ShowMeALoss

So much this! You need to publicly set the tone for what's acceptable at Texas. It puts pressure on the coaches and the players to strive to do better. They are in the entertainment business, so either perform to the level you are expected to or GTFO. Don't make excuses for losers and perpetuate a culture of underperformance and become a national joke.

Are we not good at recruiting any more? I need Texas football to recruit well. This is my only sunshine left and don't they dare take my sunshine away!

And the other half forgot how to play football once they were put on the field.

I miss Coach Strong's NSD hauls. Those were Texas football's best days in more than a decade.

Watch this video from CDC's introductory press conference. At 2:28, he mentions a few great coaches who came here, including Shaka Smart. From that point on, I have been skeptical on his ability to recognize great coaching. https://www.kvue.com/video/sports/chris-del-conte-is-introduced-at-ut/269-2824768

I agree with this but he praised Shaka unprompted in an introductory press conference to highlight the types of coaches Texas can hire, which kinda threw me off. I have a feeling that he is unwilling to backtrack from that position and that may lead him to give Shaka more time to prove his initial stance right. Bad coaches use facilities as an excuse to buy themselves some time. The AD needs to be relentless in his pursuit of building top revenue programs and that starts with great coaches that are also relentless and facilities upgrades will follow. It's all about the culture of the athletic department and what they value the most.

I am not saying he hates winning but that does not mean he is good at hiring coaches or knowing when to fire them. If history taught us anything, our athletic department sucks at the latter. He has been on record praising Shaka Smart on multiple occasions. If memory serves me right, in one of his earlier press conferences he called Shaka an "unbelievable coach" and that we were lucky to have him. We continue to suck in baseball and women's basketball too. There is not a single bright spot in our revenue sports. It makes me wonder if we need co-athletic directors - one in charge of coaching development and another in charge of facilities upgrade because we can't seem to get one person good at both.

Does our AD really value winning as much as he says he does? I am glad he has raised a lot of money for facilities upgrade but he needs to understand that winning makes fundraising much easier. Just look at Alabama, LSU, and the like. When you win Daytona 500, you don't have to go begging for sponsorships.

Acho tells me safeties were offered money to switch to LBs. He also mentioned it's not uncommon for UT players to receive money to switch positions. RoJo collected six figs for the position switch so that he can hang out in the same circle as Hamm's in the offseason. Ominehu is just bitter that he didn't get paid.

This is a thread on OU recruiting 2021 but please go ahead and tell how us how great the OU program is instead of adding anything on OU 2021 recruiting. Texas fans can laugh at OU anytime on their message boards. That's how these things work, doc.

Why did Russians elect Putin?

But, but chitowndoc assured us all is well.

Princely was leaning Baylor up until the coaching change. I think Texas can reel him back in if they push hard enough.

Should we worry about Collins to Baylor with Aranda being the new HC? Was he being recruited by Aranda while at LSU?

Thankfully, recruits don't think like you! There are a handful of programs in the country that have natural recruiting advantages and will recruit at a high level regardless of their on field performance barring total chaos. While some recruits care about winning and going to the NFL, many others factor into various other things and hence the need for selling. Texas can sell a lot of things (I feel bad for you if I have to remind you what those are) and whenever you have a positive coaching change, you tend to get a recruiting boost because you can sell hope. My point with OU was not how great they were over the last decade - that's not "new" to recruits. They have a geographical disadvantage and lesser academic reputation. Their sell will always be a chance to win it all and go to NFL. With the way they have performed in the playoffs, they can hardly sell the fact that they are anywhere close to winning it all and regarding the chance to play at the next level, yes, they recruit high level offensive players but they hardly have any recent success with defensive players. With the shitty level of talent the Big 12 has, OU will continue to have success in the league and it's not "new" to anyone but when they play against the top tier SEC or other national teams, their weakness gets exposed. Hence, my comment that they have nothing new to sell stands. Take a look at their 2021 momentum vs. ours. Unless Texas falls apart again next year, OU will revert back to their natural recruiting position (around top 15) vs. Texas (top 5-10). It's not really that hard to fathom.

Where exactly in my post I said anything about the results on the field? I made a comment about what I think will happen to their 2021 recruiting class. Doc, you gotta read better!

Perhaps you don't understand how recruiting works. I am happy to revisit this comment post NSD2 in 2021.

Rhule taking out two of our primary obstacles from our schedule is the best thing any rival coach has ever done for us. Are we sure Tom doesn't have some dirt on him?

Russian oligarchs.

Fucking Venabals is an absolute stud of a coach! If you are serious about winning championships, you hire someone like him no matter the cost.

Saban is very well spoken. I actually like listening to him as opposed to Jimbo who sounds like a used car salesman.

Hope you are right, man! I salute the fans that still to show to watch this abortion of a team.

Good to great position coaches get promoted to become coordinators. Some of them flame out as coordinators and then go back to becoming position coaches again. It's like in the tech industry where good engineers don't always make good managers. I think you want someone with a history of developing talent and a strong resume as a recruiter. Whether or not they flunked as coordinators is an irrelevant data point.

Meanwhile, Shaka Smart keeps collecting his $3M annual paycheck to suck the life out of our BB program.

ASU is taking full advantage of USC being in shambles. I am annoyed that they are getting some of our targets as well.