Tim Brewster has agreed to join Jimbo

[JoeAg]

Thats why they need to go to 8 teams. 5 champions and 3 at large. Let the players and coaches have more control,of their own destiny and stop this whole resume and who lost to who stuff.

I think it is awesome the way it is. Conference Championship should not automatically qualify someone. Every game should matter. Also, losing by 31 in the latter half of the season to a mediocre team should not happen to a play off team. The SEC may be excluded one day because of this system and that's OK also. Once you start expanding it won't stop and will be just like everything else; watered down. Your conference is represented and rightfully so. I personally will be surprised if ANYBODY can slow down Mayfield.

 

[RoboCocks21]

Nobody talking about Herm Edwards going to be the head coach as Arizona State?

 

[ryan_sublett]

I am questioning the 2nd & 3rd order effects if we consistently fire Head Coaches after 3 years. What is the minimum barometer for success after year 3, to remain here?

I’d say 8-9 wins in year 3. Might survive a 7 win season.

 

[ryan_sublett]

Nobody talking about Herm Edwards going to be the head coach as Arizona State?

As someone who lives in Kansas City. Herm Edwards is a really bad coach. I think he could be a successful recruiter though.

 

[clob94]

As someone who lives in Kansas City. Herm Edwards is a really bad coach. I think he could be a successful recruiter though.

You play, to win, the game.


Btw, arthur Bryant's and jack stack sucks.

 

[ryan_sublett]

You play, to win, the game.


Btw, arthur Bryant's and jack stack sucks.

You are right. Bryant’s sucks. Jack stack is ok... joes is the best of the bunch.

 

[Deweygolfer]

I think it is awesome the way it is. Conference Championship should not automatically qualify someone. Every game should matter. Also, losing by 31 in the latter half of the season to a mediocre team should not happen to a play off team. The SEC may be excluded one day because of this system and that's OK also. Once you start expanding it won't stop and will be just like everything else; watered down. Your conference is represented and rightfully so. I personally will be surprised if ANYBODY can slow down Mayfield.

Definitely agree with this. If you expand to 8, then #9 will bitch and so on and so forth. Also, winning your conference does NOT mean you are one of the Top 4 Teams in the Nation, thus that should not be an automatic qualifier. The committee is choosing the 4 Teams that they believe to be the best and I think they got it correct this year. People complaining about Bama being in and hell they are favored over Clemson. My opinion, but I like that matchup better then Clemson / tOSU. We saw what happened with that last year and I think it would have been the same type of result.

 

[ryan_sublett]

If you went to 8 you are right #9 would bitch. #9 wouldn’t have as much of a case to bitch as #5 does now though.

 

[4MNChampsHorn]

If you went to 8 you are right #9 would bitch. #9 wouldn’t have as much of a case to bitch as #5 does now though.

If the cut off amount is determined by “bitching or right to bitch,” then why not keep it at 2 teams vs 4 or 8?

 

[EyesOnTexas]

The Criteria needs to be standardized and not subject to opinions.

 

[ryan_sublett]

The Criteria needs to be standardized and not subject to opinions.

Yep. However you want to do that, but coaches, players, should have an idea of what’s expected. If we’re gonna bother to play conference title games then they have to matter. Let the conference champs in and pick 3 more. However you want to do that.

 

[Aggie98nHouston]

Look, it's pretty simple-

Aggy looks around and fully recognizes that we haven't been our usual self for the last 7-8 years. They've looked to try and capitalize on that and they thought they were on their way during the Manziel era. They felt as though sumlin needed just a few more pieces to make a year in year out conference title contender. But then something happened. The lightening that sumlin caught in the bottle wasn't replicated. He stalled. The recruiting continued going well for them, signing 5 star QB after 5 star QB, but something happened during the Dylan Mack, Kyler Murray, #wrts, swag copter, barber shop, period. Control got away from Sumlin. Murray and his father bullied sumlin and sumlin put up with it, and didn't fight back because it was so important to NOT let Murray come over to Texas, and sumlin put up with his B.S. because if he lost Murray, he'd never hear the end if it. BUT, he sacrificed the respect of his players and some alumni by bowing to Murray.
Then, one by one all the QB commits started bailing. This was the beginning if the end.

Aggy starts looking around and thinking "holy sh!t. We have a down Texas team, a coach that is letting all our talent leave, and WE were unable to capitalize on a perfect situation. Sumlin has to go. He has to go now. Texas is still mired in mediocrity so we need to pay someone WHATEVER THEY WANT to take this job, bury the longhorns in recruiting, and do what sumlin couldn't do."

And here we are. A coach with a $75 million guaranteed contract, a national champion win, and almost zero idea how to recruit in Texas. It's a bold strategy and honestly, there's no way to predict how it turns out for them.

Other than the dumb spelling of Aggie, that’s pretty spot on. We went all in on one hand. It’ll work or we’ll bust. Nobody has any idea now. Given our history, I like the play. What do we have to lose? We could have hired Morris and hoped he’d do better than Sumlin. But if you have the money available, not a big history of winning big, hire the guy you think is the best available, overpay and see what happens. If you’re a blue blood, that’s probably not the play.