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Posts posted by closetojumping
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26 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:
LOL - Cory Robinson was at Rutgers as well.
Cory Robinson:
2019-pres.: Defensive Passing Game Coordinator/DB’s, Maryland
2018: Cornerbacks/Passing Game Coordinator, Rutgers
2017: Cornerbacks, Temple
2016: Cornerbacks, Toledo
2015: Director of Player Personnel, Maryland
2014: Assistant Head Coach/Defensive Coordinator, St. Frances Academy HS (Md.)
2009-13: Director of Football Operations/Recruiting Coordinator/Asst. Varsity Coach, Calvery Hall College HSThe Valai guy has no business being mentioned as a candidate by anyone, and Ash should be fired immediately if the guy even gets an interview. This Robinson guy does not look any more impressive. What the fuck is going on here? The fucking $9.95ers need to be just making this shit up. Either one of these guys would be absolutely terrible hires, akin to the hires originally brought in, and would be indictments on the holistic competence of Herman and his lieutenant. Sweet fuck.
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2 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:
Buyout ended up being $6M according to reports.
So, as usual, no one knew a fucking thing about his buyout. "Top 5 buyout in CFB" my fucking ass.
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8 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
Finley might be a fine coach, and an OK recruiter (although aTm boards certainly bitched at his ineptitude), but the point was that I don't think anyone was crowing about taking Missouri's TE coach, who's first on field coaching role was at Missouri two years prior to being hired by aTm. Even if he performed fine there (he had talent to work with there as well). My point was that it wasn't exactly a slam-dunk, big splash, go get the best of the best at the position hire.
So who would that hire be this year, if not Brewster? I honestly don't know. Curious what anyone else thinks. It's certainly looking a lot more likely that Bilbo Aggins gets his guy than our fuckwit who apparently needs 3-4 weeks per role before being able to pull the trigger on someone. I assume we'll have a TE coach announced around the spring game.
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8 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:
If you want a good comparison go look at the '14 transition class under Strong. In a much bigger class, Foreman and Ford were the only recruits that ended up being really good players. Beck and Nelson were alright.
This is the problem with transition classes. Such a high miss rate. Producing 3 to 5 contributors in a transition class is "good for a transition class" but it still puts you behind from an overall talent perspective.
It's not so much the hit rate as it is the volume. Basically, both matter. Texas "hit" on Ehlinger, Gary Johnson, Kerstetter, Cosmi, Cade Brewer, Graham, Estell, Boyce, Thompson, Young, and Bimage. All of those guys have started, and many for full seasons, at Texas. Now, was the talent depleted from the transition with the prior regime? Sure. Does that mean some of these guys would not be starters for a loaded Texas? Sure. But overall, for what the program had to have, the talent was in the class to handle itself on the field well enough to win.
Where it really hurts is in the fact that the class is overall just really small, so no depth was built through this class. That's a problem when the program had abnormally high attrition from the 2016 class under Strong, plus Herman and his merry band of fucktards doing whatever they could to drive out as many of the guys from the prior regime as they could, as quickly as they could.
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Of course Herman is doing his best to fuck this up. What a fucking dipshit. It's a good thing Texas couldn't use another CB.
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3 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
I dont think anyone here would be surprised to find out aTm hired a TE coach for 800k or even a million tomorrow. But I would think that's the kind of move it would take to get Brewster back to college station.
The funny part here is, as much as we've mocked Herman (and rightly so) for his hatred of going outside his buddy circle...and as much as aggy sites have put forth the notion no one will work for Herman...ole' Jimbo certainly seems to have some similar hiring issues. His first replacement for Brewster was underwhelming, and no instead of using his Sitting National Championship Corch Cache, his move seems to be throw whatever money it takes to get Brewster back. You'd think a professional of his alleged caliber would have coaches clamoring to replace Finley and work with Jimbo, and you'd think Fisher would be able to conduct a professional, thorough search to find a great assistant replacement as opposed to just going back to Brewster. And yet here we sit.
I think Finley was a damned good replacement for Brewster. Brewster is about as good as it gets at recruiting, so there's a fall-off there, but it's hard to argue that the TE role didn't progress well at ATM this season, which I'd have expected under Brewster as well.
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Christ. Fucking Huckleberry. You knew exactly what you were doing.
