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The one run by the guy who never leaves his house? Or the one who should never leave his house (ie impaired driver)?

Born July 6, 1924. At the age of 32, Darrell Royal came to the University of Texas campus with a folksy sense of humor and an innovative style of football that produced almost instant success and the lifelong respect and affection of Longhorn fans throughout the world. In Royal’s second year at Texas, the Longhorns played in their first of what would be 16 bowl games over the next 20 years; three for national championships. In 23 years as head coach, he never had a losing season. The Longhorns finished in the top 10 nationally during 11 of those seasons. In 1962, Royal assumed the dual role of Athletics Director and head football coach at the University of Texas. He retired from coaching in 1976 to concentrate on his duties as Athletic Director. Royal hired the nation’s first academic counselor. During his coaching years, four out of five men who lettered for Royal went on to earn their degrees. Darrell Royal’s honors include membership in both the Texas and Oklahoma Sports Halls of Fame and in the Longhorn Hall of Honor. He was twice named Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches and three times by the Football Writers of America.

Here's more great symmetry @Gerry Hamilton. 9 June 1985 was the date the Lakers defeated the Celtics in Boston Garden to win the 1985 title. 9 June 1996 was the date of the greatest draft workout in the history of the world at Inglewood YMCA.

No one runs man all the time. He’s 70 years old so at best he was a short term solution. His heyday was in a different era that was not predominantly 3-3-5 or 4-2-5. What 15-20 years ago? Defenses have evolved a great deal. From what I see, Arizona was 103 in DFEI in 2024. 14th in 2025. Without looking it up, Stanford wasn’t worth much during his tenure. A dude doesn’t get run after a year of there weren’t signs leading into it. Texas and money. Odd choice.

Basically saying "We feel really good, but ya never know!" So covering themselves just in case it does go wrong and they can say that they warned everyone. Term used in betting a lot where you will hedge a bet with a smaller amount just in case so you don't lose entirely.

Thanks for remembering Bud McFadin, probably the most overlooked/underrated Longhorn ever.

Only person that knows for sure is Monshun Sales and his agent. He is represented by Ascend out of Indianapolis who also represented Cole Brevard. They are also certified by the NFLPA, so they are legit. no one on this message board has a legit crystal ball or set of tea leaves that can tell you he is coming here. If he is one of Gerry’s HIs awesome, but I kind of doubt it.

I don’t see any RPM in favor of Texas.

What does that mean hedging?

Yes, Sark said he wants Muschamp to be the HC of the defense, but that does not mean that Muschamp operates outside of Sark's plan. Sark sets the plan, style, strategy, pick a word, and gives Muschamp room to execute on it. Believing that Muschamp can do whatever he wants without any Sark input is...something.

Indiana mods update this morning. They feel good about Sales but Texas is making it interesting. Sounds like hedging to me

Shoutout to Tillman Holloway and his face mask that looked like it was made out of Legos.

Here's more kobe v shaq stuff for you @Gerry Hamilton. I don't remember the exact date, but it was something like 16 June 1996 that I read Jerry West was going to move heaven and earth to get Kobe. Source scoffed at the report that Jerry West said "Kobe would be the best player in the world some day." I was listening to OMD Enola Gay at the time when I read the report. Of course, that OMD song was about the day the US used the first atomic bomb in the history of the world.

Might want to go back and read posts on here and watch interviews about when Muschamp was hired.

It’s based on how much time is wasted on things like injured players rolling around, celebrations after goals, etc. There is a time keeper who has a stopwatch when all that is taking place and radios it down to the ref afaik.

Sark is the HC not Muschamp when it comes to coaching staff and support staff. Muschamp will run the defense game plan and play calling.

Someone posted an RPM 70% Texas yesterday. Just based on vibes?

Akina wasn’t an odd choice. Akina is man coverage aggressive style secondary and that didn’t mesh with PK’s defense. I bet Akina’s secondary does well this year if he is given the opportunity to run the style of secondary he likes.

I’m not so sure about that since he said Muschamp is the head coach of the defense when he got here. I think Sark wants to be as hands off on the defense as possible so he can get the offense to the levels he had at Bama.

You think we were overly aggressive against Florida?

If you think this board is bad, @MBHORNSFAN , @General Grant and I can show you a real train wreck of a board 😉

Akina was an odd choice. I was not here so no idea if there was discussion regarding the whys of bringing him back. I thought he and Nansen were familiar with each other and was likely a positive in bringing Akina back. For much of 2024, the schedule had offensive incompetence on the opposite sideline. There’s a reason Clemson, ASU and OSU had some success. We also were relatively healthy in 2024. Good health, simplistic offenses, limited offenses generally make for easier defense. UTSA, Colo State, ULM were all in the 100s in OFEI. Michigan was 61. OU was 80. Florida was 49, but that was built on Lagway. The Ivy League transfer likely has them worse. Kentucky was 73. Mississippi State was 31, but they did have a backup QB making his first start. Georgia was 13 so that was for a decent offense. Vandy was 27, Arkansas 48. A&M 29th. So those first 5 P5 teams were either unsettled at QB or had injured QBs when we played. in 2025, the non-P5s were in the 100s. Vandy 1st. Ohio State 8th. Georgia 9th. a&M 15th. Arkansas 16th. MSU 42nd. OU 54th. UF 61st. Kentucky 84th. So the P4 teams that got worse in OFEI were home games in 2024 and road games in 2025. Two of those were also the 3rd and 4th games in a row away from home. Also two of the 3 started backup QBs in 2024.

Somebody needs to explain the whole extra time thing, from how it’s determined to how the extra time is kept. It sure looks like a mechanism for the officials to keep their thumbs on the scale.

Gentlemen I got HOSED yesterday on some world cup action 😞

Watched more than i ever have. One thing I have learned, refs suck in soccer too.