There is another way of looking at Saturday's game. How many other teams could have went into College Station and walked away with a
- Thread starter Freddie.B.Cocky
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This is some world class, reward worthy, next level turd polishing.
The magnitude of the suckery of that performance is the same as if the score would have been.
Carolina 0 Texas a&m 62
Which we all know that’s about what it should have been anyway.
Carolina 0 Texas a&m 62
Which we all know that’s about what it should have been anyway.
I admire your efforts, Freddie.
If you change the wording of the question and ask how many teams could play A&M to within a point if you spotted them a 27 point halftime lead, the answer is probably exactly the same. We are perhaps the only team, certainly one of only a few, that could do that.
If you change the wording of the question and ask how many teams could play A&M to within a point if you spotted them a 27 point halftime lead, the answer is probably exactly the same. We are perhaps the only team, certainly one of only a few, that could do that.
How many teams could be spotted a 27 point lead and walk away with a 1 point loss.
Context matters.
Context matters.
I know it does but I stick to my statement, how many teams could go into college station and play Texas A&M to a one point loss?
A&M played what was BY FAR their worst half of football all season in the first half. Heisman candidate QB couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. Kickers missing kicks. Wide open receivers dropping TD passes.
They got it cleaned up at halftime and waxed us. They played one half of good football and easily erased a 27 point deficit.
I admire your shot at optimism, Freddie, I really do. But there simply is nothing positive to take away from this game.
Sorry, trying to paint this as a "win" isn't going to work.
I'm not trying to paint this as a win! I'm simply saying not many teams could have went into College Station and played the Aggies close.
Freddie, I don't think you watched the game. It's one thing to lose by 1 point in a back and forth game you were supposed to lose by 20.
This game was not that. We absolutely handed them their a$$es in the first half. Then our coach hyped their crowd by being smug about the lead and taunting them on his way to the lockerroom. He goaded them into kicking his a$$ in the 2nd half and they delivered.
On paper it doesn't look bad. In fact I was thinking that, if I hadn't watched the game, I would have been like, "Damn! We showed up and almost beat them!" But I actually watched the game and saw Beamer get absolutely embarrassed as a coach and a human. Unfortunately, his players also got embarrassed.
Beamer obviously has to try to spin positives out of the game. His career depends on it. Everyone else gets to be realistic.
Yes, it was pointed out that A&M has played a very light SEC schedule this year.
Most daring such endeavor I've ever seen, I can say without hesitancy.
Here's the deal: A&M was looking ahead to some big mountains on the horizon. They knew we weren't one of them, viewed us as a patsy, and played as if they prepared that way in the first half.
It happens. It just doesn't routinely happen to this extent since 286 such SEC games over many decades had passed since it last happened.
It happens. It just doesn't routinely happen to this extent since 286 such SEC games over many decades had passed since it last happened.
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Someone here called it. Can't remember the poster, but they said they could see A&M overlooking us and us playing them close for the first half, then them coming out and blowing us out in the 2nd half. It turned out to be even worse than that, but that's fairly accurate.
Correct. Only the proportion was a little off. He was thinking random rip-current. Instead, we ran into a tsunami spawned by a magnitude 9 earthquake.
And yet life goes on, with another game coming up this weekend but please; let’s belabor the point. It helps with our embarrassment etc.
He's got a point. No game should be mentioned beyond the Tuesday deadline for comments.
But, to belabor the point, getting beat by 50-60 and never being in the game would have been much worse!
Well, that's too extreme an example to prove your point. It's exceedingly rare to have a 50-60 point margins of victory in conference play. Don't know if that's happened in recent history (someone else probably does though). If it has, it's extremely rare. Talk about games not including Vandy, and it gets even more rare.
I'm happy to belabor the point for less that a week thus far. It works no hardship on me.