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orangebird

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  1. Yep. The way CDC handled the Herman termination and rollout of Sark was telling. It was obvious that we had professionals in charge, and CDC knew the assignment. He didn't tip his hand by terminating Herman and then broadcasting to the world that Texas had an opening. That alone allowed Texas to negotiate with some leverage. Sure, there were rumors that Herman was going to get fired, but that just comes with the territory at a school like Texas when the football program is underperforming. Nobody except those in the know knew that we already had Sark locked up when it came time to show Herman the door. Indeed, aggy had no plan - they just decided to shitcan Jimbo on a whim a few weeks ago and hoped it all worked out. That's a textbook case of magical thinking, and magical thinking almost never works out. Perhaps Elko will work out for them in the end, but I wouldn't take those odds. They're probably about the same as me winning the lottery and getting to sleep with Kate Upton.
  2. Perhaps. I concur that we underestimate him at our own peril. That said, it's notable that he couldn't really beat anybody with a pulse while at Duke.
  3. They could just keep Bjork as athletic director "in name only". His only responsibility going forward is to get the BOR members coffee and shine their shoes. The BOR will have direct control over the athletic department without the pretense of a middleman. Sure, it's a terrible idea, but as we've seen this weekend, there is no shortage of terrible ideas emanating from Collie Station.
  4. 10 years ago when we hired Chuck F'n Strong, this hire might have scared me. A little. Only because I see Elko at about the same level as Strong, so a hypothetical UT-aggy would probably be a tossup. But the way Sark has things rolling now? Naaaah.
  5. Yeah, I was going to say...how do you get waitlisted to Oklahoma State? Don't they pretty much take anybody who can fog a mirror?
  6. Likely this plane, for those of you who want to follow along at home: https://www.flightradar24.com/GLF4/32fb61b6 It's not trackable via FlightAware, likely some aggy big cigar's private Gulfstream.
  7. UCF actually has ex-Auburn corch Gus Malzahn as their head corch. Malzahn wasn't terrible at Auburn - his worst season there was 7-6. I could see him potentially doing well enough at UCF to position himself for the next high-profile SEC or ACC opening. Maybe Florida might kick the tires on him after they inevitably fire Billy Napier at some point.
  8. Get outta here. This just gets funnier and funnier. The hilarious part is that Vandy just extended Lea to 2029 last winter. So both Vandy is going to pay a guy to not corch so that they can hire another corch who is also being paid not to corch. Somebody get Mel Brooks on the phone, I wanna pitch a sequel to The Producers.
  9. Shit this weekend has been glorious. I'm almost sorry that the aggy corch search saga is drawing to a close...for now. Still, they never fail to entertain. I'll be keeping my eyes on what happens to Bjork next. Does the aggy BOR shitcan him? Or will they simply haze him like a frat boy pledge at the aggy BOR Christmas party? And if they do shitcan him, will the aggy AD search be as entertaining as this one was?
  10. Hey now, my mama taught me that it's not nice to make fun of the kids who ride the short bus.
  11. I can't even find a compelling reason that Elko is better than Jimbo, but here we are.
  12. Terry Bowden out at Louisiana-Monroe: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38985538/terry-bowden-louisiana-monroe-football-coach I had forgotten that he was actually still coaching somewhere. He coached at Auburn back in the 90s.
  13. I know some of the Sooner fans were pretty unhappy with his playcalling, though the Sooners have been better on offense this season as compared to last season. Of course, they were terrible last season, so nowhere to go but up, really. My guess is that the Land Thieves will promote ex-North Texas coach Seth Littrell to be their new OC.
  14. 2010s era Texas football reminds me of some of the family conversations I've sat through at Thanksgiving: "We shouldn't really talk about that right now..."
  15. Can confirm, there are a shit ton of transplants from NY, NJ, PA, MA, and other states up that way here in RTP. I think the only people from Jersey in Collie Station are the ones who took a wrong turn when they exited the rental car lot at Intercontinental Airport.
  16. "It's okay, sugarplum. They'll fire me in about five years, and we'll have one hell of a golden parachute. And we won't have to live in that shithole ever again."
  17. Was it just me, or did anyone else notice that Kentucky was ranked even lower? Checkmate, sips! (Oh, and Indiana just fired their coach today.)
  18. I’m almost hoping they DO hire Elko. I got shit to do at work this week, and another truckload of aggy misery will tank my productivity all to hell.
  19. For real. It’s like driving by an overturned manure truck on I-45 without all the inconvenience.
  20. The funniest thing to me is that I figured Elko would probably be their guy all along. They could have just worked out the terms and hired him without a lot of drama. But no, they had to fuck this up in the most spectacular way possible. They have probably screwed themselves out of being able to hire anyone else worth a damn on favorable terms for at least the next 10 years. Never change, aggy.
  21. Funny thing is, Stoops was probably about as good of a hire as they were going to realistically get at this point in time. The fact that they lack sufficient self-awareness to see that makes this debacle all the more entertaining. They still think Saban is just going to kill himself if he doesn’t get a contract offer from them, and it’s pretty damn hilarious to watch as it unfolds.
  22. I live about a half hour from Durham. Durham used to be kind of ghetto, but it has undergone a significant amount of gentrification recently - much like Austin but on a much smaller scale. It's turning into a really nice place to live with a lot of hip, trendy restaurants and boutiques. It's also about three hours from the coast (OBX/Wilmington/Myrtle Beach) in one direction, or roughly the same from some decent ski resorts in the western NC mountains in the opposite direction. If I were given a choice between living in Durham or living in Collie Station, it would be a no-brainer. Durham all the way.
  23. Either Elko took one look at the clown show going on in Collie Station right now and said, "naaah, I'm good" - or the agroids already have their guy, and he is saving face. Probably the former.
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