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  1. First question: does CDC want to fire Herman?

    Second question: does CDC have to fire Herman?

    I believe the answer to both is "no". We might not see it this way but there are tons of influential people close to the decision makers who see the COVID-truncated 2020 season as worthy of a mulligan (and the decision makers themselves might feel that way, too). CDC is not an "off with their heads!" type, he is averse to creating churn through change, and it would be easier on him and much cheaper if Herman worked out. Herman still meets all of the unwritten but ever-important "We're Texas" requirements for keeping up appearances. The kids win some games, we never get embarrassed on the scorboard, they don't get in trouble off the field, and there's not even a whiff of scandal around the program. Why, a lot of the kids are showing that they're leaders in the community!

    Unless there's a total on-field collapse, there is nothing currently going on with this program that will get its coach fired. We all think the situation is totally unacceptable, but we're wrong. It's totally acceptable to our decision makers.

  2. UT pres. Jay Hartzell added to the latest chapter of “The Eyes of Texas” dialogue by creating a committee of alumni, staff, students, current & former athletes & Longhorn Band members to address the song’s racist history.

    textbook begging the question

  3. 50 minutes ago, txbroadcaster said:

    Fla was the big one and while the OSU one was small he still left when things started getting spicy and many around OSU said if he would have stayed more would have come out. 

    Everyone knows about Florida. That has nothing to do with my question. You said he left scorched earth in two places, and now apparently you're saying Ohio State is the second place where he left it.

    Here's where he left Ohio State: they won the Big Ten his last two years while going 25-3, closing Meyer's tenure with a 7-0 record against Michigan. The first year after he was gone, they went unbeaten and won a third straight conference crown before losing to Clemson in the playoff by a touchdown.

    If that is scorched earth, fucking sign me up. Texas hasn't come close to any of that since the 2009 season. 

  4. On 10/8/2020 at 9:50 AM, ztejas said:

    The idea that the first week, month etc. is harder doesn't really jive with me.

    I used to think that, before a bunch of relapses, before it felt like I had lived my life down to a pencil point. I was entirely certain I could and would stop drinking, the first 1-2-30-75 days, every single time I quit-- up until this time now, when it has literally been an "I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow, ask me then, but today I am sober" type of proposition. I didn't have a single second of pink cloud this time. I gradually, steadily, developed a confidence that working the program could and would deliver me from obsessive thoughts about drinking. Over time, I began to really see the distinction expressed in the saying of trouble, "that was my day, (but) that's not my life". I got truly serene in the "AA acceptance" sense of the word-- not happy and sunny and positive, but calm and rational. 

    In the past, I didn't necessarily have to do hard work to stay sober early on; the pain was still fresh and it provided enough motivation to stay away from the first drink. The pain was newer, the scar tissue wasn't as thick, so I was easier to scare. The bottom wasn't as low emotionally, spiritually, or in terms of consequence, so there was a much more positive "dead cat bounce" from just stopping the alcohol intake. And consequence here isn't really a term referring to jail or divorce or unemployment or bankruptcy. I mean it in terms of how much of my soul I'd lost. By the end, the relapses were really turning me into something I didn't recognize, and each time it was much harder to feel like "I can change back to <what I think of as the real me>". I started to feel like "welp, now you've done it, you might as well see it all the way down" (and that thought will be with me, lurking, until the day I die; it's waiting for something truly catastrophic to happen so it can say "you tried, it didn't work, you can finally give up"). 

    Also, my attitude was good but misguided, too. I might have SAID "I"m sober today, that's all that matters" but in my heart of hearts, that wasn't how I was approaching it-- I still treated the days like I was entitled to good and bad ones and the bad ones called for all my the intentional manufacture of misery that I had learned as a drinker. I mistook serenity for happiness; I thought that when I felt positive, I was serene, and if I felt negative, then I had to follow those emotions forward because they were obviously genuine. That's why somewhere in the PAWS peak of 90-180 days, I got really vulnerable. 

    Glad that at least in that regard, maybe our journeys are different. 

