The Fake Lonnie Finch

Seems like we've improved on the OL since Mac got here. We've improved at TE (yes...I know...when you've got nothing, anything is an improvement). I still say Mac will stand and fall based on whether he can put a defensive line together. Look at the Bama-LSU game. Kansas State, Oregon, and Notre Dame can all go rot. The best two teams in the country are still Alabama and LSU. Those schools' defensive line knock the snot out of each other for 60 solid minutes. But, when the game was on the line - 1:34 left and needing a field goal to tie and force overtime - Alabama's offense sparked. Junior Kevin Norwood, who had caught 2 passes in the first 58:26 of the game, gets open for three in a row for 44 yards. One incomplete pass later, a true freshman takes a screen pass 28 yards to the end zone. Bama's defense gets a sack to end the game on the ensuing LSU possession. That is playmakers making plays when they need to be made on both sides of the ball. A strong defense to keep you in the game. An offense whose members look at each other in crunch time and will themselves to make plays. Then, the defense nailing it down. Give me what Bama and LSU have.

Older brother is a tight end at Kansas.

I've made this point in defending Derek Thompson. Wide receiver is an area where walk-ons have suplanted scholarship players. What does that say? Keep bagging on Thompson all you want, but a QB has to have guys who can run their route properly on a consistent basis so that the timing is right, and who will make plays after the catch. Thompson has only had that in one player - Chancellor. We need WRs. We needs DTs. We need everybody else to own up and show up. If USA beats us next week....

on game days.

You guys quit fighting.

I'll never understand Dallas' love affair with Felix Jones. Except that perhaps he and Jerry were both Razorbacks, there's not really anything that would lead to believe he's done anything worthy of keeping his roster spot as long as he has.

The truth is, El Paso is in the middle of nowhere. There isn't a major city near it, and the high schools there do not come close to putting out FBS-level talent in the volume of the DFW, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio areas. Having lived there for a year, and visiting a client from time to time that we have out there, it's not a particularly pretty city, and there isn't much to do. Yes, it has mountains, but they aren't all that, you know, "scenic." The people there are nice enough, and I like the campus. But, it would be a hard sell to draw many upper echelon recruits there. I'd have stuck with Price until he retired. UTEP is a tough job in many ways. Being where it is, it is neither fish nor fowl. Not many have had sustained success there...like UNT in that regard.

2012:sprained foot Are we still questioning whether or not DeMarco Murray is injury prone? The only questions now is whether Jones/Garrett will give Dunbar a shot since Felix Jones and the kid from Middle Tennessee aren't lighting it up in Murray's absence.

I'm sad about this because I wanted to see the kid play. He put up some good numbers at his JUCO. I wonder if he'll go into a grad program and play somewhere for a year. I hope so.

You'll buy it when we have more than one receiver who can get open consistently and make plays.

If he's throwing to a spot where no one is there, that's generally a receiver not running the right route. The QBs know where the WRs are supposed to be with any given play called. The other half, again, is the receiver getting there. Passing games are based on timing. I think Thompson has done a pretty good job of not turning the ball over more often, given that he really doesn't have a group of good receivers. Other than Chancellor, what are these guys? If they don't step up in the last four games, many will leave here just as guys who filled a jersey for a little bit of time. On the pro level, think of what Troy Aikman had to work with versus what Tony Romo has to work with. I mean, the QBs know they'll take more blame - and glory - than they're really due most of the time. With Thompson, once you drill down and look at what we have here and what theyre doing, he doesn't have, nor has he had, a bunch of go-to guys among the receivers.

But, what do you want the kid to do? Throw the ball and get open and catch the balls he throws? The truth is, we don't have an elite group of receivers. Out of the guys we have now, we have a walk-on leading the way. We've got the last JUCO from the Dodge JUCO binge. Chancellor is the main ingredient, and he's now injured. So, with leading receiver Delgado suspended for the game and Chancellor breaking his collarbone early in the game, what did you expect? I don't think many people appreciate the importance of offseason work between the QB and receivers. Thompson has had an ever evloving group of walk-ons, JUCOs, and scholarship players who - other than Chancellor - haven't really panned out. Is that Thompson's fault? I really don't know what else anyone can expect, given the tools he has to work with. You have to have playmakers at the skill positions. He has exactly one "playmaker" among the WRs, Chancellor. Players have to make plays when they are given the ball. Derek has nine TDs thrown this year - five to Chancellor, two to running back Jimmerson, one to tight end Drew Millers. That's eight. The ninth - one of Carlos Harris' two catches on the year. Yes, Carlos Harris with two catches on the year has more TD receptions than Ivan Delgado and Chris Byrnes. Complain about Thompson all you want. But, the other half of the equations is the receiving corp. If we're going to scrutinize the guy running the patterns and catchng the ball as well. Outside of Chancellor, the truth is, this is not a group that makes many big plays. With Chancellor out, someone among them needs to step up and make plays. As Coach McCarney has said many times, someone has to make plays. It's time way past time for this group to stop waiting around for Chancellor to make the plays in the receiving game. It's okay to have more than one playmaker among the receivers. Will anyone step up to the plate and do it?

