It's time for #TexasTech to hire Art Briles! #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/zM2tTB4qOf

— Message Board Geniuses (@BoardGeniuses) September 9, 2024

Who gives af! He's never coming back to CFB deal with it!!!!

Robert Wilson said:

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Johnny Bear said:

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BylrFan said:

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Idk if i should laugh as half of our board feel the same way.

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I'm guessing more than half of our board feels he never should've been fired in the first place.

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Probably.

Tech did a similar thing to themselves with Leach. Only HC to ever make them nationally relevant, and they fired him b/c Craig James and his kid are spoiled brats and put some PR heat on Tech brass.

Probably a similar background, too, in that Tech brass already was tired of Leach b/c he "didn't fit in," similar to Baylor BOR members not liking Briles because of the UT situation and what I will call the Ahmad Dixon factor.

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It's true that Leach was clearly the best HC TTech ever had (at least in the modern era if not all time) but even he never won a conference title for them and on balance was pretty much an 8-4 aggy like coach with 2 or 3 seasons that were better than that.

Tech and TCU love hiring our former guys

Joey's in the hot seat, but not as hot as Dave's.

OsoCoreyell said:

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Joey's in the hot seat, but not as hot as Dave's.

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I don't know. There are Tech people every bit as vicious as some here are toward Aranda. As to real hot seat in terms of administration and BMDs probably also about the same warm perhaps as of today.

Does Aranda have a criminal record? Or did I read that wrong

I saw the most upvoted post on here Saturday night (at least it was, for a time)

Lets not throw stones from our glass house

Negligent Gamicide

Look it up. That's a real word.

It's insane to think in 93 seasons Tech has played in 0 Sugar, Orange, Fiesta or Rose bowls. Pretty insane if you think about it.

The 5 Cotton bowls they played in were before the CFP NY6 format when that bowl was made into an access bowl.

They weren't in the equivalent of being in what we today call a power conference until around 1958 or so when they were invited to join the SWC. But that has still now been 66 or so years.

The Cotton Bowl always has been a major bowl equal to the Sugar, Orange and Rose in the pre BCS days. The Rose however was tied to the BiG and PAC prior to the BCS. In those days it was the champs of those two conferences. Sugar was always hosted by the SEC champ historically and the Orange hosted by the Big 8 champ with the Cotton obviously hosted by the SWC champ. The only Cotton Bowl I'm aware of that Tech played in prior to BCS era was the New Years Day of 95 one. I don't remember if they have been to the Cotton Bowl since the turn of the century when everything I said above changed.

Tech played in 2 Cotton Bowls this century:

2006 they lost to Bama
2009 they lost to Ole Miss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Bowl_Classic

historian said:

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Tech played in 2 Cotton Bowls this century:

2006 they list to Bama
2009 they list to Ole Miss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Bowl_Classic

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The '95 Cotton Bowl they played in (which was still during the time when the SWC Champ hosted) was after that crazy '94 season when there was a 5 way tie at the top (per aggy being ineligible) and TTech represented the SWC simply because they had gone the longest since going there. And their opponent USC had the game out of reach by the end of the first quarter.

Killing Floor said:

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Negligent Gamicide

Look it up. That's a real word.

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Under rated post.

BigGameBaylorBear said:

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Does Aranda have a criminal record? Or did I read that wrong

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Is Yogi claiming that Aranda has a criminal record? Not that sure that's accurate.

BigGameBaylorBear said:

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Does Aranda have a criminal record? Or did I read that wrong

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You read it wrong.

Read it again a little more carefully.

Also notice that the word "Aranda" is not used at all in my post about CAB. Maybe that's your confusion.

You said "Yes, CDA", a lot of us on this board abbreviate Dave Aranda with CDA

Yogi said:

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BigGameBaylorBear said:

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Does Aranda have a criminal record? Or did I read that wrong

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You read it wrong.

Read it again a little more carefully.

Also notice that the word "Aranda" is not used at all in my post about CAB. Maybe that's your confusion.

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You specifically refered to CDA as having a criminal record. You wrote it wrong and you should probably edit it. Quit gaslighting people and correct your mistake.

If that's what the poster is referring to, I'm all for that. The only other time I've seen a more precipitous drop in the football program is from 1995 to 1997. This might be worse.

Ghostrider said:

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Aranda should be charged for theft from Baylor.

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Robert Wilson said:

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Johnny Bear said:

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BylrFan said:

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Idk if i should laugh as half of our board feel the same way.

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I'm guessing more than half of our board feels he never should've been fired in the first place.

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Tech did a similar thing to themselves with Leach. Only HC to ever make them nationally relevant, and they fired him b/c Craig James and his kid are spoiled brats and put some PR heat on Tech brass.

Probably a similar background, too, in that Tech brass already was tired of Leach b/c he "didn't fit in," similar to Baylor BOR members not liking Briles because of the UT situation and what I will call the Ahmad Dixon factor.

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I remember how Tech leaders were upset that Leach went out all night partying in New York City after the Heisman Trophy presentation (Graham Harrell was a finalist that year in '08)

They were pissed the next morning when he showed up to meet some Tech jumbo shrimp eaters in the same outfit he had on the night before and reeking of booze and cigarettes

lol

He also apparently was bad a calling big donors back and was notorious for missing scheduled golf games with them.

Basically he was weird (and awesome) and they did not like him out in the High Plains.

Sounds like he was more interesting in coaching football than all the schmoozing that went with it.

And now they've fired another poplar coach:

Texas Tech University accuses former rodeo coach of financial mismanagement, disregard for animal well-being and policy violations (kcbd.com)

No ..he was more interested in getting drunk than handling the other off field responsibilities of being a college head coach.