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  1. 1 hour ago, longhornmatt said:

    I like the current times when our worries are, "But what if our nose guard is only a 320 pound NFL prospect and not a 360 pound Outland Trophy winner?  We might only be ranked preseason number 2 in the country instead of preseason number 1 if this isn't fixed immediately!"

    Versus a few years ago:

    "Look, all we need to have happen this offseason is for Swoopes to get a lot better at QB, Shawn Watson to completely change his offensive scheme and get a lot better at OC, a few of our lightly recruited 3 star true freshmen come in ready to start on the OL, Dylan Haines needs to surprise some people at safety, Breckyn Hager needs to gain 30 pounds of muscle, stop having games where we lose because 3 kicks get blocked, stop having games we lose because we mess up the coin toss and give the other team the ball both halves, stop losing games because we punt to the other team when we don't have enough timeouts to stop the clock, hire an assistant to be the "gameday" coach so Charlie Strong can focus on other things, maybe hire an actual athletic director this year instead of trying year 3 of an alum doing it on an interim fill-in basis like when one of the other parents has to cover a little league game, try to complete all assistant hires this year without requiring the President of the University to fly to some nobody from Tulsa's house and beg him at his front door to work for us, figure out how to replace the 10 guys we kicked off the team for weed, ... and figure out how to feature our playmakers, like Jake Oliver and Kyle Porter."

    This was a decade ago, not a few years, we are officially at the 10 year anniversary of Chuckles becoming head coach at Texas.

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  2. Texas desperately needs an unofficial spokesman for when national media talks about Texas.  It seems that a lot of other major programs have some sort of front running media for athletics, Eleven Warriors, Mgoblog, Texags, etc. Why Texas instead has to suffer dealing with dumb asses or actively malicious actors like Kirk Bolhs and the AAS always pisses me off. Bobby would make a great Texas spokes person when Finebaum or Pate and any other national media want to talk Texas 

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  3. 15 minutes ago, Yesh said:

    On a recent OTF video Bob Shipley spent several minutes singing the praises of Oscar Giles, saying that he is a grinder and a great recruiter.

     

    I'm starting to get worried.

    Bob Shipley is just conversation filler so that Bobby isn’t ranting to himself. Whenever they bring Shipley on he always talks in these almost message board platitudes, frankly even given his ties to the program he seems to shave an equal amount of information as surly does. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, Duane Moore said:

    Just give yourself another 15-20 years. You’ll be telling your kids about how great SnapChat was, explaining to them the concept of cable TV before streaming, or how Austin still had a small city vibe when you were on campus but now at 5 million people you don’t recognize it anymore. It’s coming. 

    I am 30 and I just had to explain the Guitar Hero episode of South Park to a high schooler. 

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  5. 26 minutes ago, BlackCat said:

    How has Sark's sponsor not filed a restraining order against Orgeron to prevent them from ever being in a room together again? Supposedly those two were animals when they got around each other. 

    Orgeron doesn’t drink anymore, he apparently replaced drinking with working out which is why he has gotten absolutely jacked.

  6. 1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:

    Why is Alabama such a highly sought-after job? Well, besides having a roster full of top talent, most of which will probably stay, it's a program where the school gives the head coach complete and total control. Nick Saban did anything and everything he wanted to do,with no interference.

    Texas is not setup that way. It's a school with a lot of people who want to interfere.  This input is straight from the people inside Belmont. Texas is a great job, but you do have to deal with that issue. Sometimes that can be annoying.

    Obviously, there are a ton of advantages to being at Texas over Bama that have already been listed in this thread.

    People need to separate Bama and Saban, Bama was an unstable shit show for a decade before Saban got there. 

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  7. 42 minutes ago, RollingPresidential said:

    Didn't Wasserman write like two years ago that A&M was a better job than Texas?

    Wasserman dick rides whoever is a top 5 program, it’s literally his whole shtick. Two years ago A&M as at the peak of their fake it till you make and Texas was at our lowest point, so that’s why Wasserman wrote that article. The board gets extremely Texags about Wasserman being some A&M plant because of his wife. When in reality the dude is just a massive bandwagonner, he was the only one at the Athletic to jump on the Texas bandwagon this year when everyone else as national writers just kept saying seven win Sark and underperforming Texas.

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  8. 56 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    No one on our defense is getting exposed in the SEC.  Playing defense in the Big 12 is a hell of a lot harder than playing defense in the SEC.

    This is an out of date take, the Big 12 doesn’t have the same caliber of offenses it did a decade ago, if anything the SEC is more an offense league now than the Big 12. 

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  9. 28 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    People can either dismiss what I typed and assume I am a know-nothing dipshit, or they can assume I know what I'm talking about and wouldn't post what I posted unless I had a pretty good source on it. Either way is fine by me, but I'm not going further into the subject. Davis going to Bama would be somewhat mindblowing.

    Davis going to LSU wouldn't surprise me in the least and he'd have zero problems getting through compliance there, or SEC approvals, should those actually be a thing.

    I am not doubting your intel, I just didn’t know if it was a Bama specific issue with Davis or an SEC head office decision and he was being grandfathered in when Texas joins the SEC. But if he can leave Texas for LSU then that answers my question.

