The Fake Lonnie Finch

He got what he deserved. Marijuana is for losers.

Hey...can you guys believe we are already working in the 2015 class?!?!?!

Agree. But, I can't really blame them. Many kids, non-athletes as well as athletes, look to "get away from home" when it comes time for college. I'm perfectly happy with them leaving for a couple of years then transferring back...if they can contribute. Bible...if you scan around the past news reports...it looks like he kind of showed up in Austin out of shape and expecting the world to fall into place for him anyway. I mean, you are talking about a defensive lineman of his potential unable to make a dent in the lineup of some of the worst run defenses in Texas' storied history. Sad. And, he's not even seeing much playing time at Carson-Newman...Division II.

Uh...A&M is in the SEC now? Anyway, sounds like Kingsbury isn't quite the "cool" guy to his players that the Dallas Morning News cracked him up to be earlier in the fall. Sounds like an ass who can't face his players asking questions that might have tough answers to them. But...what does it matter? Tech has never so much as sniffed a Big 12 title anyway. Any time they thought they were coming close OU or Texas kicked them in the jimmies and sent them back to their dirt hole with their tails between their legs...guns down. Kingsbury is no different than that buttclown Leach. What they need is a coach who understands that there is more to football than just throwing negative four to four yard passes 60-70 times per games. Buttwhistles. Nothing but bumbling, blustery buttwhistles...both of them.

Just remember where you read it, and from whom...the same person who told you not to pooh-pooh UTSA because of their coach. I've got no love for UT. But, Charlie Strong is a man with two national championship rings and years of experience coaching with the best at the best. He's already succeeded in college football's top conference. His defenses at Texas will be legendary, beginning in 2014. Many of you won't like it; I won't be thrilled about it either. But, why sit and look at who they just hired and continue to try to project their recent past failures on it? That's not realistic. One of the best defensive minds in the college football game is taking over the football program at the school with the most resources in the country. He won't be sitting around listening to dopesmoker Willie Nelson or bumming around the golf courses with billionaires like Mack. He'll be doing what he's hired to do - win football games. Mack forgot all about that and started to glide. Charlie Strong is no glider. And, he's not some jive ass hip hop coach trying to make friends of his players - he's trying to make players of his players. He kicks ass and takes names...and, unfortunately, we happen to be the first name on the list in 2014.

I'm guessing grades. Sand Springs ain't the best area around Tulsa. And, Page High is no academic powerhouse. Looks to me that FBS schools were in the picture early, but backed off.

Taylor Bible. Wow. Remember what a big signing that was a few years ago? It turned into this: http://www.cneagles.com/sports/m-footbl/2013-14/bios/bible_taylor_o5lj

I'm telling you, Texas will be in the national title race from season one with Strong leading them. Defense wins championships.

This is where I am on it as well. Northern Colorado graduates it's #1 and #2 QBs...from a squad that just went 1-11. There is only one other QB on the roster, and he was a redshirt freshman. I don't see how Berglund doesn't start there. I feel bad for him, though, because Northern Colorado is a terrible football program with 10 consecutive losing seasons. This is a school Joe Glenn regularly took to the Division II playoffs in the 90s. They jumped up to I-AA/FCS competition in 2007; but, were already on their way down competitively.

Just fired from Atlanta Falcons, Ray "Sugar Bear" Hamilton: http://www.atlantafalcons.com/team/coaches/Ray-Hamilton/cb4c0fe5-f217-4e2b-9da0-8c18da4fdfc1

The First and Second Team QB are lucky...both Alabama early enrollee David Cornwell and Oklahoma early enrollee Justice Hansen were injured midway through the season. Otherwise, these first and second team guys would have been third and honorable mention. Oklahoma rarely has great QB talent. Jason White and Sam Bradford were exceptions to the rule. To have two, Cornwell and Hansen, in the same year is crazy. Both sign with big schools and enrolled early as well. Nuts.

Ed Orgeron. He's a DL guy. And...he's available.

