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  1. I have to share with people who will understand how much this means to me, because my folks are dead now and I don't have other family. I first attended Texas as a freshman in 2005, and it was a dream come true. Texas was the only school I applied to, the only school I wanted to go to. Most of college was straight forward for me, I didn't have much trouble passing classes. I originally started in one major which required two foreign language courses, which I decided to knock out in my early days. I have no fucking idea why, but I took Japanese as my foreign language, and it wound up being easily the hardest course I took. I barely passed JPN 1 and JPN 2 with Cs, my worst grades. Everything was going fine. Midway through college, I switched majors. This set me back, and I required a victory lap to complete my major requirements. I was sitting at 166 hours at this point, and thought I was ready to graduate that december, when I found out the major I switched to had a different foreign language requirement. Rather than 2 semesters of a foreign language, it required 3. At this point, I hadn't taken any japanese courses in 4 years, so I had completely forgotten everything. I essentially could not pass JPN3 if I tried, so I spoke with my councilor. She suggested I take JPN 1, 2, and 3 rapid fire at a community college. I could take JPN 1 during the next semester, then take JPN 2 and 3 during the minimester over the summer. Fair enough, not a big problem. I decided to enroll at HCC to take them while I worked an internship trying to pay off my student debt. Turns out HCC had a professor which made JPN a blow-off course. She didn't really teach. If you showed up, you got an A no matter what. I was elated, it meant my degree was basically on autopilot. Breezed through JPN1 and took JPN2 the first minimester of summer. However, after that minimester, she retired without giving us warning. A new professor came in, and she taught JPN like it was a real course. The two extra JPN refresher courses I took were worthless, I was going to have to start all over again, and I pretty much had no money. I reached out to my councilor at Texas, knowing they can pull strings and essentially do whatever they want. I figured she would help me out, but nope. She told me I was shit out of luck, basically, and that my degree would be waiting for me when I eventually passed JPN3. I was crushed. At this point, I couldn't afford more classes and decided to just work. My internship turned into a job and I figured I was set. For a couple of years, it was ok. However, my job suddenly dried up, and I had to look for a job for the first time. Now, I was not afraid to work on my own as I had confidence I could land a job with my skills and interviews. I was so naive. Were I ever able to actually get a sit down interview, I could have probably swayed someone, but I didn't realize how middlemen hiring agencies will basically gate-wall you off from an interview without your degree. What followed was 12 years of miserable work and feeling completely worthless. My degree at Texas felt like it kept slipping farther and farther away. I felt like I had blown my one and only chance, and with the way the world is turning being without a degree would be a lifelong handicap. I can't express the personal disappointment I felt in myself. I would have reoccurring nightmares, like every few days without fail. It was always the same theme, I'm at school and I've forgotten a class and it's test day and yadda yadda. I know everyone knows the dreams I'm talking about. But they were relentless and so frequent. My nightmares would sour my mood first thing in the morning and depress me. Two things would always happen in the dream: it would be late at night, with the city abandoned. I would be walking in a dreary depressed austin alone, desperately trying to enter the building to take my last exam. The building would always be closed and locked. I would pull on the door as hard as I could and it would never open. I would sometimes wake up crying from this dream. About a year ago my mom died and it took it poorly. I started seeing a therapist to help me with my extreme depression, and through therapy she explored other aspects of my life. This eventually came up. She encouraged me to reach out to the University and see what I could do about returning as a student. She told me to at least try, even if I couldn't afford it. So I did, I looked up the faculty of my old college and emailed the person I figured was right and told them my sob story. I got radio silence for a few weeks before someone