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Thermos H. Christ

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. It was more than a few, as I recall.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. We don't have the players to compete at an elite level. We do have enough players that they shouldn't even need coaching to beat Kansas' backup QB and walk-on receivers. They should literally be able to go out there and come up with a rudimentary play in the huddle like it's playground football and beat that team. The coaches are doing a bad job. Getting the players to buy in and give a shit is a crucial part of what a coach does. When your players are checked out and do not give a shit, you are failing at your job as a coach. Maybe doing that here with these players is harder than it would be somewhere else with different players, but this is the job Steve Sarkisian accepted and he's not doing well at it so far. And realistically Sark does not have time to do a tear down and a 4 year rebuild from the ground up. I don't think this program really was in a place where that should have been necessary when he got here, I don't think that's what he set out to do, but that's the job he's setting before himself. If he wants to have success here he will have to find a way to take the football players he has and turn them into a football team that is vastly better than motherfucking Kansas.
  11. Good? Seriously doubt it. Better? Seems very possible.
  12. Drugs
  13. What the fuck, fuck you. Please don’t involve yourself with the athletes at all if you’re going to be a bitch about it.
  14. This is stunningly bad, just getting drastically worse every game. It’s the opposite of coaching players up. They’ve taken mediocrity and made it flaming toxic trash. There is not one way in which we are better off having traded Herman in for Sark. Downgrade across the board. At least if Herman was fucking up this bad, which he never did in 4 years, we could fire him this year and hire someone better than motherfucking Sark.
  15. Because we are fans, and real fans love our teams even when we don’t like them. Love makes you do stupid shit.
  16. It absolutely will not. No on the field result gets him fired before year 3. Will not happen.
  17. A Herman team scored 69 in the last regular season game last year, but it’s impossible for you to even imagine a scenario where it could have been 70?
  18. Because there was no question of whether the OU receiver stepped out of bounds or not, he clearly had, but an official decided on the field that he had been forced out. Whether a player went out on his own or was forced out is one of those subjective calls that can't be reviewed/overturned. Like PI or whatever. At least that's my understanding.
  19. Every offense, including ours, holds on every play. It’s just a matter of how flagrant it is and how obviously it impacts the outcome of the play.
  20. Whining about the refs and their grand conspiracy against us is the most embarrassing loser aggy shit. Obviously the refs are doing nothing to help us out but we’ve had plenty of (mostly unimportant) chickenshit calls go our way over the years and gotten away with uncalled holding, PI, targeting, etc countless times, much like our opponents. Maybe we typically have more penalties than our opponents because we’ve mostly fielded poorly coached undisciplined teams for over a decade now.
  21. Oh, can’t they? That’s not a challenge you want to issue to our players IMO.
  22. I think we’re agreeing?
  23. That’s allowed now, so we damn well better be.
  24. Thats why the move made no sense to me. Sure, Sark could end up working out but nothing about his resume suggests he’s an upgrade. His biggest accomplishments as HC were on par with Herman’s Texas tenure. We could be 4-3 with Herman right now and be in a position to hire someone who has accomplished something better than bowl eligibility in his HC career. Or maybe Herman would’ve done better who knows. Either way why bet the next several years on a lateral move?
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