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  1. 36 minutes ago, The Golden Hat said:

    I don't think I have ever heard a bigger pile of bullshit, from any Texas coach, in any sport, ever.

    Lulz.   Brown has that market cornered, and forever will.  Go to your Cotton Bowl pressers in 00, 03, 11 and 12.    Whenever you somehow have to explain losing to your most bitter, hated and despised rival by an average of 50 fucking points, 4 times, you're going to have the bullshit thing figured out, pat.   And Brown did.  

    I still can't believe we had that situation in the Cotton Bowl -  4 times when authorities were looking for players next-of-kin as a result of those clusterfucks.  Ugh.

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  2. 13 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

    Jesus Christ, if I weren't sick before I damn sure am now thinking about that stretch Fark

    We're not going to get blown out by either USC or K-State, even with the latter at Manhattan.  I think.  Those games will be close and we will probably be in a position to win both.  But with our current QB situation being a position to win has shown it yields shit results.      TCU and OU?  Could be ugly.  

    Likely scenario is 1-4 after 5 games.  And if Herman continues to dig a deeper hole with each word that comes out of his mouth (of which, of course, none of us uninformed minions will ever be able to understand), then he's going to have trouble even getting Michelle to provide a place for comfort and shelter.  Because Baylor may provide a respite but Okie State in Stillwater and West Virginia won't. 

    I'm numb to the stuff  - now on our 9th year of mediocrity with no end in sight.  It's part comical, but mostly just pathetic.   We can laugh at those around us for therapeutic reasons as we see fit.   But given what we're supposed to be, we're as big a laughingstock as there is in the country right now. 

  3. And a lead story on ESPN's site, as well it should be when a $5MM+ / year coach of a storied program doesn't have a clue. 

    AUSTIN, Texas -- There's an informal new course at the University of Texas: American Literature with Tom Herman.

    First on the syllabus: comparing a second straight loss to Maryland with the works of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck.

    Texas, Herman said Monday, was like the simple but brutish Lenny from Steinbeck's classic "Of Mice and Men." The Longhorns tried so hard to win they killed their chance to do it.

    "Lenny wanted so badly to touch the rabbit and play with the rabbit, he squeezed it so hard he killed the rabbit," Herman said, noting he told linebacker Gary Johnson to read the book. "I know that seems maybe out there a little bit. I think that's what the first quarter was. We wanted it so badly, we got in our own way quite a bit."

    Herman mangled the analogy a bit. In the novel, Lenny kills a puppy, a mouse and a woman and only dreams of rabbits. And Lenny gets killed at the end.

    But at 7-7 over his first 14 games at Texas, too many more losses could prompt lectures on other Steinbeck titles, such as the "The Grapes of Wrath" or "The Winter of Our Discontent."

    "This one game will not define us. How we grow from it and respond to it will," Herman said.

    Herman faces an angry fan base yet again after Saturday's 34-29 loss to the Terrapins was punctuated by the same problems of last season's 7-6 finish. The Longhorns trailed big early, lost a lead late and had three turnovers in the fourth quarter, two by sophomore quarterback Sam Ehlinger.

    Nationally, much is expected of No. 23 Texas in Herman's second year. The coach insists this year's team is different and better, even if the early result is exactly the same.

    "The reason we played so poorly, in my opinion, is actually a good reason, because of how close this team has become, how badly they wanted to perform for each other, for their coaches," Herman said. "Everybody still believes in what we have spent the last year and a half building here."

    Texas got off to another slow start and trailed 24-7 early. Herman put the offense into an up-tempo attack and Texas rallied to within 24-22 by halftime.

    A week ago, Herman said his players were enjoying being in the same offense for the second consecutive year after having multiple coordinators in recent seasons. But after the loss, Herman said they were overthinking the game early, calling it "paralysis by analysis."

    "We got on the head set and said these guys are thinking way too much," Herman said. "We felt like the best way to get them to stop thinking so much and being so tentative was to go play."

    Ehlinger slid back into his old turnover habits with fourth quarter interceptions. The last one with a minute left came on a throw that sailed high over his receiver's head. After the game, Ehlinger said "you have to put the ball up in a risky situation."

    Herman said he won't bench Ehlinger for junior Shane Buechele this week when Texas hosts Tulsa and will be heavily favored to win.

    "Sam didn't play perfect but nobody did. His errors weren't egregious enough to just dump him on the depth chart. You start doing that you're riding the roller coaster," Herman said.

    Herman also said it was his call to not give the ball to freshman running back Keaontay Ingram in the second half against Maryland. Ingram averaged a team-high 6.2 yards per carry and a touchdown on six rushes in the first.

