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1 minute ago, DFW Horn said:

I'm not gonna pretend to know Sark's management style or MO.

We've beaten that to death on another thread, but all we've got are rumors, innuendo, and hearsay.

We literally have people who work for one fund and have insights into the program. It’s not guessing how sark manages 

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11 hours ago, TheBryMan81 said:

You know what, I agree with you!! In fact, any returning starter should just sit out the bowl practices too! Way too much risk. Don't these coaches know that Baxter got hurt during a practice??! A practice??! Nope, too much risk, don't let the starters practice either. They should just play EA CFB on PS5 against Michigan to try and simulate live reps. It's the only smart business decision.

We should just stop practicing all together or at least stop contact in practices and just throw against air. The NFL does it, what could go wrong? 

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1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

We literally have people who work for one fund and have insights into the program. It’s not guessing how sark manages 

Okay, then your question should be directed at them bc I don't work for the One Fund if it wasn't already obvious.

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This is a new rule for this upcoming year. Prior years had a spring window. Jan 2-16 is the only transfer window available now. The other teams “doing both” have a leg up because they’re in the CFP. We’re wasting time with this stupid bowl prep when Sark could be full throttle focused on recruiting these transfers.

There's an army of people on staff that do that year round. Sark can multi task for 11 million.
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We should just stop practicing all together or at least stop contact in practices and just throw against air. The NFL does it, what could go wrong? 

Would cutdown on 50% of injuries.
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1 hour ago, mdmost said:

I'm going to post this again. aggy's bowl game practices helped them get KC Concepcion when he was debating which school to transfer to. He attended aggy's Las Vegas Bowl practices and watched Marcel Reed throw. He committed shortly after that. aggy isn't playing the playoff without him. So yeah, maybe we can do both.

https://myaggienation.com/aggie_sports/football/how-texas-a-m-wr-kc-concepcions-bowl-practice-visit-helped-seal-his-transfer-decision/article_271097bf-6f6d-55a0-bb9c-3e06fe41d662.html

He went there for the money.

Born in NY, raised in Charlotte, went to NC State, then just randomly picks A&M?

 

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If you're looking for something else (or in addition) to do other than Disney/Universal, Gatorland is a great change of pace. Not as expensive or a big a hassle as the others, and they have a variety of exotic animals and shit for kids to do

The people I've recommended it generally come away with a remark along the lines of "that was surprisingly great, will go back" 

 

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Posted
42 minutes ago, TejasPedro said:

The idea of Sark getting a head start to the off season……..

and just like that 

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Or he could do like other coaches did and coach for the playoffs AND recruit the fuck out ot the portal. He chose to just prepare for playoffs and he chose to not make the playoffs this year with his lack of preparation for the season 

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1 hour ago, Nivek said:


Would cutdown on 50% of injuries.

It was sarcasm. It's a huge contributor to why our staff didn't see the issues with our OL and the offensive game plan prior to stepping on the field against OSU. 

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4 hours ago, MrBig said:

This is a new rule for this upcoming year. Prior years had a spring window. Jan 2-16 is the only transfer window available now. The other teams “doing both” have a leg up because they’re in the CFP. We’re wasting time with this stupid bowl prep when Sark could be full throttle focused on recruiting these transfers.

We have 3 weeks until a pretty unserious game vs playoff teams having potentially multiple real games during that span. I don’t think we are going to be game planning to the point that we can’t work the portal during that time. Seems like a non issue.

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4 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

We have 3 weeks until a pretty unserious game vs playoff teams having potentially multiple real games during that span. I don’t think we are going to be game planning to the point that we can’t work the portal during that time. Seems like a non issue.

It’s absolutely a non issue, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have 3 page discussion/argument about it. It’s the Surly way.

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8 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

We have 3 weeks until a pretty unserious game vs playoff teams having potentially multiple real games during that span. I don’t think we are going to be game planning to the point that we can’t work the portal during that time. Seems like a non issue.

