Texas Sports Hall of Fame 2024 inductees…..WTF?

[Armybrat 41320]

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Four Texas exes were set to be inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday, with the class being highlighted by Longhorn football greats Jamaal Charles and Colt McCoy. Former track and field coach Bubba Thornton and former softball pitcher Christa Williams rounded out the UT honorees.

Other inductees in the 2024 class were National Baseball Hall of Famer Andy Cooper, Texas Baseball Hall of Fame (2006) and Houston Astros Hall of Fame (2021) inductee 'Judge' Roy Hofheinz, former Prairie View A& M track and field coach Barbara Jacket, former Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach and former Texas A& M football coach Jackie Sherrill.

Jackie Sherrill? 
Who in their right mind would want that cheating SOB in the venerable HoF?

[The Gimp 354]

I saw that.  The cocksucker could only win because he was cheating.

[statsman 5675]

Jackie Sherrill is one weird dude. Back in the ‘80s, before an Ag Cotton Bowl appearance, the (now defunct) Dallas Times Herald did a long piece on him. They related this story-
 
He was a HS football star in Boloxi. There was a girl in HS that he liked, but wasn’t really interested in him. Sherrill became a college football star at Alabama, and invited that girl to Tuscaloosa, to be his date for a football weekend- go to the game, attend postgame parties, and so on. She accepted. 
 
He left her alone the entire time. No ticket for the game, escorting to parties. As she prepared to return home, he met her and made the point that she really screwed up by not being nicer in high school. The whole weekend experience was about settling a score. 
 
Sherrill is one weird dude. 

[statsman 5675]

He really did start to build the Ags into something. There were three pillars to his Ag program. 
1. Install a pro style offense and let Slocum run his defense. 
2. Rather than resist the hokey, anachronistic Aggie tradition and mythology, lean heavily into it. He quickly realized that the Ags in power slopped that shit up and couldn’t get enough of it, so he gave it to them by the bucket. He made a KO team out of walk ons and called it “the 12th Man” squad. He whooped and hollered at yell practices like he invented it. And he HATED tee-you. 
3. He bought players like a SOB, having the Ags up (down?) there with SMU and OU. 
 
He had success. I would rate the importance of the above noted program pillars as 3,1,2. The Ags would claim the importance rank was 2,1,3. 
 
Boomer Ag fans love Sherrill like no other coach, because he won, and he preached that Aggie BS like no other coach before or since. Not even Gene Stallings could out-Ag Sherrill, and he actually is an Ag. He is the coach that they have yearned forever since. 

Edited April 15 by statsman

[statsman 5675]

The way it fell apart deserves to be retold. 
 
The Ags won the SWC three years in a row. When SMU got the death penalty, their boosters hired PIs to investigate the other schools, listing every possible violation. Texas got pegged with minor stuff, and cooperated with the NCAA, even self-reporting violations discovered in the internal investigation that the NcAA knew nothing about. 
 
The Ags resisted. They reported their internal investigation showed everything was on the up and up. Mind you- Sherrill was HC and also the AD. The NCAA hit them with penalties more severe than Texas’. 
 
A year later, a former player for the Ags, a FB from Georgia, named George Smith, told the Ags that he needed money, and if he didn’t get it, he would talk. The Ags sent a FedEx envelope to him with $20k cash. He opened that envelope in the presence of a Dallas Morning News reporter. 
 
The Ags responded to the scandal by flying Smith to B/CS, where he recanted (he later said he was paid for that, too). The NCAA threw their hand up and said they could not tell fact from fiction. 
 
TAMU had a president, William Mobley, who was not an Aggie. Mobley, with the aid of UT, was trying to get TAMU into the prestigious AAC. Mobley convinced his Board that Sherrill had to go, that if he wasn’t fired, Mobley would resign. 
 
They let Sherrill go, something the hard core Ags have regretted ever since. 

[ImissWallyPryor 9046]

17 minutes ago, statsman said:

The way it fell apart deserves to be retold. 
 
