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Texas Longhorns (big hat, no cattle; please don’t Horns Down us)

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buckeyemania11 said:
Currently 5th in the Big 12, with losses to TCU and Iowa State. Thats definitely below average for a name like Texas.

Only way to salvage it as average would be to win out, including the bowl game.
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While the recent history says yes, on a longer term this is what Texas actually is....

In pro/fake wrestling terminology, they are the career upper mid-carder who had to basically start his own promotion to be the man....think Jeff Jarrett....
 
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Pat Forde from the top rope on Titty bar Tom:

WE HAVE THIS UPDATE: TEXAS IS NOT BACK

Beware the fan base that reads too much into a non-playoff bowl victory. When Texas (31) handled a sulking Georgia team last year in the Sugar Bowl, a fan base exhausted by a decade-long malaise went ahead and proclaimed it: the Longhorns would be back as a national power in 2019. The Top 25 voters, addicted to brand names, bought in, ranked them in the top 10 entering the season despite significant losses on defense.
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Everyone was, once again, wrong. Texas is not back, not close to back, and there is no reason to believe it will be back until proving it in games that actually matter.
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After losing to Iowa State Saturday, the Longhorns are a pedestrian 6–4 and a pedestrian 4–3 in the Big 12. They are 23–14 overall under Tom Herman (32), and 16–10 in the league. While that is certainly an improvement over the Charlie Strong body of work (16–21, 12–15 Big 12), it is nearly identical to the last three seasons under Mack Brown (33), which were considered major disappointments. Brown was 25–14 overall, 16–11 in the league.
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With nearly a three-year body of work, there is no discernible difference between the Longhorns under Herman and the rest of the upper-middle class of the Big 12. Everyone is chasing Oklahoma in a muddled pack.

Thing is, there is supposed to be a difference between Texas and the rest of the upper-middle class. The recruiting rankings suggest that there should be. The tradition screams that there should be. The results aren’t there.
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None of this means Texas will never be back under Herman. It does mean that the Longhorns have a long way yet to go. And it means that they should have to prove they’re back before saying they’re back.
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https://www.si.com/college/2019/11/19/texas-not-back-tom-herman-big-12

That's gotta sting a little.
 
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Nigel Tufnel said:
You know, McNeil could have been a contender if he hadn’t been McNeiled. Poor fucker went the way of Mauti.
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He was like the Tony Montana of trolls. Came from nothing, had some brief and early success but paid the ultimate price by flying too close to the sun. His old company’s email server probably still has remnants of gay men’s porn subscriptions floating around.
 
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