After the last win, over Baylor, TH addressed his team, lathering them up with "love", "I love you", "love you man..." etc.
TH, by way of The University of Texas, has, and continues to provide its student athletes, including every scholarship football player, conditions and benefits that I'm guessing 75% of people outside of the U.S. would almost kill for.
Comfortable housing, outstanding diet and health and medical care, free education at one of the finest universities in the world, status as a collegiate athlete which may lead to job opportunities beyond college work if one does not proceed to professional sports in the interim, ... and at OU a free car.
Beyond that, at UT a $10,000 private locker, and kisses on the cheek from the head coach, and love, lots of love.
Maybe it's time to re-establish the football program at The University of Texas as a program that demands in return, well, excellence and a high level of effort and compliance with rules by its scholarship athletes.
We are told at times that the uniforms must look like a "Mardi Gras pride parade costume" because, well, "that's what kids expect today."
Enough already. As the Pirate admonished his players some years ago at Tceh after an embarrassing loss: "Stop texting your fat girlfriends."
Maybe it's time to re-establish some discipline, enough cheek kissing, enough love, enough putting up with petulance and entitlement attitudes. Maybe it's time to send a strong and clear message to the team that it's a team, it's not a private playground for spoiled brats.
I've noticed a number of posts in the past few hours about one player who has been characterized as not only one of the recently suspended group, but has been in and out of the doghouse all year.
Maybe it's time to send a clear signal. It's the program's option to renew or not renew scholarships. Maybe it's time to do that. Edit: Recognizing that the player of particular concern is gone anyway, permanent dismissal from the team. See how the NFL team talent evaluators consider that action on draft dollars.
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Winner x 6
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Agree x 1
Last edited: Oct 28, 2018