finally emailed me back. They told me I was being assigned a special councilor for my case, essentially an advocate. She was going to help me find a way to get my degree. That all started in January, and we've been back and forth pretty much the whole year. Eventually we arrived at a compromise: I could take a cultural studies in japanese course at any school, even online schools, and it would satisfy my degree requirement with a waiver. Well, as it turns out, I took a blow off art appreciation course on Post-War japan during my time in college. I submitted it in October at the deadline for graduation applications to see if they would accept it. As soon as I submitted it, my status changed to conditional graduation. And thus I've been waiting on pins and needles ever since. It changed a few days ago. My application for graduation has been approved. I graduate in 2 weeks. Not next saturday, but the saturday after. The relief, the weight off my shoulders has been enormous. Immediately the nightmares vanished, I haven't had that reoccurring dream since. Last night, I had a dream about school again for the first time since having my application approved. This time it wasn't a dark depressing night, nor was I trying to get into a locked door. I was on the field at DKR. It was a bright and sunny day. We were waiting for commencement to begin. I was surrounded by people 20 years my prior but I didn't care. I was talking to some young woman next to me and I was telling her that I was graduating at 40. I was beaming with pride. I woke up in one of the best moods I've had in ages. Sometimes, it'll hit me, and tears will fall. The years spent lacking and wanting my degree have made me appreciate it so much more than I would have back then. They will let me walk in May. I dreamed of this for so long. I updated my resume a few days ago, and added that I graduated in 2025. Changing my credentials on sites like zip recruiter and indeed to reflect this. Immediately the sorts of job listings I was seeing changed, I'm able to apply now to jobs which I couldn't before. It's a literal dream come true. I love my university so much, and that's why this last 20 years has been so hard. It was a juxtaposition of having honest pride in my school, while acknowledging I had failed in my one goal. I could never tell my friends or family that I hadn't graduated, they all just assumed I had. It was a constant lie I had to tell everyone and myself. Not anymore. That I never had to take another class, that my original body of work from when I attended Texas was actually enough to get me over the goal line... it makes it so much sweeter. I don't look at my past as wasted time, upset at what could have been, but rather I'm looking forward. For the first time since... I can't even remember when, I am honestly more excited for tomorrow than the day before. I can wear my Texas cap again with pride. I'm so fucking happy. I wish I could bottle this stuff up and share it with everyone. This is the good stuff.
    99 points
  2. We are tired of cherry-picked All 22 videos where there is some agenda being pushed. So I thought, let's do our own Surly style, where we can say "what is motherfuckin Sark doing" without having to walk about some critiques the very next week or lose program access. No, we are going to look at every play vs Georgia. As such, we cannot do it all at one time. You don't have time to watch it and I don't have time to do it. Instead, we are going to do it one or two series at a time. So make sure to revisit this thread when it gets bumped. If there is decent interest we will keep it rolling with other games to keep us properly hydrated through the offseason. Sark has a Georgia problem. Yeah I know, captain obvious. For those that were around for the Mack Brown years, this is going to feel oddly familiar. So give your therapist notice that you will need the couch this week because the early 2000's OU memories are about to come back to you. The first thing you will notice is us not understanding Georgia's aggressive nature both in playcalling and physicality. I'm not sure what's behind it because Georgia isn't like that every week, especially if there is a cursive A on the side of their opponent's helmet. It's like Sark got drunk and had sex with Kirby's wife wearing one of his visors and doesn't remember it. Anyway, whatever the reason, like Mack, Sark doesn't seem to understand that Kirby wants to take his head off. You don't make comments like that after the game about someone you like. Kirby is really pissed about that 41 Sark put on him at Alabama. You wanna know how dedicated Kirby is about beating you Sark? He brought Florida's coach in the week before he played you. Let's get into it! 1) 1st and 10. We are going to call this play "Fucking Wingo". Wingo seems to come up small when we play our best opponents. We run the same wr screen we did the two weeks prior. 