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All Tech needs to do is point to Mahomes and Cody Campbell’s wallet.

Man. You are right, I was cloudy in my old man memory. I was thinking of his game against Tennessee-whose defense was good but not great.

In two weeks Lagway will be a worry. Look at what he did to Georgia last year. I am unsure if Georgia was prepared or not for him, but he is no joke when it clicks. I am more worried about Lagway than I was about Mateer. Just look at how Arch struggled. I’m going to this game and looking forward to the Swamp. I think they will regret moving it to 2:30. This will be a good game.

One big take away from the Ohio State stats is that they will portal O-linemen, and find success doing it. I wish we would have looked at the kid from Rice.

The drone show was amazing. Wife took a video of it, but it is hard to do it justice. Bevo in a car, footballs being impaled on the turnover sword. It would be hard to find a better atmosphere than a night game at DKR. First quarter I got in trouble with the wife for singing the lyrics to NECK when the band played it. Have to think every recruit wanted to come here after that game. You miss all that on TV.

O-line looked mediocre again against a weak sam houston state defense. Clark dances in the hole too much for my tastw. Certainly exorcised some demons.

I am reserving judgement until after this weekend. San Jose State and UTEP are not terrible teams. Everyone knew UTEPs defense was much improved and had the most TFLs coming into that game. We also had some injuries. Sam is just barely a D1 team and what talent they had got pillaged. I think Arch will probably look good against Sam. But if he doesn’t —a lot of things will need to change.

I dont think our O-line is good enough for extensive RPO game….

The Film Guy made a comment that a number of scouts do not believe Arch can make touch throws and cant make the short and intermediate throws consistently. I didnt want to believe that but it looks like it is true.

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Let’s not pretend we weren’t a part of the problem with the ill-conceived Longhorn Network. A general truth in life is that anytime someone becomes passionate about something they will spend time and money to try and get better at it or do it more often. The media has over the last 30 years taken advantage of what used to be one of the more pure athletic endeavors in college football. When the athletes saw how much the schools were making from ESPN and CBS and Fox deals, they wanted their cut. The old lie we told ourselves that football supported the academics is an old wives tale now. For better or worse we are living in a free market system where money is going to either turn college football into another version of the NFL or there will be some kind of return to the old school feeling that college football is more pure than pro sports. I don’t know if we can put the toothpaste back in the tube, but at least Campbell is trying. And don’t think for a minute we don’t have plenty of billionaire supporters too. We just dont hear about what they are doing publicly. This has been one of the more interesting threads ion OTF I’ve seen and I enjoy the spirited debate I could use a little less of the ad hominems and petty bickering though . The billionaires are not taking notes from us. 🤘🤘🤘

Bobby Thank you for the well written description of what is happening. I think Campbell is right. Trying to label what he is doing as socialism or self serving is silly and fallacious. These are economic facts and the way NFL teams have for years financed their stadiums is worse than socialism—it is funneling money from taxpayers into the owner’s pockets with no return to the local citizens other than made up economic impact statements. College Football has to be fixed now or It will be a race to the bottom until there are only a few teams that can truly compete for media money. Taking the short view of things for self interest is going to kill college athletics.

As much as I love Sark, everytime I hear the commentators talk about a 40 play script, I pour a drink and prepare myself for disappointment. I started to lose faith in it in the Washington playoff loss after there was no change until halftime in the tipped Quinn balls over the middle. After two games against Georgia and OSU, the script has to go in big games. Be a playcaller, not a screenwriter. Just my ordinary joe opinion.

USF played a way cleaner game than we just did. If we have less than 50 yards in penalties the next two weeks I might relax.

The nature of modern college football is that a lot of freshman play and are ready. The problem is Sark’s schemes are overly complicated. We make up for it with talent.