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  10. 22 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    There are substantial problems associated with Davis returning to Bama. Saban would have to be really desperate to cash in the chips needed for that. Not saying it couldn't happen, just saying it would be kind of amazing.

    I am assuming this is an SEC thing and not a Bama issue because unless their is some legal issue I have a hard time seeing Saban being told no to an assistant hire.

  11. 1 minute ago, ousux said:

    Just watched Kyle Floods N'awlins presser. He's very well spoken and carries himself like a head corch. Is there any program shitcanning their HC that would be interested? I'd like to keep him, he's recruited very well and for the first time in what seems like forever the O-line isnt an Achilles heel.

    I know losing coaches is a good thing because that means you're having success, but I think continuity among the staff played a big role in how this season turned out as well. Hope Choate is the only loss but something tells me he won't be.

    Flood had one of the biggest head coaching disasters ever at Rutgers. He would have to drop down to the G5 level for a head coaching position and work his way up again which he more than likely could have done by now if he wanted to.

  12. 1 hour ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    It actually happens quite a bit. 

    Matter of fact, Willie Simmons (head coach of Florida A&M) is probably going to be the next RB coach at Duke. Mainly because of his connection to Diaz. Saban has done this a few times too. 

     

    Florida A&M is a FCS school in the SWAC which is the lowest level of D1 football. Going from FCS to FBS is a promotion, that is not even remotely the same as going from P4 coordinator to P4 position coach.

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  13. 15 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    IT

    Inside Texas has heard only one name to replace Jeff Choate as Texas linebackers coach. That doesn't mean there aren't more coaches under consideration, or that this coach is a lock for the position, but we do believe Arizona defensive coordinator Johnny Nansen is Steve Sarkisian's first choice to replace Choate. 

    Of note: 

    - Nansen has worked under Sark at Washington and USC
    - Nansen played linebacker in college but has coached multiple positions in his career
    - He has been very successful in his short time as a DC at Arizona
    - He has a very strong reputation as a recruiter, particularly out West where Texas would love to strength its recruiting grip
    - Nansen was born in Samoa and lived in American Samoa before moving to America as a teenager

    Potential hurdles? 

    - He's currently the DC and play caller at Arizona. Would he take a demotion even if it came with a significant pay raise? He currently makes $750,000 but would surely enter the million dollar club on Texas' staff. There's always the potential Arizona would re-up to a satisfactory level
    - What's his best route to becoming a head coach, assuming that's his goal? That could be a pro or con for Texas' chances. Time with Sark to better understand how to navigate the current climate would be seen as a pro 

    One thing's for sure, Nansen and Sark are close. Sark elevated Nansen from coaching obscurity when Nansen was at Idaho. Because of his ability to recruit, Sark made sure to find roles for Nansen on his staff.

    With Texas going to the SEC and Arizona sentenced to the Big 12, that would be another reason for Nansen to seriously consider the move.

    We'll have much more on this if circumstances warrant. Our info points to Nansen being the top candidate on the board to replace Jeff Choate.

    100% bullshit, Nahlin just googled former Sark assistants found the biggest name and ran with it. Nansen is the DC at a power 4 school that is currently one of the hottest teams in the country. He is absolutely not going to take a demotion for a pay raise, that’s a step back in his career.

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  14. 1 hour ago, FartingMonk said:

    You sir are an idiot

     

    no u./s  I am not the expert like y’all but I was always lead to believe that pressure hull failures at depth were extremely violent and instantaneous and both Thresher and Scorpion sank in deep water. In comparison to Kursk which sank in shallow waters and thus the crew that weren’t killed in the explosion survived for hours before they either burned to death or suffocated when their oxygen candles started a fire.

  15. 5 minutes ago, squeegeedegg said:

    The possibility of ending up like the guys on USS Thresher or Scorpion is enough to say no thanks 

    Those guys died quick merciful deaths at crush depth, the poor Russian bastards on the Kursk is the fate that submariners fear.

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  16. 12 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

    The ASVAB didn't really have much complicated math or physics, which is why I did so well. I imagine I would have gotten washed out in A or B and would have landed in the "needs of the navy" scrapyard.

    CHIEF

    Yeah, the work load at nuke school is supposedly pretty brutal but at the same time they don’t subject them to your typical school navy crap those guys are stressed enough.

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  17. 12 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

    It wouldn't have been a bad job. But I'm a tad bit claustrophobic, something my old man brought up. I always wonder what I would be doing now. How much different would my life be.

    CHIEF

    You could be making bank with absolute job security working in a civilian plant. I didn’t do the nuke program because if you don’t pass A or B school you get thrown into the “needs of the navy”

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  18. 13 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

    I was sick of school after my sophomore year of college, so I hit up the local navy recruiter. Scored 100 on the ASVAB, and shit blew up. Got offered a $30k signing bonus to go to nuke school. My old man talked me off the ledge. He told me "you realize that you will be stuffed into the reactor room of a ship or sub for the next twenty years, don't you?" Stupid me was wondering how he could be so sure. He followed up with, "what runs on nuclear power other than those two items?" Wasn't the only time his logical thinking bailed me out.

    CHIEF

    The nukes are untouchable so it does have its perks, they avoid the majority of the navy’s bullshit.

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