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927 E. 41st

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  1. Funny, that doesn't read like a post from someone that thinks football "really really sucks". You can't be interested enough to dig up team records and yet think the whole thing sucks. You just outed yourself as a fraud.
  2. He seems to have the same problem as Herman. Get told you are smart, believe you are smart, begin to believe that every thought that enters your head is correct and "brilliant". The most unbelievable thing in his previous post is that he has "friends".
  3. So why are you here? Calling a 4 time National Championship team with a history of wins that puts us in the top 4 winningest teams of all time a "middling program" doesn't seem to display the rigorous thinking that Ivy League graduates would like to be known for. In fact it's ignorant. Now you say football just "really really sucks", yet you have more than a thousand posts. Edit: (Nice edit job to "soften" your post)
  4. Probably true, but Mack's doing a lot with the talent he has. NC winning that conference is probably on order with Tech winning the Big XII. I appreciate Mack's time here, it was a hell of a lot more enjoyable than the last of the Akers years, most of the McWilliams era, and pretty much all of the Mackovic hellscape.
  5. This is truly spot on. I loved the win, our guys just finally physically wore out their guys. Ossai was fantastic all game, and it was so fitting that his sack should clinch it for us. Now, taking it back to the fact we had a +4 turnover margin and a K/O returned for a touchdown this game should NEVER have gotten to overtime. Best stats I can find indicate about a 93% chance of winning when you are +4 on turnovers and yet we were very close to being in the 7% that lose such a game. The things that really temper my enjoyment of the win are the 13% third down efficiency, the 51% completion rate, average of 3 yards per rush, 5 sacks allowed, and 13 penalties for 142 yards. Any one of those should raise an eyebrow at a well coached program and I don't mean having the coach mention that it's "fixable". For $5 million a year, coach, there is no excuse for it not to be "fixed" long before game day! Yes, they beat the #6 team in the country at their house in a highly dramatic fashion so they should celebrate, but in an alternate reality with say 9-15 on 3rd down instead of 2-15 , and 2 sacks allowed, this game is a blowout with a locker room celebration that looks more like they expected to win.
  6. I believe he is, but I wouldn't expect him to act until he has at least a solid plan A and plan B ready to go. Perhaps even a signed letter of intent or contract pending board approval.
  7. I will be shocked if we get a W today. And while it would be difficult to fire a coach that just won the conference, I would believe we should do just that.
  8. Looks like we are in a position where any course of action other than hiring a top coach with a LOT of draw will keep us wandering in the desert for some time.
  9. Based on his track record, I feel good about this. Or at least a hell of a lot better than I did about anything Patterson did.
  10. No, but it's probably been easier than being a football fan over the last decade.
  11. How this goes in the next 3-4 months will tell the world a lot about how we're organized (at the highest levels) and what we are willing to do to get back up. Are we willing to toss Tom and his crew over the cliff and start over? It means spending a PAINFUL amount of cash in a cash tight environment and perhaps not getting the guy that so many are hoping for. I hope CDC has the stomach for it. I believe he does. If it were to go down that we dump Herman and get Meyer, it would tell the world that we are damn serious. I believe most of us that spend too much time and money supporting Texas athletics ARE damn serious. Perhaps the eyes of the world are upon what we do in the next few weeks.
  12. Highest percentage jump in votes week over week! Yeah baby!
  13. It's ok, from what I've read OBJ likes being shit on.
  14. I Like listening to the podcasts, but I can't watch another Herman press conference. Except for the injury reports, I haven't heard anything new in a long time.
  15. How about we change to real rock band and go with "trampled under foot"!
  16. So you're saying a week from today?
  17. Yeah, well imagine living through it after growing up watching DKR's teams take the field. It had a suckage that is hard to describe.
  18. He did get close, but that was probably a hard on his perception as most anything else. He produced good records early, but his last 3 years we just seemed to get weaker and weaker. Of course having Earl Campbell kind of explains his first year.
  19. We did, in a Bluebonnet bowl. '86 I think. No Surly, but the fan reaction was as you would expect. The stadium was left open 24/7 back then, a lot of us would go run on the track. The coaching tower was often left in the stadium and it had a rope on it for raising and lowering things without having to climb the stairs. After the loss one of my buddies went up the tower and tied the rope into a noose. Probably would have been misinterpreted in the current environment, but at least back then it was understood it was a statement on coaching.
  20. Ahhh, thanks. I was thinking a small class action was about to crank up.
  21. I would also like to add to my answer on the no rules side: TE: Randy Peschel WR: Cotton Speyrer
  22. I remember feeling ambivalent after Akers lost to Air Force. It's sucked, but maybe it would mean we would finally fire Freddy and move on. Nope. That "honor" went to A&M the next year. We had a losing season and if I recall correctly we lost to every team in the conference that had a pulse and could fog a mirror, I think we even lost to Stanford at home. Hopefully we have learned to spot what won't work. Again, there is a high cost to firing Herman there is a likely higher cost to keeping him.
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