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Originally posted by Wide-E-wide, 15ish (?) years ago...43 points
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Hey Mate, let me get this straight. You are a 30 something, British expatriate living here in Texas. You feel comfortable coming on this site and lecturing all of us fine folks on how the Texas fan base is dysfunctional and responsible for all the problems with our school's football program. Well, how fortunate for us that you have made the odd decision to take an interest in our team. And you are going the extra mile by taking the time to come here and offer up your well considered views. You're neat Bob. I must commend you for your smugness, I mean confidence. You showed no hesitation weighing in with your opinion on the school song controversy over whether the players should be required to stand with the team and participate. This is an issue with complex racial sensitivities, mostly unique to America's history, and one that serious people on both sides are struggling to find a balanced position on. A more tentative man might have deferred to others with a deeper understanding of the topic. Bravo. You know Americans, and especially American men are used to being lectured about our ignorance on different issues. From what I understand we don't have any knowledge or curiosity about other cultures. We are frequently reminded that we are a bunch of loud obnoxious boors that don't respect local customs. So, in that spirit, let me ask you, how do you imagine it would go over for a 30 something American to sit down in a British pub and commence explaining to a group of guys, many much older than himself, the proper way for them to support their favorite Premier League team. How they are fucking the whole thing up, and have brought failure and humiliation upon themselves? I know what I would do to that young man. He might get a Glasgow Kiss. Your opinions are received here with the equal enthusiasm. Your points have not been especially inciteful. In fact, your very presence on this site is gratuitous, I really don't get the point. So, piss off now and go watch some "football" I doubt you have missed anything exciting while you were here. Maybe come back in ten years. No, scratch that, just piss off31 points
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My original scenario is still playing out. Urban and Del Conte met and agreed months ago to an understanding that #MensaTom was done if he failed to win the XII CC. It was painfully obvious to all, following the TCU/0U debacles that it wasn't going to happen, but the next several games made it possible, even if extremely doubtful. Losing to ISU while 0U continued to win ended the chance, and the serious talks escalated. We are on Urban's timeline now. Urban appears to have targeted some assistants at schools who are still in play for the Final Four, and he's not going to disrupt their seasons until they're finished. Period. We'll see early signing come and go, and we won't be pleased with our results. Urban has seen the team he's going to be inheriting, and he understands the weird transfer rules. He's not worried. When tOSU is done (and now apparently Clemson as well) announcements will be forthcoming and there will be joy unconfined among our ranks.24 points
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I am looking at things like this: Tier 1 - The Job Is Yours If You Change Your Mind & We Haven't Filled It Urban Meyer - dude is a flake. Crazier shit has happened, but folks I trust think this one is gone. Remember that no one knew shit at any level below the BOR, Hartsell, a reluctant CDC, and a very few BMDs. Now everyone says it's done? I'll go with that, but it doesn't make a lot of sense with only the current data set. Tier 2 - Sure, Why Not, But I Don't Buy It Dan Mullen - the premise that UF is a better spot to be in than UT for head coach is debatable. The path to the CFP is clearer here. We could pay him more if he wanted the gig. He'd need to hire Muschamp or someone better than what he has at DC. I'm guessing this is mostly just agent salary-pumping but it's not unthinkable as some seem to believe. Tier 3 - Guys I'd Take & Rationalize My Way Into Getting Excited Aboout Matt Campbell - I said this elsewhere, but the bullshit about him not having Texas ties is just that. Coaching fucking travels. See coaches Rhule and Saban for having no ties and magically overcoming this insurmountable problem. It's simply not a legitimate whine. The premise that he wouldn't leave ISU for Texas is also fucking dumb. Get over your self-loathing and get over the ISU guys fantasizing about his love of the midwest. Throw numbers and control at this guy and let's find out what is real. Billy Napier - Sure, why not. I like the pedigree. He turned down being interested in the South Carolina job because he'll be first in line for the Auburn job whenever they've decided that Gus Malzahn can go get fucked. He'd be all over the Texas gig. He can coach. He can recruit. He'd probably also bring in a new group of Not Ready for Prime Time Players regarding staff and admin. Maybe he learned enough under Saban to not do that, but I doubt it. Tier 4 - Guys I'd Like Texas to Interview But They Won't Jeff