11 personnel. Sark motions Endries across the formation to the field side. Georgia, always aggressive, brings a 5 man rush. Somehow, in an effort to turn the play back inside, two Georgia players allow Endries to block both of them. If Wingo hits this crease I am not sure how the lone safety will catch him. Wingo trips over the turf and falls. 1.mp4 2) 2nd and 9. After Wingo stumbled for a 1 yard gain we are in 22 personnel with a bunch formation to the field. Endries is on the right side of the line. We motion Moore to the backfield, a wrinkle Sark has used a couple times this season. Georgia brings six and we fire Endries up the seam and two Georgia DBs go with him leaving nobody to cover Moore releasing out of the backfield on a rail route. 2.mp4 3) 1st and 10. 11 personnel in a 2x2 set. Georgia responds with a legit 3-3-5. If I were Sark I would definitely commit this to memory. Will Georgia's response to 2x2 4 wide receivers be a 3 man front? If so call it again so we can crease them. We run split zone, which is basically just inside zone with a Hback coming across the formation to kick out the backside DE for a cutback lane. Endries comes across the formation to kick out the DE but since it's a 3 man front no one is there and he has to look for work. A thing of note before we get to the beautiful thing that is Tre Wisner's feet. Pay attention to 54 here. His job is to fire off the ball and help the center before moving to the second level to get hands on a LB. At the snap the 0 tech DT moves away from him, but 54 mindlessly hits him anyway. What are you doing? Use your head. Use that time to get to the second level. Don't just run a rep for the sake of running a rep. Be flexible. If you see your help isn't needed those milliseconds are the difference between a good block and someone slipping you and getting to the dude you are trying to protect. All 22 really gives you and appreciation for number 5. He knows where he wants to go, but he presses the C gap to sell it to the defense. When people use the phrase "he set up his blocking" there should be a gif of this play next to it. 3 blockers that were losing battles now are able to form a wall once he cuts it back. His feet in the hole are amazing too, shaking the shit out of number 6, in the hole. It's embarrassing to get shook like that much less in a phone booth. For you Millennials and Gen-Zers, a phone both is a 3x3 box with a sliding door that you used to find on the street to get you out of the elements while you talked on what was called a land line. Anywho, Tre Wisner is elite in this area and seeing this it makes total sense why he murders talented but undisciplined fronts like OU and Aggy. Watch from the tight. 3.mp4 4) 4th plat of the drive. 1st and 10. We are in 11 personnel, 2x2 stacks. I don't like us in bunch because the routes take longer to develop. Most of the routes have to be deep or out breaking. It's hard to tell what Georgia is in. Looks like zone except for man on Moore. He had Wingo on the crosser had he gone through his progressions, but I don't fault him here it's Georgia. You aren't think you have that kind of time in the pocket. At any rate, we pick up a nice 4 yards on an Endries hitch to the Boundary. 4.mp4 5) 2nd and 6. 11 personnel. We line Endries up at H back and run H-back Power. Georgia plays a multitude of fronts. Seems like whenever their DTs are playing 2-tech(straight up over the guards), they are playing 2 gap, read and react. A lot less aggressive. Seems like that's something we can take advantage of when we see it. Anyway, Endries fires up the B-gap and picks and a LB. Wisner sees the DT peeking plus the other LB falling into the B-gap and hops over into the A gap for a quick 3 yard pickup. 