Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (Addressing the cesspool...)
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Texas does not fit AT ALL with the heavily cheating, low academic bar SEC. Horrible fit.
UT fits best with the PAC 12, but the University would have to have assurances on 6pm PDT kickoffs at the latest. Fits 2nd best with the Big 10, 3rd best with the ACC. The SEC will NEVER happen with the powers-that-be at the University and never should happen with our Top 5-7 academic State U and Top 50 academically overall.
Have seen this mentioned by others but seems strange. Does he deserve more time at 7 wins? If so, how would one more win against a shitty big 12 team be the tipping point to show he's the right guy or not?
what about teams that beat Florida, Georgia and a blasted a Va, Tech team by 20 points that just destroyed UNC?
Oh, and the only blemish is a seven-point overtime loss on the road to a top 10 team?
seems really good to me.
A crappy AD, opinionated BMD's, it's all a red herring IMO. If Charlie was coaching better and winning games on the field none of that would matter.
I can't wait til the day we are relevant again and the gameday crew has to make a trip to Austin. Herbstreit will have nightmares about that weekend
This. When you have Vtech, Florida, Georgia, aggy and Bama as 5 of your first 7 games you might want to cut them some slack on not getting up for Ap State and Ohio. Those are games you win and move on.
Ketch, if you haven't already, you should make public your comments on a certain broadcaster's "cesspool" statement.
Should see some creative signs for sure. Remember the sign at Austin about Trev Alberts way back when? Gameday was sponsored by Home Depot; they had a commercial that said College Gameday set, built by Home Depot.
At Austin, someone had a sign that said: Trev Alberts, built by Homo Depot.
Should Gameday show up Herbstreit will be booed relentlessly no matter what he says. Austinites will never forget that comment, nor should they.
Herbstreit went to bat for Bianco on national television too after Patterson fired him.
Good place to start.
I'm not saying Perrin hasn't done what's been asked. I wouldn't even allude that he hasn't been great for the University. What I'm saying is that if Charlie Strong (who was the best candidate at the time we hired him, who has brought in GREAT recruiting classes the last two years and was on pace to do it again this year, and who finally has a really, really, good OC on staff) isn't good enough because we are Texas, then the guy who fires him and finds his replacement should be a qualified, proven AD. Perrin isn't that.
Understand your broader point, but we didn't "almost win" a conference title in 2013. Baylor had a far better team, toyed with us in the 1st half, and then cleaned our clock in the 2nd. To say we "almost won" is as aggy as it gets. It is like saying "we were 30 minutes away" when we weren't even close. Texas had huge problems coming out in the 3rd quarter that year. Spoke volumes of our mental and physical preparedness on Brown's teams.
I agree. Lou Holtz and/or Mack Brown are possible culprits since both know Herbstreit well and were/are ESPN employees.
If only I had a nickel for every time I've heard this in any given year...including from myself. KSU is like a slow, stumbling zombie with one foot and no arms. Run around it, heckle it, believing there's zero chance of getting got...next thing you know it's chewing your face off.
I'd say things will get better once the old man is gone, but hell even Ron Prince worked our ass. KSU is Texas' daddy.
Ketch, I am shocked and at the same time I am happy to say that your write up was very good. Direct and to the point...finally! I am saddened by the failures of Charlie Strong because I was a supporter in the beginning, but he just completely dropped the ball, literally. His staff that he put together was just horrendous, and at the end of the day it just did him in.
Good post!
Good post!
The vast majority of Texas Longhorn alumni and fans are incredibly reasonable and patient, provided the program is competitive, showing progress and winning more than losing. In fact, historically UT is SLOW TO FIRE, considerably slower than crazy fan base programs like Alabama, LSU and Ohio State.
When the program has gone 13-17 with 10 blowout defeats, is an astonishing 0-14 when trailing at the half (indicating it lacks the character, heart and leadership to EVER come from behind) and the head coach is in clear organizational disarray, as evidenced by firing 2 coordinators and 8 assistant coaches in 2 1/2 seasons, THEN the University and Burnt Orange Nation have good reason to be alarmed and to plan on making a change. To do otherwise would be IRRESPONSIBLE. The University and its many constituents deserve better, especially for $5 million a year.
Now if Charlie can do a U-turn here, start having his atrocious D (his supposed expertise) play at a respectable level and win 6 of his last 7 regular season games to finish 8-4, then he'll get another year. If he falls short there is NO ONE TO BLAME BUT CHARLIE STRONG.
The apologists and politically correct need to comprehend the necessity of the head coach being ACCOUNTABLE to the "shareholders" at UT that pay him and entrust him with this legendary program.
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Spot on.
I have never seen a football coach find so many ways to lose a football game in just 30 games. So many of those close losses were a direct result of game-coaching blunders or lack of attention to detail in game-preparation.
You can literally almost pick apart any team's win playing this game.
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