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The idiot was invited to speak at the opening ceremonies while the UH coach. He lived in our neighborhood. It wasn’t but about 75-80 degrees, but it was cloudless. Hot enough and bright enough to make standing or sitting directly in it hot enough to be uncomfortable if one has to do it for too long. Most speakers for these things talk for 5-10 minutes and wish the league luck. Julia Morales spoke this year and she was great - had the mic for roughly 10 minutes and told a couple of stories and said good luck and moved on. Herman goes out to the mound for his speech and drones on for an hour speaking in nothing but platitudes. It turned into a real life Charlie Brown scene where he wasn’t picking any cues up and was laser focused on telling his boring advice and the crowd became more and more hostile as kids began to melt on the field in the sun. Women went from quiet to groaning to openly shouting. When he finished, a small group of people clapped and he walked off the field triumphant, having educated all of us on what it takes to get to the top of the ranks in college football coaching. I’m not even sure he knew where he was. Someone likely just fed him his adderal, pushed him towards the field and told him to tell the crowd how smart and successful he was and it was like pushing a “play” button.

Boy, nothing is ever more scintillating on this board than the fucking geography tangents. Riveting shit, guys. Well done.

All of that was excellent fan fiction. Liucci will ultimately claim similar shit about Manning. They had one of their big money guys reach out to the Mannings during that cycle and were politely told that no amount of money was going to have them interested in sending Arch to ATM.

Oh that was a bad omen, along with him taking the opportunity at Bellaire Little League opening ceremonies to drone on for an hour as the stands grew more and more assertive in begging him to bring his speech to an end.

I think we were talking about early signs, but for sure you’re right on that. Flipping off cameras in national signing day was a highlight as well. I’m guessing Herman wins his way out of Florida Atlantic at some point and lands somewhere with more visibility. When that happens, I am going to enjoy watching him embarrass some other program on their dime.

Oh geez. For sure. If you didn’t know that Herman wasn’t going to be the guy once his coaching staff was announced, that scene with the sledge hammer should have sealed the deal.

You do great work with these updates. Thanks.

CDC actively seeks counsel from outside of the UT circle of influence from trusted and independent subject matter experts. Someone would have to be very good friends with one of those types to know much when an actual search is being conducted. Plenty of people would be excited about Bakich. Thanks for the update on the Clemson end.

@Doc Sam Beckett any chance Clemson folks are chirping about Bakich packing his bags?

Rack’em!

You should totally call Jim Rome with that and read it verbatim.

You’ve been a constant nuisance since you started posting with this new handle. Post count smack is as weak as your general presence here.

This is whiny self-talk about the media meanies and message board posters not liking Texas properly. Go look at the commentary around the Texas home loss to Ohio State in 2006 after winning the title in 2005. Ohio State got a ton of credit even though everyone reasonably acknowledged the significant losses for Texas coming off the title. This post makes no fucking sense. It’s just thread vomit.

You're whining. There's no need to do so. The world isn't always aligned against Texas. If Texas goes in and beats Michigan, Texas will get its due. If Michigan wins and its close, it's not going to be some terrible item on the resume. If Texas gets beaten badly, somehow, then Texas will deservedly get run over publicly.

I'm betting on one of the USC commits.

Thanks for the write-up. I've been to New Orleans many times and Charleston only twice. The comps are fair, but I do think they each have cool and unique elements unto their own, making both worth regular visits. As to the implication that the rednecks aren't as voluminous in Charleston as one might expect, I have some thoughts. We road-tripped last summer and it took us through Charleston and then through Savannah along the way. Charleston is more expensive and nicer than Savannah. Savannah is where the rednecks and a generally lower socioeconomic class of traveler is spending their time. It was stark in comparison. We left Savannah after a few days saying that we'd checked that box, we left Charleston after a few days on our way to Savannah saying "man, I wish had scheduled a few extra days there".

I would be fine if this concept turned into how people look back at things down the line because it sounds good and provides a simple way of seeing things, but that isn't what happened. Texas, like much of the NCAA, didn't grasp the consequences of Alston by even a little bit. They were completely shocked by what happened when Pandora's Box was opened. It's worked out, though.

That dude is 20 years older than Mike Elko and looks like a spring chicken compared to The Elk. Hell, he looks younger than David Pierce, for that matter.

It’s pathetic, but I can’t help myself from being entertained when it comes to their thoughts on the notion of Texas fitting in (or not) and the ramifications for that. It’s all based on their own insecurity about fitting in, which whittles at both their institutional core and their individual cores. “They won’t fit in, so they’ll leave in five years.” ”The SEC has no idea what they’ve gotten themselves into!” ”Yeah, well how about the way they handled entering the league?!?” Who on earth gives a shit about things like this other than those guys? It hit me today that ATM reminds of Ike Clanton in Tombstone. It’s actually uncanny.

Vogel expounded more on the Kelshaun Johnson recruitment this morning: "Next is 2025 Hitchcock wide receiver Kelshaun Johnson. Of course, one of the larger surprises this weekend was the speedster receiving crystal ball predictions in favor of the Aggies. However, I am here to share the same sentiment. I have been told the Aggies did a great job this weekend and are considered the leaders. Of course, Johnson had an opportunity earlier this cycle to join the Texas class and opted not to. Texas has since moved into great positions for three of the country's top wide receivers and just pushed up the date on Tanook Hines' official visit to this past weekend as well. The writing is on the wall for me in this recrutiment." So they really did go the Nate Kibble route with him - need you to take the offer now or we can't hold it if other things come to light for other targets. Hines is lightning fast as well, plus they're feeling good about Ffrench, Lockett and Moore. I'm guessing they don't really think they're getting both Lockett and Ffrench. This weekend, Texas has Moore, Marsh, Johnson, and McCutcheon set to visit. Seems unlikely that all 4 visit. After that, Ffrench and Lockett both visit the same following weekend. Hines gave ASU a silent commitment in April on his visit. He was part of a tandem expected to go public and give ASU some splash in our area but they never did it. I'm wondering if Hines committed this weekend. If he goes public, Johnson likely doesn't make the visit. Not sure what to make of McCutcheon or Marsh as anything other than backburner options.

Watching the Balcones guy, who is either David Pierce or a close relative, stan for him and grind out against Bakich is both predictable and humorous.

CDC’s role gets really overstated regarding the football hire. Money and Eltife were running that one and CDC was in the side buggy. That considered, I don’t think there is an analog for the football hire and it’s to be ignored. What happened, however, is that talks started with Meyer and carried on for awhile. Herman viewed it all as bullshit until one of his assistants sat the guy down and told him it was real. He was stunned. He nevertheless wasn’t fired until the day they announced the Sarkisian hire, if memory serves. Meyer had nothing to do with it.

Huh?

You sure Gerry was the guy saying that?

You’re always out in front of us, stanco, and the best we can do is scratch and claw to keep up.