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Topic: Are the Horns Really Playing a Game Next Saturday?

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utee94

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Re: Are the Horns Really Playing a Game Next Saturday?
« Reply #56 on: November 07, 2020, 10:14:50 PM »
Hope is a bad thing.  But, well, there you have it.

I'd always rather win than lose, and today the team showed a heck of a lot of grit, and they also really curtailed the undisciplined penalties and such.  There's always been talent on this team.  Coordination, cohesion, has been lacking. But today was a good day.
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Re: Are the Horns Really Playing a Game Next Saturday?
« Reply #57 on: November 08, 2020, 05:32:07 AM »
I would bet any of us who played competitive sports can recall games where our team either excelled unaccountably or just played poorly for some vague reason.  I tend to think it's statistics.  You look awful one week and then fairly decent the next, and of course your opponent has something to do with it.  Take a team like UNC for example, a decent enough team now, nowhere near top ten even when they were ranked there,  they looked bad twice, and then looked pretty good.  There is enough randomness in college football for that to happen with "pretty good teams".  A really great team will just dominate nearly every time out.  And even a not quite mediocre team will look good on occasion.
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Re: Are the Horns Really Playing a Game Next Saturday?
« Reply #58 on: November 08, 2020, 08:12:40 AM »
fans (fanatics) don't want to accept that our team "just played poorly for some vague reason"
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Re: Are the Horns Really Playing a Game Next Saturday?
« Reply #59 on: November 08, 2020, 09:52:55 AM »
Yeah.  I think about how often in games I watch where I don't care who wins that Side A just has "bad luck", a pass is dropped at a key point, holding is called on a big play, a receiver is an inch OB, or not, a tipped pass is caught, or not, the D gets into the wrong formation, the O has a false start,  ...

A lot of probabilities involved.
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Re: Are the Horns Really Playing a Game Next Saturday?
« Reply #60 on: November 09, 2020, 09:16:07 AM »
That's one of my reasons for enjoying college football. The players are usually large enough to play the game at the adult level, but there's still such a wide variance of precision that utter random stuff can influence the outcome. Kind of like watching Major Leaguers play Little League ball.

Really, looking across college football, lots of "contender" teams are underwhelming. It's almost like something prevented them from receiving in-person coaching on a playing surface for, I dunno, 6 months!
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« Reply #61 on: November 18, 2020, 09:03:12 AM »
MT good description of/on CFB
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Re: Are the Horns Really Playing a Game Next Saturday?
« Reply #62 on: November 18, 2020, 09:08:38 AM »
college FB is more then just the players however

Its the fans and the bands 

its age old traditions that spring forth before and during the game

going to a college football game is an experience not just something to do

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Re: Are the Horns Really Playing a Game Next Saturday?
« Reply #63 on: November 18, 2020, 12:12:04 PM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on November 18, 2020, 09:08:38 AM
college FB is more then just the players however

Its the fans and the bands

its age old traditions that spring forth before and during the game

going to a college football game is an experience not just something to do


not this season
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Re: Are the Horns Really Playing a Game Next Saturday?
« Reply #64 on: November 18, 2020, 12:41:52 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on November 18, 2020, 12:12:04 PM
not this season
Huh?

Lots of people going to college football games this season.  Where ya been?
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Re: Are the Horns Really Playing a Game Next Saturday?
« Reply #65 on: November 18, 2020, 12:58:48 PM »
I do really miss the band

looking forward to seeing them again
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Re: Are the Horns Really Playing a Game Next Saturday?
« Reply #66 on: November 18, 2020, 02:16:44 PM »
really, y'all got fans and bands and age old traditions?

like singing the Eyes?
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Re: Are the Horns Really Playing a Game Next Saturday?
« Reply #67 on: November 18, 2020, 02:18:30 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on November 18, 2020, 02:16:44 PM
really, y'all got fans and bands and age old traditions?

like singing the Eyes?
shit head
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Re: Are the Horns Really Playing a Game Next Saturday?
« Reply #68 on: November 18, 2020, 03:05:16 PM »
sorry I brought up the band

Purdue has the bigger drum, btw
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Re: Are the Horns Really Playing a Game Next Saturday?
« Reply #69 on: November 18, 2020, 03:31:42 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on November 18, 2020, 03:05:16 PM
sorry I brought up the band

Purdue has the bigger drum, btw
dont dis Big Bertha

sometimes the biggest aint the best


you of all folks on this forum should believe that



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