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  1. Who we are as in human beings? Because that's something every fan base does that thinks they would have had some kind of shot at a player. That's not exclusive to Texas by any stretch of the imagination.
  2. Texas has lost several presidents of the university. Cal Berkeley, Emory, and now SMU. It's not a premium job, mostly because of dealing with the politics in the state. Texas has never lost an athletic director to another school that I'm aware of. I'd have to go look up the guys who came before Dana X. Bible, and I'm not going to do that. This isn't A&M. Del Conte was never going to leave for the SMU job. Not sure why anyone even entertained the idea. It's a joke.
  3. I didn't even start the automobile comparison. I'm just saying comparing Texas and SMU athletic departments to Tudor and Rolex made no sense to me. It's more Rolex to Seiko.
  4. Yeah, it's not perfect. But there are also Land Rover models. The Land Rover models compared to the Range Rover models. They use some of the same parts, the same processes, and some people argue you're basically buying the same thing for a lesser price, when normal people feel like that's really a justification for spending less money. Same thing with Tudor/Rolex. The thing is, Rolex was started first, then Hans Wilford founded Tudor as a company specifically designed to sell very nice watches at a slightly more affordable price. Going back to the original athletic department analogy, Rolex is like UT-Austin, Tudor is like UT-Arlington. There's not really an equivalent car company. But to compare Texas and SMU athletic departments, a better analogy would be to say Texas is a Rolex, and SMU is some other nice but not exclusive brand. Frankly, SMU athletics isn't even that great, although they've had some recent success. Seiko maybe? SMU is the Seiko of athletic departments.
  5. I guess if we're married to car company analogies, the best one I can think of is Tudor is Land Rover, and Rolex is Range Rover. Doesn't work exactly, but that's the best I can come up with.
  6. That was not a long post. I'm typing on a message board. Not doing a case interview or working in management consulting. My father, who did work in management consulting, could make some unbelievably long posts, so I'm not sure what that proves. His posts were way more entertaining than mine, but he always did get his fair share of TLDR or the like. I thought the analogy was shit. There's an obvious reason people talk about Tudor and Rolex that way regardless of the merits of the argument. Also, Tudor is not a microbrand. Oh, and Del Conte is not accepting the athletic director job at SMU, which is the first step towards dumbness that led to the rest of this dumbness.
  7. But your post is an opinion. One anyone with common sense would agree with. Mine was a factual statement. There are a thousand watch brands you could have picked to make a comparison, but you named the two that were founded by the same person and are still owned by the same company. There's a reason why people talk about Tudor and Rolex that way. No one would talk about SMU and Texas athletics in the same kind of way. It's a strange analogy to me. I also don't know why you would associate micro brand with Tudor. You didn't state Tudor is a micro brand, but it's implied in your statement. The funny thing is, I am remarkably indifferent to watches, so I don't really have a dog in the fight. I just like to see comparisons make sense, and words used the way they're meant to be used. Which is very pedantic of me, but there are times I can't help myself, and apparently this is one of them.
  8. SMU and UT were founded by the same person and owned by the same company?
  9. If their offense hadn't self destructed at the beginning I think they could have made a game of it. Their defense looked way better before everything got out of hand than I thought they would. I don't feel like the score was as reflective of the difference between the two teams as it appears. But because that's what everyone expected going in, there's this collective nodding of heads, "See? SMU didn't really belong there." I mean, maybe they didn't, but it's because their offense wasn't ready for the big stage, not necessarily because they couldn't compete from a talent level. On the other hand, scoreboard matters.
  10. And an uninteresting hypothetical argument to boot. Unless you're someone with SMU affiliations with no realistic perspective on their actual place in the realm of athletics prestige. CDC can recommend an assistant for the job. If Hartzell wants a CDC clone that's the closest he's going to get. Personally, I think the Rice AD is going to end up being a good one. He hasn't been on the job long enough to make an impact yet, and it's tough sledding. SMU is a much better job than Rice from an athletics standpoint. Maybe in 3 or 4 years he'll have made enough of a difference bigger fish will come calling. But unlike CDC, he ain't getting a phone call.
  11. While accurate, it's missing a salient point. From what I understand OU and Texas got half portions as part of the agreement to move to the SEC a year early, not because they hadn't been in the league for a full year. As opposed to say, Washington, Oregon, Stanford, and California. Or even SMU, which gets nothing in terms of TV distribution money. They all get smaller portions for the life of the current TV contract as part of the agreement to take them on as conference members.
