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  1. 26 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Last year was one of those “rare” years too. 

    Cincinnati was the only undefeated team in the country, with a win over a very good ND. They deserved a shot, along with Bama and Michigan. UGA didn't, but a 3-team playoff doesn't really work.

    18 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

    If they are deserving, then they should win.

    If you don't win your conference (or division for that matter), I don't think you're deserving of a national championship. I think it should be more about who had the best overall season, not who's hot at the end. But I realize the landscape has changed, and it's basically becoming NFL lite. I just don't like it.

  2. 5 minutes ago, Treefidy said:

    This is probably true for many low rated recruits, but it’s absolutely false for the top of the food chain difference makers.   Those guys get paid and that’s probably the #1 factor.

    Aggies signed the highest rated class of all time with 8 five star recruits, that’s 1/4 of all the 5 stars in a class.  They did that without having a DC, so thinking they loaded all that talent because those kids and their handlers were looking at the system TBD ran, how they fit in, if TBD would get them to the league, or anything other than money is certainly an opinion.  

    Nah, it's all because of Jimbo's charming personality and aggy's enrollment numbers.

  3. 2 hours ago, Thatguy said:

     When the choices were keep Strong or hire Herman did it really matter? Herman's tenure did nothing for Texas just as much Strong's which is why we are here. Arguing over which shit sandwich was seasoned better is pointless. 

    It's not the ultimate goal, but winning the Sugar Bowl was an enjoyable moment at least.

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  4. 5 hours ago, Thatguy said:

       You are asking for FUTURE analysis, which is all speculation. Neither of our 23 classes are signed. No one has currently portaled out for them OR for us. What we know is RIGHT NOW, at this very moment, they have all the things we are struggling with short of QB. If we had the players they have THIS YEAR that we need, how much better would we be right now? Linemen, receivers, edge rushers, linebackers, and secondary. 

      Aggy has never been good. However, the last time aggy had an uptick was when we went through a similar period. That is not a coincidence. 

    Once again, Aggy has been paying top dollar for recruits since going all in on Jimbo. It has nothing to do with enrollment numbers (where are Florida International's 5 stars?) or coaching stability (how about Iowa?). They've been buying recruits dude. That's it.

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  5. Just now, TwiceHorn said:

    Whether a coach needs to go or not, there's a certain penalty to the turnover.  There's a lot of penalty when you do it every three years for 10 years.

    Well Thatguy has repeatedly made the argument that our problem is firing coaches to quickly, not hiring shitty ones. And whatever penalty there is, great coaches seem to quickly overcome it.

  6. 16 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

      Yes you fucking do you dumbass mfer. You fire coaches the way we do you start giving all the other schools ammo to negative recruit against you. Good coaches don't want to come here and deal with this toxic bullshit, so here we are with Sark. Kids hit the portal as soon as the coach is gone. That's how we got where we are. 

      In case you haven't noticed Aggy been wearing our ass out in recruiting since 19, well before NIL. You know why that's happening? Because of negative recruiting. We lost almost all the good players from Herman's good classes. We have to take our lumps and climb back up the hill, and that process takes a couple years. I see improvement both on the field and in recruiting so I am ok waiting. 

     

      Your example of "how you do it" is Sonny Dykes?

    So who should we have kept around, lazy Mack, Charlie, or Herman?

    And Aggy has been paying top dollar for recruits long before NIL.

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  7. My mom passed away last year from ovarian cancer at 63. It's a disease that affects all of us at some point. Some are easier to cure than others though. Regardless, spend time with your dad and give him a hug whenever you can.

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  8. 7 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

    That may be your point. My point is you use the tools available to you. 

    If you think bringing in kids on multiple paid unofficial visits from around the country was about $100 handshakes you missed what has been going on around the country for over a decade entirely. But who cares? 

    Also, bringing in the most talented football players is driven by a market economy. NIL upped the numbers for everyone, but it’s not like Texas is the only one playing. Texas just wasn’t playing that game effectively with Mack Brown and Strong.

    And yes. Recruiting has never really been UT’s issue. The only issue in talent acquisition has been effort, evaluation, and a failure to use the tools at their disposal. And then a failure to develop and/or utilize it, but that’s a separate but important issue that goes with recruiting. 

    Sark isn't "using" NIL; NIL was built and will operate with or without him. And whatever Herman was doing, it obviously wasn't enough.

    We're clearly much better at NIL than the old bag game, which is a huge advantage to Sark. Too bad he sucks.

  9. 10 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

    That’s what you got out of that? I think Strong is some kind of angel? 

    To me college football is beyond angels and devils when it comes to recruiting. Specifically now in the age of NIL. Who cares if Strong was an angel or not? He was a bad hire. He sucked. We’re fortunate as fans he got such a short leash. Not sure why anything else would matter. 

    My only point is that Herman worked with 3rd parties in ways that Strong did not. Under Herman, Texas had a robust program of paying for unofficial visits to get kids on campus as often as possible - the way every top program does since Alabama started doing it wholesale in the late 2000s with no consequences. These and other tactics benefitted Herman’s recruiting in ways Strong’s recruiting did not. 

    If Sarkisian is benefitting from NIL, so what?

    NIL is a whole different level than whatever $100 handshakes Herman was giving out. We're talking hundreds of thousands (some cases millions) of dollars. Point is, recruiting will be fine with or without Sark.

  10. 2 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    True.  I’m doing him a disservice to an extent, but I was thinking about going forward and how we were resorting to taking guys like Charles Wright and Max Merril at the time he got canned.  

