Blown out in the quarters of the CL last year and only won the league because Dortmond vomited all over their feet.
Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend: Better buy this kid's stock while there's still some left!
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Blown out in the quarters of the CL last year and only won the league because Dortmond vomited all over their feet.
@Perdy When you get a chance, can you post the negative comments. I'm just trying to understand what you're saying.
“Soft rock”?!? I wouldn’t call anything McDonald did in the 70s that. Now, what he did in the 80s after leaving the Doobie Brothers…yeah, that was “soft rock”.
I was referring to best player in a given game but the idea is that if you are the best player in enough games, you would be viewed as the best player period. It's not really that difficult a comparison. The teams that VY played on were certainly stacked too, but in his final year, there was never any question about who was the best player. Realistically, Quinn might not have been in the top 5 for Texas last year (Sweat, Murphy, Worthy, Banks, Brooks and possibly Mitchell likely would have been ranked higher as players).
That is a stretch at best. Eltife and Hartzell and CDC all were interested in Dykes, but Sark did such an impressive job during his interview that he was the clear choice of all three. The triumvirate were always on the same page when it came to moving on from Herman and hiring his replacement, as well as moving to the SEC.
You might want to look at his career again with the Doobie Brothers and his work as a session’s artist during that time.
"It's hard not to wonder if Quinn Ewers did enough at quarterback last season when you consider that he was playing with the two fastest and arguably athletic wide receivers in school history."
You don't remember saying this?
It was only impressive for some really small schools to be interested in me. West Texas A&M, holla!
My bad. I was thinking he came in this season, but he replaced Nagglesman. I stand corrected.
Tell me about the vote of confidence letter than Eltife had revised multiple times.
CDC was told what to do. Let's just be honest about it.
That's negative?
Are fair questions not allowed any more?
The truth is that Quinn was very good last season as a player, but he's the former No.1 overall prospect, who was only very good with one of the best (if not the best) supporting casts from a skill player standpoint in school history. It's simply not a negative thought to ask if Texas got enough out of those players, unless things that are reasonable discussions/questions are negative by definition if it's anything other than sunshine pumping.
You want me to just be a cheerleader that only pumps sunshine. It's what you want and probably expect.
You've like being pandered to it seems.
Personally, I don't appreciate the suggestion that I have it out for Ewers, going back to high school. It's quite ironic that you're charging me with negativity while slandering me with it.
Villeneuve set the bar high. Quite honestly the only reservation I had was Walken (who I love!) as Emperor.
Is your rant over?
Your comment was negative. Why pretend otherwise? I'm also not the guy who said that you look for ways to validate your earlier criticism of Ewers. I just agreed with the poster who did. I don't see you lecturing him. And surly you are aware that he and I are not the only people in here who think this way.
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I don't doubt that you and him aren't the only ones that thing. People thing incorrect stupid stuff all the time. Our country is currently defined by people constantly claiming lies to be the truth.
For the record, what star ranking did I put on Ewers coming out of HS?
The truth of the matter is that no person in the industry has been more right about Ewers over the years than I have been. I called out the areas of his game that he struggled with when everyone else was calling him perfect as a prospect, and I have been proven to be exactly right.
Yet, instead of giving me credit for being correct, you call me negative without adding any context to the comments. You don't dispute the notion that you are incorrect, you just don't appear to have any independent thought about the matter and merely point to others when called out on it.
Again, what star ranking did I give Ewers coming out of HS?
Get it all out Ketch so that we can be done with this. I do hope that it makes you feel better. This seems to matter to you way more than it does to me.
The statement was not negative in of itself. I am sure that thought crossed most of our minds.
It was just posted initially in a thread praising our wide receivers.
The one that CDC didn't want to put out in the first place? The one that I said on this board beforehand was coming and would be a nothing burger? The one that the mods on here were surprised at, then drug CDC over the coals over because it didnt give a clear answer regarding Herman's future (even though it was clear the decision had already been made)? I narrated those events in real time.
It was posted in a thread with about 1,000 different thoughts and about 100 different side conversations.
lol.
How many revisions where there and why?
You don't know as much as you sometimes think you know. Of course, that's true of all of us.
I heard of 3, because Texas is always about optics and wanted it to be more vague on purpose so that they didn't "look as bad" when they moved on weeks later. The only reason it was written in the first place was that Herman threatened to tell recruits and reporters that his boss wouldn't be honest with him about his future.
True enough. I do think I happen to know a good bit about how the sausage was made between October 2020 and January 2021, though.You don't know as much as you sometimes think you know. Of course, that's true of all of us.
What parts needed to be changed? Yes, it came out more vague. What part needed to be made more vague?
@Perdy For the record, I rated Ewers as a 5-star prospect.
That essentially means that I projected him to be a future first round quarterback in the NFL Draft.
How exactly does that equate to me having some sort of existing beef since HS?
Or did I have some constructive comments about areas that needed improvement upon entering college and have turned out to be spot on?
That essentially means that I projected him to be a future first round quarterback in the NFL Draft.
How exactly does that equate to me having some sort of existing beef since HS?
Or did I have some constructive comments about areas that needed improvement upon entering college and have turned out to be spot on?
The parts about the confidence Texas had in Herman and how they expected him to be the coach for the 2021 season and beyond? It basically started out as a run-of-the-mill vote of confidence every AD gives a failing coach rught before they are fired, but the Texas leadership were worried about the optics.
Can I get your AAS username and password, please? I don't have a dog in this hunt, but....
It started out with a very clear vote of confidence that said that Herman would be back.
That was CDC.
The people in charge refused to let that go out.
Look, I think CDC is a very, very good AD. I just can't give him credit for everything.
I believe you get 2 or 3 free stories per month.Can I get your AAS username and password, please? I don't have a dog in this hunt, but....
I spent them all on Sunday coupons!I believe you get 2 or 3 free stories per month.
CDC had no intention of bringing back Herman. Eltife, Hartzell, and CDC all met with some key donors in Dallas during ou weekend in 2020. It was there that the decision was made to move on from Herman as long as there wasn't a miracle Big XII championship run.
As I said, the statement was originally a run-of-the-mill vote of confidence every AD gives a failing coach right before they are fired, including the parts about Herman coaching Texas in 2021 and beyond. They changed it to make it more vague about the future because they thought the optics would be bad.
