NCAA Foootball 2017

[The Minsky Moment]

What a bunch of beer snobs.  And that makes it even gayer than wine snobbery, because beer.

Ripping on "bud lite lime" is not snobbery, it's a having a functioning consciousness.

Snobbery would be making snotty comments about Baltimorons not knowing any better.

[grumbler]

How is it possible that Bud Lite Lime tastes worst than Bud Light?  Any additive HAS to improve the flavor, right?

[CountDeMoney]

What a bunch of beer snobs.  And that makes it even gayer than wine snobbery, because beer.

Ripping on "bud lite lime" is not snobbery, it's a having a functioning consciousness.

Snobbery would be making snotty comments about Baltimorons not knowing any better.

Save it, Manischewitz Moment.

[PDH]

Wyoming beat the mighty Gardner-Webb...Webmasters?  Master Gardeners?...who hail from some state somewhere back east and maybe south of here 27-0.

That's right, a win against a team I hadn't heard of before in less than impressive fashion.  And Wyoming's punter didn't whiff once!

[dps]

How is it possible that Bud Lite Lime tastes worst than Bud Light?  Any additive HAS to improve the flavor, right?

I dunno.  If you add lime flavoring to shit, does it taste better? 

I guess we've lost all of our German posters, so we'll probably never know.  I mean, if anyone else wants to research the subject, fine, but I'll pass.

[PDH]

Wyoming plays against Oregon this Saturday.  Gulp.

Oh well, Wyoming started 1-2 last year and finished with 8 wins...

[Valmy]

One of the local sports personalities who covered UT football for years died yesterday of a freak heart attack at age 46. I had listened to him on the radio on my way to work for over a decade. I almost feel like it is a death in the family. A guy who I never met was none-the-less part of my daily ritual for years is no more. He was just about to get on the plane to LA for the USC game.

RIP Sean Adams.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Well the Horns defense sure as hell looks like they came to play.  The offense is....not so good right now.

[MadBurgerMaker]

OH SHIT OH SHIT

Dude and now the D goes soft.

Ah well.  Solid game, and something they can still build on.

[Valmy]

The D was brilliant except for the last few seconds of both halves.

I hope somebody watched that and was entertained, it sucks when your team plays a west coast team nobody watches when they pay well.

That was a game I desperately wanted for them though. Tough loss.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Ehlinger really nutted up, but those turnovers were just killer.  I'm still mostly on the Buechele wagon, I think.  Sam is going to be good though.

E:  And WTF was going on with Shackelford?  And I am really wondering why Herman and Beck apparently hate Chris Warren.

[Valmy]

In this particular game nobody got many carries because, well, the offensive line was barely serviceable. At least that is what I presume. To be fair it was not like when we did run it it went well.

Sam showed me something tonight. He might be the guy. But hey once teams see film on him and game plan for him we will see what he is made of.

I think Shane would have gotten sacked many of those times Sam managed to escape so it might be a wash who is better currently.

In general I am not sure what is going on with Warren but people seem to be acting like he is the next Jim Brown. All he has ever shown is he can run over Texas Tech. Naturally I presumed he would be the feature back this year because of his size and basically because there is nobody else. But it is not like he would be in the Heisman race if he was. Maybe he has some serious deficiency in his game that the Porter doesn't have. I don't know.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Shane vs Sam: I think you're right about Shane taking more sacks (Ehlinger is slow but damn the dude can evade pressure), but I don't think he'd have turned it over like that.  For example, I kind doubt, but don't know for sure of course, that they would run Buechele up the middle twice in a row in the second OT.  Because he kinda sucks at running, or at least sucks more than Ehlinger.  They'd have handed that off or thrown a couple passes.  Shane is definitely more accurate than Sam. 

I like this "problem" that they have at QB now though, with two competent players competing.  If Ehlinger wins the competition, I'm good with that.

RBs:  Easy example of them refusing to give Warren the ball, despite the situation calling for it: Warren needed to be the guy with the ball in that OT situation, not Sam.  I know it's not a big sample size (4 carries lol), but even in this game, he was at 3.75ypc.  The only time he ran the ball in the second half, he picked up 5ish I think.  I seriously haven't seen anything from Porter that justifies him starting and getting carries over Warren.  I just can't figure that shit out.  Neither of them are blatantly awesomesauce or anything, but at least Warren is big and will occasionally run someone over/not go down on first contact.  You know?

[Valmy]

I agree. I don't get it. But it is not like I am in a furious rage about it like some. But yeah it is weird.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Yeah there are some people that are way too mad about that, and I just can't get to that level.  The way I see it is....well hell, they've improved every game, so the coaches are doing SOMETHING right. 

The OL was a disaster in the first half after Williams went down, but after halftime, they were, imo, doing a pretty good job of giving Sam time to throw.  I don't really know about run blocking because they pretty much abandoned that, but the pass blocking was significantly improved with.....what.....three backups (are they into the third string in places on the OL)?