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 3rd, 2015 at 11:18 PM ^
deserves this for being greedy asshats and ruining the Big 12 and losing their one biggest rival.
October 3rd, 2015 at 11:20 PM ^
Yup. Hard to be sympathetic when they've been so greedy and selfish.
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October 3rd, 2015 at 11:25 PM ^
Charlie Strong to Texas looking a lot like RR's time here. Fanbase and alumuni really didn't want him and he didn't realize the extent of the rebuild job needed. Texas may go through 2-3 coaches before they get who they really need.
October 3rd, 2015 at 11:57 PM ^
Texas looks worse than they did last year. They will have a new AD before year end probably and that person will want to put their own coach in. At a college like UT you just don't have the luxury of 3-4 years to get your system established.
Could see an NFL coach looking at this one with interest.
October 3rd, 2015 at 11:58 PM ^
#SabanToTexas
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October 4th, 2015 at 12:17 AM ^
CJK5H has a much closer connection to TX than Saban. Unless TX is paying > $10 mil/yr
October 4th, 2015 at 12:24 AM ^
He went to the SMU ATM.
October 4th, 2015 at 12:00 AM ^
more about how good TCU is, or how bad Texas is? I just can't tell.
October 4th, 2015 at 1:17 AM ^
How bad Texas is. TCU barely beat Texas a Tech a week ago. Texas should have at the very least given TCU a game, even if they still lost by double digits.
October 4th, 2015 at 12:23 AM ^
It couldn't happen to better university.
Texass can jump up and bite my bright shiny ass!
October 4th, 2015 at 12:29 AM ^
Umm, "playerS"? It was one player. A freshman. And it was a retweet.
October 4th, 2015 at 12:36 AM ^
Why in the hell would Nick Saban leave Alabama for Texas? He's already the highest paid coach in the country. He is 63 years old. Why take a rebuilding job when your are already God at Alabama?
October 4th, 2015 at 4:12 PM ^
He was a God at LSU. He got bored and wanted a new challenge.
At Alabama, it has turned into kind of a thankless job. It's National Championship or bust. Saban is a coaching legend and yet people are all over his case about Ohio State last year and Ole Miss the last two years.
All Saban has to look forward to at Alabama is one of two things: holding up the NC trophy or answering endless questions about how his dynasty is over.
The Texas job could have some appeal to him. It's not totally out of the question.
October 4th, 2015 at 12:56 AM ^
There's no talent on that team. Mack's last few recruiting classes have produced minimal if any NFL players. He's also got plenty of political friends to make Charlie's life miserable.
And on top of all that, the Longhorn Network folly that ran Nebraska/Colorado/Texas A&M/Missouri off opened the state up to other conferences, and now most of the top Texas HS kids are going into the SEC West. So not only is the job much harder due to Mack's incompetence, but it's much tougher to recruit than it's ever been for the Longhorns.
This is what happens when you let politics keep morons in charge long after it's become apparent they've lost their minds. Both their old AD Dodds and Brown should have been jettisoned long ago before they could do the kind of longterm damage they've both done to Texas.
October 4th, 2015 at 1:13 AM ^
Mack Brown = Lloyd Carr
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October 4th, 2015 at 3:32 AM ^
If Lloyd was a significantly worse as a coach and SIGNIFICANTLY x100 worse as a person.
October 4th, 2015 at 10:34 AM ^
Not so sure about Lloyd being all so stellar. Three and Out changed my opinion of him...
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October 4th, 2015 at 4:14 PM ^
This is what happens when you let politics keep morons in charge long after it's become apparent they've lost their minds.
There but for the grace of a few emails go us.
October 4th, 2015 at 3:12 AM ^
I hadn't heard of Tom Herman until Urban Meyer hired him but I was intrigued because Herman was very young (35 iirc). And he turned out to be an exception coach.
I think Texas needs to keep tabs on Herman at Houston. The Cougars are 4-0 and upset Louisville on the road.
October 4th, 2015 at 3:35 AM ^
They seem to be pretty hung up on the fact that Strong didn't have a ton of HC experience, and he had 4 years. I doubt they'll go for someone with even less HC time put in.
Of course Nebraska was obsessed with finding experience because Pelini was a coordinator before they hired him, and they ended up with an old (very nice) turd. So I won't vouch for Horns fan wisdom on this.
October 4th, 2015 at 9:32 AM ^
Yeah they're thinking Saban, Gruden, and Kelly. Herman looks to be a very good coach but I doubt he gets the nod at Texas. He'll probably have to start out at a middle of the pack power 5 team. Before he gets the call from a blue blood like Texas
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October 4th, 2015 at 6:01 AM ^
He's impressive in interviews. Comes off as a legit "players first" kind of guy but also very tough and smart as hell. I wouldn't be surprised if he's a household name within 10 years.
October 4th, 2015 at 9:00 AM ^
Love it when we win and Texas/Notre Dame lose. We're #1 in all time wins.
October 4th, 2015 at 4:16 PM ^
We need Notre Dame to lose about five more games (and us not lose) for us to recapture the All Time Wins % title as well.
October 4th, 2015 at 9:06 AM ^
I only talk about coaches who actully coach for Michigan.
October 4th, 2015 at 9:56 AM ^
I think Strong is a pretty decent coach but I have no clue why that program is imploding down there.
October 4th, 2015 at 10:56 AM ^
It's a whole culture shift in what Strong is trying to do. Mack Brown left a train wreck down there, his recruiting slid off heavily in recent years, and if you made me guess, Brown left behind a culture of entitlement. Remember too that Strong did a thorough house cleaning last year and threw a ton of kids off the team, so they were already operating with a depth problem.
It also hasn't helped that TCU, Baylor and A&M are all premiere programs right now. They all recruit the same kids that UT does. I think Strong can do great things there with time, but I'm not sure it will be afforded to him. It seems like he's in a RichRod-Michigan scenario where a lot of the fans/alumni don't want him.
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October 4th, 2015 at 4:19 PM ^
Remember too that Strong did a thorough house cleaning last year and threw a ton of kids off the team, so they were already operating with a depth problem.
Which is why it would be foolish to fire him after two years. Nobody really knows what kind of coach he is at Texas just yet.
October 4th, 2015 at 10:00 AM ^
Thanks again - to Harbaugh coming back to AA!!
October 4th, 2015 at 12:15 PM ^
thinking that they are going to hire the next Harbaugh.
All the stars aligned at exactly the right time for that one.
October 4th, 2015 at 4:20 PM ^
Where did Belichick go to school? Maybe they should try it.
October 4th, 2015 at 4:41 PM ^
Wesleyan University
October 4th, 2015 at 4:14 PM ^
The Eagles somehow lost to my Skins, and so book it, Kelly to UT.
October 4th, 2015 at 4:21 PM ^
Oregon and all that Nike money may want to have a say.