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Tex Long

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  1. 9 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    If you really think we would have done that, you haven’t been paying attention to Texas athletics. We’ve always held on to coaches waaaaaay too long. 

    You're not wrong, but it woulda been sooner than later. Muschamp had some ears listening to him. He did get GDGD fired, over Mack's bluff that he would quit before he'd fire his bestie. Too bad Boom didn't get to hire Holgo to run the O... mighta worked out better all the way around.

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  2. 59 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    That’s like one of the only mistakes of that kind I ever remember him making. 
    seriously, if you go back through his tenure as head corch here it was remarkable how often he called the right trick/gadget/go for it. It’s a huge part of the reason we were 21-4 in close games. It really was remarkable. 
    mother than that play, and scoring too quickly at tech I just don’t feel like he ducked up basic strategery the way so many coaches do. 
    I have a theory on that, and that theory says Sark won’t be all that good. That theory is bc Mack didn’t coach anything he could focus on all that kind of shit. I’m don’t know that you can do both well. Sark might want to turn that stuff over to someone else. 

    Well, that's like well said, mother ducker. Because, like, you know, Mack only did it once - once in his entire career here, which certainly overwhelms the fact that it seems as though no mother coacher in the history of football has ever been stupid enough to do the same thing.

    Also, can you quantify the theoretical underpinnings of your "Sark won't be all that good" predictions? 

  3. 10 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Mack brown was a great in game strategist (when to fake a punt,...

    Great? No. Good? Yes, as long a he was recruiting worth a bucket of warm spit.

    Never forget that Mack called one of the stupidest trick plays ever seen - faking a FG and instead punting. To a Nebraska deep back. With not so much as a single punt coverage player on the field. Which resulted in about a 95 yard TD for Neb. If they'd hit their on-side KO and rammed it down our throat, we'da  canned his ass on the plane ride home. Instead, Mack managed to convince Dodds et al to let him have three more years to clean up the mess, which he'd just created all by himself using nothing but his own skill and daring. Which just continued the pain until we doubled down, finally fired his ass while he lollygagged around FLA running down Texas to every recruit he encountered, and replaced him with... Charlie Strong.

    Yeah, thanks Mack, you did a great job on Texas.

  4. 12 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    Lulz. Moore, Whittington, Dixon, and Omeire can all get separation...

    I think Sark mentioned the separation problem pretty early on. He said something along the lines of "we'll find a way for each guy to separate", which appeared to me to imply that he thinks with the proper techniques and the right calls, the receivers would be able to separate without a huge problem. 

    FWIW, I speculated that this issue may have been the catalyst to send Epps out the door. Seems like Epps just didn't really put in enough effort  into learning, lifting, and practicing whatever escapability methods coaches gave him. After the Spring work, Sark apparently had a sit-down with each player, to discuss what they needed to do this summer to continue their improvement. I have a feeling that Epps was one of the ones who were told that their mental and physical situation made it look like he wouldn't bother, or perhaps be able, to do the expected work and it might be a good idea for him to look around for another place to play. Not a rumor or anything, just seemed to fit the way it's played out to this point.

     

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  5. GDGD was moderately competent at teaching an offense. He had no idea what to teach or what to do with the team. He was awful when not attached to Mack's coattails. Far's I can see, Mack was happy because GDGD would do anything Mack told him to do, no matter how ignorant it was... and if it worked, he gave all the credit to Mack, but if it didn't work, GDGD took all the blame. And he was Mack's Best Man, evar. 

  6. I've been curious since the first time I laid eyes on the phrase, "name, image and likeness", as to the precise difference between "image" and 'likeness". I figgered it could be as simple as something like "image is a photo, likeness is a drawing or perhaps a picture of someone else, but identified as the person."

    Thank goodness, I've discovered (by accident) an official NCAA web page, titled questions and answers name image likeness. 

    Find "likeness", seems like the quickest way to find the difference. Dang, fifteen matches... let's see... mmm-hmm mmm-hmm mmm-hmm.

    Well damn, every single match is just that phrase, "name, image and likeness". There may be an answer, but that would entail an assumption that NCAA ever answered a question directly. Maybe it's there, but I don't think I care any longer. It's prolly just some typical quarter-assed legal term of art that basically means "You don't know what the fuck we're talking about, but neither do we, so it's all good."

  7. 40 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

     


    lol yes y’all are so tough and your attitudes absolutely make a tangible impact on the team’s performance. One day I hope to be like you

     

    Got zip to do with "tough". The point is defeatism, as evidenced in your previous points. I thought my sarchasm alert was on, and not a peep or a spark. Just thinking about a broken meter is enough to gitcha scared to death, ain't it?

    Good luck with your hopes, though.

     

     

  8. 46 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

    ... you have to concede a loss is likely is OU.

     

    Go fuck yourself.

    Better, pm Fisterman. Lessons, with practice sessions... all for free.

    Don't forget to add to your mantrasack: "Scares ya ta death!" Make sure to keep repeating it at least twelve times daily, at least 16 years should do.

     

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  9. What I don't get is the (apparent) fact that no one seems to be calling for the cancellation of all the rest of the songs that were ever played by a minstrel group. Although, mind you, FS Walcott's Rabbit Foot Minstrels - AKA 'The Foots' - were seen as purveyors of culture, nonpareil... at least by Levon.

  10. 48 minutes ago, CycleTex87 said:

    Earl Campbell and it’s not even close. 

    Too bad Earl had to play with unlimited substitution rules. He'da been platooning, he'da made errbody fuhgeddabout Tommy Nobis on the D side and been the same Earl on O. He actually was the best on both sides in HS, just didn't get much (any?) linebacking under his belt as a 'Horn.

    Given when I was an undergrad, if you backed me into a corner and required a truthful answer, the roughest, toughest, all-round best football player in those years was Nobis. All-time ever watched play? Yeah,  that would be Earl. 

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