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Send this to McCuistion at Soonerscoop when he says Ewers isn't much. He'll be better than any criminal interloper in the NFL.

Apparently. Of course, not all criminal fans are that stupid. Ikard, Lehman, Berry Tramel and others admit Texas is really good and the criminal Sooners suck at this point. Meaning unless something drastically changes, they're toast.

I just listened to Josh McCuistian question whether Texas really has speed at WR because they haven't thrown deep during the first two games. Talk about homerism, It comes at about the 1:07 mark. Just before that he said Quinn Ewers is really nothing because of his yard per attempt average.

The inability or unwillingness of criminal fans to just admit the source of the problem is mind boggling. Venables was punked by Arnold's camp and now they're paying the price. Maybe they're admitting that privately, but I haven't seen it. Some criminals are talking about playing Hawkins, but they're not going back to the reason they should play Hawkins.

Seems to me there's a dilemma here. Do you spend the bye week prepping for Georgia or the criminals? Beating Georgia will ignite recruiting and national buzz. On the flip side, losing to the sorry butt criminals this year would be devastatingly bad for Sark. You should be good enough to beat a terrible criminal team this year without too much nonsense. Read the team the riot act about losing to the criminals last year, then go get ready for Georgia.

I'd say overspending on Williams, Burkes and Arnold has caused locker room problems. They have no cohesion. The Arnold deal is the biggest problem. All their players see him sucking every day at practice and wonder why he's paid big and the red carpet is laid out for him. That's their biggest problem.

Talk of rat poison and Mack's talk about rats eating poison cheese brings back memories. I'm pretty sure Mack originally got the "cheese" talk from Bill Parcells when he coached the Cowboys. Parcells would say "don't take the cheese," by which he meant don't allow the praise to make you soft. I remember Mack saying he talked to Parcells on the phone during the 2005 season, and Parcells told him to make sure the Longhorns "didn't take the cheese." Mack changed it up a little over the next few years.

If you missed it, Barry Tramel asked Venables if he couldn't see the problems on offense coming this past offseason. Venables blamed injuries. Anyone with a brain has seen it coming since last December when Venables allowed Arnold to push him into a really bad situation. It was after the criminals pushed out Gabriel and gave Arnold mucho mas dinero that the exodus of offensive linemen occurred. They looked at how Venables was divvying up the cash and running the show and decided to go. Injuries have nothing to do with it. When you don't have a QB that can play well against good competition (and they have yet to play good competition) or an offensive line, then it doesn't matter what the rest of the offensive skill players do because you can't block or get them the ball. Venables talked about there being a reason ones are ones and twos are twos and threes are threes. That's exactly right. He doesn't know who should be one. Arnold should be three. Gabriel should be one. Hawkins should be two. That boneheaded decision has caused all of the problems for the criminals.

I don't know how clean Venables is. The difference between him and Stalions as sign stealers is that Stalions was so blatant something had to be done. You would think a guy that sly and shrewd would be smart enough to handle an eighteen year old QB that can't read a defense, but apparently the slyness stops at blitz packages and sign stealing systems.

If the criminals only win five or six, they gotta fire Venables even though they gave him the extension. Haven't seen the buyout numbers, but they can't wait three more years. If they do wise up and can Venables, Sark better prepare for them trying to poach Nansen or Banks. I don't know if they would, but they would if they're smart.

The Tennessee game will give Venables the chance he needs to bench Arnold. If the Vols convincingly beat the criminal interlopers with Iamaleava playing well and Arnold doing what he does, then Venables can reasonably tell the guys who paid for Arnold that it's not working out and they need to look elsewhere. Don't know that he will, but that's the only chance he has to prevent a complete disaster this season.

If Venables has a pair, he'll tell Arnold to go ahead and transfer to Texas Tech in December if he wants and make the switch to Hawkins. It's bad enough that Venables allowed himself to get bullied into shipping out Gabriel so Arnold could start; time to call daddy's bluff (your son sucks) and make the right coaching decision.

I could easily see them losing every SEC game, which would be just four wins for the season. I still think they find a way to beat South Carolina at home (not a given by any means), getting them to five. I think six is the max barring some miraculous turn around. Toward the end of that podcast, the Soonerscoop guys mentioned that they don't think Venables will replace Arnold with Hawkins before the tail end of the season because of the amount of money invested.

Oregon looks about like the criminal sooners.

Criminal interloper sooners are only going to win four or five. I was thinking they'd beat South Carolina. Maybe not.

Must say that I'm glad to see it's really the same old Notre Dame.

I don't see how no one else knew. I can believe he "ran" the operation by doing the leg work, but he had to get to information to others. Did the coach or coaches to whom he was relaying the information think he was clairvoyant?

Doug seems like a good guy. I must say, it's hard to believe that he really thinks Stalions acted alone. If Stalions acted alone, then there's no scandal because he had to communicate the information from the stolen signs to some coaches, who in turn communicated to players on the field. It's bizarre to see how are far these guys are willing to go to rationalize what was obviously a cheating conspiracy. I hope Texas isn't like Michigan in that regard.

I watched a Wolverine podcast in which one of the guys said he watched the Texas v. Colorado State game and the Longhorns wide receivers couldn't get separation. I don't if he was just trying to make his guys feel good or he was lying about watching the game.

I looked at his season stats and it seems Ward certainly hasn't been bad in the least. That said, I've read stuff saying he's made inopportune mistakes against good competition in big games. Maybe that's not really true. I haven't seen enough of him to say.

Hasn't Ward had consistency and turnover problems over the years?

Starting to think Samples is a bigger charlatan than Deion. The bright side is that at least you know that kids willing to fall for this stuff probably aren't likely to have what it takes in the long run. It's a shame in this case because Barnes seemed like an honest and forthright kid. Even if it's just a money deal for a visit, it's still a red flag.

Speaking of Oregon, I'm thinking the "Gabriel for Heisman" odds took a hit. He had some yards, but he hardly looked like an elite QB.

Kind of embarrassing that what was supped to be about the fifth best SEC team lost to about the fifth best Big 10 team at a neutral site. Up to the Longhorns to redeem conference honor Saturday.