year, with the exception of the OU and Nebraska games. I believe that alone cost us 2, maybe 3 games last year.

Thanks JS, You and the Asset made my day!

awesome piece

Made my night.

I think BYU wins by 10-13. I don’t trust Gilbert and I don’t think your coaches do either. They will try to keep it close by pounding the rock. BYU has a good run defense and will keep you in check. The Cougars offense will exploit your secondary.

Ash to run the single wing this week. Book it.

I’m thinking the the REDACTED was that Ash will line up at DE or maybe take his turn calling plays up in the booth.

Hearing the commentators lose it when Ash ran on the field last week was pure ’Cosm gold. Love it.

Love the idea that the team will get their manhood challenged, and I especially like hearing that the team is fired up by it.

Harsin and Applewhite are cerebral guys, and it’s great that we’re consistently bringing a well designed scheme to the game, but in the end you’ve still got to assert your will on another big, strong cat who’s dead certain he can whip your ass.

I’ll be especially interested in watching how our O-line handles it. From all I hear, the dudes along BYU’s D-line are big and nasty and will take it to you. I want to see how our guys respond to getting popped in the mouth. Tough to believe they’ll be any more intimidated by BYU than they are by Searels. We’ll see.

Gotta say I’m getting fired up for this one.

Good stuff from the “Asset” JS…Keep it coming, without giving away too much…of course!

On another note, it’s been painfully quiet over on the ’Cosm.

Miketag, shouldn’t you be trolling SEC bogs? Go talk shit on Vandycamp

go over to espn3 and watch the replay of BYU/ ol Miss. looks like our DT’s will have their hands full. The linebackers are going to get a workout .on Offense you get that big nose tackle of theirs out of position, there is room to run up the middle. Mack Brown said yesterday Goodwin would get 5 to 10 plays this week. He would not say for sure if Goodwin would be on kickoffs with DJ this week because he hasnt been hit , but he was returning kicks in practice.

REDACTED.

HMMM.

 Ash starts first or second half? Maybe?

“I think the Longhorn Network sucks for fans like me.”

Boo freakin’ hoo. A couple of weeks into a billion dollar launch and you’re ready to hit abort? WTF

With thanks for your reporting, JS, an important question:

Does the Asset sound like Hal Holbrook in any way?

I wish rolandv were one of those ‘fans’ who gave up on the team because they went 5-7, would have made life easier on us dealing with him as an Aggie bandwagon troll telling us, ‘Today is the day, suck it teasips!’

TA: (laughing) Let’s not get real specific. But here’s something that will shock the hell out of you. REDACTED.

The fact that Harsin has some Ron Zook trickeration up his sleeve makes me think he’ll have Ash run around wildly before flinging the ball 20 feet over the head of his receiver, flying right into the crotch of the BYU mascot. Y’know, a la Juice Williams.

But seriously, great stuff. Whetting the appetite.

Oh, JS, so one comment on what the Asset said that doesn’t seem to jibe. Last week the Asset said the team was intense and aching to hit someone in another colored jersey, but this week he says the team wasn’t that intense last week and didn’t seem fired up. I guess that sort of sticks in my craw like a Belmont press release. Was he feeding you a line last week to get us excited or are we in the realm of relatives? This week’s intensity>last week’s intensity>last year’s intensity. I love the Asset but don’t want to get fed to much of the sunshine pumping bullshit either.

parlin, he sounds like everyone, and no one.

The Cigar on the other hand…

DC Horn, we’re ratcheting that up. We just published two pieces yesterday and the Highwayman should be back from Ireland this weekend.

Redacted = Ash snaps it to himself, hands off to himself, then throws a half-back pass back across the field to himself

“REDACTED.”
So Ash is going to be a blocking fullback on the first play of the game for Malcolm? I love it!

“The Cigar on the other hand…”
Does the Cigar sound like T. Boone Pickens?

Can we redact Miketag?

I too wondered about the Asset – what he might look like, how might carry himself – but I came to understand that he will have no identifying marks of any kind. He does not stand out in any way. His entire image is crafted to leave no lasting memory with anyone he encounters. He’s a rumor, recognizable only as déjà vu and dismissed just as quickly. He doesn’t exist; he was never even born. Anonymity is his name. Silence his native tongue. He’s no longer part of the System. He’s above the System. Over it. Beyond it. He is “them.” He is “they.” He is the Asset.

JS,

When you say that The Asset is (laughing), how would you qualify that? Maniacal? Deep and soulful? Raspy? A knowing chuckle, underscoring a deeper and more meaningful truth? Kind of crazy sounding, like a clown?

I just feel like we really need to get in depth and behind the scenes with some of this reporting.

