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Showing content with the highest reputation on 01/25/21 in all areas

  1. 74 points
  2. a very non-update update. I actually know Evan Stewart and a lot of people around him. Last summer he didn't really like Texas because he hadn't talked to Herman (shocker), but he mentioned Sark and Bama by name as liking their offense and Waddle. I heard from around him that he fell more in love with Sark's offense and the NCG really sparked his interest in Texas. He loved the hire, but he didn't sound like he was necessarily close to a decision. I also know he's decent friends with Armani. TLDR: Went to high school near Stewart so I know him and his crew, liked Sark, hated Herman huge shocker.
    23 points
  3. I mean, these hires shouldn't just be slapped together. This a long term deal, I would rather well thought out hires without the Herman stink on them than to churn through these guys year over year. I also fail to see how a back office support staff is going to make a single difference with these prospects that we are currently targeting. These guys are there to help find and evaluate the talent, they aren't talking to guys like LJ Johnson nor making a difference between us and aggy. You can pretty much just read this board and know who needs to be contacted currently. 2022 signing day is pretty fucking far away, I think we can give Sark a couple days for this
    22 points
  4. Wife finally let him use the credit card to get that TFB subscription
    21 points
  5. Dear Mrs. Foster, You are a moron. WHOOOOOOP! Signed, Me.
    21 points
  6. I think the Chang vs Hughes/Sarkisian concern from @SydneyCarton, @golfclap, and @Ricky's one-hitter is worthy of examination, but I struggle to get behind it until more comes out about what's going on. For one, while I'm of the opinion that Chang's team was solid at evaluations, I don't think that's an exclusive feature for a good recruiting department. That should be table stakes for anyone in that role at a program of Texas' reach. Hughes has plenty of skins on the wall to point at from UCF forward in his own right. The handwringing over trading out Hughes for Chang is unwarranted from the "can the new guy meet the performance of the old guy?" concern. So I don't get the big deal about wanting to replace a person in a key role with your guy. There doesn't seem to have been any hesitation about that move by Sarkisian. Maybe you guys don't see this as a turnaround since it was one of the elements that was fine under Herman, but that's never how hostile regime change works. It's actually shocking that Sarkisian has kept as many on-field and off-field staff as he has. "I don't care how they were doing it. That got everyone fired. If I'm going to get fired or win, we're going to face that doing it my way." So then you're left with a speed to market issue. The program is playing from behind on offseason work such as tournament and camp attendance. Okay. The notion that the new guy should hit the ground running immediately with "3 to 4 of his guys" is an easy thing to say, and a harder thing to do. Know how I know? I've done it, at times with even more than "3 to 4 guys" in tow. Not in football, but in the same fashion. Asking people to uproot immediately and be at the next place overnight is easier said than done. The less money they're making, even if you're offering a step-up, the less quickly many can move. This isn't a fucking movie. This isn't Oceans 14 - Austin Style, where everyone converges on Bellmont at the same time, high-fiving and grabbing cell phones to make calls all at once, shortly after a travel montage set to Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" or some shit shows them getting there from disparate locations. The timing expectation provided around this premise is absurd. Sarkisian didn't know he had the job until roughly NYD. Then outreach might begin in earnest, while balancing CFbP needs for 12 days. How much time, given all of that and whenever he spoke to Hughes, is Hughes supposed to have had to have his "3 or 4 guys" fucking sewn up, packed, moved, and in-territory recruiting and gladhanding? It's 1/25. This Hughes dude's background includes installing a frontline of students doing research and analysis, coordinating with the on-campus relations partner, and then building out the full-time staff for off-campus relations, camp creations, etc. If he and Chang didn't handle it the same way, he's going to want it done his way. 2021 is a sunk cost for the new off-field staff. Maybe they get lucky following a lead or two, but that's it besides the obvious pre-existing targets. So they're late to the party on 2022 and 2023? Take the effort to do it right the first time and count on performance and brand to sling-shot the program forward again once you've laid a foundation on bedrock.
    20 points
  7. If Stewart picks Texas, "That's great, but I've actually met ____________________" needs to be part of the lexicon here going forward.
    19 points
  8. I'm assuming the text he got was one of his coworkers sending him screenshots of basically every other recruiting service in existence.
    19 points
  9. Once a woman lies for and enables and supports a man who has publicly gone after women’s looks and weight numerous times, she loses the protection of the sisterhood. She’s an obese, lazy eyed, homely dumb sack of rotten meat.
