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  1. 2 hours ago, alphahorn said:

    Sam may not realize it today, but he will some day - he's probably the most beloved of the living former players. I've been around a long time and I can't recall a player who bled burnt orange as much as Sam, other than perhaps Earl.  We didn't get the crystal ball like we did with Vince or the Heisman of Earl and Ricky, but he gave 4 years of blood and guts through some pretty rough times.  He'll probably make a fine coach some day.  Who knows maybe the last chapter of his UT story is yet to be written.

    He's not quite at Earl's level.  But he's ahead of everyone else.

  2. 16 hours ago, orangecat92 said:

    1. Hire a great staff

    2.  Keep the foot on the gas

    3.  Play as many young players as u can.  

    4.  Have fun, and let players see u having fun.

    Do these things and they result in the following:

    a. Team chemistry, playing for each other and the coach

    b.  Kicking ass of all teams with less talent, just guessing 7-9 teams?

    c. Competitive game with OU

    d. A never give up attitude among players, which results in very low numbers of opt outs.

    If he does these four things to the highest degree possible, I don’t care if he wins 7 games or more.  Win 6 and to me that means he failed at one of the objectives.

     

    There's a lot of bs on this board (not picking on this post in particular).  But this year's team never gave up.  It was 2005-2009 and pre McWilliams type never give up attitude.  Hermann had this team believing they could win every game no matter what the score was.  That was lacking from the mid 80s until 2005 and from 2010 until this year.

  3. 22 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    We need to get back to playing loose and nasty. Let the dogs eat. At the same time - act like you've been there before. Enough of this preening, flexing, cheering without context bullshit. Let's get back to stomping ass and asking "alright who's next?" instead of pissing our pants against shitty teams and then acting like we just won the superbowl when we edge out fucking Kansas and Okie Lite and Baylor.

    One thing that makes Saban's teams stand out from the rest of college football (besides the talent, of course) is their seriousness.  They always come out focused.  And they stay focused.  I was sitting right over the entrance from the locker room at that Alabama-Georgia game in Athens and the contrast couldn't be any more different.  Kirby Smart's Georgia players were jumping and hopping around and filled with energy.  Alabama's jogged in, looking straight ahead.  They just looked like they were focused on exactly what they had to do each play.

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  4. 2 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Yeah- Mack made the easy look easy. I’m the same way Bonny Bowden did at FSU. When you have an overwhelming talent advantage overwhelm them. 
    shit really shouldn’t be considered hard but Herman never figured it out. I don’t know what Strong was doing but I think it’s avant- garde performance art and it was spectacular. 
    I’d have preferred to see it at OU or Bama or some such. 

    We DIDN'T have an overwhelming talent advantage.  Strong really drug us down with his lazy recruiting.  We had less talent than OU.  We had less offensive talent than Oklahoma St. or Baylor.  We didn't have the defensive talent that TCU had.  We weren't significantly better than anyone but Kansas.  Hermann has got us back to the point where we are more talented than anyone but OU.  But not dramatically better.  Hermann did a pretty good job with the hand he was dealt those first two seasons.

  5. 3 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

    I didn't predict Herman would fail. I thought it was a promising hire in what is almost always a crapshoot. 

    Cockiness proved to be hubris in the cases above. His kissing the players in public was another quibble. I liked the sentiment he expressed for why he did this; I just didn't understand why the moment needed to be done for cameras. 

    To the point above, I think Strong and Herman both erred terribly and understandably by keeping a comfortable group around themselves. Orlando provided a fools gold season. I do wonder if Herman will have a path like Sarkision. He could learn from his mistakes; I don't know if he can break the horrible tendency to not kick field goals and the other one where he starts running out the clock in the third quarter.

    Herman does leave some ham on the bone (DKR said that about the team he was leaving for next guy).

    Short of Meyer, there was no sure thing. Some pretty smart people on this thread sound like voters when polled long before a presidential election.

    Would you choose to stay with President Encumbent or vote for someone (unknown) from the other party?

    The encumbent always loses those polls because, I believe, the voter is allowed to imagine some ideal candidate who doesn't actually exist.

    For what it's worth, I'm good with the gamble on Sarkision. He evidently turned down Auburn and other offers looking for the right fit. We're not the only ones who think he just might work out. 

    Some proud cynic above dismissed the optimistic as fanbois. I'm optimistic. If I were not, I wouldn't enjoy watching the games. I'd rather take pleasure in hoping for the best rather than defending a pessimistic prediction for years and then feelilng all smug if I turn out to be right. I'll save my venom for Sarkision and CDC until some evidence develops.

    In the meantime, Hook 'Em!, my friends.

    I thought DKR, Akers and Mack were gone too soon, but was still optimistic about Akers, McWilliams, Mackovic, Brown, Strong and Hermann.

    Just don't have that feeling at all about Sark.  

    To put it simply, "We're Texas."  Do we really want to hire someone with a career 57% W/L record at football powerhouses?  With all our past coaches, we've seen that they have the same weaknesses at Texas they had before.  I don't see any reason to think Sark will be better than he was at USC and Washington.  Remember, Mackovic was an offensive genius too.  He really was.

