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Magus Ossis

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  1. Does this count in NCAA's eyes as being a Longhorn booster when he represents himself so crappily as aggy?
  2. I am sure that USC will have no problem with hiring a top offensive coordinator, that said coordinator will fit in well with the existing position coaches, that the players will love him and be happy Kliff left, that they will not choke their talent away by underperforming again next year, and that CH and LS will have long and storied futures in the USC athletic department. EDIT sorry wrong thread really
  3. Oops I flipped the game in my head when it was time to slot them. This is a valid criticism of a clear error.
  4. A top 10 finish would not hurt in burnishing our Sugar-topped recruiting pitch. My guess is we do slide in, with OU 3 or 4 and aggy middle teens. It will be interesting to see where we rank compared to the UGA team we just beat in light of their significantly better overall W/L. Assuming the Fightin' Texum Bulldogs Tuscaloosa Campus wins tonight, I would not be surprised to see something like: 1 Bama 2 Clemson 3 OU 4 ND/tOSU 5 tOSU/ND 6 Florida 7 LSU 8 Kentucky 9 UGA/TEXAS 10 TEXAS/UGA 11 Michigan 12 Washington 13 Penn State 14 UCF 15 aggy 16 Miss St 17 WSU 18 Syracuse 19 Northwestern 20 Auburn 21 Army 22 Wisconsin 23 Virginia 24, 25 WVU/Utah/Boise
  5. I am in the camp that was looking forward to seeing what Rising could do. That said, there are 22+ positions on the field. QB is the most important, but even so having 5+ guys on scholarship is a bit much. Ideally you have a starter, a backup, number three, and a freshman you are redshirting. Shane is no Sam substitute, but he is our #2. RoJo is the RS. As much as we hate to lose promising guys, someone really should leave. With a year to chill, practice, and develop, and with the nightmare of the '16 and '17 lines starting to shrink in the rearview, Shane might be a better backup than we expect. The news that Thompson was engaged is certainly promising. It would be a bummer if we lost more than one QB.
  6. He would be wise to get a job far from interaction with the public. The Surl is out there. And the potential humiliation from having to provide (potentially documented by cell phone pix/movies) customer service to it is ugly ugly ugly.
  7. Turnover even when things are not going well is a two-edged sword. When things are going well, replacing even a weak link can have at least some downside. Unless Herman (as given 30,000 foot advice by CDC) thinks Drayton is hamstringing us with Evans, I have difficulty seeing him fired. He has a good rep, has presumably been involved in building relationship with our prime RB target (who happens to be in-state this time), and is not obviously our weakest link. Meh may be meh, but our WRs are playing well, and we just reeled in some national top guys at the position. His seat doesn't look hot from where I am. Giles and Herman go way back. The last two B12 DL of the year were ours. We have not been landing 5*s, and losing Leal stung, but Giles doesn't look like he is doomed either. TH has apparently taken over calling plays from Beck. TH has expended some PR capital downplaying and nearly outright denying it, though. Beck has seemed to be plus in recruiting, QB development, and game preparation. After watching that opening drive in the Sugar and seeing the final result, it would be hard for me to imagine that Herman will fire Beck. Demoting him likewise would mean backtracking in a way I find unlikely. That leaves W. He was half-fired last year. Hand is the name our recruits know. Cutting ties to him is highly unlikely to sink any boats for us. Hand is the one coaching up our line. We are tilted toward too many offensive guys. It may be couched as a promotion to senior executive vice president for football consultants, but I think he is very likely going to be involuntarily removed from our official coaching staff. And I think only he is.
  8. I wouldn't mind playing them more often as part of their extra game if it were added. I could live with less UTEP and semi-guaranteed OOC victory.
  9. You and Pete Carroll. Everyone in the CFB universe knew that the only chance USC had to win was to convert that 4th down. With the lead late in the 4th quarter and the chance to pin us deep, the coach of the greatest football team ever was rightly afraid of VY.
  10. The likelihood of at least one of these occurring would seem considerable.
  11. Mike Williams was a transition class guy from Mackovic, too
  12. The argument that is being made is that Charlie was gift-wrapped the Sam Ehlinger commitment and did not screw it up. It is to his credit that he did not. Not a great achievement, but not a failure. But the bigger argument is about the rebuilding job Herman faced versus Mack. Mack could start the year 2 version of Major Applewhite who had the benefit of a RS year. Herman had a pre-damaged true SO SB and a true FR Sam. While Mack did not exactly inherit year three VY, clearly he had more with which to work in his first year. But the big difference, as SushiHorn pointed out, was the lines, especially OL.