Based on the latest CAS requirements (http://catalog.unt.edu/content.php?catoid=9&navoid=533), I would replace the grab bag, academic garbage you find in Visual and Performing Arts (3 hours), Humanities (3 hours), Social and Behavioral Science (3 hours), Discovery (3 hours), and Capstone (3 hours). There are 15 hours UNT students are required to take that are worthless. Finance, Economics, and Business Law are important. Throw Accounting in there as well. It's a crime that all students are not required to take Accounting and Finance courses. It's no wonder the economy is in such a mess today, as well as individuals' personal debt: no one requires anyone to learn it. So, people stumble through life like idiots complaining that companies are ripping them off. Yes...if you are ignorant in the ways of Finance, Accounting, Economics, and Business Law, you are more than likely to have the wool pulled over your eyes in any given finance situation, including, but not limited to: -Credit agreements -Automobile purchases -Mortgages -Leasing office space -Buying any type of risk of finance/risk product, from simple homeowners and auto insurance to any type of health and life insurance policy you can think of. Let people majoring in garbage degree plans take garbage courses. Why foist them upon everyone in CAS? I've encouraged both of my nephews to double major: one, a degree they think they like; two, a degree that is actually useful in real life, It's what I did. I have degrees in Literature and Business Management. It was a compromise with my parents, both of whom have business degrees (dad, BBA/mom, Accounting). Although I hated it at the time, I'm glad they persuaded me to get the Business degree because...no one is going to pay me to read Jack London and Williams Shakespeare all day. And, I'd make zero dollars as a self-employed reader of Literature. The world is not getting less technical; it's getting more technical. And, it is punitive toward the uneducated and the undereducated. We had the whole economy of this country tank because a generations of idiots didn't understand the mortgages they were signing.

Texas does have a QB in David Ash, but he was injured much of the season. But, that doesn't matter. They've got a great stable of running backs, the best in the Big 12. The three ingredients for winning are still: run, stop the run, and play mistake free special teams. Strong will have the defense ready. They've already got the runners for the run game. They'll have to replace their placekicker who graduates. That's their biggest problem.

He also coached at Alabama from 2007-2010. He was never DC, so you can't really blame the piss poor run stopping scheme on him. I mean, the guy went from coaching on defenses schemed by Kirby Smart to defenses schemed by Manny Diaz. So...what do you want?

Garrick was Petrino's OC/QB coach at Arkansas. Combine that with UAB being a dead end job, and it is easy to see why he split for Louisville. As for Chico...tough call if they offer him the job. It is dead end. But, even in a record-setting season, the fans here could think of nothing to do but bitch about him and second guess him at every turn. In a record setting year, calling plays for guys who led and climbed the career record charts in passing, rushing, receiving, total offense, and all-purpose yards in Thompson, Byrd, and Chancellor, the fans here were about 113% unappreciative of him. I'd like to see Chico as the head coach somewhere. But, UAB...they'd have to double or triple what he was making here. He has to know that it's only a two to three year gig at most, win or lose.

Here's the problem, as I see, for this kid: (1) There are more quarterbacks competing for the starting job at OU than at Tech, and (2) There are more quarterbacks competing for the starting job at OU than at Tech. He should come here to UNT. We've got an open competition as well. The none of the competitors has much game experience. You gotta admit, Tech did kind of tank after he was injured. And, Kingsbury looks like he's going to be one of those coaches who rotates QBs every game. I think he'd do well here. The C-USun Belt competition wouldn't be overly tough on him. The five games he started and won: SMU, SFA, TCU, Texas State, Kansas. C-USun Belt 2014 isn't going to be much tougher than that. I know OU's Knight QB had a good game against Alabama. But, he wasn't great earlier in the season and was benched. The Bell kid wasn't great either. Maybe that's what he's thinking. But, I don't see how winning the OU job is easier than winning the Tech job. Bell has been at OU five years now, Knight three. So, how he thinks he'll walk in there and learn the playbook enough to unseed those two, although admittedly shaky, players is beyond me...but, I don't have a 19 year old kid brain. He'd have a better time of it here. He throws and runs well, like many here think is 110% necessary. And, the in-state tuition as a walk-on would be cheaper. But...if the kid's from Lake Travis, I doubt money is an issue; and, so that's probably another reason OU is even in the picture - his parents can afford to have him walk on out of state.

