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  1. 16 minutes ago, Here’s the deal said:

    Herman made it pretty clear last year that he doesn’t want to call plays.  Beck was a failure last year, so he had to take over this year or go 6-5 again.  Hopefully he’s bringing in Beaty to take over next year.  Just connecting the dots.

    I'm sorry if this sounds ignorant, but what does bringing in Beaty do?  I mean his resume at least on the surface doesn't have the "wow" factor you do see from time to time from former HC's who go back to being Assitants after giving it a go as their own boss and failing.  

  2. At the risk of being called aggy and having the moral victory card thrown at me, I'm going to say I'm cool for how it turned out.  Especially after the shitshow back on Labor Day weekend against Maryland.  I recall I was pissed off as hell up in Fredricksburg watching the game and the wine samples at the different shops came in handy.   I though 4-7 might be a real possiblity and shit, things turned around begining with the USC game.    We came close to coming into this game with one loss at a miniumum  or none had we actually played to our potential against Maryland, WV and Okie Lite.   

    So here's hoping we get to a good bowl game and we play one of the SEC! SEC! SEC! bastard childern  like UGA or LSU and we come out with a chip on our shoulders and beat them and make all these goobers at aggy and on ESPN choke on their chilie.  Then we have a great recruiting class and spring and we come out mudhole La Tech in game one and do the same to LSU.

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  3. That shit wasn’t as bad as the shit show the Refs put on during the 2015 OSU game. But it was fucking close.

    I would just love to see one of our Coaches go ape shit on the quality of officiating during a post game press conference. I know each conference has rules about ripping the Refs, but someone needs to say fuck it and let it rip. Heck I’m sure whatever fine Tom had to pay could be “reimbursed” to him in salary or bonuses down the road. But fuck its the only way you can get these ass clowns at the league offices to answer for this shit.

    That goes for other fuck jobs in other conferences.m we’ve witnessed first hand and then even the commentators see it and call it. Remember, the guys calling today’s game are ESPN guys and their counterparts on the network spent all week pumping up OU for the playoffs.

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  4. No Herbie, he has a reputation of being a pussy



    The whole segment was just disgusting. Last minute of the deferment was oh btw, Sam did well too. No idiots. Sam played better than the spoiled Ewok. He looked like wuss in the press conference, Herbie. You don’t sit there a soak. You just say yes I screwed up and we play next week and be done with it.
  5. Why I decided to watch this circle jerk right now on my way out of the house is beyond me? It was a full blown Ohio State/OU love fest. Oh that are getting ready to go down on Kyler. Time to go poison the fire ants and make a quick trip to Dollar General. Screw Gameday.

  6. 2 minutes ago, Tired Horn said:

    Texas should have no complaints about Robinson. He did good by us in both his stints here.

    Yep.   I see above someone mentioned his age.

    IMO as with a number of professions, age doesn't matter.   In fact the college football world might benefit from the wisdom of the older folks.   I mean the Coach Bros (KK) can only take you so far.  Cool doesn't neccessarly translate to W's or long term success.  

  7. 28 minutes ago, horn4life said:

    I asume your kid will be living in Austin to go to school rather than living with you? I guess I would also want more specifics about what is drawing you northward.  Do you have family in San Antonio you feel you need to be close to? When you are you coming to Austin for Sports and entertainment, I assume you are staying in hotels for most of these events? If you were closer would the costs of hotels be offset by being closer to Austin proper?

    If it were me I would likely be looking at school districts and specific high schools, as my primary area of research.  If, and this might be a big IF, your son was willing to live with you then I might add the NW portion of Austin or even Cedar Park into the equation.  Westwood, Vista Ridge or McNeal as schools for your daughter.  There are still sub-$400K houses available the feeder areas. I also might suggest a sooner move, even though your daughter might dislike it.  Simply as I think as tough as Middle school is ( I call it the purest form of Darwinism) I think at least having a few friends coming into high school and the summer leading into high school might be a better option. Just my opinion though.

    San Marcos is a good middle and the town is starting to grow up. New Braunfels is one of the hotter markets as folks are tying to get a decent lifestyle and still commute into San Antonio. Ditto for Bulverde area. Dripping Springs checks a lot of the boxes if you perfer a more rural lifestyle.  Simply as the ability to shop and go to restaurants is still somewhat limited. Again I would be doing research on the quality of your daughter's high school as my primary source of narrowing choices!!!

