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Seems a lil quick?

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I like it for Tech. Joey immediately helped Rhule recruit here and he'll up Tech recruiting which has been a step below TCU/Baylor/oSu the last decade or so.

For the last 8ish years, I’ve kind of wondered why tech doesn’t hire one of those triple option dudes from army or whatever. Yeah the spread is their identity and all, but everyone has caught and surpassed them with the spread. Why not run the triple option and see if you can squeeze out some 8-4 type seasons with an upset or 2. Playing a style no one runs anymore with players who’ve never had to defend it would be a pain in the ass for every team on their schedule.

I remember the name. Which big time recruiting rules violating TX high school program was he at previously? 

  • Pam Cummings changed the title to Texas Tech to name new corch
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14 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

It doesn't seem like Texas Tech actually named a coach

That better??

4 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

I remember the name. Which big time recruiting rules violating TX high school program was he at previously? 

Cedar Hill.

 

20 minutes ago, Fletch said:

For the last 8ish years, I’ve kind of wondered why tech doesn’t hire one of those triple option dudes from army or whatever. Yeah the spread is their identity and all, but everyone has caught and surpassed them with the spread. Why not run the triple option and see if you can squeeze out some 8-4 type seasons with an upset or 2. Playing a style no one runs anymore with players who’ve never had to defend it would be a pain in the ass for every team on their schedule.

It till never happen. Good article about this:

This is my real issue with triple-option loathing: No one can explain exactly why they hate it in football terms. And when they’re unwilling to accept its success, even in a hypothetical, it means they’re preoccupied with outside perception, not with winning football games.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bannersociety.com/platform/amp/2021/4/8/22374803/kansas-jayhawks-football-2021-big-12-army-navy-georgia-southern-triple-option

He also turned down a position with Strong at Texas and then got arrested for DUI/DWI.

8 minutes ago, formermav43 said:

It till never happen. Good article about this:

This is my real issue with triple-option loathing: No one can explain exactly why they hate it in football terms. And when they’re unwilling to accept its success, even in a hypothetical, it means they’re preoccupied with outside perception, not with winning football games.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bannersociety.com/platform/amp/2021/4/8/22374803/kansas-jayhawks-football-2021-big-12-army-navy-georgia-southern-triple-option

Second sentence in this paragraph is absolutely correct:

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Monken believes Army’s overtime losses at Oklahoma in 2018 and Michigan in ‘19, combined with a truly remarkable renovation of a West Point program that was abysmal when he was hired in ‘14, should suffice as enough of a resume for a gig like Kansas. It should, but it won’t, because college football as an industry doesn’t share the same logic as college football as an actual sport.

 

24 minutes ago, formermav43 said:

It till never happen. Good article about this:

This is my real issue with triple-option loathing: No one can explain exactly why they hate it in football terms. And when they’re unwilling to accept its success, even in a hypothetical, it means they’re preoccupied with outside perception, not with winning football games.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bannersociety.com/platform/amp/2021/4/8/22374803/kansas-jayhawks-football-2021-big-12-army-navy-georgia-southern-triple-option

Oh I know. Just would make sense for them to give it a shot considering their pretty below average recruiting and teams surpassing them with that air raid shit 

29 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Second sentence in this paragraph is absolutely correct:

 

Gawd I wouldn’t wish KU or Tech on Uncle Jeff.  He is where he belongs…and much beloved, at that.

14 minutes ago, Fletch said:

Oh I know. Just would make sense for them to give it a shot considering their pretty below average recruiting and teams surpassing them with that air raid shit 

There is a deep irony here, in that Texas Tech saw their biggest success with a coach who ran what was seen as a gimmick, flash in the pan offense. And now that those concepts (but not Leach's offense) dominate, Tech won't consider really anything else.

5 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

There is a deep irony here, in that Texas Tech saw their biggest success with a coach who ran what was seen as a gimmick, flash in the pan offense. And now that those concepts (but not Leach's offense) dominate, Tech won't consider really anything else.

It’s insane. Ahead of the curve on a system, get surpassed by like 80% of of college football running a similar system. Go triple option or the Jimbo or Bill Snyder route of dominating time of possession and chip away with short, chain moving plays 

Will never forget that historic run he and Sammy Sosa had back in 98

Gun to my head, I'd take Joey McGuire over Steve Sarkisian right now at Texas. He'll have a better team at Tech in 2023 than Sarkisian will in that same year. 

2 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Gun to my head, I'd take Joey McGuire over Steve Sarkisian right now at Texas. He'll have a better team at Tech in 2023 than Sarkisian will in that same year. 

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4 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Gun to my head, I'd take Joey McGuire over Steve Sarkisian right now at Texas. He'll have a better team at Tech in 2023 than Sarkisian will in that same year. 

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…and I know absolutely nothing about the guy.

5 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Gun to my head, I'd take Joey McGuire over Steve Sarkisian right now at Texas. He'll have a better team at Tech in 2023 than Sarkisian will in that same year. 

already pissing in our bowls of cheerios this morning :( 

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8 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Gun to my head, I'd take Joey McGuire over Steve Sarkisian right now at Texas. He'll have a better team at Tech in 2023 than Sarkisian will in that same year. 

Or Joey Votto.

Or Joey Ramone.

Or Joey from Blossom.

 

3 minutes ago, Longboard Horn said:

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This is like hiring Traylor for Tech. He's loved in Texas high schools, he's won at that level, and he's witnessed quality development at the college level. For comparison's sake, Texas has a proven loser who has never won a fucking thing on his own and is the only coach in the last 3 decades to be fired from a P5 program in the middle of the season for going on regular benders involving booze, cocaine, and coed pussy (while married). 

