Swamp Person
Hey SP--thought you'd be around here somewhere! Did that game have you with a big knot in your stomach? Hell, us mouthier-types would either have nervous breakdowns or holes in our stomaches if we didn't have GE on GameDay...
(One more thing: I just went over our whole thread here, reviewing the game from our reactions and comments, and I think it really IS a fair overview not only of the flow-of-the-game, but our team's strengths and weaknesses are well-reflected along the way...We're not as bad as we look early--but we can't count on always being able to fix everything and overcome our failures late--and our coaching, while better than maybe it seems we give them credit for at times, has been fortunate in their very real mistakes and misjudgments being retrieved and "forgotten" (or at least overcome) by great play when the game's been on the line later on: That is, players have bailed out the coaches, and that isn't always going to work out our way throughout the season.)
Note to Will Muschamp: Concentrate on getting your defensive-squad up to proper consistency, and your whole TEAM'S self-discipline needs a thorough going over. There is NO REASON that our players can't play clean and smart ALL GAME LONG. That's 2-and-a-half out of three games, 10 out of 12 quarters that we have played terribly undisciplined, out-of-control football in both head and heart with respect to penalties AND consistency, I figure : It has been HIGHLY unusual to win all 3 games anyway...and ENOUGH with "laying down the law" regarding our supposed "philosophy" concerning our inside power-running game, even overruling your OC at times to continue making the point: OK, we all get the idea, but we're banged up right now, our best RB by FAR is slowed and the O-line hasn't found any consistency inside thus far, so let the situation, talent and tools at our disposal, and the very real subtle touch you brought this OC in for in the FIRST place, do its thing--we'll eventually be a team that can run it down-your-throat even when you know it's coming, but we AREN'T there yet, and it is foolish to risk stalling turning-point drives, stubbornly trying to prove your point before it actually is TRUE.
OK--I'm gonna cut out for awhile--got a rolling buzz finally catching up (adrenaline had it well-suppressed--except for sloppy typing) to me AND "my ride's here"/going over to girlfriend's place--can't drive a 5-speed Firebird with a broken knee-cap, turns out, so this is how it goes these days...of course, there ARE things you figure OUT how to do--but now the drink is prob talkin', and giving TMI at that...this Longhorn/Ole Miss game seemed competitive until the last few minutes--they were "playing it up" on TV by making out the Rebels as being "a step up" for Texas--and it IS, I guess, but that only tells you how bad the Longhorn first two opponents have been..anyway, quietly rooting AGAINST UT here in this neighborhood (for now, anyway--I can holler loudly over at her place...she's from Houston and more an LSU-fan before she met me, though I've been training her in Gator-lore, not TOO hard a task since she was already an SEC-fan...looks like UT is starting to assert itself here, unfortunately: with ANOTHER bad loss by an SEC-team to a none-too-impressive less-than-mid-major, this time Kentucky to Western Kentucky, we could have used a better showing from Ole Miss here--not nec a win but a good game further into it than the 2nd quarter, which is what has developed. Like to see Stanford keep at it and maybe hurt Kiffikin's guys tonight after all...Oh well, talk to y'all later tonight, I guess...
