2020 Coaching Staff

[Bevo 13591]

1 hour ago, Liquor and Poker said:

My only solace in connection with the overall direction these hires are taking is that I was so absolutely sure that Herman was THE GUY when we hired him.  This proves that no opinion of mine on this subject is worth considering.  

I hear you. And I was absolutely sure that Orgeron wasn't the guy. Anyway, a CB coach isn't going to make or break this staff and we need to realize that Valai is probably a good recruiter and an unknown coach. You can't say he sucks. All you can say is that he is unproven and Texas shouldn't be hiring unproven coaches.

[Hank Chinaski 6315]

1 hour ago, Katfid54 said:

Wait are we talking about New Mexico again? 

[Dijon Robinson 1511]

Looks like Emmett Jones got promoted to Passing Game Coordinator at KU, hopefully a minor promotion isn't going to be enough to keep him there

[Hiphopopotamos 20876]

5 minutes ago, ChampionshipLevelPiss said:

Looks like Emmett Jones got promoted to Passing Game Coordinator at KU, hopefully a minor promotion isn't going to be enough to keep him there

Did Kansas just announce that?  I'm guessing they wouldn't have announced it unless Jones had informed them he was staying.

[irishtexan 11522]

Sooooooo, anyone get interviewed today? Or have we still hired zero position coaches since we shit canned our coordinators a month ago? 

[taybo20 2878]

8 minutes ago, ChampionshipLevelPiss said:

Looks like Emmett Jones got promoted to Passing Game Coordinator at KU, hopefully a minor promotion isn't going to be enough to keep him there

Probably means Emmett is out for us

Edited January 10, 2020 by taybo20

[Dijon Robinson 1511]

1 minute ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

Did Kansas just announce that?  I'm guessing they wouldn't have announced it unless Jones had informed them he was staying.

Not officially from what I've seen, but Jones updated his Twitter bio (https://twitter.com/ku_ejones) within the last few days

[Sgt Hulk 13816]

At least now someone anyone can show our DBs how to turn a head or raise a hand.   

[clapclapclap 9000]

1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

This is a strong know-it-all 10th post. I can help you out, since you seem like you'd be a blast at parties. You can put me on ignore after reading this, and I'll do the same for you 

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[Johnny Sack 8397]

Why the fuck did we not try and hire Jerry Gray as DC again?  I would have offered him $2 million with complete autonomy on his side of the ball and make him turn down his alma mater.

[BurntOrange&White 39938]

At least now someone anyone can show our DBs how to turn a head or raise a hand.   

A lot of assumption there

[texifornia 57034]

2 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

Why the fuck did we not try and hire Jerry Gray as DC again?  I would have offered him $2 million with complete autonomy on his side of the ball and make him turn down his alma mater.

Seems like an NFL lifer. Most of those guys are extremely happy with a job where they don't have to recruit teenagers on top of coaching, especially since he's on the older side.

Edited January 10, 2020 by texifornia

[elguapo 4586]

2 hours ago, ChampionshipLevelPiss said:

 

WHAT THE FUCK

This is not mensa Thomas

[Daichee Bell 2925]

My only solace in connection with the overall direction these hires are taking is that I was so absolutely sure that Herman was THE GUY when we hired him.  This proves that no opinion of mine on this subject is worth considering.  

[Bevo 13591]

1 minute ago, ChampionshipLevelPiss said:

Looks like Emmett Jones got promoted to Passing Game Coordinator at KU, hopefully a minor promotion isn't going to be enough to keep him there

The problem I see is that we are repeating our initial problems and are replacing young unproven guys with young unproven guys. OC and DC will be a step up so it will mitigate the issues, but still we need experience and recruiting ability (it shouldn't be an either or situation). 

 

[Jkwellborn 6715]

Why the fuck did we not try and hire Jerry Gray as DC again?  I would have offered him $2 million with complete autonomy on his side of the ball and make him turn down his alma mater.

