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re: Let's all take a moment to point and laugh at what is going down on the 40 Acres
Posted on 9/9/15 at 7:53 pm to Iosh
Posted on 9/9/15 at 7:53 pm to Iosh
I feel like I felt on Christmas Day when I was nine and I got the bike I wanted. Just euphoria. Their entire athletic department is falling apart in the most glorious fashion possible. I mean if we Aggies got together and came up with a script for Texas failing (like we were writing a screenplay or something), it wouldn't be much better than this.
-They ran off a legend in embarrassing fashion
-The coaching search you're going to tell your grandkids about was an epic failure
-Strong hoodwinked the UT brass. He's definitely not much of an offensive coach and I'm not sure Strong is that great of a defensive coach either. I'm starting to think he just had a lot of talent at Florida, Louisville, and Texas last year due to Meyer, Hurtt, and Mack's recruiting. As I posted before, Malik Zaire had a perfect 158.3 NFL QB rating against Texas last Saturday. A 158.3 is tough to do against air. Anyway, they couldn't pay less their coach less than A&M, so they gave him 5mil/year and, for some inexplicable reason, didn't include a buyout. The entire contract's guaranteed.
-Strong set himself back 2 years with the way he handled QB this past February. Rather than be happy with Zach Gentry (a perfectly good QB recruit), for some reason he got it in his head to very publicly throw a Hail Mary for Kyler. That went nowhere. Gentry got pissed and decommitted. Swoopes' pride took another hit (if you want to feel sorry for someone, he's a good candidate. He's played behind a god-awful OL with inept coaches, and taken tons of criticism for then struggling like anyone would do). And Strong was left to grab an athlete playing WR in Maryland and declare him the class' QB recruit.
-After a season of terrible offense, Strong retains Watson. Watson goes through Spring Ball and installs a new offense, presumably under Strong's supervision. Then they go through Summer Ball. And then, after one game, Strong decides it's time to fire Watson? If the offense looked like that on Saturday against ND, I can promise you there were... "warning signs" during spring and summer practices. But Strong doesn't know what he's doing, so he didn't see it (and therefore didn't do anything about it) until his oversights became public and the heat was turned up.
-Strong also may have given evidence that he committed perjury by the things he said during this debacle
-Patterson is embarrassing the AD by being such a cheap bastard. Charging bands for seating, charging coaches for meals, charging big donors money to walk on the field. He's alienating the entire fanbase over what amounts to pennies relative to the bigger AD budget.
-Patterson got caught in a lie over the tennis facility. UT the university had already said they'd pick up the tab, which Patterson knew, but he went out and asked boosters for money to pay for it.
-Patterson got caught in another lie just yesterday over the Frank Erwin Center. He told boosters that he was open to remodeling it. The same day, Fenves (the university president) told a different group of insiders that the Frank Erwin Center had to go because they were going to put the medical school there. When the different was brought to his attention, Fenves didn't even try to make an excuse. He just said that he and Patterson were going through a difficult time and still had to work through some thing
-The lawsuit with the track coach is still looming in the background, and she might have a decent case
Seriously, if we got together, could we write a better fall for that bunch of assholes? I'm not sure we could. This is like a 50 page Aesop's Fable.
(yea got a little carried away. Speed typed for 10 minutes haha)
-They ran off a legend in embarrassing fashion
-The coaching search you're going to tell your grandkids about was an epic failure
-Strong hoodwinked the UT brass. He's definitely not much of an offensive coach and I'm not sure Strong is that great of a defensive coach either. I'm starting to think he just had a lot of talent at Florida, Louisville, and Texas last year due to Meyer, Hurtt, and Mack's recruiting. As I posted before, Malik Zaire had a perfect 158.3 NFL QB rating against Texas last Saturday. A 158.3 is tough to do against air. Anyway, they couldn't pay less their coach less than A&M, so they gave him 5mil/year and, for some inexplicable reason, didn't include a buyout. The entire contract's guaranteed.
