OrangeBowlMagic
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I have so many thoughts on what we saw today that I’m sure I’ll annoyingly spew randomly all week, but the one I keep coming back to is how well we executed today.
I listen to a lot of **** and read a lot of **** from local and national guys in days leading up to games. I heard several times that so and so really likes Miami in this game, but they picked A&M because of Kyle Field. And make no mistake, this is a REAL thing. I’ve said for years, there are nights in sports where the truly elite buildings simply do not let their teams lose. It’s called home field advantage for a reason. It’s real. And where we just went is one of the top buildings in the sport, bar none.
So what did we do? ZERO pre-snap penalties. ZERO procedural penalties. Only ONE delay of game, that we curiously took even though we had a timeout in the first half. ONE penalty on defense. Zero balls thrown into harm’s way. Beck obviously didn’t do much today, but most importantly, he didn’t turn the ball over.
I just cannot say enough about the players and staff. For those of you who have been living and dying (mostly dying) with this program for as long as I have, I don’t need to remind you how many times over the past 23 years we’ve shown up to a game just comically unprepared. Zero focus. Zero urgency. Zero professionalism. ****…we did it just this year in that SMU game. But today, when we absolutely had to have it, in THAT environment, we played a clean football game.
A&M had more procedural penalties than we did. In their building. With 100k+ at full throat from the literal opening kick.
I have plenty of thoughts about the offense. We’ll curb those for now. I just wanted to say how proud I am of Mario, his staff, and these **** kids. Say what you want about Mario, but this is a professional organization now. We look like we belong every time we step on the field. The physical part is easy to see, but that’s not how you win games like this. You do it by executing every play. We had one coverage bust. Other than that, every time you saw maroon, you saw a dude in white on his *** (pause). Their running backs had 18 carries for 50 yards. Mark Fletcher had 17 for 172.
Prepared. Confident. FEARLESS.
Talk your ****, Mario. You earned it today. That was a very, VERY well coached football team we watched today.
I listen to a lot of **** and read a lot of **** from local and national guys in days leading up to games. I heard several times that so and so really likes Miami in this game, but they picked A&M because of Kyle Field. And make no mistake, this is a REAL thing. I’ve said for years, there are nights in sports where the truly elite buildings simply do not let their teams lose. It’s called home field advantage for a reason. It’s real. And where we just went is one of the top buildings in the sport, bar none.
So what did we do? ZERO pre-snap penalties. ZERO procedural penalties. Only ONE delay of game, that we curiously took even though we had a timeout in the first half. ONE penalty on defense. Zero balls thrown into harm’s way. Beck obviously didn’t do much today, but most importantly, he didn’t turn the ball over.
I just cannot say enough about the players and staff. For those of you who have been living and dying (mostly dying) with this program for as long as I have, I don’t need to remind you how many times over the past 23 years we’ve shown up to a game just comically unprepared. Zero focus. Zero urgency. Zero professionalism. ****…we did it just this year in that SMU game. But today, when we absolutely had to have it, in THAT environment, we played a clean football game.
A&M had more procedural penalties than we did. In their building. With 100k+ at full throat from the literal opening kick.
I have plenty of thoughts about the offense. We’ll curb those for now. I just wanted to say how proud I am of Mario, his staff, and these **** kids. Say what you want about Mario, but this is a professional organization now. We look like we belong every time we step on the field. The physical part is easy to see, but that’s not how you win games like this. You do it by executing every play. We had one coverage bust. Other than that, every time you saw maroon, you saw a dude in white on his *** (pause). Their running backs had 18 carries for 50 yards. Mark Fletcher had 17 for 172.
Prepared. Confident. FEARLESS.
Talk your ****, Mario. You earned it today. That was a very, VERY well coached football team we watched today.