  6. 6 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Nah man. It was hiring Casey Horny and his entire staff of G5 has beens and never wases 

    Hermann's were ok.  He hired some outsiders who were supposed to be good.  It was Charley's that caused you to say wtf.  He was clearly not willing to hire anybody who knew more and who was smarter than him.  And that was a pretty low bar.

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  7. 6 hours ago, immamac said:

    This is why mack did well until he didn't. We want mack 2.0, excluding the manic depressive mack era that is 2010+. He didn't suck until he checked out. We need not checked out mack brown 2.0, that's a bar I think Sark can meet. 

    Whatever you say about Mack, you can't criticize his efforts to hire the best assistants and his ability to close the deal with recruits.

  8. 59 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

    Yeah, if there’s one way to tell if a coach is legit, it’s listening to his press conferences. 

    Right.  I'm into results.  I've seen that most people that talk a good game can't produce.  Saban isn't exactly a TV star.  There aren't many DKRs around.

    Greg Davis frustrated me, but he produced the best UT offenses in history and the 4 best QBs since James Street.  All those 5 stars before Major always disappointed.

    But truly, Hermann really wasn't the PR guy.  He always looked kind of creepy in those LHN press conferences with the weird blinkless stare.

  9. 1 hour ago, Hurtlocker said:

    Stolen and shortened up.   Herman got the can because the top recruits were headed the wrong direction.   That's job one.   Job two is fucking coach them.

    We have to understand why.  Was it because of all the rumors from the beginning of the season that he was gone at the end?  We got soundly whipped in Texas recruiting by OU this year.  That hasn't happened in a while.  OU whipped Jimbo as well.  Or was it simply because we weren't winning titles?

    How do you fix either of those when Sark is going to Sark and Texas BMDs are going to Texas BMD?

    Or was recruiting simply a problem with Hermann's process or simply Hermann's process under Covid?  He's not the type of coach who will get a TV job while he's on our payroll like Mack did.  He is pretty boring on LHN.  So I can't imagine recruiting by Zoom was his strong point.

  10. Realistic is 8-4, 3rd place in Big 12 and win the Alamo Bowl, top 10 recruiting class, beat OU and A&M in Texas recruiting.  Get one of the top two players in Texas and 2 or 3 of the top 10.

    Now if it were a good coach instead of Sark, I would say realistic is 9-3 and at least appear in the Big 12 title game and get 3 of the top 10 in Texas recruiting.  But we have the 2nd coming of Mackovic.

    If Alabama's offense sputters against Ohio St., it that soon enough to start a fire Sark thread?

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  11. 11 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

    Yes yes you made this point months ago when you told us we should be happy playing for the conference title we failed to get to.

    I am onboard with patience when there is learning, development, and progress being made but that wasn't the case.

    But I guess if you just make the same post a few more dozen times for a few months you will eventually...what? Win whatever prize you are trying to win.

    As for hubris and impatience, well that has been the character of Texas for 180 years. I don't see how being what we have always been ruins a legacy already built on hubris and impatience.

    You see a team that was 2 plays from being 5-5.  Ok.  That's true.

    But I see a team that was 3 plays from being 10-0.  We haven't been this close in a long time.  And it was a weird season and they finally did seem to put it together at the end.

  12. 15 minutes ago, orangecat92 said:

    You cannot describe the situation in hindsight.  Were you actually around when the Freedom Bowl Massacre happened?  I lived in Austin at the time, and revisited this the other day.  The team voted to NOT go to the bowl game and the AD decided to go anyway.  Akers could not persuade the players to give a shit about the game.  The score was 55-17 in the third quarter.  Anybody who cared about Texas football enough to pay attention knew at the time that Fred had lost the team.  We had to wait TWO full years to let Fred go.  I saw many aggy cars shoepolished "Keep Fred"  before the 1986 aggy game, that we knew we would lose.  Fred was a good man, but he was long overdue to be let go.  

    There was no way anybody could predict in 1986 that there would be a one-person coaching search.  Just like today, at least the first half of the equation was 100% correct.  The good news is the decision-makers have accelerated their decisions.  After spending two years too long with Fred, we spent much less extra time with Herm.  I personally did not feel like Herm needed to be fired until the 'Sam all by himself singing the eyes' event occurred after OU.  Imo he should have been fired after our last regular season game.  I don't think you fire a coach mid-season unless there are incredibly rare extenuating circumstances.  So, by that standard we only held onto Tom about 3-4 weeks too long.  This is a major improvement.  

    I remember that game.

    I remember a lot of bowls.  Texas players never cared if it wasn't the Cotton Bowl.  At least we had that mentality then that championships were our standard.

    Now while I was around, I wasn't old enough to remember when people were lining up to fire DKR after 3 straight 6-4 seasons just before the greatest run in UT history.  Not that I would expect that from Hermann, but I expect him to contend for a conference championship.  Sark--the last thing I expect is consistency.

