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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. 100%. Perspective is valuable here too. We're currently 6-2, coming off of b2b CFP semis. We've put a record number of players into the NFL, and the O-line was heavily impacted by that. People who judge a coach on that one season's results are dumb, you need to consider a rolling couple of years average. Sark looks good on that metric. Not perfect. But if your standard is that Texas should compete for the national title every year, you're unreasonable because no one does that. "Yeah we're 6-2 but a hair's width from being 4-4!" ...except we aren't. "Yeah but in the NIL/portal era there is no excuse for being young/inexperienced" ...ok? Coaching staff woulda coulda gotten better players via the portal this offseason, but there is no magical supply of the players we need either, and while we do have money to get players, the "money whip" thing is not real, because top-end players have a decision process that involves more than money. Ahmed Hardy would not have come to Texas to sit behind Baxter and Wisner. "Yeah but Sark's OTA/NFL focused offseason was too soft and created a bad culture!" ...the same culture that just pulled together for b2b OT wins. "Yeah but Sark is flirting with the NFL that that hurts my feels!" ...you'd prefer a coach that doesn't aspire to move up? And yes, coaching a NFL team is a move up in prestige in the coaching world. ANY call to fire Sark, or force an OC on him which is the same as firing him, needs to be weighed against the alternative. Remember: you're just as likely, maybe even more likely, to end up with Charlie Strong 2.0 or Tom Herman 2.0 than the next Saban. It's easy to bitch but you're rolling the dice every time you hire, ask OU.
  2. CDC doesn't have shit to do with the HFBC hiring or firing decision at Texas.
  3. His teams are tough and play hard, and his o-line is really good. Currently undefeated this year and played Georgia a lot closer than we did last year with way inferior talent. Not sure how he'd be at the bullshit parts of the job.
  4. And steals. I still think he'll get a quintuple double at some point in his career.
  5. Can we stop with the "Del Conte will do this" and "CDC will do that" ? CDC isn't empowered to do shit on the HFBC at Texas. That's Eltife and a cabal of BMDs driving that bus. CDC is advisory at best and order-taker at worst if he's even on the bus.
  6. Gotta be smarter than that
  7. Gotta go before the double arrives on that shot
  8. bullshit hometown cookin for Zion on that call
  9. It's dumb but I appreciate the randomness and it gives me another reason to smile when I look up and OU isn't on there. Fuck OU.
  10. Coaches only get credit for the bad stuff, not the good
  11. As bad as it feels for BB, I feel more for the graphics design guys in the room who have to stand there while she shits on their faces with the "I could do this in 3 minutes in Adobe Photoshop" bullshit by a zero-taste, low-IQ golddigger who seems to think putting animated gifs on a website is in any way the same as building motion graphics for a television production. Every job looks easy until you're the one doing it, bitch. I'm thankfully at a point in my life now where I generally don't have to work with people I don't like, and I can walk away. That one guy leaning on the table looking at the ground probably doesn't have a tongue anymore because he just bit it right off. Good for him for being the bigger man, I'm not sure I wouldn't have snapped back at her when she showed her ignorance.
  12. This had to be the punishment for losing a bet somehow.
  13. For reference, we were west side upper deck. Things that were improved: Entry/Ingress: we were in our seats an hour before kick, but once we actually found Gate B (which has really shitty access and is wedged between the edge of the cotton bowl and an exterior building), we had an easy ride up the escalators to our seats. Restrooms (slightly) Walkways: they were less cramped than years past and expanded outwards? Still needs improvements: Squatters Signage Sound system (please don't make it Zillatron level pain but just enough to hear announcements) Seat labels in our section were basically gone Wifi/Cellular coverage: put up some temp towers Verizon/ATT! And yes, our focus is on the game not our phones but we also have kids at home that we're trying to stay in touch with... As immamac said above if they pushed out the upper deck concourse another 25 feet all the way around, they could build a ringed walkway around the entire stadium, which would make room for more concessions, more restrooms, and better flow. It would probably cost $100MM too. Some of those buildings that abutt the stadium are ancient and are not what drive tens of thousands of people to the fair. Knock down and relocate the damn foot court building to make room for expansion of the stadium!