So Ash lines uhims receiver and has ball thrown to him by receiver….. hummmmm why not, I mean we’re talking Harsin here & Ash is a "physical " runner with the ball, a plus against a physical defense …
What the hell, call the play & lets have fun with the commentary, as well as future game planning by defensive coordinators…
it will definitely keep the talking heads on ESPN busy for a news cycle.

“It’s strange, but I didn’t sense the guys were too fired up for Rice in the week leading up to the game and even just before they ran out of the tunnel Saturday night.”

Really!?! After 5-7. Really?

Asset=Kaiser Soze, imo. Thanks for the info JS.

The asset… the 3 T’s. Tall, tanned, toned & with a really fine stogie… and it’s not a Cohiba!
I’m thinking, hummmmm.
 H. Upman. 2000 series.
fire it up asset & give us some more nuggets! !!

Whoop!

TKO and tackchevy have won this thread. (bows)

We will see a sense of urgency when the Horns come outta the tunnel for BYU & that will be a GOOD thing= quick start, something we’ve been lacking since Nebraska 2010

Aggie Rick is the Andy Kaufman of this board. Both the funny one from taxi, the awkward one that read the Great Gatsby, and the one that wrestled women.

Parlin —

I haven ‘t asked JS what the Asset sounds like, but for whatever it’s worth, the guy who keeps telling me to “follow the money” on the BDB story does sound a lot like Hal Holbrook.

JS —

Great shit as always.

TDiddle —

You often see the QB split wide in the wildcat (or whatever it’s being called now). I wouldn’t be surprised to see Ash catch a pass, either, but hopefully UT doesn’t pull the same shit Baylor did with RG3 and have him catching a button hook over the middle (at least I think that’s what I saw).

yes, the greatest trick the asset ever pulled was convincing the aggies he didn’t exist.

excellent write up. i’m itchin’ for this game.

Great read. I haven’t seen the o-line punch an opponent in the face since ’06. I love watching the practice on LHN. Just seeing individual drills is exciting.

meant to ask: who are we recruiting in ireland?

I can’t believe David Ash starts against BYU at defensive tackle. No wonder you had to redact it.

Some say he wears barbed wire underwear. Some say he has eight nipples like a cat. All we know is he’s called The Asset.

harsin is going to have some defense so screwed up they will be taking swings at each other. question i have is: do they call it personal foul, and if they do, which way does the ball go?

I’d sure like to see him running back kicks again. 10.3 in the 100m? Sold.

The “launch” is for ridiculous content most fans don’t want, didn’t ask for, and which is of intrinsically lower value than the content we get for free online (such as right here).

Instead of accurate predictions about next week’s game? A rewind of last week’s game, rendered in Mack Brown’s cliches about executing with passion. Thanks, but no.

I certainly don’t like the idea of (a) paying extra — even $0.38/month — for such useless content, (b) watching that amount climb every year based on Deloss Dodds’ whims, and © not being able to watch certain games otherwise.

So yeah, I’m ready to hit abort. If you want me to pay a penny for something in a free market economy, you better trot out the value to me, and while you’re at it, skip the useless claims about promotion for the program and recruiting leverage.

Texas already had a recruiting edge unmatched by any other program in the nation; this ain’t about that. It’s about putting subscriber money in certain pockets. And it won’t be mine.

“I certainly don’t like the idea of (a) paying extra — even $0.38/month — for such useless content, (b) watching that amount climb every year based on Deloss Dodds’ whims, and © not being able to watch certain games otherwise.”

I guess you’re not a big fan of cable or satellite tv. So which channel do you like….

http://www.timewarnercable.com/texas/support/clu/clu.ashx?CLUID=231&Image1=&Zip=78704

Re: the announcers’ reaction to Ash trotting out last week, it seemed scripted to me. They reacted pretty much immediately and I would think the reaction would have been a bit more delayed if they truly weren’t expecting it.

To the Asset, I say:

We are ALL staying thirsty, I assure you.

Eskimohorn is right. Your cable bill is probably 75 or 80% to pay for channels you have never and will never watch and a good 50% of those are probably channels you would find distasteful or offensive in way or another.

Louis, I hate listening to games on radio. I can’t believe the university won’t listen to me and ban radio broadcasts of our football games…I mean…I don’t want it so how could anyone else? Right, you with me?

The Asset = the most interesting man in the world.

revhorn gets the win, imo, for the Clarkson style intro for The Asset.

Is the ‘Cosom great or what?
  “and the Highwayman should be back from Ireland this weekend.” We’ve gone International just as aggie goes even further redneck.
   The best info as always. Thanks to you & The Asset.

IMO 40 cents a month is a steal for the baseball games alone.

Love what is happening with this team and what I can read about it on this site. Bravo!

