Burt Macklin

He’s extremely busy right now. He’s been on the phone all week trying to see if there’s still time to cancel his order of 1,000 Texas A&M 2022 National Champ shirts. It’s looking like he’ll probably have to settle for having a credit applied to his order of Texas A&M 2023 National Champ shirts.

This is the key to me. Regardless of why they fire him, he can burn their program to the ground if he wants to and being owed $70+ million is a lot of motivation. If they don’t fire him for cause, then when’s the first time they pull afford to fire him and go moneywhip a new coach? 3 or 4 years from now? Can you imagine the state of their roster by then? Seems like a win-win for us.

I think it’s all going to come down to what happens with his legal case. If charges or dropped or it’s a small plea, then I’m sure he’ll keep playing. If it goes to trial or his plea were to include jail time, then it will be a really bad look and I’d say the University really screwed up letting him keep playing. It’s a bit of a tough situation, because UT has to investigate and try to determine what happened but there’s only so much they can uncover in a domestic dispute. It’s the DA’s job to investigate and determine what crimes his actions warrant, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to wait to see what they found, but it does look bad if we let him play this whole time and then the DA presents facts of a major assault. At the same time, suspending a guy on social media accusations alone before we know if the DA will even press any charges is also unfair to the player. Ultimately, I hope UT is letting him play because they’ve done their own investigation and determined to the best of their abilities that the situation is not major, but we won’t ever know if that’s what happened unless this thing goes to trial, which is extremely unlikely.

I was talking about them firing him for cause so they wouldn’t have to drum up funds for his buyout. I agree it probably won’t happen, but it’s certainly fun to think about and nothing is really out of the realm of possibility with them. Well that and Jimbo still considers the QB running a failure of his offense.

Not sure what RBs and TEs have to do with our defensive money down rate, but you’re out of your mind if you don’t list DT as one of the strengths of this team. We have one of the best DT rooms in the nation and it’s easily our second best position group after RB.

Yeah, there’s no way Jimbo can spin losing to UF and ultimately missing a bowl in Year 5. At that point they either outspend everyone else massively (probably not even possible) or the wheels really start to fall off the bus and the roster implodes a la Jimbo’s last year at FSU. The real question to me is whether A&M is dumb enough to fire Jimbo by the end of next year. There’s no way Jimbo goes quietly when he’s owed north of $70 million, but aggy is probably dumb and desperate enough to do it anyways.

How exactly do you think those numbers support that Barron has struggled covering guys in the slot? He’s the best man coverage guy on the whole team.

That’s a good chunk of money for Haas. Maybe they’ll actually try developing in-season of this sponsors payments go through.

Our edge and DL class in 2022 were very highly rated. We weren’t taking a bunch of shots on 3 stars there. Next year will be the test for how good they actually area and how much they’ve been developed.

True, but I think that’s also different because they decided it after the race when they knew the ramifications. Same for their decision to give Checo 5 seconds instead of 10 in Singapore.

We’ll still be arguing about the stewards giving out a 1 place penalty for taking a guy completely out of the race, but at least it guarantees an actual punishment for the top three. I’m struggling to think of an instance where a time penalty actually cost a top car a place.

Seems like the real key to betting Texas is home vs. away. Sark is 4-1 covering at home, and 0-2 on the road. Both road games he failed to cover by double digits. Taking KSU at home plus the points definitely seems like the better bet.

The problem with the first punishment is teams would abuse it. If Lewis even touched Checo, RB would retire him immediately. I like the idea of placement penalties better than time. It ensures that you actually punish someone for a violation.

I’m just going to pretend Ferrari didn’t race today. It was awesome seeing Daniel tear through the field. It sucks he’s been so bad at McLaren and that he won’t be on the grid next year. I hope he finds a seat for 2024 and can regain his RB/Renault form.

But the only time they were .4 down in S1 was their last run of Q3, so it’s not just a general issue. Something weird happened on the last run of Q3 for both Ferrari drivers, whether it was DRS or engines.

So both Sainz and Leclerc were .4 down after S1 in Q3. Binotto says Leclerc had a DRS issue, but some reports are that Ferrari’s engines struggled with the thin air and they had to turn them down. Either way, JFC Ferrari, how many different ways can you find to fuck up?

Counterpoint: Fuck Alpine.

I’ve always disliked George and it’s nice to see I was right about him. He puts up decently fast laps in clean air, but he has terrible race craft. He clumsily hits people way too often and then comes off as an entitled brat when he’s interviewed afterward. Fuck him. Same for Stroll. Im not sure that’s fair to Leclerc at this stage of his career. I’d spike to see him on a competent team before saying he can’t win. He’s made some mistakes, but he also has to deal with an utterly incompetent team that forces him to have to push too hard or dictate his own strategy mid-race. Max and Lewis don’t have to deal with that. Seb went through a similar thing with Ferrari in 2017 and 2018. But I agree he’ll never win a title at Ferrari unless they luck into an utterly dominant car one year.

You should probably try reading the post again. I didn’t say we haven’t improved from last year, which is a hilariously low bar created by Sark’s ineptitude as a coach in 2021. I said we haven’t improved as the season goes on two years in a row.

I have no idea what you’ve been watching, but Overshown is really bad and won’t be anywhere near the top 3 rounds. He’s constantly out of position or messing up assignments. His testing numbers will be good for a linebacker, but he’s undersized, can’t take on blocks, and isn’t actually good at playing linebacker. Numbers can only do so much for guys like that. If he gets drafted the team may have another position in mind, safety perhaps? He does have good speed and safety was his HS position. He doesn’t have anywhere near the athleticism or coverage skills to play safety. He was spun down in college for exactly this reason. There’s no way he could move back to safety in the NFL.

This wasn’t an isolated incident. There’s been a lot of times this year where Worthy either can’t find the ball or does a terrible job adjusting to it. It’s an established flaw in his game. Off the top of my head, I can think of plays against ULM, Bama, and WVU where he did this, and I’m sure there’s more.

It’s 2 years in a row now that our team has not only failed to improve as the season goes on, but we’ve actually gotten worse. Sark draws up good game plans, and Flood seems to be doing a good job developing the OL. Other than that, it’s hard to find any signs of good coaching on this team 2 years running.

It’s the middle of year 2 and he’s 5-3. I think most are pretty confident he’s not the guy, but he will get to the end of year 3, at minimum, and likely more than that. Your post is also way off for a number of reasons. Sark isn’t a mix of his old self and anything. He’s the exact same guy he was at UW and USC. Recruits extremely well, offense looks unstoppable at times, blows leads, can’t adjust, is terrible on the road, and his teams can’t manage to show up or finish enough games to win more than 7 or 8 games most seasons. He’s been exactly the guy UT should have expected based on his previous 8 season as a HC. There really haven’t been any surprises with him if you pay attention to his HC career up til now. He is exactly who we hired, which is why it was a bad hire. And you may want to fact check your claim that “Kirby Smart took a long while.” He was in the NC game in year 2, and he won 13, 11, and 12 games in years 2,3, and 4.

It’s a real shame he’s a 3 star with a weak arm.

You make a really good point. We should go get the guy who coordinated that offense to recruit WRs for us, instead of whatever dumbass is going after Greathouse.