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What A Difference Five Years Makes

Posted by Scipio Tex on November 12th, 2008 under Football

h/t to a poster on Orangebloods who first sniffed this out.

Bill Byrne’s Wednesday Weekly November 12, 2003 after losing to OU 77-0.

Excerpt:

We have the right leadership and staff in place to build a successful football program, and to create the same blueprint for success in building champions throughout our athletic department. We didn’t get to where we are today overnight, and it won’t be fully repaired overnight. But many people are working late at night on these repairs every night.

Bill Byrne’s Wednesday Weekly November 12, 2008 after losing to OU 66-28.

Excerpt:

One of the questions I’m asked most is how we got to this position. There are no easy answers and most answers I could offer would be perceived by some as excuses. I’m not going to make excuses. With that said, we did not get in this position overnight, and we won’t be able to get out of it overnight either. But, under the leadership of Coach Mike Sherman, we are taking steps in the right direction and I’m confident in the future of our program.

Those statements are…eerily…similar. Thank God for cut and paste. Bill is right about one thing: it didn’t happen overnight. It took his coaching hires 1,825 nights to manage the team from 77-0 to 66-28.

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36 Responses

  1. Two words: Bru Tal

  2. Ags losing to OU – de rigeur.

  3. I know some guys on the UT football team, and they are really looking forward to putting some whoop ass on Aggy this year. They are pissed about what happened the past two seasons and looking for payback.

  4. Black Scholes said:

    November 12th, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    So at this rate their five-year plan would be to play OU for a tie, assuming the OU program remains relatively constant. That’s progress I guess. Glacial progress, but progress.

  5. The offense has gotten better.

  6. 1,827

    Stomp.

  7. calhorn:

    A&M has looked like the only team that’s aware that there was a football game going on for the last two years, so I hope you’re right.

  8. Huck:

    You are the reason trains run on time, mail gets delivered, and concentration camps run efficiently.

  9. I’m already in the Thanksgiving mode. Thank you God for Aggies.

    Huck, thy name is pedant.

  10. Franchione’s still standing dumbfounded on the OU sidelines. Somebody tell him to leave.

  11. “A&M has looked like the only team that’s aware that there was a football game going on for the last two years, so I hope you’re right.”

    Scip, that’s because for Thanksgiving Mack Brown always buys his team some Austin Box. (the awesome 6th Street kind, not the mediocre OU MLB kind)

    Then the Horns are out there playing A&M Varsity Blues style with ass just bouncing all over in their heads.

  12. Nate.

    1. Box played a pretty damned good game against a&m and he’s getting better every week.

    2. I sometimes question whether you’re really an OU fan or some troll.

  13. ponderosa. You need to leave. Seriously. You’re a pimple faced 17 year old honker that shouldn’t be hanging with adults.

    Gesis.

  14. flamingmonkeyass said:

    November 13th, 2008 at 8:02 am

    Is ponderos actually steven? I know this has been suggested somewhere before. Can anyone imagine how insufferable this asshat would be if Bob Stoops wasn’t Mack Brown’s new bitch?

  15. I liked the awesome post by NateHeupel. I never have been able to live up to the achievements of NateHeupel.

  16. ponderos

    1: Box is a converted WLB who played well against one of the worst teams in the Big 12. Woo. Hoo. He’s not a natural MLB, and I’m not impressed. Texas Tech will be a FAR better measuring stick.

    2: I sometimes question whether you have any objectivity. I regularly rip on the Barkers when they say ridiculous crap. For example, Scip’s retarded assertion that losing Ryan Reynolds wasn’t OU’s problem with the front 7. Ivan Maisel just called it the 2nd most important injury in CFB this season. The bottom line is that there’s a difference between a fan and a homer. You tend to fall on the latter side.

    Lighten up, Susan.

  17. you guys are allsome.

  18. Dunstan Pearl said:

    November 13th, 2008 at 8:23 am

    Squeeze

  19. Fight!

  20. Corey Pullig said:

    November 13th, 2008 at 8:46 am

    whoop?

  21. GeoffKetchum said:

    November 13th, 2008 at 8:53 am

    ponderos is an idoit, guys.

    Show some patients.

  22. Bucky Richardson said:

    November 13th, 2008 at 9:33 am

    Horse laugh

  23. Gawd, that is funny, GK.

    Alot of heads will here a whooshing sound.

  24. Bob in Houston said:

    November 13th, 2008 at 9:48 am

    I’m like Scipio — well, not like him, but, you know — How did Texas manage to lose to this juggernaut the last two years?

    One upset I could see, but back to back?

  25. Mrs. Henry James said:

    November 13th, 2008 at 9:50 am

    I like Scipio

  26. John Bender said:

    November 13th, 2008 at 9:58 am

    ponderos really pumps my nads.

  27. Houston Chronicle said:

    November 13th, 2008 at 10:14 am

    How did we miss this?

  28. Ponderos Knower said:

    November 13th, 2008 at 10:18 am

    No, Ponderos is not the fast food order taker from Simpsons. He’s just a grown man who plays one on Austin sports talk radio. He’s the classic Sooner. Hyper sensitive and buys Busch on weekends at Circle K.

  29. Reminds me of this pic:

  30. Love the 12th man by his side. Ah the happy days …

  31. Drunken Rooster said:

    November 13th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    So is there going to be a bonfire or not?

  32. dimecoverage said:

    November 13th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

    “I know some guys on the UT football team, and they are really looking forward to putting some whoop ass on Aggy this year. They are pissed about what happened the past two seasons and looking for payback.”

    Some of the boys at A&M are well aware of this and may be just a tad bit, shall we say, concerned?

  33. JR.Ewing.78 said:

    November 13th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    “One upset I could see, but back to back?”

    Agreed. 12-7 (whoop!) was… understandable? Law of large numbers? An anomaly?

    But last year? I still can’t explain it and my head hearts thinking about it. How did we lose to those idiots two years in a row?

  34. I’m a Sooner and I’ve never bought bush. I don’t buy cheap beer either.

  35. UTtuck (as sooner tim) said:

    November 13th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    but if I did by cheap beer it would still be a better football team than anyone else’s beer. And don’t nobody try to tell me that Kansas on the road is less of a game than MU at home, ‘cuase unranked away is harder than top ten at home, so Tech should be #1 no matter how many games we lose. You guys suck.

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