    Herman said wanted veteran players on the field late in a tight road game. Graduate transfer Tre Watson fumbled in the fourth quarter and junior Kyle Porter dropped a pass the play before Ehlinger's final interception.

    Texas fans will remember Herman's mentor Mack Brown keeping freshman Cedric Benson out of a loss to Oklahoma game in 2001. Benson would go on to become one of the top rushers in NCAA history.

    Herman insists good things are coming.

    "The sky is not falling. The sun is going to come up, hopefully, tomorrow," Herman said. "If it doesn't come up, we're kind of all screwed on that."

     

  4. 17 minutes ago, Goodman said:

    Sam is mentally broken and needs to RS this year, only way to get over his mental yips here.

    No amount of redshirting is going to address the fact that he's not a good D-1 quarterback, and that's not going to change.  With the worst of it being really shitty decision-making, especially when the game is on the line.   That's cancerous to your team and only an idiot would allow it to continue. 

    Even if the idiot has a business card that says "Mensa" on it. 

  5. 48 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

    Doesn’t pass the sniff test to me. They called the second half like the first quarter. They had half-decent uptempo drives in the 2nd (but I think part of that was Maryland was being Maryland and never called a TO, they were gassed.)

    They were gassed because they're thin.  That uptempo drive in the 2Q was the best offensive sequence in the game and, hell, even Ehlinger looked comfortable in it.    Of course, we never really went back to it because, well it worked once, and, you know, Tom knows what's best.  Always. 

  6. I do and continue love Strong as a person and wish him nothing but good.  He was in over his head and also had to deal with that unbridled piece-of-shit fuckstick Patterson, but Strong never made excuses, took every hit from fans and the media while taking the high road and was just a solid guy, period. 

    Compare and contrast with this Heman, whose shit never stinks in his eyes, will tell you that 2 + 2 = 5 because, well, he says so.  And he may present that new math with gold teeth, a baseball bat, sledgehammer or any other candy ass schtick that he or Michelle feels appropriate.

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  7. Every writeup on this clusterfuck of a game yields more comedic shit from Herman.  Is this serious?  A guy who can't have his players take care of basic uniform shit that results in a penalty and can't install discipline enough to keep his team from committing fatal ones.  Holy crap.

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    Texas finished with 10 penalties for 102 yards.

    Herman pointed out that he’d rather have players making aggressive penalties (like a roughing or pass interference) rather than administrative ones (like jumping offside). Collin Johnson was flagged five yards on UT’s opening drive for not having his knees covered, which is a new NCAA protective rule this season.

    “I would rather have to pull the leash a little bit than have to kick them in the butt,” Herman said.

  8. 2 hours ago, Shaggy3.0 said:

     

    Since we didn’t kick tires and have a mechanic inspect the car before buying, we have a lemon.

     

    Ladies and gentlemen, we hired a choad, a fucking half a momo. A fraud.

     

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    If tim beck is not demoted by tuesday afternoon, this guy is worse than charlie.

     

     

    Do we have rex kramer’s permission to call this guy a potato?

     

     

    Where's the Louisville slugger coming off the Greyhound?

     

  9. Mike Finger gets it, as usual.

    As usual, Tom Herman knew better than the rest of us.

    He always has. From the month he stepped on campus as head coach at Texas, it became plainly obvious there was no reason to question the credentials of anyone he chose to hire or the caliber of anyone he chose to play, because most of us simple-minded folk cannot even dream of comprehending all of the subtle intricacies that go into such decisions.

    And so it should have come as no surprise that the ignorant, unsophisticated football-watching public completely misconstrued what happened to Herman's Longhorns in their season-opening loss to Maryland on Saturday, when what appeared to be the latest in a long line of UT humiliations was actually nothing of the sort.

    Silly us. We are so naïve, so painfully uninformed, that we thought we were watching a team as unprepared to start Herman's second season as it was to start its first. Dummies that we are, we assumed that a flurry of bone-headed penalties and a rash of late-game turnovers were signs of a squad that remains as sloppy and as undisciplined as ever, but the truth is we just did not understand how much the Longhorns had improved.

    Thankfully, Herman was gracious enough to break it down for the reporters covering the game in Landover, Maryland, and thereby set a country full of mouth-breathing college football watchers straight.

    Sure, it might have seemed like the Longhorns made all the same mistakes they did last year, and that the offense showed no signs of progress from a season in which it ranked as one of the worst in the Big 12, but that's only because we did not notice any of the details Herman and his staff did.

    "We saw a lot of development," Herman said. "I wouldn't say we failed in that area."

