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  1. Only a handful of people know for sure. Maybe it was a request (that we denied) for "complete" control, whatever that actually means. Or maybe @WhatTheBuck is right about how Urban felt he got to the mountaintop at tOSU and there was nothing left for him in CFB. Or maybe it was the BMDs, or the LHN time commitment, or whatever. Only UM knows and I haven't heard him comment on it. If you believe the "reporting," CDC wasn't driving the bus on the hire anyway, it was a handful of others. So yeah any of those possibilities you wrote above are just that, possible. Or not. I see a ton of people lashing out at the AD because they are angry with a bad loss, when 1) I don't see the AD as the root cause of the issue, and 2) I can't point to anything the AD would have done differently in the past 18 months or so (prior to that, sure). Texas' issues, in ranked order of importance since 2009: Mack Brown burnt the house down on the way out and fucked us, and has been actively trying to fuck us ever since to preserve his notion of his "deserved legacy" by badmouthing us all over the place. This had mostly diminished a decade later but really reverberated through the program for the 5-6 years after he left. Unprofessionalism in the AD from 2009 - 2017 leading to easily avoidable poor hires in the head football coach. This lead to Charlie Strong and Tom Herman. Bad luck in hiring. Hindsight is 20/20 but wow Strong looks bad in the rearview mirror. Herman looks like about what you'd expect, a mid major coach over his head. Jury still out on Sark IMO. Texas HS football/7 on 7 - the model for TXHSFB creates amazing skill players that are picked up by top programs around the nation. I don't believe the lines are at the same level of quality anymore. This continues to be an issue and will continue to be until we regularly reach outside of the state for line recruits. We'll see how this changes. Bad recruiting - we've brought in a lot of softies especially in the O-line. Another big reason for Sark... Bad development - players have actually regressed when they got on campus. Big reason for the Sark pick... Lack of NFL picks - related to everything above ... 32. Facilities - no where near as big as people make it out to be ... 89. Austin's distractions - waaaay down the list ... 534. Woke Culture - IMO this barely registers. The Eyes controversy wasn't generated or driven by the players, it was a few loud voices on campus. Unfortunately the players got dragged into it and everyone shoved a mic in their face. More and more I'm landing in the @David Dennison camp that getting the right guy is a fortuitous combination of luck and timing. You need the right guy and the right time at the right place.
  2. Our stadium is named after our football coach who was a Sooner. I think we'd be fine.
  3. Not sure I buy this...if you believe the reports we threw the kitchen sink @ Urban, offered to make him the highest paid CFB coach ever, highest assistant coach pool ever, basically give him everything and he still said no. So I'm not sure what more you're looking for from the AD there. On the donations and cap projects...uhhh, yeah they care about that stuff, it's their job. If they weren't going for donations and cap projects you and others would be equally on here bitching about "OMG the AD sucks I can't believe with all of Texas' resources they're letting our facilities get so far behind!" It's a no win. And no, I don't work in the AD...
  4. I keep hearing this...what do you mean specifically with regard to football? We swung for Urban Meyer, he didn't buy. So we got Sark and MOST of what I've seen on this board and elsewhere has been optimistic on him up until this point. We spent zillions on upgrading facilities, new SEZ, locker rooms, workout rooms. We have one of the highest paid assistant coach pools in America if not the highest. We fire our coaches after 4 years even with all that support if they don't demonstrate meeting our standard. What more from the AD specifically are you looking for, and what is the AD not doing for football that they should be?
  5. I'm not ready to bail on Sark yet. Losing isn't a sin but looking flat bad while doing it is. I read his face last night as surprise and shock that Card wasn't performing up to his practice level. As we got further and further in the hole he looked dejected. Everyone expresses emotions outwardly differently but some fire is what the fans want to see and you wonder if the team could have used some of that as well. But scheme can only address so much. We are really BAD on the O-line. Lots of reasons in this thread: poor coaching/development, bad recruiting choices, laziness and lack of motivation on the players part once they get on campus. Maybe it's a combination. I'll throw out another: Texas HS football. The basketball on grass RPO game that's out there now doesn't develop linemen as road graters. Do the o-line players at Wisconsin, Bama, Georgia come from RPO HS programs? I'm actually curious. Also, Casey wasn't that much better than Card. He had the benefit of 1) Arky had backed way off into prevent D and were conceding everything to kill clock including allowing him to run, 2) some drive extending penalties, 3) zero pressure because we were going to lose anyway. Yes he was better but it was moving from a QB who is 40/100 on Madden to one who was 53/100. If we had started Casey we might be one touchdown closer in the final score but we still would have lost, badly.
