Tired Horn

Is that fucking cake baked yet?

It's a quantum function. Somewhere in the space-time continuum, Charlie is always being fired.

I understand the difficulties, but what the school has to weigh is impact on the program's future. These first two years have been so bad, and some of the losses so extreme (see North Texas State and Western Kentucky), the question on the table had already shifted to whether Morris' ability to recruit had been crippled. If so, the program was in a death spiral. If Arkansas believed that was the case, then it had to stop the bleeding whether that's fair to Morris or not.

Still, it's not the coach's job to just surrender for a couple of years. Morris was being paid serious money, and one of the expectations that goes with that is that you can transition systems without getting blown out at home by North Texas State and Western Kentucky.

I would agree. I don't think the SEC title is a realistic expectation for Arkansas (although there is that phrase "once in a blue moon"). But not getting blown out at home by North Texas State and Western Kentucky is a realistic expectation. Let's face it--they weren't even competitive in those two games.

I don't think anyone questions Jerry's business/financial acumen. That's a proven quantity. But the evidence to date is that there are a fair number of professionals with more football knowledge than the Jones family, and other owners have found success by simply hiring them and letting them do their jobs. Now is Jerry a better owner than, say, Daniel Snyder? Sure. Jerry has evidenced the ability to learn some things, which Snyder never has. But Jerry's "hands-on" approach the last 22 years hasn't produced a whole lot of success. Even he has noted that he'd fire a GM with his record. So I would say that fans, who put money in Jerry's pockets, have every right to complain until the day Jerry becomes some Stalinesque dictator of the US, which is hopefully never.

Arkansas' wins under Morris: Eastern Illinois, Tulsa, Portland State, and Colorado State. Man that's sad. Millions of dollars for that.

But Colorado State in 2019 stands as the signature, high water mark triumph of his tenure. So there's that.

May I interrupt this feud just long enough to note that the regression of our linebacker play has actually surprised me a bit.

Every word of this is true and on point. And don't forget that North Texas State kicked his ass up one side of the field and down the other at home last year, to the tune of 44 -17. It's bad enough for a big state school in a major conference to get upset by the likes of North Texas or Western Kentucky. But to not even belong on the same field with them is inexcusable.

As I have said many times, and it is still true: Jerry wants the Cowboys to win and be great more than anyone. It's just that he'll choose not doing that if anyone but him can take any credit for it. That's why Jason has lasted so long. Jerry wants to win with his puppet to refute an obvious truth--Jimmy Johnson had more to do with the initial success of the Jones era than Jerry did.

Well, in all fairness, with Jerry still at the helm, we're probably doomed for another decade in the desert no matter what.

Geez. I guess we can file this under "Threads to Slit Your Wrists By." If you need an intervention, let us know.

Any game with the Redskins this year should be relatively unwatchable.

Yep. Considering that only 16% of our seasons since the SWC was formed in 1914 have seen only 1 loss or zero, you'd think we could have a little more sense of perspective. I'm as disappointed as anyone by our performance since The Fall of the House of Mack way back in 2010, but life goes on.

That's unfair to the Titanic. The Titanic was doing fine until it hit that iceberg. Charlie was never doing fine. If we're looking for naval analogies to him, we need to find some ship that sunk at its launching.

I've watched Texas football for a long time now, including multiple periods that were not fun at all to watch, and it's not just the same thing over and over. There are specific internal and external circumstances, coupled with individual coaching strengths and weaknesses, that explain the fate of each regime. That makes us pretty much like anyone else. I know it's irritating to see Oklahoma have success on a continual basis, but the simple truth is that Stoops was, on average, a better coach than Mack. That's why Lincoln Riley also inherited a better setup. Herman has got the job now. His fate has yet to be written. Maybe he'll right the ship and make us a contender again. Maybe he'll plateau at 8-9 wins and end up eventually fired. There's no way to know yet. It's fair to point out things you'd like to see, such as some movement on the defensive front. But it's Herman's job. He'll make the decisions and succeed or fail accordingly. No one says "don't watch," but you always need to find some aspect of watching that makes the inevitable ebb and flow of life tolerable. Good luck.

I was bored, so I looked up the play-by-play sequences on ESPN. Discounting last seconds of a half, it looks like our opponents have had ~ 48 drives that didn't score and ~ 36 that did. The Kansas performance was second to worst at 5 and 8. The worst was LSU at 3 and 8.

Well, I know it happened because I've seen it. Not so much in the Kansas game, though.

Excellent point.

That seems overwrought. If Herman does indeed plateau or even drop off, and recruiting follows suit, I doubt we'll be talking about him six years from now. Just relax and see how this entire season goes.

That's pretty good. But we do have to take into account that he's done something no mere mortal can--purchased season tickets. Surely no one else on this board has ever done such a thing.

Seems like a reasonable take.

Good for you. Then you shouldn't need to waste your time here sniveling so bitterly about UT football. Have the courage of your convictions.

The facts say that. Going from 16-21 to 22-12 is upward movement. Some historically problematic aspects of the depth chart have been improved. If, God forbid, Herman should be plowed under by a UT shuttle bus crossing the street tomorrow, the verdict would be that he left us better than he found us. What Herman has yet to demonstrate is that he can make us as good as we want to be. And, yeah, the Kansas game was a depressing win. But again, Herman is going to be here for at least a few more years. Deal with it.