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Tex Long

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  1. Been going to mention this again for awhile now, just not gotten around to it. My take on the Urban courtship started when one of my BIL (a TCU BMD - not sure how big, but he wrote more than one check with two commas on it, fwiw) told me after a Tech game in Lubbock where he spent some time talking with a friend who is/was a UT big dog told him that Texas was pulling out all the stops to get Urban and that they were not going to be denying anything Urban asked for. I took that as gospel, even as all sorts of weird shit went on for the next several weeks, through Signing day and running into the CFP. And then... poof! I don't recall much of an explanation at the time, but it has since come out that BIL's friend was wrong - there was something Urban wanted, we denied it, he said it was non-negotiable, and it turned out that he wasn't kidding. Gotta wonder if CDC swings a big enough dick to break that deal, but the outcome seems to indicate that he does. Maybe next time...
  2. I don't see Sark making this work, unless he relinquishes his sorry-ass clutch on the OC job and gets a real QB whisperer and play-caller. It took him 23 games to figure out that he had not one, but two, all-america caliber running backs to lean on, every game. The last 22 plays of the regular season, he either finally got it or someone told him he would be de-scrotified if he called even one pass play in the endgame. Besides the insistence on being OC and play-caller, he hadn't seemed to grasp that his job - his main job, perhaps his only real job - is to win the game he's playing, right here, right now. He has left both Card and Ewers in games when it was clear they were hosed, apparently for future growth. Perhaps an indication of his love for the players and their tender psyches, but equally possibly simply mindless stubbornness. Whatever the problem is, I don't think it will get fixed short of a very, very good OC. I still like the idea of Riley Minor. Of course, as always, YMMV.
  3. http://lsufootball.net/tvschedule.htm pretty much up-to-date with times and networks. The networks\ for each game are almost all links to the specific game. You can click the link if your device has the network installed.
  4. Considering all of the facts, "facts", and opinions sloshing around in this thread, I think it's quite clear that Steve Sarkisian is a smart guy, apparently even a good guy... but he is by no stretch of the imagination a great coach... yet. It looks like some games are not taken seriously and see his team ill-prepared, and his coaching skills do not include making workable adjustments when opponents overwhelm the evident game plan. I lay most of the problems on the doorstep of his insisting on being OC as well as HC, and I believe that he will not be successful - i.e. will continue to lose WTF games - unless and until he gives up the OC job and finds a proper fit for it. I don't believe it is necessary for an OC to parrot him, but of course he would need to be competent. Right this instant, I'd go with Riley Minor, if he can be had. Quite a set of differences between Sark's and Riley's offensive philosophies, but I think they could work together very effectively. Bottom line: Sark should (and almost certainly will) be kept, but with a condition that he fully accepts his role as HC and hires a damned good OC to prepare and run that part of the team, and to run the O on Game Day. It's not a demotion, Steve, it's an acceptance of your promotion to HC. Until that happens, you're going to be just another middlin' coach.
  5. Was there ever a follow-up on that?
  6. We're definitely showing some tells. I dunno what all our signals are, but whatever, some of them sure as hell seem to be leaking.
  7. Ooookay... I see your problem. You deny the existence of some sort of "evidence" - check that, ANY "evidence" - that Sark is drinking anything other than [INSERT HEALTHFUL BEVERAGE]. In fact, the basis for speculation by some fans that drinking might be the - or at least a - cause of strange coaching behavior is that it has been a cause of problem at all two of his previous HC jobs. He seems to have gone into alcohol quite deeply at both schools, being drunk at alumni booster meetings, drunk at practice, drunk during games... we've not yet seen that behavior at Texas, but there's plenty wrong which so far has defied explanation. Me doing me? I think there are problems with the coaching, problems which cause games that should be cakewalks to be lost. I haven't seen any reports from media, fans, reporters, or any others, that the Head Coach is drinking on the job, but it seems like a strong possibility, given that it has been the case in two out of two previous HC jobs. If it's not alcoholism, then what is it? No doubt there are plenty of other things. Maybe he's just flat incompetent. Or he has some other disorder. Or... what? Is there any evidence of anything to you, other than failure to show coaching prowess?
  8. Sounds like we agree on all but the booze. My guesses on the problem(s) include the possibility of reboozing, but yours deny any such possibility. It may be true, but my life experiences put "impossible" in the category of non-existence. It may be hugely (or smallly) unlikely, enough so that you don't even consider it, but it's been true before. I say it's possible, you say otherwise. It's not worth arguing over, so we won't. Thank you.
