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Thermos H. Christ

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  1. You guys, Urban quit coaching, and it wasn’t because he couldn’t win at tOSU. If he didn’t have it in him to keep going there where the machine was already humming, why would he want to come try and fix a broken one? Would we really want him to? At least Herman wants to be a football coach. I’m not saying that’s a reason to keep Herman, but it is a requirement.
  2. I just don’t see it happening. I think this would have been a make or break year but then covid and everything happened and it’s been a super weird season all over the place. It feels like an exhibition season. I think we’ll continue to win and lose one-score games regardless of how good or bad the opponent is because that’s what this team does.
  3. Hey now, they blocked a nominee because they could, and now they're going to ram one through because they can. Where's the inconsistency there?
  4. To be fair, they were... in their first season. Greg Robinson was also a godsend when he took over for Manny Diaz in 2013. And Vance Bedford's defense was pretty amazing in 2014, at least until they would finally give out from lack of depth and always being on the field. For whatever reason, whenever we bring in a new DC we instantly have a kickass defense and then it falls apart in year two, and after year three when it doesn't get fixed we repeat the cycle. Clearly the answer is to get rid of the DC every year even though we had an amazing defense because it was their first year. I think we can pay them enough to make it worth their while, especially since it barely even seems to matter who it is as long as they're new. I'm sure part of it is the opposing coaches just figuring a defense out after a while, and probably a new DC is more likely to focus on getting the fundamentals sound and keep things simple than a DC who is in year 2-3 and thinking more about getting their whole schematic system up and running. But even accounting for that it's weird how consistent it is.
  5. I have to say having 25k in the stadium feels like a stunning fuck you to the people of this city. We have sacrificed so much to get our numbers under control. People have lost loved ones and weren't able to have funerals. People got married and weren't able to have weddings. Graduates weren't able walk in front of their family and friends or celebrate with them afterward. Our children have had birthdays without family and friends around them.The live music capital of the world is dead, with many beloved venues permanently shuttered and many more inevitably to come. So many have lost jobs. The willingness to risk pissing away so much that came at such a cost, just so there can be a few people in the stands at a mostly empty DKR is genuinely fucking outrageous to me. If we could teleport everyone to their seats and they would stay there, spread apart, I think risk would be minimal, but what about getting everyone from outside the stadium to their seats, and back out again, and what about concessions and bathrooms? This will be a crowd of people who have self-selected to take this risk in the first place, and therefore not the people I would trust to exercise the utmost caution. We're talking about taking a bunch of our students who don't have it currently, exposing them to thousands of people who aren't being careful, many of whom just came from out of town, and then immediately releasing them back into the student population at a time when University Health Services says they don't even have the means to keep track of how many tests they're doing or what the positive rate is.
  6. Yeah that's why I'll be rooting for them to win the conference next year, potentially extending this already insanely long period of Clay Helton being Probably Fired by years
  7. I find her far more tolerable than Gary Danielson
  8. Did Mr. Burns write this post? Stop hyphenating “coordinator” you weirdo.
  9. Oh shit they’re going undefeated. It’s well known that Parker Lewis Can’t Lose.
  10. So, to be up to the standards of the proud fans of this storied program, at a minimum you have to be more successful than the second most successful coach in the history of the program, who we hate because he sucked and didn't try hard enough.
  11. Bullshit. Not only do I not believe that, I don't even believe you could actually believe it. Of course the CFP and the natty is the goal every season, but if you actually wouldn't give a shit about a 10+ win conference championship season because it's not the CFP, I don't understand why you even bother to watch, and I question whether you even like college football... like you realize that most college football fans root for teams that will probably never make the CFP and they still manage to get like 100x more enjoyment out of it than you apparently do, right?
  12. I feel like you could pick a random person off the street and they would probably be able to recruit better than that at USC. What is going on over there?
  13. If you think we’re firing a coach for the crime of only winning 10 games in a season you have terminal surly-brain
  14. Charlie was a nice, likable guy whose whole personal brand was about having character and values and caring about his players and the men they would become. Even when the writing was on the wall that he was a failure here and his firing was a foregone conclusion, a lot of people's feeling was that they had liked him and it was a shame it didn't work out. Nobody likes Herman. He's a cocky immature douchebag. And that's fine, I mean as far as we know he's not covering up rapes or anything too heinous, he's just kind of a dick. People are more than happy to put up with those qualities if he wins games. But if he's not winning, nobody is going to take a moment to feel sorry for him, it's just get out. I personally think that as usual this board is being too reactionary in wanting to fire the guy already, this will all take care of itself. He did enough last year to not get fired over a 7-8 win season this year, next year he'll be on the hot seat and we'll see what happens and either we'll be trending in the right direction or he'll get fired and we can try our luck with someone else.
  15. Herman was a super popular hire all-around at the time. Yes there were dissenters as there always are, but if Herman had gone to LSU the shag would have had a collective aneurysm about losing out on him and how we should have fired Charlie midseason just to get a head start on sending dumptrucks of money to Herman's house.
  16. I don't know how anyone can be surprised that an offensive coach with an identity he's pretty married to doesn't want someone to come in and install a whole different system. To be fair, Urban's pretty much the same way, and his offenses have also gotten pretty bogged down at times when he didn't have someone who was good at calling plays and adding new wrinkles. But calling plays and adding wrinkles here and there is exactly the job description we have a vacancy for. Lashlee seems like someone who could do that, there are probably others out there too. At a certain point though if Herman believes that strongly in his system I think he should probably just declare himself OC and let someone he trusts handle the defense on gameday, much like Gary Patterson did as a defensive coach who eventually just turned some guys loose with the offense and concerned himself with the defense. That went really well for a while.
  17. Everyone keeps saying Ash was an analyst working here but I haven't seen that actually reported, everything I can find just says he came through before the OU game, not that he was added to the staff. I know his wikipedia page has him working as an analyst here but the sources cited don't back that up.
  18. Which is weird, because someone obviously did when he came in. The defensive players all got way, way better between 2016 and 2017.
  19. Every time we have a new DC they’re great for that one year. Diaz, Robinson, Bedford, Orlando, they all fielded amazing defenses out the gate. Why would Ash or whoever be any different? It’s after that first year when you gotta watch out.
  20. Dabo had a shitty first season at Clemson (4-3 after taking over for Bowden who got fired midseason), a solid but not great second season (9-5) and a bad third season (6-7, ending with a loss to USF in the Meineke Bowl). Then, with his seat blazing hot and his hand being forced, he fired his OC and DC and got new ones. Things have gone pretty alright for him since then.
  21. For all of Beck's unpopularity with fans, I think his resume is way too good to be able to retain him as a position coach. Look at all the terrible offenses out there, someone's going to take a chance on him. Someone gave Shawn Watson a P5 OC job like a year after he got fired here. Beck was nominated for the Broyles Award twice at Nebraska, Ohio State went 23-3 while he was there, we beat OU and Georgia last year and Sam was setting records, even this year I think we had a top 25-ish offense on paper. I'm not saying we should keep him as OC, we absolutely should not, but he's easily good enough to land a P5 OC gig somewhere.
  22. lol at giving a CFB player a football as swag
  23. Honestly I don't know how much a new OC changes things, because I don't really see any evidence that we're doing isn't what Herman wants. It's going to be Tom Herman's offense and playbook whoever is in charge of implementing it, we're not going to bring in someone with their own scheme and philosophy and let them do their thing. And Herman hears all the play calls every game, if he didn't agree with them he could jump in any time.
  24. I respect the candor, and I'm not sure I disagree with the sentiment either.
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