Thermos H. Christ

A feature not a bug. Continued influx of West Coast people and money threatens the evangelical wackjobs’ death grip on this state. They’d much rather Texas be a poorer, more backwards state they can rule than a wealthier more progressive one.

How are we two console generations removed from the last Fight Night game? Some of my favorite/most played games of the PS2 and PS3 eras. I’d play the hell out of a 4K/60fps remaster of Fight Night 3 or 4 or Champion on PS5.

David Ash was also a master at this as I recall

Nothing avoids disruptions to campus life better than dressing up like a army man and throwing flashbangs at unarmed teens for having forbidden opinions about a foreign country

Strongly agreed on all points, but it’s also true that recruiting is one area where he remains unproven at best. I don’t think we’ll know how well he can recruit at Bama until the end of the next recruiting cycle at the very least.

I don’t know, it’s got to be hard as a multi-billionaire to fuck up so bad you won’t land on your feet if you survive. Normal people eventually lose their normal people jobs, lose their license and don’t have a driver, call in too many favors too many times and burn their bridges, etc. Rock bottom has to be elusive for the addict with effectively unlimited resources.

Also if you can’t find a way to be happy about a 12 win season with a conference championship and appearing in/almost winning a CFP semifinal you are not doing football or life correctly

Being drunk in New Orleans is fun even if your team lost a heartbreaker after getting your hopes up right at the end.

I think it’ll be another year after that unless something has changed lately.

Tom did enough to get fired, but not enough that just anyone would be an upgrade. I think the job he did here was far from excellence but still underrated, enough so that I think his firing without a clear upgrade lined up and his failure to get another job must mean there’s something to all the rumors about off the field problems. Otherwise most G5 programs would be lucky to have a coach with his resume.

The Sark hire made zero sense to me at the time. I thought the likelihood of Herman managing to be slightly better/more consistent and turn a couple of really close losses into wins was higher than Sark putting it all together. Herman never got blown out, he just needed to find a way to get one more score or one more stop per game and suddenly it would’ve been 10+ wins. Sark’s first year was full of moments worse than the worst of Herman’s tenure, and if I had to lay money I’d say Sark isn’t the guy That said, playing the game we all had to play with Tom Herman the last couple years, Sark is currently two big plays away from being 4-0 with a win over Bama. Or one, if we don’t get fucked out of a safety by an especially egregious call in the Bama game. Maybe Quinn Ewers is worth +1 scoring drives per game, maybe not. Maybe he finds the defense that showed up to the Bama game again, maybe not. But with everything that has gone wrong, so far this season, we’re actually not ALL that far off the mark. I didn’t expect to be this close at this point. It leaves room for a glimmer of hope that the ship could be righted.

I don’t think so. I think they said you’re fired but you can finish out the season if you want and the door was swinging shut behind him by the time they finished the sentence.

I think it was both of those things, plus the fact that the SEC was still in the stone age offensively and they just were not really built or prepared to deal with the high-flying uptempo spread stuff. That and the targeting rule was brand new, so suddenly receivers could stop and go up after jump balls without getting absolutely murdered by a headhunting DB as they tried to come down with it. I mean fucking Mizzou also came in and quickly won the East basically because they had come from the B12 and knew how to do offense that wasn't just slamming sides of beef together.

I think the logic was that he was going to get an NFL OC job and if it went well at all there would be teams competing to hire him at HC after a couple years because he was such a respected Xs and Os guy. Arizona was just betting he would have turned out to be a good OC and figured they could get tomorrow’s hot commodity today at a discount.

If Sark fails here that’s us taking a gamble on Sark and losing. If we had fired Herman and replaced him with Urban and URBAN failed here, the perception becomes that this program is so broken nobody could ever possibly succeed here. That’s true even if Urban comes in and hires a bunch of has-beens and spare parts from his rolodex as assistants and treats the whole thing like a victory lap and does everything possible to alienate everyone on and off the team. Better for him to do that at Jacksonville than here. Now at least if he takes another college job he’ll have some desire to prove himself again. And if it is here, at least if he fails the story won’t be about how we took this all-time great coach that would win anywhere else and broke him.

He’s quit coaching multiple times at this point and now flamed out horribly in the NFL after being away from the game a while and absolutely phoning it in with his assistant hires, all while being a notorious dick. I think he’s clearly past his prime. Maybe he’s got another good run in him in college but I sure wouldn’t feel assured about the future if we hired him.

Wasn’t he long-term dating Charlie’s daughter? Even if Strong had to go for football reasons I can’t blame the guy for being unhappy about losing his coach and his girlfriend all at once.

It is the job of coaches to get the players’ heads right, to help them get past losses and setbacks, to motivate them to press on and find ways to win in the face of adversity. Yeah it’s really hard to do but that’s why you get paid millions of dollars to do it.

It was more than a few, as I recall.

That’s a good idea, for the intimidation factor. The opposing players are probably much more scared of clowns than they are of UT football players right now.

Wasn’t Joe Burrow a transfer who couldn’t win the starting job at his prior school? Obviously there are diamonds in the rough to be found, but you have to be able to ID them and put them in a situation where they can shine. Plus you have to convince them to come.

I mean the whole thing about Tom Herman is that if he’d been ever so slightly better he’d have won basically every game, but he kept finding ways to come up juuuust short several times a year whether the opponent was bad or good. So yeah. If we can find a coach who gets exactly one more stop or one more TD per game than Tom Herman would, I want that coach.

I mean, do we desperately need more practice? I assume we've been having practice all season long and we're getting worse by the week. Whatever we're doing in practice these days, I'm not convinced it's doing more good than harm.