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  5. On 10/7/2020 at 4:08 PM, Deej said:

    Steamboat was a weird sound a lot of times. Stage on a long wall with little distance from the stage to the back wall. Sound would immediately bounce back towards the stage. 

    it's not an audience recording or anything, it came from the KLBJ truck which I always assumed meant it was a soundboard recording (it sounds like one)

    I always thought the recording was really solid, though that might be because it was a really great performance featuring stuff that dropped out of SRV's repertoire in his later career

  6. 10 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

    We definitely have some players who are soft and who have never fought through adversity.

    or, are no longer willing to fight through adversity now that they've accomplished all they want to at UT by getting a UT scholarship and all that comes with it, and are already mentally onto Phase 2 ("when I'm in the NFL")

  7. 35 minutes ago, troph said:

    truthfully it was only OU that was his problem.  other than that he regularly beat teams he was supposed to beat and often beat teams that were evenly matched.  his bowl record was great.  yes there were some shitshow performances in the regular season and in the post season but  you don't win 10 games and walk away with no conference hardware by dropping games to folks you're supposed to beat.  you do that by being on the cusp but unable to beat bag-o-dicks Stoops year in and year out.

    I don't understand your response. It reads like you think you're correcting me.

  8. 7 minutes ago, RollLeft said:

    It may not be popular, i don't know, but it is possible.  A Herman stat that may support this is the vast majority of his losses are a one possession/score loss.  That coupled with the fact that it took Mack 5 years before they were at the cusp of playing for the title.  He too had to let go of Bull Reese before he turned the corner.  That said, if Urban is available why do you not make him say no.   

    I don't disagree that it IS possible, I just don't personally think it's going to happen. In my heart of hearts, I had allowed a weed of irrational hope to grow after the Tech game-- "maybe this is one of those national championship teams that just wins games all year long where you walk away thinking 'how the fuck did they win???', like Ohio State in 2002". But the TCU loss just reinforced what most of us think about Herman-- for whatever reason, he coaches a lot of coinflip games, even though he's not smart enough to put his finger on the scale to tip them in his favor the way Jim Tressel or Mack Brown were. If you're constantly in one-score games but don't have any real facility for winning them, then best case you're going to lose a bunch of them, and that's our ceiling with Herman. 

    For the Mack comparison's sake, though, keep in mind though that Mack's fourth team was the 2001 squad. That team was miles better than our 2020 team and we all knew it was a strong team from the outset. There was no wondering, even after the OU loss. 

  9. On 10/6/2020 at 9:13 PM, Celery Man said:

    man my 1 month chip was some bullshit

    I never really got off the wagon for any considerable period of time and then hopped back on. I tortured myself a bunch of times at the end stage but I don't think it amounted past more than 48 hours if that, and some of them just a long "I'm Tapering!" /ralphwiggum that was just a really miserable slow process to get drunk enough to stop caring enough to "taper". It was other people intervening and a whole bunch of external events that got me "sober" at a treatment facility where I'm fucking glad I was in a place to get what I needed to get to get some more distance between my last drink and some more ability to to not pick it back up later.

    Above, I think in this same thread of conversation, someone asked what the most important individual value is in AA. I would point to step 1. Admitting powerlessness. Not to your sponsor, to yourself. Admit it, know it, remember it, don't doubt it, internalize it. When that "maybe I can" FUCK hot stove. Nope. Powerless.

    I kind of thought the same at the time, when I got my red quarter-- when you're locked up in an alcohol-free environment, those days don't feel like they "count" the way it does when you have money, car keys and a liquor store within easy driving distance and you decide to go to a meeting, call your sponsor, etc, until the craving passes. 

    I don't actually think that way, but that's how it felt taking that thirty day chip @ Bouldin-- "well ACKSHALLY...."

    Very grateful today that I got that enforced separation.

  10. one of the worst things about this, from an interview he did with Billy Corgan (asking the question below) in Guitar World back in 1996

    One of the things that struck me after listening to all your albums is your fearlessness -- you've never been afraid to go where you've wanted to go. You 've played blues, you've played crazy music, you've played synthesizer music…

     

    I think my desire to do my own thing came from my dad. He was a real soulful guy. He played sax and clarinet like a motherfucker. Unfortunately, he was also an alcoholic who died when he was 66. But he lived a full life. My mom, on the other hand, is 80, but she doesn't live. So I'm trying to find a balance between them. I don't want to be like my mom and live to be 80, and not live. And I don't want to die at 66 like my dad.

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  11. it's perfectly natural to want to "christen" a new piece of furniture by having sex with your spouse on it, you get a new bed or new couch, of course you're going to want to break it in that way

    it's less natural to ask other people if they've broken in new furniture that way

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