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Nowhichski

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  1. Fuck it. All these lists of coaches are so uninspiring that not only are none of them home runs, few of them seem even better than a double. Might as well give Ivey a chance. He can start from scratch and build a new team culture with his own degree of east coast toughness and grind, backed by endorsements and buy-in of Texas' not inconsiderable NBA fraternity. 

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  2. 9 minutes ago, HookEm said:

    This is generous to Tech.

    That said, I do think college sports are different - especially basketball.  It is possible to build a powerhouse at a location that isn't exactly desirable.  Is Lubbock so much worse than East Lansing, Bloomington, Louisville, or Memphis.  The airport is easy to get to and makes all of Texas accessible.  They have really good facilities and are kings of the campus. The "talent" on campus is better than anything you will find in the mid-west.  Beard has already shown he can recruit 4 and 5-star talent to Lubbock.  

    The main thing he has at Tech that he won't have at Texas is a really long leash.  His hard-ass underdog style of coaching actually may play better with the recruits he will land and the Tech alumni than it will at Texas.

    College basketball defies geography. Look at Gonzaga. A good coach can build a program anywhere if it has identity and buy-in. It might take longer at a place like Lubbock, but consistency can get you there. And indeed winning programs are built on three and four-star players. We should probably hope to have a coach who wisely recruits core players who will stay 3-4 years and truly create a culture and a system. 

  3. 3 minutes ago, Getafix said:

    — We still hear Texas is in a good spot for elite 2022 safety Bryce Anderson, but they are starting to see some unexpected competition. While Texas A&M has been thought of as the primary competition, but Michigan seems to be lying in the weeds. A big reason for that is the presence of new defensive coordinator Maurice Linguist. Texas A&M was an early competitor for Anderson during his high school career and Linguist was a big reason why. Linguist was known as a top recruiter when he was at Texas A&M landing some stellar defensive back classes, and I'm hearing some growing optimism in Michigan establishing itself as a major contender. Linguist had a Zoom call with Anderson tonight and it sounds like the Longhorns will have to fight off another suitor.

    A cunning Linguist is always a threat. 

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  4. 15 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    75% Cal in the S&C assistants. Becton evidently relocated much if not all his team. Well, I know they were tough and rugged for what we normally think of Cal. Saw them upset PK's UW in 2018 and 2019. (btw it wasn't the Husky defense that failed.)  That and sweeping UT in 15 and 16. 

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  5. 17 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:
    This morning, new Texas coach Steve Sarkisian held a Zoom call where all former Texas football lettermen were invited.

    I’ve received some immediate feedback from the meeting.

    A couple of notes:

    - when asked about players opting out, Sark replied, “let’s call it what it is - quitting.”

    - spent some time discussing the importance of all three phases of the game. Feels like Texas has to win on offense, defense and special teams.

    - relayed that he felt like former Texas QB Major Applewhite, who was an analyst at Alabama this year, would spend at least one season as offensive coordinator at South Alabama.

    - said he has to develop players once they get to campus but that process actually starts by explaining to those same players that star ratings and rankings no longer matter at the college level. Each player starts fresh when they get to college.

    - went on to explain that his feeling is team’s need to try to be one unit, not a collection of individuals.

    We should have more about this call in the next 24 hours as we speak to more of its participants.

    These are all solid points. Putting his foot down on the entitlement that has plagued Texas for ... ever. Looking for team unity. This is a culture change. 

  6. 1 minute ago, Dbeasy said:

    I want stability at DC, not a guy who comes in for one year and leaves for an HC or NFL job. 

    I sorta like the Saban model: Stability at HC  and bring in new coordinators every few years—stepping stone for them,  fresh ideas for the program. 

  7. 1 minute ago, Eggo said:

    We do have a rising Collins to go with massive upperclassmen in Coburn and Sweat. I feel pretty good about our pass rush if we get someone like Prince Dorbah to make his way to the edge. 

    Also, we worry about being a victim of the transfer portal. But with a glitzy new staff, I could also imagine us being a destination. 

  8. 1 minute ago, South Austin said:

    I'm not pissing on the Gideon hire, but it seems like Bobby is inflating the value of his "institutional knowledge of the University and the state."  I get that he's the son of a high-school coach.  But how does that and four years as a player a decade ago translate into this valuable "institutional" knowledge?  Of course playing football for the Longhorns and being on staff are vastly different experiences, and most of his coaching experience has been in the SEC, with only one year in Texas (2019 on Holgo's Houston staff).  