  14. Aside from beating OU by a million, what is your ultimate TX/OU weekend list of stuff to do outside of the game? For this weekend, we are leaving from Austin on Thursday around noon. We'll stop in West at the Czech Stop and get some kolaches/klobasknics and gorge on those on the drive up. From there we're bypassing Dallas and heading up to Choctaw casino to burn some money and steal some from the Okies. Friday morning we have a 8:30AM tee time for the couples on the trip, after that unwind back at the casino and get a decent steak dinner there. Saturday drive down early to enjoy the fair, beer in a wax cup and corn dog and see an OU beat down. We're old so after the game we don't have a ton planned - maybe hit a bar and watch whatever other games are on. Sunday sleep in and get brunch somewhere (recommendations?) before heading back down to Austin. What are your go-to's, aside from the obvious "beat OU by infinity," and "get a beer in a wax cup and corndog."
  15. If we lose to Kentucky that will be dangerous to wear because the entire state will be on fire
  16. I'm just saying, we made the playoff semis twice in a row, and then Mack Brown starts showing up again and we SUCK. I'm JUST SAYIN'...
  17. I bought their winter jacket last year, I really like it.
  18. Didn't the various investigations/TX monthly reporting show that he enabled a similar culture @ Stephenville HS? I think there was a rape there too.
  19. I want to know what is the PE asking for in the deal? They don't give money without getting a positive ROI back, and that means control. Are the universities and AD's willing to cede control over hiring/firing within the AD? Or the coaches? Or changing how they do sponsorship deals? Or their scheduling? Those are all things the PE are going to want. Of course the PE is dating, not married, so they're going to paint a rosy picture of the future, but having been through multiple PE transactions myself, it will never work out the way that they say. They always say "we're going to invest and make the business grow!" ...more likely they're coming to feast on the carcass and squeeze whatever revenue they can before they flip it to another more ruthless PE firm who will do it again until the whole thing collapses. You can tell me experience with PE has been sub-par.
  20. It's a negotiation, at least partially happening publicly in the media. That's why we get owners lying about their true costs, or at a minimum not correcting people who make egregious assumptions about "the W has and never will turn a profit!," and the players are going to do it from the other side to appear reasonable by saying "hey we're just asking for the same deal the men have, not on a dollar but on a percentage-basis." Like any negotiation, it will land somewhere in the middle. The owners don't get to set the value of their labor, that is set in the market and the players do have alternatives that currently pay them more, especially the stars. The owners just need to decide if they're willing to pay the new market rate, or go for a lockout. And I guess the players need to decide if the value of the WNBA's amazing platform is worth giving a discount to on their salaries. I come down more on the side of the players than the billionaires, but none of us here know what's actually going on in the room where it happens.
  21. I'm not sure Adam Silver liking Cathy is a flex. The arrogance is demonstrated in that quote by Cathy, but I'm sure shared by the owners because as you said she's just a mouthpiece. Anyone who believes that CC "wouldn't be making any money if not for the platform of the WNBA" is not living in the real world. CC was making millions before the WNBA, and if she wanted to she could go join that stupid 3v3 Unrivaled league and make $1M/season playing over there too, plus her shoe deal, plus her Gatorade endorsements, plus more. The arrogance displayed by the WNBA's management and ownership is the kind of thing that if it continues could cause them to get disrupted. What happens if Unrivaled decides enough-is-enough and opens a 5v5 league that directly competes and pays players more? I could see a PGA vs. LIV type split in women's ball because the WNBA's "platform" isn't' nearly as strong as they seem to think it is, especially if their stars start opting out. I'm sure the TV partners wouldn't like that much either, and if their lawyers are smart (they are) they put some clauses in the contract for just this type of contingency.
  22. As discussed many times before, the profit is a red herring. Their new TV deal has gone up 6X and the W will now by making close to $500MM/year in TV money alone. The cost side of the equation 1) not disclosed by the owners, so the talking point about "losing money" is a "sure-billionaires-we'll-take-your-word-on-that" point, and 2) is also conveniently pumped up by those same billionaire team owners who have the teams play in facilities owned by them (paying themselves, loss harvesting). Just like the NBA, the billionaire owners do not buy WNBA franchises to turn a profit. They make their money on selling the franchise at 50 or 100X what they bought it for down the road. Those owners benefit greatly by the increasing values of the franchise, and the players do not. That's fine, that's what ownership is all about since they put up the money, "took the risk," whatever we want to call it. However it's selling the players short to say they don't deserve a much larger slice of the pie than they're currently getting. Caitlyn Clark's WNBA salary was $76,535 in 2024 and will go all the way up to ... $97,582 in 2027 before she's a RFA. That's less than what my company pays an entry level product manager, and it's ridiculous considering the value that CC and the players bring to the WNBA and to the owners.
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