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Hornlover

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  1. 1 hour ago, Tex-19 said:

    Keep in mind that, assuming Casey wins the job next year, Card could still be a Freshman when these QBs get to campus. Maybe he portals but if he doesn't, that gives you a lot more comfort in gambling on Murphy.

    Regardless, QB is one position where I have a lot of trust in Sark. With only 3 offers made including Ewers, he clearly has an idea of what he wants. If that guy is Klub, I am certainly not going to argue with it.

    Having Charles Wright and Cole Lourde in the qb room also helps with taking a risk on Murphy 

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  2. 1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

    A) I think you meant "2019" instead of "2020" a few times in this post. At least I hope you did.

    B) Again, you presume we're all in the dark about what went on, yet then also presume that Crystal Conte ran the process. Both presumptions are wrong. In fact there are posters on this site alone with varying sources or direct knowledge of elements of what happened and it matched up. That's rare. 

    C) Del Conte has done nothing regarding his handling of the football program to merit the benefit of the doubt. Nothing. Feel free to give it to him anyway, but I'm fine being on the opposite end of the spectrum in which I view a guy making $2million a year, loading up on obvious blunders, with some skepticism at this point.

    A. Yeah. I meant the 2019-2020 season. The January crossover for Bowl Games and signing day messed me up.

    B. If he didn't run the process for the firing/hiring of the football coach, he was at least very actively involved. 

    C. I get that you dislike him. If you wanted him to make different choices on Herman and Shaka, or handle the Eyes of Texas controversy differently, or nix Stoops earlier, or whatever other complaints... Fine, you're welcome to your viewpoint. He's miles better than Perrin or Patterson, and he's done enough with the new basketball arena, SEZ, gameday experience, fundraising - hell even the softball and WBB hires - that I'm willing to back him at this point. 

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  3. 2 minutes ago, Viper said:

    I think I see where you're err'ing in your understanding now

    I've read all the same rumors and stories as you. Unless you are Sark, Stoops, CDC, or Jimmy Sexton - then you don't know exactly what happened. You don't know if CDC told Sark, "Hire whoever you want, I don't give a fuck" and then woke up the next morning with 200 angry texts on his phone because he didn't think Sark was regarded enough to hire a goddamned cokeheaded Stoops at Texas.

    Jesus Christ, y'all pussies are ready to burn the witch at the stake for something that didn't even end up happening. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, Lhorn said:


    Exactly. It makes no sense from a business standpoint. He hadn’t achieved anything except proving he wasn’t quite the idiot that Strong was and that’s an extremely low bar. There was afaik no threat that he was going to be hired away from us. Not to sound arrogant but this is Texas. At any point we can match or exceed the offer of pretty much any program. He doesn’t have a dream to return to coach his undergrad alma mater. There was zero reason to extend him, except that at level money is like water. You throw it around because it has no value. Unfortunately the price for that is reducing the flexibility to cut loose a guy who continues to prove that he’s over his head.
    Ditto for Mack’s raises and extensions. They were throwing money at him when there was zero chance he was leaving for a better job. In Mack’s case at least he had accomplished something. Herman not so much. Overpaying a guy who is doing a great job is forgivable. Overpaying a guy doing a bad job is inexcusable.

    A contract extension makes sense from an optics standpoint. It makes sense from a "let's stroke this guy's ego" standpoint. It's not like the contract extension made it any more difficult for us to fire the guy. 

    You have to go tell recruits, BMDs, and season ticket holders - "This guy fucks. He's a baller that we believe in. You should believe in him, too. He's going to win a championship next year" and you do that by giving him a raise and an extension. Otherwise, they're all gonna bail on you, and then you're super-fucked.

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  5. 55 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    This post reads like you don't know a fucking thing about what's transpired with CDC and the football program since December of 2019. That's fine if you don't, but the rest of us didn't need to see it proven out in some sort of garish form on this site. Some things should just be kept to yourself.

    If you want to hate CDC for not firing Tom after the 2020 season and for not firing Shaka, cool, I understand. I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't be firing the Big 3 head coaches every 3 seasons, regardless of my desire to win championships every single year. Eventually, nobody is going to want to coach your team if that's your M.O. But, if you are in the immediate results crew, so be it.

    Once the decision to let Herman continue to be the head coach after the 2020 season was made, the cake was baked. There was nothing else to do but let the 2020 season play out. 

    He gave a tepid vote of confidence, then got the right people on board to pursue Urban and stealthily conduct a search to secure the next best option when it was clear Urban had no desire to coach in Austin. That's the correct way to handle the situation. 

    Fuck Mike Stoops, and fuck Sark or CDC or whomever thought it was remotely okay to bring him to Texas, but we don't really know enough of the entire story to assess CDC's culpability. In the grand scheme of an athletic director's job, it's a relatively minor fuckup. Patterson had 20 more egregious fuckups in his 2 years on the job (not that he should be anybody's measuring stick). 

  6. It's all speculation at this point, but @Pdawg88's complete lack of understanding of the Longhorns QB room is the reason I called him a moron. 

    Plenty of quality QBs either can't beat the guy ahead or get passed by a younger guy behind, and decide to move on. Kelly Bryant(Trevor Lawrence), Joe Burrow (Dwayne Haskins), Kyler Murray/Kyle Allen(Jake Hubenak - lol), Jalen Hurts (Tua), Justin Fields (Jake Fromm). 

    It wouldn't shock me either way if one of them won the job, and the other decided to transfer. We've seen actual game footage for one half of a football game for Casey where he looked electric. That game may represent his floor, and he's ready to have a Heisman season next year. Or, he might never achieve that kind of game again.

    Maybe Card is the second coming of Trevor Lawrence, and wins the starting job in Spring Practice? Who knows? It's not likely, but not inconceivable.

    The most likely scenario is that the upperclassman wins the job, and holds it for a year or two before getting passed by or moving to the NFL. But that's not always the case.

     

     

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  7. 4 hours ago, Pdawg88 said:

    As in OU fan I love to hear this. If Card is starting over Kendall, Texas has problems. 

    You're a moron, but I'll play along.

    Several people here, regardless of the show Casey Thompson put on in the Bowl Game, believe that Card is the best QB on the roster and will win the starting job next year. Card was certainly a more highly touted recruit.

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