The Ags won the SWC three years in a row. When SMU got the death penalty, their boosters hired PIs to investigate the other schools, listing every possible violation. Texas got pegged with minor stuff, and cooperated with the NCAA, even self-reporting violations discovered in the internal investigation that the NcAA knew nothing about. 
 
The Ags resisted. They reported their internal investigation showed everything was on the up and up. Mind you- Sherrill was HC and also the AD. The NCAA hit them with penalties more severe than Texas’. 
 
A year later, a former player for the Ags, a FB from Georgia, named George Smith, told the Ags that he needed money, and if he didn’t get it, he would talk. The Ags sent a FedEx envelope to him with $20k cash. He opened that envelope in the presence of a Dallas Morning News reporter. 
 
The Ags responded to the scandal by flying Smith to B/CS, where he recanted (he later said he was paid for that, too). The NCAA threw their hand up and said they could not tell fact from fiction. 
 
TAMU had a president, William Mobley, who was not an Aggie. Mobley, with the aid of UT, was trying to get TAMU into the prestigious AAC. Mobley convinced his Board that Sherrill had to go, that if he wasn’t fired, Mobley would resign. 
 
They let Sherrill go, something the hard core Ags have regretted ever since. 

I think the NCAA found that aTm had an ATM installed in the players lounge. It was suspected that they filled the $5 slots with $20 bills so the players could withdraw $100 and only be charged $25. The investigators couldn’t prove it, so they just told them to remove it.

[Armybrat 41320]

Sherrill’s “success” was based on cheating, which of course violated the aggy “honor code” - whatever those goobers call it. 
They don’t care, and never seem to remember the shame of being sanctioned with post-season bowl bans TWICE..

Even Kurt Bohls in today’s AAS panders to that cheating SOB by not mentioning the disgrace Sherrill brought to aggy land (and MSU afterwards). Allowing that dirtbag in the Texas Hall of Fame is a shame and those who promoted it should be kicked out of the selection committee .

https://statesman-tx.newsmemory.com/?token=5e5d04df1052190332afb9b27d524884&cnum=fd6bbe4c-2b3e-eb11-a0ad-90b11c3d639b&fod=1111111STD-0&selDate=20240415&licenseType=paid_subscriber&

[statsman 5675]

He is a weird dude. This SI article has a lot of examples where Sherrill recounts stories involving him being the hero, or giving the big comeuppance, that nobody else remembers. 
 
https://vault.si.com/vault/1993/09/20/who-is-this-clown-is-he-one-of-americas-greatest-football-coaches-or-is-something-funny-going-on-here

[Armybrat 41320]

That mofo is the polar opposite of DKR.

[Beau Vine 55824]

Not getting the outrage, when the TSHoF already includes people like this guy.   

[statsman 5675]

I listened to the induction podcast. 
 
So, Grant Teaff is involved with the TSHOF, in Waco, and was in attendance. Know how sometimes, a coach speaking in a rival’s town, will tell self-deprecating stories of being beaten by the hosts? I have heard Royal and Brown do that a few times. It shows class and self-confidence to praise an old foe while being honored by them. 
 
Would you be surprised to hear Jackie didn’t do that? He gave a shout out to Teaff, in the audience, and then told a story of how he countered a Teaff motivational ploy before a game with a better one by him (Sherrill), and won the game. 
 
Sherrill is a weird dude. 

[Royale with cheese 1491]

15 minutes ago, statsman said:

I listened to the induction podcast. 
 
So, Grant Teaff is involved with the TSHOF, in Waco, and was in attendance. Know how sometimes, a coach speaking in a rival’s town, will tell self-deprecating stories of being beaten by the hosts? I have heard Royal and Brown do that a few times. It shows class and self-confidence to praise an old foe while being honored by them. 
 
Would you be surprised to hear Jackie didn’t do that? He gave a shout out to Teaff, in the audience, and then told a story of how he countered a Teaff motivational ploy before a game with a better one by him (Sherrill), and won the game. 
 
