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[BevoBlake]

Texas has apparently got the ball rolling in our search for a new AD.

— Twitter API (@twitterapi) November 7, 2011


‪ http://footballscoop.com/the-scoop/‬

Of the candidates listed, I like Byrne the most but would be pretty happy with us bringing Luck.

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

Of the candidates listed, I like Byrne the most but would be pretty happy with us bringing Luck.

It didn't work out so great the last time we went with a guy from AZ...

On paper, any one of those candidates should be a good hire. Let's get it done this year.

 

[utparothed]

FWIW...here's my preference

Oliver Luck - 1st choice

Greg Byrne - 2nd

John Currie - 3rd but only by a slight margin

Whit Babcock - 4th

Joe Castiglione - please tell me that was a typo

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

* WARNING *

Greg Byrne is the son of former aggy AD, Bill Byrne. This relationship should automatically disqualify him from consideration. F aggy

 

[Johnstark23]

* WARNING *

Greg Byrne is the son of former aggy AD, Bill Byrne. This relationship should automatically disqualify him from consideration. F aggy

Yep, friends from the state capital my ass

 

[JimsTexas]

* WARNING *

Greg Byrne is the son of former aggy AD, Bill Byrne. This relationship should automatically disqualify him from consideration. F aggy

Hiring Greg Byrne would be like having a fox in the hen house. My friends y'all have a great week

 

[utparothed]

* WARNING *

Greg Byrne is the son of former aggy AD, Bill Byrne. This relationship should automatically disqualify him from consideration. F aggy

Didn't know that so...

FWIW...here's my revised preference

Oliver Luck - 1st choice

John Currie - 2nd but only by a slight marginWhit Babcock - 3rd

Joe Castiglione - please tell me that was a typo

Greg Byrne - not just no but HELL no...F aggy

 

[Randolph Duke]

Greg Byrne can rot in hell. No way he ever is on Bellmont's payroll.

 

[noonan05]

At least we can get a Luck now. About 8 years too late.

 

[BevoBlake]

I didn't realize being the son of an Aggy meant you couldn't be trusted. Byrne has proven to be a very good AD at Arizona.

 

[oldhorn2]

sometimes it works out....Remember that DKR was an AA QB at OU....

 

[Randolph Duke]

* WARNING *

Greg Byrne is the son of former aggy AD, Bill Byrne. This relationship should automatically disqualify him from consideration. F aggy

If Greg Fenves decides to bring Byrne in as AD, be prepared for my never ending tirade to fire Fenves. Byrne is a carbon aggy copy of his dad and should never be allowed to set foot on campus, let alone considered for a senior management position.

Arizona to introduce ‘new tradition’ for football games
Arizona Wildcats athletic director Greg Byrne wants fans to sway right before kickoff at home football games.

It’s something he and select members of the department — called the Arizona Creative Team — want to introduce as something Byrne calls a "new tradition" at UA.

Arizona officials tested the idea with the Zona Zoo student section in the opener against UNLV on Aug. 29, but they want to go stadium-wide Saturday night against Nevada.

"Basically," he told 1290-AM (KCUB) on Tuesday afternoon, "right after the coin flip we’re going to start an opportunity for our fans to kind of get right next to each other, put your arm over the shoulder of the person next to you and sway back and forth. And during that time, we’re going to say, ‘Zo-na, ‘Zo-na.’

"There are two other programs in the country that we know off that do something along those lines. One of those is Texas A&M … during their fight song."

That is an Aggies pregame tradition in which the interlocked, swaying crowd creates a back-and-forth motion that symbolically "saws off" the horns of the Texas mascot, Bevo. Byrne’s father, Bill Byrne, is a former athletic director at Texas A&M.

"I’m not trying to name drop, but I’m going to name drop anyways," Greg Byrne said.

"When my dad was AD there, President Bush Sr. and Mrs. Bush would often sit up in their box. And I actually sawed Bevo’s horns off with President Bush once. It doesn’t matter who you are — even a former president of the United States — it’s something everybody can do together."http://www.foxsports.com/arizona/story/wildcats-to-introduce-new-tradition-for-football-games-090914

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

sometimes it works out....Remember that DKR was an AA QB at OU....

True, but I don't think Royal or his daddy were outspoken about their dislike and contempt for The University.

