SB Nation User Blog: longhornJ

how UT can learn from JoePa

longhornJ — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:20:49 -0000

Since it was only a short year ago that we found ourselves in the same bowl situation as the Fightin' Farmers did this year, I thought it worth checking out this game.

What I saw on the Aggie end was disappointing, which in turn made me slightly more depressed about our loss on Turkey Day+1, but at the same time I saw something very interesting on the offensive side from Penn State. I couldn't help but think about it in terms of 'what if Texas were to do the something similar?'

If you saw the game you may recall that Penn State has 2 good QB's: one is more of a passer, the other more of a pure athlete/running QB. What they did quite effectively was run a half dozen or more plays in which the starter (we'll call him Quaker Colt) brought in the play and then split out at WR while the other QB (Quaker Chiles) took the snap from center.

The formation alone messed with the Aggies D big time, and I was impressed that old school Joe Paterno adapted to the talent he had on hand. Now if we could only do the same in the Burnt Orange Nation. Comments?

Reggie Bush fined for antics in playoff game...

longhornJ — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:28:39 -0000

Given that there were a few posts about this after that game between the Bears and Saints, I have to say I'm glad they went back and acted on this.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-bushfined&prov=ap&type=lgns

a pretty decent playoff scenario

longhornJ — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:51:43 -0000

I'm not a huge fan of Dan Wetzel, writer for Yahoo Sports. He's pretty typical of most East Coast/West Coast centric sports writers who think that between USC and Ohio St./Michigan/Notre Dame there is a vast wasteland that deserves little consideration outside of an occasional bone to Oklahoma, but he's got a pretty good format here outlined that might be worthy of discussion.

Comments, additions, subtractions?

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=dw-plan010507&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

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how long until we get a playoff system in NCAA football?

Never will happen, special interests have paid off big conferences too well.

14 votes

2008, Boise St. and Wake/Louisville have cinched it!

3 votes

2010, NCAA wants to honor existing bowl contracts and 'study' options

16 votes

2020, really blowing off the whole idea and want to tweak a Jacked Up system a few dozen more times...

5 votes

38 votes | Poll has closed

Aggies in the Holiday Bowl

longhornJ — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:09:20 -0000

As a loyal Big XII'er I truly want to see all our teams, and especially the Texas teams in the Southern Div., do well. However not everyone else feels that way. Outside of the Oklahoma game, this is the most interseting Big XII game I see so I was wondering how the BON faithful are feeling. Try not to think of the spuds like Brazos when responding...remember the better the rest of the conf does improves our chances when we get to conf play next year, and kills the entire 'how tough was your non-conf schedule' argument!

Hook'em

Poll

how will the Aggies do tonight?

Lose in a close, well fought battle with the breaks going Cal's way.

22 votes

Aggies lose big, Javorski Lane will have his worst game, McGhee gets both his sholders separated

50 votes

They will win and usher in a new era of Aggie over confidence.

9 votes

Win by a narrow margin/get a few lucky breaks.

23 votes

104 votes | Poll has closed