TheFlyingBoat

Facts and great username

I too will commit both to the brisket post fund and the ice cream post fund. Hell I'll post my own homespun ice cream if that's what it takes to get the Quinn Ewers/2021 croots thread to 1000.

Great play design by Sark. You love to see it.

Not sure how y'all managed to have a conversation about great ice cream and not bring up Salt & Straw or Teo Gelato.

What is happening? We're a basketball school now. Did Shaka learn how to coach all of a sudden, or was it a slow process? Shaka got hair and all is well. In reality I think it's a combo of getting senior leadership, shortening the rotation and getting his best players minutes, and finally having some good guard play to pair with the traditionally great big play we've had under Shaka. Like I think the best guard we've had since I was a freshman back in 2014 was probably Isaiah Taylor. We haven't had a drafted point guard since Cory Joseph a whole decade ago. On the other hand, in the past five years we put Myles Turner, Jarret Allen, Mo Bamba, and Jaxson Hayes into the league. That's four first round bigs in five years. None of our guards may have elite NBA guard written on them, but we finally have some respectable college guards who can lead the team to success and a five star one and done big to go with them. To make matters better, we don't have to rely on the one and done big to make our team work as we saw today and multiple other games, which allows him to develop properly. For the first time in a long time, we're a complete team. Have we beaten any other really good teams, or is KU overrated? KU is definitely the best team we've beaten. Other than that we haven't beaten any other elite teams. That being said I think we're really solid. The other elite team we've played is #4 Villanova (likely to be #3 after the next poll) and we played them incredibly close in a hard fought game. We won the Maui invitational and we look good. Kansas has beaten Creighton, Texas Tech, and West Virginia and their only losses are to us and Gonzaga so I would not be surprised if they're a one seed when all is said and done. This is a fucking incredible win, I don't think we've ever beaten Kansas at AFH this hard and we have a ton to be proud of. Still a ton of ball left to play and Shaka and the Men's Basketball Team have a lot to prove, but fuck if it ain't easy to get excited right now

@immamac While I know you banned "Fire {insert HC name here}" threads, it is an open question as to whether "Fire {inset position coach name here}" threads are. That brings us to an important question: if Mike Stoops is hired, can I create a "Fire Mike Stoops" thread? Better yet, can I create one right now?

RGBIII as he delivers the truth to his people: God fucking bless the University of Texas, god fucking bless America, FUCK CHIP BROWN, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY IT IS 11:21 IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, AND OU STILL SUCKS! Edit: Oh and that would be 9.95

So long and thanks for the fish

What a pity. Couldn't even hit 1000 pages

I wish I could drop my entire plus rep quota for the day on these two posts.

I mean since money isn't a question here why don't we make it a nice 12.5x8 and make him the 100 million dollar man?

Give me a name then. Who should we look to beyond Meyer, Kelly, and Campbell that is both likely to come here and would be better than Herman?

My standard isn't football jesus, it's Matt fucking Campbell. That's not some herculean bar to cross. I think Tom is responsible because the buck does stop there. I've said multiple times, if you bothered to read my comments instead of running canned responses to what you think I am saying, that Tom's personnel selection in terms of staff is his biggest issue as a HC (unfortunately probably one of the most important things to be good at). He seems to have lucked into a good staff on the defensive side and with the things he is good at would in theory be equipped to do well next season. If we can get Matt Campbell or better though, fire him. If not, roll the dice on an OL coach (odd that you seem willing to open the YellowPages to a random name for the next guy, yet you oppose trying to find a new OL coach given that the available options for replacement HC outside of the guys I listed are lackluster at best).

What do you call Georgia, Mizzou, Utah, and Florida St then if this game didn't meet your standard?

Who do you want then, assuming we can't the guys I mentioned being suitable replacements? Who would be worthy of rolling the dice on instead of Herman. Why should we believe odds are good they work out better? Everyone can tell me that Herman sucks at x, y, and z. Most of the time I agree since I've said similar things here and elsewhere. What no one can seem to answer is, why should we believe going below the bar I mentioned would yield better results than what we have?

It's a sign that Herman is who I've said he is. Poor at personnel decisions, good at other things listed, while others here seem to claim he is the worst at everything and a half step above Charlie Weis in terms of coaching talent. Roll the dice on OL and try to find a better guy. Wait a year and try to find a better coach if we can, unless we can get Campbell or better in case we fire Herman regardless and hire Campbell or better.

