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What's so surprising about that? 1984 happens to coincide with the start of Akers' down turn, which we spent almost a decade recovering from. Then Mack, for all his wins, just didn't win conference championships--he either lost to OU or blew a couple of winnable games after beating OU. Mack's down turn began in 2010, he couldn't do the rebuild and left a crappy depth chart in key areas. Follow that with "Three Years of the Charlie," after which the depth chart still isn't fixed. Now you want to knee jerk fire the guy who's gone 22-12 rebuilding and is having some success restoring depth. Cuz' 22-12 after three years of 16-21 is an obviously bad decision. Yeah, "We're Texas.'" It's just that nobody but us gives a shit. We're not simply entitled to the kind of success other teams have earned. We have to earn it, too, and that starts with digging out of the hole we've been in for years. Herman is doing that. He's not flawless, and he may not be the guy who gets us back to the next level, but he's going to be here for a few more years at least, so you might as well hope for the best.

I think you're either stubbornly doubling down on a failed position, or just getting a bit hysterical. Nobody has said our two deep is filled out in all areas to where we want it. It's a work in progress still trying to recover from some bad decisions spread out over many years. But a reasonable person doesn't lose it over the fact of two injuries in a class and two transfers. And its insane to think one class is the answer to getting us back to the next level. That is, again, a multi-year process. Our defense isn't good right now. We still, however, have a winning record. We are an underdog to TCU. That doesn't, however, mean we will lose. Herman is a work in progress who may or may not be a long term answer. But Rome wasn't built in a day, and you should probably develop a hobby besides wetting your pants on the internet because some freshman transferred.

Wow. Looking like epic self-destruction on the part of the fucking Eagles. Hope the Cowboys continue to cash in.

Except for the part where they managed to win. Definitely an ugly win, but our overall record at this point beats anything Charlie ever did.

Actually, he hadn't finished in the top 10 at LSU in any of his last four years. He'd peaked there and gone a little down hill. which is why there was sufficient discontent to dispense with him. He's definitely a good coach, but hardly flawless.

Yeah, so? Charlie had a much worse win-loss record at Texas than Herman. So, however nonplussed we are at the Kansas game, we aren't going to start pining for the good old days of Charlie.

Lots of people bought into Strong when he came. A 16-21 record after three seasons, however, doesn't leave much in the way of buy-in.

A moral victory is when you lose close. This was an actual victory, however unsatisfying the box score may look.

Geez. His actual record is far better than Strong's. We don't know if Herman is the guy to get us back where we want to be. But you can't fire a guy with his record in Year 3. So buckle up and hope for the best.

Well, I suppose that's an accomplishment. Of sorts. Something for Jaason to put on his resume, which hopefully he will be polishing up soon enough.

Very sought after... Can we please test that hypothesis?

Well, in all fairness, just because they failed on a 4th and 2 doesn't mean they had to give up a 92 yard TD pass on the very next play. This staff spreads the failure points around. Which seems to be okay with them as long as they keep clapping.

Again, I don't think Jerry's approach to this is at all rational, so attempting to attribute normal thinking about success to him is pointless. Jerry doesn't want someone who is already recognized as an offensive genius, who brings heightened expectations with them. He doesn't want to win with people talking about how great his coach is. Jerry wants to win with people talking about how great Jerry is. He's clung to Jason precisely because no one thinks Jason is anything special. Win a Super Bowl with Jason and he can hog all the credit while simultaneously insisting this is just like 1992 when Jerry, in his mind, created a Super Bowl team with a college coach who went 1-15 his first year.

There isn't job security. Jerry keeps Jason around because he wants to show the world that he built a championship contender while nurturing his hand-picked puppet of a coach along. That would be his way of refuting those who credit Jimmy Johnson for those long ago Super Bowl wins, which matters to Jerry more than anything. A coach who comes in with a real reputation will inevitably be seen as the force behind improvement and become a threat to Jerry. Such a coach will not be given an endless run like Jason. Rather, they're at risk of Jerry making the job intolerable to run them off early so he can install another hand-picked puppet and go after his white whale again. Jerry accepted Parcells because he needed some credibility after squandering his own so that he could grease the skids for building Jerry World. He certainly didn't try to sustain that as a long-term relationship. Now he has Jerry World, so he doesn't need anybody for anything. Lincoln Riley doesn't seem to be stupid, so he'll certainly be pondering our history under Skeletor if he's ever even offered the job.

Is it the QB? Is it the red-haired coach? Is it the defense? Is it Jerry? Ever consider that it's all of them. We have more than one problem. And why would Lincoln Riley choose to come here? If he wants to go to the NFL, he'll have more than one opportunity. Why pick the one where the skeletal, deranged owner/GM insists on being the focus of attention and has a long history of neutering head coaches, as well as trying to low ball them on their initial contract?

Actually, we wouldn't have needed to keep JImmy, who would have left sooner or later anyway. What we needed was for Jerry to give up his GM delusions and simply hire good personnel after Jimmy (as in not Barry "is that my gun?" Switzer lounging around the facilities semi-sober). It's a sad thing to even contemplate--match Jerry's genuine financial vision and abilities with good football personnel and we could have been something special the last 20 years. Instead of the slow burn freak show we are.

Oh well.

Every official should just thrown their flag all at once.

Jets seem to be trying to give it to us now. We should take it.

Kind of like last week. Stinking the joint out for most of the game, then mounting a comeback in the 4th. We'll see if it works out this time.

That's pretty desperate, to pull the Tannehill chute.

Well, our division does suck. Beat Philadelphia and we can pretty much win it on attendance.

Aren't clowns at least supposed to be funny?

As long as we don't screw around and let it come down to a late field goal.

Damn Maher. As bad as it is to lose, that's still worth a chuckle.