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  2. And there is no game plan for an OL that can't pass or run block. When you combine them you get an offense that scores 14 PPG against real college football teams (13 if you remove the TD that was gifted from the Niblett return).
  3. Tell me what I said was wrong with any of that. I was doing an analysis on what 9-3 Texas chances were of making the playoffs bc someone else said it- not making any sort of prediction we’d go 9-3. but- my contention is that’s our most likely outcome: in order of likelihood I’d guess: 9-3 8-4 10-2 7-5 6-6 5-7.
  4. Taaffe was acting like a fucking lunatic postgame on the field. I don't know if he's on some banned substances or just high on life or what but I thought he was fantastic last night. Maybe we need more of whatever oddball crazy token white defender energy he brings.
  5. Recievers showing no effort unless the pass is completely perfect is an issue too. Endries and Wingo are lazy
  6. I know he’s a fat fucktard but
  7. I just want him to hit slants and crossing routes ten yards infront of him and extend drives at this point…. That would be a major improvement for the offense too.
  8. I can only speak for myself, but I thought the pre-season hype coming into the season with a brand new starting QB and and inexperienced OL was a little silly.
  9. As a former walk-on, he has already far exceeded his life expectations but this university should aim a little higher.
  10. pretty sure I was still drinking coffee not that I woulda done much better later.
  11. That Endries play pissed me off the most and makes me want to never see the guy on the field again. Running in between to defenders and just sticking your arms out is wild. If Sark had any pride, Endries won’t play next week
  12. Endries was standing alone by himself and Arch fired it 10 yards over his head. Beauty
  13. I'm sorry. There is no game plan that works with a QB that can't throw to wide open receivers. This irrational belief that we just need to call different plays and Manning will look good is ridiculous. For whatever reason, some games he can perform and other games he can't. The only one that can fix this Manning (or a different QB).
  14. I thought he was getting divorced from L’Oréal? We need a separate thread to keep up with the gossip about the Texas athletics program.
  15. Cross posting this from the Kentuck game thread because this is where it really belongs. First, we had a lot of younger starters coming into this year. However, despite that fact Sark decided to run "NFL style" spring and summer drills which are essentially non-contact. The thought behind this is that it reduced chances for injury. It can work in the NFL because there is almost no season where a team places 3-5 starters on the OL. It doesn't work in college because OL is among the latest developing positions in college football. It also has some of the largest misses because the physical changes between 18-22 of men that large can great decrease or enhance their ability to execute the game plan. Second, because you don't get to see them in full speed contact drills it becomes nearly impossible to make the proper evaluations of growth and development among those type of players. As an important side note, the exact same is true of the QB position regarding growth and evaluation in college. If a QB isn't seeing real world speeds and pressures you can't evaluate his real world growth and ability. That huge piece said, there is also a critical aspect of aligning your game plan to the skillset and abilities of your players. Because you can have wholesale changes at QB and skill positions in a single year and need to replace 3-5 starters on OL, what worked with one group of OL, one group of skill players and one QB may not work well or at all with an entirely different set of each. Texas faced all these save RB who we returned. If you haven't seen them in full speed practices in summer and fall camps it's absolutely impossible to make these adjustments because you can't evaluate the skills and abilities of the players. So, you have to wait for actual games to see both these faults, weaknesses and strengths. Ohio State made them all very clear. However, despite that reality and given we then faced 3 teams we absolutely outmatched those adjustments were not nessecary in order to win convincingly. So, basically no changes were made to blocking scheme, passing or running game. Which leads us to Florida. Sark is a very easy read for a competent DC and HC. His habits and play calls are extremely predictable. While Florida is a struggling team they do have talent physically on the defense. So, a coach who is about to get fired schemed against a predictable offensive game plan that our players couldn't execute very well. The result were exactly what you saw. WHICH lead Sark to alter blocking schemes, QB play, RB play for OU. He simplified blocking from complex