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  1. Penalties and mistakes. Bijan stopped in the backfield instead of hitting the hole hard. Fumbles. All kinds of penalties.
  2. Steve had nothing to do with our last offensive series. Good calls but fumble.
  3. We all knew with our departure of the Big12 this would be like this.
  4. K-State will make adjustments at half as all teams do. If that weren't the case you would think teams would score 70 on the regular. We just need to make enough plays in the second to get the W. It's not going to be as easy in the 2nd.
  5. see...catching a ball behind you can be done Xavier Worthy
  6. Not all situations are the same. It depends on the roster left to you. Ricky fucking Williams. Nuff said.
  7. Saban is the goat, but many good football coaches had a rough first year. It's def not a sample size of one.
  8. I referenced the bolded in your first post when I mentioned this thread. Our attitude of thinking that because we are a Blu Blood we can do this or that or we should expect quick turnarounds on winning are exactly why we are where we are. That's what I mean when I said we liken ourselves to those other schools. Look at Nebraska right now for a reference of what can happen when you think your good name is enough to carry you through.
  9. It depends on where you program is. We have people already calling for the guy's head 1.5 years into his tenure while also looking at our roster and seeing how talent deficient it is in key spots. Mediocrity is one thing. Not giving a coach the time he needs to get the job done is another. Saban finished 6-5-1, 6-6, 7-5, and 6-6 in his first 4 seasons at Michigan State. If that were Texas we would've fired the greatest college football coach in history for being "mediocre". It would've been our Sam Bowie moment.
  10. Texas has been in the Big12 for 26 years and only won it 3 times. Texas has only 4 National Championships, and only one since most of us have been alive. The only Blue Bloods that have struggled this bad are Nebraska and Michigan, and we are looking a lot more like going the way of Nebraska than the way of Michigan. Lastly you are on a thread that was made 6 games into a coach's tenure and then talking about Who Is We? Lol
  11. We all know who Bryant was. Your assumption that he wasn't coming is just that. The point is the other blue bloods have been way more successful than we have at finding their man. We have been so bad at it that not only do we think Mack was a good coach, we haven't even come close to his awful 2 conference championships in 15 year clip since. OU was dying for us to keep Mack.
  12. You don't see the difference do you? Alabama was able to lure away two PROVEN football coaches in Bear Bryant and Nick Saban to a University with no redeeming qualities outside of being dedicated to the sport. Meanwhile here we are, Texas, sitting squarely in Austin, a prettier location than Bama by far. All the recruiting a man could ask for outside his door. Yet here we are struggling to get a decent coach just like we have throughout our history. We are the second weakest Blue Blood next to Michigan. Even Notre Dame, with all their academic standards, has found a way to be relevant before we have. Texas has 3 Big12 titles, tied with Baylor and 11 less than OU. We don't have the right to talk about successful teams and how they get their coaches when we aren't them. For example, OU may have had 20 years since they've won a title but they've been consistently winning the conference all that time. That's what I mean when I say we don't think we have to pay our dues. We liken ourselves to those other teams while not having their success.
  13. @Horn of Gabriel answered you up thread but I wanted to chime in. We are in this mess because the coaching tree talks. A guy gets offered a job and he picks up the phone and calls a guy who worked here that he worked with and respects. Pick a guy. Charlie Strong. Will Muschamp. Tom Herman. Any of the coordinators that we've cycled through. They tell him what we are like and the guy says thanks but no thanks. The way we handled Mack was embarrassing. Even before Charlie lost to KU we were already courting Herman. Then we did the same thing 4 years later. We are the Jerry Jones' of cfb. Constantly meddling and acting like we are better than we are. We think money is the answer to all our problems, and the coaches uninterested in coming here are silently telling us we are wrong. Salary and NIL aren't that attractive if you have no job security. Teams negatively recruit against us telling recruits our coach will soon be fired. I know that is fact as a potential recruit that we lost told me that, and why shouldn't they listen to it? We laugh at aggy for giving Jimbo a big contract but that backing of their coach beyond reason is WHY they are beating us on the recruiting trail. Right now Sark has us back in the driver's seat with recruiting but if we pull out the pitch forks recruiting will fall off. We need to realize as a collective that we go ourselves into this and we might need to give a coach a couple years extra to get ourselves out of it. Simple as that.
  14. This guy gets it. There is a reason, even though we are rich, even though we are the flagship university in the state, and even though we are smack dab in the best football state in the country, we can't get high profile coaches. Why would anyone with choices wanna come here?
