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  1. 43 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    If Burton's reporting is accurate, there is no reason why Tom Herman should still be employed.

     

    39 minutes ago, Caddox said:

    The only thing I can think of is theres recruiting help for the next guy if Herman stays through NSD1 and wins the bowl game. 

    Crystal Conte wrongly believes that keeping Herman on until they have their guy gives us the best chance for the future, particularly as it pertains to talent acquisition. All that would have happened had he been fired 2-8 weeks is the diehard committed would have stayed committed and most would have held off on signing on NSD1, waiting to see what UT ultimately did with the hire. Instead, we're going to have guys signing after a limp dick endorsement of the current HC. When we fire Herman, any of those guys can immediately transfer if they don't like the new guy. Texas gains nothing from the actions taken by CC recently. 

    19 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

    I've wondered if he promised the players, recruits, and staff that Tom would be back, without having the power to really promise that.  Dangerous game to play if you value your word.

    Nothing has been promised regarding Fuckface. 

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  2. 1 minute ago, taybo20 said:

    So Urban wants to wait for Fox and OSU to be done before he takes the Texas job? The fox thing makes no sense. If he cared enough about coaching he’d want to be at the school making moves, not on TV wasting time. And the OSU finishing thing is even stupider. So he values OSU more than Texas? Seems like a good thing for Texas. Maybe if they play OSU in the future he can just bend over for them. 

    None of it makes any sense. In fact, I don’t see much of anything associated to the Texas HC job/replacement making any sense. As such, you could tell me almost anything right now and I’d at least have to consider it. That appears to be the mood of this entire thread, as well. 

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    2 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

    I'd go all in for Urban or Eric Bieniemy, the OC for KC Chiefs.    It won't be long before the NFL makes Eric a HC, unless we got to him first.  However, about anyone or anything would be better than TH.

    I would rather watch another year of Herman turtling the program to 7-6 next season than seeing Eric Bieniemy announced as the HC. That dude is nothing but a product of the system he’s attached to with Reid. 

    2 hours ago, Octavian said:

    @closetojumping I think you mentioned that you heard that the push for Meyer was not 100% dead right? Or is it now the case that Meyer would need to be the one to come back and say he reconsidered as the administration/donors have moved on to other candidates?

    I wouldn’t be surprised by anything at this point. I’m guessing Texas makes one more run at him. 

    1 hour ago, Nicole44 said:

    Not a glamour shot. But this is senior year me. Y’all have already seen the current me in my avatar and the one from a few weeks ago with me at my ranch holding my dog. Just have shorter hair now and am older. 

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    You were one smoking hot lady. I missed the dog and ranch pictures. Usually the chicks posting on football boards are better about knowing the sport than looking good. 

    49 minutes ago, Errestaurants said:

    I’m not sure Nicole knows exactly what kind of pictures we are talking about. Not sure she looks around the “other” thread. Maybe we should introduce her to it. 

    I keep seeing you making references to your wife with other dudes and posting pics. Is this a South Austin thing? Or is there some kind of real meltdown happening somewhere that we can be pointed towards?

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  4. 12 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    Yeah, I heard mostly good stories about fan interactions. For the most part, he was an aloof Midwesterner, so his personality was far from any other coach Texas had hired, and he just never fit in.

    I recall his son posted occasionally on the old site. He was never overly-defensive about his dad.

    His son was a decent poster and the creator of one of the funniest fucking things I’ve ever followed on the Internet. 

    In fact, there was a point in this thread in which someone had a buddy at the Horseshoe Bay airport tracking a plane from Columbus. He snapped a photo of the passenger and sent it in and the poster posted it. It was a fucking Property Brother. When I saw that, I laughed out loud because it reminded of when, somehow, Louie Anderson entered the fucking Ponzi Scheme Involving Gold thread. Outstanding shit in both threads. 

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  5. There’s a lot of discussion about QuasiMullen on this Urban Meyer thread. Maybe that’s a dance that happens, but Jimmy Sexton is a fucking asshat and already showed his cards for Mullen by dropping his name to reporters when UT looking at options began to get covered. That indicates a lack of good faith and that a real move occurring would be unlikely. 

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  6. 21 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    I honestly think the biggest frustration fans have is with the university's pesky habit of placing academics ahead of athletics, to wit:

    "The mission of The University of Texas at Austin is to achieve excellence in the interrelated areas of undergraduate education, graduate education, research and public service."

     

    Your post implies that there’s some sort of either/or going on between athletics getting attention, focus and money versus the academic side and there isn’t. That’s a false choice. Further, I’m going to guess that the majority of university and college mission statements available to look up say roughly the same shit with perhaps some mixing religious shit in as well. 

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  7. 13 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    So many quotes from Bobby in that thread. Seems like he’s turned a new leaf and maybe because he’s not at 247 or the “main guy”. Makes great points on all fronts. 

    Can you guys paste them over here for those of us that don’t subscribe? 

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  8. 5 minutes ago, RGBIII said:

    Matt Campbell come on down!!

    We’ll see what happens, but if the actual powers that be get who they’re on, Matt Campbell isn’t in the picture. Not UT’s, at least.

    We’re a long ways off yet, so maybe they have to wind up going hard after MC and I’d be fine with that, too. 

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  9. 15 hours ago, Getafix said:

     

    "YUM! Bon appetit!"