Traylor - I agree with everything Gerry has written and pushed about this guy. I also know it ain't happening. Brent Venables - We're simply too patrician to consider a coordinator in their prime. Bob Stoops - Too fucking complicated for both sides. This guy has a fundamental belief that he'll die on the sidelines like his dad if he ever goes back to really giving a fuck on the sidelines. Mike Gundy - Puke on this one all you like, but he's a damned good coach and knows the conference and the region. What could Matt Campbell do at Texas that this guy couldn't? Tier 5 - Fantasies For Imbeciles Chris Peterson - stop bringing him up. Fuck. Mack Brown - Go fuck yourself for mentioning him. Kyle Shanahan - Dude has no interest in recruiting and he's not exactly a beaming alum when it comes to his views on UT. Tier 6 - Open Forehead, Insert Bullet Gary Kubiag - I've enumerated all of the ways in which I despise this fucking concept. Fuck IT for floating him and fuck the admin for talking to him in the first place. Steve Sarkisian - What the fuck? This is a guy that CDC apparently likes. Here's a scenario in which the BMDs would be helpful in stepping in and saying "uh, no, not happening." James Franklin - CDC's boy. Go fuck yourself. Sonny Dykes - How lost is Chris Del Conte right now? This name is being floated as a candidate from Belmont, based on how I'm seeing it reported. Hot Christ. Joe Brady - He badly failed his first big HC interview with a key question that he couldn't answer being "What would your staff look like?" Sound familiar? No thanks anytime soon, young'un. Tier 7 - Roll Out the Lukewarm Corpse of Lee Corso Over This Guy Tom Herman - pack your bags, you fucking fuck. I'm sure I missed some guys that will be mentioned. Very little of this post is anything but my opinion.22 points
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We may still fuck it up (believe me, some are trying), but offering the clear #1 target everything he wants and getting told no is not fucking it up. Still way too much bitchass whining in here.22 points
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Two weeks ago you predicted a 20 point victory over ISU. After the loss you demanded Herman be fired or else you were “done” with Texas football. Now you’re having a meltdown and lecturing the board about overestimations because a pipe dream didn’t come true. In multiple threads. It’s not “we.” It’s YOU and your vapid, blustering retardery.21 points
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As long as Urban Meyer is not coaching and not dead it's just a matter of time. Shun the non believers.17 points
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It looks like it's playing out exactly as conveyed regarding Herman being gone. As I've stated repeatedly and consistently to this board, I've asked time and again and no one seems to think or believe that Herman is staying. He's a dead man walking. Regarding Campbell, yes, I believe there are folks that really like him and that he's a real candidate. Any talk of him not taking the job is laughable. Let's see what Campbell does if he's offered 5 years at $5.5million with ratchets and also total control and a commitment for facilities upgrades. "But closetojumping, Matt Campbell has no Texas ties!" - neither did Matt Rhule. Nick Saban coached as a DB coach for the Oilers, so I'm sure he really figured out Texas and the south in that period, but then he coached at Toledo, the Browns, and Michigan State. He didn't know shit about recruiting in Louisiana or this area. Somehow, a coach that can identify talent and develop it was able to find enough guys to win a national title after arriving from the north, nonetheless. The only legitimate whines about Campbell are a) he's not Urban Meyer and b) he's never been around a major program and all that that entails. The rest is handwringing silliness.17 points
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My grandfather was on the 1918 Texas football team. Coach Akers found out about this and invited him to come to a practice in the early 80s. Akers spent damn near the entire day showing him around the stadium, visiting in his office, introducing him to the team, and basically treating my grandad like longhorn royalty. My grandfather died a short time later, but our family still remembers how generous Coach Akers was. Hook Em, Coach, you will always have our respect and admiration.16 points
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It get discussed here frequently but if you aren’t subscribing to the Athletic, you’re missing out in the best long form sports writing and reporting out there today. To that end, Andy Staples has a piece out today that encapsulates a bit of everything with the UT program, from the current coaching situation/search to a nod to the past state of the program that has led you to this point. It won’t be anything that many of you here don’t already know but it is well written and informative. Apologies in advance for not knowing how to use the spoiler to hide the longcat text of the article. From Andy Staples at The Athletic: Now it gets awkward. Whether Urban Meyer ever was a real option for Texas will drive fan site discussions for the foreseeable future, but we may not get any