I like the optimism of predicting a blow out of BYU as someone did above, but my gut tells me the blow out could go the other way if our young secondary isn’t ready yet. I’m not predicting it, but it worries me.

I’m with Horncasting. From a UT fan’s perspective, the biggest gain we get from the LHN this year is getting to see in HD the sports that we otherwise would have streamed online from texassport.tv. This includes a handful of men’s basketball games to start the season, all of the home baseball games, all women’s soccer, volleyball, and softball home games, plus a few women’s basketball games. And I’m sure there will be track and field and swimming and diving as well.

If your only affiliation with the University of Texas is the football program, then you are currently overpaying to get the Longhorn Network. But as a supporter of all sports, the upgrade from grainy internet video (or nothing at all) to HD quality is much appreciated for pocket change a month.

How soon until we see Harsin call a dive over the pile for Goodwin from the 8?

It’s amazing to me how many supposed Longhorn fans have the foresight of freaking $Bill Byrne and the ATM administration.

UT is making 300 million of the LHN, and you people are pissing in your beer that you couldn’t figure out a way to watch RICE?

Yeah, let’s scrap the whole thing because ESPN is negotiating over a 1 billion dollar investment.

I hope you all were communications majors, or psychology, or some other pseudo science because I’m starting to question how some of you received degrees from Texas.

I think that the LHN is full of possibilities. Yes, Mack will be on it with his cliché-ridden talks but i see a lot of potential for more. Basketball, baseball, volleyball all kinds of sports. Interviews with players, film clips, replays of games, interviews and film clips of upcoming opponents, practice reports (maybe not as good as here but still entertaining). game day reports and weather conditions, its almost endless what could be put on the network. It will be a work-in-progress and until it is widely distributed there will be moaning and gnashing of teeth but I think it deserves a chance to be what it can be.

I’m putting in a request to LHN to get Scipio on with a John Madden telestrator and old game film. Not TV footage, but the stuff the team films where you can actually see coverages and routes.

It would be like meth in Oklahoma to the BC readership. Jobs all over Texas would open up as BC readers quit to stay home and watch Scipio Vision.

LHN Sciipio Vision, I could dig it.

Having watched the LHN for about a week now, I’d say it’s a good (but not yet great) channel. But I understand full well that Rome wasn’t built in a day and that this channel shows a lot of promise. Specifically, I would like to see more non-sports content (aside from those 5-minute something-cool-that-UT-faculty-or-students-are-doing segments), like daily 30-minute intro lectures on various subjects by popular faculty in different colleges at UT or perhaps business plan presentations from the Moot Corp competitions. I know that might be tough for ESPN since they are a sports channel, but I think a couple hours per day of more general/academic programming would really round the LHN out.

One of the positive signs so far from a programming perspective is that this week the LHN has been showing a 2-hour condensed version of the BYU-Ole MIss game. There’s the power of being connected to ESPN right there. They realize UT football fans will want to do some scouting on the upcoming opponent and have provided a look at their previous game. I am expecting more of that throughout the season since most games by our opponents will be broadcast by ESPN.

When people talk about the 300 million it is so abstract to me. Do I get any tangible benefit?

Clearly I see the costs. The instability of the conference, missing football games due to lack of cable participation, etc.

First and foremost I am a fan. Talk to me in fan terms of the benefit. Don’t carry the company line about money and resources I will never see. I am sure there are real fan benefits but right now they do not outweigh losing the A&M game among others.

Scipio vision on LHN would be quite a shock to the average BC reader as most people don’t know about his cockney English accent.

JS,

i think Scipio may have ruined the REDACTED part in his post about scouting BYU’s defense. Its Ashcraft lining up at qb. makes perfect sense if we’re trying to punch byu in the mouth, imo. cant wait to see it and thanks for the info as always.

He better be right, or I’m gonna REDACTED some unsuspecting REDACTED in the REDACTED , so help me REDACTED and all his demonic host.

I’m subscribing to LHN even if I never watch it. Anything that pisses the Aggies off that much has to be worth supporting.

For someone like me who lives in TN and has a 14 year-old, soccer phenom daughter, the LHN is a huge asset. Texas has always been her favorite. The LHN allows her to see soccer games, the content of the network and stuff about the school which only pushes her in the direction of UT-Austin. Plus, if she goes to UT, I get to move back to Texas. Hook ’Em.

Guys, Redacted is actually Red Acte’d, a ginger-headed walk on transfer from PNG. No, not that PNG. It’s Papua New Guinea University.

Red was an all-star in their rugby league and it took Mack 3 hours of cajoling to convince him to wear pads. Red will line up in the deep snap formation and plow through the defenders like the giant stone ball in Indiana Jone’s Raiders of the Lost Ark.

