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I had to check to be sure this was the CDC thread... Just want to chime in on what an absolutely shitatstic job he did in this whole coaching fiasco. At least he actually fired Herman, but everything else about the “search” was Keystone Cops yaketty sax. I mean, I get the whole miss on Urban, but I still have no clue why we had to string out firing Herman. And the public statement saying he was staying was a huge fuck up. Then we fire him out of the blue and announce the new coach within hours and can’t even get the press conference set up on the network that we fucking own. Everything Rod B said on the air Saturday was spot on. I am fully from Missouri on this hire. His past record as a head coach is average at best. Hopefully his lessons learned since then give him the experience he needs to succeed here. I’ll watch, but I’m me far less than optimistic. The sad thing for me is I think he would probably work at a lot of places, but doubt it will work here. We have 3 conference championships since 1996 while OU has stacked up 14. Fucking Baylor and Kansas St each have 2. This shit show of a coaching search with a far from stellar ending is just emblematic of all of the things wrong with our program. “We’re Texas” doesn’t mean what we think it does. I mean what other program goes from “Hiring Saban” to actually hiring Chuck Strong and follows that up by talking about hiring Urban only to settle for Sarkisian. What an absolute joke. I hope I am dead wrong and Sark knocks it out of the park. After following this program for 30 years, you’ll have to pardon my extreme skepticism.

This would be BDE

Hook ‘em Sam! 🤘 Thanks for the Sugar Bowl, that was the most fun I have had as a Horn fan in a decade.

Thought I read that Herman never had one as a head coach. I’m too lazy to look it up.

When he doesn’t have Bammers Heisman Finalist QB throw to the likely Heisman winning WR, he hands the ball to Bammers all time leading rusher.

Ask @futureman

I hope you are right. A decade of mediocre football will kill a mans belief. I am on record that Herman needed to go regardless. We are due for a coach to hit here and I will be more than happy to be wrong. But I can’t help but think that the best Saban spawn has been Kirby and he is Mack the Younger, the rest are awful to mediocre. The next coach I will think is the right fit for Texas is the one holding a Big 12 trophy over his head while wearing burnt orange. Let’s hope it is Sark.

This is my biggest issue. We are a mess as a program. It would take someone like Urban to set the course right. I don’t think Sark is anywhere close to capable of fixing this shitshow. I’ll hope to be wrong.

Honestly, how perfect is it that we have them home and home in the next three years. ESPN would love it.

Pete Thamel I think

I haven’t chimed in on this debate, but wanted to say we probably don’t need anything “big” for you since you are one of the few owners of “undefeated” on the site.

I know she has gotten fat and gone crazy. Still wood.

Never ever ask where fisterman is.

If it is Urban, they need to do a 30 for 30 on this thread.

And noodles. Everything is better with noodles.

Good summary. Pin to top

Yeah, but this is Surly

Repped because you weren't too far off on your Bijan prognostication.

It's been a slow week at work this week. I may just head off to the NFL too. I didn't realize that was an option until now.

Easily the most frustrating part of the Tom Herman era has been the potential shown in bowl games. Whether we are talking about the Super Punter vs Mizzou Bowl or the Sugar Bowl against Georgia or last year's beat down of Utah, the team that shows up for the bowl hasn't been seen the entire season prior. That coach was / is the coach a lot of us Texas fans thought we had signed up to coach our team 365 days a year. Turns out he just coaches about 30 days a year instead. I expect us to beat CU senseless, since that is what Tom Herman teams do in bowls. They also lose back to back to Maryland.

It's not that he isn't as good as those coaches, It's that he won't be able to live with going .500. He can't live with going .800. Stewart Mandel may be an idiot (most sports reporters are) but he is correct on this one.

@immamac we need an agree to disagree button. Derka would lead the site

I would rather fly coach than in that thing

Now this is BDE! I hope you are right, and in a lot of ways this is the only thing that makes sense. That or Texas fucking everything up again. I'm holding on to your version until Jan 2nd or so. Edit: If you are right, and Urban has been the one insisting on the smoke screen and timing, that is even better.