re: Let's all take a moment to point and laugh at what is going down on the 40 Acres

I doubt it.

Charlie did all this disciplinary stuff as a recruiting counter to Sumlin's player's - at the time - well-publicized disciplinary and legal issues.

But Charlie isn't very smart. He is calculating, but only just so. He's like a dog in that they can be mischievous, but only one chess-move out. After that, there's been no thinking and no plan.

For instance, as part of Strong's "show of discipline" to attract the parents of recruits who Strong thought he might be able to convince to see his program as a safe-haven from Sumlin's lawlessness, Strong conceived this "living in the dorms" idea. But he couldn't see past that initial hypothetical benefit or fully grasp the consequences. The fact is that a lot of recruits were attracted to UT for the fun of college in Austin and Strong took that away. The guy denied himself one of his biggest assets and turned it into a liability instead. Now instead of choosing between "fun Austin" and "boring College Station" there's "College Station with fun Sumlin" and "Austin where I have to live in a dorm and put up with Charlie Stalin."