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Tired Horn

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  1. Very true. Another big point is that this staff seems to do player development. Our guys get better from year to year and over the course of the season.
  2. Nice to see stuff like that again. It's been a while.
  3. I'm glad as hell he picked us for his PG transfer.
  4. Thanks are indeed due. Texas football finally feels relevant again, and they should be proud. I had a late-breaking chance to be at the game, and it was glorious. Can't say enough about this team and what they did this year.
  5. I'm all for Georgia players skipping the Sugar Bowl.
  6. Obviously we haven't turned the corner to becoming a top notch program yet, but I'm just hoping for the best in the future. If you simply must take shots at the current staff in order to build up a departed one, feel free to appease your own needs. But don't expect anyone to take you seriously, as either an informed critic or someone honestly cheering the current program.
  7. That doesn't address the issue raised. Charlie had zero OL recruits for 2017 at the time of his firing. Yes, he tried to haul in guys in December, but there was no chance in hell that was going to work again after his third straight losing season. That's one of the big reasons Charlie had to go--his ability to recruit at the level needed was over. Keep Charlie for another year and the OL would have been a shit storm in both 2017 and 2018. But by all means continue to make snide insinuations about Herman's efforts on the OL. How else are you going to get that Charlie Strong Mythological Society medal? And again, people don't hate Charlie. They've just lost patience with endless adoring odes to a failed coach that invariably seem to include gratuitous shots at the guy trying to fix things now.
  8. I certainly don't hate Charlie. I just reject the idea that Charlie significantly upgraded the overall talent level at UT in his time here, or that "the mix was in the pan." Charlie left us a roster pretty much as unbalanced as the one Mack left, a few better players in some areas, a few worse in others. Certainly nothing to write home about after three years. It was at best on par with the kind of roster stocking that Mack was ultimately fired for. And the Charlie "late recruiting rush" wouldn't have worker at all if we'd kept him that last year. He simply didn't have a record capable of pulling that off anymore. Sadly, Charlie's going down in UT history as a placeholder who didn't get it done.
  9. Charlie didn't leave us a windfall. The mix wasn't in the pan, either. Yes, Charlie was decent recruiter for a couple of years. He did get some players, but not enough to have a stable foundation, particularly when he didn't even have a stable vision of how to use his players. And trying to blame current depth issues on Herman having a transition class is just being a weasel. If Charlie had stayed, that class would have looked no better in the best case scenario, and likely would have looked worse since every recruit worth having could see that Charlie was a dead man walking. We get it--you're obsessed with the idea that Charlie isn't getting credit for leaving Herman a loaded roster. Unfortunately, he doesn't get credit for that because he didn't do it. He left Herman a little better roster than Mack left him. That's it.
  10. I'm okay with him cleaning the toilets at either.
  11. That is true. Charlie's time at Louisville looked decent on his resume, mainly because of the Sugar Bowl win over Florida. If you looked closely at the details, there were certainly questions that could come to mind. Unfortunately, it was the job of the AD to ask those questions, and at that time we had that psycho, money-grubbing, loser from hell, esteemed "sports executive" Patterson. The man who didn't just fail to meet our standards. He doesn't even meet the standards of the Arizona fucking Coyotes. Hope that bastard winds up working the counter of a Taco Bell someday.
  12. WTF MaybeACoordinator? Everybody knows Mack left a problematic depth chart. Everyone knows Charlie had a rebuild on his hands. But even understanding that, he didn't succeed, in no small part because he made bad assistant hires. I'm all for giving a coach time, but when you can't manage a single 7 win season in three tears, and cap that off with a loss to a historically bad Kansas team, the jig is up. Let it go.
  13. That's the thing--not a single winning season. And I'm not talking 10 or 11 win seasons here. I'm talking one lousy seven win season. If you can't manage that at a major school in three years, being fired is fairly on the table.
  14. That was downright Freedom Bowl-esque.
  15. Geez. Let's see... At Texas he runs off a lot of players in Year One. Then he dumps his offensive coordinator one game into Year Two. Then he dumps his defensive coordinator a few games into Year Three. Now he's embracing chaos in Year Two at USF. It's not the be all and end all, but there is some value to a little stability in a program. Hard to escape the conclusion at this point that high drama Charlie just doesn't have a stable vision of the program he wants to build.
  16. Hope for a full recovery. Hell, even a little reduced capability Frederick would still be pretty good.
  17. Any actual news to that effect? Schlereth came back from it.
  18. Yeah, we're pretty much locked in as the fourth seed. There's no way we lose both of our last two games. We should beat Tampa and make it official next week. As far as the playoffs go, it's possible for a team to make a run like the Giants did twice, but it's not very likely with us. The offense just isn't consistent enough for several reason that have been adequately covered. The best case scenario is winning the Wild Card game then dumping out at LA or New Orleans. That should buy Jason another five years.
  19. We're still far and away the favorite to take the division. No tough games left, a lead over a Redskins team with pathetic quarterbacking, and we own the tiebreaker against the Eagles. I know, I know... Yes, it's the Jerry Cowboys. But this is almost impossible to blow.
  20. No they are bad. Chicago was playing with Chase Daniel. Washington was with Josh fucking Johnson, a guy who hadn't played in 5 years. Sanchez before him. Color me unimpressed with those wins. Same here. The Giants are a little better than they were at the start of the year, but they're still bad.
  21. The most damning thing I can say about Craig James is that he makes me more appreciative of Ted Cruz. The only thing I wish for James is that he somehow be forced to become a towel boy for Washington St.
  22. At the peak of his career, Aikman was certainly better than Dak right now. That's an unfair comparison, however, since we don't know what Dak's peak will wind up being.
  23. Well, it's a given at this point that Dak is going to get a big contract, so let's just hope for the best. I just want us to overtake Chicago for that #3 slot so we get to play the suckiest wild card. Watch a nice beat down and pretend its 1992 all over again.
  24. Sadly, Shaka seems to be reaching the point where the fans are giving up and descending into apathy. It's going to get ugly if he can't somehow prove us all wrong and this goes on for another couple years.
  25. The Redskins are cooked with Colt hurt, too. So beat the Eagles and the division is pretty much ours. Seems like a simple assignment.
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