Also, I see UT climbed back into the final Top 25, which is a nice boon for the inevitable "Greatest Season Ever?" conversations that are already popping up.
I'm not around much. I'll probably drip a self-serving-yet-factual post on the SEC board in the next day or two, detailing the massive amounts of records that were broken and pros and cons to this team's season compared to some other Standard All-Time seasons (we still start with '71 and '95 Nebraska, right?), and then I'll probably disappear again for months at a time.
So let me leave you with these thoughts:
--How do we get bowl-Herman to coach the rest of the year? And by "we" I mean Longhorn fans, which I obviously am.
--utee--you asked before about who's leaving from this team re: next season. Burrow is gone, obvs. WR Jefferson is almost certainly gone, though I think it could potentially be a smart move for him to stay. It's a deep WR class, and he's not going ahead of a lot of others. But I still doubt he stays. The other guys have to stay, they're not eligible. TE Moss could go, pretty sure. Passing game coordinator Brady is gone, looks like. Hilarious that Sean Payton told him going to LSU was a mistake, now he's going to spend the next several years terrorizing the Saints defense. Speaking of defense, we won't know until declarations are done, but I expect quite a few early departures on that side of the ball. For roster/experience reasons, I picked the visiting team to win both games in the LSU/UT series and until I get a good reason to do otherwise I'm sticking with it. If I'm not around, enjoy your win in Tiger Stadium next year.
--Since we beat Clemson, can we be Death Valley again? They said we couldn't use that after they beat us in the Peach Bowl in 2012. Tiger Stadium is accurate, but kinda lame.
--CWS, I hope utee and a bazillion other Texas fans go to LSU next year and come back with the inevitable glowing reports of the friendly people, awesome tailgates, and wonderful food consumed that every visitor to LSU has come back with for years. The truth is LSU is widely reported to be one of the best experiences for visitors, and I've seen it myself first hand much of my life, when I could still go to games. I'm sorry your experience with LSU fans was at the Superdome, and I'm the first to admit something Twilight Zonish happens to LSU fans in NOLA....they are assholes, I confess. At least at my one visit to the Sugar Bowl in 2001 vs. Illinois. But FFS man, get off that BS and just recognize that every fanbase has their dummies and most people are pretty nice. I think we all remember certain stories of what an OU fan did to a Texas fan several years ago. I know many people who attended the 2003 Sugar Bowl and came back with a few eyebrow-raising stories of Sooner fans. Let's not act like all Sooners are some bastion of fan virtue. Y'all have asshats too, yet I find it easy to focus on some very friendly Sooners I've met here. So maybe harp on something else for a while.
--I think I finally figured out what my real lucky t-shirt is. I stumbled onto it by dumb luck this season, wore it subsequently each game week, and hey, if it works don't knock it. We'll see if it holds up for longer, or if you have to find the right lucky shirt each season. Problem, of course, is that by the time you find it, it could be too late. I'll try it early next year for the Texas game, if we somehow win that game, it's definitely because the shirt still has mojo.
--Did we ever get past the faking cramps thing? I noted from the B1G game thread CWS has not. Eh, I give up. Some people believe what they want to believe despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. Or mountains of injury reports, players visibly leaving the field, or missing a stretch of entire games because of it. Whatever. Yeah, LSU fans boo'd the Clemson kid last night. Shame on them. I still never want to take the chance that somebody is really hurt, even if he wasn't. And at least get the intent right. It would've been injuries most of them were faking, not cramps. And they really committed to it, given how many missed the next several games. There was the one guy utee says looked at the sideline and fell down. He also did not miss any games. He was definitely faking it. BOOOOOOOOO!!!!! At any rate, this is the type of stuff that only people who think Texas' A/C was really out believe. Some people don't want facts, they want rancor.
--Geaux Tigers.
--I heard the LSU coach say that one time.
