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  1. 1 minute ago, Randolph Duke said:

    People may believe they are entitled to spend their money as they wish, but insisting UT athletics do something against its long term interests because some lucky sperm club alumni wants to spend his money on hiring a human piece of shit to coach UT football isn't an absolute right.

    Goalposts successfully moved into uncontested territory.

    2 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

    The cancerous alumni who will ignore the defaulted debt and ignore the back pay owed to employees to insist their personal whims be granted are a cancer on the UT athletics program.

    I mean, I would say you are a cancer on the UT athletics program, if your words were actually listened to.  Opinions vary.

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  2. Just now, Randolph Duke said:

    Do all the mental gymnastics you want to justify your belief that being unable to make debt payments or pay employees means nothing. Like I said, there is a cancer.

    The next financial reports don't get filed until Jan 15. I am looking forward to seeing them. The latest athlete head headcount I have seen is 556. With the cuts on Sept 1, employee headcount is probably down to about 450. (EIA report)

    It is insane to not be able to pay debt service or make payroll, yet insist "money is no object" and refusing to contribute to help keep the lights on because "operations need to be streamlined."

    UT athletics has a cancer on it. It is the BMDs and alumni who don't first make sure the bills are paid. Ethically, we owe it to the debt holders, and we owe it to the employees who haven't been paid their full salaries.

    It is far more embarrassing that UT athletics can't pay its bills than losing to any football team.

    No.  Ridiculous.  By the same token, you could say it is "insane" to donate to athletics instead of academics.  Clearly until all academic departments are at ideal funding levels, any money that is diverted to athletics is "cancer".  Ethically, we owe it to the world to spend all our money on research that can improve lives.

    People are entitled to their opinion of how their money can best be spent, and to donate it with strings attached.  You may disagree with their opinion, but to call them "cancer" for their choice of donation target is moronic and self-defeating.

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  3. 2 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

    We can't pay our debt service. We can't pay our employees their full pay.

    How are those not the highest priorities of any functioning business?

    And yet, when we literally can't pay our bills, people want to declare "money is no object."

    Can you see where my "cancer on the program" comment comes from? The BMDs don't care about UT athletics being on the verge of default on our debt of the fact that hundreds of employees are being deprived of their pay to help keep the lights on> To their narrow, self-centered minds, the "money is no object" attitude has to prevail.

    No.

    This entire episode is proving just how dysfunctional UT athletics is.

    And people wonder why a completely dysfunctional program acts dysfunctionally.

    If any "BMD" doesn't care enough to help the athletics program make its debt payments or pay the employees, to Hell with them.

    I like I said above (in a post which you ignored), a BMD may care deeply about the program's future, but think that the department needs to be streamlined.  I think they have a point.  (Still the only department in the entire country with two ADs, last time I checked!)  To Hell with you, not them.

  4. 2 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

    If the donors aren't willing to donate to help support the people who operate the program, we can't assume those donors care in the least about the program.

    That's BS.  All you have to do is simultaneously hold the following two opinions, which are not in conflict:

    1. The athletic department is bloated and inefficient.  It could stand to lose a lot of dead weight.  Fiscal profligacy should not be encouraged/facilitated by donations.
    2. Top-tier coaching is important, and in competition for top-tier coaching talent, money talks.  Success on the football field is the lifeblood of the entire athletic enterprise.

    Then it makes perfect sense to want to donate for a buyout, but not day-to-day operations.  Even for donors who care about the program.

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    Back to fat shaming again...

    I mean, at the end of the day, she did a shitty job:  A big part of the job of a pop star is maintaining your physical appearance.

    It's like if a football coach has a great offense but a shitty defense.  Damn right I'm going to "shame" him for it.

    WTF is this loser culture that seems to be enveloping our society, where did it come from?

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  6. 15 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    Beyond embarrassing to me. I have said I am fed up. I am. This is why I am on this thread and getting more pissed about the state of our Program in general. 
     

    I need some music. 
    I always thought Nancy Wilson was so badass. She was respected by her male peers for her badassness. 
     

     

    She had a great band and song writers.  She and her sister were cute.  The world was her oyster.  Then she, regrettably, became a huge fatass.

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  7. OL recruiting disaster ⇒ overall recruiting disaster

    You could line up Joe Montana back there, and it wouldn't matter.  If your OL sucks, your team sucks.

    We will get worse before we get better.

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  8. 1 hour ago, victory88 said:

    Alright last pic.  This is just for the Clemson football players to hang around and have fun.  Someone had mentioned previously that Charlie Strong had to jump through hurdles to get ping pong tables for the team a few years back.

     

    clemson-football-outdoor-village.jpg

    This may be a stupid question, but how is this allowed?  Isn't (or wasn't) there a principle that athletes shouldn't receive benefits that aren't available to the student body at large?  Even if there's an exact duplicate of this that the rest of Clemson's 25,000 students can use, that's hardly equal to sharing the same facility with 100 guys and their girlfriends.

  9. Tom Herman:  Look motherfucker, all this rumor-mongering about Urban Meyer is destroying our recruiting class.  If you actually want me to be able to do my job, you need to stop the bleeding.

    CDC (to Tom Herman): I'll take care of it.

