Texas loses 50-7: players tweet about transferring at HALFTIME
It is getting really hot for Charlie Strong at Texas, a guy I thought was a great hire but sheesh, this does not look good. I don't care how good TCU has become, you can't be Texas and lose 50-7, espicially when you are known as a defensive coach. Plus at least one, and reportedely two, pleyers were tweeting about transferring DURING the game.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/13799709/kris-boyd-texas…
October 4th, 2015 at 7:14 AM ^
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:09 PM ^
It's impossible for too many bad things to happen to Texas. They singlehandedly destroyed the Big 12 (and allowed irrational conference realignment) through their colossal arrogance.
They only way I ever root for Texas is if they are playing Notre Dame.
October 4th, 2015 at 10:35 AM ^
Which is why the continuous murmur around here of "we should bring Texas into the BIG" is so dumb. It's a damn good public university, but the institutional culture in the athletic department is toxically selfish in the extreme. It's reflective of the state's overall cultural self-image—there's no more important state in the country, and Texas really should return to being an independent republic, so we won't ever have to compromise ever again with anybody because we're Texas and everybody should kiss our ass.
October 4th, 2015 at 3:22 PM ^
They have been poison so far. But the one thing that could possibly work is that the B1G is already structured with an equlity model before they would come in. They would be one vote out of [sixteen]. It would be hard for them to throw their weight around.
But we don't need them. I'd rather have Oklahoma to pair up with Nebraska the Friday after Thanksgiving and bring strength the the B1G West.
But these decisions are (clearly) not made with that kind of criteria in mind. Delany would look at Texas media market demographics and fall immediately for the siren song of Texas. This is the man that gave us Rutgers. If SMU was in NYC he would have given us them. He's looking media markets, not programs.
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:10 PM ^
is almost Texas' Rich Rod. A guy who was considered a top coach ready for a big time program only to have a lot of early transition issues and then continued poor play especially defensively and the kicking game.
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:40 PM ^
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:56 PM ^
WHat is weird with Strong is that he was a disciplinarian....a guy who cleaved the roster of bad eggs...how is it that he allows this type of behaviour to occur? What is next?...mutiny?
October 4th, 2015 at 9:20 AM ^
What Texas needs is a good ole fashion "players only meeting". Worked well for Maryland.
October 4th, 2015 at 3:26 PM ^
How does a player in uniform even have access to a smart phone at halftime during a game?
Aren't they all supposed to be taking a knee in a circle around the coach, in rapt attention to the halftime speech? I must watch too many old movies.
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:12 PM ^
Never thought I'd feel sympathy for Texas fans, and it's not like they don't have some pretty serious recent success to look back to, but I'm getting close here. What a trainwreck. We, of course, know how that feels.
It's easy to pile onto programs that are falling apart, popcorn in hand, but I genuinely think Strong has been dealt a bad hand here, even if he has played it poorly. What's most startling about this, if true, is that the player in question is a freshman--that's supposed to be one of "his" guys.
Really, Texas looked like things were improving after the Cal comeback, but they still haven't notched that W. The Saban/Chip talks will begin to accelerate now.
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:13 PM ^
If Texas were smart, they would go after Dantonio at the end of the season.
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:15 PM ^
There is no way Dantonio could handle the pressure at Texas versus what he's got at MSU. Texas is Google to MSU's Blackberry.
October 4th, 2015 at 1:34 PM ^
October 4th, 2015 at 3:34 PM ^
No, you need to be a Good 'Ole Boy schmoozer down there in the Mack Brown, Bobbie Bowden mold.
Look, any fanbase will love any non-criminal coach if he does nothing but win. Some don't even care about the criminal part. Deep inside, even Alaama fans will admit that they don't personally love that carpet-bagging sourpuss Saban, but the man wins and is smart enough to not do anything blatantly stupid while doing it.
But you are setting yourself up on a high-wire as a coach if you have no reservoir of goodwill to carry you over during inevitable losses.
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:16 PM ^
October 4th, 2015 at 12:30 AM ^
You really believe that. Pay him enough and he wil learn quickly to hate OK, TCU, etc....
October 4th, 2015 at 4:16 AM ^
October 4th, 2015 at 10:42 AM ^
And it's a smart thing to believe, too. Not every coach is the kind of guy who will ditch the school that made him who he is simply because some other institution offers him a pile of cash. We had a guy like that ourselves—Bo turned down a buttload of dough to go to Texas A&M, and he was considerably younger when he did that than Dantonio is now.