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32 minutes ago, Ravishing Rick said:
Doesn't matter. Got Bijan
You know what a great prescription for squandering away skill player talent on an offense is? Having a fucking terrible offensive line. I'd prefer to have Bijan, a stable of other backs and WRs, a loaded QB room, and a bunch of fucking maulers on the OL, personally. That's where all Texas fans should have their heads as well.
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48 minutes ago, Vertigo said:
They are about 3 for 30 all time coaching hires. They just happen to be on a two hire win streak with Teaff being the other historically good coach for their program. I wouldn't exactly call them a beacon of light on the hiring front.
Yeah, I agree with this versus the concept that Baylor has some sort of proprietary process for hiring the right guy. Hiring HCs is tough and few schools can do it in a way that creates long term continuity and breeds success. Ohio State is basically the only example, and I'll argue there pretty much had to be one that got lucky, versus saying they've got a process. Alabama had a walk in the wilderness. OU. Texas multiple times. Michigan. Tennessee. USC multiple times. Notre Dame. Nebraska for the last 15 years. Georgia. LSU. Certainly Baylor isn't immune. Hopefully they're due.
19 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:So murder means disband and rape means no penalty. You're being a buffoon about this.
Why would the university be shut down by murder and not what was essentially a rape syndicate?
Can you shut the fuck up with this guy, Huck? You'll never get through the barrier and you're in danger of causing another 4-5 walls of text being fired onto this otherwise fine thread.
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3 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:
You are correct. LSU fans were pretty upset when we landed him, as I recall. But our odious combo of $9.95's, local paper and UT PR machine sure seem to create a lot of false expectations.
Oh, I wouldn't say the expectations were false. I think it's more of a case that the foundations in which the expectations were established was false.
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Just now, closetohumping said:
Beating the fuck out of Texas is impressive? We were 7-5. Now if you’re reason for propping him up is to pile on about Herman sucking, great we get it. You hate Herman. Let’s not act like beating the likes of tech and KSU gets you ribbons.
closetohumping will continue to avoid the actual meat of the subject matter after attempting to take a position that has the potential to make him look like a fucking idiot. He'll then deflect and redirect in the discussion when called on it because he's dickless and can't handle being asked to actually own his position. The ol'red herring special. No one said shit about Tom Herman, much like you haven't said shit to defend your premise that Rhule is an overrated coach that won't win at Carolina.
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5 minutes ago, closetohumping said:
Was it Iowa st? In what game did you say “holy shit this guy is good?” Tcu? Tech? K state? Don’t say us. We suck.
You're either purposefully obtuse or an imbecile. Don't care which. You can't refute anything of merit, so you harp on the weak schedule point and attempt to maintain that no singular thing the guy did this year was impressive, so therefore, and without having the balls to say it explicitly, you're offering up that he's an overrated coach who really isn't very good. Beating the fuck out of Texas was impressive, irrespective of your claims to the contrary. Running the schedule over, even with some help against Tech, until playing OU was impressive. You can subjectively whine otherwise, so you will.
The body of work cannot be argued as being unimpressive, so you'll passive aggressively sidle up and attempt to pull at a seam somewhere. Then if he fails at Carolina and is ousted, you get to claim that you had it the whole way. That's your MO and it's both boring and tedious.
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Man, I know it will look different down the line, but right now, OL looks frightening heading into the 2021 season. Add in breaking in a new QB and ... that's grim. Herman better win big in 2020, and he should, and then we'll be praying to get to 10 wins somehow in 2021 even if that happens.
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Just now, Fud said:
If you're a top recruit with options, you likely have the leverage unless you're committed to Bama, LSU, Georgia, or Ohio State, so there's not much reason to sign early, or even at all other than risking getting injured in a car accident or tearing your acl while working out. If you're not a top recruit, then you're risking the school replacing your spot.
It's also a psychological beating for the players and families unless they really, really love the coverage. Not signing on SD1 pretty much means being inundated with new activity from the $9.95ers, other recruits, and numerous staffs.
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4 minutes ago, closetohumping said:
What was his best win this year?
That's all you've got? How about beating every team he was supposed to beat and blowing out Texas to boot? I'd like to see a coach at Texas take care of every game he's supposed to win at some point. That would be nice.
Temple won 10 games once before Rhule. He won 10 games there, twice. He beat ranked teams for the first time since the late 90's. He kicked Penn State in the nuts while coaching at Temple, blew them out, and made Temple a national CFB talking point for the first time since the Big East attempted to kick them out of the conference for consistent poor performance in football.
