Started By
Message
re: Who will challenge A&M for the #1 class in '15?
Posted on 1/31/14 at 12:14 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
Posted on 1/31/14 at 12:14 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
So in other words, yall have no excuse for being so horrible while you were in the Big12?
3
Posted on 1/31/14 at 12:16 pm to cas4t
Kinda sounds like us in the late 90's.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 12:16 pm to cas4t
quote:
So in other words, yall have no excuse for being so horrible while you were in the Big12?
Coaching.
R.C. Slocum wouldn't begin recruiting until December.
Dennis Franchione never recruited depth in the trenches and ruined two of the best quarterbacks to ever play HS football in Texas by changing his offense to a zone read in 2005 and a pure option in 2006.
Mike Sherman had the right idea but was a HORRIBLE gameday coach.
This post was edited on 1/31/14 at 12:18 pm
Posted on 1/31/14 at 12:19 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
quote:
wouldn't begin recruiting until December.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 12:21 pm to cas4t
quote:
So in other words, yall have no excuse for being so horrible while you were in the Big12?
Yeah coaching and the monumental task of the machine pushing us 2 steps back for every 1 step forward.
There was a lot of underhanded things going on in this state when it came to where kids ended up. I saw it first hand on three seperate occasions with guys I played with in high school and have seen it with 2 friends kids in more recent history. Not an excuse just pointing out what I saw is all.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 12:22 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
quote:
Dennis Franchione
Could leave it at that. When you have a head coach that says he doesn't know why people get so upset about losing because it happens to half the teams every week...
Posted on 1/31/14 at 12:23 pm to Agforlife
well Sumlin seems to have righted the ship so yall can put that bullshite behind ya 
Posted on 1/31/14 at 12:25 pm to cas4t
Yeah Sumlin has helped but getting away from the Big 12-2+2-2 and joining the SEC has really done more to shut that shite down than anything.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 12:26 pm to DWag215
I'm glad I could give you all this thread.
I have a similar one brewing on the Rant.
Please feel free to contribute.
I have a similar one brewing on the Rant.
Please feel free to contribute.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 12:33 pm to Projectpat
Our problem was complacence.
It was bigger than one coach or a couple recruiting classes.
Slocum dominated the SWC from '85-'95. The Big 12 started and we were still the team to beat, but Mack Brown, Bob Stoops, and Mike Leach came in and changed the game before we even knew what had happened.
Mack started offering guys a year before signing day and capitalized off the momentum of Ricky Williams winning the Heisman his first year. He would lock down half of the elite guys in the state before Slocum even knew who they were.
Stoops came in and won a natty within 2 years with Blake's players. OU had underachieved big time and was being blown out in the early years of the Big 12. Nobody was ready for that. He started kicking arse and invading the state for recruits.
Mike Leach brought a new offense that nobody had ever seen before. It couldn't be stopped with the slow, fat linemen we'd brought in and Slocum never adapted. While the rise of OU and Texas led to Slocum's downfall, it was actually Leach who got Slocum fired.
We followed that up with a "home-run" hire in Franchione who had succeeded everywhere he'd been. He was horrible, but so was the situation. Another terrible coaching hire in Sherman has left us where we are. Our roster still hasn't recovered.
The bottom line is that our world got rocked when we were on the top of the Texas mountain and we were too dense to realize it. We were still beating Texas, OU, and Tech while all these changes were happening, so that made us naive to the impact it would have.
It was bigger than one coach or a couple recruiting classes.
Slocum dominated the SWC from '85-'95. The Big 12 started and we were still the team to beat, but Mack Brown, Bob Stoops, and Mike Leach came in and changed the game before we even knew what had happened.
Mack started offering guys a year before signing day and capitalized off the momentum of Ricky Williams winning the Heisman his first year. He would lock down half of the elite guys in the state before Slocum even knew who they were.
Stoops came in and won a natty within 2 years with Blake's players. OU had underachieved big time and was being blown out in the early years of the Big 12. Nobody was ready for that. He started kicking arse and invading the state for recruits.
Mike Leach brought a new offense that nobody had ever seen before. It couldn't be stopped with the slow, fat linemen we'd brought in and Slocum never adapted. While the rise of OU and Texas led to Slocum's downfall, it was actually Leach who got Slocum fired.
We followed that up with a "home-run" hire in Franchione who had succeeded everywhere he'd been. He was horrible, but so was the situation. Another terrible coaching hire in Sherman has left us where we are. Our roster still hasn't recovered.
The bottom line is that our world got rocked when we were on the top of the Texas mountain and we were too dense to realize it. We were still beating Texas, OU, and Tech while all these changes were happening, so that made us naive to the impact it would have.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 12:34 pm to uncle jimbo
alright well that's too much to read
good day
good day
Posted on 1/31/14 at 12:51 pm to Projectpat
That was Slocum. "Half the taaeeems in cawledge footbaaawl lawst todayyy.."
Posted on 1/31/14 at 1:27 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
quote:
That was Slocum. "Half the taaeeems in cawledge footbaaawl lawst todayyy.."
All HC contracts should provide that uttering such bullshite is cause for immediate dismissal and voiding any buyout or future obligation.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 3:16 pm to DWag215
29 down votes. #solid.
Posted on 1/31/14 at 3:18 pm to KaiserSoze99
Franchione's was FAR worse.
After getting demolished by Miami in 2007 on national TV, Fran was quoted as saying "The PRESEASON is over".
After getting demolished by Miami in 2007 on national TV, Fran was quoted as saying "The PRESEASON is over".
Posted on 1/31/14 at 7:15 pm to DWag215
you really think that your team is going to hold #1 for the entire year? GTFOHB 
Posted on 2/1/14 at 8:35 am to Nguyening
Yep, wrong again 
Posted on 2/1/14 at 11:05 am to Labossman
This thread could get interesting after today.
Posted on 2/5/14 at 9:59 am to Projectpat
quote:
After Young commits it will only be 2x
Oh and of course McGraw, then it's 1.333333x
Posted on 2/5/14 at 10:00 am to LSU Patrick
Page 10 of 11
Popular
Back to top
Follow SECRant for SEC Football News