Wasn’t he the DC at Texas for a couple of days before he went to the NFL?

[HtownHorn 14755]

2 minutes ago, Jkwellborn said:

Wasn’t he the DC at Texas for a couple of days before he went to the NFL?

Nope Manny Diaz was the DC, Gray was coming to be the CB's coach. He left allowing Akina the ability to return after suffering buyer's remorse hitching his wagon to Mike Stoops in Arizona.

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

4 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

Seriously, someone have the balls to list the positives on this guy as a hire. Then look at your list, and justify how it is a good hire at the University of Texas with our resources and expectations. 

From what I have seen he would be a slam dunk hire.

 

 

For UTSA.

[NoName 16365]

2 hours ago, bejezuz said:

Jay Valai could be next season's Joe Brady for all we know.   

you may not know, but all of the rest of us do.

[ruitxn 298]

3 hours ago, Tex Pete said:

The Horns are extra surly  this morning. Shit-flingingly surly.

Thanks

[SydneyCarton 48139]

1 hour ago, ChampionshipLevelPiss said:

Looks like Emmett Jones got promoted to Passing Game Coordinator at KU, hopefully a minor promotion isn't going to be enough to keep him there

Lol. A school that has proclaimed, by our Athletic Director no less, that we would never let money prevent us from hiring the right coaches has openly balked at paying for Jones's buyout. If you don't think that coupled with a raise is anything other than another excuse for Herman to search elsewhere for a WR coach, I don't know what program you've been watching the past several years. 

[gmr548 16590]

Why the fuck did we not try and hire Jerry Gray as DC again?  I would have offered him $2 million with complete autonomy on his side of the ball and make him turn down his alma mater.

Remember when Texas hired Jerry Gray and he bolted immediately for the NFL?

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[closetojumping 62765]

In the interest of cheering everybody up, I'll take on Sydney's challenge:

Pros -

-Fud has already cited a solid nickname in Jai Alai

-He's young and black, so this immediately makes the whole staff hip and with it

-He knows the "grab that bag" concept for street agents and seems to really dig it

-Chris Ash really likes him, and Chris Ash knows staff personnel

-He can apparently fog a mirror

-We don't have a visible way, yet, to prove that his on-field charges at Texas will suck

-He's not Drew Mehringer

-He's currently unemployed, so he can start immediately

-He's a squarehead just like his mentor, so you know there's a lot of grey matter being toted around in that fucking rock

-He's never lost to Baylor or Iowa State

-If he's really the unqualified, wet fart of a hire that obvious shit seems to be indicating, he does nothing to offset the growing likelihood that the silver lining to Hermanitard not fixing any of his shit will be that he and his entire fucking roster of half-wits and jugheads will all be taken out to the curb and dropkicked onto the street after they underperform and fail miserably to the tune of a 6-6 regular season in 2020

I don't know, the more I think about it, the more I'm really to starting to like this hire.

 

 

[Schulz2.0 28996]

3 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

In the interest of cheering everybody up, I'll take on Sydney's challenge:

Pros -

-Fud has already cited a solid nickname in Jai Alai

-He's young and black, so this immediately makes the whole staff hip and with it

-He knows the "grab that bag" concept for street agents and seems to really dig it

-Chris Ash really likes him, and Chris Ash knows staff personnel

-He can apparently fog a mirror

-We don't have a visible way, yet, to prove that his on-field charges at Texas will suck

-He's not Drew Mehringer

-He's currently unemployed, so he can start immediately

-He's a squarehead just like his mentor, so you know there's a lot of grey matter being toted around in that fucking rock

-He's never lost to Baylor or Iowa State

-If he's really the unqualified, wet fart of a hire that obvious shit seems to be indicating, he does nothing to offset the growing likelihood that the silver lining to Hermanitard not fixing any of his shit will be that he and his entire fucking roster of half-wits and jugheads will all be taken out to the curb and dropkicked onto the street after they underperform and fail miserably to the tune of a 6-6 regular season in 2020

I don't know, the more I think about it, the more I'm really to starting to like this hire.