sort of on-the-record confirmation of whether anything actually happened for years. It took three years for former Texas regent Tom Hicks to spill any beans about approaching agent Jimmy Sexton about Alabama coach Nick Saban in 2012 (a year before Mack Brown was ousted as the Longhorns’ coach). At the moment, both parties seem content to let everyone else talk about Meyer and Texas without Meyer or anyone from Texas acknowledging the other. What seems clear at the moment is that Meyer is not an option to be the football coach at Texas in 2021, which might offer some comfort to current Texas coach Tom Herman if the Texas administration would acknowledge that Herman will coach the Longhorns in 2021. Athletic director Chris Del Conte has made clear he isn’t offering a definitive opinion on the direction of the football program until after the season. When that happens is a matter of discussion at the moment. Texas was supposed to wrap its regular season against Kansas on Saturday in Lawrence, but the Longhorns have paused football activity because of several COVID-19 positives on the team. The game might get played Saturday. It might get played Dec. 19. If the virus continues to be an issue, it might not get played. So Del Conte faces a decision. Does he keep a coach the fan base has abandoned? Or does he write checks that could add up to $30 million to make a change that doesn’t necessarily guarantee anything because there is no Meyer, Nick Saban or Dabo Swinney in the candidate pool? Texas finds itself in a position similar to the one rival Texas A&M faced three years ago. The Aggies fired Kevin Sumlin, whose record at the school made him one of the most successful coaches in the program’s history, and then-AD Scott Woodward had to land what he called a “rare-air” coach. Woodward determined that he needed a coach with a national title on his résumé, which meant one of four names. Meyer, Saban and Clemson’s Swinney weren’t going anywhere, which left Florida State’s Jimbo Fisher as the only option. “In contractual negotiations, you have leverage or you don’t,” Woodward told me for a story I wrote for Sports Illustrated. “I had zero leverage.” So Woodward offered a fully guaranteed, 10-year, $75 million contract and would have gone higher had Fisher not said yes. Woodward knew there was no Plan B. The similarities between the situations end at the options. The acting coaches with national titles on their résumés are Fisher, LSU’s Ed Orgeron, Saban, Swinney, Kansas’ Les Miles and, of course, Brown. The first four aren’t moving. Miles isn’t getting hired by any program at that level. And Brown would be terribly complicated — plus he seems very happy back at North Carolina. Meyer, with three national titles between Florida and Ohio State on his résumé, apparently is happy behind the Fox Sports desk. This means if Del Conte wants to make a change, he’ll have to take an expensive leap of faith on someone who hasn’t ever reached the heights Texas donors and fans believe the Longhorns should reach. He would have to spend millions and then turn around and sell the coach to those donors and fans. Or he could keep a coach those fans don’t like anymore but who — based on his record so far — might offer a similar chance of success. Neither situation is ideal, but at some point in the next few weeks, Del Conte will have to choose. And as he considers, he’ll probably also need to consider some of the institutional factors that have helped bring Texas to this point for the third time in seven years. So let’s examine the issues that will influence the decision. The Coaches Herman is finishing his fourth season in Austin, and though his tenure has been better than that of predecessor Charlie Strong, it has included only one Big 12 title game appearance. This year’s team had a chance to make the game but lost it when it blew a fourth-quarter lead against Iowa State and fell 23-20 on Nov. 27. Herman was the toast of Austin following the 2018 season when the Longhorns reached the Big 12 title game and beat Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, but the backlash against Herman began last season when the Longhorns went 8-5. Losses to College Football Playoff participants by a combined 14 points were understandable, but the Longhorns also lost to TCU (one of three losses to the Horned Frogs in Herman’s four seasons), Iowa State and Baylor. The Longhorns have a significant advantage in the recruiting rankings against those three teams, but Texas hasn’t been able to translate a raw talent advantage into wins — especially against coaches who have proven player-development track records. TCU’s Gary Patterson, Iowa State’s Matt Campbell and former Baylor and current Carolina Panthers coach Matt Rhule fit that description. Firing Herman now would require a $15 million payoff because of the extension Del Conte gave Herman after the 2018 season. That figure likely would rise above $20 million when factoring in staff buyouts. And that’s before any buyout payments to a new coach’s old school. Because we’re trying to figure out if changing coaches is worth the price tag, we probably should compare Herman to coaches who might be in the hunt for the Texas job if it opened. So let’s play the blind résumé game using the factors a coach