Jump to content
Required Reading for any Longhorn ×

Tom Herman Is Pressing His Buttcheeks Against Your Mirror & Forcing You To Stare At It

closetojumping

By closetojumping
in Football

 Share

Recommended Posts

Chad

Chad 1728

Posted
Posted

The only change I feel is necessary on the offensive side of the ball is to cut ties with Mehringer. Beck has a checkered history, but can you justify firing an OC when the team averages 41PPG ? The defense is where the majority of the shit stink is originating from. Orlando, Washington and Naivar should all be dismissed. Giles has coached up some good players in the past, do you blame the d-line coach or the personnel for the lack of production on the d-line this season? Or is it just a schematic issue?

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Getafix

Getafix 28815

Posted
Posted

- For the number of times it's mentioned that we lost to two top teams by a touchdown each, we beat OK St (after four straight losses) and Kansas by a combined 8 points. 

- If the implication is that we were very close to winning the OU/LSU games, we were even closer to losing the OSU/Kansas games;  we can't consider one without considering the other. 

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Irish Wrist Watch

Irish Wrist Watch 1398

Posted
Posted (edited)

Quite a thread. I think maybe TreeFiddy meant "rear-view mirror" in which case, Tom's knees are crammed into the space between your dash and windshield, his arms are supporting most of his weight and his head - well we know where that is. You can't see where you've been (the mirror), the blow job is pretty good, so it' a good bet you aren't watching where you're going. Nevertheless, a head-on is in your future. And when he's done, you're gonna need a new rear-view mirror.

The most important game of the season, and not one new wrinkle on offense. Four weeks to practice a decent onside kick - and we got the exact same fucking out of bounds kick. D-backs tackling with their heads only to be carted off the field. We can't fair catch a kickoff without fucking it up. I'd like to at least see some sign that we are learning from our mistakes.

Edited by Irish Wrist Watch
Link to comment
Share on other sites
LTtxfan

LTtxfan 49371

Posted
Posted
5 hours ago, Ricky Butler said:

Him learning is the best bet because I think Saban is a complete outlier. It's like wanting Belichik as your coach. It's a great idea if he's available, but there is only one. And guess what, they don't changed jobs. It's really too early to lose faith in Herman, and I think it's a little silly and reactionary based on some of the positives so far.

Dabo fired coordinators. Orgeron fired a coordinator. Riley fired a coordinator. The list goes on, and we see one year turnarounds all the time when new coordinators come in. Were they all idiots for not making the right hires initially? Did Orgeron and Riley waste a year of elite defenses and offenses, respectively, by failing to recognize deficient units on their team? I'll quit rambling now.

Belichick sucked as Cleveland coach so sometimes coaches do get better....

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Landomatic

Landomatic 3813

Posted
Posted
9 hours ago, closetojumping said:

RexKramer - you’re posting on a thread I wrote, which implies that you read something. It’s pretty simple - put me on ignore and you won’t have to worry about a thing, and then I will keep not giving one fuck about the thread vomit you bring to this site. 

In fairness to Rex or @Dr. Beeper or whatever, this thread had plenty of vomit before he came along.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Rimbo

Rimbo 26140

Posted
Posted
On 10/23/2019 at 9:35 AM, closetojumping said:

 

Anywho. Thoughts? 

Just that, when we had just fired a two-year wonder from a mid-tier program who had hired a bunch of third rate assistants, we made up for it by hiring a two-year wonder from a mid-tier program who then hired a bunch of third rate assistants.

I'm wondering why anyone is surprised right now.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
pacman

pacman 7371

Posted
Posted (edited)

I think, unfortunately, Texas has a real problem doing in depth, complex coaching hires. For whatever reason, we tend to go after someone who happens to be shiny at the time, despite no clear indication of sustainable success at our level.

Herman had done a few decent things, mostly surprise two teams OU and FSU as a head coach and be a somewhat competent OC under an offensive HC. Otherwise, he was very raw as a head coach, yet we acted like we were lucky to have him and gave his every demand.

