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  1. What you call cringeworthy, I declare to be visionary. I am betting I can dig up some truly cringeworthy Herman knobslob posts from you, but IDGAF. I was right and you were wrong.
  2. Unless you can go back and find more than one o-lineman who was in the portal for us to get, this "he should have gone to the portal and conjured a whole new OL" is just stupid. Charlie got the same shit for allegedly not getting a QB. He did get one -- kid out of USC named Max Wittek, but Wittek was such a dumbfuck at USC no grad school at UT would take him, so he wound up at Hawaii, and led them (partially, he got hurt) to a 3-10 record, throwing for 7 TDs and 13 picks. Somehow, he was even worse than what we already had on campus. And yet some people still say why didn't Charlie get that Wittek kid? Or they will invent a legion of phantom QBs Charlie failed to pursue in 2014. All while also forgetting he had a better-than-adequate QB-1 in David Ash -- whose absence for all but 1.5 games of Charlie's first two seasons seems to be forgotten. And now we see the same thing going on with Sark in real time. Times have changed since 2014 and now there is the portal, and I will be very disappointed if we don't land a minimum of three guys of rotational quality for the OL but relying on the portal is terrible for long-term success and the restoration of anything like a football program here, as opposed to a team. At best you end up like vintage K-State; Snyder was a master of the old-school transfer market.
  3. One of the joys of the season was how little suspense* there was over infield grounders -- somebody was fixin' to be out, if not two somebodys. They were going to pick it clean and if their throw to 1b was a little off, we have a guy with the reflexes of an NHL goalie. *Uthey let you know the ball was hit Altuve's way....but if he is by far the weakest link in your infield defense, you have a very very fucking good infield defense. It was like our 2005 DBs. Tarell Brown -- a guy who went on to play 10 years in the NFL -- was our weak spot.
  4. The good PR would be negated by the losses, as gaps appear elsewhere in the lineup and pitching staff, because three or four declining talents are hogging the budget. I love Correa. I loved Springer too. But if their demands are significantly more than the Astros business model can bear, we just have to say goodbye, wish them well, and hope for the best from our replacements. It would be a hell of a lot harder to part with Correa if had a long run of demonstrated durability, but he's been brittle in his younger years. How many guys like that post roids suddenly become 145 game per year guys in their 30s? Like I said, this will suck for a couple of years. Seven or eight years down the line, we will be shaking our heads about whoever signed Correa to all that money way back when.
  5. Derr that means Dan Mullen can be our next corch! Make an offer today! The more he loses the sooner we can get him!
  6. Exception: RoJo. Golden Triangle players, esp one from PA (PN-G recruited him out of there), play with more heart than anyone else in the state.
  7. Trolling this board with a fact is pathetic? I pity you. You can't pity me.
  8. Yes, I expect you to do just that, and I won't even demand residual blow jobs though by rights I am entitled.
  9. Some shifty ass program might hire that prick again and he will suck again. But I kind of doubt he will get the chance, because he sucks at every element of coaching. He can't recruit. He cries on the sidelines when the chips are down. He acts like a monkey when the other team is beat (see, Missouri bowl game). How this clown fooled us into hiring and extending him is a top shelf argument against the existence of boosters. Any football mind would have told us to clear away. Unless that mind was bought and paid for by the same idiots who brought you Jumbo Tron and made you like it.
  10. As @Dr. Beeper will remind you, or would have back when he was RexKramer, I was "sweetjones" and I was last off the Charlie train and first on the Traylor train. One of the reasons I was so late in wanting to pull the trigger on Strong was continuity of the program, which Traylor would have brought to some degree, instead of the entire culture shock Herman and his Mensa boiz introduced. Anyway, here is my proof for you chucklefucks -- not all of you by a long shot, but some of you, and you know who you are -- who've been trying to portray me as the village idiot for the last five years.
  11. But I guess now our big bold "We're Texas" move would be to fire a respected coach after year one -- or fuck it, tonight! -- and eat two huge buyouts and tack on another huge salary to get the guy we could have had twice at a bargain-basement price. Sark is not a bad coach. He will be here two more years minimum. Hopefully he can get is to a bowl one of those years, but recruiting is trending down. We have no choice but to rely on the portal for OL and DL help and Sark is going to have to get pretty ruthless running dead weight off the squad. Because that is what most of it is. And on a side note y'all keep talkin' shit about my Strake homie Jett Bush. Muthafucka made a play. Today. (Kidding -- dude should be wrecking shop at Trinity or something.)
  12. The name "Caleb" screams "home-schooled by Evangelicals" to me. Kid never had a chance.
  13. After the bowl game Collins had, it looked like Herman had been hiding Ndamakung Suh on the bench...
  14. Did Tom Herman build a HS dynasty out of nothing and run it at an elite level for 15 years? Is there, or will there ever be, even a HS football stadium named after Tom Herman? Is Tom Herman a fucking legend in the most fertile recruiting turf in the state of Texas? How does Tom Herman's recruiting look compared to Traylor's, as both assistant and HC? I am so sick of rehashing Herman's fool's gold resume, but the long and the short of it was: never showed he could win with his own players; never showed he could win without elite QB play; never showed he could recruit, had a propensity both big upsets and for blowing WTF games, esp when his mini-VY was dinged up or sidelined. I guess in the sense that coaches are hired right now, somehow that resume looks superior to Traylor's but I have come to believe that the generally accepted conventional hiring practices in big-time college football are stupid, bear little or no relation to success, and should be questioned at every turn. I said it on the old site years and years ago: we should have fired Strong and his whole staff and kept Traylor and handed him the keys. Kinda like Scarface did. "Hey Ernie? Joo wanna yob?
