MarkInAustin

I agree with the OP, and just want to add a vote for Klatt as someone who conveys insights clearly and with precision. I think McElroy is an easy listen as well. Klatt, like Herbstreit, is quietly confident in his own assessments, which is very convincing to a casual fan like me!

Is KDB's calling deep shots based on his QB's strengths and weaknesses coupled with a suspect run game? Tying this to your comment about QBs, with which I partially agree, if KDB had QE he could use the short pass to advantage and probably would. I agree with you that Texas has two QBs who would win more games at Texas then would a Diego Pavia, because they are great passers and smart players. Where I disagree with you is this: Diego Pavia has been a QB for teams without notable talent and has led them to astonishing wins, in games where they would have lost by multiple TDs without him. He is not able to overcome all his team's shortcomings, all the time. Vandy will lose many games that it should lose - after all, Pavia does not play on defense. But he inspires his teammates to play over their heads in tough games. Frankly, I doubt QE would thrive at Vandy, But QE will be a pro QB and Diego Pavia may become a head coach in high school. Some day Pavia may become the head coach at Vandy. But he will never have QE's career at QB. In that respect, I agree with you.

If leadership is job 1 for a QB then Diego Pavia is the best college QB in the nation. Go back and watch him for NMxSt against Auburn at Auburn last season. He is probably not going to the NFL or even the CFL, but he is a rare specimen of a certain type of great college QB.

ULM looked good at home beating previously undefeated JMU, which had been favored over Boise for the #12 seed in the playoffs [after Madison scored 70 against UNC]. I thought the distance between the haves and the have nots would be greater this season, but the P4 conference races all look like meat grinders at this point. Gerry pointed out "home team advantage", which is most pronounced when talent is relatively even and the stadium is YOURS. Note that Cal's stadium advantage does not exist, fortunately for Miami. Texas has AWAY games against two of the home teams with BIG stadium crowd advantages. Plus, Vandy fans seem as eager as his offensive line to come alive for Diego Pavia. We have history to cheer us having played well in away games before hostile crowds recently. Nevertheless, the next seven games will be a grind and the next two will be Midterm Exams.

Jeanty takes pass blocking seriously, as well.

I saw what Pavia did last hear against Auburn for NMXSt - which was unbelievable, really. Gerry has been blowing his horn all season and rightly so. Remember Diego was a champion wrestler and he is a leader and a really tough guy. We will have to take Vandy seriously for this season in Nashville.

Jeanty is unreal.

Not Herman's Beck, Dude2

Jeanty and Pavia - good viewing. Glad we only have to play against Diego in the regular season.

Having no excuse to watch Texas I will be doing something excellent - frisbee in the park with my twin teenaged granddaughters.

Oh.

What? I thought Texas has had some explosive games. Is he looking for 70 pts?

Good to know, this was my first watch this season.

Makes one realize what a great blocker ONeal was.

Trey will be the #2 next season. When QE is out he is the #2 NOW. So my bet is that if QE comes back for OU and for the remainder of the season we will only see Trey twice more. But if QE misses more than two more games the RS will probably be lost. I am still looking for Cole Lourd to throw a TD to Thatcher Milton, of course.

I really favor this take. Like early VY, Arch's personal inclination for a second read seems to be to run, and I suspect that was verboten for him against ULM and will be against Miss St. He can read progressions it seems to me, so I hope Sark hammers on how good the receivers are after the catch and has him looking short first. When he can content himself to take the easy pickings he will have matured to a new level. The bomb can be held in reserve and can still be useful if used sparingly. Throwing one now and then [but NOT into double coverage] loosens up the defense and makes Helm or a RB underneath a YAC menace. Manning is enough of a student of the game that he may be able to quickly correct the "greedy" tendency to look long, first. That would be my hope. As for his passing, not his decision making, his timing with Blue needs a lot of work that I think may never appear Quinn-like this season. Quinn definitely has more arrows in his quiver because he is comfortable throwing to his RBs and TEs. End result? Let Quinn have two more weeks before OU, and look for Arch to take advantage of short throws to WRs, allowing them to move after the catch, against MSU. If he does more - finds his RBs and TEs - that'll be pure gravy.

For the first time I notice a specific drop off - when both Gbenda and Hill are out. They are better at run containment than their subs, although Lefau and Mo are pretty good. Or so I think.

While I agree in general - we have had some good member coverage of VB and hoops, and some Gerry coverage of hoops. Those are the two female sports that most engage me. In fact, televised VB is to me third only to men's hoops and FB, as I would choose to watch it over every other sport - and I played and love baseball. I concede that baseball and softball are both ill served by television compared with goal-to-goal sports. VB is absolutely a stunning TV sport and more easily completely followed than even goal-to-goal sports. The TV advantage of VB coupled with the incredible play of Texas [and other top teams] has me watching replays on YouTube because I miss the scheduling since the demise of LHN. I would appreciate OTF publishing TV scheduling of VB and women's hoops in a continuing sidebar, perhaps in a collation of all televised UT sports. I know, I can find this for myself at https://texaslonghorns.com. But we are discussing OTF here, and looking for ways to encourage OTF to broaden its coverage of women's sports. The best OTF could do would be to have a stringer or employee[s] write daily briefings. The subscription base may or may not justify that yet, but it is worth asking.

The greatest exception is for performance based admission. Think fine and performing arts. They require portfolios and/or auditions. And... think athletics.

Venables remains a fine DC as a HC so I would not assume as Bobby did this morning that Tennessee will beat them by 40 points. But 28 seems realistic from what I have seen.

Sorta...further north on Guadalupe there is

Too soon...tied at the half.

Now 21-7! Bobcats made this one look easy. So are they going to be the G5 team in the playoff?

FWIW, San Marcos Normal just went up 14-7 on Arizona State. They looked good doing it, with quick passes to the outside and quick runs up the gut.

JQJ gives Arky a power running threat. He is the real deal. Oklahoma must try something else at QB. Is there a dual threat who can escape the rush on their roster? Hawkins? Or dare I mention, Casey? OU has a lot of talent on the roster. But the O-Line plus Arnold is a fatal combo, now. Until the O-Line is healthy or improved the QB must be an escape artist who can scamper when flushed. Solve this before the Shootout and that game will be tougher than mere rivalry can make it.