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SwanderedTalent

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  1. well, to that, no fucking shit that Kerry Coombs is not going to leave Ohio State for Texas
  2. you have a better shot at Bob Stoops than Urban Meyer Bienemy seems like a perfect fit, though, as an opposite-guardrail/overreaction to Harbaugh's failure. I hope he ends up there.
  3. Esp since "well enough" means "win 20 games and make the NCAA Tournament". He doesn't have to win the Big 12 or make a deep post-season run over even put together a 27-win season w post-season flameout. He just has to go 20-10 or thereabouts and make the tournament. We can finish 6th in the conference, even.
  4. you don't know who Urban Meyer is, either
  5. there were also plenty of idiots around here lauding Ed Orgeron's coaching acumen after all HE WON A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP PEOPLE only the great ones do that
  6. so you now you want to argue the precision of simile
  7. but what if the available CEO wasn't a nice guy?
  8. that's like saying medicine doesn't cure illness, doctors do
  9. He's good, but Shaun Wade looks like he is strictly trying to get through the game without injuring himself. His film tonight has to be F-minus with NFL scouts.
  10. I'm always sure that the people who want something I'm against were also wrong about everything in the past
  11. I don't know if Randolph Duke is tainted by it, I think he just got some in his hair
  12. it's now one in 50 (two in fifty-one, but you know what I mean)
  13. you continue to present this as a false dichotomy, because you are a shrieking hysteric
  14. The first time I played a guitar solo on stage in front of a live human audience, I remember thinking "I can't believe I'm fucking doing this". Likewise, posting music here, I can't believe I'm fucking doing this
  15. you don't have to be a crazed nutball to have your head explode over how this country is responding to COVID but in numbers' case, I guess it doesn't hurt
  16. The only part I find slightly plausible is the "he did nothing to salvage the situation" part, because Herman is a gigantic butthurt pussy and it wouldn't take much for him to blow it off and essentially say "what's wrong with you, you should know better than to believe that stuff" if Ewers heard something he didn't like and wanted clarification. But that's way too complicated to seem likely. The much more likely explanation is that Ewers committed when he thought he was joining a program on the way up, one filled with talent that was finally going to be properly utilized under a competent OC, and he's now had five games to see that he committed to a mirage (and to hear from other elite recruits about what a mirage it was/is). He can go to Ohio State and win fifty games in four years and get drafted in the first three rounds, or he can come here and win fifty percent of his games and end his seasons in the Alamo and Texas Bowls and probably get the shit knocked out of himself doing it.
  17. "Yeah, this kid we've recruited to play quarterback for us, committed back in August, could have gone to Clemson or Ohio State, anywhere... he sucks. What a fag. He's shit." I can totally see Herman doing that. It's 4D chess.
  18. I've done this once before, but sure I talked to my insider within the program over dinner and many drinks last night. The fact he's willing to pound 'em during the season should tell you what a lost cause it is. "Swanny, I've never been part of such a dysfunctional staff before, and I was on <redacted to protect the witness> staff at <redacted> when he quit back in 2010. We've just lost the locker room. It's totally divided. There's no buy-in, and maybe there never was even though we had what seemed like good morale after UTEP. It's not just The Eyes, it's everything from young guys not respecting the veterans to guys feeling like other position groups aren't working hard to fights over girls". My guy went on to say that the coaches assume that Herman is toast and they're as busy with networking and resume prep as they are opponent prep. "We out-talented Baylor, with just the most vanilla shit for our gameplan," he explained, "because the players don't care and the coaches are already one foot out the door. You're not gonna see any bells and whistles other than <a couple specific trick plays he named> if Yurcich gets frisky. We're not gonna outthink anyone, we'll just win the ones where our Jimmies are that much better than their Joes". None of that totally shocked me, but when I brought up recruiting, it got ugly in a hurry. "We're toxic as a program right now. Coach Herman has rubbed seemingly every coach in Houston and Dallas the wrong way, and the ones he still has some rapport with where we can get in the door, the only kids that are listening are the borderline four-stars and the ones with their hands out." And no, we as a University, athletic program, and coaching staff are not playing THAT particular game, my source assured me. About the only bit of good news my guy had, other than his two young kids are healthy and back in school, is that Sam Ehlinger is taking a wait-and-see approach to a potential return next year. "Don't listen to a thing the Ehlingers say in public, it's a totally fluid thing," my guy said. "If Coach Herman goes-- and I guess I'd go with him-- then Sam will want to see who the next guy is before he decides on coming back. He's ready to move on if that's the right thing to do, but he really burns for UT, he really wants to win something meaningful here. He could be back in 2021". And who might that be? Has my guy heard anything? He was coy on that question, thinking he might be able to finagle a job if the biggest fish out there (who he's worked for before) were to take the job. The only thing specific he had to say in regard to the coaching search was, "We're not hearing anything. Chris (Del Conte), you can just feel the icicles when that guy comes to the football offices."
  19. or even that he wasn't in fact fired!
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