For Real ....Herman “IS” Done!!!

mchammer said:
The edict from the administration was that no one would be forced to sing the song, but teams would be expected to stand respectfully while it is played. Controversy erupted after the loss to Oklahoma when a fan photo of quarterback Sam Ehlinger standing nearly alone as the band played The Eyes of Texas went viral. What the photo didn’t show was that the playing of the song took place nearly 10 minutes after the game had ended because of the presentation of the Golden Hat to the Sooners. That image produced a narrative that Herman had allowed his players to disrespect the song, which many alums — and importantly many donors — consider a cherished tradition.
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The part above is a disingenuous. Vast majority of players walked off the field at home in 2 games. There is no excuse that any writer can think to cover it.
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He can't cover it up, so he ignores it, and someone who hasn't followed UT football this year will think that's what happened.

Remember, reporters don't only slander / lie / falsify / make up / get wrong the stories where you are familiar with the actual details. They do that for all their stories.

Also, the piece is far too easy on He-Man, buying into the "oh so close, only 13 or 14 or whatever number of points away from being undefeated", while ignoring 3 games that Texas could easily have lost - the miracle comeback against TT, the OT win against OSU where a penalty by them in OT moved them from 1st and goal at about the 5 to 2nd or 3rd and long, and then gave it up on downs.

Or West VA, where a blatant interference by the safety on their WR in the end zone on either 3rd or 4th down could have been called, with 1st and goal for the win coming up next.

Texas could more easily be 3-6 than 9-0.
 
zuckercanyon said:
I'm not sure why Urban left Florida but there were (supposedly) health issues. Didn't take long and he was the head coach of Ohio State (believe he was born in Ohio). Started winning at his usual 85% clip and won a natty. Then he got suspended for one his assistant coaches' marital problems (yeah that's football related). Not long after that suspension was over he threw the game against Mizzou on a Thursday night, won the rest of his games including the bowl and said adios mo fo. One of the reasons I don't think he'll come to Texas is there's way too many people with money (and not) that will pester the hell out of UM about what color tie he wears, are his players nice to their girlfriends, do they own guns, etc etc and then (if he was head coach), we'd lose a game to mediocre u, and he'd announce his health issues are back and adios mo fo. There's folks out there who wonder if it's the hires Texas makes or Texas itself. I'm leaning towards Texas itself as the issue. Way too many off-the-field things that make us "T-sips". Oklahoma wins because they get a coach, get behind that coach, and only when that coach just cannot win (John Blake) is that coach run out. Texas has made the head coaching job a whole different animal, shaking hands and kissing babies. All of the universities who win don't do that crap. Until Texas ditches the politics, there won't be any Natty's and there'll continue to be few and far between conference titles.
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Completely agree and well put!
 
dukesteer said:
Hearing some buz about Clemson OC Tony Elliott. Candidly I know nothing about him beyond what I just read on the net.

Highest paid OC in the country, signing a 3-year deal in February for 5.1 Mil.

Said to be a very good recruiter.

African-American, which I see as an interesting nuance (if he were to be hired) with respect to The Eyes issue.

Never a HC before, but neither was Riley at OU...

Sabre?
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Here's an answer and it's undeniably a racial issue. How in the heck would a black coach coming in be able to politically and in any other way support The Eyes of Texas? If our traditions are important, then it has to be a non-black/white coach (or a unicorn black coach who has conservative values, that'd go over well). Charlie came in with a "clean up the program" task and maybe did that but lost more than he won. Get another black coach in here and every press conference will have to do with BLM or some other social issue, either brought up by the press or by the new black coach himself. I don't consider this to be racist, just fact. That guy can maybe coach but in this environment, it will never be about football at UT, and, if anyone wants to win 10 games a year, Texas won't hire Tony Elliot or anyone that remotely resembles him. Will agree that Texas could hire a flaming liberal like the Spurs coach and every press conference will be about BLM/etc/etc as well.
 
zuckercanyon said:
Here's an answer and it's undeniably a racial issue. How in the heck would a black coach coming in be able to politically and in any other way support The Eyes of Texas? If our traditions are important, then it has to be a non-black/white coach (or a unicorn black coach who has conservative values, that'd go over well). Charlie came in with a "clean up the program" task and maybe did that but lost more than he won. Get another black coach in here and every press conference will have to do with BLM or some other social issue, either brought up by the press or by the new black coach himself. I don't consider this to be racist, just fact. That guy can maybe coach but in this environment, it will never be about football at UT, and, if anyone wants to win 10 games a year, Texas won't hire Tony Elliot or anyone that remotely resembles him. Will agree that Texas could hire a flaming liberal like the Spurs coach and every press conference will be about BLM/etc/etc as well.
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I call ********.
We have former black players supporting The Eyes.
You paint with too broad a brush.
Shaka seems to have negotiated this well.
A black coach can support The Eyes and not necessarily be conservative.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. ;)
 
moondog_LFZ said:
I call ********.
We have former black players supporting The Eyes.
You paint with too broad a brush.
Shaka seems to have negotiated this well.
A black coach can support The Eyes and not necessarily be conservative.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. ;)
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Damn I agree with MoonDog. Had to mark it down.:hookem:
 
This is easy:

The pride of Texas is upon you
All the the livelong day
The rise of Texas is upon you
You cannot get away

Do not think you can escape it
At night or early in the morn
The pride of Texas is upon you
As equals we are born
 
Phil Elliott said:
I do not want The Eyes of Texas changed, but if we could get a$m out of Texas Fight, I might could get behind that.
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Years ago on the phone, I said "might could" to a friend. My wife went crazy. "Miiiiiiight could, miiiight could" in an overly exaggerated Texas twang. My friend couldn't understand what she was doing.
 
Sometimes married couples make unnecessary adjustments just because they love each other and want to build rather than tear down the relationship. Opponents usually fight over every damn inconsequential thing. I’m not married to every little word in TEOT. We should all be married to our fellow human brothers and sisters.
 
I’m only married to my wife. Otherwise it’s incest or infidelity. We have a great tradition at The University of Texas at Austin. The Eyes is not racist and anyone saying otherwise can eat **** and die.

If you want something else, go elsewhere.
 
theiioftx said:
I’m only married to my wife. Otherwise it’s incest or infidelity. We have a great tradition at The University of Texas at Austin. The Eyes is not racist and anyone saying otherwise can eat **** and die.

If you want something else, go elsewhere.
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You’re not playing with a full deck, brother.
 
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theiioftx said:
No they are woke. Let us know your pronoun - we don’t want to offend you.
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The problem with sides is that they are frequently wrong and never worth losing your credibility for. I’m not woke but I do think we are all equal and I don’t mind demonstrating my commitment to openness and equality.
 
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