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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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William Cunningham was UT president from 1985-1992. He was a good president and he is a good guy, but he was awful for UT football. He wanted the most complying program possible, and he got it. Texas was 50-41 over those years, the 45th best win percentage in the nation. Texas went 4-4 against OU, 1-7 vs the Ags, 3-5 against Baylor, 4-4 vs UH, and 6-10 against every major conference non-conference opponent. William Cunningham hasn’t been president in over 30 years. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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That is a great point. Deloitte is in the business of selling services (accounting, consulting). I have a hard time imagining them pissing off business leaders everywhere. As a matter of fact, I bet they took this gig with the idea that it would expand their business as institutions contract with them for other services, in hope of currying favor for their favorite college programs. -
I have great ideas for team names: Shrews Harpies Banshees
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Oh, those bitches hate her. Seriously, if any of you ever meet a WNBA player, you have to ask them, “Do you know Caitlin Clark? Is she as awesome as she seems?”
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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It’s called “doe-eyed” and it has been used to describe a feminine trait that men consider hot for centuries -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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You have just described why Marcus DuPree committed to Texas. He wanted to be able to tell dozens of other schools to buzz off while he entertained bids from the real suitors- OU, Mississippi State, Southern Miss and Pittsburgh (Sherrill was the coach). Texas was the stalking horse. Texas finally figured it out and started recruiting Anthony Byerly a couple of weeks before signing day. -
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If, by November, it appears there are no guardrails enforcing the new “rules”, Texas can adapt. -
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The TexasOne announcement (going for-profit, not rolling into AD, maintaining flexibility while seeing how the system develops) is encouraging -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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I know shit about fuck, but I can speculate. -The House settlement: for 10-20 programs, this limits what they will pay players. For the rest of FBS, it requires them to pay their players more than they had been. (Note- this money comes from the AD and I’ll bet every AD, not just OU’s, has to sweat to varying degrees to come up with it). -The surprising thing to me is how rarely we are seeing pissant programs, now required to budget $15-17M for players, sign blue chips. -I suspect Texas is being outbid by programs ready to challenge the limits of the NIL Clearinghouse. Such challenges are a solid bet. -I think the Texas program doesn’t want to back from competition. I don’t think the Tower is likely to force them to do so, as happened under Cunningham. If the Tower does, we will know when we see Sark take another job. (Not saying that is the only reason he would leave, but there is no way he is going to allow himself to become David MacWilliams or late term Akers) -If these recruitments are about NIL, then it’s smart to wait until the end for your final bid. All the other cards are laid down, you know the cost, you know the other player options, you know more about the recruit, and you have a sense of where regulation of rules is. -
I don’t know- Royal never had much of a coaching tree (Pittman? MacWilliams, Bellard, Akers), and Bryant’s is definitely better (Schnellenberger, Stallings, Perkins, fuck Sherrill, Bum Phillips). They both had long term security blankets as DC- Campbell at Texas and Donahue at Bama. I collect old game programs and I’m amazed at some staffs that teams can put together. Examples: 1966 Oklahoma- HC MacKenzie, assistants Fairbanks, Switzer, Rice, Hall, Lacewell 1984 Iowa- HC Fry, assistants Snyder, Stoops, Ferentz, Alvarez I don’t know that Texas ever had a staff like that.
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In the2019 playoffs,KD (his mind made up that he was leaving) was determined to go off, and until his injury, was giving the NBA a clinic on what was possible. Then, he came back in the finals, was putting on another “man among boys” exhibition, and tore his Achilles. Oh, to have seen what he would have done e healthy.
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This looks so much like an AI picture
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There were three prior: book 1973 movie Bruce Willis movie and this one. In the priors,…
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OU Deep DivePart 2: Wilkinson quit and was replaced by his chief assistant, Gomer (yep) Jones. By year two, it was clear that Jones didn’t have it, so OU shitcanned him (university president Cross was a big football fan and he wasn’t having it). They made a run at Royal, who listened out of courtesy to his alma mater, and turned him down. They hired Jim MacKenzie, Broyles’ chief assistant, and he accepted. He brought a pretty terrific staff- Chuck Fairbanks, Barry Switzer, Homer Rice, Galen Hall, Larry Lacewell, all young and ambitious. Under the new management, OU recommitted to integration and recruiting Texas. They beat Texas their first year, for the first time since 1957. MacKenzie died of a heart attack and was replaced by Fairbanks. They took two major steps: 1. They got aggressive in recruiting, highlighted by winning the bidding war for Texas HS QB Jack Mildren. 2. In 1970, they adopted the Wishbone offense. The story of how Royal told Bellard to teach it to OC Switzer, out of misguided coaching camaraderie and trying to do a solid for his alma mater, wasn’t told until years after Switzer’s autobiography came out. In his book, Switzer describes it as if he figured the offense out on his own, taking full credit. Of course, because that’s the kind of narcissist Switzer is. OU won big in the ‘70s, propelled by elite talent and easy Big 8 schedules. The Sooners would have three challenging games per year- Texas, Nebraska and a bowl opponent or non-conference game. Fairbanks (yes, he is the owner of DFW Chevy dealership “Chuck Fairbanks Chevrolet”) left for the NFL and was replaced by Switzer, who felt even less restrained by NCAA rules (as well as common standards of decency). OU got in trouble with the NCAA for cheating and academic fraud to get players eligible. Royal called them out for spying on closed Texas practices, which Switzer denied, but confronted years later by the spy’s confession, admitted to while laughing at Toyal for getting upset. That was Switzer- he cheated, won and laughed about it. The school didn’t care- Criss was the Chancellor and there was still very much an attitude that if the program got in trouble, it was the program’s problem, not the school’s. A few things to note, to close out the ‘70s and early ‘80s- We all know that Texas lost the MNC in 1977, losing to ND. Did you know that OU could have won it, if they had beaten heavy underdog Arkansas in the Orange Bowl? They lost and the story is that in large part it was due to the inattention of DC Lacewell. Switzer was banging Lacewell’s wife and when Lacewell found out, he lost focus on his job. Lacewell left the next year. Switzer was arrested for DWI, which really wasn’t a surprise (well, the arrest may have been a surprise, but that he would drive drunk wasn’t). He pled to a misdemeanor. Switzer was arrested for insider trading on an energy company that was purchased by another. In his book, Switzer describes it as a totally bogus charge, which is funny. It’s funny because the Switzer insider trading case became a major precedent for understanding insider trading. Switzer made up a bullshit story that he didn’t know he was trading in an insider tip, and the success of that defense became a major part of case law. Finally- OU’s reliance on the wishbone was wearing out. It worked fine against Big 8 competition, but Texas defenses, coordinated by Fuller and MacWilliams, were playing assignments football and shutting it down. Their lack of success against even pedestrian Longhorn teams (Texas lost one RRS between 1977 and 1981) and Switzer’s legal issues were starting to cause him problems. Could Switzer coach his way out of this? Could Switzer cheat his way out of this? Stay tuned.
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Oh, shit. He’s not going to try to be a journalist, is he?
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