RolandV
Any games (KS) on LHN I found on Veetle.com. Streamed through computer to the tv via HDMI cable at the tailgate on 15th & Colorado. See us on KVUE with Morgan Chesky.

“First and foremost I am a fan. Talk to me in fan terms of the benefit. Don’t carry the company line about money and resources I will never see. I am sure there are real fan benefits but right now they do not outweigh losing the A&M game among others.”

Exposure to recruits all over the nation in every sport = better athletes coming to UT = higher winning percentages and more championships.

Direct, tangible benefit to fans.

The conference was likely going to blow up with or without LHN. Its a convenient excuse. Nebraska and Colorado left and never held out the LHN as a reason. A&M was ready to go to the SEC and never used the LHN as a reason.

They all left for what they thought was greener pastures, but what it was really penis envy. LHN is the new euphemism for the penis envy of the remaining Big 12 teams that think they can get to a BCS conference.

“Talk to me in fan terms of the benefit. Don’t carry the company line about money and resources I will never see. I am sure there are real fan benefits but right now they do not outweigh losing the A&M game among others.”

Right now they do not outweigh the costs. But the LHN is a 20-year venture. Eventually you will get the national exposure mentioned above, as well as unprecedented access/visibility to UT’s sports and academic programs. Indirectly, this will help keep tuitions low and fund world class facilities, research, and faculty. Admittedly, the latter benefits matter to me as an alum moreso than as a mere fan.

It remains to be seen if the LHN or Super Conferences will provide any advantage for most fans. I can only hope that Dodds and Powers have not shit in each other;s mess kits.

I’m trying my best to stay confident but watching Gilbert this past weekend was a punch in the gut. I was a glass half full guy last year on Gilbert but maybe he really will never develop the mental aptitude to become good under pressure.

Loved the team effort last week but not feeling good about BYU.

=Redacted=

Obviously Ash will throw the ball to himself, now lets get off this guy’s nut sacks and start talking about parts of the team that actually matter.

Any news on how the O line is preparing for this game?

I will be thrilled to watch football and basketball practice when LHN finally gets to Kingwood. 38 cents extra/month, what an incredible bargain. I would also like to see the great teams of Darrell Royal. Many of the younger horn fans would really get a kick out of watching Abe Lemons teams and hearing Abe talk (he was a really funny, witty guy). It would even be cool to show some footage of what Austin used to be like before it got big (like the Armadillo World Headquarters).

Also thrilled about Goodwin returning and actually playing 5 or 10 snaps vs BYU (amazing!). They say you can’t coach speed but I bet Harwin can.

Considering how incredibly young the horn O players are and the fact that the horns are dealing with a complex, brand new offensive scheme that hasn’t been completely introduced, there should be significant offensive efficiency improvements all season long.

I’m looking forward to the single-wing offense with Fozzy, Brown, and Bergeron in the backfield, firing on all cylinders and taking BYU back behind the old schoolhouse for a whupping.

REDACTED = this is the game the equipment managers break out the Nike Pro Combat Capes. They are burnt orange satin with black velvet lining, and they are luxurious.

We need to establish a good strong dact. Then use that, to play off of, in order to get the most benefit from the redacted

Hey Roach
how bout this:
Scipio Vision produced by Jesus & brought to you by puffy bevo in association with texas sports
Telastrator by longhorn Scott
With comedic satire by miketag who while working for free still believes he’s gonna get a check.
Here’s your sign miketag.

Most freshmen played in a D1 football game this year: Texas 18, 2nd most: Auburn 13

I’d Say Texas recruiting was pretty good last year & wait till the 2012 class is on campus boy howdy..
Nat’l championship run; then add in Swoops/Raulerson for 2013. Ye-haaaaaaa.

"First and foremost I am a fan. Talk to me in fan terms of the benefit. Don’t carry the company line about money and resources I will never see. I am sure there are real fan benefits but right now they do not outweigh losing the A&M game among others."

It’s all a matter of opinion, but I’m am glad to see Aggy go and so far we haven’t even lost them, much less anyone else. I guess you aren’t a fan of one of the most successful baseball programs in NCAA history? Well, I am and that’s more than enough “fan benefit” for me for a lousy $.40 per month. And the LHN isn’t why Aggy is leaving anyway.

JET

Now, you’re talking lets just give BC and hour or two on LHN and see what happens.

It will be infinitely more informative than anything we can get on TV right now.

And entertaining
It would be pay per vue worthy just to see tipsy, tipsy on camera .. “shot of Cuervo with a beer back” On live TV…. Now that’s what I’m talkin bout.

The redacted play was Ash faking the block on the DB and going out to catch a pas from Shipley. The asset nailed it to a T, down to which quarter it would happen.

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