    If you're trying to hire coaches with this "institutional knowledge," I'm not sure Gideon brings the value that Bobby is touting. 

    yes that seems like bullshit. but clearly sark had other good reasons. I don’t see him making frivolous Hermanesque hires. He knows better. 

  9. 25 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    If he is retiring, you’d think sark would take that job instead of texas.  Yes it’s following a legend, but it’s also taking over a well running machine vs taking over a collection of parts.  
    ...unless they reached out to dabo and got a yes, and told sark he wasn’t getting it. 

    One thing that actually gives me hope for this hire is Sark's acceptance of a challenge. I sorta follow UW football because of some friends, and I remember when Sark took that job. I was impressed because he was one of the real up-and-comers as OC at USC and had a lot of national buzz around his name. He probably could have waited for a cushier job than UW, but actually agreed to move all the way up to Seattle to take on a hapless program that hadn't won a game the previous year. I love that he didn't shy away from a massive challenge and that he seemed humble enough to leave the glamor of USC for the Pacific Northwest. Of course, he left to go back to USC, but who could blame him when that job came calling? 

    Maybe he's excited for the challenge to try to restore a rusty formerly great program that still has a lot of upside. 

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  10. Just now, Assman said:

    Keeping Mensa at this point isn't an option.  I don't want to make a change for the sake of change but you can't bring back a coach who had lost the confidence of those in Belmont and the locker room.  At this point, if UM wasn't available, you go get a guy like Sark on the cheap and hope for the best.

    Yes exactly. There simply weren't many options out there with HC experience at big programs. He has the resume to be coach at Texas and has spent the last couple years learning under the best. 

  11. 22 minutes ago, ATLLonghorn said:

    Washington was a historically solid program that bottomed out after a legendarily bad hire in Tyrone Willingham. Sark ended up rebuilding the program to where they were at least a bowl team. He was also 7-19 vs ranked teams there and lost those games by an average of 23 points per game.

    And that's the nicest thing you can say about his head coaching resume.

    He was considered a rising star at the time, which is why USC plucked him away. 

  12. 2 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    FUCK YOU TOM HERMAN !!!

    Thanks for this info @RGBIII

    TFB

    You may recall that former 4-star DB and FSU DB, Jaiden Woodbey recently entered the portal and after including Texas in his list of possible transfer destination, ultimately picked Boston College.

    I recently spoke with someone close to Woodbey and was told the reason why Woodbey chose BC over Texas. Source told me that Jaiden himself said that he had Texas players telling him not to come there. Not as in they were trying to dissuade him from coming because they were afraid of competition but just more of the negative recruiting we’ve seen come from inside the program in the past.

    If Herman is retained, this matter will need to be addressed somehow. It has cost Texas multiple players.

    It happens to some degree at other schools but it’s excessive and too pervasive at Texas. It needs to be rooted out.

    What exactly are UT players complaining about and using to dissuade recruits?

  13. 1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:

    Herman is a really frustrating coach. He obviously has some talent because he’s managed to beat some really good teams over the last several years, but he’s flawed in so many key ways.

    In order of priority, IMO these are the reasons he has to go:

    1. Culture - there is something wrong in the culture of the team. From the excessive portal transfers to the feedback from recruits that Texas players are telling them not to come to Texas, he’s obviously created a very flawed culture that is screwed up.

    2. Relationships - he apparently has bad relationships with way too many people. This indicates some sort of major personality flaw that’s probably unfixable.

    3. Off-field incidents - rumors of drinking problems, infidelity, ignoring players, pissing off boosters, the eyes of Texas fiasco, etc. It’s just too much.

    4. Poor use of talent - too many great players sitting in the bench and weak players playing.

    5. Inconsistent offense - has an offense that just can’t consistently score points.

    6. Slow to fix the defense - watched that defense underperform for too long before trying to fix it.

    I really think he’s got a special x and o talent for game planning (when he decides to work on it) and it’s unfortunate all of these flaws make him an ineffective head coach.

    Yes, these things are all present. I think you could put them under the header of "Misalignment." Obviously that's the opposite of what Herman preached coming in. But he has a talent for gaslighting, and preaching Alignment when in fact he seems to have no ability to enact it whatsoever is par for his course. The fact is that that, though assistant coaches and players have changed, the same problems continue to exist throughout the program. The common factor is Herman. 

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