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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. Everyone knows the proper term is "ensemble."
  2. LHB actually plays a lot. The issue is that we are so in love with our new Jumbotron toy. Whoever runs that is allergic to silence. 100% of the time during the game is “scheduled,” and there is zero spontaneity. Multiple times the Jumbotron played over LHB.
  3. Just tried the mobile site again, it’s been awhile. I’ll take the L, it’s much better than last time I tried it. Much faster. Tapa UI still cleaner but mobile good now.
  4. Let’s stop with the CFP talk until we beat OU and win the Big12 at least. Tech is not good.
  5. Tapa is 3x faster than Safari on iOS and doesn’t load all the extra bullshit like burnt end logos that are just our self jack offs. It’s also better than the shitty tapa wannabe app they suggested we try that required TestFlight.
  6. He for sure has issues w/ his motion that Chip or whoever we have in that spot now can work on. But I think his issues are mostly mental now; he can hit the three...he just never, ever, ever shoots it. He needs that sports therapist from Ted Lasso lol.
  7. He’s talented but I’m not sure anyone can un-fuck his mental block.
  8. Not if his goal was be a NFL lineman.
  9. My fav SMU uniforms, the Dallas script is nice.
  10. If it was as easy as "knowing the model" then the dozen Saban assistant coaches hired across CFB would have replicated Bama already. Fan expectations need to be reset, people thinking we'd turn it around in one year weren't realistic. We didn't go to shit overnight and we don't git gud overnight either.
  11. Reading is hard: "In order of importance since 2009" Yeah, his fucking the program in his last few years and where that got us was pretty important.
  12. Only a handful of people know for sure. Maybe it was a request (that we denied) for "complete" control, whatever that actually means. Or maybe @WhatTheBuck is right about how Urban felt he got to the mountaintop at tOSU and there was nothing left for him in CFB. Or maybe it was the BMDs, or the LHN time commitment, or whatever. Only UM knows and I haven't heard him comment on it. If you believe the "reporting," CDC wasn't driving the bus on the hire anyway, it was a handful of others. So yeah any of those possibilities you wrote above are just that, possible. Or not. I see a ton of people lashing out at the AD because they are angry with a bad loss, when 1) I don't see the AD as the root cause of the issue, and 2) I can't point to anything the AD would have done differently in the past 18 months or so (prior to that, sure). Texas' issues, in ranked order of importance since 2009: Mack Brown burnt the house down on the way out and fucked us, and has been actively trying to fuck us ever since to preserve his notion of his "deserved legacy" by badmouthing us all over the place. This had mostly diminished a decade later but really reverberated through the program for the 5-6 years after he left. Unprofessionalism in the AD from 2009 - 2017 leading to easily avoidable poor hires in the head football coach. This lead to Charlie Strong and Tom Herman. Bad luck in hiring. Hindsight is 20/20 but wow Strong looks bad in the rearview mirror. Herman looks like about what you'd expect, a mid major coach over his head. Jury still out on Sark IMO. Texas HS football/7 on 7 - the model for TXHSFB creates amazing skill players that are picked up by top programs around the nation. I don't believe the lines are at the same level of quality anymore. This continues to be an issue and will continue to be until we regularly reach outside of the state for line recruits. We'll see how this changes. Bad recruiting - we've brought in a lot of softies especially in the O-line. Another big reason for Sark... Bad development - players have actually regressed when they got on campus. Big reason for the Sark pick... Lack of NFL picks - related to everything above ... 32. Facilities - no where near as big as people make it out to be ... 89. Austin's distractions - waaaay down the list ... 534. Woke Culture - IMO this barely registers. The Eyes controversy wasn't generated or driven by the players, it was a few loud voices on campus. Unfortunately the players got dragged into it and everyone shoved a mic in their face. More and more I'm landing in the @David Dennison camp that getting the right guy is a fortuitous combination of luck and timing. You need the right guy and the right time at the right place.
  13. Our stadium is named after our football coach who was a Sooner. I think we'd be fine.
  14. Not sure I buy this...if you believe the reports we threw the kitchen sink @ Urban, offered to make him the highest paid CFB coach ever, highest assistant coach pool ever, basically give him everything and he still said no. So I'm not sure what more you're looking for from the AD there. On the donations and cap projects...uhhh, yeah they care about that stuff, it's their job. If they weren't going for donations and cap projects you and others would be equally on here bitching about "OMG the AD sucks I can't believe with all of Texas' resources they're letting our facilities get so far behind!" It's a no win. And no, I don't work in the AD...
  15. I keep hearing this...what do you mean specifically with regard to football? We swung for Urban Meyer, he didn't buy. So we got Sark and MOST of what I've seen on this board and elsewhere has been optimistic on him up until this point. We spent zillions on upgrading facilities, new SEZ, locker rooms, workout rooms. We have one of the highest paid assistant coach pools in America if not the highest. We fire our coaches after 4 years even with all that support if they don't demonstrate meeting our standard. What more from the AD specifically are you looking for, and what is the AD not doing for football that they should be?
  16. I'm not ready to bail on Sark yet. Losing isn't a sin but looking flat bad while doing it is. I read his face last night as surprise and shock that Card wasn't performing up to his practice level. As we got further and further in the hole he looked dejected. Everyone expresses emotions outwardly differently but some fire is what the fans want to see and you wonder if the team could have used some of that as well. But scheme can only address so much. We are really BAD on the O-line. Lots of reasons in this thread: poor coaching/development, bad recruiting choices, laziness and lack of motivation on the players part once they get on campus. Maybe it's a combination. I'll throw out another: Texas HS football. The basketball on grass RPO game that's out there now doesn't develop linemen as road graters. Do the o-line players at Wisconsin, Bama, Georgia come from RPO HS programs? I'm actually curious. Also, Casey wasn't that much better than Card. He had the benefit of 1) Arky had backed way off into prevent D and were conceding everything to kill clock including allowing him to run, 2) some drive extending penalties, 3) zero pressure because we were going to lose anyway. Yes he was better but it was moving from a QB who is 40/100 on Madden to one who was 53/100. If we had started Casey we might be one touchdown closer in the final score but we still would have lost, badly.
  17. Worse than Rout 66? Worse than the string of 50-point shellackings that OU put on us? Worse than losing to Kansas? I can think of many, many worse losses than this.
  18. OU is going to run for 700 yards on us with some new midget
  19. Meh, it was fine. I'd rather have a backup that gets meaningful game reps and it's not like Sark put in Casey after Card went 3-and-out on the first drive. Card is the starter and that's obvious. I trust Sark to make the right call to have an effective QB position, and not just assume it's to "appease Thompson."
  20. Ah yes I wondered when the Tribune and NAACP were saving their hit piece for...makes sense it's right after our first game. Although they would have much preferred that it came after a loss than a win. This doesn't hit nearly as hard when the team stayed for and sang the Eyes after the game, sorry y'all.
  21. Huh...so why sell them at the game then lol
  22. Dumb question: we got a couple of those Texas Yeti tumblers @ the game yesterday. Are we able to bring those back in for future games (empty)?
  23. I wouldn't say terrible, but it could be better. They've dialed back the ads in the past few years...I refer you to the Taco Bell GONG and that stupid fucking weatherman.
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