2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Or he could do like other coaches did and coach for the playoffs AND recruit the fuck out ot the portal. He chose to just prepare for playoffs and he chose to not make the playoffs this year with his lack of preparation for the season 

Serious question. Has anyone else started to lose confidence that Sark can develop and get the same effort from our 5-star players and top-portal transfers that Cignetti seems to get from his 0-star players?  

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16 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

I think the value of having your school attend a meaningless bowl game is slipping below the drawbacks.

More and more marquee teams will opt out.

More and more recognizable players will opt out.

The college playoffs will continue to expand. 

Since the bowls have passed their relevancy, they will die, just as the runner-up game for the NFL championship game died in the late sixties.  

I haven't followed the discussion all that closely, but I don't really understand the "Playoffs have ruined bowls" argument.

Pre-playoffs and pre-BCS, the bowls were also meaningless.

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2 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

Serious question. Has anyone else started to lose confidence that Sark can develop and get the same effort from our 5-star players and top-portal transfers that Cignetti seems to get from his 0-star players?  

Maybe. Maybe not. Cignetti isn’t working here or elsewhere anytime soon so I don’t particularly care. 

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Posted
9 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

Serious question. Has anyone else started to lose confidence that Sark can develop and get the same effort from our 5-star players and top-portal transfers that Cignetti seems to get from his 0-star players?  

Does anyone get what cignetti gets from his 0-stars?

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15 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Maybe. Maybe not. Cignetti isn’t working here or elsewhere anytime soon so I don’t particularly care. 

Yeah this. Also, I'm sure this board full of coaching experts would have been totally cool with hiring a 62-year-old coach from JMU two years ago. 

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15 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Maybe. Maybe not. Cignetti isn’t working here or elsewhere anytime soon so I don’t particularly care. 

So you don't think it's relevant to compare what the competition is able to achieve with far less resources than Texas has? I think it's certainly worth considering, no?     

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9 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

So you don't think it's relevant to compare what the competition is able to achieve with far less resources than Texas has? I think it's certainly worth considering, no?     

In the Cheesiest bowl thread not really no. There’s other Cignetti circle jerks going on elsewhere already.

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5 minutes ago, bigup2dahorns said:

 

Lmfao. I read this as Steve sarkisian AND running backs coach Chad Scott and I was about to celebrate until the bowl game. 

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19 hours ago, mdmost said:

I'm going to post this again. aggy's bowl game practices helped them get KC Concepcion when he was debating which school to transfer to. He attended aggy's Las Vegas Bowl practices and watched Marcel Reed throw. He committed shortly after that. aggy isn't playing the playoff without him. So yeah, maybe we can do both.

https://myaggienation.com/aggie_sports/football/how-texas-a-m-wr-kc-concepcions-bowl-practice-visit-helped-seal-his-transfer-decision/article_271097bf-6f6d-55a0-bb9c-3e06fe41d662.html

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20 hours ago, mdmost said:

I'm going to post this again. aggy's bowl game practices helped them get KC Concepcion when he was debating which school to transfer to. He attended aggy's Las Vegas Bowl practices and watched Marcel Reed throw. He committed shortly after that. aggy isn't playing the playoff without him. So yeah, maybe we can do both.

https://myaggienation.com/aggie_sports/football/how-texas-a-m-wr-kc-concepcions-bowl-practice-visit-helped-seal-his-transfer-decision/article_271097bf-6f6d-55a0-bb9c-3e06fe41d662.html

Even if you only seen Reed play the two times he has lost against Texas, do you honestly believe someone could watch that kid throw and become so enamored they just have to play with that guy? I’m pretty sure he went to A&M because of the large sum of money they were offering.

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Posted (edited)
17 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

Serious question. Has anyone else started to lose confidence that Sark can develop and get the same effort from our 5-star players and top-portal transfers that Cignetti seems to get from his 0-star players?  

