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Why would Alabama go after Lane now if DeBoer leaves when they could have easily hired him two years ago and showed no interest at all?

Interesting.

This is a no hard feelings business decision. DMO has been awesome for us on and off the field. No one was better with fans than he was and he always had the best attitude. Sometimes the money just doesn’t line up.

Go listen to the press conference with Iowa States AD Jamie Pollard. If you think Matt Cambell didn’t do things the right way then that will change your mind. I doubt anyone has ever had an AD talk like that about a departing coach. I have always had a respect for Matt Cambell but after hearing this interview I have an even higher respect for him. if you want to see it here is a link.

I think it is pretty obvious they were/are big game hunting and had no backup plan.

Appears Texas has made an aggressive Justus Terry type move in the recruitment since it opened up. They must think he is good enough to play right away and ahead of portal options.

I really don’t think that is going to happen. We took our shot. It wasn’t good enough. Oregon really didn’t want to lose him.

Jeff did try to get the UH job and was in the final two. They ended up choosing Fritz. Timing is an interesting thing in coaching.

As far as I know 4th down stops do not count as turnovers so we would only get one for the fumble recovery.

Didn’t the last play of the game count as a turnover? So that would mean we got one!

Woken is one of the worst in the industry and an automatic mute for me. You can’t get much worse than him and it has been that way for years.

Sark has appeared distracted this year. He isn’t all in like last year. I assumed it was due to the difficulties around his family and the baby, which can change a lot of things, and be understandable. But he isn’t all the way in right now.

Rich considering what Texas did for him in 1996. Florida bans was playing the Texas fight song thanks to us beating Nebraska.

Anyone who puts this on anyone but Sark is wrong, one of the worst rush defenses in the SEC was ready for every running play we ran. We made that DC look like a genius. They knew exactly what was coming all night. Arch is literally getting killed and Sark moved completely away from what worked last week. I am sorry but the offense and their performance is 100% on Sark and he needs to get WAY better. How many of us are calling out what play we are running before the snap, I bet it is a lot. If we are in the red zone, especially 10 yard line, it is very easy to read what we are doing. PK is going to have to carry us this entire year because Sark isn’t evolving and is regressing. Fortunately, PK is one of the best coaches in America.

No way I leave for Penn State if I am Freeman but Florida may be too good to pass up. He can win there and win A LOT with the best talent in the country flocking to him every year. I mean the current team would be winning A LOT if Freeman was their coach, imagine him with a portal window and a couple recruiting classes. Florida would be very tough to turn down.

It will start to change soon, but before it was VERY rare if anyone on XC had a full scholarship, most would be small partial ones and hope to find some academic help as well. In XC it was well known that you wanted to be fast and smart if you wanted any money for college. Now some schools would use their assets on distance and that would be their chance at conference or their calling card. Schools like Northern Arizona, Tulsa, BYU, etc. There were some for sure. But those schools would never have any strength in the speed disciplines. You basically had to pick a lane. Tennis, golf, even baseball and softball were the same when it came to mostly partial scholarships if anything. Way more walk ons than you would think. With the changes, teams with money and funding can now have full scholarships for anyone on the roster. Of course, with the new roster limits in track, there will still have to be decisions made on if you want to use them on speed or distance, but there are also full XC scholarships available if a school wants to use them and try to win at distance only. Texas is not fully funding all of the new scholarships yet, no one is, but over time they expect to. This is why I say we can become more competitive if we want. But it will also take spending big money overseas as well. Schools like TTU are bringing over 27 year old, Olympic age "freshman" to compete in distance. It is not illegal, even though I disagree with anyone over 25 competing in college sports, but that is what it is going to take. You will need a roster with some international athletes to compete in distance. The hard part about distance recruiting is you can go get the best runner in America as a high school senior and they may not pan out. Distance running is weird about that. It takes years to truly develop and you have to be running all year long, some well over 100 miles a week in season, which can cause injury. It is just a very tough sport to be consistently good at.

It is an extremely hard sport to recruit, but with all the changes in rosters and scholarship limits I can see Texas becoming competitive if they want to. Before, it was hard to have a great distance and sprint program. XC is always just an extension of your distance program for track. Now they can fully fund the program, again, if they want to.

