LonghornFan4Ever

Like Indiana becoming elite at football, Nebraska becoming elite at basketball is not something I had on my bingo card.

No more guesses needed on what this thread was about...

I'm putting a lot of stock into the Ohio State game because in Sark's first five seasons as Texas' HC, the result of their major noncon game has been a strong indicator of how their entire season will go. 2021 - @ Arkansas, got trounced, finished 5-7 2022 - vs Alabama, much better effort, but still lost, finished 8-5 2023 - @ Alabama, biggest win of the Sark era imo, propelled them to an 11-1 regular season, winning the Big XII, and making the last 4 team CFP 2024 - @ Michigan, destroyed them in the Big House, once again finished 11-1 in the regular season, had the best SEC regular season conference record, played for an SEC Championship in their first season in the conference, make it to the Semis once again 2025 - @ Ohio State, lost a close game, finished the regular season 9-3 (10-3 after winning their bowl game). Not as bad of a season as 2021 and 2022, but did not make the SEC Championship game or the CFP So based on those results, I put more stock into the result of that game than most because I believe momentum and swagger are real in college football.

I don't think this is a really bold prediction, but mine is if Texas loses to Ohio State, they will lose at least two more games in the regular season and miss the CFP for the second season in a row. If they beat Ohio State, they will go undefeated in the regular season, win the SEC Championship and have an Indiana esque run in the CFP on the way to a 16-0, Arch Manning Heisman Trophy, and national championship season. Texas will have a top 5 offense for the first time in the Sark era and average over 40 points per game in 16 games.

Watch Sean Miller pull this off.

The evil empire known as the New England Patriots are back in the Super Bowl for the 10th time this century. Credit to them for turning things around after a 7 year hiatus, but this NFC Championship is the real Super Bowl imo. This is what the Dallas Cowboys should be if they had a competent front office. Nonetheless, good luck to all the Longhorns remaining in the playoffs.

That’s part of his limited playbook that consists of praising Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers, bashing Luka Doncic, Blood Meridian, Cold War, random songs, etc. Even Shawn Watson had a deeper bag of plays than him. But what Josh Pate proposed makes sense to me.

His playbook is Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers, Blood Meridian, Cold War, random songs, etc. Not as deep as Sark's playbook that's for sure.

Gotta win at least 10 of those games to go dancing.

Did Jennie Baranczyk have her Sam Ehlinger moment last night? Can't wait for Rori Harmon to put the clamps on Aaliyah Chavez in the Moody Center.

With all this talent coming in, similar to Sark, tough questions will start to get asked if Schaefer can't get these young ladies to the national championship game in the next few years. I know the expectations for WBB are not the same as football, but still...

Ohio State is 100% a must win game with this news coming out. If they lose to Ohio State, Texas must go 8-1 in regular season SEC play to make the CFP in the 12-team format and it's unlikely that happens. Texas is not backing out of that game or the Michigan game in 2027. They should back out of the Notre Dame home and home, but I bet there is some legal things to work out before that happens. I'm assuming that is the reason that series has not been cancelled yet.

Good that’s what they need to beat the South Carolinas, UConns and LSUs of the world.

They usually do a watch with us for the national championship game, but they did not do that this year.

Would be cool to see, but then again, I thought Toby Fournier would have dunked in a game at this point in her college career.

I'm not giving up on Texas men's basketball just because they're a football first school. There are too many football schools that have made Final Fours and won natties for me to believe Texas can't be good at men's basketball. Likewise, we just saw a basketball school win a natty in football. That showed me right there in the NIL + Rev Share + Transfer Portal era that your past history is irrelevant to today's version of college athletics. I'm not expecting the program to ever be a Duke or UConn but be a Florida, Michigan, Houston, etc. Programs like that are obviously football first but have had really good basketball teams at times over the course of their history. Look at Nebraska basketball this season. Obviously not a basketball school, but Fred Hoiberg has done a great job of turning that program around. We'll see if he can get them to the Elite Eight or better in a few months. Texas can do this. I believe in Sean Miller and CDC.

Can she make some 3 pointers?

They got enough from Pope, just the wrong one.

Agreed and IU even with all their success under Cig, is still a basketball school at heart.

Second game in a row Matas has been put on a poster

No Cam Heide tonight due to an illness.

Must win game for Texas given the difficulty of their 9 game SEC schedule. If they lose, there’s a really good chance they go 9-3 and miss the CFP again unless it expands to 16 or 24 teams. A win gives them much more margin for error.

They still won't, but they should imo

This is about Texas. Idc about the other 135 teams. 1 football natty in the last 55 years at Texas is unacceptable. Get it done next season.

Mark Fletcher did what?