You might want to check the Sark thread and late in the Arch thread.

There is now a divide of back to back CFPs put it on the wall, better than Herman or Strong, and we can't do any better vs the math and behaviors compared against any equal level spenders doesn't work out, the plans are shitty, the position coaches suck and we need better results group. So, pretty much like every time Texas makes a bad football HC hire there is the fear of change head in the sand, rah rah support your coach and the our coach is not good divisions. It takes absolute failure for the yay team guys to see the light, every time. No amount of data will sway them.

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I will ease up on ND if Freeman is going to the Giants.

The nite before the announcement my BIL From Indiana said "Lets watch the TX/ND game together." 

A couple of hours later I was calling ND bitches. A day or so later he said he'd heard Freeman might be going to NYG. Now it's a main stream "betting favorite".

If the head coach is leaving, I'm ok with the team not taking the bowl.

As a player, I'd still want to play, unless all the coaches were leaving and we just weren't gonna have people to prep or wear headsets.

 

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21 hours ago, Pancho said:

He went there for the money.

Born in NY, raised in Charlotte, went to NC State, then just randomly picks A&M?

 

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Yeah, "watched Marcel Reed throw" as a for-pretend reason to choose his team to play for is comedy gold.

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52 minutes ago, Slacks said:

I will ease up on ND if Freeman is going to the Giants.

The nite before the announcement my BIL From Indiana said "Lets watch the TX/ND game together." 

A couple of hours later I was calling ND bitches. A day or so later he said he'd heard Freeman might be going to NYG. Now it's a main stream "betting favorite".

If the head coach is leaving, I'm ok with the team not taking the bowl.

As a player, I'd still want to play, unless all the coaches were leaving and we just weren't gonna have people to prep or wear headsets.

 

Only the AD has done press since the selection and Freeman has been pretty quiet. That alone should tell everybody the NFL rumors hold some weight. 

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19 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

Serious question. Has anyone else started to lose confidence that Sark can develop and get the same effort from our 5-star players and top-portal transfers that Cignetti seems to get from his 0-star players?  

Starting to?

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18 hours ago, UncleSonny said:

Yeah this. Also, I'm sure this board full of coaching experts would have been totally cool with hiring a 62-year-old coach from JMU two years ago. 

As opposed to say, a guy who averaged 7-6 for 5 years at Washington and went 9-4 in his single full season at USC before being let go the next year mid season.

You're right, no way Cignetti's resume would stack up to that level of domination.

53-17 at IUP (.757 winning %)

47-9 at JMU (.840 winning %)

Surely he'd fail at the P4 level:

23-2 at IU for a .920 winning % bringing him to a lifetime of .785

No way!!!

But coach Cougar High in the AAC to 22-4 (84.6%), that's a sure fire coaching hire.

OR going 37-15 (71.2 wp) at Louisville in the power house ACC for your complete HC resume is plenty.

Your post is stupid and you should feel bad for posting it.

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15 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

As opposed to say, a guy who averaged 7-6 for 5 years at Washington and went 9-4 in his single full season at USC before being let go the next year mid season.

You're right, no way Cignetti's resume would stack up to that level of domination.

53-17 at IUP (.757 winning %)

47-9 at JMU (.840 winning %)

Surely he'd fail at the P4 level:

23-2 at IU for a .920 winning % bringing him to a lifetime of .785

No way!!!

But coach Cougar High in the AAC to 22-4 (84.6%), that's a sure fire coaching hire.

OR going 37-15 (71.2 wp) at Louisville in the power house ACC for your complete HC resume is plenty.

Your post is stupid and you should feel bad for posting it.

I see you Googled him.

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Posted
15 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

Hill, Burke and Guilbeau (lol) are the guys who have opted out of the bowl game so far, per Burton.

Dudes have been battling through injury I don't blame them. No reason to go out there vs get healthy for combine. 

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Posted
16 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

Your post is stupid and you should feel bad for posting it.