Just a part of the game, if you have them and don’t have any timeouts you have to challenge. We do the same thing. I kinda like their coach honestly. I agree it slows things down but it is within the rules. What an amazing match AGAIN! These girls have ice water in their veins. Nothing seems to phase them. Props to Louisville too, heck of a match. Love how Elliott is letting these girls play through adversity. It will continue to pay off. I mean we are 5-0 and our wins have come against three Top 10 teams and an additional Top 15 team.

A guy who played the game and is a self made billionaire is a “hack” to some people because he supports TTU. I think it is reasonable to be skeptical of the plan, everyone should. However, I see it more of a guy trying to get a conversation started because EVERYONE knows the current format isn’t going to last. The lawsuits will never end and things will continue to change more and more. Sounds to me like he is part of a group that wants to find a more permanent solution. If this was a UT alum doing the same thing many here would support it and other fan bases would completely disregard because of the same reasons he is being dismissed. The truth is, conversations have to start somewhere and he is 100% right that public institutions belong to the people and the people’s interest should be protected first.

The committee was enamored with Patterson’s presentation and how he ran pro organizations. They felt that was the way colleges sports would be going and wanted to be ahead of the curve. (Man, were they wrong) Luck was a shoe in until then. Patterson would have preferred to keep Brown, although you are right that he was willing to pull the trigger if needed. But that wasn’t the reason for the hire. Luck would have pulled the trigger too if he was told to. 100% agree that leadership was lacking from multiple positions at the time and DeLoss had a part in it, although he wanted Luck not Patterson. Powers was a major liability in all of it. My major point is that these decisions, especially Patterson were the biggest reasons for our decade of mediocrity, not Mack Brown. Patterson interviewed coaches that had used every connection they had to get the Texas job and they walked away after talking to him. Multiple coaches. It was that bad, but people really want to think Nick Saban was going to leave Alabama to come into that situation.

This is false and will always be false no matter how many times people say it and believe it. Hate to tell yall this but the “Big Cigar” or whatever his name was fed the fan base multiple lies. Nick Saban was not going to work for Steve Patterson. It still amazes me that Mack takes all the blame for what Steve Patterson did to this program. Mack left it better than he found it. Once game away from playing for the Big 12 Championship. Patterson came in and completely wrecked everything from top to bottom. I cannot think of one thing he did that helped Texas in any way. Billy Lucci couldn’t have wrecked this athletic department worse than Patterson did. A complete disaster that took years to recover from. But let’s blame Mack Brown. It is so dumb.

Yet his run is the standard we are still trying to get back to. Mack is the second greatest coach this program has ever had and brought us back to prominence. Completely changed the perception of the program and helped build the brand. If VY was the only reason then what was Colt? What was Corey Redding, DJ Johnson, Cedric Benson, Ricky coming back to win the Heisman, Shipley, Cosby...just to name a few that came because of Mack and still love him today and rave about him (RIP Cedric). I mean, the man did a lot for us and he is a great ambassador for the program even today.

It would be a really dumb move to fire him this year. He HAS won everywhere he has been and these are not his guys. Who are you going to replace him with? He is about as sure of a bet as you can get in college football. I give him some time to get it set up his way with HIS QB. Following Saban is not easy first of all, but lets not forget one of the reasons Saban said in an interview on why he retired. He was doing exit interviews and players kept talking about how much more money they needed rather than what they could do to be better. Sounds like Saban himself had a culture problem brewing and DeBoer walked into it.

That a truly insane number. We did 9 million with Michigan last year. I was expecting 10-12. The hype was real. There were four games that went over 10 million this weekend. Guess everyone was ready for some football.

It is year 5, Sark has his guys. He has elite talent, he has an elite defense, he has to coach better on offense, particularly in the red zone in games against elite teams. Simple as that. That said, I am not going to use the first game of this season as an example against the other games he used. We were MUCH more experienced last year across the board, so Georgia x2 and Ohio State last year are different categories to me. But they still make his point. To me, we need to see where this offense is as the season progresses before I hold yesterday against him.