Morning Coffee Is... GAME WEEK! IT'S GAME WEEK!
by Peter Bean on Aug 25, 2008 12:24 PM CDT
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Summer is over! The season starts Saturday, but game week is game week... As far as I'm concerned, we're live. If I were your boss and you blared from your computer speakers this and then this, in succession, at full volume, over and over, all day... I would not fire you. I would fire the Aggie sitting next to you and give you a raise.
There is a depth chart. Mentioned already in this Fan Post, Texas has a depth chart for FAU. As one commenter points out, Malcolm Williams is not listed, but will be that starter at the "Sub-b" wideout position not included in this particular depth chart listing. According to this note at Bevo Beat, this depth chart is preliminary, with possible shuffling Thursday or even on game day.
There's not a whole lot to say about this just yet, but one thing that stands out in a big way is the number of young players who will be counted on for important minutes this year. All five safeties dressing for Saturday's game will be true or redshirt freshman. Giddy-up.
Suddenlink Cable kinda sucks. I got a couple reader emails asking about Suddenlink cable (serving mostly Georgetown-Pflugerville area) and whether they'll be carrying Saturday's pay-per-view game. I phoned up their customer service and was told by an offensively indifferent representative that they were not. If Suddenlink is your cable provider, make plans to get to a bar. And then get a satellite dish.
Wait, what? Okay, so let me get this straight. The Texas SID office won't let me talk to UT players or coaches, but they'll let Colt McCoy pose for the Statesman for this picture, in that costume?
Not pictured: dancing Indian, cop, cowboy and leatherman.
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Youth movement
I counted 17 redshirt or true freshmen listed on the depth chart. Wow!
by Misterserious7 on Aug 25, 2008 12:40 PM CDT reply actions
It's like a night gone all wrong
I’m all drunk and excited just looking at the depth chart and thinking about game week, and then you wake up the next morning, look over and see Colt. Talk about blueballing.
What a feelin'!
Colt McCoy: Welder by day, dancer by night.
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
Depth chart thoughts
Frustrating as it is to us, I can understand Mack Brown’s heavy use of the “OR” in his depth chart of the moment. Coaches fear that naming an unproven player as the starter might impact the preparation of both that player and his competitors; can’t argue holding back on announcing those kinds of decisions.
In any case, Brown’s right when he says it doesn’t matter who goes out there first — it’s who plays. Anybody remember the Celtics of about 20 years ago, where Ed Pinckney would start at power forward but Kevin McHale would get all the minutes? It’d end up with Pinckney getting 5-7 minutes a game, McHale around 40.
I wonder, too, if there’s a bit of the Old Mack at work here. That Mack might have started Lewis and Palmer and Bobino and Melton and Beasley, but the new Secretary of Defense supposedly has full control on who plays — and he might be more willing to let the young guns fire away.
I don’t see this as a young team particularly. I count three sophomores on offense (TE, Hix at RT, McGee) and two freshman safeties (there not being a senior, junior or soph at the position). Several of the best-known true freshmen — Humphrey, Monroe, Hales, Drav. Johnson — are not on the depth chart, which I infer means they’ll be Fr-RS a year from now.
Ugh photo.
I can see Purdue doing that.
Someone went cute and failed.
DirecTV
I got satellite. So what’s this going to cost me?
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. If they get mad, you're a mile away AND you have their shoes.
purdue
I can see Purdue doing that.
I didn’t know the boilermakers were into gay porn.
I like our speed. We’ve got the tools. I’d rather be working with this than a bunch of experienced guys who can’t play.
by 98horn on Aug 25, 2008 3:25 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
No Colt, NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
It doesn't matter if you win or lose, as long as you come in first.
by Super Saiyan Patrick on Aug 25, 2008 3:38 PM CDT reply actions
WR types
Having never played football, I am not too familiar with the technicalities of the WR position. What type of athletes do you want at the various positions (Flanker, Split end, slot)?
WR differences
A split end has bad breath (get him away from us) and a tight end has a drinking problem.
Actually, there USED to be a difference. SE was kind of a possession, pattern, precise guy. Raymond Berry with the Unitas Colts. Flanker tended to be the burner, the home run hitter. Jerry Rice.
The slots came along later, especially with the run and shoot (which is sort of what Tech runs); slots were inside guys (between the outside receiver and the line of scrimmage) and tended to run curls and slants.
Today, they’re virtually interchangeable in most offenses. QB looks for single coverage or the spot where his man has the greatest advantage in terms of coverage and operating area. Like K-State finding Nelson open about 75 times against the Horns’ underneath coverage in last year’s debacle.
Looks like Nelson is gonna stick with Packers
Don’t you think we should get a cut of that? We put him on the map.
by whills on Aug 25, 2008 7:07 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
If you listen real closely...
You can hear Jordy Nelson scoring again.
by BoddickerIsClutch on Aug 25, 2008 9:47 PM CDT up reply actions
Worst photo....
……..in the entire history of UT football! Bar none.
All over the Longhorn nation, all you heard or read was ……….Y – M – C – A. ……….(sigh)
--- All roads to the Big-XII Championship lead through OU/RRS. It's not just another game! We're all about championships here. ---
Where you been, Colt? The entire steel industry is gay. Eh, aerospace, too, and the railroads. And you know what else? Broadway.
This comment is dedicated to the Steelworkers of America. Keep reaching for that rainbow!
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