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Yep. The Urban or Bust thread clearly demonstrated what insiders know: jack shit. I'll believe staff hires when the school announces them.

He doesn't have a show-cause. Pass.

Blacklab is all, "let's focus here guys." Meanwhile, Immamac wants to go streaking in the quad.

My shorter version: no one knew shit about who our next coach would be and Surly has varying tastes in food, condiments, towns, beaches, music, and firearms. The first 400 pages were entertaining as hell, Nicole didn't show us her boobs, and Futureman didn't fist himself.

He meets the primary criteria: he's not Tom Herman. That's a good start. Otherwise, this is a risk. I didn't like the Herman hire. Strong had just failed spectacularly and Herman had even less of a record despite being the hot coach at the time. I've come to accept that virtually any coach other than Saban and Meyer is a risk. Nothing in Royal's history suggested he'd turn out to be the coach he was at Texas. You could same the same when LSU hired Saban or when USC hired Carroll. Sark was not in my top five, but he has as much a chance of being successful as anyone not named Meyer.

I keep hearing this, but our DL is good consistently, and improves each season. Giles and Ash are the only defensive coaches I'd want to keep. This. Giles is great at developing players. Whatever our issues have been, they haven't been on the D-line. Muchamp would be fantastic. If we don't get him, I'd be more than happy keeping Ash. I'd also keep Giles, Hutzler, and Drayton.

Staff: Strong and Herman failed before they played their first games at Texas. Presumably, this is why we hired Sarkisian so he needs to nail this. Recruiting: If we lose the top players in the state to OSU and Bama next year, we picked the wrong guy. Record: Anything less than 10-2 is a disappointment and two losses would depend on context. This isn't a rebuild so we shouldn't see a down year like Stoops had his first season at OU or Saban had at Bama. Great coaches make an immediate impact. Even guys like Osborne who took a long time to win a title won a lot of games immediately. We have talent. It's not Bama/Clemson talent, but it's better than everyone on our schedule next year other than OU. Adjustments: This really falls at the end of year one. If we underperform in a given area, I want to see an adjustment whether that is adapting scheme to the current players or replacing an assistant. Mack Brown recognized the need for a change, but executed them badly at the end of his tenure. Herman waited too long to replace coaches and still had significant issues on the offensive side (maybe it wasn't the assistants...). Saban is the master of self scouting and making corrections. This, more than any other feature, is what sets him apart. He reacts more strongly to losses, but makes changes even when he's winning. If Sark learned anything from his time with Saban, I hope its this and that we see the same pattern here.

Any word on who he wants as his S&C coach? That's probably the most immediate concern followed by recruiting coordinator. If nothing else, hopefully he's seen the admin infrastructure Saban has in place and brings in a shit ton of support staff.

I'd be excited about Sark if I was an Auburn fan. He may be great. He may be the next Herman. Either way, it's hard to view this as anything other than settling after we missed our first choice. Maybe this is a Pete Carroll situation. Maybe its a Charlie Strong situation. I'm hoping for the former.

OU fans are cunts. Whether you noticed that or not is a different matter.

What's the opposite of the bat signal?

That play is absolutely bonkers. The angle, how close he was to the QB, one handed, etc. There aren't many WRs who come down with that, much a less d-lineman.

I would have been just fine with OU losing.

I've had the good fortune to meet a lot of really smart folks in my life. One thing they all had in common was they didn't have to tell me they were smart.

Same for Patterson's defense. I recall reading that he had a two day install for his defense and then they repped the hell out of it. The goal was to simplify each player's responsibilities so they could just play.

He fumbled the opt out?

So the world is going to turn into Oklahoma? That sucks.

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Somehow Mike Leach had a guy like this ever other year. Some random dude who had been in the program for three years without starting and then averaged 300 yards a game.

I'm going to take it as a good sign that Herb Hand still has a job for the moment. You can't have the season Herman just had without making some changes. Hand stank up the joint on the field and in recruiting.

I think Herman could be a really good coach at the right school. Texas is not that school. His ego probably wouldn't let him accept this, but Houston was probably the perfect job for him. He was motivated enough to knock off OU and FSU and Houston wasn't a big enough school that losing to SMU and Navy was a shock. A school like Kansas or Vandy would probably also work out well. He'd be an underdog for most of his games and probably win enough that fans would forgive the annual losses to the LA Techs of the world. And the fact that he's an asshole. I doubt his ego will let him settle for that though. So he'll probably get a G5 job, do well, get another top tier job, and fail again.

It'll help that defenses will be terrified of Bijan. He's going to make any QB's job easier. Assuming we give him more than 12 touches a game.

You have to be more specific. "It" could mean anything from Meyer to fish tacos on this thread.

The really shocking part was Burnt Orange Nation didn't suck ass back then. It was probably the best Texas board when Recruiticosm began. Then Wescott Eberts, who was functionally illiterate at the time, took over and made it what it is today.

It's awesome that people consider Surly as something other than a bunch of morons making shit up and sharing recipes.