VideoEagle

Watching on ESPN+ and the game keeps skipping back 10 to 12 seconds. Anyone else experiencing that?

We're not talking now, the game they might be thinking of buying out is in 2027! And, no one at Tech has actually said they want to buy it out, just that they want to move to having seven home games each year. EDIT - I need to stop trying to post from my phone!

Home games generate lots of dollars, not just for team and school but for the town as well. The City of Norman has been pushing OU for decades to drop the annual game in Dallas in favor of a home and home with UT.

Rust On is a good description of the town.

Three of the big heavyweights in sports broadcasting are joining forces for a combined streaming service. Here's a podcast that explains what's going on. As the Podcast states, "The dinosaurs are seeing the asteroid coming and are trying to do something about it." Here's the link. https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/why-three-media-giants-are-betting-on-sports-streaming/97E7A6C2-46AA-428C-8719-ECAAB17941C0

Position coaches come and go. They always have and always will. That churn happens at all levels of football. This is not good news but certainly not “our season is done” either.

Wow, that was great!

The Mavericks first season was 80-81. During the DePaul game, there was a lot of talk about how Mark Aguirre was likely coming to the Mavericks with the first pick. The biggest difference was MUCH less sports on TV. ESPN has started, but didn't have any college football or basketball yet. The first lacrosse game I ever saw was on ESPN around that time. There weren't many cable TV options yet either - you had local DFW TV of 4, 5, 8, 11 (an independent at the time), 13, and 39. Channels 21, 27 and 33 had just signed on in 1979 but were Pay Per View scrambled signals after 7pm. No Fox network yet. CNN started June 1, 1980. MTV started Aug 1, 1981. There weren't even any dedicated All-sports radio stations. I was living in the dorms Fall 76 thru Spring 78. Going to the game was just what you did - it was the default evening activity if you lived in a dorm.

I was there for #1, 2, 6, and 9.

I understand what you're saying, but both the ACC and the American Conference list the Fenway Bowl as one of their top, non-access, bowls.

They aren't supposed to according to TeamRankings. FAU is the favorite to win both the regular season and the tournament, followed by SMU. Memphis is a distant third place!

The company that publishes SI fired most of the staff this afternoon. It's still to be determined if they are laying off everyone or not. I'd say it's the end for sure, but SI has a complicated ownership and publishing arrangement which makes it possible someone else will take over the publishing. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/19/media/sports-illustrated-layoffs/index.html

Our best attempts to TDs ratio ever!

Not sure where or how you got the bizarre idea I thought Morris did a better job than Deion. I just pointed out that historically, coaches taking over teams with 0-2 wins overwhelmingly improve on the total wins in their first year. Coaches taking over teams with six or more wins only improve on the previous year's record a little less than 1/3 of the time. Expecting Morris to improve our record in his first year is the same as expecting a 3 to come up more often in craps than a 6 - it is possible but not likely.

Yes, coaches taking over teams with 0-2 wins overwhelmingly improve on their predecessor's record in their first year. Coaches taking over 6+ win teams only improve about 1 out of 3 times. The better the record of the team you take over, the less likely you will improve in your first year.

But that's not how it works. There was a multiyear study done back in 2012ish that found teams that fired a coach in hopes of getting a better record. The study was called something like pushing the reset button. The results showed that if a team had 0-2 wins, almost always there was an improvement. A seven-win team with a new coach only improved 1/3 of the time. If you look at the records of the new coaches from last year, you'll see these results still hold almost exactly. Yes, there are always the outliers like Texas State. But those are the exceptions and a little over 2/3s of the time a new coach taking over a winning team has a worse record in their first year. Drawing to an inside straight does work sometimes, but usually it doesn't!

The "I don't want a wrinkled hundred dollar bill" crowd is out in force. We just got a kid who was projected to repeat as the starter of a school two years removed from making it to the National Championship Game. I didn't watch a lot of TCU games last year, but he wasn't the problem with the team in the ones I did watch. This is an incredible win for our coaches.

I'm probably wrong, but I don't remember Morris ever saying anything like that.

It is WAY too early to be worried about who our starting QB is next year.

The lawyers here please correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think spelling and grammatical errors in validate a legal filing. It they did, I believe a lot of attorneys would be looking for other work!

Good

I might be wrong, but I think we have played more football games against Texas State than any other school.

They are an awful school. No conference wants them because they are such jerks. They have an SMU attitude without money, facilities, or history to back it up. Texas State is an up-and-coming program. They have a positive attitude and a can-do spirit. They are not ready for the American conference but are lightyears ahead of LaTech in every possible metric.

A series against Texas State would certainly be better than ever playing La Tech.

That’s why those of us with friends in Memphis always say Memphis State. Of course, when my friends were going there it was Memphis State just as I attended NTSU.