    Couldn't be worse than what we're seeing with Ewers. Hell, Casey Thompson looked like a stud the few snaps he played under Herman. Maybe Tom actually knew a thing or two about coaching QBs.

  11. 3 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Well, Mack Brown is clearly a better coach than anyone we’ve hired since then.  Herman with an NIL budget is also most likely better than Sark (I’m assuming he could turn his recruiting slide around at least to some extent with the checkbook), unless everyone hated Herman so much boosters wouldn’t fund recruiting.  

    Herman without NIL was better than Sark.

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  12. He has a major second half/adjustment problem, and he doesn't know how to fix it. Anyone denying that at this point has their head in the sand. He's also nearly 50 years old with 20+ years of coaching experience. There's no light bulb waiting to come on. Our only hope is that he can accumulate enough talent to cover up his deficiencies, and I'm not sure that's even possible.

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  13. 2 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

    We almost turtled.  But we didn't.  But we almost did, again.  So I'm happy, but kinda feel this may be fool's gold.  

    No, we completely turtled. The win doesn't change that fact. It was one of the worst displays of turtling I've ever seen.

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  14. 32 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

      It depends on where you program is. We have people already calling for the guy's head 1.5 years into his tenure while also looking at our roster and seeing how talent deficient it is in key spots. Mediocrity is one thing. Not giving a coach the time he needs to get the job done is another. Saban finished 6-5-1, 6-6, 7-5, and 6-6 in his first 4 seasons at Michigan State. If that were Texas we would've fired the greatest college football coach in history for being "mediocre". It would've been our Sam Bowie moment. 

     

    17 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

     

      I referenced the bolded in your first post when I mentioned this thread. Our attitude of thinking that because we are a Blu Blood we can do this or that or we should expect quick turnarounds on winning are exactly why we are where we are. That's what I mean when I said we liken ourselves to those other schools. Look at Nebraska right now for a reference of what can happen when you think your good name is enough to carry you through. 

     

    Most of us aren't saying he should be fired this season (although if he loses out, he probably should be). We're saying we see the writing on the wall. Great coaches don't have this many red flags. And Nebraska sucks because they're in the middle of nowhere and their recruiting fell off a cliff (in addition to hiring shitty coaches). We don't have that problem and never will.

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  15. 6 hours ago, Thatguy said:

       You don't see the difference do you? Alabama was able to lure away two PROVEN football coaches in Bear Bryant and Nick Saban to a University with no redeeming qualities outside of being dedicated to the sport. Meanwhile here we are, Texas, sitting squarely in Austin, a prettier location than Bama by far. All the recruiting a man could ask for outside his door. Yet here we are struggling to get a decent coach just like we have throughout our history. We are the second weakest Blue Blood next to Michigan. Even Notre Dame, with all their academic standards, has found a way to be relevant before we have. Texas has 3 Big12 titles, tied with Baylor and 11 less than OU. We don't have the right to talk about successful teams and how they get their coaches when we aren't them. For example, OU may have had 20 years since they've won a title but they've been consistently winning the conference all that time. That's what I mean when I say we don't think we have to pay our dues. We liken ourselves to those other teams while not having their success. 

    Not sure what point you're trying to make, other than we all need to shut up and accept mediocrity. Not doing it. Every program with expectations fires mediocre coaches. Bama is the best example because they're the most successful, but every program that gives two shits about football does it. Only mediocre programs keep mediocre coaches.

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  16. Bama kept firing coaches until they got Saban. Didn't seem to matter once they got their guy. Look up the coaching history of any blue blood program and it's usually the same story: 2 or 3 legendary coaches with long tenures, and a bunch of bums who lasted 3-4 years. Maybe Sark suddenly gets it and becomes the guy (unlikely based on history and his performance thus far), but you don't keep him around just for the sake of continuity; no program with expectations does that. If the results are still mediocre after 3-4 years, you try again.

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  17. 10 hours ago, ATXhorn17 said:

    This. If we go that route, we’re in “win at all costs” Baylor territory… Downright irresponsible to put Urban in charge of ~85 18-24 olds… 

    Even if Urban’s approach successfully translates to the modern CFB era (which I’m skeptical of), the wins would not outweigh the inevitable scandal and media circus.

    We already went that route and he turned us down. I doubt we'll make another run at him, but it's not because we're above it.

  18. 22 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

       You guys are truly some weirdos. NCAA football is about the ability to evaluate player talent and plug them into the spots you need them in. The reason we have been wandering in the desert for so long is because since 09 we've been bad at recruiting QBs. We had good QB play for the first decade of Mack's tenure. Then he went all in on GG and gave Case a scholly. After that it was disaster after disaster. Ehlinger settled that down but we recruited nothing behind him which led to the disaster that was last year. We are finally getting good signal callers as well as the ability to redshirt them. Secondly, our recruiting in the trenches has been abysmal. We've struggled to get quality players on BOTH side of the ball for a decade there. 

       The teams that are winning consistently aren't doing so because they have some savant of a HC making magical in game decisions. They are winning because they have good QB play and they are recruiting well year over year. That is why I am not calling for the coach's head. I see us evaluating talent well and stacking quality QBs, which hasn't been done here in forever. We are headed in the right direction. Our QB had as bad a game as you can imagine and yet we still scored 34 points and had a chance to win the game in the end. That's decidedly different from a year ago where a bad game from a QB would result in an absolute blowout. We are 1 point, 4 points, and 7 points from being undefeated. We are close. 

       

    Recruiting has improved largely due to NIL. Ewers and most of last year's O-line haul wouldn't be here if not for NIL. As long as we can (legally) drop bags, we'll get players, regardless of who the coach is. The ability to hire a great staff is far more important.

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