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Bill Lumbergh

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  1. I love that Helton is so unpopular in California that sc is worried about needing to expand national recruiting, so they choose Texas as a target. If any market is just sitting there available and waiting to be conquered by Clay Helton and Todd Orlando, it's Texas. Especially considering Sark is fairly respected on the west coast and should play a part in pillaging sc's back yard. Bold strategy, cotton.
  2. I don't know if there's anywhere that tracks targets and completions. Looks like Cosby had 92 completions his senior year while duv had 106, but Cosby also played along side Shipley (and in a much more pass-heavy offense). Either way, we'd kill for any of our current receivers to emerge as consistent hands guys like these two were. I guarantee there was no doubt who was catching the slant against Ohio State in that fiesta bowl. Not sure we have a guy that dependable now.
  3. 2008 Quan Cosby would like a word with you. You're not wrong, though. I'd love to see a completion % rate (at least on catchable passes) for sr Cosby and sr duverney. Both were pretty fucking nails if the pass was reasonably catchable.
  4. Even if this was true, all accounts suggest that the guy is an asshole who coaches and players hate working with. There are plenty of talented coordinators who are not. If being an asshole isn't enough, this would've been the easiest negative recruiting gift to our rivals. Sure, he's only a position coach, but at one of the most important positions in this defense. Can you imagine the pitch from ou when we're both after a 5 star lb? There's no question how that would go down, and what's worse is there's nothing on Stoops' resume to say that they're wrong. If I was a stud lb recruit looking at Mike Stoops, I'd have no reason for optimism based on his resume today. Add to that, he's sark's guy, not coach k's. So he would've immediately saddled this dc with a coordinator who handicaps recruiting and who coaches and players hate working with. Instead, now we have a guy who coach K knows and who knows his system, and at very worst is a net neutral in recruiting. This should've been the easy choice from the start and the fact that it wasn't is the first questionable move sark has made in his time here. Winning will go a long way to helping everyone forget this happened, though, so let's get on to that.
  5. I just read two seconds of that guy's bio and already know he's worlds better than Mike stoops. Actually I read his name and knew he'd be better, because he isn't Mike stoops. This would, yet again, be a great hire for Sark. Why we fucked around and even tried to push through such a terrible choice when there were so many good choices out there is beyond me, but I'm glad to see we're back at rational decision making again.
  6. I wonder if it's intentional that this hire is coming out after he did all of the donor, alumni, and ex player calls. Feels likely.
  7. It is only one guy making the claim, but the silence from all camps who could potentially dispute it is deafening.
  8. This is not the first thread title I wanted to see when opening surly this morning. What the fuck?
  9. Somewhere Mack Brown is using the dumpster fire Fulmer has created as evidence of how honorable and selfless he was on the way out the door at Texas.
  10. Assistant head coach of analytics will be the title...to justify the pay.
  11. I'll always appreciate since73 for singlehandedly jinxing away their chances in the 08 RRS with this little gem: http://www.shaggytexas.com/board/showthread.php/17920-How-does-it-feel-to-wake-up-this-morning?s=9f189664fcc91b7e4da43b0278784d53
  12. Interesting that those themes haven't shown up anywhere else from uw fans. Not doubting your buddy, that just hasn't been a common complaint that I've seen so far. That said, I bet if you ask any fanbase what frustrates them most about their dc, you probably get some flavor of this answer. No matter how good you are at those areas, the fans probably always want them to be better. It's the defensive equivalent of wanting the offense to run the touchdown play.
  13. I think it's all but guaranteed to be the saints coordinator, right? Still turnover, so there's a chance, but given he's coming from the nfl he'd probably like to keep their best recruiters around if he can.
  14. [Corso] not so fast my friend[/Corso] Sark was elevated I believe 3 days after this game when Kiffin left. Sark would've been an analyst for the game and undoubtedly remembers preparing for this defense (a good sign), but a few days shy of being oc against him.
  15. I know there's a lot of doubt about pac12 football these days and the quality of teams he's faced, so I keep going back to the alabama game as a good measuring stick. Keep in mind that alabama would have a massive talent disparity in this game. I'm not going to look up the difference in recruiting rankings in the years leading up to the matchup, but I'll make an educated guess and say the gap is "large." Then factor in that UW's offense was completely shut down outside of one drive. It was complete domination by the bama defense, with three turnovers by the uw offense and three and outs nearly all game. With all of that factored in, you can blame uw's defense for 14 points. One real drive surrendered early in the game, and one 60+ yard run given up when they couldn't hang with bama's depth in the 4th. The other 10 points were off of a pick 6 and a field goal on a short field/fumble. Yes, that was not the alabama offense of 2019-2020 and they probably knew they didn't need to get risky given how their defense was playing, but it is still an impressive outing no matter how you rationalize it. Check out the drive summaries here to get a feel for the game, and then look at the normal offensive output for bama in 2016 to normalize the performance a bit: https://www.espn.com/college-football/playbyplay?gameId=400876107 All this is on top of how he's regularly shut down the best spread offenses in the pac12, which I'd argue are not as bad as people like to say. I love this hire.
  16. Counterpoint: he really should've caught that damn interception. So...
  17. The only Watson like debacle that has been discussed is Mike Stoops (and I know that wasn't dc, but still). Just like with the Meyer stuff, when you let names like muschamp and odom get out there, you've dug a hole for yourself to climb out of if the name is anything other than an obvious home run. I'm really happy with the staff so far and trust that we're only taking this long on this one because it's important. The last 10 years have given me ptsd that's preparing me for the worst, but until/unless that happens I'll choose to believe we got it right this time around.
  18. Shame we didn't have the monkey while mensa was here.
  19. He would not have sucked here, as he's a known commodity in the college game. He might completely flame out on the pros, and since he's off our list I kind of hope he does and regrets passing our opportunity while Sark has massive success here.
  20. Slightly off topic, but during our urban saga didn't ketch say something about donating his paycheck if urban did not come to texas? Am I remembering incorrectly, because if not, we definitely need to dig that up and politely remind him.
  21. That would make more sense. I'd only read joining staff and possibly assumed DC. That's still two comfort hire coaches with zero nfl experience, which is surprising for a guy so connected.
  22. Urban definitely appears to be following the "bring all my buddies from Houston" coaching staff building strategy. Never knew Tom stole that from him, too. Chris Ash as DC and Charlie Strong as position coach...in the nfl? Ok.
  23. We should tell Arnett that we won't even consider a conversation until he fires Evans and replaces him with new representation. Then as soon as he does, tell him we're sticking with Ash. Fuck Thayer Evans.
  24. It's almost as though he very suddenly and unexpectedly lost access to his direct line of information on our program and is scrambling to remain relevant with zero visibility into what's happening. You hate to see it.
  25. Easy to forget the violence he runs with after the catch. One of my favorite things about watching him play. One of the highlights of the Herman era for me was watching his catches where the line would push him and extra 10 yards after he was initially wrapped up. I bought in at that point that Tom was transforming us into the physical team he promised. Turns out it was just ljh doing his thing and the team feeding on it, but damn it was fun to watch.
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