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Hank Chinaski

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  1. All I want to know is why thatguy’s posts always begin with a single space before the letters start.
  2. Every time I read the sentiment about how they “should” fire Jimbo, I think about that contract and I think of this:
  3. Meh. The one Buxton is wearing is nice, but not a fan of the new M cap - looks like the Stanton-era Marlins cap. This is a case of fixing what wasn’t broken.
  4. You think he’ll be fired after this season if he loses to a 6-4 Kansas team on the road? I think it will be yet another data point that tells us he’s probably not going to ever get it done, but he’s almost certainly not getting fired after this year, even if we lose tomorrow and the next two as well.
  5. Fired when?
  6. That’s 7 too many times.
  7. Dubon is fine, just bat him 8th or 9th and not 2nd for christs sake. That’s all.
  8. …and Herman tried his absolute best in 2019.
  9. Counterpoint - he was open-minded enough to take feedback he received related to uniform fabric and make the necessary recommendations in an effort to ensure the comfort his players. He can’t be that unlikable.
  10. Crazy how people don’t see a completely hypothetical scenario that can be neither proven nor disproven?
  11. Yeah, but isn’t all that sort of baked into the prediction? Like - I think I voted 8-4 in the preseason based in the idea that the talent improved, year 2 in a system, and then account for youth and a freshman QB. Add it all up and it felt like 8-4 would be good. Actually watching the fuckups is always aggravating but they were accounted for in the prediction - not down to the detail, but from a broad perspective.
  12. What the absolute fuck? How is that a penalty?
  13. I don’t know what to think about Urban at this point. I think after last offseason it’s probably not a possibility anyway. But if we could lure a known quantity like USC and LSU did last year? Then yeah, we should. (I also have no expectation that that will happen, or that this will even be entertained, this winter.) And no, losing this weekend would not change my mind, because it wouldn’t be remotely surprising. Keep Sark until you know you have a better option. We didn’t do that last time.
  14. I’ve tried to be optimistic with Sark, even though I definitely thought it was a WTF hire. I thought “well hell, we will at least have a badass offense and that’ll be entertaining, and if he gets recruiting right, he could be all right.” And I was ok kinda giving him a pass last year, because it was clear the roster wasn’t that talented, didn’t really have a QB who could execute his offense, and it was everyone’s first year in the systems. But I was kinda looking to the second half of year 2 to see progress. And it’s difficult to see. The QB is regressing somehow. The second half meltdowns haven’t stopped. He doesn’t seem to have answers. So yeah, first impression was probably correct - he’s almost certainly not the guy. Here’s the thing though - as long as recruiting doesn’t crater, I’d prefer to just keep him in place until you know for goddamn certain who the replacement will be. Seems like last time we thought maybe we could get Urban but miscalculated, and then we’re left holding our dicks and hired Sark. Don’t do that again. Just keep him here until you have a done deal (well, until you are extremely confident that you have your guy). No idea how realistic that is, acknowledging that there are probably way too many people involved in that replacement process to have coherent communication.
  15. I mean, with Sark, a big part of it is that he’s an addict and has owned that and made changes in his life. That is admirable and isn’t easy, and many people can relate to what he’s gone through. He comes across as a humble, accountable, positive guy. That makes him likable (from afar). None of that makes him a good coach or means he should be evaluated differently than his predecessors, of course.
  16. Well, everyone hated that coach too.
  17. Sure, if he’d rather live in Austin than Columbus, then they could probably make it happen. I thought by “money whip” we meant make him an unmatchable offer.
  18. Because they’d gladly match or exceed any amount that we’d pay him?
  19. Terrific. He was still a mediocre coach at Texas, as is Sark. Neither is good enough, which was the point.
  20. Meh, he won a few more coin flip games than Sark has so far (with a much better QB); maybe he’s a little better but the difference seems mostly negligible. (note: that’s not a defense of Sark, just saying that Herman sucked too.)
  21. Same. I love JV and hope he returns, but guaranteeing him $130mm at this point seems likely to bite you in the ass. Maybe he’ll be 1989-1991 Nolan Ryan and we’ll all be pissed if he does that as a Yankee…I wouldn’t be shocked by that but I wouldn’t bet on it either. (Not to mention the opportunity cost of that kind of deal - when we still have Framber, Javier, LMJ, Garcia, Urquidy, Brown, etc.)
  22. Oh, Angels.
  23. And I still clearly remember Orakpo getting bear-hugged, tackled, etc repeatedly in a certain game that year, and I don’t think there was a single holding call… Honestly the only game I recall Texas getting obviously and egregiously fucked by the refs - to the point where it seemed like some shit was going down - was the ‘15 Okie State game. I didn’t see all of the game in Stillwater a few weeks ago, but 14 penalties against UT and 0 against OSU was certainly…curious.
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