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El Hornarino

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  1. 8 minutes ago, UncleBuck said:

    I can't believe CDC went all in with these BMDs and didn't publicly have Herman's back for the last month and a half but now it's gunna be "hey welcome back bud!"

     

    You are right, that isn't believable.

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  2. Franklin's one conference title in six seasons was the 2016 season, in which he won his only outing against Urban Meyer's Ohio State.  Seems like many considered that game something of a fluke, given that OSU was sent to the CFP that year anyway (and were crushed by Clemson).

    Just counting wins, I suppose he has done all right the last four seasons.  If Texas is content to get back to 10 or 11 wins a season, with losing the the one or two decent teams played each season and conference titles once in a blue moon, this hire makes sense.  Franklin is 1-5 vs Ohio State, and he is 2-4 against Michigan.

  3. 1 hour ago, Wally Pryor said:

    Herman has had 3 full seasons at Texas. All are in the top 5 penalty yardage seasons in Texas history.   His 4th team is on course for a record but will likely get a respite from a shortened season.    There are fewer things in the game that indicate discipline, attention to detail and being buttoned up.  Or the lack of it.  These are all foreign concepts to this team but Herman clearly indicated earlier this week that he's got his arms around this issue, like everything else: 

    - "I think you’re seeing it all across the country, but that is not an excuse. We’ve got to make sure that we’re the exception and not the rule, and that we play a cleaner brand of football when we’re out there on Saturdays. I think they all need to be taken individually and see why and how and what."

    - “I think they’re all different.  Some come from an over-exuberance of trying to do too much. Some come from a lack of attention to detail and your technique. But they all need to be addressed singularly.”

    - "Guys that that commit foolish penalties will be punished.  I’ve never been in a program where we’ve done that before. Some of the new coaches have been, and so moving forward, we’ll punish foolish penalties.  It’s the only thing left that we know how to do. We have educated, we have pleaded, we have, again, till we’re blue in the face."

    -  "These are penalties that, like in Derek Kerstetter’s case, losing your wits for a split second and it winded up costing us."

    Comical.   The guy is 47 months into his tenure at Texas and still has no, zero, clue how to instill discipline into his team and to avoid idiocy at the same time.   

    But there is hope as punishment for penalties looks to be an option. More runny eggs and cold breakfast on the way.   Yay.

     

    https://www.hookem.com/columns/20201015/eyes-texas-news-longhorns-well-way-another-historic-year-penalties/

     

    Hear, hear.

    Penalties galore, repeated special teams ineptitude, the same ineffective offensive plans and personnel groupings.  I suppose we need a couple more years to be absolutely certain he is incompetent.

  4. 11 minutes ago, HornPhD said:

    A friend of mine is with a company that provides stat analysis for college teams. Their book said that Texas should have gone for 2 at 31-23, but not at the end of regulation or in the 2nd OT. 

    Well a friend of mine works for Cyberdyne, and Skynet said that in the 2nd OT we should have launched the nuclear missiles to kill all humans.  Don't worry though, my friend says that is just a mistake in the programming and is fixable.

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  5. Would like to see some analysis of performance for this team home and away, or perhaps even looking for deterioration purely by weeks played.

    My impression was the offense was better at home, and I thought we tended to play better defenses away.  But taking a quick look at Adjusted Stats and FEI looks like this:

    Adjusted PPG Rank, D FEI Rank (Wk14)

    L Tech - 88, 58

    LSU - 15, 20

    OSU - 32, 56

    Kansas - 83, 108

    KSU - 17, 25

    T Tech - 66, 83

    Home Avg Def - 50.2, 58.3

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    Rice - 70, 88

    WVU - 48, 76

    OU - 24, 70

    TCU - 29, 26

    ISU - 23, 40

    Baylor - 10, 8

    Away/Neutral Avg Def - 34, 51.3

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    Averaging them might not have been the best thing to do.  But interesting that FEI worked out somewhat similarly, I didn't expect that from the "eye" test.  Maybe should have went for PPPs.  It still seems to rank some teams fairly differently from FEI though.

     

  6. 3 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    It's gotten crazy. For a hot or big name the schools don't have much leverage anymore, but for a dude like Drinkwitz, why don't schools do something like.

    Base Pay: $2M
    Overall Wins: $250K times 1.25^x
    Conference Wins: $400K times 1.25^x

    Then other championship bonuses. Examples of various results:

    Dude totally tanks, goes 3-9 (1-7): $2.99M
    Average Missouri season, 7-5 (4-4): $4.17M
    Great season, 10-2 (6-2): $5.85M

    Then have the buyout based on the average salary paid on this basis in the up to three previously completed seasons. Someone somewhere would be willing to coach for that. I mean come on, it's a minimum salary of $2.65M even if you never show up to work and go 0-12 (0-8).

    This is a good idea, but I don't think exponentiation has been introduced to SEC country yet.

  7. 2 minutes ago, Auto Driller said:

    There are maybe 3 coaches worth retaining on this staff. When you hire shitty assistants, you are a shitty head coach.

    Energy, Commerce, and.. who's the third one?  I can't.  Sorry. Oops.

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