Question entering the season: Who will replace Lance Dunbar's production? As of Saturday, it's been replaced. Lance Dunbar, 2011: 269 rushes - 1,115 yard - 4.1 avg - 10 TD / 29 receptions - 350 yards - 12.1 avg - 2 TDs 298 total touches - 1,465 yards - 4.9 avg - 12 TDs The Hounds of Hell, 2012: Antoine Jimmerson: 92 rushes - 487 yards - 5.3 avg - 5 TDs / 8 receptions - 181 yards - 22.6 avg - 2 TDs 100 total touches - 668 yards - 6.6 avg - 7 TDs Brandin Byrd: 141 rushes - 555 yards - 3.9 avg - 2TDs / 9 receptions - 48 yards - 5.3 avg - 0 TDs 150 total touches - 603 yards - 4.0 avg - 2 TDs Jeremy Brown: 52 rushes - 285 yards - 5.5 avg - 2 TDs / 5 receptions - 62 yards - 7.8 avg - 0 TDs 57 total touches - 347 yards - 6.1 avg - 2 TDs Total: 285 rushes - 1,327 yards - 4.6 avg - 9 TDs / 22 receptions - 291 yards - 13.2 avg - 2 TDs 307 total touches - 1,618 yards - 5.3 avg - 11 TDs Whatever else is happening, the offensive line is doing its job, the runners are doing their job...and, they are doing it better statistically that Lance did it last year. They are on pace to rush for almost 2,000 yards (1,990) and about a little over 400 receiving (436), and contribute 16 or 17 TDs. Are we happy with this? I'm happy with it. Give the offensive line coach and running backs coach extensions and raises. Also, barring injury, criminal activity, or academic problems, Antoine Jimmerson could threaten Lance's rushing record. You figure he splits time with Byrd again next year, then is the main man in 2014 and 2015. After two seasons, Dunbar had 1,556 yards rushing. If Jimmerson stays on his current pace, he'll get about 730 yards this year. So, he'll need 820 or next year splitting time with Byrd to be where Dunbar was after two seasons. In 2014, when Jimmerson is the main man, Y'Barbo, Johnson, and Lemon will be seniors. Given the ability of this offensive line coach to get young players to do the job even as freshman, you figure whomever the other two starters are will be getting the job done. So, 2014 for Jimmerson junior season could be his best just like Lance's was with 1,553 rushing yards. Whatever happens, it should be exciting to watch Jimmerson and the offensive line that blocks for him over the next three seasons. Kudos all around to this group - players and coaches - leading the run game.

Fetuses are human. But, that doesn't matter to politicians. Democrats feel that they must pander to (liberal) women, so this is another area of science they ignore in order to keep that voting bloc. Republican who label themselves as moderates (don't tax us, but don't penalize us for wanting to have irresponsible personal lives), want to bring more (liberal) women into their camp, so they ignore the science behind it as well. The funny/hypocritical thing to me is the politicans who claim that hard science trumps anything related to what a Christian believes, yet they go ahead an ignore science anyway. So, quit wasting your time with the lot of them. It's not humans that are important to politicans - it's their money and votes one days out of every two,four, or six years depending on the office. During the other thousands of days that pass between the election days, the humans mean nothing to them.

I half-way agree with both of you...but, the only reason is that we hired a guy out of high school, which was almost unprecedented. Also, throw Tulsa into your list. The Tulsa of my law school days was threatening to take the program D-IAA. Then, the hired Kragthorpe and.... Nevermind. As always, we're special case.

Save for the four year stretch under Dickey, we're really no better or worse than we have been since we reentered D-IA/FBS Land. Hooray! I post this because over the years, I've tired of showing examples of schools who have turned it around in, yes, one or two years. I've finally just resigned myself to the fact that it won't happen here. Predicted 5-7, said I wouldn't be surprised by 4-8. If we get no defensive line help, we should expect 4-8s and 5-7s and 3-9s for many years to come. Hey...at least we're consistent.

Yes. And, you'll note that Frisco ISD has the second highest public school debt in the state next to Dallas ISD. Which adds up to...they'll be looking to us the citizens of Frisco to pony up more property tax cash in the future...these "conservatives" who run the city, I mean. Look at the idiots - we've got about 115,000 people and soon we'll have eight high schools! Eight, Norm. Eight!