Dantonio is a sanctimonious, hypocritical prick, but he's not stupid. He knows that he can retire at MSU with the status of being a hero on campus. If he went to Texas, he's only as good as his first loss, and then the knives will come out.
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:18 PM ^
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October 4th, 2015 at 9:22 AM ^
Dantonio has coached his team up to #2 in the country. WTF would he want to go to Texas?
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:21 PM ^
They should go after Art Briles or maaaaaybe Gary Patterson. Briles produces. Yeah, his teams aren't great on defense--back up the bank truck and hire a great DC (except ours, we like ours). Hasn't he shown enough?
Both he and Patterson have taken tiny football also-rans that could hope to be no better than 4th or 5th in their own state and turned them into perennial national championship contenders. It doesn't get recognized enough how astonishing that is. Neither of these teams have any business being better than Texas at any time, and they OWN them right now.
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:40 PM ^
Judging by Patterson's comments regarding Texas, I don't think he likes Texas on a personal level.
Doubt he would take the job. Briles has rape cover up issues to worry about.
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:54 PM ^
Fair points, but money and winning are, respectively, powerful motives to overlook old issues.
October 4th, 2015 at 7:15 AM ^
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:24 PM ^
Dantonio's roots are all in the midwest. Obviously, he's a good coach but I'm not sure there aren't other options that'd make more sense.
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October 3rd, 2015 at 10:39 PM ^
Hoke really wouldn't have been ok if he had just flipped the Rutgers and Maryland games to wins, would he? Of course not. It was already over--fans had bailed and so had recruits. It would scarcely have been less intense if the Shane Morris incident hadn't occurred; that mostly served to wreck DB, Hoke's last hope of protection.
Same thing wrecked Gene Chizik at Auburn. He had barely finished brushing off the confetti from his national title before the fans stopped even showing up at games. Strong is looking at the same revolt here.
October 4th, 2015 at 4:23 AM ^
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October 3rd, 2015 at 10:15 PM ^
Texas fans have to be beyond sick. Nebraska fans can't be be too hopeful either.
Says your Harbaugh prayers tonight. Thank you! Thank you!
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:30 PM ^
I was a Mike Riley skeptic before the season, and now the choice to ditch Pelini for him just looks terrible. I think Nebraska is in for a few tough years before they get another chance to right the ship and hire somebody else. They might want to cross their fingers for another chance at Tom Herman.
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:42 PM ^
To be fair, it will take Riley time to develop the team the way he wants it.
But I don't think anybody really believed in him when he was hired and it is hard to see him succeeding now. Nebraska needs a Dantonio type that is excellent at developing players, since they can no longer recruit the way they used to when they won big under Osborne. I think Herman would have been a great hire for them, but they wanted none of it.
For what it's worth, I thought Florida's hire of Mcelwain was pretty weak, too, but so far things look pretty good over there.
October 4th, 2015 at 4:25 AM ^
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October 4th, 2015 at 3:39 PM ^
I don't like it because the Nebraska fans are good people, but in my heart of hearts I really do believe that there is some truth to this.
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:17 PM ^
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October 3rd, 2015 at 11:12 PM ^
I'd bet far closer to 5. That man's not going to be doing this when he's pushing 70, modern medicine or otherwise.
October 3rd, 2015 at 11:38 PM ^
there is some pretty good "medicine" going around that athletic dept. He could be there a long time.
October 4th, 2015 at 12:34 AM ^
Yeah, don't forget THE ohio helped get urbz all better real soon after his health issues....
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:23 PM ^
Who would've thought ten years ago that TCU and Baylor would have the two best football programs in the state of Texas.
October 3rd, 2015 at 10:47 PM ^
Yeah, seriously. Even 5 years ago.
October 4th, 2015 at 3:44 PM ^
Shows how quickly things change. While Texas fiddle fucked around from their perch as one of the greatest recruiting powers in the country, Baylor, TCU, and A&M - all previous underlings to Texas - rose up and usurped that recruiting power while Texas was down.
A National Championship used to lock you into elite status for a decade. Now it's like 2-3 years and then you become Auburn. They forget quickly.
October 4th, 2015 at 4:33 AM ^