He took a Baylor program in shambles with less than 60 players on scholarship, where the recruits were being freed from LOI constraints due to the problems, and ended up going 10-3 in his 3rd season, playing in a second bowl in a row. The fucking Baylor fans are crushed today that this guy is gone. What does that tell you? Texas fans here are openly gleeful about his exit. This wasn't smoke and mirrors, dude.
Like I wrote previously, taking some sort of position where what you've seen from Rhule doesn't impress you, doesn't make you smarter than everybody else. It simply shows the rest of us that your future takes regarding the game of football are to be easily ignored.
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6 minutes ago, hpslugga said:
It's certainly not a thought without merit. His dad worked for the Second Mile, and I'd have to think that others who also did certainly knew something was up. It's not impossible to believe Matt didn't know anything, but it's damned difficult.
I didn't know that. Yeah, now I'm feeling just fine dinging the guy for his Paterno/PSU defense at the time.
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1 minute ago, closetohumping said:
I’m not sure he’s the messiah everyone thinks he is
No one is calling him a fucking messiah. If you want to lay it out here and walk us through why you don't think he's a damned good coach, go ahead and fucking post some reasons. A few of you guys have done drive-bys on threads when he comes up with the "Well, he lost to OU and Georgia". No shit his 2 and 3 star no-name recruits weren't able to run over two highly talented teams with impunity? Is that it? Or is there something else you saw that you can lay out for us?
No one knows how the guy will do in the pros. Disputing that what he did at Baylor and, frankly, Temple, was anything short of phenomenal is putting idiocy on the board for display.
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Also, take a look at Kirby Smart's staff moves. People are frequently willing to move laterally away from him at Georgia. He's not Saban. That's not a great sign for a mercenary program. You want continuity with the organization in order to maintain consistency with the head cases and free agents being signed each year.
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Just now, LTtxfan said:
Arky Staff Complete...
2020 Staff
NAME TITLE PREVIOUS STOP ANNUAL SALARY Sam Pittman Head Coach Georgia – OL $3 million – 5 years OFFENSE Kendal Briles Offensive Coordinator Florida State – OC $1 million Brad Davis Offensive Line Missouri – OL $550k Justin Stepp Wide Receivers Arkansas – WRS $400k Jon Cooper Tight Ends UCF – TES $300k Jimmy Smith Running Backs Georgia State – RB $225k DEFENSE Barry Odom Defensive Coordinator Missouri – Head Coach $1.2 million Rion Rhoades Linebackers Hutchinson CC (JC – KS) – HC $225k Derrick LeBlanc Defensive Line Kentucky – DL $450k Scott Fountain Special Teams Coordinator Georgia – STC $450k Sam Carter Corners Missouri – Defensive QC $225k SUPPORT Pat Doherty DFO Georgia – Offensive QC $150k STRENGTH Jamil Walker Head Strength and Conditioning Georgia – Associate S&C Ed Ellis Assistant S&C Coach Georgia – Senior Associate Director of S&C Outside of Briles, who has his limitations in value in Texas, I don't see any significant ties to Texas high schools on this staff. They continue to look south and east, and I am all for it.
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9 minutes ago, Dennis Taylor said:
honestly based on all I've seen and heard about the guy, the only thing didn't like about him was that he was Baylor's coach and making them better. so i wish him well. and fuck baylor
If I remember correctly, he was an apologist for Joe Paterno and the entire Penn State complex during the Sandusky scandal. I'm sure it was a rock and a hard place thing for a lot of those guys, honestly. You've got personal devotions and loyalties and then you've got institutionalized child rape and cover-up that come out of nowhere and you're asked immediately what you believe and why you believe it. In hindsight, the first few months of that shit must have been brutal for everyone, but I'm sorry, if you're going to defend Paterno, you either have to walk it back later or you're in cahoots. I don't know, maybe he wasn't one of those guys, but I certainly thought he was.
I'll say this, I thought he would bust badly at Baylor. He didn't. He turned out to be a legitimately terrific coach who developed players within his program. I hope he finds success in the NFL and never returns to any school that Texas is playing.
Now, what random coach does Baylor hire out of nowhere who then suddenly works miracles for that shithole? I'd like to see them go another run like they did with Chuck Reedy/Dave Roberts/Kevin Steele/Guy Morriss. Give me some more of that sweet action.