Your contention is that Cignetti's resume wouldn't stack up against Tom Herman's AAC record at Houston, by *checks notes* including his P4 tenure at IU, after the fact? 

His non-IU winning percentage was 100-26 (.793), which is below Herman's 84.6%, when Herman was hired at Texas

I don't understand what Cignetti has to do with the Citrus Bowl - is he subbing in for Moore at Michigan? 

Fans don't make coaching hires, but we sure do argue about them and act like we were all on board the "current hottest P4 name who wasn't even on our radar at the time" 

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1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Your contention is that Cignetti's resume wouldn't stack up against Tom Herman's AAC record at Houston, by *checks notes* including his P4 tenure at IU, after the fact? 

His non-IU winning percentage was 100-26 (.793), which is below Herman's 84.6%, when Herman was hired at Texas

I don't understand what Cignetti has to do with the Citrus Bowl - is he subbing in for Moore at Michigan? 

Fans don't make coaching hires, but we sure do argue about them and act like we were all on board the "current hottest P4 name who wasn't even on our radar at the time" 

I’d argue his contention is Texas fucking sucks at hiring football coaches and the fact that Texas wouldn’t consider a Cignetti is why. Also Comparing a winning percentage state of a guy who coached 20 something game vs 100+ is fucking stupid. 

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5 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

I’d argue his contention is Texas fucking sucks at hiring football coaches

Maybe we should test this proposition.  The only school that comes to mind that hasn't hired a pretty abject failure over the last 25-30 years is Ohio State.  Oregon seems to have had a pretty decent run since coming to prominence.

Everyone else has their fair share of Strongs and Hermans.

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On 12/8/2025 at 12:52 PM, Hermanator said:

He was headed for a potential all pro laden career, and that injury robbed him of it. He had a single season that was decent and otherwise sucked completely for the Cowboys and bowed out of the league unceremoniously. 

Probably cost him $50+ million in salary and many years of a career. Only reason it wasn't far worse is because Jerry Jones is a top 5 dumbass in all of sports. 

Now that's a worst case scenario and unlikely to happen, but again, intelligent people think in terms of calculated risk. 

I know many of the old school fans here like to think in terms of the days when players made jack shit and went to sell houses in the off-season. They'd play for the hell of it because they weren't really risking anything even if the game was meaningless. That was the terrible bowl era that existed for far far too long. 

This new era actually gives more than 1 or 2 meaningful games in December/January. Is still not great because of the unbalanced conferences and weight placed on record and not quality of opponents, but it's slowly getting there.  At least now the people getting screwed have 2 or 3 losses and not 0 or 1. The sport has moved past the need for meaningless bowl games. The $$$ on the table has blown past the level where playing for meaningless games makes any sense for players going to the draft, or even your starting QB who is returning next year. Why risk Arch, who has taken a beating this season, behind a line that will be missing starters who are leaving for the draft? 

If your job told you if you took the rest of the year off you'd get several million dollars next summer, but if you worked the rest of the year (at no pay) there's even a 1 percent chance you wouldn't get the money, none of you would choose to work. 

You're expecting these players to think with your stupid fan brain. And unfortunately that pressure causes some of them to make bad decisions. That's why the coaches need to protect them and do what is right for them. And right for the team. This game is meaningless. 

Guys and gals get killed every year in drunken car wrecks or “shootings”. Are our people not gonna party this holiday? Nobody gonna drive over the next few weeks? For every story like the one above, there are three who actually got killed. The real problem is athletes coming back from injuries too quickly. And then some are just injury prone. It’s a lot a variables but most jocks wanna play the game. Whenever it’s offered. Some don’t. Let the players play. 

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I fucking love Texas Longhorn football.

When you love something, it has the ability to hurt you.

This has been a disappointing season for us, due mostly to a lot of pre-season hype that didn't pan out.

However, I am fucking pumped I get to watch my favorite team in the whole world play another game this season.