 

 

[South Austin 52526]

3 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

-He's not Drew Mehringer

Well I’m sold.

[elguapo 4586]

These defensive hires make a lot more sense once you figure out who Herman’s been getting advice from on that side of the ball

[ruitxn 298]

2 hours ago, Liquor and Poker said:

My only solace in connection with the overall direction these hires are taking is that I was so absolutely sure that Herman was THE GUY when we hired him.  This proves that no opinion of mine on this subject is worth considering.  

A lot of us were consumed by the hype.  We really didn’t know Tom Herman, particularly his gross egotism.  That is why we pay millions to have competent, skilled athletic directors.  

Edited January 10, 2020 by ruitxn

[Getafix 28685]

Just FYI - the entirety of Jones' buyout equates to about 3% of Herman's salary for 2020.

[texifornia 57034]

Just now, ruitxn said:

A lot of us were consumed by the hype.  We really didn’t know Tom Herman, particularly his gross egotism.  That is what we pay millions to have competent, skilled athletic directors.  

Well the hype and a(n admittedly short) track record of big wins and excitement at UH. People forget that fucking Cougar High was considered a more exciting, on-the-rise program around the country than UT during Strong's last season.

[Tex Pete 20420]

2 minutes ago, Getafix said:

Just FYI - the entirety of Jones' buyout equates to about 3% of Herman's salary for 2020.

Well, on the one hand, we COULD pay the guy's buyout, and people will bitch that we are having to pay position coaches' buyouts. On the other hand, we could not pay his buyout, and people will bitch that we can't get anyone to coach here.

I'm pretty sure that aside from actually, you know, winning, there is no winning.

[ChiTownDoc 21154]

10 minutes ago, Getafix said:

Just FYI - the entirety of Jones' buyout equates to about 3% of Herman's salary for 2020.

Make Herman buy him out?  Pretty Boss move...

[texifornia 57034]

 

[UncleBuck 6455]

31 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

In the interest of cheering everybody up, I'll take on Sydney's challenge:

Pros -

-Fud has already cited a solid nickname in Jai Alai

-He's young and black, so this immediately makes the whole staff hip and with it

-He knows the "grab that bag" concept for street agents and seems to really dig it

-Chris Ash really likes him, and Chris Ash knows staff personnel

-He can apparently fog a mirror

-We don't have a visible way, yet, to prove that his on-field charges at Texas will suck

-He's not Drew Mehringer

-He's currently unemployed, so he can start immediately

-He's a squarehead just like his mentor, so you know there's a lot of grey matter being toted around in that fucking rock

-He's never lost to Baylor or Iowa State

-If he's really the unqualified, wet fart of a hire that obvious shit seems to be indicating, he does nothing to offset the growing likelihood that the silver lining to Hermanitard not fixing any of his shit will be that he and his entire fucking roster of half-wits and jugheads will all be taken out to the curb and dropkicked onto the street after they underperform and fail miserably to the tune of a 6-6 regular season in 2020

I don't know, the more I think about it, the more I'm really to starting to like this hire.

 

 

[Istian 241]

1 minute ago, texifornia said:

 

Oh for fuck’s sake. I don’t know why I expected anything different from Herman. All of us are clearly the assholes for thinking CDC would be involved at a level where he’d stop this shit. 

[SydneyCarton 48139]

8 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

Well, on the one hand, we COULD pay the guy's buyout, and people will bitch that we are having to pay position coaches' buyouts. On the other hand, we could not pay his buyout, and people will bitch that we can't get anyone to coach here.

I'm pretty sure that aside from actually, you know, winning, there is no winning.

I'd be willing to at least give brownie points to someone for, you know, actually like they're actually trying to win. Hiring competent seeming staff, fully utilizing all available resources, at hand, showing up for work week in and week out with thoughtful gameplans, adjusting when things don't work, giving players who have earned it playing time and benching those that underperform etc., you know. Things like that.  