Sherrill is a weird fucked-up dude. 

FIFY

[Blotto 23974]

33 minutes ago, statsman said:

Sherrill is a weird dude. 

He had moved onto Miss St when I was at UT. The only thing I recall was the bull castration incident. 

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Coach JACKIE SHERRILL apologized yesterday for allowing the castration of a bull in front of his Mississippi State football team, and the school's president promised that such an incident would not occur again.

"Even though I was not involved in the procedure that took place, I take responsibility," Sherrill told his weekly news conference. "If this incident was in any way not perceived as proper by those who love Mississippi State, then I apologize."

The bull was castrated in front of the team on a practice field before Mississippi State defeated the Texas Longhorns, 28-10, on Sept. 5. Later, Sherrill said he allowed the procedure because it was educational and motivational.

You can take a dipshit out of aggy, but you cant take the aggy out of a dipshit. If it involves a farm animal's testicles, you know someone on that staff had spent time in the Station. Guaranteed. 

[Herpa Derpa 6317]

Why do y'all keep using the word "weird" instead of "sack of shit"?

[Red Five 41596]

I was on I-10 in Houston about 20 years ago and Jackie pulled up next to me. I flicked him off. 

[T-shirt Sip 2188]

1 hour ago, Red Five said:

I was on I-10 in Houston about 20 years ago and Jackie pulled up next to me. I flicked him off. 

Like a booger? 

[TrashMaster G 18030]

On 4/15/2024 at 8:08 AM, statsman said:

The way it fell apart deserves to be retold. 
 
The Ags won the SWC three years in a row. When SMU got the death penalty, their boosters hired PIs to investigate the other schools, listing every possible violation. Texas got pegged with minor stuff, and cooperated with the NCAA, even self-reporting violations discovered in the internal investigation that the NcAA knew nothing about. 
 
The Ags resisted. They reported their internal investigation showed everything was on the up and up. Mind you- Sherrill was HC and also the AD. The NCAA hit them with penalties more severe than Texas’. 
 
A year later, a former player for the Ags, a FB from Georgia, named George Smith, told the Ags that he needed money, and if he didn’t get it, he would talk. The Ags sent a FedEx envelope to him with $20k cash. He opened that envelope in the presence of a Dallas Morning News reporter. 
 
The Ags responded to the scandal by flying Smith to B/CS, where he recanted (he later said he was paid for that, too). The NCAA threw their hand up and said they could not tell fact from fiction. 
 
TAMU had a president, William Mobley, who was not an Aggie. Mobley, with the aid of UT, was trying to get TAMU into the prestigious AAC. Mobley convinced his Board that Sherrill had to go, that if he wasn’t fired, Mobley would resign. 
 
They let Sherrill go, something the hard core Ags have regretted ever since. 

Let's not gloss over the fact that what aggy did was every bit as bad as SMU and they would have received the death penalty if it had occurred before SMU.

[Funk Doctor Spock 13121]

Jackie Sherrill is just human feces masquerading as a human. 

Remember that time all that cheating he did won them a NC? Me neither! Life comes at you fast, dipshit. 

[Armybrat 41320]

2 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

Let's not gloss over the fact that what aggy did was every bit as bad as SMU and they would have received the death penalty if it had occurred before SMU.

And those aggy waterheads to this day repeat their blatant lies that Texas “destroyed” the SWC.

[runthebone 8322]

On 4/15/2024 at 6:30 AM, ImissWallyPryor said:

I think the NCAA found that aTm had an ATM installed in the players lounge. It was suspected that they filled the $5 slots with $20 bills so the players could withdraw $100 and only be charged $25. The investigators couldn’t prove it, so they just told them to remove it.

No, dude, that is how fucked up aggy math is.

[ousux 5635]

I trust a representative of FedEx was in attendance? Seems like the right thing to do since they were symbiotic with aggy "success".