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Bill Lumbergh

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  1. You're talking in circles, so I'll leave it at this. Urban will come here if he thinks he can win. Guys as successful as him are going to be very good at understanding what variables matter, and what variables are noise in that calculation, as well as whether you can control the variables that matter. At Texas, he has talent (he's said so himself), a recruiting hotbed, a conference that shouldn't present as much of a challenge as he faced in the big 10 or sec, and resources. He has to fix terrible development and team culture. If he can fix those and win, a lot of other "problems" fall in line. Yes, our fan base is spoiled and has ridiculous expectations. Where that Meyer would consider coaching is that not true? I've heard mentioned usc or Notre Dame...are those variables better there? The kinds of jobs a guy like Meyer will look at will all have those cultural hurdles. He's faced them before at osu, and personally I don't think he'd avoid a job like Texas for those reasons. In other words, he will have control on the variables most important to winning, and winning will take care of the external variables. Clearly you think they'll be enough to keep him from the job, or you have an interest in him not taking the job, or maybe both. Either way, we don't know and won't ever know, but the next report that says he's reconsidering the job because of fan and alumni culture will be the first. I don't buy it.
  2. It's hyperbole a bit, but I think the culture within the team is a much bigger problem than the culture outside the team. If I'm Meyer, I'm concerning myself with whether I can fix the culture within the team. If he can do that, he can win. That's my point. He doesn't have to try to fix the fan or alumni culture.
  3. Care to respond to the point instead of just deflecting?
  4. Fan and alumni culture/atmosphere have zero impact on the team's performance. Player culture does, and the coach has complete control over that. Meyer is on record saying it's one of a head coach's most important jobs. I can't decide if you're aggy or sooner. I lean aggy.
  5. Which forces?
  6. Really? I could've sworn it was the shitty coaching. Ends up it was just the arrogance. I bet that's why Bama is so good. Because of how humble they are.
  7. But your opinions are bad and you should feel bad about it.
  8. Bill Lumbergh replied to The Tower's topic in Football
    We all know the answer, but I'll ask the question anyway. Since 3-1 Georgia was absolutely throttled in their loss to Bama, which of these impressive wins is propping up their #5 ranking: 2-2 Arkansas 3-2 Auburn 2-3 Tennessee
  9. If you don't think this defense is better than last year, I don't know what to tell you. Are we as good as I want to be? Not by a mile. But we have simplified and we are better. This unit, at least, does seem to be improving week to week.
  10. If that's how he's thinking, it will impact how we prepare, and next weekend will be reaaaal interesting.
  11. You make fast players slow by making them think too much or putting them in positions not to take advantage of their speed. Bad tackling can be a result of not practicing tackling, or being out of position and having to try to adjust and tackle from a bad angle. Anyone who watched what Greg Robinson did with Manny Diaz players in literally weeks should know that stud players can look awfully pedestrian under the wrong coaching. Your argument is that all of the stud recruits we land, who generally have offers from elite programs, all just happen to be busts. I don't buy it. It's coaching.
  12. Your argument is that Urban won't want to come here because he thinks the challenge is too big for him and he wants to avoid taking a chance where he might fail? Yeah, that totally seems like the way elite coaches like Meyer think. Low confidence in their abilities, risk avoidance, etc.
  13. If you believe that they wouldn't have had a chance of winning had Brewer scored, I'd like to introduce you to Tom Herman Texas Football, "where no lead is safe."
  14. I thought during the game they said they got at least a few practices in with different players available at different practices. I could've misunderstood, though.
  15. I thought during the game they said they got at least a few practices in with different players available at different practices. I could've misunderstood, though.
  16. And that's fair. It's not a double standard. Urban didn't enable anyone systemically raping little kids. That's why we rip Penn St. It's not that hard. Everywhere he has coached has been a better program when he left than when he took over. I'm ok to be the next stop on that train. If you're skeptical on Urban but want to consider Muschamp, you're either trolling (likely) or a fucking idiot (also likely).
  17. I'm genuinely curious, do you think her story adds up? Found in a highly trafficked area with no one having an her for weeks. No food or water. Originally family implied she stayed by the creek for water, until a ranger called bs because the water is toxic, then family changes the story to say she never drank the water (but doesn't explain where she got water, which she must have had or she'd be dead). Family says she may have been disoriented when she first entered the park, but she had no trouble getting to the park and hiking in the that far. Supposed head injury that kept her lost, but was not found or insignificant enough not to concern medical responders when she was found. Walked out under her own power and released to her family, but they need a $15k gofundme for medical assistance. You think all of this is on the up and up and the doubters here are just tinfoil conspiracy nuts?
  18. Based on this, I'm just going to assume it's already done and wait for the good news to be announced.
  19. You're right, he's probably already fired behind the scenes and it just hasn't been formally announced yet. So his job is not on the line.
  20. I think you guys are missing the context. The original post said you could technically win by 14 in OT. The only way that happens is if you score on your first possession and get your 2pt conversion, and then on the ensuing possession you intercept/recover a fumble and run it back for a td. I'm saying in the instance that the turnover wins the game for you, you should not try to score on it because you've already won.
  21. It's actually a really dumb thing to do. You should sit down the moment you have possession. Only bad things could happen every second you remain active.
  22. If we miss, it shouldn't be because of usc. They had the window last season and chose not to take it. I don't think anyone, Helton included, thought he'd get another year. That window has passed, and it makes zero sense that they'd change course now before what they gave him time to do with revamping the program is even on display. We should obviously be aware that if USC's season tanks quickly, it will be obvious that job could come open and that probably makes our road more difficult. That's exactly why we should get this done before that has a chance to happen. If we miss, even if Urban goes to usc, it will be because we failed to lock things up before it had a chance to come to that.
  23. Ucla always does find a way to fuck us.
  24. Please let this be a smoke screen. This would be so disappointing. It also makes no sense with his recent extension.
  25. It's a moot point bc Kelly isn't leaving Notre Dame, but money and wildly unrealistic expectations are probably about the same between Texas and Notre Dame. Biggest difference is we have better built in recruiting advantages. That said, Notre Dame's job is not coming open so he's not going to have to make that choice.
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