The OFFICIAL 2016 College football RANDOM THOUGHTS thread

[PortCityProphet]

Thought dude was gonna take a loss. Made that defender miss like a rondo 3pt attempt

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

8 tds in 7 games is

 

[hood b. goode]

Mike Patrick

 

[Rigby.]

They do that against Clemson, Texas A&M, or Arkansas

 

[PortCityProphet]

Nice run. He hit that hole and dipped

 

[PortCityProphet]

Way too easy.

 

[PortCityProphet]

Darnold look like he can play without a helmet and give other cats concussion on head to head hits
He got a big ole rock head

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

2000 pages and we only halfway there


What a season

 

[RammerJammer]

2000 pages and we only halfway there


What a season

This season is like a 90s and 2000s throwback. Alabama, Michigan, and Washington in the top 4, WVU undefeated, Boise undefeated, Nebraska undefeated, A&M with their best start since 94, Virginia Tech and Colorado having good seasons etc..

 

[Crizzy]

Rickey Smiley crew reportin live from the Magic City Classic. Wish i was there to see da brat and that phat ass. Tell her to call up lisa raye and have her fly in too.

 

[JBoy]

Rickey Smiley crew reportin live from the Magic City Classic. Wish i was there to see da brat and that phat ass. Tell her to call up lisa raye and have her fly in too.

have to make it to Bama for the classic one of these years god willin'

 

[Jplaya2023]

what are you guy's upsets for saturday?

i got Okie Light over WVU

I got Texas over Baylor ()

I got Sparty covering the spread against michigan, i don't think it's going to be a blowout as the spread suggest. Weird things happens in rivalry games.

I have Utah covering against Washington

I have nebraska covering against Wisky

 

[RammerJammer]

Rickey Smiley crew reportin live from the Magic City Classic. Wish i was there to see da brat and that phat ass. Tell her to call up lisa raye and have her fly in too.

Rickey Smiley show sounding lit Giving away Gas Prizes and Cars and shyt

 

[PortCityProphet]

what are you guy's upsets for saturday?

i got Okie Light over WVU

I got Texas over Baylor ()

I got Sparty covering the spread against michigan, i don't think it's going to be a blowout as the spread suggest. Weird things happens in rivalry games.

I have Utah covering against Washington

I have nebraska covering against Wisky

me vs a bottle of Henny at fl/uga
Henny is the favorite but I'm gonna be prepared. My gameplan is strong. Take me -10

 

[PortCityProphet]

It might feel like Charlie Strong has already lost his job, and since Texas has indicated it doesn't want to fire a head coach midseason, he might've.

The possibility of a five-game winning streak to close out the season and finish 8-4 would seem to preserve some hope, but dialing that down to a best-case scenario of 7-5 doesn't inspire the same level of optimism.

So, a loss to No. 8 Baylor to fall to 14-19 over two and a half years might be the end, whether it's formalized in October, November, or December.

Every detail of the game presents a further obstacle for Strong (or an opportunity to move even more of the mountain with an upset win, to be fair).

• Most of the Longhorns' most important alumni boosters will be at this game, which isn't usually the case.
• Strong awkwardly praised Baylor a few weeks ago by describing their systems as empowering "lesser athletes," a piece of analysis with some virtue to it, but not one that'll be received well if ABC's announcers are referencing it while the Longhorns are down by 30.
• Texas' biggest problem this year has happened to come in Strong's area of expertise: defense. UT ranks No. 87 in Defensive S&P+. Yeah, Baylor can make a No. 87 defense look really bad.
• It's Baylor. The Bears have clawed deep into the Texas psyche. Baylor isn't supposed to beat Texas in four of six years, and no Texas head coach is ever supposed to lose to an interim named Jim Grobe.
• Recruiting was already wobbly. In the summer, many in-state recruits headed to Oklahoma or indicated they were waiting on Strong's status. There's almost no chance the Bears out-recruit Texas this cycle, no matter who's coaching either side on Signing Day, but an in-state loss would still be costly for UT.
• Baylor's only a 4-point favorite, perhaps because it's played nobody of note, as usual, and hasn't exactly lit up scoreboards. Even if the Horns can knock off an undefeated team to reach .500, it might not feel like all that much of an upset. The pressure to win at Texas Tech the following week (HOO LORD, TTU's offense against Texas' defense) would probably remain nearly as high.

More from Steven Godfrey, on the question of whether the media-averse Strong and the media-saturated Longhorns would both be better off apart:

In the course of securing my interview with Strong, I spoke with a number of boosters, some young and some seasoned, none of whom agreed to go on the record and put their names next to their opinions on Strong. Such is the murky water of Texas.

But they did deliver something of a consensus. For all Mack Brown's coaching faults, he was undefeated at dinner, be it with one booster or 1,000. A week ago last October, one donor told me a story about Brown blowing into his West Texas city on the offseason circuit:

"He would come in to our town once a year, sometimes not even that often because we weren't a big-priority alumni market, and we knew it. That was fine.

"Some years we would get a basketball coach. But when he did, he remembered your name. Every coach comes to town and remembers the high school coach's name, or the guy who owns the whatever factory, but Mack remembered your name. Seriously. He shook my hand one time and asked how my little brother was doing, because we'd both met him at the same event two years before. I'm nobody, I'm just a lawyer.

"Mack would piss you off in Red River [against Oklahoma] and then win you forever in May and June."

That's not Charlie. It never will be.

Card Chronicle, on a pattern of coaches leaving Louisville and then having to think twice about it:

At a press conference leading up to the Cardinals' Belk Bowl game against NC State, Strong recalled a talk he'd had with former UofL head coach John L. Smith years earlier.

"I remember having a conversation with coach Smith when I found out that Tom (Jurich) was considering me, and he told me that leaving Louisville was the biggest mistake he ever made," Strong said. "He told me, 'if you get that job, don't ever leave.'"

Smith was speaking from experience.