You don't want to money whip the best possible staff Mr Herman? Oh, you do want to throw cash around but only to your friends. Yes sir. Whatever you say. You want to bring on your buddy who was to involved in the rape scandal at Baylor? Oh okay, yes sir.

It's been beyond ridiculous and you can tell what parts of Mack Brown Herman took. There is still time for Herman to figure it out but it's not encouraging that Herman had somehow put together a worse staff than Brown.

CDC seems to be different in regard to hiring, but time will be the judge. He still has to get past the big money donors who have a shit history of offering bad takes on hires.

Edited by pacman
  • Like 8
Link to comment
Share on other sites
TwiceHorn

TwiceHorn 31543

Posted
Posted
4 minutes ago, pacman said:

I think, unfortunately, Texas has a real problem doing in depth, complex coaching hires. For whatever reason, we tend to go after someone who happens to be shiny at the time, despite no clear indication of sustainable success at our level.

Herman had done a few decent things, mostly surprise two teams OU and FSU as a head coach and be a somewhat competent OC under an offensive HC. Otherwise, he was very raw as a head coach, yet we acted like we were lucky to have him and gave his every demand.

You don't want to money whip the best possible staff Mr Herman? Oh, you do want to throw cash around but only to your friends. Yes sir. Whatever you say. You want to bring on your buddy who was to involved in the rape scandal at Baylor? Oh okay, yes sir.

It's been beyond ridiculous and you can tell what parts of Mack Brown Herman took. There is still time for Herman to figure it out but it's not encouraging that Herman had somehow put together a worse staff than Brown.

CDC seems to be different in regard to hiring, but time will be the judge. He still has to get past the big money donors who have a shit history of offering bad takes on hires.

Out of rep.  I think in addition to three decades of basic indifference to W-L records in the AD, the alumni base remains pretty fractious despite the LHF.  And that means either "non-unified" hiring decisions, or delegation to a neutral Korn-Ferry to try to mitigate the dick measuring contest.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
WBT

WBT 20671

Posted
Posted
47 minutes ago, pacman said:

Herman had done a few decent things, mostly surprise two teams OU and FSU as a head coach and be a somewhat competent OC under an offensive HC. Otherwise, he was very raw as a head coach, yet we acted like we were lucky to have him and gave his every demand.

Don't forget his ass kissing of all of our Houston boosters while he was supposed to be coaching at cougar high

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
pacman

pacman 7371

Posted
Posted (edited)
40 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Out of rep.  I think in addition to three decades of basic indifference to W-L records in the AD, the alumni base remains pretty fractious despite the LHF.  And that means either "non-unified" hiring decisions, or delegation to a neutral Korn-Ferry to try to mitigate the dick measuring contest.

Augie Garrido is the last time we put our collective dick on the table and hired whomever the fuck we, and every other program in the country, wanted..way back in 199 fucking 7, when I got to UT as an undergrad

Edited by pacman
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Reynolds Woodcock

Reynolds Woodcock 4804

Posted
Posted

Herman needs to be in bunker mode this week. Stating the obvious, but this feels like a big swing game this weekend. Lose, and the heat will be turned up to 100 and our current recruiting class probably becomes really shaky. Win, and you head into an off week at 6-2 and get Sterns, Whittington and Jeff M back for the final stretch. 
 

 

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
LTtxfan

LTtxfan 49371

Posted
Posted
15 hours ago, Chad said:

The only change I feel is necessary on the offensive side of the ball is to cut ties with Mehringer. Beck has a checkered history, but can you justify firing an OC when the team averages 41PPG ? The defense is where the majority of the shit stink is originating from. Orlando, Washington and Naivar should all be dismissed. Giles has coached up some good players in the past, do you blame the d-line coach or the personnel for the lack of production on the d-line this season? Or is it just a schematic issue?

 

Meekins to off field with Shipley or gone. 

Warehime and Drew.... GONE.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Reynolds Woodcock

Reynolds Woodcock 4804

Posted
Posted
15 hours ago, pacman said:

I think, unfortunately, Texas has a real problem doing in depth, complex coaching hires. For whatever reason, we tend to go after someone who happens to be shiny at the time, despite no clear indication of sustainable success at our level.

