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Tired Horn

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  1. As I have said many times, and it is still true: Jerry wants the Cowboys to win and be great more than anyone. It's just that he'll choose not doing that if anyone but him can take any credit for it. That's why Jason has lasted so long. Jerry wants to win with his puppet to refute an obvious truth--Jimmy Johnson had more to do with the initial success of the Jones era than Jerry did.
  2. Well, in all fairness, with Jerry still at the helm, we're probably doomed for another decade in the desert no matter what.
  3. Geez. I guess we can file this under "Threads to Slit Your Wrists By." If you need an intervention, let us know.
  4. Any game with the Redskins this year should be relatively unwatchable.
  5. Yep. Considering that only 16% of our seasons since the SWC was formed in 1914 have seen only 1 loss or zero, you'd think we could have a little more sense of perspective. I'm as disappointed as anyone by our performance since The Fall of the House of Mack way back in 2010, but life goes on.
  6. That's unfair to the Titanic. The Titanic was doing fine until it hit that iceberg. Charlie was never doing fine. If we're looking for naval analogies to him, we need to find some ship that sunk at its launching.
  7. I've watched Texas football for a long time now, including multiple periods that were not fun at all to watch, and it's not just the same thing over and over. There are specific internal and external circumstances, coupled with individual coaching strengths and weaknesses, that explain the fate of each regime. That makes us pretty much like anyone else. I know it's irritating to see Oklahoma have success on a continual basis, but the simple truth is that Stoops was, on average, a better coach than Mack. That's why Lincoln Riley also inherited a better setup. Herman has got the job now. His fate has yet to be written. Maybe he'll right the ship and make us a contender again. Maybe he'll plateau at 8-9 wins and end up eventually fired. There's no way to know yet. It's fair to point out things you'd like to see, such as some movement on the defensive front. But it's Herman's job. He'll make the decisions and succeed or fail accordingly. No one says "don't watch," but you always need to find some aspect of watching that makes the inevitable ebb and flow of life tolerable. Good luck.
  8. I was bored, so I looked up the play-by-play sequences on ESPN. Discounting last seconds of a half, it looks like our opponents have had ~ 48 drives that didn't score and ~ 36 that did. The Kansas performance was second to worst at 5 and 8. The worst was LSU at 3 and 8.
  9. Well, I know it happened because I've seen it. Not so much in the Kansas game, though.
  10. That seems overwrought. If Herman does indeed plateau or even drop off, and recruiting follows suit, I doubt we'll be talking about him six years from now. Just relax and see how this entire season goes.
  11. That's pretty good. But we do have to take into account that he's done something no mere mortal can--purchased season tickets. Surely no one else on this board has ever done such a thing.
  12. Good for you. Then you shouldn't need to waste your time here sniveling so bitterly about UT football. Have the courage of your convictions.
  13. The facts say that. Going from 16-21 to 22-12 is upward movement. Some historically problematic aspects of the depth chart have been improved. If, God forbid, Herman should be plowed under by a UT shuttle bus crossing the street tomorrow, the verdict would be that he left us better than he found us. What Herman has yet to demonstrate is that he can make us as good as we want to be. And, yeah, the Kansas game was a depressing win. But again, Herman is going to be here for at least a few more years. Deal with it.
  14. What's so surprising about that? 1984 happens to coincide with the start of Akers' down turn, which we spent almost a decade recovering from. Then Mack, for all his wins, just didn't win conference championships--he either lost to OU or blew a couple of winnable games after beating OU. Mack's down turn began in 2010, he couldn't do the rebuild and left a crappy depth chart in key areas. Follow that with "Three Years of the Charlie," after which the depth chart still isn't fixed. Now you want to knee jerk fire the guy who's gone 22-12 rebuilding and is having some success restoring depth. Cuz' 22-12 after three years of 16-21 is an obviously bad decision. Yeah, "We're Texas.'" It's just that nobody but us gives a shit. We're not simply entitled to the kind of success other teams have earned. We have to earn it, too, and that starts with digging out of the hole we've been in for years. Herman is doing that. He's not flawless, and he may not be the guy who gets us back to the next level, but he's going to be here for a few more years at least, so you might as well hope for the best.
  15. I think you're either stubbornly doubling down on a failed position, or just getting a bit hysterical. Nobody has said our two deep is filled out in all areas to where we want it. It's a work in progress still trying to recover from some bad decisions spread out over many years. But a reasonable person doesn't lose it over the fact of two injuries in a class and two transfers. And its insane to think one class is the answer to getting us back to the next level. That is, again, a multi-year process. Our defense isn't good right now. We still, however, have a winning record. We are an underdog to TCU. That doesn't, however, mean we will lose. Herman is a work in progress who may or may not be a long term answer. But Rome wasn't built in a day, and you should probably develop a hobby besides wetting your pants on the internet because some freshman transferred.
  16. Wow. Looking like epic self-destruction on the part of the fucking Eagles. Hope the Cowboys continue to cash in.
  17. Except for the part where they managed to win. Definitely an ugly win, but our overall record at this point beats anything Charlie ever did.
  18. Actually, he hadn't finished in the top 10 at LSU in any of his last four years. He'd peaked there and gone a little down hill. which is why there was sufficient discontent to dispense with him. He's definitely a good coach, but hardly flawless.
  19. Yeah, so? Charlie had a much worse win-loss record at Texas than Herman. So, however nonplussed we are at the Kansas game, we aren't going to start pining for the good old days of Charlie.
  20. Lots of people bought into Strong when he came. A 16-21 record after three seasons, however, doesn't leave much in the way of buy-in.
  21. A moral victory is when you lose close. This was an actual victory, however unsatisfying the box score may look.
  22. Geez. His actual record is far better than Strong's. We don't know if Herman is the guy to get us back where we want to be. But you can't fire a guy with his record in Year 3. So buckle up and hope for the best.
  23. Well, I suppose that's an accomplishment. Of sorts. Something for Jaason to put on his resume, which hopefully he will be polishing up soon enough.
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