Not DBU but GIMMICK U.

- Chain around head coach's neck coming off the bus
- Hypnosis BS as a means of motivation?
- Pillow fight night before game

I know I'm missing some here, help me out...

technoviking said:

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https://sports.yahoo.com/behind-the-scenes-with-texas-football-190915598.html

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When he arrived back in Austin, where he'd been a graduate assistant, Herman set out to bring a blue collar to a blue blood and shed the program's country club reputation, in part, by bringing a night-club vibe. Even the water break stations are called Club H20, and all team meetings and special teams meetings kick off with players bobbing and dancing to rappers like Young Thug.

How different is this Texas operation? There's a 6 a.m. "Suns Out, Guns Out" offseason workout that includes tie-dye workout gear and machines shooting flames. Game-day traditions include obstacle courses with pillow fights and dance circles. There's staff room banter where, this week alone, Herman quoted everything from "Dude, Where's My Car" to "Silence of the Lambs" to "Game of Thrones," all in appropriate dialects.

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At 9:29 a.m. on game day in the team hotel, a flurry of assistant coaches, interns and strength coaches stage an obstacle course in the hallway leading to the ballroom that serves as the team headquarters. The ritual is known as "Morning Juice," and it's the quintessential example of Herman's defiant commitment to defying uptight football norms.

There are a dozen travel-sized boxes of Frosted Flakes opened, with the cereal poured out and crushed up on the floor. Why? Well, Tony the Tiger represents LSU's Tigers.

Players enter the obstacle course with belly crawls under sheets draped over chairs. And when the players emerge, they turn hard left and sprint down a longer hallway where four strength coaches and support staff pop the players with pillows while they leap over multiple benches.

The only player exempt from the gauntlet is tailback Keaontay Ingram, who is Texas' lone scholarship tailback and began the season at that position after a rash of injuries. When Ingram approaches the obstacle course, Herman has a security guard give a mock "police escort" through the chaos. "Scholarship running back!" Herman screams.

After all 73 players run through, they gather in a conference room and the song "Still" by the Geto Boys blasts. A dance circle forms, and different players bounce through the middle. Collectively, the players scream out the song's refrain, "Die mutha----ers! Die!"

Much of the Texas staff has been with Herman since Houston, and some comment on how this feels relatively tame. The Cougars once danced in a parking lot at Disney, before a game with UCF, in front of aghast parents. In Baton Rouge for a game at Tulane, hotel officials kicked the team out of the hallways because it disturbed a quilting convention. Water guns, smoke bombs and water balloons have all been involved.

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Wtf.

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That is..... something

tu slumber party! Pillow fights, cookies and cuddling.

I've never seen a team's activities need so many quotes around "things," and a following explanation. Everything is a damn gimmick over there.

What is wrong with that program?

That's gayer than the LSU player playing gay chicken in their locker room

A dorm hallway full of sip pillow-biters.

A Net Full of Jello said:

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What is wrong with that program?

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I have to confess that I really didn't believe that yahoo article originally, thought it was satire. Truly did not. Just too stupid to go from Mack's "Country Club" to Chollie's "Five Core Values" to Herman's "Pee Wee's Playhouse."

Just too surreal to believe.

Buuuttt, guess Hermensa is just that nuts. (And they also have too many coaches under NCAA rules. You can't go from five to fifteen on staff for strength and conditioning coaches without a cut somewhere else.)

goodAg80 said:

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A little bit of bump and grind will loosen up the players!

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So Tommy Boy hugs and tucks them in at night then gives them a pregame kiss ?

WTF ?

If we lose a recruit that wants to be a part of their games and his "affection" I don't give a *****

*****ing weirdos.

What kind of a**holes trash a hotel like that?

agent-maroon said:

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In Baton Rouge for a game at Tulane, hotel officials kicked the team out of the hallways because it disturbed a quilting convention.

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Thug. Life.

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MetoliusAg said:

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A dorm hallway full of sip pillow-biters.

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goodAg80 said:

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEDCl_3XUAA86sv?format=jpg&name=large

Prep for the game with LSU

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One of the azz clowns in this photo is actually one of the football coaching staff. I recognize the dipsh*t as he was my son's position coach at another program. I'm betting he was the mastermind behind this "team activity." What a little gadget program they have 92 miles to the west of A&M....

A Net Full of Jello said:

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What is wrong with that program?

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They went from Deloss business model, to Patterson's social media model, to Del Conte's boosters-pay-for-everything-don't-they? model.

Remember this?