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  1. 22 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Q:  I’m no great fan of the performances of Tom Herman’s Texas teams so far, but I’m also less than enthusiastic about the Longhorns starting over with a new coach next year.

    Brian D in Arlington thinks if he tries to sound erudite and clinical, Stewart Mandel will take him seriously and respond to his question. 

    Brian might be a fucking dumbass when it comes to hiring and firing football coaches, but he knows himself some Stewart Mandel

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  2. 4 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:


    Warpaint is the best album they made after “America”. Including the lost ones.

    I actually listen to it more than Money Maker these days.

    yes, that to me was one oddity of Gorman's book, he was just head over heels in love with Band and while I thought it was better than Three Snakes, to me it had the same sort of uneven feel to it. But I am not sure the word "Warpaint" even appears in the book. I know he said after 2006 he thought of the band as his job, not his band, but they hit such a creative high on Warpaint. 

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  3. On 10/9/2020 at 6:51 PM, Ten Bears said:

    Digging this tonight from 2008.  They open with Goodbye Daughter's of the Revolution.  Man I totally missed out on that one though the years.  Not anymore.  

     

    Warpaint was a great record. I'm in a minority on this one but I think it was absolutely better than Three Snakes, which basically killed their career. 

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  4. 16 minutes ago, 927 E. 41st said:

    The I ain't gonna buy tickets and gas up the airplane to go it see it bowl!

    If we don't get into that one then we drop down to the I'm not gonna bother to watch it on TV bowl (we get into that one if Herman is still the coach)

    The Cotton Bowl is an NY6 bowl, so no chance there; the Alamo is in the next tier so likewise no chance. The Sun Bowl is locked into the ACC and Pac-12 and the Armed Forces and Frisco bowls both have non-B12 tie-ins so they're out.

    that leaves the Texas Bowl and the First Responders Bowl

    I can't wait to see how our team shows up for either of those games. They're so full of Texas pride, you just know they'll give a good account of themselves. 

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  5. 12 minutes ago, Bill Lumbergh said:
    17 minutes ago, B00M said:
    He over estimated his team like he always does, thinking the longer the game went, the more it would come down to QB play and depth, presumably both favoring Texas...

    I wanted us to go for two, but I also thought there was a higher probability of Rattler turning it over in some disastrous way than Sam.

    which explains why you'd go to overtime, but not why you'd choose to extend overtime after OU stuck in up your defense's ass twice in a row

    I don't agree with this, but I can at least see the perspective of "we have these bitches on the ropes!" at the end of regulation and thus thinking "so let's finish them off in overtime", expecting them to go three-and-out and your offense to score on its first possession. But after the game had clearly turned again in OT and OU scored TDs on both possessions, how could you NOT think "let's get the fuck out of here with the win right now"...? How could you possible think "nah, let's play another OT where we'll both HAVE to go for two" and think that the optimal way forward?

    "you" meaning Herman, not "you" meaning Bill Lumbergh or B00M

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  6. 45 minutes ago, SA-KC_Horn said:

    The pic of him standing alone in the Cotton Bowl should and will be his last.

    if he didn't love UT as much as he does, it wouldn't have shocked me if he'd opted out of the rest of the season after that bullshit.

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  7. 1 minute ago, NoName said:

    right? i understand rolling into OT somewhat. but man, that first OT was the prime position to do it if you weren't the first time.

    it was truly the final nail in the coffin for me. grow a pair, you are at Texas and you can either be a legend or a clown - and btw you can easily blame the loss on trying to win vs turtling it up. but not this guy!

    I see people saying this but I don't agree that the first overtime was the time to go for the two-point conversion since we had the ball first. At least that's not how I'm thinking of it. I'm thinking of it in walk-off terms. End the game at the end of regulation, or if you don't have the sack for that, the end of the 2nd OT since at that point it seemed obvious that our late-game hold on OU's offense had been broken. 

    Anyway. Fuck Tom Herman. Hire Urban. 

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  8. 1 minute ago, NoName said:

    I legit can't believe he didn't go for 2 either at the end of the game or in the first OT

    put yourself in Herman's shoes at those moments and ask yourself, "in what way is our chance of winning preserved by prolonging the game?".

    it becomes even more inexplicable. he thought, at some level, for some reason, we would be MORE likely to beat Oklahoma by keeping the game going instead of converting one two-point conversion

    I don't give a flying fuck what anyone's carefully curated chart says about anything, the moment to win that game was at the end of regulation-- or, as soon as OU showed it could start scoring on the defense again, at the bottom of the 2nd overtime

  9. On 10/11/2020 at 3:58 PM, Lobo said:

    Gotta be weird for CDC, thinking about jettisoning these two guys as you look at your office at the two new 9-figure toys you're building for them.  "Uh...would you like to come back for the ribbon-cutting?"  

    he ought to be worried about his own ass

    we can win all the softball national championships he wants to, but if football and to a much lesser degree men's basketball can't stop being embarrassingly inept, it will end up on his desk at some point 

  10. 12 minutes ago, alincoln said:

    I'm more than a little concerned that Urban will run for the hills when he takes a deep dive on the program and the athletic department.  His wife is also going to be vehemently opposed to him taking the Texas job.   

    man, his wife is a total Karen, he's probably going stir crazy being around her this much

    "Is that pesto? Is that pesto? Oh! Oh, it's asparagus! I thought it was pesto!"

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