Everything posted by Bill Lumbergh
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
First, he's 2-2 but really damn close to 1-3 or 0-3 in games that matter at all. These weren't flukey games, either. These were three games where we were completely unprepared against inferior talent. They've all been lost or nearly lost on scheme and preparation. Second, I know mid season firings have always been something major programs are "above," but I seriously doubt that will be the case going forward with the new early signing period. If your current coach will drag your recruiting and you believe your new coach will boost them, it's objectively the right thing to do to cut ties early. The only other consideration is if you think firing early will hurt an otherwise promising season, but no one considering firing their coach is having one of those.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
What's funny is that the answer is abundantly clear. If you get us out of this shit with Herman and get Meyer in the door, you're the hero no matter how it plays out. Seriously. If Meyer comes here and fails, will anyone really blame CDC? The bad answers are 1) keep Herman, or 2) fire him with plans to bring someone like Campbell or Patterson in, in that order. Every year we sit at the top of that profitable programs list. That's great. Let's use it. We have the need, the solution is available, and we have the means. The best way to coordinate it all is actual work, but the strategy here is pretty simple.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
Has anyone had anyone paged at ABIA yet? I don't think anything can be believed until that happens.
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Media/$9.95-er postgame analysis articles (Week 5)
I'm in complete agreement with a Bobby Burton article. Congratulations, 2020, you win.
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Shit's Borked
The site was performing great during Sunday practice, so we're just not sure why that translated to such miserable failure today.
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If not Urban Meyer, who?
I don't know if we'll fire Herman mid year due to the optics, but anyone arguing we shouldn't do it now due to the potential impact on the success of this season...well...that's just funny.
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Chris Del Conte is a Gigantic Pussy
Austin cesspool joke = check. Big 12 joke = check. aggy.
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Not going for two cost us the game
I'm not reading the whole thread, but when we went to OT I predicted that either our ST or OL would cost us the game in OT. Depending on how you want to look at it, both kind of did. We're a streaky team, needed to end it while the streak was hot. Instead, we waited for our inevitable breakdown.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
Like this current point in time? Or are we considering him proven now? As a recruiter, sure. As a coach...
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Banner Time: 2 weeks to line it up
Winning isn't hard for great coaches.
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If not Urban Meyer, who?
A lot of names on lists here are the speculative type of candidates we could afford to consider when we hired Strong. Yes, Mack had let things start to rot, but the program still had a prestige to it. We were still close enough to the Vince/Colt years that recruits had an expectation Texas would be great, so a coaching candidate didn't need to make a splash. Fast forward now, it has been 11 years since we were even respectable. Current recruits were 6-7 when Colt went down against bama. Since then, "Texas is back" has been a running joke. That's the punchline to their teen and prime playing years leading up to college. If your statement starts with "a good under the radar candidate is..." then you're already wrong. No under the radar candidate is good this time around. What will cost the program more, going all out for a big splash candidate now, or 1-2 more candidates and 4-8 more years of what we've had (by which point recruits won't have been alive the last time we were good). I hope our ad and bmds see the stakes clearly this time around. If it's someone exciting but unproven, he's wrong. If it's someone who doesn't immediately invigorate recruiting, he's wrong. There are probably only 3-5 candidates out there who clearly fit the mold, and Urban is the most obvious and available, hence the focus on him which should and will continue until we've officially hired him or been turned down.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
It doesn't have to be Urban. Herman is failing with a ton of talent. Why keep doing what has proven to fail instead of trying something that has risk of failing? What is going well in the program now? Coaching stability? Roster stability? Play on the field? Recruiting? Which part of our program are you worried will get worse under a new coach?
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Urban Meyer or bust
Before the last two games, I was in the camp that if Urban will come, you have to fire Herman, otherwise maybe you hold on for another year bc the wheels aren't fully off the train. Now I don't really give a fuck. Hopefully we get serious and hire Urban, but I'm just rooting for not Herman at this point. Another year signed on with him will do serious damage to our program. At least try something not proven to fail.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
Anyone who's not on board with wanting him gone, I'd love to hear the logic. If you're going to mention money, just stop. We have it. It's up to us if we want to win badly enough to choose to use it
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
I wish him well and hope he does get better as a coach at his next stop.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
This is my nightmare, but I doubt it. OU had their way with us pretty good until they let up thinking the game was over. That same ou team lost to two teams we have left on our schedule. I have no reason to think ksu, isu, and okst aren't all at least as good as the teams who beat us or came damn close over the last few weeks. If Tom drops 2-3 more with this team, that should not count as close enough. We looked unimaginably unprepared today, for the one game you really have to be prepared for. It's not going to get better.
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Tom "the turtle" Herman [Lame Duck or greatest 5d chess player ever?]
This was the worst OU team we'll see for a long time. On paper, this had the makings of Herman's best team, or at least the one he had the most influence on creating. If you don't want Herman gone, I hope you like days like today. There's no reason to think we won't have many more of them in our future.
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Lincoln Riley thinks Tom Herman is a "brilliant coach" and says 2020 is "the best year ever"
Lincoln Riley loves gender reveal parties.
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Lincoln Riley thinks Tom Herman is a "brilliant coach" and says 2020 is "the best year ever"
Lincoln Riley stands at the front of the boarding line 10 minutes before boarding starts despite not being in the first four groups to board.
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Lincoln Riley thinks Tom Herman is a "brilliant coach" and says 2020 is "the best year ever"
Lincoln Riley prefers the all female Ghostbusters reboot due to its "clearly stronger cast than the original."
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Lincoln Riley thinks Tom Herman is a "brilliant coach" and says 2020 is "the best year ever"
Lincoln Riley buys used boats for their appreciation potential.
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Lincoln Riley thinks Tom Herman is a "brilliant coach" and says 2020 is "the best year ever"
Lincoln Riley's favorite mexican restaurant is On the Border.
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Chris Ash Defense
- Lincoln Riley thinks Tom Herman is a "brilliant coach" and says 2020 is "the best year ever"
Lincoln Riley thinks the folks at Big Red Motors are honest, hardworking men of character.- Lincoln Riley thinks Tom Herman is a "brilliant coach" and says 2020 is "the best year ever"
When Lincoln Riley hosts game watching parties, he stocks his fridge with white claw and zima. - Lincoln Riley thinks Tom Herman is a "brilliant coach" and says 2020 is "the best year ever"
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