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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
The most unrealistic fanbase combined with the most meddling booster culture. Man, that kind of shit can just drive a man to drink.
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Thing is, are they unrealistic, or have they laughably underachieved that much? They…should…be able to recruit the premier athlete in Texas and dominate a weak-assed Big XII…right? I mean…they couldn’t…but should they have been able to?
I guess it’s like the old “Is it ignorance or apathy?” “I don’t know and I don’t care”
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They should be able to dominate like that yes. Their fans seem to live in an alternate reality where they set expectations like the team has been dominating like that.
Reality is ,however, a pretty far fucking cry from that.
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Oh it is. I don’t think they’re permanently dead like Nebraska…maybe they’ll get a rebirth with the right coach, like Wisconsin might. Of course, they’re headed to the SEC, where they’ll immediately be battling for 8th
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Right? I mean you can’t dominate the B12 with a natural recruiting and crazy booster advantage so why not make it harder and move to a conference where you have neither of those advantages. Over anybody really.
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calibuck
Too soon old, too late smart
Well, it DOES seem like the Texas fanbase still believes in the Darryl Royal days...so they do indeed have high expectations. Great fanbase, very wealthy alums, who are not unwilling to open their wallets for anything Texas football. During my time there, HS football just may have been more popular than the college version. It does carry over onto the college game as well. Remember sitting around the lunch table, listening to by A&M was going to beat down the Longhorns. When finally happened, a whole lot of framed scoreboards appeared on office walls. Also very much agree with the 'meddling fanbase', assuming you mean the wealthy donors that are kowtowed to by no other university have seen (or heard of). Just think JR Ewing in the college president's office, not the Petroleum Club. Which by the way, probably does more business than any golf course (or dozen or so) around.
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Tejas had a chance under Mack to dominate the Big 12, and be a perennial power that their fanBase thinks they are. But after his NC with VY, and the loss in the NC with Colt, he started to mail it in and stopped even trying to coach. I remember when I lived in Austin, and in 2012, I believe that was one of their best classes in history, with a HS RB who was considered a generational talent. Mack would sign almost all of the best TX talent, and do nothing with it. And it’s put the program in the worst place a CFB program can be, in purgatory. Good enough for bowl games, and maybe a NY6 every so often, but no longer in the NC convo.
And now we have SArk as HC, fresh off a stint at the Saban reform school. And with NIL, he will be in one of the worst positions of any HC in 2023, IMO. His QB choice is a loss loss situation. Those donors will expect Manning to start day 1, but Ewers hasn’t been terrible this season. But sitting Ewers will kill any progress he’s been making, but the coaches are now almost beholden to the donors. They didn’t bring Manning in to sit. And the sad fact is, Ewers is WAY better than Manning! Ewers simply balled out in the best division in TX, while Manning looked almost average at times in a middling LA division
And now we have SArk as HC, fresh off a stint at the Saban reform school. And with NIL, he will be in one of the worst positions of any HC in 2023, IMO. His QB choice is a loss loss situation. Those donors will expect Manning to start day 1, but Ewers hasn’t been terrible this season. But sitting Ewers will kill any progress he’s been making, but the coaches are now almost beholden to the donors. They didn’t bring Manning in to sit. And the sad fact is, Ewers is WAY better than Manning! Ewers simply balled out in the best division in TX, while Manning looked almost average at times in a middling LA division
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
I don't hang this on Mack Brown, and the reason is that was who Texas has been since the mid-70s. They were grotesquely underachieving for at least two decades before Brown arrived and continued to do so until Radio stepped foot on campus. Sure, they'd have the occasional transitory "texas is back!" season here and there but then slip right back into mediocrity. Then they had two generational QBs in a row before sliding back. What happened after 2009 hasn't been a program becoming broke; it's a program reverting to its recent historical norm.
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I'm still bewildered as to why Manning would choose to go there. He literally could go anywhere he wants and he chooses a program that has been mediocre at best for well over a decade now and hasn't produced an regular NFL starting QB since Vince Young, and that was only for a couple of seasons before flaming out in spectacular fashion. What the FUCK, man.
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