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Rimbo

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  1. On 1/21/2022 at 4:28 PM, SL Xpress said:

     

    On the old Go Big 12 boards I was the only person advocating Bob Stoops as the coach to replace John Mackovic. I liked his resume of success coaching under Snyder and Spurrier. I liked how he conducted himself in the press conferences Spurrier put him in charge of while he was at Florida (an unusual measure for any head coach, but Spurrier marches to the beat of his own drummer). However, it was known at the time that Texas was never going to hire an assistant. To be honest, there's no way anyone in their right mind hires Bob Stoops over Mack Brown at the respective stages of their careers in 1998.

    OU has always hired assistants. They've had remarkable success with it. It's still about keeping the ones who end up being good. Bud Wilkinson, Barry Switzer, and Bob Stoops. None of their other coaches since WWII have been remarkable, and some of them, like John Blake, have been flat out bad. The one former head coach they did hire was arguably the worst of all in Schnellenberger's one season in Norman. 

    Charlie Strong was not a coaching search directed to find the best candidate out there. It was a coaching search to find the best black candidate to hire as head coach. While it's a great gesture from a progressive standpoint, it has the same issues so many of the other coaching searches have had. The selection processes never looked at EVERY possibility. Fred Akers was hired because he agreed to exclude AD Darrell Royal from the football program. David McWilliams was hired because he was cheap, and he was a legacy hire from the Royal days who had built some great defenses and had one decent season including a Texas Tech win over the Longhorns. Mackovic was hired because he ran an exciting offense and projected the image of a CEO. Tom Herman was hired to prevent him from going to LSU as that season's hot commodity. 

    Steve Sarkisian is one of the first assistants Texas has taken a chance on, although of course he has head coaching experience. Like longhornmatt, it seems like Texas could have gone after someone a little more high profile, but they didn't. 

    As far as hiring committees, however many or few are a part of that process at Texas, what I would say more than anything is to open it up to include all possibilities. That's my biggest gripe with how Texas hires, specifically for football. Without that mindset, they never hire Mack Brown in the first place. Gary Barnett would have been the hire. Tom Hicks, Darrell Royal, and others helped open it up to even interviewing Mack Brown, who wasn't even dead set on leaving North Carolina until he went back to the UNC AD with what Texas brought to the table and UNC declined to extend anything further.

    More hires like that, where everyone in the country is on the table, and Texas goes after the best candidate possible. Like they did when they hired Garrido for baseball. That just doesn't seem to happen in football. 

    I believe the phrase you used was:

    "STOOPS STOOPS STOOPS STOOPS STOOPS STOOPS STOOPS"

    or something similar. I might be short a STOOPS, I might have used a STOOPS too many.

  2. 1 hour ago, Had Enough said:


    But let’s be honest what percentage of posters here are assholes? And they might not be straight up liars, but they are full of shit. And there are shit some whiners amongst us.

    So essentially what I’m understanding is that people dislike Rodgers because he reminds them of themselves. Interesting.

    oh fuck off

    1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:


    Oddly, many think that medicine and science aren’t really political, but…..science.

    So maybe folks hate the lying, whining asshole because he’s a liar and a whiner and an asshole.

    I don't know what Rodgers' political views are. All I know is he's an anti-vaccine dipshit, who lied about being "immunized," and then whined about (get this) NOT getting preferential treatment when he was caught out on it.

    Also, the 2004 whining and bitchassery about the Rose Bowl before being absolutely punked by Tech in the Holiday Bowl.

  3. 30 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Oh Jesus read the thread first. Sorry I offended so many die hard Longhorn fans that aren't willing to forgive a guy for some innocuous shit from 18 years ago. Y'all are really carrying the program. 

    priorities, dumbfuck

  4. 44 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    He goes against the held political opinions of many posters here. 

    I mean - fuck the Packers. Rodgers is cool enough though. 

    Tell me you became a Longhorn fan after 2004 without telling me you became a Longhorn fan after 2004

  5. On 1/13/2022 at 9:46 AM, Captainant said:

    hah apparently the character's creator had his working name as "Newbacca" in his first draft when the character was intro'd

     

     

     

    I used to hang out on a message board with that dude. Also, the guy who did Rogue One was on it.

     

    On 1/13/2022 at 5:45 AM, mdmost said:

    I hope we get a flashback to Boba going native on the biker gang.

    Are you satisfied?

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