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  1. I want a running backs coach that teaches the running backs to fumble to their own team, like Georgia.
  2. Who is Rutgers' running back coach?
  3. Why? I enjoy rooting against him, even if he ends up being successful, which I assume he will be. I don't understand why it makes you so butt hurt that I was enamored with him while he was here, and felt betrayed - like a jilted ex - when he was arrested for domestic assault. Rodney Terry was never going to make me forget about him. Hopefully this next coach will. I certainly don't consider him a candidate. I don't want him anywhere near the UT basketball program unless it's to get pummeled as the coach of the opponent. But I sure enjoyed his tenure - as short lived as it was - while he was here. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, tbh.
  4. Beard was such a perfect fit. I remember seeing the video of him at the Gone To Texas event where he addresses the throng of incoming students screaming at the top of his lungs into the microphone that he's a proud graduate of the University of Texas. You could say I got a little choked up. It was practically inevitable Terry was going to be a letdown barring some kind of miraculous transformation on his part. The miracle didn't happen.
  5. Well, my thought has always been the chief identifying factor for sports fandom is helplessness. That's one of the differences I've tried to impart to players and parents/family members who want this sort of unconditional support from the fandom. That's not how it works. It's one of the reasons why sports fans are so often superstitious. We want to feel like we have some agency when we really don't. Different people approach the feeling of helplessness in different ways, whether with sports fandom or otherwise. Some people choose pessimism because it provides a coping mechanism. If they always expect the worst, then they're never caught off guard. Others choose optimism because they feel like it's a better way to go through life, and frankly there's no doubt in my mind if they're able to maintain it, they'll be more productive. I try not to judge what mindset people use to go through life. We're all doing the best that we can, and we all fall short at various times. Me especially. But I do know I'm personally extremely unpleasant to be around, either digitally or in person, when I'm in a constant state of negativity. In general I choose not to subject people to that if I can help it. That said, there is a cathartic element in being able to shake our fists and rant to high heaven, even if it's not completely appreciated by those around us. It's especially helpful when we find others who are like minded. Although some of us enjoy being Cassandras, too.
  6. I mean, to be completely honest, I hear Funk Doctor Spock is on the ledge, my first impulse is to go ahead and push him off.
  7. There is no grace. He's done a great job hiring assistants so far. Not impressed with this one, but there have been plenty of coaches I'm unimpressed with that end up being spectacular. Heck, for a while there Pete Kwiatkowski seemed like a big mistake. I was completely wrong there. Now I'm ecstatic we have him.
  8. Way too many realistic, haunted eyes kind of takes on this thread. I like seeing the true Aggies coming on to berate the 2%ers. Long time to go before the season starts. I'm hoping for more delusion as the season start approaches.
  9. I don't see a whole lot of naive optimism right now. I see a whole lot of the writing is on the wall regarding Rodney Terry. At most, I see some "I hoped he would work out but he has not. This has been a train wreck." It has felt like a train wreck from the beginning to me, but I'm glad we're nearing the end and we can move on. My gosh, I haven't been a drum beat of negativity on the basketball boards for the last two years. I just quit posting for the most part. No point in exposing everyone constantly to my conviction Rodney Terry was going to fail. But to me he was always going to fail. He's just not that smart, to put it bluntly. He's loyal. He means well. He certainly loves the University of Texas as much as a paid employee is able to. This job was always going to be too big for him. He was a great assistant for both Barnes and Beard. It's only through unusual circumstances that he found himself the head coach. When I start feeling really negative, I just quit posting. No reason for everyone to have to constantly endure those thoughts.
  10. I cannot say eternal optimism as a sports fan is one of my gifts. I remember in the late 2000s telling people our recruiting in football was not doing well regardless of the rankings, that we shouldn't be putting all our quarterback eggs in the one Garrett Gilbert basket, and that Mack Brown had gotten lazy as a recruiter and was insisting on doing it the way he always had even though the paradigm was changing, and I got a whole lot of, "can't you just enjoy what we have? Things are fine. We're competing for national championships every year. You're seeing things that aren't there." It's not like I can't be optimistic. I'm optimistic about football right now. I'm optimistic about the people we have involved in NIL. I'm optimistic about the next men's basketball coach we hire. I'm optimistic about the athletic department as a whole. But sometimes I see things and I can't shake a sense of impending doom, and that was certainly the case as Terry racked up win after win. Oh, well. It was a fun season nonetheless. I'm glad I got to experience it as a fan.
  11. Not to mention that sure was a fun team to follow. I'll take an Elite Eight for what has transpired since then. We'll move on to someone else. We just don't have many Elite Eights on our resume.
  12. Dabo Swinney at Clemson is always the first person who comes to mind. That was only the third Elite Eight Texas has ever made it to in the 64 team tournament era. Some credit has to be given to Terry for holding the team together that year and forging on under unusual circumstances. I never thought he'd be a good head coach on a permanent basis, but I have no qualms with CDC removing the interim tag given the team's success that year. I just know the moment he was promoted I dreaded the possible outcome. But permanent doesn't mean lifetime, so if I lived long enough I'd see another coach take the reins and see what they can do. And now we're almost there.
  13. Well, one thing for certain. SMU isn't hiring Chris Del Conte. There was a stupid discussion started, whoever that was.
  14. I mean, the same dynamic plays out during the season, too, so why not? There's a reason why the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders lists Battered Aggie Syndrome. It's a real phenomenon. Easily the most entertaining mental health disorder on the planet. Although, watching a group therapy session with Tourette's Syndrome patients is pretty good, too. But I don't think a thread about it could come even close to this one for making me laugh.
  15. This all felt very inevitable the day Chris Beard was arrested for domestic assault and Rodney Terry was made the interim coach. I made a post at the time that the team and staff he inherited was built for a deep NCAA run, but if they accomplish that, we'll be stuck with Terry as the permanent head coach and we'll have to start over in 3 to 4 years. That went over like a lead balloon, and rightfully so. But it's still certainly how I saw it, and it's exactly what has come to pass. We traded an Elite Eight run - of which we don't have exactly a plethora of - for at least two more years of disappointment. 3 if somehow Terry is able to pull a miraculous run to the Sweet 16, which I don't actually think there's any chance of. But if he slides into the tournament, will that be enough? The rest of the intervening time has been playing out the string. We'll see who Del Conte goes after next. Chris Beard was a home run hire if it weren't for the domestic assault arrest. Terry's problem is that he doesn't know how to construct a roster. In this day and age of NIL/portal, that's the chief metric. I mean, he has plenty of other issues, too, but that's the fundamental problem. People talk about the fact he's a good recruiter, but recruiting has not been an issue for Texas basketball under several head coaches. Even Wetlich could bring in talent.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. SMU and UT were founded by the same person and owned by the same company?
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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