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Voluminous Banality

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  1. Haha. Welcome to Surly, where someone calls a hundred grand for football tickets "a pretty good deal" and a "reasonably priced hobby" and it quickly becomes consensus. 🙃
  2. You make a fair observation that there were a couple of decent points mixed in with the other pot-stirring crap which comprised the bulk of that article.
  3. Get out of here with the, "I'm more reasonable and objective than you," defense of that hack piece. What's wrong with the article? Start with the headline. Does Meyer trying his hand at the NFL imply that there is something terribly wrong at Texas? Is there something wrong at all of the other college programs he could be coaching at if he had chosen to? Then there's the "You turn down our money for the Jaguars???" red herring, as if he took the Jaguars' job pro bono out of the altruistic abundance of his precious little heart. I don't think Meyer's contract numbers have or will be disclosed, but reports were he wanted the same $12 million that was floated for the job at Texas. Then there is the other nonsensical scat dropped in liberally throughout like Urban choosing the Jags is the same as Saban leaving Alabama or coaching in the NFL is a no-win prospect because who can name the last three coaches of the Jaguars? I mean, really? If Urban succeeds in Jacksonville, will he suddenly be forgotten like every NFL head coaching failure? Lastly, he just couldn't resist dropping in the long-debunked and oft-repeated false premise that Texas is a uniquely miserable place to coach because there is just too damn much interference from the boosters, unlike every other college program where the head coach isn't accountable to a president and a board and doesn't answer to anyone for how millions of dollars are spent. What a load of crap.
  4. When you explain it this way, that's not bad at all. I might have to look into this in a couple of years when my 40" LCD is paid off.
  5. Couple that with firing the staff's weakest link less than ten hours onto the job and Sark isn't messing around.
  6. Summary of the last seven pages:
  7. Maybe this is Saban's way of getting revenge for Flood and Banks. Saban: "Steve, you should really consider Mike. He's one of the best coaches I've ever had the pleasure of working with." Sark: "Then why didn't you give him a real coaching position instead of a four foot cubicle and the grunt jobs none of the other interns wanted?" Saban: "Steve? Steve? Signals a bit choppy. I gotta go. Breaking down film on Southern Miss. Make sure you don't let Mike get away. Let's do a brunch soon."
  8. Maybe Sark thought there would be too much confusion having two Colemans on the same staff.
  9. @Sheep Have Wool I think we're going to need an update of the Hitler video.
  10. It took satyanash .3 milliseconds to like this post.
  11. So today we've gone from hand-wringing over Joseph and Gideon being the coaches in the secondary and needing to bring a third guy in to now pushing Gideon into a primarily off-field role with a "a dash" of coaching mixed in, all based on potentially spurious rumors over Carrington possibly leaving and possibly staying. If there's one thread which never fails to deliver takes completely out of left field, this is it.
  12. The username is more of a commentary than a preference, forged in the fires of Mount Surly. 😄
  13. So kind of like this thread.
  14. Though I realize that tedious and banal self-amusement is a major part of what we do here, I'll cast my one meaningless vote for not making tired and unfunny Sark drinking jokes a thing.
  15. This pic shows just how ready the Texas fan base was to move on. I don't think Turtle or Coinflip ever had buildings named after them. Sark has been on the job for less than a day and Sark Tower has already been christened.
  16. I learned today that Blue Bell is trash, Ash is trash (again), 6 + 5 equals more than 10, allegedly, Nick Saban is trying to pawn off his entire offensive staff to Texas, but we’re too good for Alabama’s scrub coaches (unless they’re not coming), and Drew Brees may soon be on his way to Austin to be groomed for a possible future role coaching quarterbacks if he shows any potential in that department. In summary, just another day of Surly education.
  17. Okay, but can you explain in detail what the words 'strain' and 'think' mean?
  18. Yeah, but that defense, tho... UTSA is averaging almost 323 yards/game and aggy held them to just 132 yards in the first quarter.
  19. Maybe we'll win convincingly: Horns vs. Roaches
  20. Billy Liucci, fortune teller, mind reader, relationship expert, NFL draft authority, and major league baseball savant.
  21. You have to admit that the Jake Smith wildcat play was a serious tendency-buster on 4th down. I don't think we've ever seen that one before.
  22. At least we have more than 3 defenders on the LOS and are in position to set the edge. Baby steps.
  23. So you're saying that his actions are not entirely grounded in logical reasoning and a sound decision-making process?
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