    The reason I mentioned NW Austin is that it also checks a lot of your boxes and the access to Austin's light rail line offer some neat options of going downtown for entertainment and sporting events without needing to spring for a Hotel to really enjoy yourself? Now again I am biased as I went to the Continental Club Monday, The Domain area restaurant and bar hopping riday  Roaring Fork Saturday, and am going to head back downtown to Threadgills for what I think is their final weekend.  Now if you need access to SA or Corpus then south is the way to go.  But I Like NW Austin more and more as the Domain has brought a lot more compact partying opportunities at bars and restaurants as short dive or Uber away.

    Basically if you want to party in Austin and you don't have family needs to be out of Austin simply take the leap and go all in. 

     

    Thanks for your take on this.

    I don't know if my oldest  son will be living with us, but I'm going hedge he won't.  He's  the kind of kid who digs  downtown Austin , enjoys the  campus life,  and he'll be looking for a job at the same time.  And he will find a way to accomplish it which is a  lighter burden on my expense ledger as he's done through his undergrad years right now at UTSA.    Yes we have some family  and close friends in SA and the surrounding areas going towards Boerne, but it's not absolute  we must to be closer to SA for that reason.  But  my inlaws and other family members on her side will still be in the Corpus area.  And the inlaws are getting up in age and have no plans relocating.   My younger son who is graduating from High School in the spring might be going to UTSA, but he's not 100% sure on that.  

    I have thought about the NW part of Austin and the areas you noted.  My daughter is big into  music and the Cedar Park schools have some good band programs as well as the academic part of the equation.  And that light rail thing you note is a good thing and I had totally forgot about that angle.

    All good stuff to take into consideration.  

  8. It's been three or four years since I've been up in the  immediate Dripping Springs  area.   I like it and back then you could see the growth out there.    Has it really picked up since then?  We will have to make it a priority to explore if we go up to Austin in January or February.  

    I love Blanco.  That is an option for sure.    

    East of I-35, you just don't get the Hill Country feel as you do west of it for obvious reasons.   But as noted, you probably pay the price for it.  And that's OK because I hope this will be long term deal.  

     

     

     

  9. Fuck aggy and all, but we really need to setup another sweet Thanksgiving rivalry. 

    Maybe Notre Dame?

    (we can learn from their Independenceness) 

    I would rather schedule Arkansas. I always thought they were LSU’s thanksgiving weekend game? But i guess that changed when aggy joined? If other SEC schools can schedule non conference rival games on Thanksgiving weekend, they should let Arky do the same. I don’t think the rivalry with Arkansas was as intense as ours with OU sucks especially in more recent matchups. But it was pretty intense in the SWC days when conference was on the line in the 60’s and 70’s.

  10. 4 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    The reason why Texas State didn't get into CUSA is simple -- they have next to zero media market.  

    This is my 20th year here.  When I got here, the football games were broadcast on the campus radio station.  They eventually got them on a radio station in New Braunfels, but you couldn't get that station after dark in San Marcos, so they bailed on that, and went back to the campus radio.  And did nothing else.

    When we applied to CUSA, they asked, "What's your media market?"

    Our stooges said, "Oh, we're in the middle of Austin and San Antonio, the fastest growing metro area in the country!"

    CUSA replied, "OK, which radio stations in those markets broadcast your sporting events?  And please provide copies of all of the articles about your athletic program from the Statesman and the Express-News."

    And Trauth and Teis just shit their pants.  

    I think the football games are now on 1300 in Austin and a similar station in SA, but that's too little, too late.

    Good insight.  Sucks to the bone to be a fan or alum at SWT/ Texas State and see it go like this.  I was at A&I back when we played SWT and I recall some of our games were sell outs at San Marcos and electric.  

  11. 6 minutes ago, ButtFumble said:

    the whole "other Texas teams" is just bullshit fans will show up for wins not losses to "Texas rivals"

    north Texas state likes to push that "need to be with other Texas teams" bullshit and they pushed it for a decade while their best teams in decades were alone in the Sunbelt

    while some would say "well they are having their best teams evAR now in the CUSA with other Texas teams" you can also look at those other three Texas teams also in CUSA and see they all totally suck cocks so "playing with each other" is not really proving to be a great benefit to any of them and I am of the strong theory (proven by long term history of past and present G5 and P5 conferences) that too many teams in the same state in the same conference eventually drags all those teams down and makes it hard for them to have sustained success

    UTEP was much better off in the WAC, TCU powered into the BE then the Big 12 by avoiding SMU and UH like the plague

    UTSA had their best years in the WAC before moving to the CUSA

    I agree to some degree that Texas State COULD be having better success, but that is not just something that you get because you are a large school in a really beautiful college town with a shit load of hot girls and pretty decent facilities

    all of those things help, but when you have other programs starting up and moving up both D1-AA and D1-A and even lower level programs moving up all around you that is a lot of competition for coaches and even more so players

    I think long term if Texas State can get to a bowl game or two in a row they will have a much easier time sustaining that level of play in the Sunbelt Vs in CUSA

    Valid points.  I get much of it.  

