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TheFlyingBoat

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  1. Sure, but the issue isn't the entire offense, it's particular. The offensive line blows chunks. If we fix the offensive line and are still seeing the offense randomly sputter out when it shouldn't then I would agree with you. Like I said a billion times I don't love Herman. His meddling does introduce issues. With that all being said, most of the solutions are cutting off our nose to spite our face. Like seriously some of the Plan 3.5 names or whatever the fuck these dumbass shit for brains 9.95ers are calling their idiotic suggestions are just terrible. I don't want shitty retreads that would be our version of Charlie Weiss. I don't want G5 coaches with less success than Herman when he came here. If we can get a coach that either had recent success in the NFL or P5 or had a better resume at the G5 level than Herman or Strong did when they got here, sign me the fuck up. If we can't, let's not shoot ourselves in the dick to prove that we know Herman has a big ego.
  2. So would I. Like I said, if we can get Campbell, I would happily write up Herman's pink slip myself. But I am not going lower than Campbell to replace Herman this year.
  3. Standing up from a neutral table and randomly selecting from a pool of likely low true count tables is idiocy. Herman has severe issues but seems to be an elite game planner given his success in bowls including about Georgia (and don't give me the aggy talking points of them not wanting to be there. You don't try to score that hard down three possessions in the 4th if you don't want to be there), capable offensive mind, but poor at personnel decisions (which seems to reverberate into discord across the program) and prone to going overly conservative late in games. To me the biggest issues I see is Herb Hand, which Auburn and Penn State fans warned us about and possibly the WR room. Sam was clearly injured most of the season and that showed in play which was unfortunate but that is no excuse for some of the poor WR play we saw. Herb Hand's OL play is just atrocious. For whatever reason we can't seem to hit there and it is beyond me. If we can find an elite coach, I am happy to kick Herman to the curb and move on since I think the cupboard is very well stacked for an elite coach to come in and win a conference championship and go from there. I am not a loyalist to Herman by any means. But this over reactionary position causes us to miss the forest for the trees. We finally have good defensive line play, not just from stars, but on the whole. We look like we potentially have a great LB in Overshown. DB play has improved. The staff is finally balanced in terms of coaches one each side of the ball. We finally have a good defensive staff for the first time under Herman meaning the staff issue there is at least temporarily solved mitigating one of the worst issues of Herman imo. On the offensive side of the ball I wouldn't miss a single coach if they left, but with that being said, with the exception of Hand I am not sure any are terrible either and it is entirely possible that most issues are largely due to the OL sucking donkey balls. I think if we fire Hand and get someone reasonably decent there is no reason we can't win a conference title next year. Casey Thompson seems more than capable and Bijan is the truth. The defense is stout and should improve with another year under Ash. I would still be carefully watching for a replacement for Herman, with that all being said, but I am not sure right now there is a name that we can get (assuming we can't get Urban, Kelly, or Campbell) that gives me any reason to believe would be better. Tl;dr Herman sucks, but you overestimate how much he sucks, everyone beyond the three listed suck more, and with our current staff should still be able to win despite all deficiencies discussed provided we fire Hand.
  4. I've said this before and I'll say it again, firing the dude just to fire him would be a terrible decision, which is why we will do it. If we can't get Urban, or pull Kelly from ND, or Campbell from ISU then we should hop off the carousel and wait a year.
  5. We definitely have the best comic and gif game with thujone and the recruiting board.
  6. I'm interested.
  7. Time to pump it up to 50k. And after that why not 100k? Stonks only go up.
  8. Thujone you goddamn legend.
  9. Is it time to say the words "President-elect Joe Biden" yet?
  10. No crazy president causing individual stocks to go down with a random tweet? No crazy president sending the entire market down with tweets? And a senate to block any tax hikes on themselves? Wall Street must be orgasming right now. Can't think of a combo that would make them happier than Moderate Dem Prez + Republican Senate.
  11. If you're going to talk shit at least get your numbers right. They had it at +8 not double digits. They were wrong and they should not have been as wrong as they were but they weren't as wrong as some people in this thread are trying to argue they were.
  12. You're speaking very confidently considering that of the remaining ballots we can reasonably expect them to break 60-40 Biden. In Michigan and Pennsylvania we can likely expect it to break 66-33. In Georgia, we're basically just waiting on Atlanta. Expect the score to run up a little more in Biden's favor in the meantime. Wisconsin has already flipped.
  13. Learning to do it yourself is priceless. There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Mastercard?
  14. Yeah this moronic coach-speak, trite, cliche, nonsense is fucking stupid. "Not tolerating mediocrity" isn't an action plan for success nor is it what has made OU so successful. Getting the right coaching hire is a combination of luck, proper research, and timing/circumstances, some of which may beyond any individual's or team's control. Now we've managed to fuck up the proper research bit, our circumstances that we do control we've fucked completely due to terrible athletics leadership from 2009-2018 (jury's still out on CDC), and there's only so much luck can do at that point. That being said it's important to consider the fact that flukes of history completely change the perception of reality. Imagine how different we'd consider our respective histories of Akers turned one or two one loss seasons into a undefeated season. He was tantalizingly close a bunch of times. If you played each of those losses which were the only loss in the season how many of those losses would turn out to be Longhorn wins in a majority of a hundred trials? What if Big Game Bob pulled his Big Game Bobbiness in his only title? How many coaches in both team's histories should have been obvious successes but turned into abject failures? Schnellenberger seemed like an obvious success given how he took Miami from an almost canceled program to a title. He resigned in a year. That's an obvious example but if you look through the history of most teams you'll find inexplicable failures and successes. Shit is fucked, but you completely misunderstand the issues we're facing if you think not "not tolerating mediocrity" is the issue and is what separates OU from us. What causes OU's success is so much more complicated than that and what causes our current failures is also more complex than that.
  15. Imagine being scared about the uniform being candied up and freaking out about here only to find out they un-candied it up and have us the best uniform we've had in 50 years. Clean whites now and hopefully clean burnt oranges (please get the color right) soon. Yes, please. Hook 'em 🤘🏽
  16. LeVeon Bell released
  17. If you can't tell the problem is our line and not our RB room (besides Ingram fumbling) you should really learn football.
  18. This is why you always use draft day value for keepers. If someone drops in value relative value and would be overpriced JUST DON'T KEEP THEM. Problem fucking solved. A system that lets you get Saquon Barkley for $6 after people drafted him for $68 or whatever it may be is fucking dumb for such obvious reasons.The point is to give value to prescient drafting and acquisitions.
  19. I hope you listened
  20. Have you ever considered they're full of shit here and repeating coach speak cliches doesn't make them smart? I actually think they occasionally have good takes but this is just inaccurate.
  21. Yay?
  22. Jerrod Heard could have been great if he had Herman coaching him imo. Instead he had Shawn Watson tell him what to do freshman year?
  23. Very, but on the plus side we have held them to nothing on the ground.
  24. Eh being impartial you don't ever see any player with clear control at any point on review. It looks like the one UTEP guy catches it out of the air, but you then see him lose the ball and the other UTEP guy seems to get it but you can't tell for sure. In the end Liebrock has it. All that can be said for sure.
  25. Stupid fumble but love the physicality of Liebrock
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