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As you watch this game unfold tonight, imagine what could have been...
Posted on 1/12/15 at 9:38 pm
Posted on 1/12/15 at 9:38 pm
We had Urban Meyer in College Station for an interview on December 1st, 2002 and were prepared to offer him the job...until word came down that a guy named Dennis Franchione was looking to leave Bama.
And the rest is history. Four days later we made the biggest splash hire in college football. The next week, Utah hired Meyer.
And the rest is history. Four days later we made the biggest splash hire in college football. The next week, Utah hired Meyer.
This post was edited on 1/12/15 at 9:39 pm
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Posted on 1/12/15 at 9:43 pm to Roger Klarvin
McNeal in Urbs offense tho
Posted on 1/12/15 at 9:45 pm to Roger Klarvin
Do you want us to melt again?? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT??!?
Posted on 1/12/15 at 10:12 pm to Roger Klarvin
frick Fran frick Fran frick Fran
Posted on 1/12/15 at 10:20 pm to Roger Klarvin
WHY THE frick ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME
Posted on 1/12/15 at 10:31 pm to Roger Klarvin
frick you.
Posted on 1/13/15 at 1:40 am to Roger Klarvin
I was working nights at that time, and the feeling amongst me and my co-workers was that we should gamble on a young up and coming head coach at Bowling Green. We didn't.
Posted on 1/13/15 at 2:04 am to Slotback
I was a huge Meyer fan and I told anyone who would listen that hiring Fran was a huge mistake. I would have loved to have had Meyer, but had he come to A&M and had the success I think he would have had, who knows how the future would have unfolded?
It's quite possible it could have caused a very different future: tu likely doesn't have the success they did, perhaps the LHN never comes to be, maybe Nebraska doesn't leave, maybe we never move to the SEC. Hard to say, but maybe that short-term curse (I know, it seemed like forever) was a long-term blessing!
It's quite possible it could have caused a very different future: tu likely doesn't have the success they did, perhaps the LHN never comes to be, maybe Nebraska doesn't leave, maybe we never move to the SEC. Hard to say, but maybe that short-term curse (I know, it seemed like forever) was a long-term blessing!
This post was edited on 1/13/15 at 2:05 am
Posted on 1/13/15 at 4:45 am to gvwheeler
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I told anyone who would listen that hiring Fran was a huge mistake
Sure you did.
Posted on 1/13/15 at 4:50 am to Roger Klarvin
Eh, you never know how things would have turned out under different circumstances. Meyer still would have had to deal with a shitty set of circumstances in college station, what with being behind in the facilities arms race and having an athletic department that was not all in to win in football right away.
Plus, at the time, hiring Fran away from Bama was lauded similarly to the way we're giddy about stealing Chavis from LSU. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't, but it'll be on us. No coach is magic.
Plus, at the time, hiring Fran away from Bama was lauded similarly to the way we're giddy about stealing Chavis from LSU. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't, but it'll be on us. No coach is magic.
Posted on 1/13/15 at 9:56 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Eh, you never know how things would have turned out under different circumstances. Meyer still would have had to deal with a shitty set of circumstances in college station, what with being behind in the facilities arms race and having an athletic department that was not all in to win in football right away.
Right. Meyer probably would have had success here, but he wasn't going to have the talent advantage he's had at Florida and OSU.
In fact, I choose to look at it this way: he probably wouldn't have won any national championships, but he would have won enough for us to remain satisfied, complacent. Enough so that there probably wouldn't be sufficient motivation among the fanbase to take the huge risk of divorcing UTx and jumping to the SEC.
Posted on 1/13/15 at 10:23 am to gvwheeler
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It's quite possible it could have caused a very different future: tu likely doesn't have the success they did, perhaps the LHN never comes to be, maybe Nebraska doesn't leave, maybe we never move to the SEC. Hard to say, but maybe that short-term curse (I know, it seemed like forever) was a long-term blessing!
Good point. Without the 2000's our brand isn't so shite that Texas doesn't lift a finger to stop us in 2011. I think 20 years from now the real story will be how Dodd's didn't use every piece of political power he had in the state to keep us locked in. Because lets be honest- between legislators and a Baylor wanting to be a proxy war zone- if they really tried they maybe could have stopped us. They decided not to try for selfish reasons (they wrongly figure that gives them an out down the road), but the fact is that we benefitted.
Without Fran we aren't such a lack of a threat that happens. So thank you Fran I guess.
Posted on 1/13/15 at 11:45 am to cardboardboxer
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Sure you did.
> WBS I wasn't active on any boards, so any telling I did was just to friends. I felt much of Fran's TCU success was due to LT (who was already on the team) and playing in the WAC. I knew guys on the Alabama team and they did not speak highly of Fran.
Posted on 1/13/15 at 1:45 pm to gvwheeler
Don't worry about WBS. He hatin'. I believe you.
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