[Auto Driller 2506]

Texas: the Rutgers of the south(west)

[Hiphopopotamos 20876]

5 minutes ago, texifornia said:

 

Strong.  Reputation.

 

Suck it, haters.

[ClubWhatever 12154]

It's your time, Ricky Butler.

[SydneyCarton 48139]

5 minutes ago, texifornia said:

 

How can one have a pretty strong reputation in recruiting when they've recruited, what exactly, maybe a month in their entire lives? Ditto player development. Can you say you have a strong reputation in player development when you've only been an on field coach for 1 year of your life and haven't held the same job long enough to even see a single kid graduate under your tutelage? What a complete fucking joke of a tweet. Rittenberg can get bent, and then get forcibly buttfucked by an irate cactus-demon. 

[kevwun 15814]

There is a fine line for AD's to walk between allowing coaches do their thing and not letting a coach who is on the hot seat shoot himself in the dick with staff hires and wasting a year of everyone's time before he gets fired anyway.

[Hiphopopotamos 20876]

Just now, SydneyCarton said:

How can one have a pretty strong reputation in recruiting when they've recruited, what exactly, maybe a month in their entire lives? Ditto player development. Can you say you have a strong reputation in player development when you've only been an on field coach for 1 year of your life and haven't held the same job long enough to even see a single kid graduate under your tutelage? What a complete fucking joke of a tweet. Rittenberg can get bent, and then get forcibly buttfucked by an irate cactus-demon. 

QA coaches recruit - they just don't go on the road.  Kevin Washington got us Bijan before he ever got an opportunity to go on the road.

[texifornia 57034]

2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

How can one have a pretty strong reputation in recruiting when they've recruited, what exactly, maybe a month in their entire lives? Ditto player development. Can you say you have a strong reputation in player development when you've only been an on field coach for 1 year of your life and haven't held the same job long enough to even see a single kid graduate under your tutelage? What a complete fucking joke of a tweet. Rittenberg can get bent, and then get forcibly buttfucked by an irate cactus-demon. 

[BabaYaga 15302]

2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Rittenberg can get bent, and then get forcibly buttfucked by an irate cactus-demon. 

What about a pineapple up the pooper?

[Huckleberry 33048]

It will all make sense once y'all realize that Herman is all aboard the bag man train to save his skin.

Former trainer hired? Lupoi name floated to test blowback?

[SydneyCarton 48139]

1 minute ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

QA coaches recruit - they just don't go on the road.  Kevin Washington got us Bijan before he ever got an opportunity to go on the road.

Feel free to point out to me the Quality Control Coaches Recruiter Rankings on 247. You're being willfully obtuse here, for what reason exactly?

[Ricky Butler 2731]

5 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

It's your time, Ricky Butler.

I was holding out hope for an experienced developer. I wish Jay the best of luck, but I am not happy with this hire.

[kevwun 15814]

4 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

It will all make sense once y'all realize that Herman is all aboard the bag man train to save his skin.

Former trainer hired? Lupoi name floated to test blowback?

A willingness to play the game won't be much help if he doesn't bother to hire a full staff before the 2nd signing day.

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

7 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

It will all make sense once y'all realize that Herman is all aboard the bag man train to save his skin.

Former trainer hired? Lupoi name floated to test blowback?

This is my take. Let’s go get the Polynesian bag man now and load up on talent for Urban.

[Tex Pete 20420]

14 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I'd be willing to at least give brownie points to someone for, you know, actually like they're actually trying to win. Hiring competent seeming staff, fully utilizing all available resources, at hand, showing up for work week in and week out with thoughtful gameplans, adjusting when things don't work, giving players who have earned it playing time and benching those that underperform etc., you know. Things like that.  

I don't disagree with you. Just musing after reading the shitfest.

[RandomIdoit 657]

Herman should write a book on how to hire nothing but yes men.