  13. Great HS QB who demonstrably did not tear it up at first in college. That is exactly what I’m saying. Easy to see he had promise but had not been prepared (obviously, as there was no opportunity) to take the reins.
  14. Charlie accepted the commitment of a die-hard Longhorn fan who broke Drew Brees’ records in HS. Strong didn’t call him to get him to reconsider his commitment on learning he was fired. True. The insight and legwork to identify and land Sam was less than overwhelming, and true SO Shane was not RS FR Major. Also, the Sam we see now is not the same version many still wanted shitcanned as recently as this season. This staff has helped him develop. I don’t see the QB room as helping refute the argument that Herman inherited a disaster.
  15. Mack inherited a roster that included 3 first-round draft picks, not counting Shaun Rogers or Ricky. THE Ricky. So far the top 2 draft picks to have played for Herman are CW and Malik. Not quite the same. Strong did leave some guys here who could play, but not like Mackovic did.
  16. Mack took over a team that underperformed the year before, but it was not devoid of talent by any stretch. It had won conference titles 2 of the 3 previous years. It had Sugar Bowl veterans on it. Humphrey, McGarity, and Ricky were no slouches. Herman took over a team that had no conference championships over the span of 8 years and who didn’t even know what a winning college season felt like. Mack revived a hungover and out-of-shape 20 year old and won the conference in his 8th season. Herman is trying (with signs of success) to re-animate a corpse. If he doesn’t win a title for 6 more years, we can say he may be behind Mack.
  17. As a general rule, in the long run, you and your organization will fare better if you work for the good of those under you. More and higher quality people will want to work for you and will work harder. Inmates are not known for their exceptional performance on behalf of wardens, for the most part. The whole “you can’t quit” attitude is not a recipe for building esprit de corps.
  18. PROFICISCETVR All these changes in language make you youngsters hard to understand.
  19. Old rule. New commitment to enforcement. I read and post on Surly. Unless he came to Surly to see what we idoits do before setting his media plan, most of us non-995-donors had no appreciable influence on him. Correct. He wasn’t coming. Sam did what honest non-diva football players who get offered by their dream school should do. He publicly announced what he said he would when he said he would. That is not the same thing as full candor. Yes. Every man is responsible for his own behavior. What Bru did wasn’t any mortal sin, but it is what it is. Drama of his construction. Certainly there are partners with him in his attention seeking, but I don’t give him attention, nor do a lot of the guys here. I post here and more about Sam and Herman than about anybody else. And I do it because they affect Texas’s on-field results. There is not enough support in the universe for what following Texas football and hence recruiting does to our emotions. But I would like an emotional support 6-pack, please. Kliff should resign if Swann won’t release him to interview. Unless K has been deceptive about his long-term goals, S is jerking him around. K’s stock is high, and now is the time to pursue opportunity.
  20. He is a stud for sure This would not have been written if we had landed him. We need to wish the guy good luck, take the L and move on. It is not debatable that a player like Bru raises the chance of winning a championship especially when our biggest rival signed 2 5*s. No need to come up with weak sauce rationalizations. I said we would use him and that getting him would be nice. My points were (1) WR seems a strange position on which to expend anguish in this cycle, knowing what we do now, and (2) dude was not coming here. Sort of like if a grad transfer QB were on the radar, a real stud; he is going to Oregon but the 995ers keep throwing our name out there, too. He would make a great addition, but isn’t exactly the missing piece to our puzzle nor one we’re getting anyway. I wanted Bru to come here and was occasionally intrigued by apparent oddities in his recruitment, but today’s announcement was about a 1 on the Malikmas scale.
  21. If Texas can’t win a championship in the next few years, it is not going to be because we failed to sign talent to catch passes this year. Sometimes we need 3, pursue 6, land 2 consolation prizes, and sweat it out. We landed Who is probably 5* material in Washington, the GPotY in Smith, and record-breaker Whittington in addition to what is basically a bonus year of CJ. All this before we even know if we get an ‘extra’ year of LJ. We hit a grand slam HR on WR recruiting. Winning is nice, and we would have found a way to use McCoy, but the fascination with a guy who was not coming here and who does not play at a position of real need is crazy. I could see if he were a world-beater JuCo LT with 3 years to play 3. I have to agree with the sentiment that we should focus on who we got, not the ones we didn’t.
  22. I know we tell aggy jokes, mock their idiocy, and watch the recruits that could break either way. OU is our main rival, and we express enmity almost every time their name comes up. But was anyone thinking about either of them in the Sugar Bowl? Can you imagine celebrating a life decision by coming up with something negative And OU-related to say? Just wow. Hookem!
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