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  1. 3 minutes ago, NTVTXN said:

    Also, isn’t there a date at which Herman’s buyout is significantly decreased (I have 12/1 in my head...if so, the Mullet could hang half a hunert on him and he’d still be employed until then; no?

    Same thing that's been gone over, over and over again: forget about the money, Tom's hemorrhaging recruits by the hour. If they pull the money together, or find a way to re-assign him, then it needs to be done. 

     

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  2. 49 minutes ago, jinx said:

    I personally think this whole thread is hilarious.  I love the revisionist history of the Tampa Bay piece, where the guy tries to go back and make Florida fans feel bad that maybe Urban was a piece of shit while he was there too.  Guess what, the Florida media treats UF the same as most Texas media treats UT.  They know that there are more that hate the university than love it.

    I was a student at UF during Urbans run, and there was little to no fret of him letting the inmates run the asylum from the fan base.  We had Tim Tebow leading the charge, so no one knew about the stuff below the surface with Hernandez or others.  We knew Percy was a head case and pot head, but Urban managed to get him on the field when we needed, and scheme around him when he couldn't play (2008 SEC championship).  It was never suggested that he was anything less than a stand up coach until he had his medical issues in 2009, when most were just mad that he was leaving so suddenly with such an unusual reason.

    Since that time, I have watched UF move up the leaderboard on the US News report to pass Texas as one of the best universities in the nation.  They have gone through their share of coach turnover, but managed to land on an Urban disciple with a history with Urban during those same years of 'shame' (and also SEC and National Titles).  

    Guess what?!?!?  Mullen's wife even strongly considered not letting Mullen take the job because of how mean and demanding all of the Gator fans are.  Sound familiar?

    In that Tampa Bay article, Mullen is getting run over by the same bus they are rolling over Urban because a player had a gun.  Josh Moore anyone?  Did Mack keep everyone out of jail and choir boy clean?  I seem to remember a lot of riff raff, including our stud RB kicking down a door to get back a TV, and another star player with a backpack full of pot.

    I also love Blotto pointing out how few SEC teams are great schools, when one (UF) is ranked higher than Texas, and UGA is right below.  How clean is that Georgia Football prorgram?  In the top 30 public list for US News, we also have Ohio State, Florida State, Penn State, Texas A&M and Clemson.  Auburn is at 40, and Tennessee is at 52, right before the next Big 12 school in Iowa State (54).  So tell me how selling out to be good at football ruins the reputation of your university again?

    All of you clowns equating hiring Urban Meyer to hiring Art Briles need to stop sniffing paint.  The two are not in the same realm of program mismanagement and overall debauchery, and I base that on the fact that Briles is coaching in HS while Urban is considered for this and other top college jobs.

    If you think the University of Florida Administration and then Athletic Director Jeremy Foley just let Urban close them out of the football program so he could run it his way, you are an absolute idiot.  Jeremy Foley is / was one of the best ADs of the time, and he didn't get there by getting run over by his coaches.  Same with the University in general.  It is exceptional on every level.

    There are plenty of levels between Ohio State / Alabama / Clemson and the decade long shit show we have put up with here at Texas.  To somehow think hiring Urban Meyer is going to be the torpedo that finally sinks our great university is fucking ridiculous.

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  3. 4 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

    Why do so many people keep reiterating Shanahan won’t coach in college when it’s painfully obvious it’s a negotiation tactic if anything. No shit.

    I think the thing people are missing is that we here on an internet message board are able to dismiss the idea of Shanahan wanting to coach at Texas without the possibility of consequence. It gets harder to completely ignore when you're negotiating a contract.

    How well this would all work on Urban is the question. But no doubt he has more to lose and gain on this personally/monetarily than any of us, and has to take almost everything into consideration. Both sides do. 

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  4. 1 minute ago, Dbeasy said:

    Nothing brings out the idiots like a coaching search, especially those that don't understand that a coach's name might be floated as a way to generate leverage with the coach you are trying to sign.

    No matter how little sense it might make to me, or you, or Urban, it gets taken seriously. Especially when, outside of the 49rs building, Shanny doesn't deny it. He could be doing them a solid. 

  5. 2 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

    How does this work?  Hearing names that are no way obtainable is going to make Urban shit or get off the pot?  I'd lean more into it just being 9.95 bullshit than some attempt to gain leverage.

    Kyle doesn't seem likely, but I can't say he's not "obtainable?" 

    When you're negotiating the kinda money we're hoping UT and Urb are, any little outside threat like that, no matter how serious you think it could be, ends up being taken seriously anyway. 

  6. 3 minutes ago, RGBIII said:

    This, its Texas trying to get back any semblance of leverage they can in negotiations with CUM

    This is where I'm leaning. They've been shooting numbers back and forth at each other for a week or so..probably. Going slow. Hearing Kyle's name like this, right now, tells me they may be wanting to speed that up. 

    But I'm just a guy on the interwebz

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  7. 4 minutes ago, RGBIII said:

    Only question about Kyle IMO is does he want to go to the college level after being at the NFL level his entire coaching career. I firmly believe he is a smart enough guy to adapt to college and I doubt recruiting would be an issue unless he loathes it like Kliff did (A distinct possibility)

    Yah, my worry is this guy learning on the job with the recruiting etc... Have absolutely no doubts in his ability to assemble a good coaching staff etc...

     

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  8. 13 minutes ago, satyanash said:

    There is a 0% chance Herman said this, lol. How would that convo even go? "We're going to get a '22 QB, but we'll make sure he's not any good, so don't you worry. He'll be 3 stars or lower, that's my promise!".

    Dumb, narcissistic coaches make dumb promises. 

    You tell the kid you've bought completely into him, and that in the next class you're just going for depth. "THAT'S how much faith I have in YOU..."

    You lied. Most coaches won't say that because NO coach is turning down a '22 Ewers. You're a fucking idiot if you do. You didn't have to lie, but you're so full of shit and yourself that you think it'll just blow over when you do the exact opposite. 

    There aren't many coaches like that these days, but would it be that surprising if Herman was one of them? Absolutelythefuck not! 100% chance that "Could" have happened. 

     

    EDIT to add: The mother fucker who fucked up the Brockermeyers recruitment -I don't care what anyone says about Blake- doesn't get the benefit of the doubt from me when discussing exactly how fucking stupid he could be. 

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