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  1. 28 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

    This is either going to be amazing or absolutely terrible. There is no in between. 

    Well there's David McWilliams and John Mackovic.  He's not necessarily going to be as bad as Charlie Strong.  But there's no reason to think he will be as successful as Fred Akers, Mack Brown or Tom Hermann.  Absolutely no reason.

  2. 1 hour ago, Ron Swanson said:

    Given the way he plays, I think Sam has definitely been playing with some sort of injury a lot of the time.  It probably has affected his passing (depending on the particular injury).  But why would Tom press him to play given what we saw Casey do last night and what Herman has said they see Casey do consistently in practice?

    Ehrlinger and Herman have talked about him being banged up.  They were thankful for that off week.  It was clear late last season and most of this season he didn't have the "pop" he had earlier.  He runs a lot and takes a lot of hard hits.  He gets banged up in the season.

    Even if he is the 12th QB in the draft, he should take the money and run.  He has the body for the pros, but it only can take so many hits.  He ought to get paid for it.

  3. 2 hours ago, 6th Street said:

    Got it. I thought that was another game they were referring to with the "are we gonna take our foot off the pedal" comment, and "let the coaches coach" retort.

    Either way, I'm sure some words were exchanged. I personally like the punching wall or locker theory. 

    They were definitely talking about another time, not tonight.

  4. 3 hours ago, jeevsie said:

    Fuck it - ending the year with a win is a good feeling.  Good vibes going into the offseason and I can walk into this aggy-infested office with a smile on my face today. Maybe we've got something with Thompson.

    Hook 'Em and thank you, Sam!

    And laugh when Mack Brown whips aggy again.

  5. 13 hours ago, gmr548 said:

    Ehlinger ran off the field ASAP at halftime and Thompson is in. Wonder if there’s something going on there. Or if Thompson was always the plan for H2.

    I noticed that.  It was odd for Sam.  Looking at the replay, he was shaking his shoulder a couple of minutes into the 2nd quarter after a tackle.  Wasn't a hard tackle, but people were on top of him.

  6. 10 hours ago, USNALonghorn said:

    That was an impressive win against one of his limpdick former assistants. However, as long as Clemson and Florida State (LOL) are still in the ACC, Mack Brown will have a very hard time sniffing as much as a conference title.

    Bobby Bowden, Bob Stoops, Dabo Sweeney.  Always has someone a lot better than him.

  7. 5 minutes ago, Loather said:

    Oh, ok I guess were not too far apart, I was pretty sick of Mack by the time he left, but with his NC and his current success maybe he needed a little more time - all i am saying

    And Charlie Strong was an PC hire, It's been acknowledged by the man who made the decision

     

     

     

    Nah.  Mack needed a change of scenery.  He's still capable.  He just wasn't hungry here anymore.

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  8. 4 minutes ago, PassiveAggressiveCoach said:

    What are you talking about. You had a bad take. Doesn't mean you have to be silenced. Mack absolutely should've been fired. He was mailing it in and left the program in horrid shape. It took several recruiting classes to reverse it. 

    Not saying anything about your Mack comment.  He had become complacent.  But it was Strong whose recruiting left things in horrid shape for Hermann.

  9. 2 minutes ago, Horn80 said:

    Yep in 70s, stadium was open and stop by after classes to check out different seating views for game day.  Much simpler times then.

    I ran on the track a lot.  There were almost always pickup football games going on.

    The only thing controversial was the girl who would run topless on the track.  Never happened to be there when she was.

  10. 17 minutes ago, PassiveAggressiveCoach said:

    I can confirm this story. That road trip was awesome even though we lost. We had like 8 guys in 1 2 double bed shit hole motel room.  Mackovic needed to go when he did but he did cause some damage when he was here and he could develop offensive talent. 

    I remember some Texas fan after the game in the quarter saying, "Man, they need to learn to act like they've won a bowl game before."

    But it was still standing in Jackson Square at midnight NYE with 10,000 of your closest friends who you had never met before.

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  11. 27 minutes ago, Steelers Roll Left said:

    I remember doing the same thing during freshman orientation in ‘94. I remember being surprised that you could practically walk right up to the coach’s office, or walk onto the field at DKR from the south end zone on non-game days.  Guessing that kind of access has long since evaporated (the field access definitely went bye bye long ago).  

