re: Official 2018 Recruiting Thread

WIsh I hadn’t watched that.

Is that new or did I miss something when in school?

It came in after we were gone. That yell is an abomination

What an abomination.

The one blasting Texas. I think I read it on shaggytexas

Lemme see if I can find it.

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At quarterback, Shane Buechele and Sam Ehlinger have been back and forth working with the ones.
And how coach Tom Herman handles the QBs over the next eight days could determine if Buechele stays or leaves UT, sources said.
According to sources, Buechele's parents aren't crazy about the way Herman is running the program - even thinking Shane would be better off playing baseball. According to sources, Steve Buechele has told other parents of players the way the coaches are coming down so hard on the players with everything from constantly having to pass hydration tests to cleaning the weight room at 4:30 am as punishment to eating burnt breakfasts for being on the losing team at practice, he doesn't think players are enjoying the game they love - especially when the team is 6-6.
It's the old adage, you can be as hard as you want on players as long as they get the joy of winning. If you're drilling down on players, and they aren't winning, watch out.
Sources said one thing that really bothers them is the fact Herman will walk past players in the hallway of Moncrief-Neuhaus without even acknowledging them.
"That's not showing love or even showing you care about the young men you've been entrusted with," said one parent of an outgoing senior player. "Why should these young men continue to give and give and give when they don't get the sense the head coach even cares about them?"
According to sources, Steve Buechele, a bench coach with the Texas Rangers, has told other parents UT coaches are running the program harder and with less feeling than the Rangers run spring training - adding the Rangers get paid, while UT football players don't.
Shane is his own man, however, and will make up his own mind, just like when he picked Texas while growing up with three of four siblings who went to Oklahoma.
Several sources said they fear what may happen in terms of discontent if the Longhorns lose to Missouri in a lackluster showing at the Texas Bowl. Especially considering four offensive linemen, who would be either fourth of fifth-year seniors next season, are hanging it up after the Texas Bowl (Jake McMillon, Terrell Cuney, Alex Anderson and Garrett Thomas).
When I asked how much of any discontent would be based on guys not being used to working this hard, the sources said they didn't think the players would mind all the demands if they knew Herman was genuine and truly cared about them.
They didn't think Herman stopped to consider most of the players on offense had been through at least two head coaches, four offensive coordinators and multiple position coaches - all teaching them different offenses, making different demands and settling on different player favorites.
"It's just been too much change and too much BS," said one departing player. "It's definitely not been fun. I don't blame all the offensive linemen for saying they've had enough. Maybe it will all get better when Herman gets more of 'his guys' in here.
"The weird thing is, (Todd) Orlando did a good job of making everyone 'his' guys on defense. Herman did the opposite on offense, playing favorites with some and totally minimizing others. Some of it seemed totally unnecessary. The head games just got tiring and old.
"If we get a good offensive game plan, we'll be in the bowl game with a chance to win, because our defense is so good." (Chip Brown)

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Eta2: The part about Buechele's parents has since been deleted.

damn, what a colossal failure herman has been to this point. how strange is it that orgeron will likely be more successful than him?

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Herman will walk past players in the hallway of Moncrief-Neuhaus without even acknowledging them. 

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He gets to first base one day and doesn't even have the courtesy to acknowledge them the next??? The atrocity! These players want to get wined and dined before they get fricked!

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Hoping that TH is every bit as weird as he appears to be.

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He is weird. Many UofH people on the Coog boards thought he may have had a mild form of autism. After that weird call he had with John Lopez on KILT-AM, I really knew something was off about him.

There were also rumors of him having drinking problems, but I can't find those stories anymore .