Richard Kimball

Just a couple of things from an old guy. Contact lenses, if you can wear them, are a good thing. Glasses age you. If you've been out in the sun too much, like me, long sleeve shirts can help hide the aging on your arms. Short hair is better than long hair if your hair is thinning, but shaving the head can make you look like a walnut wearing a skull cap. The more wrinkles you have, the fewer wrinkles your clothes should have. Stay behind the cutting edge. Wear things that are reasonably in fashion, but not high fashion. Spend a couple of bucks on your clothes. You don't have to go crazy, but higher end pants, shirts, belts and shoes last longer. Have at least one tailored, dark suit. It will last for years if you only wear it occasionally. Get it refitted or buy a new one if you gain or lose weight. Dress for your profession. Different professions have different informal dress codes. Different areas of the country have different informal dress codes also. It's been more than a few years since I was in corporate, but in my profession back then, suits at meetings in New York were expected. Anything more formal than a sport coat (no tie) in California was odd.

Same look as your avatar?

I hope he said, "It's over, Anakin" before he pushed him.

This is a thing with a lot of movies, that after the big finale, nobody has to explain all the crazy shit that went down. Best example is the original Fright Night. Billy rescues Amy, and kills the vampire and his henchman. Peter Vincent kills Billy's friend, Evil Ed, who's been turned into a vampire. The cops have been watching Billy, cause of his crazy claims that the next door neighbors are vampires, but nobody has a problem with his best friend ending up naked and dead in his living room with a stairwell support stuck through his heart, and the fact that the next door neighbors both go missing.

I've seen fucked up articles. I've written fucked up articles. That article is beyond fucked up.

I didn't even realize aggy was playing. Then I noticed I was checking scores for the top 25.

Or Alabama. They've just had such a good run under Saban they haven't had anything to bitch about. They crucified just about every coach after Bear Bryant for not being Bear Bryant until Saban became a NC machine.

Any change yet?

Money isn't everything, but poverty isn't anything.

Since Steinbeck explanations are in vogue, maybe Garrett should talk about Rose of Sharon nursing the team back to health?

Agree on all that, and will also point out that having a huge alumni base is a positive. When Mack was here, though, there were a few "golden teams" in college football. There can be some quibbling, but it was usually considered to be UT, USC, Notre Dame, Alabama, Ohio State. That's dated now. If UT starts winning, they're right back up there. However, they struggle with Tulsa, and high end coaches understand that this isn't a one year fix. The insistence that the Horns play at Alabama level, although they're closer to being Tennessee in terms of performance, makes coaches wonder if they'll get the time to make the necessary changes. As far as money whipping someone, yeah, the Horns can do that, but most large programs can money whip pretty well, and we'd have to go beyond money whipping to stupid level money whipping.

Conference realignment talk not going away. The Longhorn Network is a problem, but mostly because UT has become the Kardashians with a football team attached. Same thing with the Dallas Cowboys. The team isn't the focus. The reality TV show is the focus. Can the Horns be successful as a team while running the network? I don't know, but it might be possible if they'd create a wall between the network and the team, so you wouldn't have players thinking they're celebrities instead of teammates.

I don't think it was that Briles thought he was too good. Y'all already know about the hatred between UT and Baylor. Steve Patterson selecting Briles after a sit down was no sure thing. Patterson didn't really want Briles, but some of the BMDs did. Baylor would have gone batshit crazy if Briles had done one. I'm talking Jessica Walters "Play Misty for Me" crazy, not some pussy "I'm going to throw your clothes on the bed and set them on fire" crazy. Without a guarantee of the job, Briles wasn't going to take the chance. Gary Patterson ain't coming. Patterson was never coming. Patterson loves TCU. TCU loves Patterson. No way he leaves his comfy confines for a place with more drama than a Denny's that has a waitress that's screwing half the kitchen staff. Right now, UT has to roll with Herman. This is not considered the plum coaching job it once was. On this board, it was a foregone conclusion that Mack was a terrible man that should have been fired and shot, but most outsiders didn't see it that way. They saw the University firing a guy that usually won ten games a year, brought a natty, and played for the B12 championship the year he got fired. Strong was fired after three years, and we're talking about firing Herman two games into his second season. References to Steinbeck aside, what top tier coach wants to be at a school that is going to fire coaches that quickly? That said, I've interviewed Herman twice, and. he didn't impress me. OTOH, I don't give a crap if he quotes Percy Shelley, if they'll start winning some games.

If he starts talking about caged birds...

Hail, Hydra.

Too soon?

by dickless, here.

Tickets are going for $2 on stub hub.

Dale Gribble.

It's a tough coaching job, but there are others that have their own challenges. Imagine taking over State Penn after the Sandusky thing. Your question, though, demonstrates one of the challenges of coaching at Texas. We're convinced that we're the ultimate in whatever it is we're talking about. Expectations are too high on an annual basis, and BMDs interfere. The spotlight is harsh. On the flip side, money's not a problem. Recruiting a kid to Austin has to be easier than recruiting them to Little Rock or Stillwater. Texas will get the benefit of the doubt in rankings over TCU, for example. If there's one thing that, IMHO, is the toughest thing about coaching at Texas, it's that the program has become more of a reality TV show than a football team. Sometimes it seems like football is just icing on the cake of the "game day experience." If Herman, or whoever, is going to make the team successful, they're going to have to isolate the players from the carnival atmosphere that has taken over pretty much since Colt got knocked out of the championship game.

That's one long winded SOB. Started to write more, but that about covers it.

Tom loved the Longhorn. He wanted to play with the Longhorn. But he squeezed it too hard and killed it.

His directorial debut with "Ordinary People" was impressive. He was also great as the voice of the Hudson Hornet.

Barry got fired cause one of his players shot another one and a drug dealing ring running out of the football dorm got busted by cops. These were unrelated events that happened on the same weekend. When Barry was coaching, a girl I knew graduated UT and went to grad school in Oklahoma. She said one of the first things she was told when she hit campus was "NEVER let a guy talk you into going into the athletic dorm for ANY reason."

He hasn't really gone incognito until he threatens to shoot up a funeral home.