  12. No, I made an inconsequential comment about how inconsequential interest in SMU football is. Which is true. SMU is a small private school with a small alumni base. Since professional sports took over the interest of the average sports fan in big metropolitan areas - including Dallas - college sports can't really compete for eyeballs. Which happened about 60 years ago. Who gives a rat's ass if the phone call happens? It's a possibility the same way it's a possibility I could be railing Shakira this summer while she's in Houston.
  13. He's not talking about win/loss records. He's talking about people actually giving a shit. Sure, Texas people are arrogant. So are folks from SMU. Who gives a shit? All that arrogance doesn't put people in the stands or compel them to watch SMU play football on television. If OU, A&M, or Arkansas were to play SMU next year in Dallas in a real stadium, I guarantee you the stadium would be more than 50% the opponents' fans. No one really gives a shit about SMU football. Maybe before the Cowboys existed, but certainly not since the NFL took over eyeballs. Even in their Pony Express cheating heyday, nobody came to the games. It's helpful they moved to that rinky dink on campus stadium that holds a baker's dozen for capacity. It's also helpful they're active in NIL. Maybe they can continue to be competitive. But the level of caring will continue to remain low. Part of it is institutional. It's a small private university. That's just how it is.
  14. You guys are off your fucking rocker.
  15. Kinda like Peach Tree in Atlanta.
  16. To replace Blake Gideon I don't think there could be a more apropos replacement than former Texas DB Craig Curry. I'm throwing his name in the hat.
  17. Not just any cast off. If you're going to fail, do so spectacularly. Texas Tech was ranked 133 out of 134 teams in all of Division I in pass defense, which was Yates primary responsibility along with being the defensive backs coach.
  18. That article is short and very sweet. So NIL is not a problem when Georgia wins the recruitment, but when someone else does, it's evidence of "incredible flaws in the system." Got it. It is so incredibly gratifying to be on the other end of these bidding wars, after decades of losing the under the table battles.
  19. Does he "need" to be added to the list? I understand not everything is the coach's fault, but how about he put together a leeeeetle better track record right before bringing him over. That last stop was a bit of an oof.
  20. I apologize for being out of the loop. I'm assuming a 4-star++ is either a projected 5 star or on the borderline. A 4-star plus is top 100 or thereabouts. Is that about right?
  21. I'll take James Brown's patented INTs any day when they also came with balls of steel in that milquetoast culture Mackovic created.
  22. "If you could take what you know now, and go back 7 years to your former self, what would you say? What lesson would you try to impart?" - AggieTherapist, probably
  23. It also says if you put your guesses on bar charts and line graphs they become facts.
  24. I have learned to be careful about sweeping generalizations regarding the future of college football programs. I maintain that the current state of college athletics, and specifically college football, is unsustainable, so the future is going to be very different than what we see today. What that is and when it comes, I have no idea. I can foresee the disruption. I have no real insights into what it will eventually resemble, and I don't believe anyone when they say with conviction what it will become. It's all speculation. My speculation would be we see further constrictions into who is actually competitive at the highest levels, and that the Big 10/SEC carve up the rest of college football and form a new association which displaces the NCAA in many respects. But that's speculation. An individual like Larry Ellison getting involved in NIL, or someone with less net worth but willing to spend a much larger percentage of it to see their favorite team win, can quickly shift the dynamics of NIL the way it's currently executed. I still maintain the bottom line is you have to have the right coach. Finding and then keeping the right coach once you have him is still the biggest challenge of every program wanting to be elite. But having robust NIL support is now a critical component of that. Riley left OU and Saban stepped down at Alabama in part because of the resources to support them at their previous stint. Same thing with Brian Kelly to LSU and Jimbo Fisher to A&M, or DeBoer to Alabama. It's not that excellence can't be maintained through coaching changes. Look at Ohio State, which has still yet to make a truly bad hire since Woody Hayes in 1951. But you roll the dice every time. Every program not named Ohio State has gone through some lean years. Some, like us, more than we could possibly imagine. I had hopes OU would maintain their Gary Gibbs, Howard Schnellenberger (who I thought was a home run hire...nope!) John Blake succession ad infinitum, but it did not work out that way, unfortunately. But I'm enjoying their current struggles and I hope they continue for the rest of my lifetime, however long or short that may be and whatever the cause.
  25. Maybe so. But while it seems obvious in retrospect to start the Longhorn Foundation, tie donations to seat priority, and make donation money available across all sports, he's still the first one that did it. He also started the move to suites before any other program as well. And that took some level of vision because we went into a lot of debt to do it. But yes, I do agree with your point.
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