at a program such as Texas should be judged upon. Coach 1: Winning percentage against Power 5 teams at current job: .692, Power 5 conference titles: 1, Median recruiting class rank: 11, First-round draft picks coached at current job: 1 (With at least one getting picked in the first round in 2021.) Coach 2: Winning percentage against Power 5 teams at current job: .571, Power 5 conference titles: 0, Median recruiting class rank: 5.5, First-round draft picks coached at current job: 0 (With one possibly going in the first in 2021.) Coach 3: Winning percentage against Power 5 teams at current job: .500, Power 5 conference titles: 0, Median recruiting class rank: 52, First-round draft picks coached at current job: 0 Coach 4: Winning percentage against Power 5 teams at current job: .611, Power 5 conference titles: 1, Median recruiting class rank: 15, First-round draft picks coached at current job: 1 (With one possibly going in the first round in 2021.) So do any of these stand out above the others? Maybe No. 1? What if I told you he has an $8 million buyout and lost to Oregon State and Cal in the past two weeks? Feel differently? No. 1 is Oregon’s Mario Cristobal, who has proven to be an excellent recruiter and roster builder. The question with Cristobal is whether he can avoid losing games his team should win. This has been one of Texas fans’ biggest gripes with Herman, and given the extremely high price, it could be more vexing if the Longhorns hire a coach who does exactly the same thing that currently infuriates the fan base. No. 2 is Herman, who will cost $5.8 million next year if Texas retains him. One of the more frustrating facts about this Texas season also could be encouraging depending on your perspective. (Especially if your perspective is to try to save some money.) Yes, the Longhorns have lost three games. But they’ve lost them by a combined 13 points. Turn either the Oklahoma game or the Iowa State game into a win, and Texas is playing for the Big 12 title. But Herman’s personality has turned off people in the Texas administration and donor base. I always say that it doesn’t matter if people like you if you’re 0-12 (You’re fired!) or 12-0 (You’re getting a raise!), but it matters a great deal if you’re in the — depending on the school — six- to eight-win range. Had Herman been the guy who has admittedly been humbled by this year all along, there might be no conversation. He’d definitely be coming back. But that’s not what happened those first three years, and here we are. No. 3 is Iowa State’s Campbell. His record should be graded on a curve because he inherited a program that went 8-28 the three seasons before he arrived. His recruiting also should be graded on a curve because Iowa State does not have the access to players that Texas does. But this also would be the only question about Campbell. He has worked at Division III Mount Union, at Bowling Green, at Toledo and at Iowa State. He has never had to swim in the recruiting waters Texas must navigate. That doesn’t mean he can’t; it only means there is no data yet. The other major issue with Campbell is he might not want the job. He probably isn’t leaving Iowa State unless it’s for a situation he considers ideal. For a guy from the Midwest, that might be Michigan should the Wolverines move on from Jim Harbaugh. Also, don’t be shocked if some NFL teams sniff around Campbell. The qualities that have made him fantastic for Iowa State — great evaluation, development and culture building — are the same ones that allowed Rhule to win at Temple and Baylor. Those qualities travel a lot better between levels of the sport than simply being able to collect five-star recruits. If anyone in college or the NFL wants Campbell, it’ll cost a cool $6 million to Iowa State. No. 4 is Penn State’s James Franklin. It might be tough for Del Conte to sell a coach who lost his first five games this season and is having a tough recruiting cycle in his own state, but what Franklin has done at Penn State remains remarkable considering the situation he inherited. Plus, he did win nine games twice at Vanderbilt. A fun party game is to try to figure out what other college football coaches could do that. Spoiler alert: It’s a short list. Franklin would be expensive, though. On top of likely commanding a higher salary than Herman makes, it would cost $5 million to leave Penn State now. Plus, he already has a really good job. The School As Del Conte examines the situation, he also needs to consider the factors at Texas that could hinder any coach’s success. Mack Brown’s run at the turn of the century obscured the fact that Texas hasn’t been a year-in, year-out superpower for most of its history. Herman is only the third coach in the program’s history — Brown and Fred Akers are the others — to win 25 games in his first three years. And as great as Brown was from 1998-2009 (128-27), the Longhorns only won the Big 12 twice in the period. For much of the program’s history, the problem has been one of alignment. Darrell Royal compared trying to unite the university’s various factions of administration, donors and football staffers to trying to put spilled BBs back in a box, and it could be argued that only he and Brown have done that — but unfortunately Brown couldn’t keep the BBs in