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I absolutely can't watch today's NBA, yesterday Lamelo Ball took like 7 steps backwards, shot a 3, no travel call. Giannis takes 3 steps, tosses the ball over a player, catches it at half court, runs to the basket and dunks it, never taking 1 dribble, no travel call. wtf And don't get me started on flopping. Holy cow, what ever happened to no blood no foul, be a damn man. Ok I'm done ranting.

Pretty crazy given the talent on the list. Of course one can argue Durant is the only generational player on the list.

I haven't read about any predictions for 2027 season yet, but the general consensus is that the top three teams are Texas, OU, and Texas Tech. The other SEC teams Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida are also top contenders along with ATM. Outside of the SEC, it's likely to be UCLA. Time will tell if Nebraska is able to keep any momentum w/ Frahm-Bahl graduating. Texas will be the favorite heading into the season as they bring back Kavan and Stewart and replaced their graduating seniors with a pretty stud transfer class. OU still has an extremely potent offense, if any of their pitchers turn out to be elite, they will be a hard out as usual. Tech of course bought like 90% of their team. Everyone will be watching to see how Terry performs as the staff ace now that Canady is gone. Hopefully it's going to be a fun season to follow, but I'm a bit cautious after what's happened with a supposedly loaded football and volleyball team this year.

There's a significant gap between the top 3 and the rest of the field. S. Carolina is as loaded as you can get. UConn and USC aren't far behind and they have bonified experienced studs that can carry a team. USC actually has 2.

As some others have said, the freshman are talented but they lack experience. Whether they get enough experience during the year to make a run at the end will be key. A couple of freshman for UConn were European pro players and the experience difference was obvious. PG definitely was rough, especially the 2nd half. Shooting % outside of Booker second half just took a nose dive off a cliff.

So money. Texas beats OU without the two disastrous picks. Those are on Arch. Texas probably beats Florida without turning the ball over on downs, that's on Sark.

Most likely scenario that I see is that Arch will start the game. At half time, if the team is up, he's going to start the 2nd half. If Texas is losing going into half, KJ might get a chance to start 2nd half. If the team implodes again in the 3rd quarter, KJ might get a chance to come in.

I saw that yesterday, 100% agree with him. The HC has too many other things he's gotta worry about in today's game. Need someone whose job is solely the offense. And it ain't Kyle Flood as well.

I wary about getting my hopes up, scrimmages are basically practice, and allegedly the football team also practices great and we see what actual game time produces.

The offense is even worse this year with “more weapons”

Who needs Arch more, Tennessee or Houston.

Yep agreed, look at what happened when ATM forced Jimbo to hire an OC. Unless Sark comes to the conclusion on his own and it's his decision, that's just another disaster waiting to happen.

Don't forget special teams as well, it's the third phase that Texas seems to be on the lesser side of compared to the elite teams.

Comparable, but you also have to factor in outside factors. Mack didn't have to worry as much about roster turnover due to NIL, but he also couldn't just go out and buy (buy some accounts) the most expensive roster in college football this year.