    - Closetojumping

    I stand up for savory kolaches and the millions who call them that and now I’m a processed food loving rube? That hurts, sir. 

    I’m actually making beef bourguignon for dinner tonight using Julia Child’s recipe, but using brisket. Trust me, look it up, it’s ridiculously good. 

    14 hours ago, pops said:

    I'm protective of you for fucks sake. Burnt eyes scares me

    He’s the thirstiest motherfucker on this thread, that is for damned sure. The DMs he’s sending @troph and @Nicole44 are probably terrifying and might need to be sent to the authorities. 

     

    13 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

    Lulz. Every time I see your avatar, I think of the movie Ruthless People. Underrated film. At any rate, my dad is in one of the last sequences of that film. Wearing a UT baseball cap. Right where Bette Midler''s character is arguing with Danny DeVito's on the pier and kicks him off. My dad went for a walk to see the ocean. this guy (who was an extra in the film with spiked blue hair) says,, "Dude you can't be over here. We are filming a movie." My dad says, "Fuck you. I came to see the ocean. I am from Texas. Fuck you." Guy relents. So in the top right corner of the scene, there is this guy with a white t-shirt and white UT cap just leaning over the pier.

    I love the story. @IDIOTsavant ‘s avatar always makes me think of “Other People’s Money”. Devito gives one of the greatest speeches ever put on film in that movie and it never gets much play because of how well Michael Douglas covered the same subject matter as Gordon Gekko. 

    23 minutes ago, lemonandaturd said:

    Hell or High Water 

    If there is such a thing as a modern day western, this movie fits it to a T. The interaction between Pine and Bridges at the end is greatness and the speech Chris Pine’s character gives as to why he did what he did is pretty much how I’ve viewed climbing out of the gutter my entire conscious life. 

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  10. 45 minutes ago, RGBIII said:

    Found it, absolutely hilarious. This was a poster on that Star Crunch cooter Ketch’s site

     

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    Hahahahahahahha. I missed this, whenever it came out. What the fuck is this? Who wrote it?

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  11. 24 minutes ago, TexasGolf said:

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    Allegedly warehime clogged the toilet a the little's house during an inhome visit.  older little confirmed that did not happen and that warehime was weird along with everyone herman brought into their house.  th asked about their hardwood floors - 'what type of floors are these" kind of question...probably nervous since he was on the job less than a week.  th started to walk up their stairs and littles mom redirected him. 

    That’s not what was said. I would know, I told the story on the recruiting board on Shaggy that took on the life of its own that’s led to the apocryphal nature of it now being “Warehime clogged up the shitter at the Little’s household.” 

    The original post can be found by some intrepid bastard willing to dive back into Shaggy and pull it up. It’s been years. 

    In any event, what happened is on par with your story and was corroborated, wait for it, by the Littles, to numerous people covering Little’s recruitment at the time. Warehime showed up, in winter, sweating and needing to use the restroom. They thought, as any of us would have thought, that he simply needed to piss. Indeed no. He was back there for like 15-20 minutes to the point that it became awkward and obvious. Then he had multiple flushes to get it all down. 

    If Little’s dad doesn’t remember that part, it’s probably an insignificant thing for a guy that hosted 100 visitors in that period, but for us, it should remain hilarious and you’re welcome. 

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  12. 2 minutes ago, Ricky Butler said:

    So much conflicting info out there. It's weird that Urban would be "concerned about his legacy," but then go to a really challenging place to win it all. I think our fan base has a low self-esteem, so we latch onto rumors that suggest we're undesirable.

    Low self-esteem? Indeed not, sir. I was told yesterday or the day before on this board that I was exhibiting "textbook Texas arrogance" for having the audacity to say that ISU honks were living in fantasyland for thinking that Matt Campbell was going to be their ISU Bill Snyder.

    1 minute ago, reneg_2 said:

    He’s reached out to to some BMDs. A few of the ones that were salivating for him when he was at Houston. Not sure if anything came of it. 

    Herman has no advocates left. I've never a person so quickly and thoroughly damage every single avenue of support like he has at Texas. No one is defending him for another year.

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  13. One thing to think about regarding "Urban Meyer is waiting for the ND job" is that it's not even close to an ideal situation for the guy. They don't pay well, they have high academic hurdles that impairs recruiting, they don't throw money at assistants and don't pay for a ton of support staff either. It's also not a slam dunk that they'd be willing to pursue Urban Meyer, either. If Meyer is truly holding out for some other place, I sincerely doubt ND fits the bill.  If Kelly bolts, Matt Campbell has already notified ND that he's got dibs on the job, so it's probably moot anyway.

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  14. Regarding another name and the end of the playoffs, anything could happen with a bunch of teams, and therefore whoever the people are they’re pursuing, ahead of the end of the playoffs. Depends on who gets in and wins, right?

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  15. 2 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    ah, got it.  That's the same thing I've heard. He's gone, and has already been informed he's gone. But I could easily see a public show of support before Wednesday.

    I don’t think he’s been informed of anything, though. In fact, he for sure believes he’s coming back and doesn’t understand why all the “Internet trolling” is being allowed to go on without a response from CDC, so he’s pushing for it. This guy is not going to handle his termination well and that’s an active administrative fear. I don’t think we’re hearing the same thing on this one.

    There’s a growing belief that UM hasn’t publicly addressed anything whatsoever because watching Tom Herman twist in the wind is worth it to him. He blames the guy for ruining his tenure at OSU. 

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