    CDC (to intern): Write me a press release that could be interpreted by naïve people (e.g. high school athletes) or stupid/lazy fuckers (e.g. FCB) as supporting Tom Herman, but doesn't make me a liar if any of these coaching options for next year end up panning out.

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  10. 11 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

    For those thinking he still might be fired please tell me why the statement was released at all. The speculation has been going on for weeks, we’ve lost some of our best recruits and he never said peep. Why this afternoon?

    Could be a simple CYA move, to distance himself from Herman.  Let people know that he isn't satisfied with Herman's performance.  Still trying to get a replacement behind the scenes, but hedging in case he can't get it done.

  11. 16 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:


    But there’s no conspiracy theories. The statement makes absolutely no mention of the future.

    CDC very obviously wanted to issue a statement that could tide everyone over through early signing day, but would leave him enough wiggle room to make a change before the season. I don’t think he anticipated the “TOM HERMAN WILL ABSOLUTELY RETURN IN 2021” headlines from his hollow statement, and that’s where we currently are at the moment.

    If we pull a big fish in the near future, this will be forgotten. If CDC is actually planning to bring Herman back, then he needs to be fired immediately for incompetence in the issuance of this statement.

    How do you explain away this quote from the article?

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    Del Conte later confirmed in a phone call with the American-Statesman that his statement means Herman will be UT's coach in 2021. A second UT source confirmed this as well. Herman could not be reached for comment.

    Maybe this is some Bill Clinton-style BS; technically Herman could be fired January 2 and it'd be true.

  12. 1 hour ago, CockadoodleHorn said:

    Time to make a ridiculous offer to Urban Meyer.  Texas can't go with an up and comer or unknown.  Either Urban or we are done.  Need a big name at this time to turn this shit show around.  Coaches leave Texas and start winning at other locations.  We don't have time to jack around on another project.

    Time to make him an offer he can't refuse.  Let's balance those health issues on one side of ledger with some more severe health issues on the other.

  13. 17 hours ago, Orange&White said:

    There’s no way that Texas underperforms vs their built in advantages more than the aggies.

    im not saying Texas is good. I’m just saying that we’re not #1 in that regard.

    By what metric?  Let's be real.  Looking at end-of-year rankings vs. pre-season rankings, Texas is the #1 underperformer, bar none.  Similarly for recruiting rankings vs. NFL draft rankings.

    And WTF, faggy is your measuring stick?  GTFO.

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  14. 17 hours ago, Kyle said:

    Honest question and not trying to melt any snowflakes ... it feels like for the past 40 years football on the 40 Acres has underperformed given its tradition, financial resources, and natural advantages. Legendary program, great city, richest athletic department, finest facilities, and the flagship university in the nation's most football crazy state. Does't it feel like we should be in contention for a national championship every year? Take ousux ... yeah it does ... but every one of us would swap the past 40-year on-the field performance with those assclowns.

    I bang my head against the wall constantly trying to glean why we are not better year in and year out. Is it no cheating? Academic expectations? It is not like we have Jerry Jones running the show.

    The answer is right there in your question:  That little word "should".  All of those factors that you mentioned are nice, but they don't entitle you to a top-tier program.  Maybe if we didn't sell the program to prospective coaches and recruits as "hey look at all our advantages -- come here, and you're on easy street", maybe we would be getting a different kind of coaches/recruits.

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  15. 1 hour ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    I'm not offended by the reality that within conferences, there's a power structure  and that in the Big 12 Texas is a power broker and ISU isn't.  And that we would have no sure soft landing if the Big 12 explodes.  You'd have to be an idiot to believe otherwise.

    But god damn, does the "YOU'D BE IN THE MAC" shit get old.  During Realignment Armageddon, the Des Moines media and Iowa fans were just jerking themselves raw to the thought that ISU might get relegated, but conveniently ignored the reality that if the Big 10 were falling apart, Iowa wouldn't be some massive prize either.  We fill a 60K seat stadium regularly.  We're AAU.  We're not a mid major in any sense.  Do we drive conference revenue?  Fuck no.  But we aren't fucking Bowling Green either.

    People who disrespect ISU and others are stupid assholes.  College football is a cooperative enterprise.  It's not just Texas generating revenue out of thin air and magnanimously sharing it.  Without our opponents (a.k.a. business partners) we don't have a program.

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  16. 3 minutes ago, MoJames said:

    NCAA Football 08 Dynasty Mode Spotlight - GameSpot

    Advantage                                Disadvantage
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    Cushy facilities (recruiting boon)       Cushy facilities (entitlement culture)

     

  17. 4 minutes ago, BERT said:

    Of course I’d care. But if CDC does all he can besides holding a gun to Meyer’s head, then you can’t really be pissed at CDC. All you can say is CDC did everything he could to try and get the best coach available. 

    Some of you have a real hard time believing that some people just might not want to come here. It sucks but that seems to be the case here. 

    Every single advantage that people cite making Texas a great job can also be viewed as a disadvantage:

    Advantage                    Disadvantage
    --------------------         --------------------
    Austin = fun                 Austin = distracting
    Rich BMDs                    Meddling BMDs
    History/tradition            Expectations/entitlement
    Huge salary                  Expectations
    Passionate fanbase           Demanding fanbase
    LHN exposure                 LHN demands on coaches' time
    Huge in-state talent pool    Huge competition for in-state talent
    Media limelight              Media scrutiny

    Did I forget anything?

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