Hi there, Genie here to grant you a wish

NRHorn

NRHorn

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Its Aug 28
I’m a Genie that pops up out of your beer bottle.
“I’ll grant you a wish. You can be 9-1 after the TCU game, but you can’t cry about the how. Or i’ll go right back in this beer bottle and you take your chances
There is no third choice, my Longhorn fan”.

Well???

BTW-My towers lit (taken during postgame show highlights - hence the score)
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You are correct, there’s not a single one of us who wouldn’t have said done at that point, and if they win next week in the same ugly fashion and are sitting at 10 and one, there’s not a single one of us that wouldn’t of said back in August I’ll take it and I don’t care how.
 
Was there a single one of us who thought at halftime the TCU game was over. Texas has played exactly one complete game this year and that was in Tuscaloosa. Even BYU and Baylor which were pretty dominant had their issues whether it was special teams miscues in Waco or red zone issues against BYU. Earlier this year we were asking if this was best team since the '08/'09 group and did it deserve mention with '05; we certainly have those answers and they are a resounding no. This team is 9-1 verging on 6-4. Of course last year a 12-0 verging on 8-4 TCU team found themselves in the playoff and ultimately playing for a national championship so it really is just about finding a way to win. I cant shake the feeling though that the luck runs out this week in Ames. Texas cant keep trying to give away games in the second half because eventually someone is going to say thank you and take it.
 
FWHORN said:
Was there a single one of us who thought at halftime the TCU game was over. Texas has played exactly one complete game this year and that was in Tuscaloosa. Even BYU and Baylor which were pretty dominant had their issues whether it was special teams miscues in Waco or red zone issues against BYU. Earlier this year we were asking if this was best team since the '08/'09 group and did it deserve mention with '05; we certainly have those answers and they are a resounding no. This team is 9-1 verging on 6-4. Of course last year a 12-0 verging on 8-4 TCU team found themselves in the playoff and ultimately playing for a national championship so it really is just about finding a way to win. I cant shake the feeling though that the luck runs out this week in Ames. Texas cant keep trying to give away games in the second half because eventually someone is going to say thank you and take it.
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I disagree, but I didn’t want to just post an emoji. We did not beat TCU or any of these teams by luck. I am in an interesting year as a fan, because it’s the first time in decades I have not had my season tickets, and my emotional investment/attachment is far lower. Yet at the same time, I was probably the most optimistic person on the board regarding my opinion that this is a championship team. I feel I understand Sark better now and how he plays time/score. He just plays to win. He was willing, with a 20 point lead, to let TCU burn a full quarter to score 7. He basically believed he could kill the game clock still being ahead, and guess what? TCU never had the ball with a chance to tie or win. Ewers did not look fully 100% in his first game back (yet still better than Murphy), so playing it this way steered clearer of a chance of a(nother) QB mistake or the defense wearing out. He earlier took the FG when we had the 4 point lead to make it 7. Very score conscious. Up 20–unfortunately not 21 because of the extra point miss— a clear path to victory at that score is to simply kick one FG against 3 TCU touchdowns, so long as that takes up the entire clock. That is exactly what happened, and it was a very conservative way to get the W, even if only by 4 points. I told my wife during the third quarter exactly that this would be the outcome.
I saw this morning the NFL the standings with “point differentials” listed. Pretty irrelevant, right, compared to record? Who cares what our point differential is, really, when we are 9-1? And there was no luck in it; the fact is that we have been the better team in every game, even OU, and the time/score management has left us ahead in 9 games at the end, and ahead of OU with a minute to go. So, both re preparation and game day coaching, it’s been impressive.
I still think this is a championship caliber team. No luck to it.
 
VY imo that theory serves to reinforce my feelings Ewers is in a worse state than Sark led us to believe and was being protected. Otherwise there is no reasonable explanation for the lack of any production in second half by offense. Just a bit of improvement (like just 3-4 more first downs) over what we saw would have made for an entirely different game.
 
Reminds me of an old joke. Man dies, goes to hell. Devil says Do you like to play golf? Man says yes. Devil says you'll like Mondays here . Devil says do you like going to strip clubs? Man says yes, gets excited. Devil said every Tuesday they all go to the club. Devil says , do you like drinking beer? Every Wednesday we go and drink all night in the park. Lot of fun.

The guy is thinking "hey this hell place isn't so bad after all. I'm going to like it here"

Devil says , Do you like Man on Man sex? The guy backs away and says "whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm not into that stuff. Count me out". Devil looks at him and says in an evil tone "you're not gonna like Thursdays around here, pal".

So far our season has been Monday through Wednesday in hell. ..9-1and happy to accept the glaring weaknesses. But Thursday is coming and it's not going to be pretty
 
FWHORN said:
Texas has played exactly one complete game this year and that was in Tuscaloosa.
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Exactly, FWHORN! And I keep asking the same question - where is the intensity the Longhorns used in Tuscaloosa? Where is the focus? Where is the killer instinct?
If this team will bring the intensity, focus, and killer instinct to every game, there isn't another team out there who can beat Texas. If they don't bring it, Iowa State is very capable of beating Texas.
 
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Exactly, FWHORN! And I keep asking the same question - where is the intensity the Longhorns used in Tuscaloosa? Where is the focus? Where is the killer instinct?
If this team will bring the intensity, focus, and killer instinct to every game, there isn't another team out there who can beat Texas. If they don't bring it, Iowa State is very capable of beating Texas.
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Haven’t you watched our first half’s in the last 4 games?
 
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