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Sounds like a good weekend. Coaching the kiddo's football team this year so I'll be missing my first home game in a while. Y'all throw one back for me!

Hays City Store is a good place. They have good food and also have a big outdoor space. If you haven't been there in a while you will notice that new food and bar places have opened up around the traffic circle. The restaurant, Whiskey Ridge, specializes in seafood and local food and has a really nice covered outdoor area. The new bar there, Mean Eyed Cat, resembles an old beer joint or honky tonk in a way. I have been there for a beer once, but much prefer Hays City Store and Whiskey Ridge if in that area.

I thought RG3 had good comments as well. Chase RG3 and Cam Newtons thoughts were the most positive I seen

@Bobby Burton will this be the tailgate for the whole season?

Just an FYI for those so inclined. We've got a big weekend planned in Austin. * Gerry and I will be broadcasting Coffee & Football tomorrow morning (Friday) live from Hays City Store. Afterwards, I'm going to stick around for an early lunch if you want to join. I figure this might be a good Longhorn getaway for folks who want to take an early Friday break and just talk Longhorn football with us. * On Friday afternoon, we'll be at the Co-Op courtesy of 40 Acres Collection from 3-4. Stop by, say hello, and get geared up for the first home game of the season. * On Saturday, we will be at our tailgate. Adult beverages will be provided by Garage Beer and Flight by Yuengling. There is a fee for the tailgate given that there is limited space. Our partners at Surly Horns are providing the space, food, and more. You can also get a season-long tailgate pass. Each gameday, we will also be giving away a $200 gift card to our friends from Duck Camp. Hope you can catch up with us at any of these places. Or inside DKR on Saturday! Hook'Em! https://do512.com/events/2025/9/6/this-certainly-isn-t-sparta-tickets https://tailgate.surlyhorns.com/event/2/2025-home-season-pass

There is a special breaking news video that Bobby, Gerry, and CJ posted a little while ago about the imminent return of Jonah Williams and it includes a discussion of the Wardell Mack situation.

He probably saw that his QB could not hit wide open receivers and decided he needed to scrap his game plan

Good candidate for a Bail-bondsman NIL deal? ............Too soon?

Gerry just dominated OP

How is it that every team plays something different than they see on film? If that’s the case then why hasn’t he adjusted. It just seems like he doesn’t know how to coach against it and they it’s an excuse at this point. Especially if it happens as much as he says it does.

It was a conservative game plan IMO. The reason for it can be debated.

The talent that DeBoer has called into was absolutely elite and a top 3 roster in the sport. The situations that he walked into and others like Sark walked into are very different. You can’t go 5-5 in your last 10 and losses to more unranked teams in the last 12 months than the program had in the last 15 years with that roster. If he goes 8-4 this year Bama will fire him.

Not necessarily alcohol related. Bad teammate at minimum. Middle of game week? Inexcusible.

Correct

We agree to disagree. I believe LSU dominated Clemson in the second half of the game because of the who and where the game was. In talent neutralized situations, being dominant is different for me.

I believe Sark was intentionally conservative with his play-calling against Ohio State. He has mentioned that opposing defenses often play differently than what is seen on tape when they face Texas. It seems he is cautious about revealing his strategies too early, which allows opposing coaches to better prepare against Texas. I’m not implying that Sark didn't call plays with the intention to win; Texas had several opportunities to secure a victory but failed to capitalize on them.

We dominated A&M last season but you wouldn’t know by looking at the final score

What do you think we’d be saying about Sark if he had the ball with 3 minutes left, and instead of getting one first down he went 3 and out only gaining 3 yards, then had to rely on his defense to keep the team out of the endzone from the 15 yard line. I don’t think people around here would be overly pleased with that ending. LSU had 108 rushing yards. It wasn’t a dominant performance. And it’s not a slight by Dabo to say LSU didn’t play as good as they could of- that is actually a compliment to suggest the opposing team could have played better but still came away with the win. If Brian Kelly wasn’t a man child he could have understood that

I just highly disagree. Do you think anyone on this site, with how highly invested and critical as we are, would be saying that we dominated a team in the second half of the team had the opportunity to tie the game from the 15 yard line win a minute left? I know I would not feel that way- I would feel that we got a good win and were lucky to get out of there. Also disagree with the “missed call”- ball was moving and got pinned. Again, “dominance” would be receivers streaking wide open and having no doubter TDs (again, see 2023 Bama game).

And in no way did I watch that game and thought LSU played a sloppy game. I'm the opposite. Considering it was your first game of the season and on the road vs. a top 5 ranked team ... LSU didn't play "sloppy". They literally shut out Clemson at home in the second half. Not perfect, but not sloppy. LSU executed at a pretty high level in game one on the road in that environment against Clemson. If LSU had played a sloppy game on defense, they would have lost and given up 24-31 points against an offense as talented as Clemson. Instead, they executed at a pretty high clip. Offensively, had the two TO's, but if you watched the game, they executed a game plan really well. Had 25 first downs in the game and possessed the ball for 37 minutes . You don't do that playing "sloppy" against a quality opponent on the road.

I agree with Brian Kelly on that one. LSU did dominate Clemson in the second half ... when you consider it was a talent neutralized game and LSU was on the road. They got hosed on a TD call, or it's 21-0 in the second half of the game. In a top 10 matchup, if the road team outscores you by 21 in a half, the home team got dominated in the second half IMO.

I'd like to see Gibson and Clark get some reps, see what else is there at RB. Continue easing Baxter back in as he gets himself back up to speed, etc. Same with WR and TE, let Arch open it up and get into his groove.

His problem with the players is the players. They are Saban kids, and they don’t want to play for him and probably nobody else either. Bama should have hired someone they were familiar with. Last year, he had to play Milroe. The team would have revolted. Milroe didn’t fit his scheme. So, he is a year behind with Simpson. Not having Grubbs hurt too but if a head coach needs particular guys to be successful than there will be a problem eventually once the guy gets an opportunity to get his own gig, which is one reason Saban was successful. It would eventually be the downfall of Mack at the end. He could not get the coordinator on the same page with him.

Honestly with the day he had, to come back and throw some of the passes he did, shows he was starting to get into his own but unfortunately time ran out and he still made some bad throws towards the end. But as people much smarter and knowledgeable than me have said, there was some good mixed in with the bad.