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Posts posted by DFW Horn
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4 minutes ago, Js1 said:
I just don’t know what CDC does. At this point we know:
We aren’t prying Self from KU
Oats is too toxic to touch
Stevens and Donovan ain’t leaving the pros
Wright is not coming out of retirement
Bennett, Lloyd just got majorly upset in round 1 (yet again for Bennett)
Mid-major hire isn’t really CDC’s MO (May, McCasland, Mills)
Muss likely isn’t a candidate
Cronin’s buyout is HUGE
First year head coaches like Tang don’t have much of a track record to base a hire off of
Ivey has no results or resume to go off of, but he could be a really good assistant hire if Ogden does back to his Ops role for Terry
Rodney had middling results at UTEP/Fresno, but he’s done well with this roster, he recruits well, the players love him, most of the assistants and eligibility returnees would stay with him and the 2 highly recruited commits would likely stick to him
In summary;
CDC is first and foremost a fund-raiser. 2nd he's a politician trying to appease the BMDs and UT administration. Lucky for him, he's both charming and diplomatic.
You're not supposed to know what CDC is doing behind the scenes, but it's fun to speculate. Did you have Sarkisian as your pick for the football hire? What about Pierce?
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7 minutes ago, Hermanator said:
Seriously, I think Terry MUST win today to have a shot at being hired long-term.
At least, I hope that's the case. But, anything short of Elite 8 with this roster is a disappointment IMO. No, IDGAF if "the players love Terry".
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29 minutes ago, Hermanator said:
You want to turn the keys over to one of the biggest basketball programs sitting in one of the best recruiting grounds that's about to transition to a new conference over to some low level dude who lucked out and won 1 game yesterday?
Once again, it's not all about who gets hot and wins a couple of games. Even for Terry. We hired Shaka based off of that and it was a horrible fit. It has to be a guy who can handle the spotlight and pressure here while having the talent to build successful rosters through recruiting and transfers.
Chris Beard was the perfect hire in that regard. We won't find anyone as good at that as him (why it was stupid to prematurely fire him). But we have to find someone close. Throw the bank at a Cronin or Drew. This program is at a point where it can't risk taking a flyer on a low level Shaka/Charlie Strong/Tom Herman type. Much less the coach of Farleigh fucking Dickinson. If they get this hire wrong it throws the program back into obscurity just in time to go to the SEC.
Good call and review, but I think your sarcasm detector is broken.
I was being facetious.
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Both the FDU and FAU teams look well-coached. We've had great success hiring mid-major guys before. Let's take another shot at an up-and-comer.
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1 hour ago, bullet said:
And Prestige Worldwide means lots more money and you leave behind Purdue, Mississippi St., etc.
Well, I'd lose interest if an 8-4 record merits a playoff berth. NIL makes CFB too much like the NFL already, IMO. The big dogs need their spares to build up the win-loss.
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1 hour ago, oSuJeff97 said:
From the article -- talking about % of the new deal that would be streaming...
"Over 50%? No, I don't think so. I think that's too much. It's OK if it's 50-50. … You have to remember, guys our age, people that I went to high school with aren't going to want to deal with streaming.
"I don't think it will be more than 50%, but if it ended up 50%, I think it would be OK."
If it's anywhere near 50% they are fucked. 50% of your entire football inventory would be streaming? Not only does that reduce your overall visibility, but it exposes you to the PAC fans' well known apathy when it comes to football, because while random CFB fans may flip on to a PAC after dark game or any other broadcast PAC game on linear TV they sure as shit aren't seeking out a random PAC game on a random streaming service, so it's up to the PAC fans to provide the audience numbers for that and well... good luck with that...
I was thinking the same thing.
For a smart guy, Robbins didn't sound very intelligent with this commentary. Apathy is the PAC's biggest problem. Well, that and letting Cal and Stanford have too much say
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3 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:
Ho
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shit
Is that Lyle Lovett's unclaimed, bastard son on the right from a night of carousing and unprotected sex with a regarded groupie?
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5 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:
Isn't that the whole schtick?
Next, Yormark needs to ink a Big 12 shoe deal with K-Swiss motherfuckers
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13 minutes ago, Blotto said:
I laugh when anyone claims its harder to coach at UT than any of the other top historical programs. Every fan base similar to Texas has lofty expectations. if you win 9 games one season, you better win 10+ the next. And if you hit 10 wins the following season, you better be competing for the championship the next. Its no different at any bigtime school. If we stopped hiring gotdamn idiots for head coaches, our prospects would probably improve. Fucking Sark, lulz.
Sark's hire falls under "meddling BMDs", though, right? No argument about other bluebloods having high expectations, too.
But, maybe even he won't fuck it up with our NIL programs and we can out-talent most errbody like he experienced at Bama. Biggest positive is recruiting under him so far, especially linemen.
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2 hours ago, YGIFS said:
Point is, for such a major program...our coaches don't retire voluntarily. They fail to live up to expectations/payment, or wear out their welcome, and fade into mediocrity. I realize it's not unique to us, which means we're not that fucking special. We throw good money after gambles and they usually don't pay off.
Probably because it's a toss up for what makes coaching at UT difficult. Is it;
- Meddling BMDs with unreasonable expectations or
- Uncooperative, troublesome administration messing with players' heads
My hope is CDC has finally got the BB's back in the box, but - if so - UT probably doesn't hire Sark in the first place. This one's on Eltife and his cronies.
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3 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:
It'd be cool if it did, but it would suck for a team like Iowa to have only one non B1G/ISU game a year.