So, yeah, McGuire will have a better team in 2023 than Sarkisian, while Sarkisian's buddies in the media will be calling Texas a cesspool while defending him as he tumbles towards another 6-7 season, the 3rd in a string of 4 5-7/7-6 seasons before he's fired and goes back to being an analyst for a while under a near octogenarian Saban.

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One of those guys is dead.

Joey Lawrence died? I've really been avoiding the news cycle for the last decade, I guess.

McGuire is highly respected among high school coaches, which is not a terrible thing for a school like Tech. Tech very much needs to be the place where high school coaches call you up to pitch the kid who isn't getting recruited at the level he deserves or to have a high school coach nudge you there over TCU or Baylor. 

2 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

One of those guys is dead.

Cross him off, then.

3 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

What about Joey Chestnutt?

Well....he does know how to avoid a second half reversal of fortune.

2 hours ago, Fletch said:

For the last 8ish years, I’ve kind of wondered why tech doesn’t hire one of those triple option dudes from army or whatever. Yeah the spread is their identity and all, but everyone has caught and surpassed them with the spread. Why not run the triple option and see if you can squeeze out some 8-4 type seasons with an upset or 2. Playing a style no one runs anymore with players who’ve never had to defend it would be a pain in the ass for every team on their schedule.

Modeling the program after Paul Johnson's Georgia Tech is not in Tech's sights, even though it's not a bad idea.  They fancy themselves as something better than they are.  They are sand aggies, after all.

I have no idea about this new guy.  But he can't be worse than Wells.

2 hours ago, Hermanator said:

I remember the name. Which big time recruiting rules violating TX high school program was he at previously? 

He ran a pretty clean ship at Cedar hill from what I heard. He turned them from a nothing program to winning 3 state titles in a decade. The town/school was in a big demographic shift when he took over which helped him out, but still.

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39 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

This is like hiring Traylor for Tech. He's loved in Texas high schools, he's won at that level, and he's witnessed quality development at the college level. For comparison's sake, Texas has a proven loser who has never won a fucking thing on his own and is the only coach in the last 3 decades to be fired from a P5 program in the middle of the season for going on regular benders involving booze, cocaine, and coed pussy (while married). 

So, yeah, McGuire will have a better team in 2023 than Sarkisian, while Sarkisian's buddies in the media will be calling Texas a cesspool while defending him as he tumbles towards another 6-7 season, the 3rd in a string of 4 5-7/7-6 seasons before he's fired and goes back to being an analyst for a while under a near octogenarian Saban.

The only positive thing i can say about Sarkisian at the moment is that Alabama's offense is clearly a lot shittier with that other shitpile they replaced him with. But that probably says more about the other guy.

5 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

The only positive thing i can say about Sarkisian at the moment is that Alabama's offense is clearly a lot shittier with that other shitpile they replaced him with. But that probably says more about the other guy.

May have something to do with the QB's as well.  Mac Jones is really accurate and had fantastic grasp of the offense.  Young is extremely talented but probably just isn't as far along yet.

1 hour ago, TexArcher said:

Or Joey Votto.

Or Joey Ramone.

Or Joey from Blossom.

 

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4 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

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Late 80s/early 90s were a weird time in American culture

3 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

Late 80s/early 90s were a weird time in American culture

That show was all about …..

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1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

This is like hiring Traylor for Tech. He's loved in Texas high schools, he's won at that level, and he's witnessed quality development at the college level.

Counterpoint see Chaggy Morris. 

1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

Gun to my head, I'd take Joey McGuire over Steve Sarkisian right now at Texas. He'll have a better team at Tech in 2023 than Sarkisian will in that same year. 

well yeah, Tech has a better roster...

1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

What about Joey Chestnutt?

Joey Chestnutt is dead?  That news is hard to digest.

1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

This is like hiring Traylor for Tech. He's loved in Texas high schools, he's won at that level, and he's witnessed quality development at the college level. For comparison's sake, Texas has a proven loser who has never won a fucking thing on his own and is the only coach in the last 3 decades to be fired from a P5 program in the middle of the season for going on regular benders involving booze, cocaine, and coed pussy (while married). 

So, yeah, McGuire will have a better team in 2023 than Sarkisian, while Sarkisian's buddies in the media will be calling Texas a cesspool while defending him as he tumbles towards another 6-7 season, the 3rd in a string of 4 5-7/7-6 seasons before he's fired and goes back to being an analyst for a while under a near octogenarian Saban.

Lmao

So many coach openings and so few good coaches out there. 

This will be a wild off-season with some weird hires. 

1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

McGuire is highly respected among high school coaches, which is not a terrible thing for a school like Tech. Tech very much needs to be the place where high school coaches call you up to pitch the kid who isn't getting recruited at the level he deserves or to have a high school coach nudge you there over TCU or Baylor. 

He may win but Texas fans would go insane if we hired somebody like McGuire. 

It’s a total roll of the dice and these hires fail at a much higher rate than they succeed. 

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Probably as good a hire as they could get. Not a ton of decent options for them - they have tried everything since Leach - the washed up SEC vet (Tuberville), the young offensive coach (Kliff), the experienced G5 coach (Wells)

 

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10 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

He may win but Texas fans would go insane if we hired somebody like McGuire. 

It’s a total roll of the dice and these hires fail at a much higher rate than they succeed. 

Texas fans are always in love with some other coach, never their own.

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