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  1. 7 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    These are not amazing teams. Texas should be at least 1-2 against those 3 juggernauts. The rest of the schedule is also mehness and not some group of worldbeaters that will outtalent UT on the field. 

    So these thousands and thousands of words of hostile doomsaying are all because we're 1 game off what you would consider a reasonable expectation?

    lol

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  2. 2 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I don’t know what you think you’re accomplishing with nonsense about national championships in relation to anything I’ve typed as an expectation.

    What was a reasonable expectation of a first-year coach taking over for Herman coming into a Top-10-difficulty schedule?

    I'll leave everything else in the vain hope you'll actually answer a question.

  3. 53 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    You and the rest of the sunshine pumpers can choose to find your glimmers of hope and sell them to each other. Me? I’ll care less and less and wait patiently and hope the next guy doesn’t suck as bad as the last 3.5 guys. 

    Your need to create categories "sunshine pumpers" is what drives your "analysis", not reason. Further evidenced by not being able to address basic questions about your assertions, instead flying into entirely new ones. We got our asses spanked by Arkansas and failed to hold off the late-game surges of two undefeated teams. Outcoached? Definitely, but this "Sark is a proven failure now" horeshit is melodrama.

    Odds are always on the side of predicting failure when the only condition of success is undefeated national championship seasons.

    Also, you don't actually believe you're going to wait patiently or dispassionately. That violates the gimmick.

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  4. 16 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

    You can't tell me it's not a culture issue.

    I don't think anyone disagrees with this. I think the main disagreement is what solving that looks like.

    Personally, I think it's a simple-but-difficult fix: Competition.

    One of the things that made me very excited about Urban was how he seems to treat everything like a competition. Punishing complacency will be very important, maybe even more important than rewarding effort. I hope we see that kind of thing.

    Sark's post-game sounded good to me. I think he knows there is laziness and rot. Now we have to wait and see if he fixes it.

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  5. 9 minutes ago, Welch said:

    In aggy’s last five years in the Big 12, they were:

    7-6
    4-8
    6-7
    9-4
    7-6

    Their first year in the SEC, they went 11-2, and haven’t had a losing season since.

    If those idiots can do it, so can we.

    100% this

    2016: 5-7
    2017: 7-6
    2018: 10-4
    2019: 8-5
    2020: 7-3
    2021: probably something like 8-5 again

    Ugly and not what we want, but come on.

    If we recruit well in the 2023 class and show improvement in 2022, be happy. 10 wins in 2022 with improvement in focus, execution, and S&C would be a huge victory.

  6. 10 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    I said before the season that the schedule was weak enough and there was enough talent for us to expect a 10 win season with a 13 or 14 game schedule. I think I reiterated that that should be expected earlier this week. Otherwise, the guy is Seven Win Steve, which it looks like he is at this point. 

    Name your price and I will meet you on the other side of the bet below 7.5. I assume this is regular season? 4 out of the next 5 is pretty fucking comical from my perspective.

    Well as someone who prognosticated 10 wins based on this talent, maybe you should be less confident in your perspective.

    What even is "talent"? A potential proficiency? How much of it is physical? What is the actual difference between a low 4-star and high 3-star in "talent"?

    Also, what is this "schedule was weak enough" shit? Where we are right now we have played the toughest schedule in the conference with OU 5 places behind us and KSU 9 places behind them.

    I'm not even saying you should be better at predicting and prognosticating, but your certainty is unearned.

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  7. In terms of "I'm going to kick your fucking ass or die trying", rich and poor/black and white don't factor in. There are plenty of kids from the hood who are bitchmade quitters and plenty of rich suburban boys who will punch your teeth in.

    The issue isn't recruiting from Westlake. We can win a national championship with only guys from rich neighborhoods. The issue is what happens to them once they get to Austin.

