Everything posted by Bill Lumbergh
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
The given reason was a tweak in warm ups. It did happen the day after he supposedly wiped a bunch of Texas stuff from his social media. Who the fuck knows at this point.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
Because instead we can try for a low percentage 40 yard pass to Robinson on 3rd and 1 at a critical moment in the game, obviously.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
Imagine going 5 wide with Whittington, Moore, Smith, Eagles, and Schooler. Whittington can sub back to rb if needed, since he knows the position, or you could trade in Robinson and have him play rb or flex out where he's a reasonably good pass catcher. Sam can rush as needed, into lighter boxes thanks to the spread. I'm sure the main argument against this pass first approach is that our oline is swiss cheese, but how much have the extra blocking surfaces really helped with that? Also, is there a reason we hate trying to use screens, flushes, or misdirection to slow down the rush? They seem like such obvious solutions to our oline problems and yet we never really try them.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
He fixes the c̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ p̶l̶u̶m̶b̶i̶n̶g̶ Texas head coach?
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
He should start asap, but only on evaluations and recruiting, nothing involving game coaching. By the end of this season, he'd know what he's dealing with from a staff and personnel standpoint, and have already impacted 21/22 classes. That's the best case scenario.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
I'm being serious, and there are some reasons starting Meyer right away would be a bad idea, but transfer portal fear feels really low on that list. Now, my opinion on this changes a ton if it's pretty much anyone other than Meyer. If it's him, it's to your advantage to announce it and get him involved asap. If it's not, you play things much differently/more cautiously.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
Eh, coaches have said they intend to stay with a school "for a long time" hours before being fired or taking a job elsewhere. What else can they say?
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
Hey guys, we're firing Tom Herman and replacing him with Urban Meyer. No wait, please, don't everyone rush for the transfer portal at once. Isn't anyone going to stay?
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
Can someone screenshot and send to cdc, just so he knows the plan?
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
I'm not sure if you're joking or serious, but yes I've also seriously considered this as a reason he'd love to take this job.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
Maybe one of the reasons I'm hopeful on Urban is it feels like he's been dropping little hints that suggest he'd have interest here. Even just in the past few weeks he is on record saying he thinks Chris Ash was the best coaching upgrade made this off-season and that Texas has recruited well and has a strong roster but coaches are failing at development. Both of those comments seem to hint that he sees a ton of opportunity at Texas that is not being managed well. Then again, I'm probably just reading into this what I want to hear.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
A lot of top recruits want to stay in state but play for a championship caliber program. They currently don't have that choice. Give them that choice, and recruiting will take care of itself. Mack locked down the state for a long time because everyone knew Texas was dominant and many of the best in state kids wanted to be here. It slipped away somewhat with aggy inviting cheating into our back yard, but also because there was powerful negative recruiting about the state of our program. Until we get our shit fixed, it will stay that way.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
No one thinks we'll "roll over and go 3-7." Most likely we'll play like dog shit for 3 unwatchable quarters, fall into a big hole, then Sam will somehow play us back into the game late in the 4th before we let it slip away again in some heartbreaking fashion. That's how we'll go 3-7, in the most miserable, gut wrenching way possible.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
I think he did, too, and seeing how obviously unprepared we were tells me that he can't do this job. He knew the importance of this one, and we had nothing.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
LSU almost screwed themselves over by not firing Miles early enough.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
First, he's 2-2 but really damn close to 1-3 or 0-3 in games that matter at all. These weren't flukey games, either. These were three games where we were completely unprepared against inferior talent. They've all been lost or nearly lost on scheme and preparation. Second, I know mid season firings have always been something major programs are "above," but I seriously doubt that will be the case going forward with the new early signing period. If your current coach will drag your recruiting and you believe your new coach will boost them, it's objectively the right thing to do to cut ties early. The only other consideration is if you think firing early will hurt an otherwise promising season, but no one considering firing their coach is having one of those.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
What's funny is that the answer is abundantly clear. If you get us out of this shit with Herman and get Meyer in the door, you're the hero no matter how it plays out. Seriously. If Meyer comes here and fails, will anyone really blame CDC? The bad answers are 1) keep Herman, or 2) fire him with plans to bring someone like Campbell or Patterson in, in that order. Every year we sit at the top of that profitable programs list. That's great. Let's use it. We have the need, the solution is available, and we have the means. The best way to coordinate it all is actual work, but the strategy here is pretty simple.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
Has anyone had anyone paged at ABIA yet? I don't think anything can be believed until that happens.
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Media/$9.95-er postgame analysis articles (Week 5)
I'm in complete agreement with a Bobby Burton article. Congratulations, 2020, you win.
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Shit's Borked
The site was performing great during Sunday practice, so we're just not sure why that translated to such miserable failure today.
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If not Urban Meyer, who?
I don't know if we'll fire Herman mid year due to the optics, but anyone arguing we shouldn't do it now due to the potential impact on the success of this season...well...that's just funny.
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Chris Del Conte is a Gigantic Pussy
Austin cesspool joke = check. Big 12 joke = check. aggy.
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Not going for two cost us the game
I'm not reading the whole thread, but when we went to OT I predicted that either our ST or OL would cost us the game in OT. Depending on how you want to look at it, both kind of did. We're a streaky team, needed to end it while the streak was hot. Instead, we waited for our inevitable breakdown.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
Like this current point in time? Or are we considering him proven now? As a recruiter, sure. As a coach...
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