Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
I think we're talking wild, probably made up, bull shit.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Dude, quit pussy footing around with innuendo. Lay it out on the table, including sources. If you're not willing to do that, then STFU.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Not sure I'm a defender, per se. First, I think he's got next year, at least, to correct course. So we probably ought to get used to that. Second, I think he "deserves" that opportunity and may well seize it. If he were farther along in his contract, and his tenure, year six or seven, and more than a year removed from some pretty good seasons, I'd think this season might possibly be fire-worthy. I have a hard time conjuring fictional scenarios that might justify his firing for cause. I mean, I could just go wild on ketamine-fueled monkey orgies with Jeff Banks and Pole Assassin. Or a domestic violence situation. Who fucking knows. To some extent, I think personal issues that are legal and don't involve his moral turpitude should be mostly off-limits as "cause" for termination until the connection between personal issues and work performance becomes irrefutable and not a matter of wild-ass internet speculation. It's also part of my personality or constitution that I try not to overreact to adverse events.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
It was well-known that an executive search firm was retained and Strong was one of their recommendations. It wasn't a BMD spasm, or different groups doing different things and power-playing their choices.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
I'll grant that some of that seems to be true.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
But we've got TALENT! And RESOURCES!
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
On this topic, Charlie Strong was the product of a systematic, professional search, for whatever that's worth. Herman was a spasm of BMD, I think. Perrin was a de facto BMD to the point of it being a hive mind. No one knows for sure, but I think Eltife and Hartzell took Saban's recommendation of Sark and thought it made sense, while CDC was doing something else, Franklin or Dykes. Mack was Hicks' guy while Deloss was interviewing Barnett. It's not LSU-level shitshow, but it's not been a model of analytical consistency or well-defined responsibility. And two of LSU's dumber hires, Miles and Orgeron, have NCs to show for it.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Not sure, and neither are you. No one knows. At his time at Texas he hasn't been in this particular scenario. The rest is all speculation and trying to pattern-match the past with the present and future. Yes, he's had some shitty teams, but he improved them every year until now. Did he fix everything all at once? Nope. But he improved. Now he's dealing with self-inflicted problems. He's probably going to get the chance to fix that, too, due to money and circumstances.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Cmon man. When had CDC ever shit talked his coach? Or the BMD? Other than Red. "I want to reiterate Tom Herman is our coach" ring any bells? A possible explanation for all of this is: Sark is overwhelmed and shocked by his own fuckups and knows it can't really be fixed this season. He has actually made some changes, and also undid them to some extent, but made some relatively permanent.
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James Comey is my Homie
Also, the issue of the legality of Halligan's appointment in Comey's and Letitia James' cases has been referred to another judge, in South Carolina. That hearing took place last week and the judge expressed quite a bit of skepticism. One kind of hilarious thing is that the government is having to contradict Aileen Cannon's analysis of why Jack Smith's appointment was invalid. Her ruling is not precedent and is not binding on any other court and, it is a different situation in many respects, but the government is basically having to argue that Pam Bondi has authority to appoint counsel that Merrick Garland lacked, because reasons.
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James Comey is my Homie
A couple of issues. First, the government got a search warrant for Daniel Richman's devices in 2020. The search warrant was limited to a certain time period and the crimes under investigation were leaking and misuse of classified information. What they took in the seizure exceeded the time period both before and after. Also, with Richman being a lawyer, they agreed that Richman had the right to review for privileged material before the government, so that happened, but on a kind of casual basis. Also, they permitted Columbia U, Richman's employer, to review for "academically privileged" material, also on a kind of casual basis. At the time, however, Richman was one of Comey's retained lawyers and they didn't give Comey any opportunity to review and assert privilege. They also seemed to have reviewed materials before and after the time limitations set forth in the warrant. When the government exceeds the scope of a warrant, they need another warrant to review that evidence and here they didn't get one, but seem to have reviewed it anyway. Halligan appeared to make two material misstatements of the law to the grand jury, and also implied or stated that the government had better evidence that it wasn't sharing with the grand jury. That is redacted. Also, it is known that the grand jury was originally provided with a three-count indictment and they no-billed one, true-billed the other two. That then, is a "no-billed" indictment. Halligan would have then needed to re-present a second indictment with only the two true-billed counts and at least in theory run through the evidence again. Either that didn't happen and the foreperson was presented with a different indictment to just sign off on, or the government didn' t produce the transcript of the second indictment presentation, or both. Just a shit show of stupidity. Trumpco is so bad at law.