What Texas needed was to have its defense (lack thereof) situation cleaned up. They hired on of the best, if not the best, coach in the country to do that. It matters little at this point. Strong is the right man for the job, and he will have the 'Horns back in the national title mix next year.

Rich alumni doesn't like the hire...or, being cut out of the porcess this time around: http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/red-mccombs-bashes-texas-hire/story?id=21449215 "Longtime booster Red McCombs is not a fan of Texas' decision to hire coach Charlie Strong away from Louisville, calling it a "kick in the face" during a radio interview Monday. "I think the whole thing is a bit sideways," McCombs said of the selection process during an interview with ESPN 1250 San Antonio. "I don't have any doubt that Charlie is a fine coach. I think he would make a great position coach, maybe a coordinator." Wow. Like I said a couple of days ago, the thing that probably made the UT job unappealing to so many who backed away from it was this type of influential asshole around the program. And, here is the textbook definition of hubris, from McCombs just a few days earlier: McCombs said he was certain Patterson couldn't go wrong on the hire during an interview with the San Antonio Express-News last week. "I don't see how they can miss," McCombs told the paper. "They can get anyone they want. They can close their eyes and go 'Eeny-meeny-miny-moe' and end up with someone good." Wow, again. They couldn't get anyone they wanted after all. They got a great one...even if McCombs doesn't think so. But, many higher up turned them down...for good reason.

The team stayed at the hotel next to our office here. The Westin took down their flag and flew the NDSU flag on the third pole next to the American and Texas flags for the three days they were here. Crazy.

Amen.

And...Mack Brown was the coach, Manny Diaz the DC. Those two are gone. And, it's not UT love, it's the reality that they just hired one of the best defensive minds in football. Texas was spinning it's (very expensive) wheels under Brown because everyone there was comfortable. New coaches, and especially defensive hard-asses like Strong, do not let players - or, assistants - get comfortable. Texas already has heaps and gobs of talent. They now have a coach that will be preparing for football games instead of gladhandling golfers, dopesmokers, and billionaires. They should keep Mack on as Gladhandler in Chief and stay out of Strong's way.

Greer or Dajon. I only say that because if the staff had any belief in the guy already here, they wouldn't have gone out and gotten a JUCO to throw into the mix. Whomever, it's safe to say that the coaching staff wants those on board to work harder and show more than they've shown, with the possible exception of Dajon, whom they mistakenly played this year.

Seriously? We've had one winning season in nine years. And, the major players from this year's winning squad will be gone. Texas will love having us as the opening game of the Charlie Strong Era. If anyone should be buying out of that game, it should be us so that we can open at home against a beatable opponent. Texas coached by Charlie Strong is not a winnable game. Sorry. Texas haters on the board, you will have to get accustomed to Texas competing for national titles regularly. Strong understands well that defense wins championships. If you doubt Strong, go watch the Florida-Oklahoma national title game from 2009. Oklahoma came into the game having scored 60+ in six consecutive games, including the Big 12 title game versus Missouri. Strong's Florida defense held them to 14. With Heisman winner Sam Bradford, Oklahoma could muster only 14 against Strong's defense. Texas has no reason to ask out of their game with us; we do. We will be breaking in many new players at key offensive position and will be operating with an all new front seven on defense. Taking that show in front of 100k+ at DKR is going to be ugly for us.

Not really new age. Randall Cunningham and Steve Young both rushed for 4,000+ during their careers. However, Young is the only one with a Super Bowl ring. Young also threw to a guy named Rice...which helped his career immensely. So, unless one of these current "running" QBs can get a Rice-like receiver...yeah.