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Tired Horn

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  1. The most damning thing I can say about Craig James is that he makes me more appreciative of Ted Cruz. The only thing I wish for James is that he somehow be forced to become a towel boy for Washington St.
  2. At the peak of his career, Aikman was certainly better than Dak right now. That's an unfair comparison, however, since we don't know what Dak's peak will wind up being.
  3. Well, it's a given at this point that Dak is going to get a big contract, so let's just hope for the best. I just want us to overtake Chicago for that #3 slot so we get to play the suckiest wild card. Watch a nice beat down and pretend its 1992 all over again.
  4. Sadly, Shaka seems to be reaching the point where the fans are giving up and descending into apathy. It's going to get ugly if he can't somehow prove us all wrong and this goes on for another couple years.
  5. The Redskins are cooked with Colt hurt, too. So beat the Eagles and the division is pretty much ours. Seems like a simple assignment.
  6. So what? Yeah, the odds are that Georgia will beat us, but they might not, and that would be a full tilt spectacular end to the season. The point is to get into the best bowl you can. Simply being in the Sugar Bowl is better experience for the team and a better advertisement to recruits than winning the Alamo Bowl. Even if we wind up getting stomped, people will say we're just there a year or two early on an upward swing. Saban got smacked by Utah in his first Sugar Bowl with Alabama, and he turned out fine. Hope for the best and don't give a s**t about the worst.
  7. Mack did leave some crushing holes on the depth chart that started manifesting themselves immediately, what with seniors leaving after the 2013 season and Ash going medical at the start of the 2014 season. That excuses a significant number of losses in the rebuild that followed. But Charlie ultimately wasn't able to give the program a clear direction and sense of progress. Part of that was bad coordinator hires and the chaotic shifts that engendered over three years. But I think that's ultimately just a symptom. As much as I hate to say it, Charlie just doesn't seem to have a stable vision of what he wants to build, an underlying philosophy that informs and integrates schematic choices, recruiting targets, game planning and in-game decision making, etc. At Texas, and now at USF, too many games seem to just sort of happen to him, for better or worse, and he just watches them unfold rather than imposing his own clear choices on them. It's weird. You'd think someone with his overall resume and testimonials from successful coaches wouldn't be like that, yet he is. So even if Charlie left the program with a little more talent than Mack did, no cake could have ever been baked because there was no recipe. Herman had a tough job in 2017, particularly at OL and QB, but we see progress because he does seem to have a vision. I hope it works out.
  8. More like 71. If anything, however, he seems to have gotten better with age. At least as a defensive coordinator.
  9. My favorite Jeff Fisher line of all time: "When a nuclear explosion rids the world of humanity, there will only be Jeff Fisher organizing a group of 53 cockroaches into a 7-9 insect football team."
  10. Texas should have no complaints about Robinson. He did good by us in both his stints here.
  11. God. I'd almost forgotten about that--the night the wheels finally came spinning off on the Akers era. The only bowl worse is the 1991 Cotton Bowl against Miami.
  12. I think Mack actually knows a lot about football and was a pretty good coach for a long time. He always had certain weaknesses, which were accentuated by complacency leading up to his fall at Texas. But in his heydey, you could do a lot worse than Mack Brown when hiring a coach. And even at the end, I think he'd have still been reasonably effective if he hadn't let the recruiting process rot out beneath him. If he has his energy back, hires good assistants, and tends properly to recruiting, he could give UNC a bump and leave the program in better shape when he hands it off. If not, it could be a sad finale.
  13. My most vivid Charlie memory remains that 2015 opener with Notre Dame. The one where Shawn Watson showed those newfangled younger coaches a thing or two by taking his sh***y, tired old offense and just running the same tired s**t faster. Amusingly, that just made it worse. And, yes, I laughed during the game--one of those situations where you either have to laugh or cry. We were on national TV, and we simply did not belong on the same field as Notre Dame. And there was Charlie on the sidelines, looking all confused and pissed as if he'd never seen Watson's constipated, turtle-humping-a-rock offense before in his life. Notre Dame could have crushed us by sixty if they'd really wanted to. I think even they were too sickened by our ineptitude to want to club that turtle any more. Good times.
  14. I think Charlie is a good guy, but there's no question he just didn't get it done here. And the way it went down certainly justified his firing. When you have to dump your offensive coordinator early in one season and then dump your defensive coordinator early in the next, that's on you and you alone. Having to do that once is unfortunate. Having to do it twice is careless. Having to do it back-to-back is incompetent. I wish Charlie the best at USF, but I'm glad he's gone.
  15. So Jack Chevigny likes Charlie, right?
  16. Nope, for the very reason you cite. The overall talent on campus at the end of Mack's tenure was mediocre and would have dwindled fast as recruiting continued to collapse. Mack would have had losing seasons the same as Charlie and there would have been even less in the cupboard when Herman or someone else finally took over. Mack did a lot for Texas, but his time was up and nothing good would have come from dragging that dead horse around any further. I hope for Mack's sake this UNC venture doesn't end as badly as it could. That's a rebuild project. He's 68, hasn't coached for five years, and was past his prime with us. Unless his time on the sidelines has given him some seriously renewed vim and vigor, it could be sad.
  17. Haven't forgotten that. We certainly could lose, but I think we'll be favored.
  18. So there you have it. We're 5-5, Alex Smith got carted off, and we could definitely win this silly division. Hooray, I think... Of course, then we'll be stuck with Garrett forever.
  19. This team really doesn't like to just cruise to a comfortable victory, does it? Maybe we should end our games after three quarters.
  20. What's really weird is if we somehow manage to beat Philadelphia next week (a long shot, I know), we'd be right back in the thick of the NFC East. We'd be tied with the Eagles at 4-5 and Washington is due to start dropping some games. They're beat up and have never looked great. That's parity for you. Of course it's all on paper, too. I can't see how this Cowboy team could could string together enough wins to do anything this year, even in a bad division.
  21. The basic issue is what it always has been--Jerry would rather lose than win if someone else is able to take credit for it. That's why Garrett is here. He's Jerry's puppet, and would thus validate all of Jerry's delusions with a championship. That said, I thought we'd at least beat f**king Tennessee. Need to clap harder, I guess.
  22. Seeing the pirate do well does my heart good. F**k Tech.
  23. Spot on. That was one odd sequence of plays with time left on the clock. We were basically playing for the long field goal. I suppose it makes sense to The Clapper. Sigh. Can you believe that JV hack is our second-longest serving coach?
  24. I like Frost, but I don't think he or anyone else will turn out to be a "good hire" for Nebraska. The fan base wants a level of national relevance its going to be very hard to sustain at Lincoln anymore.
  25. This is very true.
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