  9. He is doing a horrible job right now. Maybe it's booze, maybe it's something else. No, wait, it can't be booze... that would be unfair, for reasons. 'Zat better for you, sport?
  10. Steve is completetly fucked, at this point. The refusal to replace Ewers looks like he's decided to keep Ewers in the game and call passes he hasn't completed since he got back from the Bama injury. Everybody was predicting a run-heavy offense, and I think I heard Bijan express unhappiness and surprise about Sark changing the plan to pass, run or pass, pass, punt. I went and looked up Steve's HC record. First two years is eerily similar to our first two years with him, so far. First, he went 5-7. Unlike Texas, UW was nearly ecstatic since the previous HC was fired after 0-12. We weren't ecstatic at all with 2021's 5-7 record, but we "understood" new staff and all that. Second year, he "improved" to 6-6, and then devolved into several consecutive 7-6 years. We may or may not get from 6-4 to 8-4 this year, but given the less-than-pathetic attempts at offense, I don't believe that any of would be surprised were we to go 0-2 against KU and Baylor and wind up with that 6-6 record. The insistence of Ewers and no one else speaks to me of a person who has no real idea what to do, so he keeps doing the same thing... over and over and over... I'm not a recovering alcoholic, so I have only external experiences with alcoholics in particluar, but from what I have seen, Sark looks like he is in danger of falling off that wagon. Maybe he's just fully incompetent, so it seems as though he's drunk or drug-addled. Bottom line is that Seven Win Steve is not who some - perhaps most - thought he was, and never will be. Time's just about up for this season. What next?
  11. I've noticed the late arrivals to some - or is it many? - pressers. WTF? Doesn't bother me particularly, since I pretty much never watch it live, but it seems like a sign of a deeper problem. Is he just running overtime on the Monday morning team sessions, or is he medicating in between tasks? It seems as though he is having personal crises due to his inability to do what he's being paid $100,000 per week to do. I have thought it clear that he just couldn't handle being HC and OC simultaneously, and that remains basically true, imo. I'm at the point where I see a guy who just flat is not HC material, and may not be a top-shelf OC either. He's got some great plays, but picks strange times to call them. Ewers' problems, whatever they are, make things worse, and refusing to sub him out seems to be refusing to admit that something must be wrong with Ewers physically, mentally, or both. The only way to tell is to let other QBs have a possession or two and see if anyone shows up. Taking an almost fully guaranteed loss because "it wouldn't be fair" to one or another player to be subbed in or out is beyond stupid. And so it goes.
  12. Reassign Milwee to recruiting, hire Riley Minor as OC. Then leave Riley to build the O based on talents instead of trying to hammer them into some predetermined system. If a new OC can make something happen, that's great, good, and wonderful; if he doesn't, it won't make a helluva lotta difference.
  13. Sure he can. Worked with Saban, didn't it?
  14. All due respect, my main concern about Sark here remains as it was through last season and thus far in this one: he is not able to carry out both HC and OC duties. Until he picks one and eschews the other, he's going to continue to be shitty at both.
  15. That's part of the situation... he doesn't know that.
  16. X weighs what, buck and a half? If that's me, I'ma put a significant effort into staying uncrushed. At least, until my First Round bonus check clears.
  17. Ride? And shine? Please tell me that's fatfinger... or a previously unknown to me surlyism. FIGHT!
  18. Not to forget Lygos, Byzantium, New Rome, Istanbul, Stamboul... and the others.
  19. Mostly the former. Sometimes the latter, especially so if it must be repeated when whatever random moron asked where blah blah blah was played / is being played / will be played, and responded to "the Stadium" with something like "Huh?"
  20. That seems like a Good Thing™ to me. It's more than just possible, it's fucking feasible.
  21. The Stadium. Same as when someone asks where you went to college, the answer is either "Texas" or "The University".
  22. Goals: (1) Win. The. Fucking. Game. (2) Poach their OC. (3) ??? (4) Profit.
  23. This is what I was thinking, while I was watching passes that as a really old "Lonesome End" I thought were quite catchable, and pondering why Xay didn't seem remotely interested in fighting through that D to catch it. Def remember him not even reaching for one pass that was about three inches overthrown. Reminded me of one of our transfer out WRs - Washington, I believe - doing exactly the reverse and making an incredible catch a couple of times per game, while dropping every other ball that was thrown directly to him. Zay, show some give-a-shit. Or don't, and act surprised when you aren't a Day One draftee.
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