  15. It would be more interesting to see which schools had serious interest in those players...I am no longer a true recruiting junkie, but years ago, when we were one of those 5-10 teams truly skimming the cream off the top of every class, we were beating out the elite teams of the day. Now I see some 4-star that has everyone enchubbened and his offer list is Cal, Tech, SMU, TCU and us. Not Bama, blowU, Ohio St and Clemson. Because when they want those players, they get those players. A million times this...I really wish we could have gotten one or both of Urban / Saban in here to watch the mobs turn on them when they didn't have the spares Mack and Herman left behind playing like 2001 Miami in year one. Strong had a reputation as a guy who'd lose one WTF game a year but was a great talent evaluator who certainly coached up those players well enough to get them in the league. Herman had pretty much the same reputation re: losing games he shouldn't and absolutely no track record as an evaluator nor as a coacher-upper of players. He was believed to be a QB whisperer with an innovative mind for offense, and over four years, the best who could come up with was a QB as battering ram offense. Ehlinger's passing technique and reads never showed much improvement. It's even worse. Mack left Strong a handful of good to really good players on D -- Hassan Ridgeway and Malcom Brown, a consensus All-American, both of whom are enjoying long NFL careers. Jordan Hicks. Quandre Diggs and Mykelle Thompson, whom Strong turned from fifth-year bust into solid contributor and fringe NFL guy. That D finished 31st in the country and third in conference. But Strong had all those guys except Ridgeway for only one year, and Mack left absolutely squat in the pipeline after that. I think for two years running were the greenest team in FBS, what amounted to a very talented JV squad. JV squads can't compete against varsity, and Charlie was fired, but he left behind a fair number of contributors, especially on D. But this shit Herman left behind might be the worst any Texas coach has left behind him since Ed Price or some shit. Akers and McWilliams were pretty terrible. Both Royal Mackovic left behind total hauls, but this shit....wow. I really didn't think it would be possible to leave behind less than Mack, but Herman did it.
  16. Show your work. What on earth makes you think this guy could take these scrubs into one of college football's most hostile environments -- I don't give a shit about capacity: you saw and heard that horde of screaming hillbillies -- and come out with a win?
  17. With this line I don't know if he'd be able to even get out of the pocket and tuck and run. And this is not the worst OL we've had. That would be the one Mack left Charlie that ended up with Marcus Wilkins a starting tackle.
  18. Um, it's hard to win when your players suck. That is not even football 101. That is some remedial-ass shit right there.
  19. A) It wasn't the same guys. B) It was just Sam. And I could pose you a question -- maybe he would have been able to win more than 7 games if he'd played Bijan a little more. As I said repeatedly long before we hired that prick, he had never won anything with his own recruits, his image as a great recruiter at UH was derived entirely from Ed Oliver's mama telling him he was gonna go play with his brother, and when he didn't have a healthy Greg Ward running the offense, he sucked ass. And also, that he revealed himself to be an asshole and a fraud and thin-skinned pussy to the Houston media on multiple occasions, but they just kind of shrugged it off because they don't like pissing off dumb UH fans and nobody else gives a shit about the program. The only time the city collectively cared about anything UH has ever done athletically was the Phi Slama Jama era, and even those teams didn't sell out Hofheinz regularly. Longing for Herman is as dumb as those few dudes on here who long to bring back Mack. They remind me of those lone Japanese soldiers they found on remote islands in the 1970s who still thought the war was on. Firing Sark is not the answer. Not this year or next or even the year after that, barring the elephant in the room, personality wise, and you know, I don't think you could fire him if he volunteered to go to treatment first, unless there is something in his contract specifying something like "if you eat one rum ball at an Xmas party, that is cause for termination with cause." At some point we need to accept that we will have to settle on a coach who will bring this program back to Holiday Bowl status, and that might be when you make a move. Meanwhile, we've pissed away two chances to hire Jeff Traylor. One I admit was not realistic, but it would been a very bold move to fire Charlie and everyone off his staff and offer Traylor then. Yes, pie in the sky, but isn't it true that we are supposed to be Texas, where what happens changes the world? That move would have challenged the entire paradigm of head coaching hires, but more importantly, would have brought a level of continuity to the locker room, and still more importantly, continued the positive steps Strong was bringing to our talent evaluation and recruiting. And then we had another chance this year, but evidently being a mediocre head coach at multiple stops with a widely publicized risk factor personality-wise, and a quick turn as Saban right hand man, are better credentials than being the architect of an unlikely Texas HS dynasty who'd done nothing but prove himself in his brief career in the college ranks. And now too many of our arrogant fans are comforting themselves with the thought that he will settle for some school like Tech, TCU, or SMU. He'll just wait for us to come calling, these people seem to think. Um, no. I would not be surprised if he doesn't end up at LSU (if they don't snatch Jimbo) or A&M (if they do.) And then we will be even more proper fucked than we are now.
  20. a mild case of Richard Hidalgo Syndrome. "Hey, if I 44 homers weighing in at 190, if I roid out and come to camp at 250, I'll hit 90!" Um, nope, it turned you into a stiff JAG.
  21. Are you fuckers serious? That prick left Sark with one actual football player and a 80 JAGs. Jesus Christ, just when you think you've seen it all. Though I would like y'all to have seen Herman try to coach without a good-to-great QB.
  22. We are going to feel great about this in four years when he's playing 120 games/year at third.
  23. Ideally she does all 60 days undergoing "Diesel Therapy." Basically, you they just keep you perpetually in transit on prison buses and Con Air -- which is like Spirit Airlines, only you might be shackled to a Neo Nazi shot caller.
  24. Long game, Johannes. Long game indeed. As of a few years ago, he was literally making a living as a gigolo for very old women....Keeps those sweet sweet pills running through his veins.
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