Bill Byrne was at both Nebraska and aggy. F him and his kid

 

[Randolph Duke]

sometimes it works out....Remember that DKR was an AA QB at OU....

The animosity between UT and OU didn't get started until right after WWII. It was the OU alumni who were tired of taking shit from the Texans, starting with the depression and lasting until 1946, who declared war on UT and started the supersized rivalry.

If you remember, the Oklahoma oil fields were in declining production starting in the early 30s, while starting in October 1930 the East Texas field was coming online and producing like nuts. Texans had far more money than Okies during the depression and "Okie" was considered an epithet. Resentment ran strong with the OU alumni and starting in 1946, drilling activity was picking up a lot in Oklahoma to replace wells depleted during the war (when few wells were drilled due to manpower and material shortages). In the post-WWII environment, the OU alums finally had the money to start buying the best football team they could and that team had one goal - to beat UT and shut up the UT alumni in the oil patch. Royal and the rest of the OU players didn't have any reason to dislike UT. They were just along for the education and the under-the-table payments.

Royal was long gone by the time the UT/OU rivalry really started getting heated. He was at Mississippi State, then he coached UW and the Edmonton Eskimos (both those teams were racially integrated, by the way).

Royal was not a product of the supercharged UT/OU rivalry. Greg Byrne, on the other hand, is a redneck aggy to the core whose first thoughts when taking over the Arizona program were to start including bullshit aggy "traditions" into the UA gameday experience. We don't want or need that kind of thinking at UT.

Greg Byrne is very much a product of the warped "once an aggy, always an aggy" mentality.

F@#k Greg Byrne and if Fenves even gives him a phone interview, Fenves' job should be under reconsideration.

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

F@#k Greg Byrne and if Fenves even gives him a phone interview, Fenves' job should be under reconsideration.

Tell us how you really feel, Duke.

It amuses me that Joe Castiglione is on this list, too. Why would he leave OU - where he's built up years of political capital - for UT? The raise won't be big enough, IMO.

 

[popdaddy]

Fun read. Lot of stuff happened prior to the 60's. That's a different era.

In the new era Texas doesn't need any okie/aggy influence screwing with the direction of the program.

 

[oldhorn2]

The animosity between UT and OU didn't get started until right after WWII. It was the OU alumni who were tired of taking shit from the Texans, starting with the depression and lasting until 1946, who declared war on UT and started the supersized rivalry.

If you remember, the Oklahoma oil fields were in declining production starting in the early 30s, while starting in October 1930 the East Texas field was coming online and producing like nuts. Texans had far more money than Okies during the depression and "Okie" was considered an epithet. Resentment ran strong with the OU alumni and starting in 1946, drilling activity was picking up a lot in Oklahoma to replace wells depleted during the war (when few wells were drilled due to manpower and material shortages). In the post-WWII environment, the OU alums finally had the money to start buying the best football team they could and that team had one goal - to beat UT and shut up the UT alumni in the oil patch. Royal and the rest of the OU players didn't have any reason to dislike UT. They were just along for the education and the under-the-table payments.

Royal was long gone by the time the UT/OU rivalry really started getting heated. He was at Mississippi State, then he coached UW and the Edmonton Eskimos (both those teams were racially integrated, by the way).

Royal was not a product of the supercharged UT/OU rivalry. Greg Byrne, on the other hand, is a redneck aggy to the core whose first thoughts when taking over the Arizona program were to start including bullshit aggy "traditions" into the UA gameday experience. We don't want or need that kind of thinking at UT.

Greg Byrne is very much a product of the warped "once an aggy, always an aggy" mentality.

F@#k Greg Byrne and if Fenves even gives him a phone interview, Fenves' job should be under reconsideration.

I agree with your much more informed analysis.......f**k Byrne

 

[longhorn_mig]

Well, there's one candidate off the board, which will make a lot of y'all happy.

— Twitter API (@twitterapi) November 7, 2011

 

[Rotty22]

Well, there's one candidate off the board, which will make a lot of y'all happy.

— Twitter API (@twitterapi) November 7, 2011

GB: hey coach saban, we're gonna need the players and the fans to interlock and sway back and forth and yell "rolllllllllll tide"

saban:  who are you?