-Strong set himself back 2 years with the way he handled QB this past February. Rather than be happy with Zach Gentry (a perfectly good QB recruit), for some reason he got it in his head to very publicly throw a Hail Mary for Kyler. That went nowhere. Gentry got pissed and decommitted. Swoopes' pride took another hit (if you want to feel sorry for someone, he's a good candidate. He's played behind a god-awful OL with inept coaches, and taken tons of criticism for then struggling like anyone would do). And Strong was left to grab an athlete playing WR in Maryland and declare him the class' QB recruit.
-After a season of terrible offense, Strong retains Watson. Watson goes through Spring Ball and installs a new offense, presumably under Strong's supervision. Then they go through Summer Ball. And then, after one game, Strong decides it's time to fire Watson? If the offense looked like that on Saturday against ND, I can promise you there were... "warning signs" during spring and summer practices. But Strong doesn't know what he's doing, so he didn't see it (and therefore didn't do anything about it) until his oversights became public and the heat was turned up.
-Strong also may have given evidence that he committed perjury by the things he said during this debacle
-Patterson is embarrassing the AD by being such a cheap bastard. Charging bands for seating, charging coaches for meals, charging big donors money to walk on the field. He's alienating the entire fanbase over what amounts to pennies relative to the bigger AD budget.
-Patterson got caught in a lie over the tennis facility. UT the university had already said they'd pick up the tab, which Patterson knew, but he went out and asked boosters for money to pay for it.
-Patterson got caught in another lie just yesterday over the Frank Erwin Center. He told boosters that he was open to remodeling it. The same day, Fenves (the university president) told a different group of insiders that the Frank Erwin Center had to go because they were going to put the medical school there. When the different was brought to his attention, Fenves didn't even try to make an excuse. He just said that he and Patterson were going through a difficult time and still had to work through some thing
-The lawsuit with the track coach is still looming in the background, and she might have a decent case
Seriously, if we got together, could we write a better fall for that bunch of assholes? I'm not sure we could. This is like a 50 page Aesop's Fable.
(yea got a little carried away. Speed typed for 10 minutes haha)
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Posted on 9/9/15 at 7:57 pm to PhilipMarlowe
Word on Shaggy is they tried to charge the Rice Band (The MOB). $100 each x 100 band members. Rice not bringing the mob. Guess texass needed that $10,000 for one of the richest programs in America. L O F'ing L
Don't mind the 15,000+ empty seats.
More time for blaring furniture commercials on the big screen adding to that fantastic college football atmosphere that is DKR.
Don't mind the 15,000+ empty seats.
More time for blaring furniture commercials on the big screen adding to that fantastic college football atmosphere that is DKR.
Posted on 9/9/15 at 8:01 pm to Ash'sProstheticHand
Well said!
Posted on 9/9/15 at 8:26 pm to Ash'sProstheticHand
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Seriously, if we got together, could we write a better fall for that bunch of assholes? I'm not sure we could. This is like a 50 page Aesop's Fable.
I have to agree. Never seen a swan dive from grace as fast as t.u.'s, and it couldn't have happened to a more deserving lot.
Posted on 9/9/15 at 8:40 pm to TbirdSpur2010
True story.
The head of a local Texas Ex's chapter who is a friend called me up the other day and was all pissed off that his chapters members (his is one if the largest and wealthiest chapters) gave less than $200 or something like that towards their annual scholarship fund drive. He knows I'm an Aggie fan and gives me shite all the time. So he asks me to make a charitable donation towards the chapters scholarship fund and write something shaming in the memo of the check so he can shame his members. I mailed him a check for $300 and wrote something like "for the poor disadvantaged longhorns" in the memo.
He said checkbooks flew out of pockets when he showed my check at the next meeting/get together
The head of a local Texas Ex's chapter who is a friend called me up the other day and was all pissed off that his chapters members (his is one if the largest and wealthiest chapters) gave less than $200 or something like that towards their annual scholarship fund drive. He knows I'm an Aggie fan and gives me shite all the time. So he asks me to make a charitable donation towards the chapters scholarship fund and write something shaming in the memo of the check so he can shame his members. I mailed him a check for $300 and wrote something like "for the poor disadvantaged longhorns" in the memo.
