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  1. 4 minutes ago, 1bigtx said:

    Texas fans used to boo when a black quarterback was trotted out on the field.  I don't think it stopped until Vince.  

    As for Earl, his character is well known and I firmly believe he meant what he said but his meaning is different than what is being interpreted.  He views Darrell Royal and Bum Phillips, both white, as father figures.  Personally, I believe there is nothing to see here.

    We booed James brown because he was black?

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  2. I have an offer from a guy:

     

    I would receive 

    AP/ Hopkins   

     

    I'd give up 

    Conner/Freeman

     

    My current running backs are Connar, Carson, Freeman, Singletary

    Current receivers Edelman, Adams, Boyd, Chris Samuel, Desean Jackson, 

     

    My receiver core would be awesome (adams, hopkins, edelman) but it would leave me with Carson and AP/Singletary at rb.  Im leaning towards taking it.

  3. 2 hours ago, DixonHur said:

    Actually, he had a tougher OOC schedule than any of the coaches since.

    Mack I OOC games: 1.66 Top 25 teams per year (Regular Season)

    1992 - #21 Miss. St., #9 Syracuse, and North Texas

    1993 - #11 Colorado, #6 Syracuse, and #24 Louisville

    1994 - Pitt, Louisville, and #5 Colorado

    1995 - Hawaii, Pitt, #11 Notre Dame, #14 Virginia

    1996 - New Mexico State, #9 Notre Dame, #19 Virginia

    1997 - Rutgers, UCLA (sorry everyone), Rice

    Plus until 1996 BlowU was an OOC game.

    Mack II OCC Games: 0.31 Top 25 teams per year (Regular Season)

    1998 - New Mexico State, #6 UCLA, and Rice

    1999 - North Carolina State, Stanford, Rutgers, and Rice

    2000 - Louisiana, Stanford, and Houston

    2001 - New Mexico State, North Carolina, and Houston

    2002 - North Texas, North Carolina, Houston, and Tulane

    2003 - New Mexico State, Arkansas, Rice, and Tulane

    2004 - North Texas, Arkansas, and Rice

    2005 - Louisiana, #4 Ohio State, and Rice (Road to Glory)

    2006 - North Texas, #1 Ohio State, Rice, and Sam Houston State

    2007 - Arkansas State, #19 TCU, UCF, and Rice

    2008 - Florida Atlantic, UTEP, Rice, Arkansas

    2009 - Louisiana - Monroe, Wyoming, UTEP, and UCF

    2010 - Rice, Wyoming, UCLA, and Florida Atlantic

    2011 - Rice, BYU, and UCLA

    2012 - Wyoming, New Mexico, and Ole Miss

    2013 - New Mexico State, BYU, and #25 Ole Miss

    Charlie Stonge OOC schedule: 1.0 Top 25 teams per year (Regular Season)

    2014 - North Texas, BYU, and #12 UCLA

    2015 - #11 Notre Dame, Rice, and Cal

    2016 - #10 Notre Dame, UTEP, and Cal

    Tom Herman OOC schedule: 1.0 Top 25 teams per year (Regular Season)

    2017 - Maryland, San Jose State, #4 USC

    2018 - Maryland, Tulsa, #22 USC

    2019 - La. Tech, #6 LSU, and Rice

     

     

     

    Sorry I meant MackIII not Mac1

  4. 17 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    We didn't expect it when he was hired - we thought he'd be given blank checks and go out and get top notch coordinators.

    But then he did bring his G5 staff - and was given the benefit of the doubt.  Should have learned from Charlie it was going to be disastrous.  But we all wanted to believe so badly.  And hope is a dangerous thing. 

    All true.  When I found out half his staff showed up to Austin with him for an initial meeting I was disappointed.   But I wanted to win so bad and was on a high I went with “all star team coaches don’t mesh well this is his show”

  5. 47 minutes ago, Liquor and Poker said:

    I think John Mackovic of all people was the last Texas coach who seemed like he was outcoaching people.  And that was only on one side of the ball. On both sides?  DKR.So to me it’s more like decades for that.    

    Difference now vs 2005-09. is we aren’t out-talenting anyone by enough of a margin and the position coaches aren’t teaching skills. But we haven’t been solidly outthinking and outmaneuvering since maybe the Ford administration. 

    I don’t think our ooc schedule was as tough in the Mack days.  Of course Mack had to deal with Nebraska and a better KSU.  But Baylor and isu sucked back then. I’m just rambling now

  6. 43 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Fyi....  Tough sports and LHN TV News....

    PlayStation Vue Shutting Down Streaming TV Service Jan 30th, 2020

    Had only 500k subscribers but was a great way to get LHN for streamers..... 😠

     

    Guess the following streaming sports options left, but not sure of LHN availability??

    DirectTV Now      2.5mill subscribers

    SlingTV                 2.5mill

    YouTubeTV          1.5mill

     

    (Hope ESPN+ starts showing LHN???)

    Damn

  7. 6 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The one problem I see is that when it comes to football, CDC may not be in full control.

