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re: Bijan Robinson calls out a clear culture problem that's infecting the Texas Longhorns
Posted on 10/21/26 at 10:38 am to CT Hooktip
Posted on 10/21/26 at 10:38 am to CT Hooktip
I have long held saxet has always been hampered by the players sense of entitlement.
UT typically doesn't have to recruit so much as decide who to choose from among the kids who wanted to play for them.
Every one who wears the orange jersey was The Man in highschool, pampered and told he was the greatest.
Then they go to Austin where the show amps up an order of magnitude and all of sudden learning, practicing and playing football takes a backseat to everything else going on around them.
The whorns do less with more than any other team.
UT typically doesn't have to recruit so much as decide who to choose from among the kids who wanted to play for them.
Every one who wears the orange jersey was The Man in highschool, pampered and told he was the greatest.
Then they go to Austin where the show amps up an order of magnitude and all of sudden learning, practicing and playing football takes a backseat to everything else going on around them.
The whorns do less with more than any other team.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 10:48 am to CT Hooktip
quote:I'd say entitlement has eaten at the culture of every major football program. But, it's especially highlighted at a place like Texas where you think you've arrived and the logo wins games. Combine that with undeserved media hype, a larger bullseye on your back and feeling extra pressure, and you have what we're seeing now.
do you believe this to be true
That said, Champ's held up his end of the bargain. He seems to be able to see through all of that and coach up his players in such a way that they don't assume they're owed anything. Sark should be picking his brain right about now.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 11:08 am to CT Hooktip
Bijan is probably a bit outdated in his commentary, but I do think every program has a “type” who they tend to attract. Sark/Texas’ type probably isn’t as committed to football as a passion than someone who chooses an OSU, Georgia, or Alabama. That isn’t permanent, but it’s probably been true for 15-20 years.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 11:14 am to CT Hooktip
Yes, it's true. There was a article written about Mac's last years of collapse with similar elements. Texas was always getting plenty of 4/5 star players, but they were more interested in 6th street and partying in the city away from home than playing football.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 11:15 am to CT Hooktip
Bijan is smart.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 11:32 am to CT Hooktip
So Arch's issues are too much partying or getting a new commercial after every bad game he has.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 11:36 am to AggieArchitect2004
Well, there appears to be a major culture problem at Texas A&M as well. All that money spent on the rosters and coaches, and for what?
Posted on 10/21/26 at 11:37 am to JacieNY
Players are pulling more money than their position or strength coaches and folks act like they aren’t supposed to have attitude. Lol
Posted on 10/21/26 at 11:41 am to CT Hooktip
"lesser teams"?
That guy is full of shite. Those teams worked their asses off to prepare to play. I prefer to say those were teams that played with heart, vision and knew how to rise to the ocassion.
That guy is full of shite. Those teams worked their asses off to prepare to play. I prefer to say those were teams that played with heart, vision and knew how to rise to the ocassion.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 12:03 pm to CT Hooktip
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Longhorn fans: do you believe this to be true, or is the author, Sam Ferris, or Bijan Robinson, full of shite?
It's worse than what Bijan says.
Sark has instilled a shitty culture and worse yet the dumbass actually thinks it's good...
Posted on 10/21/26 at 12:28 pm to JacieNY
I remember Charlie Strong came in hard with rules and boosters were ready to fire him before he coached a game lol
Aug 2014:
Texas coach Charlie Strong confirms 5 players dismissed, 3 suspended for violation of team rules
Aug 2014:
Texas coach Charlie Strong confirms 5 players dismissed, 3 suspended for violation of team rules
Posted on 10/21/26 at 12:30 pm to CT Hooktip
Didn't Bijan Robinson get smoked by Arkansas?
Posted on 10/21/26 at 12:58 pm to OU Guy
Posted on 10/21/26 at 2:15 pm to CT Hooktip
It’s a problem everywhere, not just Texas. You have spoiled 18/19 old players, making more money than anyone other than the HC, who don’t give a damn about the school because they have agents and family blowing smoke up their arse and wanting them to transfer for even more money. A program can’t coach them, discipline them.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 2:35 pm to AZHorn
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if the coach can schmooze the boosters.
This is probably a bigger task at Texas and ATM and even Texas Tech and any school in Texas where the boosters are mainly Texans. Texans love the idea of every thing being bigger in Texas....and it includes egos and expectations. I have known some semi-wealthy Texans - not $1 million a year for an offensive lineman wealthy but wealthy enough to be able to do some stupid shite with large sums of money without a care in the world, wealthy enough to travel as much as they pleased or buy as much land as they could want without any plans to do anything with it ever....that sort of wealthy. Everyone of them had a highly inflated image of themselves....I can't imagine this goes away as they get even wealthier and can buy a quarterback. This is true of boosters everywhere BUT I would bet a coca cola that it is worse with Texans than it is with people in Iowa or Alabama....because wealthy people in Iowa and Alabama are kind of serious people....wealthy Texans are anything but....I suspect they gladly donate millions of millions and expect the fact that they have the money to do so makes it obvious that they know more about football than the head coach and fully expect that their demands be met or they will withold their money. Again I do not know this for certain but knowing Texans as I do it wouldn't be surprising that they are worse in Texas than elsewhere because they are Texans.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 2:43 pm to Cimarron
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What would Tommy Nobis say....
The same thing Bijan did - I am signing with the Falcons!!!! Bijan is proving to be more impactful though but those Falcons teams Nobis was on were abysmal. He was a hero of mine as a kid though....
I remember something about an astronaut asking where Nobis had signed while orbiting earth. May be an urban legend though....
Posted on 10/21/26 at 2:48 pm to Texaninalabama
solid post 
This post was edited on 10/21/26 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 10/21/26 at 3:00 pm to Drewbie
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Didn't Bijan Robinson get smoked by Arkansas?
Blaming Bijan for dumbfrick Sark running out shell shocked Hudson Card behind that god awful line is a thing just not sure it is the right thing.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 3:50 pm to CT Hooktip
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Longhorn fans: do you believe this to be true, or is the author, Sam Ferris, or Bijan Robinson, full of shite?
I believe we have an overrated, arrogant, moron at head coach. That's all I really know for sure.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 6:25 pm to Rodo
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Rodo
You can weigh in when the question is about gay culture you chanting freak show loser
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