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Idiotic Article by Mark Schlabach

"Texas is not good enough to be considered the best team in the country..."  Once again the pundits are not willing to give credit when it is due; according to Schlabach the defenses in the Big 12 are not in the league of the SEC.  As always our team is never given the respect it deserves...    To all the pundits out there watch the game and not just the box score, Hook 'Em!!!   http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id=3651458

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I already laid into his crappy article.

Unfortunately he did not have a blog to go along with it, but fortunately they listed his email address at the end of the article (now if he actually reads it or not is a whole other story). I made sure to throw in there how Florida put up 51 against LSU and how Alabama led Georgia 31-0 at the half and that the final score was 41-31. The one thing about all these top 10 teams losing that pisses me off, is that now USC is back in the talks. They got straight up whipped by a .500 team, it was not like it was a back and forth game, USC got their butts whipped Oregon St. I hate how the media loves Pete Carroll and USC, so damn much. Honestly tell me one thing USC has achieved since 2004, and they did not win back-to-back national championships. The BCS determines the national champion, not the ap poll, I will argue that one until the day I die. But every year the media is all over USC’s nutsack.

by HornsRiverine on Oct 19, 2008 8:29 AM CDT reply actions  

Let the hate flow THROUGH you, my child...

Just be glad that USC is back in the talks. Because Texas is undefeated, no one can honestly vote them out of the top two. If the voters are determined that USC is the other team in the top two, all the better. I would love to kick their ass again this january,

Living vicariously through Deon Beasley

by inVINCEable on Oct 19, 2008 8:55 AM CDT up reply actions  

i agree

i agree with everything you said…we never get the national respect that we deserve, but i kind of like it that way. i just loved making all the “analysts” eat crow when we took down the supposed “best college team ever” at the rose bowl.

by buiyahkah on Oct 19, 2008 9:10 AM CDT up reply actions  

I woke up this morning,

feeling like it was going to be great to read all the UT love. Then I came across that drivel. I came right here to post about it, but saw you beat me too it. His logic absolutely baffles me – but what do I know, i’m just a college student. I’m sure he’s much smarter than I.

Why is it that if an SEC team only scores 7, its always due to the “terrific, suffocating” defense, and not simply an inept offense? Alternatively, a Big 12 team puts up 50, and its not an efficient, powerful offense, but simply a lack of defense. His level of intelligence must be so far over my head. Oh yeah, and he compared the Big 12 to the WAC…..

by PSUhorn on Oct 19, 2008 9:04 AM CDT reply actions   1 recs

what a douche

this guy must lobby for the s.e.c. Yeah their defenses all rank highly because their offenses are inept. If Florida, Georgia, and Alabama can trounce sec defenses, does he not think that Texas would do the same?

by vivalonghorns05 on Oct 19, 2008 9:21 AM CDT reply actions  

it should be mentioned that Muschamp rotated a lot of second string guys after 35-3.

by justfr1day on Oct 19, 2008 10:57 AM CDT reply actions  

no kidding ...

a LOT of names on jerseys I’d never seen before. Good – give ‘em some rotation so that later on (like in the Big XII game) the pundidiots can’t say we lack depth …

"When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before."

by txex92 on Oct 20, 2008 2:31 PM CDT up reply actions  

Capt. Obvious

Isn’t his article just really stating the obvious? i mean what he says about us not playing a team as difficult as what we’d face in a championship… THATS TRUE FOR EVERYONE. the championship game is supposed to be the most difficult. I don’t understand why he wrote this, it has no purpose or original thought in it. This guy is a joke of a journalist/analyst, ESPN must have really let their quality slide if they allow any jackass to make claims based off of stats that don’t really mean anything, Hell if we played Auburn we’d be in the top 3 of defenses too.

The bane of the 21st century, 24 hour news services.

by PhiTypist on Oct 19, 2008 11:02 AM CDT reply actions  

fisticuffs

i literally want to fist fight this guy

"...think about it: why would they lie.?..if you're dead, you can't smoke."

by burntorangenance on Oct 19, 2008 11:53 AM CDT reply actions  

In this era of spread offense

is it even possible to hold good offenses under 200 yds??
I mean spread offense was first designed to help untalented teams to keep up with big time major schools that were running pro-style offense. Nowadays, everyone is doing it with extremely talented players.

Why isnt this fool looking at the yardage given up by texas after 4 Mizzou possessions? I believe Mizzou had 12 yds. YES 12 freaking yds. (I bet muschamp was pissed that we even gave up that much)

my first born shall be named vy

by hookemkp on Oct 19, 2008 12:03 PM CDT reply actions  

SEC Defenses?

Alabama 41 – Georgia 30
Florida 51 – LSU 21

How are these games any different from Texas-Oklahoma and Texas-Missouri?

Texas '06.

by afrokinger on Oct 19, 2008 12:22 PM CDT reply actions  

what a tool

and I am old enough to have encountered my share. His motto: "Hey, I’m going to show off how smart I am by being contrary. " Dude, you’re not that smart, and you’re not even particularly original.

Those who can, do (Major Applewhite). Those who can’t, write columns like this for ESPN.

by Bobster on Oct 19, 2008 10:02 PM CDT reply actions  

Just suppose OU had beaten UT with same score and stats...

What are the odds we’d be seeing “Hmmm, OU is good, but look at the yards they gave up against UT; obviously their defense is a questionable”. You think anyone would now be writing “We don’t really know how good OU is”, if the roles were reversed?

What happened is that UT surprised everyone so now everyone’s trying to write a narrative that explains it. This wouldn’t be necessary if OU were in our shoes, because everyone’s had weeks or months to absorb the “OU Might Be #1” story. Now all those who never saw UT coming (and who make a living by selling their "insights") are scrambling to explain it to the masses, and “B12 has no defense” has a particular appeal to those outside the B12.

by MarkW on Oct 20, 2008 12:39 AM CDT reply actions  

PhuK the SEC! Nuff said.

"I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn’t recruit me and he said: "Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren’t any good.
- Walt Garrison

by 512 on Oct 20, 2008 9:25 AM CDT reply actions  

Schlabach Chat

He is having a chat over on espn.com starting at 1 I think, if you want to ask his justification for why the SEC has such great defenses instead of bad offenses and the Big XII has bad defenses instead of great offenses.

by bignick573 on Oct 20, 2008 12:28 PM CDT reply actions  

chicken or egg

i am confused why he is arguing FOR the sec and then brings up the following stats…

But the Longhorns haven’t been tested the way they will be. Entering this weekend, half the SEC’s 12 teams were ranked in the top 20 nationally in total defense. Only three Big 12 defenses ranked in the top 40, and half the league’s teams ranked 70th or worse.

Conversely, seven Big 12 teams were ranked in the top 30 nationally in total offense, including five of the top 11. Georgia was the only SEC team ranked in the top 35, and half the league’s teams were ranked 74th or worse.

by DaGoose on Oct 20, 2008 1:03 PM CDT reply actions  

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