the box. To understand what great alignment does for a program, look north across the Red River to Oklahoma. From December 1998 to June 2017, that school had one president (David Boren), one athletic director (Joe Castiglione) and one head football coach (Bob Stoops). Boren and Stoops have since retired, but Boren was still in place when Castiglione tapped then-Oklahoma offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley to succeed Stoops. The alignment all the way up the chain has continued unabated. Since Stoops took over, the Sooners have won or shared the Big 12 title 13 times. Meanwhile, Texas hasn’t been aligned since Brown began to falter in 2010. Athletic director DeLoss Dodds and president Bill Powers were busy pulling strings in conference realignment, and Dodds’ retirement in 2013 brought what might be the single most disastrous hire in Texas athletics history: Steve Patterson, who served a hellish 22-month tenure as athletic director beginning in November 2013. Patterson was supposed to streamline a bloated athletic department but only made it more dysfunctional. Attorney Mike Perrin stepped in to steady the ship — he wound up firing Strong and hiring Herman — and Del Conte’s charge when he was hired in 2017 was to bring the Texas athletic department into the present. Since 2010, Texas has had three presidents (Powers, Greg Fenves, Jay Hartzell), four ADs (Dodds, Patterson, Perrin, Del Conte) and three head football coaches (Brown, Strong, Herman). That isn’t an environment conducive to alignment, and it should be cause to redirect some of the criticism leveled at Brown, Strong and Herman. One of Del Conte’s biggest tasks has been combining the Texas men’s and women’s athletic departments, which were separate before his arrival. He also has had to raise money for football capital projects that Texas previously didn’t spend on despite frequently raking in more money than every other athletic program in the nation. Since 2010, Oklahoma has spent about $235 million on football facilities. Clemson has spent about $165 million. Georgia has spent about $133 million. Texas has spent about $45 million. The current football facility was built in the late 1990s, and the only recent improvements have been a new locker room and a weight room renovation. Compare that to Oklahoma, which opened a 132,000 square-foot facility in 2017. Or compare it to Clemson, where the slide gets all the publicity, but the facility is far less ostentatious and far more functional in person. Buildings don’t equal success, and they aren’t going to guarantee that the best recruits don’t go to Oklahoma or Alabama, but it makes sense that the school former AD Dodds once referred to as “The Joneses” should at least attempt to keep up with The Joneses. To that end, Del Conte has raised money for a $175 million project that will give the Longhorns essentially a new football facility prior to the 2021 season. But who will sit in the new head coach’s office? Herman or someone else? The Choice One question is whether the runaway speculation about Herman’s job security has neutered his ability to recruit. The Longhorns lost a commitment in late October from top class of 2022 quarterback Quinn Ewers, who quickly flipped to Ohio State. That decision is tough to dispute. The last starting quarterback to leave Ohio State (Dwayne Haskins) was a first-rounder in 2019. The guy Haskins beat out in 2018 (Joe Burrow) transferred to LSU and became the No. 1 overall pick in 2020. Current Buckeyes QB Justin Fields is a likely first-rounder in 2021. If Herman or any of the potential replacements were better at developing top draft picks, the decision might be easy. To compete for national titles, a program needs to consistently develop first-rounders. Texas hasn’t had a first-rounder since defensive tackle Malcom Brown went No. 32 to the Patriots in 2015. In same period, Alabama has produced 17 first-rounders. Clemson has produced 10. Georgia has produced eight. LSU has produced nine. Ohio State has produced 15. Oklahoma has produced five. That is how programs win consistently, and developing draft picks makes its own gravy by making programs more attractive to recruits. The Longhorns’ best hope for a first-rounder this year is offensive tackle Sam Cosmi, who opted out of the team’s final two games last week. One selection probably wouldn’t get the Longhorns’ class of 2022 recruiting jump-started, but it would offer some positive momentum. Winning in 2021 would help as well. Much of the in-person evaluation that would have been done for the class of 2022 would have taken place at camps this past summer. If — and that remains a key word — coaches can go on the road and conduct camps in 2021, schools situated near large numbers of quality recruits likely will have an advantage if the world hasn’t returned completely to normal. So Texas should be in better position with nearby players. That could help Herman or someone else. Del Conte also will need to decide how to handle some thorny issues going forward. The situation involving alma mater “The Eyes of Texas” has calmed down, but it will need to be addressed. The team traditionally stays on the field after games to sing the alma mater, but during the summer a group of athletes — in response to