    I cite as Exhibit A Herman's contract extension.  That was just not a smart move and I doubt that it originated with Chris Del Conte.  The 10-4 season was great and all, but there were enough question marks to hold your financial water for another year, at least.  And I'm sure from a business perspective, Del Conte was against it.

    We were definitely in a high post Georgia.  Yea we had some frustrating losses as usual but we beat ou and uga and we’re pretty competitive in our loss vs ou.  I think toms buyout is relatively low

  8. 21 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Fleck beat Maryland with Minnesota's roster. Didn't just beat them, he blew them out. 

    As did Purdue 

     

    fleck, like Herman, also lost to them in his second year.  

  9. 32 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    He's 8-0 right now, the first time Minnesota has had that record in any of our lifetimes (other than armybrat).

    He went 1-11 in his first year at WMU. In his fourth year he went undefeated in the regular season and won a MAC championship. He lost to Wisconsin in the Cotton Bowl, but he took little Western Michigan to the fucking Cotton Bowl. In between were two 8-5 seasons so in the middle of year three in Kalamazoo you might have pointed out that he was 9-16 in his first two years. Just as true and just as relevant as pointing out that he went 12-13 in his first two years in Minneapolis. 

    Yes and I can also point out that Herman beat FSU with Houston’s roster. 

  10. 11 hours ago, Snacks said:

    The kids on campus never cares about the wins as much as the alums. I didn't care as much as I do now, either.

    Hell, if it were just a generational thing, it would exist everywhere.

    Our University is all in on football money, because it buys things. If those big checks came with escalators and clawbacks, things might be different.

    Winning is hard when you don't know how to win. Who are the winners in the football program? Why are they all getting paid like champs?

    You don’t really need that much money for escalators.  I was at blinn college and even their rec center had escalators.  Next excuse?

  11. 11 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    Yeah, cause we all know KSU and ou recruit the same talent levels.

    Not to mention that 18 of those points came late in what had looked like a blowout win.  I can forgive a bunch of 3 star players who were 24 pt underdogs to get overexcited when up by 25 in the 4th.

    This is the problem with just looking at the final score.

    We were up on ou big last year too.  And if we’re playing the point spread game we covered Vs ou.  We get it. You’re upset and demanding change right now.  I think Tom needs to fix a ton of shit but I’m not ready to throw him overboard.  
     

     

    We brag about Sam being the savior but would you have taken him over Murray or mayfield?   

  12. 21 minutes ago, Cajun said:

    Man, I watched that KSU/ou game and how that defense played and was coached was stunning compared to what I saw in Dallas.

    I mean, they knew what they were doing.

    And still gave up 41

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  13. 3 hours ago, BearSchlong said:

    I remember LSU fans disappointment at having to basically settle for coach O. At the time, everyone else in the big 12 feared that Texas was gonna curb stomp Baylor, TCU, etc. for the foreseeable future and that LSU was gonna settle into a decade of irrelevancy.

    In an alternative reality, Texas would have money whipped Briles the day after 2013's 30-10 loss in Waco instead of hiring Strong, ESPN wouldn't have shined the flashlight on his bad character recruiting, and yall would have a string of playoff/championships. Cause that dude can flat out coach offense, morals be damned.

    I always wonder about that last scenario.

    The art situation was interesting. There was smoke that he was the guy.  Thank god that didn’t happen.  According to some bill powers wanted to make history and strong was gonna be that guy

  14. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    So, if Orlando was shitcanned in the coming days, who is our Ruffin McNeal?

    I don't like anyone on the staff, do we have any decent analysts?

    Who might we bring in?  Gerg?

    Spitballing in a different direction.

    Tom seems close to Mack.   Do you remember bull Reese?   Mugging and hugging.  
     

     

     

    I would guess Chris ash 

  15. Just now, MaybeACoordinator said:

    True.

    I get that fanbases get crushes on hot commodities when times are bad, but BMDs and ADs are supposed to be above that. I really don't think anyone else was even considered. It was Herman or bust and that line in the sand was written a year or more before it became reality.

    I admit I loved the Herman hire.  It I was beat down by Charlie.  Herman was literally the opposite of Charlie in so many ways.  His teams played fast hard etc.  won with lesser athletes etc.   but I guess his crap only works with lowly recruited kids.  The thought of him winning right down the road was tough to handle

     

     

    hindsight maybe we should’ve let LSU have him.  

  16. 14 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    True, but none of that was foreseen. My problem has always been that Herman was The Anointed One ever since he beat the Gooners and the BMDs just shut down all critical thinking after that. There were red flags all over the place the next two years he was at UH but they were all ignored and nobody else was seriously considered as Strong's replacement. 

    I think we rushed but everyone that hated Charlie was just looking for someone to cling to and he was a hot coach.  Hottest.  former student team looked amazing for awhile down there

  17. 2 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    This revisionist narrative that Herman was a panic hire is bullshit. The BMDs fixated on him in year 2 of Charlie. That LSU came open when it did was just gravy for Herman to bid up his contract. 

    Not disagreeing but he’d have the lsu job if he did t come here

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