Yeah, Hawkeyes' fans will miss all the MACtion in Iowa City.
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1 hour ago, Al_4_ISU said:
Man, I just don't see 10 conference games happening. Maybe.
The B1G will do it to retain the value of their mega media deals if they expand further. They've got enough bottom-feeders to prop up and pad the blue bloods records.
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3 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:
I'm starting to think the SEC might not even want to go past 16. With UT and OU, there aren't any top end brands left (none of the ACC brands are quite on that tier), and it starts to get hard to play everyone with any kind of regularity, and you start diluting the competition.
Even if the Big 10 adds some other schools that fit their academics or TV market ambitions, does the SEC have to keep up in a numbers game? The Big 10 has a lot more chaff in terms of quality programs.
Agreed
A league is too cumbersome at 16, IMO, but the proposed 3-6-6 SEC schedule will work.
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13 minutes ago, Vertigo said:
Utah's hubris is pretty comical these days. They think they are Stanford or USC, when they only really move the needle in on field performance. Once Kyle Whittingham retires I will be very curious if they can sustain it.
UU should do what's best for the program NOW and short-term.
They've got a long ways to go before the B1G even sniffs them. I don't think the SEC ever will. Either way, the Big 12 isn't a demotion from a PAC without USC & UCLA.
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Lol, "sip show"...more comedic gold for MBG, @BoardGeniuses. That sub to TexAgs provides all the daily fodder needed. Pooooooor aggy
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9 hours ago, kopp0e said:
Oddly enough, in last 5 years Utes & Sun Devils have better football stadium attendance than does Virginia/ North Carolina/ Georgia Tech who SEC/ B1G may eye...
Now compare their attendance to the R8 and Big 12 newbies.
It amuses me that Utah and ASU think they're "too good" for the revamped Big 12.
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12 minutes ago, Josef Pwag said:
I've been to the FAU campus. It is surprisingly nice. 5 minutes from the beach. Hot sluts everywhere. A little slice of heaven.
Any beach in FL is better than watching film in Chicago as a low-level lackey for da Bears.
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13 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:
I’d be embarrassed if I couldn’t spell.
* everybody
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Errbody against aggy
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53 minutes ago, Davis Lane said:
"I have made a big mistake." ~ either one of them
FAU worked out well for Joey Freshwater.
No reason it can't work for Mensa. I'll be pulling for him and the Owls. There are worse places to revive your CFB career than Boca Raton.
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47 minutes ago, Liquor and Poker said:
College Station is is a shit stadium in a shithole. But I got lost and their fans couldn’t have been- ah, I can’t do it.
Even aggy aren't dumb enough to get lost in Collie Station.
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1 hour ago, Rimbo said:
Time to go full offseason. Been thinking this a while, partially because I tend to run in circles with the sort of person who uses the word "sportsball" without irony, but also because back during the pandemic, the NY Times, a publication usually above such things, ran an editorial titled "College Football is Not Essential." I won't bother linking it here; DM me if you genuinely want to see that drivel.
But yes. Fandom in general, and college sports fandom in particular, is embraced by honest intellectuals.
To wit:
Human intellect evolved as a way to justify tribal association. There's people who believe that they use human reason to derive the conclusions they come to from evidence, and it's all complete bullshit. The way human reason works is that you start with what you believe, and then look for evidence to support it, and ignore anything that goes against it. It's called Confirmation Bias. If you go into certain fields, such as Mathematics, at some point you must train yourself out of this way of thinking, and having been close to people who have done so, they're completely insufferable dipshits.
We associate with our tribe for comfort, for support, and agreeing with each other is how we strengthen those bonds.
The tribe you associate with forever determines your biases. If you call yourself a "Christian," you will be forever blind to any evidence to the contrary on the nature of God. If you call yourself a "Democrat," you will forever despise anything the Republicans do, no matter what it is. And so on and so forth. If you identify with your home state of, say, Colorado, you'll forever be blind to the charms of California, Texas or New Mexico, while ignoring the horrors of living in Colorado.
But there's a way out of this trap. You can identify with something utterly meaningless and pointless in the grand scheme of things. There are plenty such things. You can be a Trekkie. Or a card-carrying House Hufflepuff-identified Harry Potter fan. Or, of course, a sports fan.
But college sports is better than other fandoms. Because by associating with a sports team of a (presumably) prestigious public University, you are associating with a group that is ideologically diverse and highly educated. You are surrounding yourself with people who have good brains, the ability to express themselves, and who have different views and life experiences for you to learn from.
For an intellectual, the local alumni center before the game is a veritable smorgasbord of brilliant ideas; the modern-day Salon.
In short, when I say "ou sucks," this is an assumption accepted as truth, defended with all possible blindness to the contrary; by saying it, I'm creating a safe space where we can begin with this agreement, and from there debate amicably about actually important things like politics and the nature of existence.
"But wait," I hear you cry. "I've been to Tiger Stadium aka Death Valley. Are you trying to tell me that that teeming horde is where I'd find intellectuals?" I mean, obviously the Venn Diagram of Sports Fans and Intellectuals is not a circle. What I am saying is that the circles in the Venn Diagram of Intellectuals and People Who Are Not Sports Fans... do not intersect very much. And the quality of university clearly matters; it's difficult to have an intelligent conversation when every other word compulsively has to be, "Whoop!" Of course, I might be only saying that because of my own personal choice and my own confirmation bias.
But I don't think so.
You lost me at New York Times.
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What would it take for Rodney Terry to earn the job?
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How was hiring Beard "shocking" or much of a surprise, when he's a UT alumnus.