    15 points
  10. Do you know how many former Saban coaches have said they are going to build a front office "in the Bama model"? All of them. How many have succeeded or built a comparable model? Hell, does anyone remember when Charlie Strong hired Patrick Suddes to implement the "Bama model"? At some point it's going to be more than plans and talk. This isn't about Sarkisian as much as it's about Hughes. Chang and several of his very capable guys are gone. There has been one person (Hughes) hired. Those other guys were a direct pipeline to the coaches/trainers/high school coaches/etc ... and remained in constant contact with all of them. Some of them have enormous value beyond the daily grind. Keeping some of the previous staff is all good and well, but if you are going to "double your staff" and want to reach out to the high school coaches, etc ... you don't start by firing guys who actually good at the harder parts (evaluating talent), and/or who have multi-generational ties to high school coaches and/or guys who do it for fucking peanuts because this is their dream job. Some of these guys they let go had continued working throughout the process, some of the guys they kept not so much. The rhyme or reason to each seems to be around who was likable or vibed, not who has done the heavy lifting nor who has shown a level of dedication. You guys keep talking specifically about talking to recruits, but that is a TINY portion of the work involved. It's not just kids and those conversations but coaches and trainers who are conduits to the recruit excitement levels. Speaking with each recruit has a good impact, if you can get a guy that coaches 14 teams from 10u to 18u to buy in and be excited you've made a much bigger impact. etc... this is why teams like Bama and Clemson (and Texas) have these large front office orgs because there is a mountain of work to do, a million relationships to maintain, and the ones with the 75 or so highly prized recruits (per class) that the staff directly interacts with are a fraction of the communication and even that undertaking is massive. Hughes absolutely should have had people already hired at this point and honestly should have come with 3-4 people in tow. There's really no reason to not have made several hires by now, especially if the goal is doubling the size of the team. It's what ~9 days to NSD and how many JR days (or whatever takes their place during COVID) are happening almost immediately after that? There are massive 7on7 events going on every single weekend and Texas is invisible, which is a negative presence. These events should be absolutely buzzing right now with news of the Sark's offense, Kwiatkowski's schemes, etc... they are not. At all. It's been more than 3 weeks since the Sarkisian hire and based on the recent donor call, he expected Hughes would need 2-3 weeks to get more people in place. That is simply unacceptable. Each recruiting class is a fight and if you go 6 or more weeks fighting with on arm behind your back you are going to take damage, even if you are the bigger stronger fighter. it's been poorly executed to this point. Not dire - but really it's an unforced error.
    13 points
  11. The real treasure is the friends we make along the way
    12 points
  12. In case anyone here gives a fuck. https://utexas.app.box.com/s/3z16cqfm3aysqrbkity7ngo6tioendno
    12 points
  13. This was more informative than any of the half-dozen or so "updates" that Mike Roach posted this afternoon.
    11 points
  14. I mean if we start out there ^ and then we end down here: Relax a little bit, man.
    10 points
  15. My wife overslept this morning and was running very late. Of course, there was 10 minutes of crying and shouting expletives before the actual getting ready began. Sh gt out of the house in plenty of time to make it to work in spite of all that. About 5 minutes after she left she called me and asked if she had left her phone at home.
    10 points
  16. No words suffice. I'm terribly sorry to hear about Clark and am praying for your family pc horn. 5 years ago yesterday I took a drink. 5 years ago today I did not.
    10 points
  17. Dustin kicked the shit out of that demogorgon in season 2 of Stranger Things, so I guess he's good enough for us
    10 points
  18. Quick trip with a friend and his GSPs. Found two coveys. Hunted to 7.5 hours and covered 14 total miles. According to the GPS collars, the dogs coverer more than 80 miles! Each covey was healthy and had about 12-16 birds each. Popped two from each, just to justify the trip and give the dogs more experience. Fun times
    9 points
  19. dotjenna is the reason schadenfreude exists. It will be a shame if she gets off lightly.
    9 points
  20. If recruiting is 365, then it makes sense not to take off any unnecessary weeks/months when putting together a coaching and recruiting staff. There's not much Sark could have done about the former, but the latter, yeah. A recruiting coordinator could have or should have been one of his first hires. But easier than that would have been to retain the existing staff (which has been highly regarded for recruiting as well as evaluation), bring in the new guys, and if necessary replace them over the course of the year with guys you think do a better job. One of Herman's strongest contributions to Texas was his support staff. And yes, those guys fucking recruit. Anyone here saying otherwise apparently forgets that people like Rashaad Samples were actually considered recruiting assets for this staff while at Texas. Or any time anyone makes a fucking Polynesian Tie joke. Or is someone going to tell us that Bryan Carrington doesn't actually recruit and doesn't make a difference to recruits vis a vis other schools? Come the fuck on. This is a position where I'd have preferred to hit the ground running, let the guys we had work to earn a full time position, and re-tool as you go. Not put the fucking car in neutral, pull out the fucking keymap, and start charting multiple different routes to get to your desired location. What he's done here is literally the opposite of his All Gas No Brakes philosophy. That being said, I'm not going to bitch and moan too much about it, because we're stuck with the way it's gone and as far as missteps go, this one isn't nearly as bad as a Shawn Watson hire. But I'm also not going to sit here and behave akin to some "Trust the Coach, if he says Mike Stoops is the guy then what the fuck do you know?" bullshit, intellectually lazy, football board fucking stupidity either.
    9 points
  21. Maybe because he interviewed them and they were not on the same page philosophically? Maybe because he already has other people in mind that he can now focus on hiring because his coaching staff was a bigger priority? Jesus fucking Christ. This isn’t hard shit to figure out. Let the dude do his damn job.
    9 points
  22. We're gonna have to keep an eye on our MInister of Culture around the new kicker
    8 points
  23. Trump’s new neighbors rolling out the red carpet for him
    8 points
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