  15. Upperclassmen are perennial losers. When the game gets tight you need some older dogs to draw the line in the sand. All the older guys are scared shitless which in turn affects the younger guys. Rinse and repeat. The younger guys need to shove the older dudes out of the way and say no more. It's shit to do with coaching. We make the fatal mistakes at the end of games no matter the call on defense or offense. Ewers appears to be a gamer. As the OSU game wound down he actually started playing better. Guys around him folded. Balls dropped. Balls through hands and picked. We left so many points out there when there were guys open who just couldn't make a play.
  16. He left just before the bowl game and his quarterbacks coach was the interim coach. Of course you don't credit him for that win and then simultaneously don't credit him for the win at USC with someone else's recruits. Then you credit Tom Herman, who pretty much exclusively won with someone else's recruits at both places he's been. Typical you. Meanwhile, your boy Tom Herman has been looking for a coaching job for the last 2 years with no success while the guy you've been hating on has stayed employed despite your assertion that he is a bad coach. If Steve Sarkisian turns the corner you will quietly slink into your corner and pretend that you didn't start this thread, angry little man style, 6 games into a head coach's tenure. Then you will lie in wait for him to slip up so you can pop out of your mole hole with a see I told you so. Of course you constantly use the "we all hope he succeeds" bs as a disclaimer, but if you really were hoping for success you wouldn't have made this thread 6 games into his time here in the first place. UGH UT fans are some entitled bastards, thinking somehow we are exempt from paying our dues and putting in the work. I was pissed when Herbie blasted our fanbase on national TV, a guy I played basketball with at the Dublin Rec Center. However, the farther removed we are from that, the more I realized he was dead on.
  17. Very short sighted retort. You are NOT judging things based on the situation as usual. I misspoke before when I said Greg Ward Jr was 7-3. Details matter. UH in 2014 started out 2-3. Coach Tony Levine made the switch to Greg Ward Jr and they went 6-2 to finish the season. He was fired despite getting it turned around in a big way. In comes Tom Herman sporting Urban Meyer's running quarterback offense stumbling upon Ward Jr a receiver turned QB, who was as dynamic a runner as there was, already there and 6-2 as a starter. They go on a nice run his first year playing only 1 power 5 team in Louisville until getting Pitt in a bowl game. The next year they would lose to Navy, SMU, Memphis, and San Diego State. So Tom Herman had one year where he caught people off guard and got a favorable schedule. The very next year with the same players they looked exactly like they did at 9-4 when Tony Levine had them 8-5. Sark got to UW in 2009 where they had gone 0-12 the year prior. 0-12. This is the same year when USC is #5 and Oregon went to the Rose Bowl under Chip Kelly. Stanford is also ranked, as well as Arizona under the Stoops brothers with Gronk(Nick Foles was a sophomore on that team), and Oregon State. He went from 5 wins his first season to 9 wins his last season all at a time when USC, Oregon, and Stanford were playing dominant football. His last year they lost those four games to #5 Stanford, #2 Oregon, 10-4 ASU(8-1 in conference), and #13 UCLA. So Herman's best season was a year when they played Tenn Tech, Louisville, and Texas State as their out of conference schedule. They are one of the expected top teams in their conference being smack dab in one of the best recruiting cities in the nation. Meanwhile Sark went 9-4 vs a schedule that included 4 ranked teams, 2 of them in the top 5, a #19 Chris Peterson led Boise State team, and Illinois OOC. They are one of the bottom feeders in their conference, and have 0 recruiting grounds anywhere near them. Sark built an 0-12 team to a respectable 9-4 from the ground up with his recruits in a conference where they were NOT the team kids wanted to play for. Ton Herman took over an already winning team, who had gone 6-2 over their last 8, who was one of the top teams in their conference. Tom had an NFL quarterback at Texas as soon as he stepped foot on campus. Sark had Card and Thompson. Details matter.
  18. There were also people here chest bumping when we got Herman. Imagine that? A guy who's claim to fame was being the OC for Urban Meyer, running Urban Meyer's offense, and then taking over a program that had just realized their wide receiver was the best QB(Greg Ward Jr) on the team and gone 7-3 down the stretch after the change the year prior to his arrival. A guy who never proved he could recruit because he wasn't there long enough to show any prowess. And finally, a guy who's ball control offense required the QB to be the best athlete on the field and play hero ball in a conference where scoring comes easy. We went all in on a guy like that at the University of Texas. That's like Tom Brady deciding he wants to date Rebel Wilson because she was funny in that one movie.
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