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  1. 1 hour ago, alphahorn said:

    Basically I was making a couple of points. I am giving CDC the benefit of the doubt that he knows what he's doing.  If he is a quality deal maker, then nothing would have become this publicly well known until IT WAS DONE.  If he's the AD equivalent of Herman as a coach, in other word mediocre, then this deal can blow up.  If it doesn't happen it's 100% on CDC.

    We've had hundreds of posts about curtains and flight trackers. I'm not sure anything is actually known at this point. Didn't someone "confirm" that Eltife went to Columbus and then someone else "confirmed" that Meyer has been in Vegas for a couple of days? Everyone in Ohio has confirmed Meyer isn't interested and some random person at the HSB Marriot confirmed Meyer was staying there. 9.95ers are both making shit up and critical of CDC because of the rampant speculation. Sports radio seems to be reading Surly posts on air and we spent hours interpreting twitter squid emojis. No one knows a damn thing.  And its entertaining as hell.

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  2. 9 hours ago, Hanrahan said:

    I got to visit two lovely burbs called Tenaha and Timpson after Thanksgiving.  I feel it was an enriching experience.  Pretty sure that couple with the pickup from Planes, Trains and Automobiles are from those parts.

    My great grandfather was the sheriff of Timpson and my grandparents built a house a few miles out of town after my grandfather retired. It was a nice town when I was young and it slowly fell apart. I haven't been there in 15 years, but it's got to be a shithole if it followed the trajectory it was on.

  3. 8 minutes ago, THUJONE said:

    Goddamit. If one of you shoots yourself in the dick, just know it's going in Part II.

    If you shoot yourself in the dick you have to fist Futureman. Someone in HSB told me that's in the Surly user agreement.

  4. 2 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

    This is 2020 all.  It won't end like this.  On Saturday morning Urban will announce on live TV on the Fox pregame that he is accepting the role to be the new head coach for the University of Texas and is going to win multiple national titles.  He will then board a plane to Austin and crash into a mountain of shit outside of Odessa.  That is more of a 2020 kick in the dick we should be expecting.  

    FIFY

  5. 19 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    I'm not entertaining Cristobal. I never have - you can check my entire post history. 

    I am firmly in the: "If we don't get Urban then it's Chinatown" camp. 

    That said, gun to my head I guess I would take Fickell. Certainly over Matt Campbell. Fickell's current Cincy team is better than any team Campbell has ever coached and you aren't changing my stance on that until we see Cincy fuck around and drop some shitty game (and I don't expect to see them do that).

    Unlike others from the Urban tree - Fickell actually has a very similar background.

    If we miss on Urban then I'm going to be pretty disillusioned no matter who we hire - but I could at least get up for Fickell or maybe a wildcard from the NFL or top college coordinating ranks. If we hire Matt fucking Campbell it will likely be years before I give a shit about our on the field product or support the program in any way - because it will likely be years before we see any results IF any. 

    Whoever commented "yeah well give the VW guy a few years and he can figure out the Ferrari" is making my point for me. I'm not interested in SEEING some heartland Miss Flyover State trip over their dicks for 3 years and get swallowed up by one of the biggest jobs in the country. We've just seen this happen twice and wasted 7 years in the process.

    "Maybe Matt Campbell pans out" - fuck that shit. That is complacent, loser-ass thinking and it's why OU smacks our ass 4 out of 5 times when we don't have a Heisman candidate on the field.

    There are three distinct buckets of possible coaches:

    1. Those with multiple head coaching stints - Campbell, Cristobal, etc.. There are reports that CDC wants someone with success at multiple stops. 

    2. Those with one head coaching job - Fickell, Tom Allen, Bill Napier, etc. Herman and Strong were in this group when we hired them. Fickell seems really impressive, but it's hard to tell if that will translate. Tom Allen's job at Indiana is even more impressive. His record isn't as good, but IU is in the ISU tier of crappy jobs.

    3. Those with no head coaching experience - Brent Venables, etc. I don't think CDC is even considering this group.

    If CDC insists on group 1, Campbell seems the way to go. If you throw in group 2, there's some tough competition. If UM falls through, I wouldn't mind kicking the tires on Campbell, Fickell and Allen. Neither Fickell nor Allen lose to teams they shouldn't. Allen has a slight advantage because he's playing better competition and IU is blowing dominating teams with similar talent and hanging with/beating teams with much better talent.

  6. 11 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

    lolwut? Campbell has never lost to Maryland, let alone twice, let alone with Texas talent. Campbell has lost to Big 12 teams, Notre Dame, Washington State, Northern Iowa (first game of his first season) and ULL in a Covid year. I count one loss in five years where Campbell had a clear talent advantage. One. Herman has dozens at Texas and many more at U of H.

    So any coach that has lost one single game they should have won (in a pandemic) is Herman 2.0? That's pretty stupid. Herman has as many terrible losses this season alone as Campbell does in five years.

    And he's never lived in Killeen, Odessa, or anywhere in east Texas. I'm not sure what his position is on mayo, Texas beaches, or Fords vs. Chevy's, but that's what we pay CDC for.

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  7. 1 minute ago, LTtxfan said:

    Not so sure how good Opie's is now??   Heard something about a divorce changing who owns/runs the place now and quality has suffered.

    My dad says Cooper's in Llano went downhill a few years ago. Though I thought that was because the guy who started Opie's left.

  8. 2 minutes ago, troph said:


    True but a lot of folks do spend time there, small airport there, and there is plenty of room to hide. I bet this week the place was fairly empty. But I agree it’s not that impressive but it would and does work for the situation - needing some discretion, meeting places, etc. wouldn’t be the first time big time deals were done there.

    HSB is never quiet during hunting season. And there's no way we put UM up at the HSB Marriot.

  9. Wait. Has anyone been to Horseshoe Bay? Don't get me wrong, I love the place. My family has a ranch just outside HSB and I've been going there my whole life. And there's no hotel there you'd send a VIP. I'd buy that they are at some mega donor's ranch, but not a hotel. And that looks like every hotel. If you're impressing someone, that's not where you send them.

  10. 18 minutes ago, troph said:

    I ended up eating a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch the other night while drinking wine and talking about burgers on this thread until nearly 1am.  these searches are hard on all of us, you'd think we'd be used to them by now.

    Not to get all Newy on you - I like wine and I like cinnamon toast crunch - but cinnamon toast crunch and wine sounds disgusting.

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  11. 10 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

    Are they supposed to represent Horseshoes? As in Horseshoe Bay?

    Or "U"s as in Urban?

    He flew in, talked to Texas, agreed to come, is now going to the beach to play golf and then back here to coach? Maybe?

    Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State's stadium is called the Horseshoe.

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