Look, I don't disagree that George Washington and John Adams were probably good people. I know that Thomas Jefferson talked nobly about the slaves...while owning and screwing them. But, get the truth...there are no names of poor, common, or middle-class among the signatories of the Declaration of Independence. I don't even care if people think they fought for a noble cause - the preservation of their wealth and land and whatnot. Fine. What gets me is this notion that it's "patiotic" or "my duty" to choose between the "lesser of two evils." To hell with both of the evils. If choosing between Barak Obama and Mitt Romney makes someone more patriotic than me, fine. In my eyes, it sets the "patriotic" bar pretty damn low when it gets to "lesser of two evils" mularkey.

Get a job and quit worrying about politics.

Really? It's my duty to choose between cads like John McCain and emptyhead Barak Obama? Or, still empty-headed Barak Obama and born wealthy Romney? I'm supposed to get up for an election between Ted Cruz, a moron who talks that flat tax garbage, and that Sadler fella who can't get enough of taxing people out of their money? Neither one of them are worth the effort. I've heard all the arguments before, and they're all stupid. No one died for my right to vote. The Revolutionary War was fought because rich land owners in America didn't want to pay more taxes. All this pretense about noble baloney. They died because, before 1972, the government drafted them on threat of imprisonment. They died whether they wanted to die or not. And, not for my right to vote, but to keep dickholes in faraway lands from coming over here. They died because the government sent them to protect the economic interests of the United States and its Allies. It had nothing to do with voting. Hell, even the communists hold elections. Why do you think Germany, Italy, Britiain, America, and the Sovit Union were fighting each other in North Africa? For our right to vote? Hell no. Control over the Suez Canal and the Arabian oil fields were crucial. Voting my ass. it was all about economic self-preservation. It always is. Even the most recent war had nothing to do with voting. Rather, it was waged to show the baal worship maggots in the middle east that if they terrorized us on our own soil that we would open a can of technologically superior whoopass on them in the own countries. If we go to war with Iran, it will not be about voting. It'll be about knocking that pissant Ahmadinejad's dick in the dirt once and for all. Politicians...to hell with all of them. I'd vote for a crusty, 15 year old ding dong still half wrapped in foil before I'd throw the switch for the worthless like of Romney, Obama, Cruz, or Sadler. Blowhards. Just look at what they do - nothing but turn people against one another in the name of whatever their political philosophy is. Screw that. These crazy people calling me everyday to ask for money for their candidate. If an American bald eagle flew over my front lawn and crapped out so little as a penny I wouldn't give it to those maggots. Wake the f*ck up, people. You are the only ones who can change or make your situation better. It's not Obama, Romnuts, Cruz, Sadler, or any of them. Ignore the politicians and get on with your lives. There's nothing Patriotic or noble about choosing any of them. Phony baloney.

I like him the same as I like Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and all other "shared sacrificers" throughout history. They are buttholes. They all have the same stupid, horse's ass assumption that we aren't already sacrificing. Everyone with a social security number is already "sacrificing." These holographic dickbrains don't serve any purpose but to rile up the lazy and ignorant. A lemur with a frontal lobotomy would have more original governing ideas than stinkholes like Castro, Chavez, and Sadler. They're nothing but theives dressing themselves as do-gooders. If any one of them so much as set foot on my front lawn, I'd hire a blind mule to come and kick them in the nuts. I'd sell tickets so that people could come and enjoy the spectacle of a blind mule kicking a socialist in the clusticles. And, that would be a good lesson in capitalism for them despite the hurt of their mule broke nadsack.

"Shared sacrifice" my ass. There's no law against Paul Sadler giving more to the government than he owes. Let him and all other "shared sacrifice" morons do so without coercing the government into making a grab into everyone else's pocket book. This guy Sadler is already chomping at the bit to spend other people's money, the crosseyed duckfart. Paul Sadler is nothing but a halfass plaintiffs attorney who picks over what is left of the low-hanging fruit of asbestos litigation. I don't register to vote anymore, but if I did, I'd vote for a dead buzzard's brown butthole before I voted for any "shared sacrifice" ninny like Sadler.

Now, looky here...if Tulsa or Louisiana Tech would agree to it, I'd have a neutral game very year there a la Florida-Georgia/Texas-Oklahoma. What would it hurt? Think of the corndogs and roasted corn involved. Six home games, plus one game at the Cotton Bowl...that's what I'm in favor of. I'm not prejudiced either - I'm already on record saying I'd like for every season opener to be against a HBC. We should also play one of the Mexican schools every year - the Aggies or Lobos, whichever one will do it, Sam! Get RV off his ass again and have him wave the Magic Football Fan Pleasing Wand.

The Aplin kid ain't horrible. I'll bet he catches on as a free agent in the NFL and at least goes to a camp and whatnot before being cut. He'll have stories and stuff to tell his grandchildren...unless he's gay.

It was across the street from the Flying Tomato, next to Voertman's. And...it was pretty much like the Delta Lodge in the Animal House movie...only, probably more crude. Classic. The frat for the artsy/hippie/indie North side of the campus.