social justice demonstrations across the country — asked the school to replace the song with a tune that didn’t have “racial undertones.” The group also asked that athletes no longer be required to sing the song. At issue is the song’s history. The phrase “the eyes of Texas” was coined by former Texas president William Prather, who was paraphrasing Robert E. Lee, who used the phrase “the eyes of The South are upon you” while president of Prather’s alma mater William & Mary. The song debuted at a minstrel show in 1903. Minstrel shows of the period frequently featured performances by people in blackface. The edict from the administration was that no one would be forced to sing the song, but teams would be expected to stand respectfully while it is played. Controversy erupted after the loss to Oklahoma when a fan photo of quarterback Sam Ehlinger standing nearly alone as the band played The Eyes of Texas went viral. What the photo didn’t show was that the playing of the song took place nearly 10 minutes after the game had ended because of the presentation of the Golden Hat to the Sooners. That image produced a narrative that Herman had allowed his players to disrespect the song, which many alums — and importantly many donors — consider a cherished tradition. This placed Herman in a no-win situation. He could have lost the locker room with a hardline stance on the song, and he already faced recruiting repercussions with opposing coaches asking recruits if they wanted to go to a school that would force them to stand for a song they considered racist. Meanwhile, anything but full support for the song angered some influential donors. Two groups had diametrically opposite opinions on the issue, and there simply was no way for Herman to thread the needle. Del Conte needs to protect his coaches on this front. Whether he keeps Herman or seeks a different coach, he needs to formulate a plan for how the Longhorns will handle the song in 2021 and get out in front of the issue. If Texas makes a change, candidates will want to know how Del Conte intends to defuse this potential bomb. If Texas keeps Herman, he can’t be the face of any decision lest it harm recruiting more than rampant unchecked speculation about Meyer did. Herman might still be able to help himself here. This has been a trying year, and all this talk of replacing him should leave him humbled. Maybe he could offer some assurances that he’ll be more pleasant to work with going forward. Sure, he can make $15 million if he gets fired. But he can make more than $20 million and potentially quite a bit more if he keeps his job. When Auburn’s president and athletic director flew to meet with Louisville’s Bobby Petrino while Tommy Tuberville was still the Tigers’ coach in 2003, Tuberville survived the coup attempt, went 12-0 the next season and remained Auburn’s coach until the end of the 2008 season, when he got fired and collected a fat buyout. Herman knows all the stats that were rattled off earlier in this column. He can make a strong case that he’s the safer gamble. And if Herman can turn some of these close losses into wins next season, he could snatch all the leverage. Then he could either graciously take more money or strap the Longhorns over a barrel and laugh as the dollar figures rise. Del Conte has to decide how he wants to place his bet. Does he wager less money that a coach who hasn’t quite met expectations will finally meet them? Or does he spend lavishly with the hope that a good-but-not-spectacular pool of candidates can produce the coach who finally can get all those damn BBs back in the box? Herman has a little more time to convince Del Conte to take Option A. And as long as he doesn’t lose to Kansas, he might have a chance.15 points
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People ask, why do you keep this thread alive? I have 1 answer for those folks. My entire avatar is based on this thread. Without it I am lost.12 points
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No disrespect to the sport and fans of it, but please GTFO of here with the soccer bullshit. This thread is limited to speculation and discussion of UM to UT, best condiments, worst TX towns, burgers, barbeque and butts.12 points
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Announcer voice: "In a world where Peace On Earth doesn't exist comes a tale as old as marriage itself. Watch as Tom Motherfucking Cruise lives out the horrors of every husband who's heard the phrase "Don't worry, it will be fun, honey". Cry as you realize that "he put his fat ass up there". Weep as you realize he's still an hour drive away from being at home, while looking at his own Christmas lights. Coming to to theatres in January. Rated PG-13. Violence. Horror. Language."12 points