Are we really that different than other major programs in this regard? Obviously every fan base would love to duplicate OSU with Tressel>Meyer (and maybe Day) and OU with Stoops>Riley, but that is definitely the exception, not the rule.

Florida struck out on Muschamp and McElwain after Urban quit. I think Mullen will work out, but TBD.

USC struck out on Kiffin, Sark and Helton after Carroll.

Alabama, Notre Dame and Michigan all struck out several times before landing their current coaches (and even Jim isn't working out so great for UM). Tennessee, Miami and numerous others are just LOL.    

Link to comment
Share on other sites
TwiceHorn

TwiceHorn 31543

Posted
Posted
20 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

Are we really that different than other major programs in this regard? Obviously every fan base would love to duplicate OSU with Tressel>Meyer (and maybe Day) and OU with Stoops>Riley, but that is definitely the exception, not the rule.

Florida struck out on Muschamp and McElwain after Urban quit. I think Mullen will work out, but TBD.

USC struck out on Kiffin, Sark and Helton after Carroll.

Alabama, Notre Dame and Michigan all struck out several times before landing their current coaches (and even Jim isn't working out so great for UM). Tennessee, Miami and numerous others are just LOL.    

I think coach hiring is difficult for any institution.  But based on Bleeding Orange (yes by Kunth Bohls), our alumni base is more fractious than average.  Dodds did a lot to sort of heal the rifts, but based on the Brown hire (other alums poised to offer Gary Barnett) and the supposed Saban offers in the last go-round, it's not all that different now than it was then.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
XYZ

XYZ 2154

Posted
Posted
24 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

Are we really that different than other major programs in this regard? Obviously every fan base would love to duplicate OSU with Tressel>Meyer (and maybe Day) and OU with Stoops>Riley, but that is definitely the exception, not the rule.

Florida struck out on Muschamp and McElwain after Urban quit. I think Mullen will work out, but TBD.

USC struck out on Kiffin, Sark and Helton after Carroll.

Alabama, Notre Dame and Michigan all struck out several times before landing their current coaches (and even Jim isn't working out so great for UM). Tennessee, Miami and numerous others are just LOL.    

Florida was also wondering in the desert between Spurrier and Meyer.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
XYZ

XYZ 2154

Posted
Posted
3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I think coach hiring is difficult for any institution.  But based on Bleeding Orange (yes by Kunth Bohls), our alumni base is more fractious than average.  Dodds did a lot to sort of heal the rifts, but based on the Brown hire (other alums poised to offer Gary Barnett) and the supposed Saban offers in the last go-round, it's not all that different now than it was then.

Maybe the AD could try to, instead of being a cheap whore all the time, every once in a while telling the BMDs “I make the coaching hires”. If they don’t like it, they can take their millions of dollars to their other alma maters.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Rhinotx

Rhinotx 500

Posted
Posted

Considering where we were just a few years ago with Strong plus a 10 win season last year I think Herman is pretty safe. I also don't think TO is going anywhere. I think we have a lot of assistants that are dead weight on both sides that we could upgrade this off season and improve immensely.  If Herman wants to take that next step he needs to make some hard evals and tough calls. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has had to fire friends and it sucks but it is what it is. When you become the boss you have to accept the shit parts also. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
gmr548

gmr548 16617

Posted
Posted
Considering where we were just a few years ago with Strong plus a 10 win season last year I think Herman is pretty safe. I also don't think TO is going anywhere. I think we have a lot of assistants that are dead weight on both sides that we could upgrade this off season and improve immensely.  If Herman wants to take that next step he needs to make some hard evals and tough calls. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has had to fire friends and it sucks but it is what it is. When you become the boss you have to accept the shit parts also. 

I've seen better humblebrags on campus. 6/10.

Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
 Share
Go to topic listing


Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business and Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Subscribe!... Donate!... Advertise... COOKIE MONSTER!

×
×
  • Create New...