Oh fuck off Huck, you can't seriously be using coach speak as an indictment. You're better than that. Every single fucking unit in year X is the best unit every coach claims to have ever seen in their career until year X+1 when every unit that year, especially the weakest unit of the team that year, is the greatest unit since the 85 Bears D and the modern Kansas City O.

G5 candidates that I think have potential get a chance to prove themselves to be more than one hit wonders. P5 coaches that continue to over perform at middling institutions realize they've done the most they can at Pittsburgh or North Carolina or Arizona (purely examples of middling institutions not suggesting I like the coach at any of these schools to be the next Texas HC).

Who else is available that's worth hiring? I remember looking at the list of Plan 3.5ers from IT or whoever it was and just rolling my eyes repeatedly. They're either not coming or terrible choices

Sure, but the issue isn't the entire offense, it's particular. The offensive line blows chunks. If we fix the offensive line and are still seeing the offense randomly sputter out when it shouldn't then I would agree with you. Like I said a billion times I don't love Herman. His meddling does introduce issues. With that all being said, most of the solutions are cutting off our nose to spite our face. Like seriously some of the Plan 3.5 names or whatever the fuck these dumbass shit for brains 9.95ers are calling their idiotic suggestions are just terrible. I don't want shitty retreads that would be our version of Charlie Weiss. I don't want G5 coaches with less success than Herman when he came here. If we can get a coach that either had recent success in the NFL or P5 or had a better resume at the G5 level than Herman or Strong did when they got here, sign me the fuck up. If we can't, let's not shoot ourselves in the dick to prove that we know Herman has a big ego.

So would I. Like I said, if we can get Campbell, I would happily write up Herman's pink slip myself. But I am not going lower than Campbell to replace Herman this year.

Standing up from a neutral table and randomly selecting from a pool of likely low true count tables is idiocy. Herman has severe issues but seems to be an elite game planner given his success in bowls including about Georgia (and don't give me the aggy talking points of them not wanting to be there. You don't try to score that hard down three possessions in the 4th if you don't want to be there), capable offensive mind, but poor at personnel decisions (which seems to reverberate into discord across the program) and prone to going overly conservative late in games. To me the biggest issues I see is Herb Hand, which Auburn and Penn State fans warned us about and possibly the WR room. Sam was clearly injured most of the season and that showed in play which was unfortunate but that is no excuse for some of the poor WR play we saw. Herb Hand's OL play is just atrocious. For whatever reason we can't seem to hit there and it is beyond me. If we can find an elite coach, I am happy to kick Herman to the curb and move on since I think the cupboard is very well stacked for an elite coach to come in and win a conference championship and go from there. I am not a loyalist to Herman by any means. But this over reactionary position causes us to miss the forest for the trees. We finally have good defensive line play, not just from stars, but on the whole. We look like we potentially have a great LB in Overshown. DB play has improved. The staff is finally balanced in terms of coaches one each side of the ball. We finally have a good defensive staff for the first time under Herman meaning the staff issue there is at least temporarily solved mitigating one of the worst issues of Herman imo. On the offensive side of the ball I wouldn't miss a single coach if they left, but with that being said, with the exception of Hand I am not sure any are terrible either and it is entirely possible that most issues are largely due to the OL sucking donkey balls. I think if we fire Hand and get someone reasonably decent there is no reason we can't win a conference title next year. Casey Thompson seems more than capable and Bijan is the truth. The defense is stout and should improve with another year under Ash. I would still be carefully watching for a replacement for Herman, with that all being said, but I am not sure right now there is a name that we can get (assuming we can't get Urban, Kelly, or Campbell) that gives me any reason to believe would be better. Tl;dr Herman sucks, but you overestimate how much he sucks, everyone beyond the three listed suck more, and with our current staff should still be able to win despite all deficiencies discussed provided we fire Hand.

I've said this before and I'll say it again, firing the dude just to fire him would be a terrible decision, which is why we will do it. If we can't get Urban, or pull Kelly from ND, or Campbell from ISU then we should hop off the carousel and wait a year.

We definitely have the best comic and gif game with thujone and the recruiting board.