    And although we know-nothings might have assumed it might be a unnerving to lose a second consecutive opener to a moribund program that had spent the last month mired in a scandal, and was playing for an interim head coach, and had not beaten any ranked team aside from UT in 22 tries dating to 2011, it's actually no big deal.

    After all, when Herman was asked by some knee-jerk journalist to describe how big a setback the defeat was for a program that wants so desperately to be taken seriously again that it made "Prove Us Right" the team motto, he answered, "Not very."

    After all, can't the world see how right the wise John Mackovic was when he referred to such temporary embarrassments as "a blip on the radar screen?"

    The general public just has no perspective. Fans watch a team suffer a loss like Saturday's, which flukishly included a bunch of the symptoms of six losses last fall, and they trick themselves into seeing the continuation of a trend.

    That nonsense makes Herman shake his head.

    "A lot of people are going to want to say this feels a lot like last year," Herman said. "It doesn't to me."

    What the rest of us need to realize is that Vince Lombardi was wrong. Winning isn't the only thing. And Bill Parcells misspoke when he said a team is what its record says it is.

    Sometimes, all that matters is how good the team thinks it is. And the outside world just needs to trust the coach on that.

    "We know how much better we are now than we were probably at any point last year," Herman said. "We didn't show it in the first quarter and the fourth quarter."

    Minor details, those. Second-guessing anything that happens during pivotal moments in the game — which quarterback Herman uses, which plays the team runs, etc. — is pointless, just as it was to second-guess the decisions Herman made way back when he was just starting at UT.

    Some of us remember the reception he got when he hired Tim Beck as offensive coordinator, despite a bit of a lackluster track record, and when he hired Casey Horny as a quality control assistant, despite his longtime association with a Baylor staff apparently unaware of what was happening in its own program.

    Herman's message back then was clear. He knew better than the rest of us.

    And clearly, he still does. He surely realizes that UT fans never should have expected a national contender to come anytime soon, anyway. After all, over the past 34 years, the Longhorns have finished as many seasons unranked as they have in the Top 25.

    That decade-long streak of success to start the Mack Brown era? That was the outlier, not the norm.

    Despite what many Longhorns continue to believe, winning football games is not their birthright. They need to realize all of this is far more complicated than it looks.
     
    And they need to admit that when it comes to believing their own eyes or the guy who knows better, well, the choice is obvious.
     
    Thankfully, Herman was gracious enough to break it down for the reporters covering the game in Layland, and thery set a country full of mouth-breathing college football watchers straight.Sure, it might have seemed like the horns mame mistakes they did last year, and that the offense showed no signs of progress from a season in which it ranked as one of the worst in the Big 12, but that's only because we did not notice any of the details Herman and his staff did."We saw a lot of development," Herman said. "I wouldn't say we failed in that area."

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  10. 3 minutes ago, Disco Missile said:

    Conditioning is the big one.
    He's also done well at filling holes in the roster. Getting *some* talented position coaches on staff. Like I said elsewhere we're better than last year. It's not a stark difference but the improvements are there.

    Today was a major step backward in Herman's tenure at Texas.  Major.  Facing a team that was in disarray, that just so happened to clock you last year in your home openerand first game as HC, and you come up with a disorganized, uninspired and mistake-ridden performance? If you weren't going to go out and be balls out today, when will you?

    Where and how are we now better on September 1?

  11. You fucks laugh at Mangino, all you want.  Laugh at him like you would that beached whale Fat Madden.  

    Except Mangino did something.  He took Kansas, that's Kansas, to the Orange Bowl and fucking won it.   Kansas went to the Orange Bowl and beat the God Almighty Beamer and Va Tech.   That has and never will completely sink in.

    Mangino does and always will deserve a statue for this one achievement.  And it's borderline bind moggling.  To this day, 10 year later.

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  12. 5 minutes ago, Disco Missile said:

    You guys wanting Herman gone are going to learn how I felt in early September, 2016.
    "The coach sucks, and there's nothing anyone can do about it."

    Thankfully for me, Charlie Strong went 6-7, 5-7, and 5-7, and lost to Kansas.

    Worst case scenario now is that Herman keeps going 8-4 and 9-3 year after year and doesn't provide any clear reasons to fire him after 3 years.

    Lulz.  9-3 this season?  What planet are you on?

  13. 7 minutes ago, RadiologyHorn said:

    The chicken little and hyperbole on this board over the next week is going to be some next level shit. 

    There would be less if the head coach took responsibility for the loss, and said his team was unprepared, underestimated the opponent and said this loss hurt a lot.

    Instead, the jackass said the loss wasn't that big a deal and said his team was ready to go. 

    So, it's okay to note this and go ahead and justifiably call Herman's shit to the carpet.

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