
Thermos H. Christ
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I mean with like one or two exceptions we've been mediocre or worse every season for over a decade, and we're about to head into this season with a totally inexperienced freshman QB, with yet another new coaching staff, led by a Saban assistant who has never done shit as a head coach. He quickly took Washington from being really awful to being OK and never improved from there at all, only to have them become best team in their conference the moment he left while USC... did not. If the results had been there on the field USC wouldn't have cared if he was shotgunning a beer on every play. It totally might work out. It could. But there's plenty of reason to temper one's optimism here.
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No love for Taaka? When I was a kid old man next door bought that shit by the case..stacked the boxes by his trash bin out back Taaka is ass even by the standards of rotgut vodka. Nikolai is 10x better. And of course for only a moderate bump in price you can get Smirnoff which is equal or superior to most “premium” brands.
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Oh give it a rest, you're just being contrarian. IPAs of various styles are great, but that's not the beer you want when you're in the scorching sun throwing them back like water. I enjoy a nice glass of scotch too, but I'm not going to reach for it during an outdoor activity in 100 degree heat just so nobody can question my machismo.
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Oh snap, looks like we just launched some program that specifically allows players to license their name/image/likeness and use the University's trademarks along with it. Being able to sell your name and image with the most recognizable logo in sports attached seems like it could be a big deal? https://www.burntorangenation.com/2021/8/20/22634908/texas-longhorns-group-licensing-name-image-likeness-official-logos
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Is this true? If so, no wonder Quinn Ewers is going to Ohio State if he's expecting to make six, maybe seven figures there and we're just feeling it out. Saban wasted no time talking about his seven figure QB who hasn't taken a snap. I've been wondering about why we seem to be missing on so many top targets, but this would explain a lot.
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Excited for more high-profile, high-upside games in big rowdy venues. Hopeful about the prospect of improving recruiting even beyond where it has been by having a bigger presence through the whole deep south and Florida, losing fewer in-state targets to Tech/TCU/Baylor, and taking away Aggy's best sales pitch. Will miss the round robin and the wild, funslingin' Big 12 full of plucky underdog teams that have a history of punching above their weight. Sad to see the landscape of college football shifting away from a place where there are a zillion teams and an upstart school like KSU or Okie Lite or Tech or TCU can catch lightning in a bottle and go on a run and get into the top 5. Where we could see something like Baylor and TCU both being ranked in the top 10 and having a completely bonkers shootout for the ages where Baylor wins 61-58 after being down 21 points with 10 minutes left. It feels like things are rapidly shifting towards an NFL-style model where all the money and talent and opportunity will flow to a much smaller set of teams concentrated into a couple of megaconferences. I'm glad to be one of the teams on that's "in," but the chaos and the diversity and the sheer scope of CFB has always been a lot of what I love about it.
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2021 Texas Offseason: Sark Attacks Austin
Thermos H. Christ replied to texifornia's topic in Football
What makes me ill at ease is that Sark's bona fides are as a guy who coaches players. I've come to believe that, especially at a place like Texas, a head coach has to excel at the CEO stuff - having the overall vision for the direction of the organization, attracting and retaining the best staff, mentoring and managing his people and getting them what they need to succeed, handling the politics of it all. However good he is as an X's and O's coach, it's a big question mark as to whether he can do that successfully. And I worry that an X's and O's coach is at a disadvantage here if that means they're trying to micromanage things down at the player level. Working with Saban should be a master class in keeping an organization humming, and hopefully Sark learned a lot there, but a lot of Saban assistants have gone on to less-than-illustrious careers. I also wouldn't be surprised if a guy as pathologically competitive as Saban sees all his assistants as potential future competition and doesn't go out of his way to teach them how to do his job. -
Taken together, the unanimous opinion and the concurrence seem to say that the plaintiffs could've probably taken it all down if they hadn't limited their SCOTUS challenge to stuff like school supplies (very broadly defined) and paid internships. Seems like now we wait and see whether the NCAA tries to get ahead of it by quickly opening the door to schools directly paying players a salary (like they did with NIL) or waits for things to play out in the courts again. I guarantee there are lawyers hustling their asses off right now looking for plaintiffs to go after the prohibition on straight paying players, and I have to think at least some lower courts are going to say the players prevail based on this decision. Short of congress stepping in to create an antitrust exemption for the NCAA or something, it's hard to see getting more than a few years down the line before players are getting straight paid. And probably a lot of big schools could do that without increasing their budget if they just stop building absurd gold-plated stadiums and diamond-encrusted weight rooms because they'll no longer have to set piles of money on fire to maintain the charade that they aren't profitable.