  6. Worse than Rout 66? Worse than the string of 50-point shellackings that OU put on us? Worse than losing to Kansas? I can think of many, many worse losses than this.
  7. OU is going to run for 700 yards on us with some new midget
  8. Meh, it was fine. I'd rather have a backup that gets meaningful game reps and it's not like Sark put in Casey after Card went 3-and-out on the first drive. Card is the starter and that's obvious. I trust Sark to make the right call to have an effective QB position, and not just assume it's to "appease Thompson."
  9. Ah yes I wondered when the Tribune and NAACP were saving their hit piece for...makes sense it's right after our first game. Although they would have much preferred that it came after a loss than a win. This doesn't hit nearly as hard when the team stayed for and sang the Eyes after the game, sorry y'all.
  10. Huh...so why sell them at the game then lol
  11. Dumb question: we got a couple of those Texas Yeti tumblers @ the game yesterday. Are we able to bring those back in for future games (empty)?
  12. I wouldn't say terrible, but it could be better. They've dialed back the ads in the past few years...I refer you to the Taco Bell GONG and that stupid fucking weatherman.
  13. Is there any reason that my wife and I should have our tickets on each of our phones, or just put them both in mine?
  14. This is hilarious and should be posted everywhere.
  15. Can't see it, either
  16. I'm also curious about how CLEAR works...I have CLEAR and use it at the airport but do you need to go to a certain gate to enter via CLEAR at DKR? Or is it at every gate?
  17. See: every Derka thread ever? 😂
  18. First, I'm not a far-right-winger. Not even close. IDK and don't care about Hunter Biden, I never watch Fox News (I read RCP, Politico, The Hill, WSJ, NYT, CNN, etc) Second, it's not about "mean words." It's about wasting time and energy attempting discussion and getting back low value. What's the point?
  19. Kinda illustrating my point. I did forget about the 3rd dismissal technique after 1) you're wrong/uniformed, and 2) you're stupid, we also have 3) you must be a simple troll. Are people actually trolling? Uhhh, it's a message board, so of course. But let's also not pretend that isn't a common dis-engagement and dismissal method for viewpoints that the group doesn't want to discuss or acknowledge.
  20. It's not the negs that make CR bad. It's not that fact that it's left-leaning. It's that if you deviate from the left groupthink, the pile on begins that not only are you just wrong but you are also stupid, or incapable of critical thought etc. There is no recognition that a different viewpoint could potentially have reasoned thought behind it, or genuinely held convictions. The only reason to think differently than the group must be that you are uninformed or dumb. There is no third option. Any suggestion of critical discussion about backing up the logic or reasoning behind a position is met with some variation of "why should I even attempt to justify my undeniably correct position to someone so stupid, lol." I ducked out of CR for this reason, what's the point in even trying to have a discussion? Sad.
  21. eh, Mack is that ex where you had some good times for sure, but what you really remember how she burned the house down on the way out. I'll give Mack some credit for 2005, mostly for recruiting (not just Vince but that whole team was fucking stacked). Game day coaching was never Mack's thing anyway so it's not like he was some X's and O's genius who out schemed USC. He also made demonstrably bad hires in his assistants, was waaaay too loyal to GDGD. "Getting out of Vince's way" is the bare-fucking-minimum for a generational talent like that. Sorry, you don't get extra credit for that. If Mack had left after the 2009 loss, he would have a completely different reputation in the Texas fanbase. He'd be venerated, people would have wished for him to stay, he might have that statue someday. Instead he's the guy who couldn't take the loss, then got lazy and complacent, cratered the program's recruiting and put us back into the wilderness that we're still trying to get out of. He didn't do it alone, Deloss and the BMDs helped but he did his part to fuck us hard. His shit talking us after the fact and on the way out hasn't helped either, he's acted petty and jilted. So fuck him.
  22. Should be the motto for whatever site is Surly for Ole Miss
  23. Let’s get the usual tropes out of the way: - Austin isn’t big enough - not enough corporate sponsors - Cowboys will block it - Longhorns will block it - city council will block it - no good Stadium location
  24. You will like the fit. I’m on my 4th pair now, the runners are a little chunky but really comfortable.
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