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11 minutes ago, TheMailBox357 said:
Images aren’t showing on my phone. What’s being said?
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15 minutes ago, UncleBuck said:
Not saying it's nothing to get butthurt over, but I'd like to think coaches, especially by gawd SEC coaches out there in a conference that plays the recruiting game like no other, aren't going to let that be the "YOU KNOW WHAT, FUCK IT! FUCK THIS GUY!"
5 minutes ago, Fud said:Given all the trouble they likely had to go through to get him paid/or promise to be paid, it might be a "fuck this guy" situation
You can't allow someone to change the standard for how business is conducted. If money is paid, the hand is played. Word gets out that: "if you're good enough, you can fuck over any school you want" or "Georgia can be taken for a ride" and suddenly the school(s) has lost all control of the process.
Georgia is as fucked up and corrupt in the recruiting game right now as anyone except, apparently, ATM and probably soon to be Ole Miss (again), but they can't take a semi-public depantsing from a recruit and their faction, no matter how good the recruit may be. In this situation, putting Zack Evans' head on a spike and parading it around for all of the agents and handlers to see serves as a good cautionary tale with corrupt recruitments going forward.
I expect a Maurice Clarrett-level career arc for Evans. ATM will find a way to get him in. He'll be celebrated by the ignorant non-recruiting CFB media as a recruiting coup for ol'Jimbo and a sure-fire sign that "the sleeping giant has awoken!!!! root toot!! hullabaloo caneck caneck!!! yackety sax!!". They'll do what they can to feed him the rock in 2020 and if he stays healthy, he'll have a great season for an 11-2 team. Everyone will keep telling him how amazing he is until gloriously fucks something up in the offseason through his arrogance and penchant for doing whatever the fuck he wants, irrespective of consequences. He'll then eventually wind up fringing NFL rosters before winding up on a porch in Galena Park or prison. The whole way through all of that, there will be occasional sympathy stories from your Tom Rinaldi types that pop up every year or two.
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The premise that Washington would be brought back at this point also seems preposterous.
Replacing 7 assistants is ... not a good look. Still, this was a terrible fucking staff that fuckface assembled to start with, and maybe this works out. Sun doesn't shine on the same dog's ass every decade, but maybe things will go our way for the next 10 years. I'm quite sure it won't, but I'll trade cynicism in for hope until these other assistant hires get fucked.
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The premise that 9 wins is some unattainable, unlikely number is absurd. Beyond that, no, 9 wins doesn't save Herman's job anyway. Texas needs to win the conference and be in the playoff picture next season. Short of that and Herman's probably out. Frankly, I think if Texas isn't 11-2 heading into a bowl/CFP or better, they're more likely to have fallen apart and have a 6--6/7-5 record than some middling 9-3.
People clearly haven't taken a good look at everything returning for various teams yet, but Texas is bringing back a lot. We lose 2 OLs, 3 WRs (2 that we care about), Brandon Jones, Roach, and McCullough. We return 16 starters plus both kickers. A ton of defensive players got experience this fall, even if it was in a terribly structured situation with Orlando. If Texas receives even competent coaching, we should win 11 games before the bowl/CFP.
LSU loses a comparable amount, plus Burrow and whoever declares early (Delpit, Chaisson, Jefferson, are all possibilities) and I'm interested to see if they retain Brady or not.
OU loses its 2 best offensive weapons and its 3 best defensive players. They'll be really good, but this should always be a great game.
Baylor loses 11 guys not including early entries or Brewer retiring. KSU basically loses their entire offense. TCU loses a ton on both sides. WVU and KU are pretty far away from being a legitimate threat if UT actually shows up and gives a shit. Tech is meh as usual.
Basically, Iowa State and Oklahoma State both return a ton of talent. Couple those two games with OU and LSU and its a 4 game season. If that's not the case and Texas lays an egg or two in the other games, Herman's flatly gone.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2020
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Who the fuck is rushing things? The Tech game was like 6 weeks ago. It is imperative that guys get in and start contributing. That should have already happened. Here you are again, offering up some benefit of the doubt to The Hermanitard when none is merited. It's in the middle of recruiting season. Fucking lock the staff in. Fucking get to work with the staff.
This isn't some scenario where someone is being really smart and selective. They have 5 openings remaining and almost a full staff overhaul. Let's fucking go.