    Stadium was open 24 hours a day when I was in school in the 70s.  For that matter, so was the state Capitol.  I remember going and running around the Capitol around midnight during freshman orientation.

    Now, even a lot of the local high school stadiums are locked up.

     

  12. 2 hours ago, Somnio said:

    Just wanna barge in to say the Big XII is a shitty ass conference, and Texas should've gotten the fuck out a decade ago.  Pac, Big, SEC, Independent, Prestige Worldwide, whatever.

    Read Hurtlocker's articles before you mention the Putrid Athletic Conference.  They even have worse officials than the Big 12.

  13. 2 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

    this rushing defense feels familiar

    Its nice that Diaz is doing it to Miami instead of to us.  He hasn't learned anything since he left Texas.  And Mack remembers Manny's defenses very well.

    All time record for 2 RBs, 544 yards.  Carter 24 for 308, Williams 23 for 236.  Overall 55 for 554 yards rushing.

  14. On 12/9/2020 at 9:38 AM, Steelers Roll Left said:

    Just throwing thoughts I've had on the subject off and on over the years:

    (1) Coaching: Definitely a candidate.  Dating back to Mack Brown, player development hasn't followed excellent recruiting and it's shown in the results.  

    (2) The Conference: Let's face it, the Big XII is not on par with The SEC, Big Ten, and at times not even the ACC.  This is proven on the field as our conference champion (usually Oklahoma) never emerges as the National Champion which consistently comes from these other (3) conferences and often in convincing fashion vs our conference champion.  

    (3) The Quality of Texas high school talent: Urban Meyer himself commented on this one earlier this year, dismissing the notion based on his Ohio State recruiting and having success with Texas talent.  Urban pointed to a lack of player development at programs like Texas.  Maybe he's right.  But it is suspect when the vast majority of Big XII programs recruits Texas talent and end up with similar results.  The gap in Big XII talent and the SEC is noticeably massive in annual NFL draft results by conference especially along the offensive and defensive lines in the early round.  If pressed for an answer, I'd speculate the truth on the Texas high school talent debate is somewhere between Urban Meyer's assessment and the counterpoint.  Spread football has taken over the Texas high school game and has to this day proved inferior without the injection of physicality you more commonly see in the southeast and midwest.  

    (4) The Country Club: This phrase was coined during the Mack years and is a way of contrasting the Texas player college football experience with say that of Bear Bryant's Junction Boys. If you've already reached the mountain top in your own mind and are enjoying the fruits and accolades of the summit, are you really motivated to develop and be the best you can be.  Hoe much does winning really matter to your average Texas 4-star/5-star athlete vs the passed over 3-stars that end up in programs with less tradition and prestige?  Seems like moving on from Mack Brown should have solved this problem, but the problem seemingly still pervades despite stories of Pat Moorer's "Pit" and Herman's "Practice for your breakfast" early on in the Strong and Herman tenures.  One way of solving this problem is leadership in each position group-- in other words, when the coaches aren't around, leaders on the team keep it together for them.  

    (5) The Grass is no longer "Greener": Texas does have a major advantage in resources, but in an environment where coaches can still earn multi-million salaries at programs of lower prestige and more importantly, lower expectations, is there really an incentive to take a job like Texas over a mid-tier power 5 or even non-Power 5 conference job?

    I could probably drone on, but I'll stop there for now.  

    Can't disagree with 1) and 4).  There's a point to 3)  Texas doesn't produce a lot of great linemen.  But produces plenty of QBs and receivers.  Alabama and Georgia and other SEC schools are just fine recruiting Texas HS QBs. Maybe we need to cast a wider net in recruiting linemen.  As for 5), anybody who is really great would LOVE to come to Texas.  Its on anybody's top 5 jobs.  I think it was DKR who said he didn't want players who chose Texas because they thought they could get playing time.  He wanted players who expected to earn the right to play.  Great coaches will want to come to Texas.

    2) however, is total bs.  Big 12 is 2nd in the computer ratings most years.  And it has beaten the SEC in a couple of years.   It is almost always better than the Big 2, little 12, especially since Michigan has been part of the little 12.  That Clemson is better than OU simply means that Clemson is better than OU, not that the other 13 are any good.

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