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James Comey is my Homie
Magistrate judge finds search warrant and grand jury shenanigans highly likely. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136.191.0.pdf
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
I very much agree with the premise that our talent is overrated. In some cases, that means we're more likely than OSU or Georgia to land a five-star bust or underachiever, in other cases, evaluation, development, and utilization are lacking. But, I don't think any of those "conditions" are permanent statuses predetermined by who is the head coach. Our number 1 ranking and all the 9.95 hype should put to bed any notion that the pundits can determine with any certainty how talented we are or aren't. I think Sark intellectually knows or is learning what it really takes to build a perennial football power like UGa, OSU, or past Bama. He hasn't perfected any of it in practical application. He has certainly taken us to places we haven't been in more than a decade, or two. But, for whatever reason or combination of reasons, he let up a bit this off-season. He thought he had in place what he needed. And was desperately and disastrously wrong. What I don't buy into is all these wild-ass speculations about how fucked up is his personal life and how he's shooting heroin in back-alley east Austin early Sunday morning while the WR corps runs trains on his wife. Did he have some potential distractions this off-season? Hell yes he did, just from the factual record. Did he let them bother him too much? Maybe so. But that's life. I think I'd rather have a coach that's human enough to be bothered rather than the type of psychopath that doesn't let that stuff distract him from work/coaching goals. He either adapts or he doesn't. We'll see.
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War Crimes for Fun? Prosecutors Probe Sniper Safaris in Bosnia, Americans possibly involved
Maybe a wealthy, Muslim-hating supporter of an authoritarian regime whose power derives from subjugating and blaming others? If not a part of the regime itself? Stephen Miller in a tracksuit?
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
It is conceivable that they practiced it, but didn't bother to remind the players to look out for it.
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2025 Week 13: Arkansas @ Texas.
Yeah, I mean at this point it's just another opportunity for this board to eat itself. Arkansas and Aggy are enough of that. We need to put this behind us and get on with it, whatever it turns out to be.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
Or Uruguay, Paraguay, or Chile.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Well, the divorce and reconciliation + baby are factual. Divorce happens kinda gotta mind your own business on that. The reconciliation + baby is a little extra, but still falls in the mind your own business bucket. The rest of it probably isn't well enough sourced for publication.
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War Crimes for Fun? Prosecutors Probe Sniper Safaris in Bosnia, Americans possibly involved
You can't really doubt that this actually happened. And it would take a rich sociopath that didn't believe the rules applied to participate. Guess what we seem to be breeding a lot of in this country?
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
This season either jerked a square knot in Sark's ass or it didn't. We'll see.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
To be fair, the circus atmosphere/sordid story only really exists among Texas online football perverts theorizing about what might be wrong with Sark.
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
The one thing, what happened with the OL really is inexcusable. A drop-off from last year should be expected, particularly early in the season, but this OL shitshow is a massive failure. And I don't really buy the notion that we're at a point where we should be reloading every year and never rebuilding.
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Texas @ Georgia November 15, 2025 - The Beginning or The End
Even Kirby shits down his leg occasionally. Losing to Tom Herman is shitting down your leg.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Teams that lose football games usually look like shit doing it. That's kind of the nature of the game. That's why they lose.
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
I doubt the rumors that the Mannings are controlling Arch's destiny with Sark. But I imagine it will be another couple of voices that he has to acknowledge saying "what the blue fuck was that? how do you roll out that OL and think anything's gonna be ok?"