It may be a "meaningless" bowl game, but we are playing for our tenth win of the season, which should be the minimum expectation for the program.

We are playing another blue blood school that is ahead of us on the all-time wins list. We are 2-0 against them all time!

Yes, some of our players will opt out, but some of theirs will too.

Now let's get out there and beat the hell out of Meatchicken!

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Posted
17 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Maybe we should test this proposition.  The only school that comes to mind that hasn't hired a pretty abject failure over the last 25-30 years is Ohio State.  Oregon seems to have had a pretty decent run since coming to prominence.

Everyone else has their fair share of Strongs and Hermans.

We’ve hired 1 good coach in 40 years 

Posted (edited)
52 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Your contention is that Cignetti's resume wouldn't stack up against Tom Herman's AAC record at Houston, by *checks notes* including his P4 tenure at IU, after the fact? 

His non-IU winning percentage was 100-26 (.793), which is below Herman's 84.6%, when Herman was hired at Texas

I don't understand what Cignetti has to do with the Citrus Bowl - is he subbing in for Moore at Michigan? 

Fans don't make coaching hires, but we sure do argue about them and act like we were all on board the "current hottest P4 name who wasn't even on our radar at the time" 

 

My entire point is we have fuck all to do with the shitty choices Texas decision makers have regarding head coaches. Further, that Cignetti's resume prior was better, longer and more complete than any of the last 3 Texas hires and suprise, suprise his next step was better too. Would I have seen it as a better hire, yes. Would he have been my top choice, no. Would it have been preferable to any of the last 3, yes. 

I didn't bring up the topic in this thread, feel free to go back and find who did and complain to them. 

@BurntOrange&White nailed it.

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41 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Maybe we should test this proposition.  The only school that comes to mind that hasn't hired a pretty abject failure over the last 25-30 years is Ohio State.  Oregon seems to have had a pretty decent run since coming to prominence.

Everyone else has their fair share of Strongs and Hermans.

Yeah but our "great" coach prior was Butter Teeth and Coach Swip Swap Swill post. 

Maybe hire someone who has a winning track record at the P4 level consistently. Not sure why Texas decision makers always need the the redemption arch or hottest new unproven.

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11 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

Yeah but our "great" coach prior was Butter Teeth and Coach Swip Swap Swill post. 

Maybe hire someone who has a winning track record at the P4 level consistently. Not sure why Texas decision makers always need the the redemption arch or hottest new unproven.

Don’t even need p4 level. A championship pedigree and a winning percentage over .700 with many games, not just a couple of dozen. 

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2 hours ago, Cajun said:

Yeah, "watched Marcel Reed throw" as a for-pretend reason to choose his team to play for is comedy gold.

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22 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

It was sarcasm. It's a huge contributor to why our staff didn't see the issues with our OL and the offensive game plan prior to stepping on the field against OSU. 

I know, I was building off your snark with added snark.   I did read that ~50% of injuries happen during practice not during games.  So, it was intended as educational snark at that.  

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1 minute ago, Nivek said:

I know, I was building off your snark with added snark.   I did read that ~50% of injuries happen during practice not during games.  So, it was intended as educational snark at that.  

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Can we leave the "sark sucks" stuff to the appropriate thread, for fucks sake.       Whether he sucks or not, it doesn't matter because he isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so just confine the bitching and the sometimes absolutely valid complaints to one or two threads, it doesn't have to infect every thread with the same people saying the same things.   Jesus.

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5 minutes ago, Mr. Drummond said:

Can we leave the "sark sucks" stuff to the appropriate thread, for fucks sake.       Whether he sucks or not, it doesn't matter because he isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so just confine the bitching and the sometimes absolutely valid complaints to one or two threads, it doesn't have to infect every thread with the same people saying the same things.   Jesus.

Well, you could just try posting content discussion about the game rather than bitching about content you don't like in the thread. 

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