strategies and long developing WR routes to shorter routes, very non-complex down blocking schemes, shorter much quicker WR routes, alternative running lanes that were quick hitting and didn't make his young QB turn his back to the field. It worked really well against a very good OU defense and Texas was greatly helped by an OU offense that could not do jack shit. So, in addition to a less complex scheme that our underdeveloped OL and young QB could better execute, fatigue on OU defense also helped. Then came Kentucky where Sark went back to the complex blocking, longer WR routes, same predictable RB runs that also develop slowly and a coach who's not a complete idiot prepared for just that. Sark did it because just like the 3 crappy teams we played and incorrectly Florida he thought the talent would over come poor execute by the Texas players against a far less talented team physically in Kentucky. It didn't. Sark will do the same against the next mid-tier opponent and then just shit the bed against quality ones. It's what he does and it won't change. Why did go away from what worked for OU? Cause he's a offensive genius of course. Ego comes before the fall. Why do we look so bad? Bad talent evaluation in recruiting, inability to evaluate the talent in spring and practice given NFL style approach, complex blocking schemes and long developing WR routes without the talent and abilities to execute them. Edit- 3 important additional aspects. Sark does not create offensive game plans to align with the skillet of the player he has at his disposal. This is complicated by a clear inability to evaluate talent (partially due to the NFL practice) and just bad evaluation of talent. Second, Sark does NOT adjust to the defensive scheme of opponents. He doesn't take what the defense gives us, rather he tries to impose his will against defensive schemes, whether it is working or not.
  16. lol dude can’t hit open receivers or see open receivers and people still want blame other shit
  17. Agreed. That’s why I said better than 50% chance but not near certainty. If you were going to go 9-3 probably best to lose to Vandy and then finish the year winning at Georgia, Arkansas and aggy, point to the OU win and say- hey yall we best 3 top 10 teams and lost at #1 in preseason. No terrible losses. We need in. And you’d be on a bit of a run then if you did it that way. We really need Vandy to beat Mizzou in Nashville next week for 9-3 Texas to be a thing.
  18. Anybody know where George Santos was earlier today.... https://apnews.com/article/france-louvre-museum-robbery-a3687f330a43e0aaff68c732c4b2585b
  19. From Friday's Daily Texan article:
  20. In all seriousness you know it’s not a good sign when players are saying that kind of shit. Has to be so fucking dysfunctional in the locker room.
  21. arch’s turnaround will happen about the same time we average over 4yrds per carry with the offensive line also providing adequate pass protection. New qbs don’t show much progress when the game is sped up and windows are tighter. Or perhaps a better way to say it is young qbs can’t progress when teams can stop the run and get pressure with 3-4 down linemen.
  22. this is why i’m not in the camp of “arch is a bust, time to move on.” maybe i've just become old, but back in my day when you brought in a qb with Arch’s pedigree and talent you didn’t just completely give up on him after 9 whole starts. he’s bad, but he’s not the main issue, and he’s still in his first year as a starter, which everyone seems to forget. i’m wondering if some of his inexplicably poor passes to wide open receivers aren’t a product of him feeling pressure that isn’t there due to the fact that he pressure usually *is* there behind this porous o line. you give him a terrible game plan, you have him running for his life every play, you surround him with the worst we’ve had in years supporting cast in years, the third play of every single drive is 3rd and long, and yeah- that’s not exactly ideal conditions for a first year starter to grow. i’d love to see how how much he could grow with better play calling and more help from his teammates, and im not ready to move on and and declare the manning years to be over/a failure.
  23. Was it Nahlin that said Hudson Card looked like Aaron Rodgers?
  24. Any coaching staff can scheme to minimize or hide a positional weakness and win games, but it takes true courage and borders of greatness to scheme to expose and highlight a positional weakness and still win games. That or you are stubborn as fuck and it is not merely Sark, Gary did that shit for the last 4 years of his tenure in Ft Worth and then tell people at post game press conferences the staff simply needed to coach'em up.
  25. There is always a silver lining to all dark clouds and bringing gloom to any Stoops is always a bright spot. That it's coupled with Venables pain from last week all the better.
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