    Austin is a fun town. People WANT to be in Austin. You're not moving to Stillwater or Norman or Athens or Tuscaloosa or Clemson or Auburn to be part of a vibrant social scene, cultural movement, live music, clubs, bars, food, and booming economic development. You go there to PLAY FOOTBALL and you aren't trying to stay there. You're actively trying to leave and you know the best road out comes to through being a dog on the field.

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  8. 1 minute ago, Tex-19 said:

    I think there's a good chance of it. Baylor seems pretty good this year and their RB is averaging like 8 ypc. Bad matchup.

    Tbh though, I don't really think 7 win Steve nickname is fair. At UW he won 5 games, 7, 7, 7 and 8 (excluding bowl game which they won without him). His only year at USC he won 9. So yeah he had three 7-win seasons on the way to taking a winless program to 9 wins (isn't that pretty good?), but then had 9 wins in his only year at a power program.

    he sucks he's terrible. didn't even with a natty at Washington. What a scrub. Garbage.

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  9. 1 minute ago, Azbadlands said:

    So you are saying football in the state of Texas is the fraud?  A lot of the players on this team were 4 star or above ranked players.  I bet Gary Patterson, Gundy, Riley, Rhule, Briles, etc could find a way to make these punks man up and play up to their ranking.  I think the soft culture at Texas is the entire problem...A lot of the players they get look better as raw freshman than they do after they have been in the program a couple of years...Something is turning them into panty waists here.  Figure out what that is, get rid of it, and a lot of problems will be solved...

    Both of the bolded portions, far moreso than we want to admit.

    Many of the things we love about Austin and UT are huge liabilities to instilling a sense of dog toughness. That's not going to change too much, and it can be managed well by someone who finds a groove. I hope Sark turns into that guy.

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  10. 2 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    Tom2.0

    He's not Herman. If he fails it's for different reasons than what mad Tom, Tom. Don't be lazy.

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    Did you watch the game today?  Or last week?  

    Yes, now explain. I don't see guys overlooking the game for the NFL. I see guys out of shape and poorly trained to execute on the field. For that I blame Sark and Tom Herman

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  11. 21 minutes ago, chemHORN said:

    I guess you could realize coaching has screwed us in the last 2 games. 

    The coaching has not been good enough to win. 100% I realize that.

    now what? What's the next step for me as a nobody on the Internet? Throw a fit?

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    Along with the general team attitude that they don'f really care if we win because they are headed to the NFL (which outside of Bijan isn't happening for anyone else)    

    lol what? is that what's happening? evidence?

  12. Just now, chemHORN said:

    So you are accepting it?  Exhibit number 1 with what's wrong.  

    What does it mean to "accept" it? I have no power to accept or reject. I can only see what is in front of me that I watch either on TV/computer or in person.

    It sucks. I hate it. I wish we were back in Mack's heyday with Vince doing Vince things.

    If I POST REALLY MAD does that mean I'm pure?

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  13. Keep something in mind; we won plenty of games off the moxie and gamer spirit of a QB who wasn't, let's say, mechanically sound and prototypical in terms of running a passing game.

    Well what we have now is maybe a slightly better thrower with none of the moxie, leadership, or running instinct. Sark could be doing a better job and SHOULD be doing a better job (I think he would agree with both of those), but it's really hard to oversell just how much of a shitshow he inherited.

    I never had an expectation that we were going 10-2 this year. I didn't see Card or Thompson and think, "Here we go baby! YEAH!"

    I'm disappointed as hell in these last two games, but I see a lot to be optimistic about.

    It sucks, but it wasn't ever going to not suck this year.

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  14. 1 minute ago, maninblack said:

    Who the fuck is voting no?

    I did, because he's not a "fraud".

    I'm not even sure what that would mean in this context. I don't think he's lying about anything or intentionally bombing. He's just not good enough of a coach to come in Year 1 and turn around a decade-neglected ship while facing a Top-5-difficulty schedule.

    Hell, he might even suck outright. Incomplete data.

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