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So, we still know basically shit. What we actually know: Team cancels practice after blowout win Team going into COVID protocols Herman cancelling a remote presser with COVID as excuse (this one is the biggest "something's up" to me; he held remote pressers all year. Makes me suspect he was gagged by CDC.) Herman is an average to slightly above average coach but not elite, who is an arrogant jerk so he gets none of the grace Charlie got Herman's recruiting class fell apart after the OU loss (as anyone with half a brain could see that a lot of that one was on poor coaching decisions) CDC has to do something to salvage recruiting even if it means not getting your number 1 guy as setting back the program 2-6 years on recruiting is worse than Herman and staff's buyouts The Fox Saturday team ribbed Meyer repeatedly about taking a coaching job and Meye was preoccupied with his answers Meyer praises Sam as a warrior and a leader and repeats that There is no journalistic integrity and major newspapers will report un-sourced trash like a gossiping southern church lady Other than that, we don't know shit. We have a Chip Brown report that Meyer is leaning no. We have all sorts of bullshit speculation from 9.95ers. And NONE OF IT MATTERS. Herman's not getting canned until after the regular season if he didn't get canned after ISU. So we must wait until KU is cancelled or after KU plays. If Meyer was ever in play (which we don't actually know and to what extent he is/was/ever was etc..), he's still equally in play. It's always a longshot. However, there's also a decent chance we don't get Meyer, or we get a less than slam dunk hire like Campbell or Franklin. And there's still the chance that if no other coach wants to come, we're stuck with Turtle Tom. So, until there's a formal press release or actual statement from CDC/Belmont, we still don't know shit, should smoke some meat and drink some whisk(e)y, and hope CDC doesn't fuck this up.12 points
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PA should promptly file a “Mind your own business and go fuck yourself” motion.11 points
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Why does Mike Barnes need to remind everybody, potentially including Akers' grieving family, that Akers wasn't well liked? Just say everything you said after the comma in that sentence. Or maybe you're the asshole?11 points
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Considering the average pageview is ~2m 45s it's actually more like 45,833 hours of lost productivity.10 points
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I think one good litmus test for determining whether an old Country & Western favorite would be a Trump supporter is to ask yourself whether they did or would have ever had a show at Branson.10 points
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The problem with this claim is that it is provably wrong. You are a piece of human shit and aren’t worth the time to deal with on my end normally, but hey, since you summoned me, why not? You’re just dipshitted noise that people mistakenly trusted during the doldrums of the summer because you were thrown a couple of nuggets from your cousin. That’s it. Everything about your history is either vapid nonsense and emojis or histrionics about the lack of hot women on UT’s campus. I haven’t been on a $9.95er board in years and I’ve mocked them to the point that they’ve at times come after me publicly out of frustration. In short, go fuck yourself, your shitty trash shorthand that a few rubes find amusing, and your need to be perceived as anything other than a random guy that happens to be a joke of a relative to one of the players on the team. For the rest of the board, I may have said Johnson will sign on SD1, but it’s more likely it’s SD2. We get him if we don’t fuck up the hire. CDC was on a call with him and staff, but the dude vouched for the program rather than Herman, at all.9 points
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I live in Texas. I have seen the reason why Biden whooped Trumps bitch ass. Most of y'all look down on the people I live with. You make fun of them. You say they're a cult. Nope. They're Americans. You have republicans and conservatives voting for Biden. 4 WHOLE years!9 points
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You motherfuckers questioning Johnny Cash’s character are pissing me the fuck off.9 points
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Yeah, you damn right it is! His autobiography should be required reading in high school. Anyone who hasn’t read it, needs to read it.9 points
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I apologize for repeating myself. I was friends with Fred and Diane. Met him my freshman year when he came to my dorm to talk football, Fall 1978. I stayed behind and we struck up a quick friendship. Fred was smart, articulate, generous and kind. And he could coach. Sure, he had a predilection for putting his best athletes on defense, but he wasn't the offensive neanderthal that lesser minds would have you believe. He was shit upon from the beginning - sabotage from within - yet his teams won, and won big. It wasn't until the rest of the conference decided that utter chaotic cheating was the way to go did Fred encounter competitive issues. Even after the distasteful treatment he received, Fred remained around Austin, other than his time at Purdue. And he was never bitter. He remained better than his critics to the end. He was never given the benefit of the doubt that our current embattled coach was; otherwise he would have overcome the rampant cheating that was ultimately his undoing. RIP Coach. RIP friend.9 points
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