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Holy fucking shit, this is from Yahoo's writeup of the same press conference: <quote>Also not new is the idea that Bo Schembechler, who died in 2006, knew generally of Anderson’s abuse. A recent university-funded report even detailed numerous stories of Bo being directly told. That included one from Daniel Kwiatkowski, an offensive lineman from 1977-79, who on Thursday detailed his own molestation by Anderson and his reporting of it to Schembechler. “Bo said, ‘Toughen up,” Kwiatkowski said. “Bo knew.” “Bo knows everything that goes on on campus,” said Gilvanni Johnson, a Michigan wide receiver from 1982 to 1986, while fighting back tears. Johnson added that Anderson’s behavior was so well-known that coaches would threaten trips to see him as a motivational ploy. "Only now do I realize how crazy it was to threaten rape as a way to make players work harder," Johnson said.</quote> I mean Paterno was a monster for his handling of things at Penn State, but this is on a whole other level than even that. How is there still a debate over whether to remove the statue and rename the building? That seems like a given, the sort of thing you would do real quick before you get around to digging up Bo's corpse and dumping it in a lagoon of pig shit.
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2021 Texas Offseason: Sark Attacks Austin
Thermos H. Christ replied to texifornia's topic in Football
No? I didn't say he's the greatest, but his resume is objectively way better than the hires some places made. A guy who was always a position coach before going 4-3 in one season as a coordinator vs. a Broyles award/national championship winning OC who is 54-22 as a HC with a couple of NY6 bowl wins in there? -
2021 Texas Offseason: Sark Attacks Austin
Thermos H. Christ replied to texifornia's topic in Football
I was on campus for the Vince/Colt era, so it should be them, but right now today the first to come to mind was Sam. Sam WAS our team's identity for the last four years. Obviously I hope Sark finds a way to be more consistent and get us to that next level where we're regularly contending for conference championships and playoff berths, but overall I did not hate the Tom Herman era and I think Herman and Sam were in some ways a perfect match for each other, which was lucky because neither one of them chose the other. Say what you will about Tom Herman, and there's a lot there to criticize, but throughout his career he has consistently gotten impressive production out of QBs with significant limitations. JT Barrett, Braxton Miller, Cardale Jones, Greg Ward, and Sam Ehlinger were not guys with elite ability, but the constant threat of QB Power clearly makes life hard for a defense and creates opportunities that a less-polished QB can take advantage of. I understand firing Herman, especially if the powers that be really believe Sark is the future and didn't want to lose the opportunity, but I don't understand nobody snapping him up as an OC or even HC. Like if I was running things at Tennessee I would've gladly picked up a clearance-priced Tom Herman if my best alternative was Josh Heupel. I still feel like Herman could stroll into most G5s, out-recruit the rest of the conference, and have them good enough to knock off ranked teams a couple times a season and whip ass in a bowl game (even if they would get inexplicable losses to dogshit teams a couple times a season too). Surely he would've been a solid choice for a place like Boise State, who instead hired a guy with no HC experience and a 4-3 record in his one season as a coordinator? -
If only we could all be beacons of positivity and cheerfulness like Cajun
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2021 Texas Offseason: Sark Attacks Austin
Thermos H. Christ replied to texifornia's topic in Football
You're not wrong, but I feel like this may not be the website for you. -
I meant specifically in the context of football games. Staying for the eyes was a way of saying win or lose, you players busted your asses out there until the last snap and we stayed to appreciate it instead of leaving to try and beat traffic. It could be 90% of the fans staying after a big win, or 10-20% staying after a bad loss or a drubbing of some cupcake. But it was a way of showing that we were faithful and stayed until the end. If it was a bad loss, we were here cheering you on even when there was no hope because you played on when there was no hope. If it was an easy win, it was a way of saying hey, backups who work hard all offseason and all week long just hoping to have a chance to see the field, we stayed and watched you when the game was no longer in doubt because you deserved that audience and that appreciation. Right or wrong, I don't think it will ever feel like that again.
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I certainly don't have my finger on the pulse of student life and opinion these days, so that could easily be true. But it does appear the group includes most of our current players based on how many of them chose not to participate when given the choice. And I'm uncomfortable with all the rhetoric about the need to put these players and students in their place. Before when I would stay and sing the Eyes I always thought of it as being a way to honor and show respect to the players, and I don't see how it's going to feel like that anymore. If it's going to become a ritual of the players being made to humble themselves before the older alums and donors, that's kind of gross and definitely doesn't give me the warm fuzzies.
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Am I the only one who sees this as lost cause, regardless of the merits of either side of the argument? Like, if the idea is to preserve a cherished tradition, hasn't that ship sailed? Whatever it may have meant to previous generations of students, if the current group sees the song and the boomer/GenX insistence on preserving it as an insult or an affront, they certainly will not view it as a cherished tradition and pass it on. The olds will die off and the song with them, if it doesn't go away before then.
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