He said checkbooks flew out of pockets when he showed my check at the next meeting/get together
Posted on 9/9/15 at 8:47 pm to Old Sarge
That. Is. Awesome 
Posted on 9/9/15 at 8:47 pm to Ash'sProstheticHand
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After a season of terrible offense, Strong retains Watson. Watson goes through Spring Ball and installs a new offense, presumably under Strong's supervision. Then they go through Summer Ball. And then, after one game, Strong decides it's time to fire Watson? If the offense looked like that on Saturday against ND, I can promise you there were... "warning signs" during spring and summer practices. But Strong doesn't know what he's doing, so he didn't see it (and therefore didn't do anything about it) until his oversights became public and the heat was turned up.
Oh you didn't hear the latest from Ketch?
Apparently Watson went rogue on Charlie and decided to go against the game plan.
Now many of us here, if we did the opposite of what our bosses wanted us to do, would still have a job? Most of us would be fired on the spot and escorted off company property.
Posted on 9/9/15 at 8:52 pm to Old Sarge
I thought about down voting you when you admitted giving money to those sorry clowns.
But since it was for scholarships (and IRL Texas does have some top-notch academic programs) I'll up vote you for this. Especially being able to embarrass them like you did.
But since it was for scholarships (and IRL Texas does have some top-notch academic programs) I'll up vote you for this. Especially being able to embarrass them like you did.
Posted on 9/9/15 at 8:55 pm to Quidam65
It was for the #GreaterGood
Posted on 9/9/15 at 8:59 pm to Quidam65
My CPA is going to lol when he does my taxes. He's a sip and knows from doing my taxes that I give to the TMF
Posted on 9/9/15 at 10:03 pm to Ash'sProstheticHand
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I'm not sure Strong is that great of a defensive coach either. I'm starting to think he just had a lot of talent at Florida, Louisville, and Texas last year due to Meyer, Hurtt, and Mack's recruiting
I have to disagree with you on that. They don't have a ton of talent now because Mack left that program pretty bare, but he developed a lot of talent at Louisville. It's also really tough for any defense to look good when your offense goes 3 and out on 60% of your possessions.
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Swoopes' pride took another hit (if you want to feel sorry for someone, he's a good candidate. He's played behind a god-awful OL with inept coaches, and taken tons of criticism for then struggling like anyone would do).
Swoopes is a perfect example of a guy who got bumped up in the ratings because he was committed to Texas. He completion percentage got worse every year in high school at a 2A School (55% as a sophomore, 52% as a junior, then 42% his senior year
), and his team went 1-9 his senior year. That guy should never be starting at a power 5 conference school, let alone Texas. He makes some of the worst decisions on zone reads I've ever seen and he isn't a leader at all. If he's the starting QB next year, Texas won't win 8 games again.This post was edited on 9/9/15 at 10:05 pm
Posted on 9/9/15 at 10:18 pm to Dawgsontop34
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Mack left that program pretty bare
By bare you mean full of 5 stars and the most senior laden team in the big 12?
Because that's what strong had last year
Posted on 9/9/15 at 10:18 pm to Dawgsontop34
quote:he had a decent amount of highly regarded recruiting classes and won 17 games his final two seasons
They don't have a ton of talent now because Mack left that program pretty bare,
Posted on 9/9/15 at 10:25 pm to Old Sarge
It doesn't matter if you don't develop your talent or provide depth. Mack became a CEO of the program and stopped doing the things coaches were supposed to do (like actively recruit and get to know your players). Texas' players were also smoking weed at the hotel room before the bowl game against Oregon (Mack's last game) and had no sort of accountability. They hired Stacy Searels who was the worst OL coach I've ever seen at Georgia (now Va Tech's O line coach), and in his first press conference he said something along the lines of "let's ignore my last year at UGA." It was just poor research and hiring, and a lack of depth at the two most important positions in College Football IMO (QB and OL). David Ash's injury didn't help last year, but a school with the prestige of Texas should have a better back up QB than Tyrone Swoopes. That's just comical.
