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  1. 5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Of course their practice facility is named after a guy with an Italian name. Wonder if he made his money in construction or garbage collection. 

    Named after Rutgers football "legend" Marco Battaglia, a TE from the 90s.  I think it is great that they named the facility after an actual football player instead of some donor.

  2. On 11/24/2019 at 9:37 PM, Chooky said:

    I'm sure Commander's Palace has been mentioned but I went recently had a whiskey smash (4).  Best cocktail I've ever had in my life.

    3 lemon wedges

    4 fresh spearmint leaves

    1 ounce orange curaçao

    2 ounces Maker’s Mark

    1 sprig fresh spearmint

    Muddle the lemon wedges, mint leaves, and curaçao in a bar glass.

    Add the bourbon and ice and shake well.

    Strain the drink into a rocks glass filled with ice and garnish with the mint sprig.

    Serve immediately. 

  3. 4 minutes ago, Junior Miller said:

    Good thing Einstein, Newton, Turing, and every other influential thinker from the last 10000 years didn't follow stupid ass advice from Dick Thaler or else we'd all be still living on prairies breaking rocks with stone tools and foraging for berries. 

    You're missing the point of his post . . . informing the Board he went to Booth

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  4. Just now, Landomatic said:

    I don't think Texas is much different in this regard than many of the other blue blood programs around the country.  They all have huge BMDs with huge egos who expect to have access to getting their asses kissed by the HFC in exchange for their donations.  It's part of the job at this level and a part that very few head coaches have the ability/experience/desire to be able to effectively navigate while balancing it with all of the other demands of the job, like recruiting and...you know...actual coaching.  It was Mack's strong-suit.

    There are several ways of dealing with BMDs.  Meyer and Saban placate them by winning big and having dedicated staffers create the illusion of access.  Mack placated them through actual access.  The boosters at Ohio State were much more of a problem for coaches who didn't beat Michigan every year.

  5. 9 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    The reality is that anyone walking around at this point thinking that Texas has some moral high ground or needs to keep holding that is either incredibly uninformed or completely disingenuous. Texas allowed a head coach to bully the media, cover-up serial sexual harrassment, and run an unsupervised fiefdom for almost 20 years. So he didn’t buy players? Ok. Barnes and Shaka Smart have been buying players since the early 2000s. Does the school’s integrity only matter with football?

    I have bad news if that is the case. Whatever the sins were of Mack Brown, which so many offline and in the higher booster ranks will defend, Tom Herman is worse and so was Chuckles. Chuckles was a philanderer and he had his assistants involved with academic scams and non-state-of-Texas money funneling. That’s nothing compared to Herman. Herman’s modeling his program after shit he learned from Meyer. He’s failing at it and whiffing on key parts that could make it elite (staff), but he’s taking other lessons to heart. He hired a rape-enabler without apology and has empowered the guy. He’s gotten numerous recruits and players out of legal harm (Mack Brown also did this with impunity). He’s magically landed top 5 recruiting classes surrounded by recruiting cheaters on all sides. He’s dealt with street agents willingly. What exactly is it that hasn’t been done within the program to this point outside of a slush fund, institutionalized rape enablement, hiding a serial child rapist, or having the starting qb busted for dealing coke while a starting defensive back fires off an uzi while swinging from a chandelier? How could things possibly get any worse? We’re standing at the threshold of hell with this guy. He’s a piece of shit who also isn’t winning. 

    Don’t break your necks falling off of your high horses. It’s a steep drop once you get a grasp of the situation, no doubt. 

    Yup.  We hired the homeless man's Urban Meyer but want to maintain the illusion that we are running an Ivy League program in Austin. 

  6. 2 minutes ago, Landomatic said:

    However, I think the references to "blue blood" in this context pertain college football juggernaut programs which require a certain level of very unique head coaching experience to navigate.

    The advantages afforded to the Texas HC by the unparalleled in-state recruiting base, joke of a conference and pushover local media certainly aren't outweighed by having to deal with the dreaded Texas BMDs that Mack Brown carried around in his pocket like so many nickels and dimes. 

  7. 32 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

    Who gives a fuck if Urban is an asshole?

    About half the fan base.  The morality of the football program is the Texas version of the aggy honor code.  Complete bullshit but its adherents will defend its legitimacy to the death.

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  8. Football team is obviously a dumpster fire and few believe that Herman will be able to right the ship. 

    Baseball team was a disaster in 2019 and is nowhere to be seen in the 2020 preseason rankings.  Another year like last year and that program is also on tilt and potentially in need of a change in leadership.

    This is Shaka's 5th year and he hasn't won a game in the NCAA tournament or made it out of the Big 12 tournament quarterfinals yet.  He has to be replaced after this season if they don't win a game in the NCAA tournament.

    Women's basketball is also sliding after a solid run and women's soccer continues to underachieve (nice 4-1 loss to aggy in the first round of the NCAAs).

    CDC could easily find himself in a position where he has to replace each of the men's revenue sport head coaches and the head coaches of two of the biggest women's programs over the next 18 months.  His tenure at Texas will be determined by those decisions.  He will be gone in less than 5 years if he doesn't get football or a significant combination of the other jobs right.   

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  9. Extending Herman after last season was an astoundingly stupid decision.  Herman wouldn't have abandoned Texas if we made the playoff in 2019.  The extension may have cost more but CDC would have significantly more evidence to evaluate whether he is the long-term solution.  Now we are locked down for at least another season with a guy who clearly doesn't appear to be the answer unless he pulls a Joe Brady AND Brent Venables out of his ass this offseason together with 4-5 other elite assistants whose judgment would need to be questioned for joining a sinking ship.

     

  10. Our discipline statistics bring to mind Freddie Kitchens' Cleveland Browns.  

    A few additional statistics that are of interest.

    Defense (Is this the worst pass D in school history?)

    129th (out of 130) in Total Pass Yards Allowed Per Game

    109th (out of 130) in Total Pass Yards Allowed Per Play

    100th in Yards Allowed Per Play

    107th in Sacks Per Play

    119th in Red Zone %

    Offense

    111th in Sacks Allowed Per Game

    103rd in 4th Down Conversion % 

    Special Teams

    111th in Punt Return Average

    Miscellaneous

    123rd in Penalties Per Game

    125th in Penalty Yards Per Game

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