Hellraiser97

Umm, there were plenty of guys from the 13 squad playing on the 14 and plenty of our commits were before Mack even had been fired. There's no rewriting history with Strong at Louisville. If the old board wasn't dead, you could see plenty of people questioning the hire for those very reasons. Strong got hired because we couldn't get Saban or Briles (thankfully). After that, it was the media going on about how poor Charlie Strong waited soooooooooo long for his chance to be a head coach, constantly being passed over until finally Louisville game him a shot and then it was just all about his record those last two seasons (with zero analysis about the quality of those wins). Then you add in the people like the poster earlier that just think we HAD to give a black coach a chance due to prior sins and A&M having hired one already. Remember the bug wig idiots that wanted to hire Dennis fucking Green instead of Mackovic? They were still around. There was pretty much zero chance we were hiring anyone except Strong at that point.

No, Mack wasn't supposed to teach shit. His job was to recruit and hire the right guys to do the coaching. Obviously we all felt GDGD was subpar, but he could have been a lot worse, and outside of Akina and _iaz, his DC hires were pretty damn good.

I don't think Ward spoke out about it in Central, he seemed more in favor of it. He spoke out against it in the south. Either way, I think both of then are somewhat aligned with the issues 8 finds important. Their differences are a lot less than the ones in District 3. I do not like OU

Like I said, it seemed he was talking out of both sides of his mouth. There are some people, particularly in the NE and E sections of 8 that are pretty hard core NIMBY, so he does need to cater to them somewhat. He's big on property taxes, which admittedly the city council can't do a ton on but they can make noise and push politics.. The problem is that the sprawl is already here and that our infrastructure is overwhelmed. You obviously need increased urban density to keep the sprawl from getting worse, but Ellis is on record as opposing the construction at the 290/71 Y in Oak Hill. That's insane. Her reasoning is both environmental and 'neighborhood character', but the sprawl is already well past that intersection and the problem needs to be fixed (much like LaCross/Salughter and SH-45). I'm not saying I support decking every highway down here to double the traffic capacity (and double the urban sprawl with it), but growth is happening, regardless and you have to update your infrastructure with it. She more concerned with stopping it all together. I can't agree with that. And while ultimately the highways aren't directly the City Council's call, just like property taxes, they have no direct authority, but that doesn't mean they can't have significant influence.

The cupboard wasn't half as bare as the Charlie lovefest wanted us to believe. Mack was far from perfect, particularly at the end, but he had enough talent to win 8 games his last year and I guarantee we would have won more than 16 games over the next three years had Mack stayed. The biggest problem Mack had was staying Manny _iaz after year 2. He didn't want to have full turnover of the staff again so quickly and after Harsin bolted, he chose to stick with _iaz. It was time for Mack to go, but Strong was just a lazy hire. He wasn't that great at Louisville and his on the field game was practically a mirror of Mack (underperforming offenses, failed to rise to the level on too many big games, etc.). There were plenty of coaches out there that could have fixed the entitlement issues of the players without wrecking the program. Strong may have left more talent than Brown did, I think that's debatable given how thin we still are at so many positions, but one thing that Mack left that Charlie didn't was an expectation to win. The players Charlie left expected to lose. That should NEVER happen at Texas.

Could have been the world's best proctologist

I actually think he's just playing politics. There's a couple guys in my infill builder's group who are pretty heavily involved in politics and they think Ward is a friend to increased density. He's just pushing the 'neighborhood character' angle for the NIMBY votes. I sent him a facebook message and asked him "How do you up-zone in key transit corridors without 'impinging on the character of existing neighborhoods'? " His response was typical political speak, but the feeling I got was that he was fine with up-zoning in central Austin more broadly and along key corridors in the south, but he just didn't want to see ADU's, triplexes, whatever in places like Legend Oaks/Circle C. Ellis also supports up-zoning, but she's been heavily involved with a lot of environmental groups that have opposed things like the SH-45 extension, Slaughter/LaCross over passes, etc. Her idea of environmentalism is put everybody downtown and stop all progress in South Austin, including anything that would actually help traffic. So if you like traffic, she's a good person to vote for.

http://www.kut.org/post/early-voting-runoff-elections-central-texas-has-begun-heres-everything-you-need-know Early voting in the run-offs starts today. These races tend to have low turnout and are really close, so if you're in District 1,3, or 8, GET YOUR ASS OUT AND VOTE

And nobody was interested in Spike Dikes who stayed on forever, you fired Leach who managed a whopping 1 season with more than 10 wins, hired a has been who was mediocre at best and bolted for a mid-tier school, and then gambled huge on someone that didn't work out. Come back and talk when you have some who's really successful and sticks around afterward.

