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idigTexas

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  1. Great choice, but wrong county. Alamo Springs Café is in Kendall County.
  2. I really wish more of you assholes would pick 2 seasons or less. We do better when the expectations are low.
  3. The easy and obvious answer is CDC's body of work. Why do people continue to point to the faults of past administrations when evaluating the current one? A reminder to all, CDC has been at Texas for just over 3 years, not 5, not 10, not 25, not 40. He did not hire McWIlliams, or Strong, or even Herman. He was here when Herman got an extension, though even if you fault him entirely for that one, it obviously did not prevent Herman from being fired once a suitable replacement had been secured. CDC is not infallible, but so far, he has shown enough to me to get the benefit of the doubt. Obviously some of you live in a tougher room.
  4. I don't think we are that far apart in how we feel. I asked you to defend your position for the same reason you asked me to defend mine...just to make sure I hadn't missed something. One reason to be optimistic is that CDC was not here for any of the previous hires. I have been of the opinion that he has been criticized too quickly and vehemently, but I certainly understand the source of the cynicism. One thing we can all agree on is that Tom Herman was not the answer. The best thing I can say about Sarkisian is that he isn't Tom Herman, and I mean that in a good way.
  5. I did not hire Sarkisian, and I cannot point to a bunch of qualifications that you are going to find convincing. You see his P5 head coaching experience as an indication of his ceiling, and attribute his successes as an OC at multiple P5 schools as purely circumstantial. I'm more of a glass is half full kind of guy. Regardless, my point wasn't to prop up Sarkisian's credentials in an effort to convince you that he was an obvious take. It was to point out that there wasn't an obvious take, and that under those circumstances, I'm relatively optimistic with the results. Sarkisian knows the expectations and believes he is up to the task. The committee that hired him believes he is up to the task. That is enough for me to give him a chance to prove it.
  6. Campbell accomplished this season what Herman did in the 2018 season (beat OU in the regular season, lost the CCG to OU, and won a NY6 bowl against an SEC opponent), and has lost 5, 5, 6, and 3 games the past 4 seasons compared to Herman's 6,4,5, and 3. So I assume that your argument is that Campbell is accomplishing the same exact results as Herman, but doing it with less talent, and thus he has shown you enough to prove that he would be able to succeed to our standards simply by changing addresses? What have you seen from his resume that indicates he is capable if bringing in the better talent that would presumably make him more successful at Texas? Why does he get a pass for losing to Louisiana and Oklahoma State? Fickell? He has one year of experience at a P5 program, where finished with a losing record at OSU, a place with the same pedigree as Texas. What do you think our record would have been against this schedule? Are you sure you want Mack 2.0 and not Strong or Herman 2.0, because the latter is what you are advocating here. Harsin? Seriously? He has shown you more during his very meh career at BSU than Sarkisian has? Again, Strong or Herman 2.0, not Mack 2.0 I can totally understand not being excited about Sarkisian, especially if you were still holding out hope for an Urban Meyer miracle, but every viable option to replace Herman was going to be a calculated gamble. The fact that we aren't willing to throw $15 million a year to get Saban, Swinney, or anyone else that you might consider to be a can't miss hire doesn't indicate that we don't care about the success of the program. It indicates that we aren't completely insane (whatever ludicrous amount we offered Meyer notwithstanding). I don't know if Sark is the guy any more than the rest of you, but it's as good of a dice roll as any under the circumstances. Time will tell.
  7. Who would be Mack 2.0 in your "we haven't seen shit yet" eyes?
  8. Obviously CDC kept Herman around a little longer because it served no purpose whatsoever just to fuck with you. Have you let him know that he owes you an explanation?
  9. This is the CDC thread. You can blame him for the past 25 years if it floats your boat, as that is the Surly way along with evaluating the success of a hire on day 1. There are no guarantees in this business, even if we had managed to to land Urban Meyer. Every coaching hire should elicit a Missouri "show me" reaction from all of us. Winning is not everything or the only thing, but it will rightly be the primary factor in determining whether replacing Herman with Sarkisian was a good move. Some of you apparently know the future. Good for you. I'm going to give Sark a chance to show me. As for how much involvement CDC actually had in this hire, it is clear to me that CDC's job is to take all the blame for any program failures, and to get zero credit for the successes, especially when they are not related to football.
  10. To be fair, Babe Ruth never showed up for his interview.
  11. My money is on taking a sack while he waited for Dixon to get more open, or tucking it and plowing into the backs of his blockers.
  12. Replace the rubber bit with the working end of a hammer. Hand them out to your workers. ? Profit
  13. I really want to give Arteta the time and support he needs, but it sure feels like he has completely lost the club.
  14. This is one of my favorite movies, Christmas or otherwise. My least favorite part is the anti-Americanism bit with Billy Bob Thornton in the smarmy POTUS role, though I loved Natalie's throwaway line "...there was a fire" when explaining the kiss.
  15. I cannot imagine Harden taking a backseat to Luka, and I don't want Luka taking a backseat to anyone. No thanks.
  16. It's inexcusable to have a finale depend on competent cab drivers. If driving is absolutely needed, they should be doing it themselves in vehicles that are in top working condition and that are easy to operate. It's even more inexcusable to include a needle in a haystack challenge, made even more egregious by placing it early in the leg. What the fuck? Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. I'm sure I'll still watch the next season, but boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
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