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MaybeACoordinator

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  1. Yeah IDGAF if you are a Pony or what, but coming on here telling me what to do when I been on here since you were probably still eating boogers in school is some bullshit. Stop posting. You are fucking up the boards.
  2. Any streams out there? (I'll take things I never thought I'd ask for for $1000 Alex) n/m found one crackstreams
  3. Position coaches, like Sam Pittman or Dabo (went from WR coach / recruiting coordinator to interim to HC) Survivors from previous failed regime (Dabo, Stoops) Coordinators (Stoops, Riley, Snyder) HS legends (Malzahn) Lower division legends (Leipold, Klieman) G5 winners (Urban at Utah; Rhule) Guys who haven't won big enough at a P5 (Saban at MSU; all of the above) NFL failures (Carroll) I am not itching to fire Sark or any of the staff at this point, but just pointing out that every kind of resume has its pitfalls and rewards. Somebody in our slapdick organization has to be able to realize when the guy is the guy. And then they need to GTFO his way. Going back to Dana X. Bible, we've exactly one seamless transfer of power. He handed off to the guy he beat out for the job ten years previously -- Blair Cherry -- who did something you just don't see anymore: he bided his time for a decade. Cherry's four-year run was as great as Bible's peak, but our fans and boosters wore him out with unrealistic expectations -- an NC every year, even though we'd never won a single one yet. 9-1 seasons and undefeated conference championships capped off by major bowl wins were not enough. (Yes, he lost to Bud Wilkinson's OU that year, 14-13). He was an insomniac, ulcerated wreck at the end of four years, but it looked like he managed to leave the program in good hands, just as Bible had done in leaving it to him. Cherry's successor went 23-8 with two top ten finishes and a Cotton Bowl win in his first three years....and then drove the program off a cliff. Yes, this was Ed Price, truly the worst coach in Texas history, who took a dynasty and in six years turned it into a 1-9 team. So the whole promoting from within thing is also dangerous. We tried that at the end of Royal's tenure too. By most accounts, Akers was not Royal's guy. That was his DC Mike Campbell, but some of our boosters meddled and Akers won out. Who knows if Campbell would have been any better in the long run -- probably not, 'cause we needed young, post-integration blood on the sidelines then -- but maybe, who knows. And Akers did represent continuity, but not as much. At any rate, he, and the complete catastrophe that was the McWilliams Restoration, represented the end of the Royal era, and decades later, Mack did not get to execute his succession plan, which time has proven would have been a disaster, anyway.... Fuck this season. This is an off-season thread.
  4. Yeah but you can't tell me that all of those coaches -- except Mack, at first -- just happened to get much worse when you hand them the keys to what should be a Cadillac of a program. Yes Bridgewater and Ward were excellent QBs who papered over the flaws of their coaches but neither of them was VY, Cam or Joe Burrow. There is systemic rot at the heart of our football program. Idk why people want to defend the boosters but some do. Are you yourself a meddlesome booster? Anyway, it's beyond a run of bad luck or coincidence at this point. Why does blowU succeed and we fail, year after year? You have to look at the constants in the background because the foreground keeps shifting. There's my booster theory. Sometimes I give in to the "It's Austin" line of thinking -- that kids come here and are ruined by the tail and the partying, whether they succumb once they get to Austin, or they are attracted to Austin because that's what they want to do. Lord knows I've seen it happen with many a promising young musician from places like Dallas and Houston or small towns. As the son of a very famous Texas music legend once told me years ago "Yeah, they come here ready to set the world on fire, then they get a hot girlfriend, a pot dealer, a job at Thundercloud Subs and that's the last you ever hear of them."
  5. A good program shouldn't have to rely on hiring one or two coaches. You can't tell me those two guys are the only coaches how know how to win championships and run top programs. And we didn't get either of them, and never will, so what does it matter if they are.
  6. Just as with the Houston Texans, at some point you have to stop blaming the coaches and players and look deeper for what's wrong with the franchise / program. Strong was 23-2 the two years before he came here. Herman was something like 25-5. Sark has always been thought a brilliant offensive mind. We can keep firing coaches forever or address the systemic rot that is at the nexus of Bellmont and the boosters or keep going on our merry way to being Nebraska or Tennessee. Not Cal -- at least Cal doesn't really try.
  7. That was Thompson's first bad drive. Somebody new is stepping up each drive to suck and that was his turn.
  8. HIs receivers are having his passes go right through both fucking hands. This is not on Casey.
  9. This does kind of look like where I always imagined they planted ol' Jimmy:
  10. World's greatest sport to put on at a low murmur in the background while you sleep off a hangover. Makes golf seem like Nascar by comparison.
  11. You'd think they'd be all over this second chance at MENSA. Seriously -- to y'all who think we'd be better off with him, apparently about 1/5 of the programs out there disagree. I've only heard two blink and you missed them rumors about anyone even considering him.
  12. That's the spirit...Reminds me of my first game at DKR when the refs we needed a horrible call in the back of the endzone on a pass to one of the Cash twins to squeak out a home opener vs North Texas State. texas fight
  13. Jesus the DFW burbs seem all kinds of fucked up these days. Makes the Plano heroin epidemic seem tame.
  14. Just wait 'til they introduce cricket as a club sport.
  15. Saw this on another thread: cross-posting here for safekeeping:
  16. Even as a fellow Strake grad, Jett Bush, why he's in the program, and any other Strake player in the history of the program except for Chris Ogbonnaya, has been puzzling to me. And even Ogbonnaya was a strange take as 4.7-type running back.
  17. I think we have some booster who are just as dumb....prob through senility, 'cause they must have been able to rub a couple of brain cells together at some point, but man....I wouldn't be surprised if the coaching staff didn't get him to run this one out there for them. Same as the Davis video. You can't tell me they wouldn't have caught whoever filmed and leaked that. They want it out there to show they are doing their best. Dark times, man. My dad's given up. I don't blame him -- he got three degrees there between 1962-1970. He's not watching tomorrow or next week. In 45 years of our shared fandom he's never been there before.
  18. I think it's implicit in what Jones said that he has more info. If this was Acho I'd be more leery but Jones has been a great Horn since he transferred back in. And I don't think this is breaking news behind the scenes.
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