David McWilliams. But to be fair we would have been happy to return him I do not like OU

We made it. You lived. And 20 years later you're still bitchin' smh

Somebody above quoted a good explanation. This thread is long as shit, I just missed it I do not like OU

Or you know they could just schedule some regular season games on 'championship'. OU would have done just fine inthe optics department playing OSU or WVU next weekend in a regular season game I do not like OU

It's a bit earily like 2001 though. After Aggy in 01, sitting at 10-1, we were a lock for the sugar bowl as an at large. They blow u lost to ok Aggy and we go to the CCG, loser and get relegated to the holiday bowl. This year, if there were no CCG or WVU hadn't lost to OSU, OU likely end up in CFP and we go to Sugar at the Big12 replacement. Instead, a play OU and while we may still 3nd up in the Sugar Bowl with a loss, they probably take WVU over a 4 loss Texas. Still like the opportunity to play for the conference title, but sucks if we end up in the Alamo bowl. I do not like OU

I'm ok with it but I think we should drop back to 8 conference games. That extra game just guarantees 5 losses. The SEC pads their stats by only playing 8 conference games, why shouldn't we? If two teams go undefeated since they don't play that year, they still play in the champ game I do not like OU

Did I miss it in this thread but on aggys last regulation drive, why did they not measure that first down on 4th down and 16 or whatever? At least with the line on TV, it looked like the ball was about a foot short the way the guy landed. Was the line on TV just that far off (I know it's not always accurate)? I was sucked they didn't at least measure it, it looked very clear to me that he was short I do not like OU

It seemed like a hail Mary hire in the first place. He was what, 32, when they hired him? Not that he didn't do well as OC under Sumlin but he just didn't have enough experience to already be a head coach IMO I do not like OU

I'm on book six of the academy series. I still like the series overall but I have found the parts on Earth in the last two books really dragged. More political than sci fi. I do not like OU

I'd prefer WVU just because we lost to them in such a shitty fashion. Would love to see the D get vindication. And tickets will be cheaper so I might be able to go. Side note, not that I'm interested in participation trophies, but is there any type of title for the 'regular season's first place team? Just curious as I know in basketball and baseball they have regular season champs and tournament champs and in the old days we had football division champs. Just curious if WVU does win and we have a three way tie for first, would OU still technically be a regular season co-champ? I do not like OU

The real question is why do we suck against inside kicks so much? How many have been recovered against us this year? It's got to be close to 50%. I remember onsides kicks being like a hail Mary, occasionally works but just a desperation play. I'd pick them against us every time. And Humphrey had no one between him and the end one on that recovery. He could have been in the endzone, not that it mattered but would have been a nice fuck you. I do not like OU

Running these hurry up/fast paced offenses sucks. It really takes the strategy out of the game and it's just an endurance contest. I do not like OU

The allegation is that the pledges were subjected to sleep deprivation which had a direct cause in the accident. These guys never should have been allowed in a car for a 2.5 hour drive if they'd been sleep deprived. It's no different than getting someone absolutely plastered and then letting them go for a swim in the Colorado River in full cowboy garb. Which is what happened last time and lead to their 5 year ban. I do not like OU

I looked into it because they were refusing to let anyone use it while they were banned. PSU is a good comparison because the problem in both cases is the deeply engrained culture of believing the law doesn't apply to them. I literally had zero interactions with the Cowboys during their 2 years on campus while I was there. I do take the reputation of the univesity very seriously though and I take the problem of hazing very seriously Read their website. They go on and on about how they represent the best of UT, etc. Their hazing actions have now lead to the deaths of two students. How anyone can defend them with a straight face is beyond me. I do not like OU

I'm basing this on articles written around the 95 incident, so I don't have the information readily available, but I'll look for it. I think the Texan archives are all online. There was no oganization even close though. Any organization that got in trouble that much just wouldn't survive without serious alumni backers. I do not like OU

Wow, you just keep making excuses for them. Do you really believe that they just suddenly started hazing again after keeping thier noses clean for 17 years? Are you that naive? Even if they aren't paddling pledges like they did in the 90s, there are plenty of other forms of hazing, like sleep deprivation, that are illegal and dangerous. They may have changed their methods but they have not changed their ways. No matter how 'cool' they look like the sidelines, they don't deserve to represent our University anymore, if they ever did. I do not like OU