Willie Lyles, VP of Marketing

Nothin’ I wouldn’t Spec’s him to say.

What a shameless, exploitative piece of shit that guy is.
 
On the other hand, he does offer his gratitude to God, so he has that going for him.

Did he not roll over on L$U because they paid him upfront in cash?

Nice of him to acknowledge publicly that Texas wasn’t playing his dirty game.

Blueshorn wins.

1/5 of Makers Mark on sale at twin liquor for $22.

Go by Specs in downtown houston on a Saturday morning and say hello to him. He hawks some nice appetizers.

Can’t say I don’t agree with him.

Mr. Lyles is water and vinegar and every thing douchey all at once.

I can’t think of any self-respecting Thai hooker who wouldn’t prefer the water and vinegar to Mr. Lyles, though.

Is he implying that OU has “Complete Scouting Services”?

Either way, I hope this scumbag gets hit by a bus.

The underdog rarely wins in this series.

Maybe if enthusiastic pollsters didn’t read “undefeated Texas” and feel obliged to give them a premature 11-ranking, we’d be less shocked at the degree of the loss.

I would still have bee shocked by the degree of the loss if we’d been unranked.

With all of the self-flagellation this week, this is probably well timed. As tough as it’s been from Saturday until now, the one thing certain to stop my yearly check to Longhorn Foundation is seeing our program featured in a Yahoo Sports feature. Kudos to our program’s leadership for having the integrity to keep that from happening.

Say, do Lyles provide reports on the kind of talent Old Freak Nasty look for?

So Lyles didn’t think any of these players were good enough to play for Texas?

Jarvis Humphrey
Andre Jones
Ben Wells
Malcolm Williams
Nolan Brewster
Dan Buckner
Russell Carter
Greg Timmons
Garrett Gilbert
Aundre McGaskey
Tevin Mims
Tre Newton
Marcus Davis
Derek Johnson
Tariq Allen
Tray Allen
Garrett Porter
Thomas Ashcraft
Blaine Irby
Mark Buchanon
DeSean Hales
Jeremy Hills
Ahmard Howard
Dravantti Johnson
Barrett Matthews
Luke Poehlman
Eryon Barnett

That is 25+ players that are/should be 3rd+ year players on this team but who are either getting beat out by younger players or are no longer on the team.

I don’t remember hearing from any recruiting service, blogger or fan that any of these guys were reaches – or not Texas good, and I’d bet that Lyles felt the same way.

Every one of these guys was highly rated, highly coveted by other elite teams and Texas won some form of recruiting battle to get them to sign.

Thanks for that Horncasting. It might just be anomaly compounded by lazy post-MNC recruiting, but our 2006, 2007, and 2008 classes didn’t exactly spew forth talent that everyone thinks Texas has. It is shocking how many busts there were, and how many that just never developed. These guys were top rated but not properly evaluated….obviously. 2007 being the worst year of all.

It’s why we went 5-7 last year. The players either stunk, weren’t developed properly, or both. It was clear Mack Brown was ready to ride off into the sunset on the shoulders of Colt McCoy in 2009 and cash it in. In 2008, I recall seeing him, Sally, and Deloss taking in a Longhorn basketball game the day before signing day…..that’s pretty telling how important recruiting was to him at that point.
 
I’m just glad he stayed away from cats like Lyles.