    Of course UTEP and UTSA kind of had their hands forced to move thanks the WAC going to crap.  It's barley surviving right now and they are begging schools you never heard of  to come join  to preserve their auto bids for the NCAA tourneys.  

  12. Ok guys and gals.   We are thinking about moving from the Corpus area up to the Austin/ San Antonio area.  We spend alot of time in the Hill Country, San Antonio,  and Austin anyway, so why not make it permanent?     Fortunately my wife has a job right now  she can pretty much take anywhere with her as long as a high speed internet connection is available and I am currently seeking a similar job or at least one where I can home office and travel.   The move probably won't happen until 2020 so we can let our daughter finish 8th grade and start high school some where new.  Our oldest might be attending Grad School at McCombs by that time as well if he's accepted.   

    We want to be close enough to Austin for UT sports and entertainment, but not in Austin per se.   That's why the area between San Antonio and Austin seems ideal.    My wife seems to like San Marcos for some reason (probably the damn outlets) ,  but I am not completely sold on it.  I''m more along the lines of Dripping Springs, Wimberley or even closer to SA in Bullverde.  

    Criteria for home is somewhere in the 300k to 400k range.  Small school district is preferable (5A or below) , but not required.    So you all that live in the region, let me know the pros and cons 

  13. 2 minutes ago, ButtFumble said:

    the seat under Holgar is a lot hotter than most people think so getting out of there for probably a close to 100% raise and 3 or 4 years guaranteed seems like a no brainer for a guy that has been a career knock around coordinator

    it is not like their AD is all that involved, shit he did not even know the players names so he clearly is not sniffing around the program getting in the way

    and watching Texas State they had some talent (for their level of conference) they just seemed to always get on a roll and then shit the bed and it all fell apart.....that is a bit surprising considering their coach had success other places, but he was not a popular hire with a lot of the fans and a lot of the players were #TeamLittleDebbie and like Kevin Steele will tell you it only takes a couple of games of shitting the bed before it becomes infectious

    Withers started off doing some dumb shit on his own as well and that seemed to be a hurdle he could not get over

    the Sunbelt has Arkansas State, Louisiana and whichever GSU it is that have had some success on a pretty consistent basis, but after that if Texas state can get a few wins and get on a roll they should be able to finally get in a bowl game and then they will have something to really build on

    I  guess it's possible?  I still think they've greatly underperformed on the athletic fields/courts considering all the positives going on with the campus and San Marcos itself.

    One mistake on top of others I think they've made is the Sun Belt.  No other Texas teams which means ho hum conference scheduling.   IF they would have joined Conference USA, they  would of had UTSA down the road as a rival, UTEP and UNT.  

     

  14. 46 minutes ago, UTEX_ME said:

    Latest 247 projections have them against Michigan State (7-5) in the Outback Bowl. MSU that lost to Nebraska 6-9.. 

    Good gosh...  I hope that is wrong as many of these predictions turn out to be.  BUT, it would be great if it occurs, Sparty beats them.

    The spin would be glorious.  

  15. 3 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

    At this point there is nothing I want to see more than total chaos

    - Bama beats Georgia
    - Northwestern beats OSU
    - Pitt beats Clemson
    - Texas beats OU (because OUsux & fuckOU)
    - Utah beats Washington (not really relevant, but still)
    - UCF beats Memphis (because I'm not completely insane)

    Now tell me who goes to the playoffs

    1. Bama
    2. Notre Dame (as much as that make me puke)
    3. UCF (because why not)
    4. ??? (Georgia - fuck no way 2 SEC teams), Clemson (they just lost to PItt), Michy (they sucked donkey dicks in Columbus), OU (as noted above OUsux) .... so yeah, Clemson (and they'd be in at #3, so UCF would have to play Bama.

     

    I know that is all very, very unlikely - but a kid can dream, right?
     

    I don't think Pitt beats Clemson.... But the rest of it is on the table.  

    I think Ohio State will win, but it might be close.   I don't discount Northwestern pulling an upset.

    The sad fact remains the most overrated team in all this mess is Norte Dame who gets to sit back and watch everything unfold.  Those ass clowns should be made to join a conference if they want to dance.  No more loose alliances like they have with the ACC or whomever.  If everyone else has to win a conference and/or a conference championship game after the regular season is done, they shouldn't be exempt.  Regardless of record.

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