    Mack took 8 years to win a title and 4 years to win 10 games and Mackovic didn't leave the cupboard as bare as Strong.

  13. 18 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

    and you want to keep Herman who has razzle dazzle'd you with an Alamo Bowl win (again) thinking he finally gets it right?  The risk just wasn't worth it anymore.  Recruiting for 22 is looking to be worse than in 21 with him still manning the team.  And fuck Mack.. he had to get away for a few years to understand that he needed to change..he wasn't going to see the light if he had stayed another 10 years here..  

    Well Mack had gotten complacent.  It was time.  Strong was just wrong.

    Hermann hasn't gotten complacent.

    Recruiting is the valid argument.  But we had horrible recruiting for 3 years when Hermann came in.  We were ranked in the 20s in recruiting and we lost some of our best or they became John Burts.  21 isn't Texas level recruiting, but its not bad.  We need to win like Mack did in his prime.

  14. 16 minutes ago, Hairy Biped said:

    For fuck's sake, Sark's Head Coaching record is 46-35.  That's a fucking terrible resume for a stress-filled, top job like Texas.  Add to that, his very questionable past, there is nothing to like about hiring Sark.  Who cares what he did as OC at Bama?  We're aren't hiring that position yet.  The best indicator of future performance is past performance, and Sark's past performance has been horrible.  That said, this move is right in line with how Texas handles these things.  Got lucky with DKR and Mack and have struck out with every other hire in the modern era.  Why should this one be any different?  If true, I hate this hire. 

    Unless you have a blank slate like McWilliams who wasn't ready for the big time, their history always shows.

    Mackovic would somehow win a big game and lose a bunch of winnable games.  Have a good season and a mediocre season.  Hit it off with the wine and cheese crowd and miss with the beer crowd.  We know that from his previous stops.

    Mack would lose his big regular season games and win his bowls.  He was always just short.  He was a great recruiter, did a pretty good job with assistants, but wasn't that good a game day coach.  We know that from UNC.

    Charley Strong had a tendency to lose games he shouldn't.  Maybe we didn't know just how bad he was.

    Tom Hermann got his team ready for big games, but sometimes lost to an SMU or TCU.  

    Every one of them continued in the same patterns here.  And Mack and Tom had better previous patterns than Sark.  So we've got a Mackovic who will hit it off with the wine crowd, the beer crowd and maybe continue right up to game time.

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  15. 17 minutes ago, VaLonghorn99 said:

    Happy to see Herman go. He was failing at basic game time decisions and not developing players. Didn't know much about the new guy until I read the first few pages of this thread. I am not against second chances. 'Bama has been dominant for more than a decade so hoping for the best. We got so much talent that some basic competent coaching should at least keep us in top 15. If Sark after dark is out to redeem himself then maybe this turns out to be great. I am just hopeful because of the change.

    This is the same shit we heard when Akers was fired.

    Herman's definitely not perfect, but he's not that bad.  Kirby makes some of those dumb decisions and he was a long pass away from an MNC.

  16. 29 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

    so much bitchassness in this thread.. y'all wanted herman out at all costs, now are complaining about Sark coming here... So much so, some of y'all think Tom should have been kept.. and if that happened, y'all would be the same ones bitching, crying all spring and summer about recruiting.  Then comes the fall and we lose WVU and y'all want to burn it all to the ground anyway.. cementing two back to back transition classes.  Wake the fuck up and let's roll!

    I wasn't complaining about Hermann.  He needed one more year to show he could do it.  Or for Urban Meyer to want to come.  Not for some drunk mediocre OC to replace him.

    I remember people like you being so happy Akers was gone--for McWilliams.  It took us 15 years to recover from that mistake.  And so happy Mack was replaced by Strong.  Guess what?  Mack is in a NY6 game with a basketball school.  And we are on our 3rd coach.

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  17. 37 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

    Wrong. His offenses at ISU and UH weren’t all that good and plenty of people pointed that out. 
     

    Comparing Herman’s short history to Sark’s laughable. We know way more about Sark as an offensive coach than we did Herman. 

    Didn't we average the most points in UT history this year?

  18. 29 minutes ago, troph said:

    tell me how much better uga is under KS than it was under MR?  not much.  uga was already within striking distance of being in the top 3.  they continue to be second to Florida most years and don't beat Bama and lose to Tom Herman and nearly lose to Cincy.  MR and KS are Mack Brown at best.  We had Urban Meyer's eyes on us and we failed.  A guy known to be drunk at practice as the HC with a barely above 500 record was our choice.  pardon me but I'm no where near the dumbest fucking thing that's been said on this board.

    UGA is better.  They have talent to match anybody, including Alabama.  They just can't get over the bama hump.  4 straight NY6 bowls.  4 straight top 10 finishes.  An SEC and 3 division titles in 4 years.   Richt had 3 unranked seasons in his last 6.  Richt had 2 SEC and 5 division titles in 15 years.

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