Posted on 9/9/15 at 10:52 pm to Dawgsontop34
The Texas program wasn't perfectly healthy and stocked, but the whole "bare cupboard" thing is way overblown. They could be and should be a lot better than they are right now.
I don't know what to think about Strong's defenses. At Florida, when he had sick talent, he undoubtedly had great defenses. At Louisville, he had Clint Hurtt on staff. Hurtt got hit with a show cause penalty for recruiting violations at Miami, but for some reason the NCAA allowed Louisville to hire Hurt without transferring any of the penalties. Then while at Louisville, Hurtt won a "recruiter of the year" aware (alarm bells are ringing, Willy). So relative to the rest of the AAC (not even a BCS conference anymore), he had a pretty sizable talent advantage. So yea I'm not sure what to think of his defenses.
Last year at Texas, with a fair bit of talent on D, he fielded a good, but far from great, defense. This year, it looks abominable. Notre Dame lost their starting RB to an ACL tear a couple minutes into the game, then proceeded to run the ball 50 times to only 20 passes. They still scored 38. Could Kelly have scored another 3TDs and scored 60 if he'd passed the ball a bit more and been more aggressive in the 4th? Easily. And I'm nervous about calling anyone with that crappy of a defense a great defensive coach.
I don't know what to think about Strong's defenses. At Florida, when he had sick talent, he undoubtedly had great defenses. At Louisville, he had Clint Hurtt on staff. Hurtt got hit with a show cause penalty for recruiting violations at Miami, but for some reason the NCAA allowed Louisville to hire Hurt without transferring any of the penalties. Then while at Louisville, Hurtt won a "recruiter of the year" aware (alarm bells are ringing, Willy). So relative to the rest of the AAC (not even a BCS conference anymore), he had a pretty sizable talent advantage. So yea I'm not sure what to think of his defenses.
Last year at Texas, with a fair bit of talent on D, he fielded a good, but far from great, defense. This year, it looks abominable. Notre Dame lost their starting RB to an ACL tear a couple minutes into the game, then proceeded to run the ball 50 times to only 20 passes. They still scored 38. Could Kelly have scored another 3TDs and scored 60 if he'd passed the ball a bit more and been more aggressive in the 4th? Easily. And I'm nervous about calling anyone with that crappy of a defense a great defensive coach.
Posted on 9/9/15 at 10:55 pm to Dawgsontop34
Charlie strong Inherited the 6th highest % blue chip roster in college football. I agree some got the bump for being Longhorns, but high 4*s and 5*s are pretty much consensus.
A lot of 3*s got bumped to 4's to raise their class ranking, but blue chips are blue chips.
A lot of 3*s got bumped to 4's to raise their class ranking, but blue chips are blue chips.
Posted on 9/9/15 at 10:56 pm to Ash'sProstheticHand
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And I'm nervous about calling anyone with that crappy of a defense a great defensive coach.
Would you call Sumlin a great offensive coach?
Posted on 9/9/15 at 10:57 pm to NanosTacoRun
Alaka said Rice was going to win this weekend
Posted on 9/9/15 at 11:02 pm to Nguyening
I just know they're starting a walk-on safety (started last year as well) who got burned on at least 3 different touchdowns in the ND game. I'm sure they had talent in high school, but unless Strong is just incompetent which I don't believe he is, there were some glaring issues with that team.
Posted on 9/9/15 at 11:08 pm to Dawgsontop34
quote:and yet he still won 17 games his final two years and left blue chip recruits in the cupboard for charlie. Say what you want about the culture he brought about, but Texas was still winning games and he definitely did not leave charlie with no talent whatsoever
Mack became a CEO of the program and stopped doing the things coaches were supposed to do (like actively recruit and get to know your players).
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