5.mp4 6) 3rd and 3. We come right back to the same play except this time Georgia is in this front, which means pure single gap disruption. From the tight you can see at the snap of the ball the 1-tech NT jumps from the boundary side A-gap two gaps over to the field side B-gap. Now I don't know what they are taught but 54 just lets him cross his face and works to the second level. Now he is Endries responsibility and he is not up to the task. 2 yard gain. 6.mp4 7) 4th and 1 and we are going for it. We are in 21 personnel with both Baxter and Wisner in the backfield. Sark brings Wingo on a jet sweep motion and that holds the edge defender just enough that they hesitate to crash down inside on the Baxter run. Gooseby helps Hutson before climbing to the second level. Baxter is working off whichever way Endries is blocking his man. Good short yardage play by Sark. 7.mp4 8 ) 1st and 10 and we are in 12 personnel. This is the kind of play that pisses you off from an execution standpoint. This was the same shit as last year. Getting beat to spots. Inability to adapt to changing conditions. This is going to hurt your eyes so be prepared. At the snap Georgia's D-line jumps over a gap to their left. Our center basically falls on his face. DJ goes to the second level and blocks no one. Baker blocks no one and then while turning around to see what happened, falls over our center. Endries job is to come across the formation and kick out the DE because it's split zone. However, don't run past the completely free DT to get to your man that, by the time you get there, is already cutting back inside tracking the ball. Gotta be able to adapt. We haven't had an answer for this for two years. Luckily we have Wisner, who jukes the shit out of the dude two feet from him as he touches the ball and squirts through for 5 tough yards. 8.mp4 9) 2nd and six. 12 personnel. Good playcall by Sark. Sark sends the TE in motion and we show screen. This pulls 4 Georgia secondary members out of pursuit of the actual play which is Outsize Zone. From the tight you can see Georgia lines their DTs up at 2-tech again, and just like before they are in two gap read and react mode. Sark, what formation or down is causing them to line up like this? Because if we can trigger it we can run on them. Georgia is far more difficult when they are attacking. 9.mp4 10) 1st and 10 and of course we false start. 10.mp4 11) 1st and 15. This is a testament to Arch's growth. We have the same ole fake screen and go called to the field which Georgia doesn't bite on but Arch calmly turns and hits his checkdown for a quick 7. Old Arch would hold this ball to see if some of the longer routes were going to develop. Take what you can get. 11.mp4 12) 2nd and 7. 11 personnel and a bunch formation. This is a shit ass play that shows Sark doesn't understand Georgia. You are going to try and run a slow developing QB power on Georgia close to the GL? It goes how you would expect. By the time Arch pulls it there are 3 defenders in the backfield. Just a dumbass play call under the circumstances. 12.mp4 13) 3rd and 8. 11 personnel and bunch formation to the field. We motion Tre to check for man or zone. We run mesh with the TE and Wingo springing him for what would be a 1st down catch but Wingo drops it. 13.mp4 So first series recap- 13 plays. QB taking what was available. We target Wingo twice and he falters both times. We false start. Overall confusion and lack of execution on the offensive line. On to the next series.
    61 points
  3. I remember a marquee bowl game against Michigan 20 years ago. We had a hyped QB who had started to come into his own and roster filled with very talented sophomores and juniors. Texas ended up beating Michigan in a nail biter. Does anyone remember what happened next year when those kids grew up and came back?
    37 points
  4. In the words of Ray Lewis... "Man, Football... Football is getting hit." Some of y'all spoiled hoes can't see past your fucking nose... Winning begets winning. Beat the dog shit out of Michigan and take their portal targets, too. Win 10. Rank in the final top 10. Go practice being winners so you know what it looks like, instead of laying down to fucking Florida. Train for success...and stop being diva ass bitches.
    33 points
  5. Bowl practice is going to give someone a shot to move up in the spring practice order. Every rep counts. There is always a camera. If I'm a freshman or sophomore OL that didn't get to play this season, I'm kicking everyone's ass that I can, because there are spots available and I'm taking one. Hell, if I'm a QB, I'm kicking asses today, because Arch is a headshot away from potentially clocking out. Hell, let me bust ass enough to sit his ass down at halftime for this real football game, because in January, I'll be in a vest and not even have a shot to climb the chart. I swear, man... Some of y'all have the fucking losingest, weakest, presumptuous, entitled mentality about Texas football. Get up and win the next rep. I don't care if it's in shorts and tshirts... COMPETE. The days of football will end for everyone, and most of us don't even realize, "that was the last play." Embrace the game. If you love it, you won't turn your back on it. 10 years ago, we were 5-7 and didn't even get invited to play in a bowl game. Texas vs Michigan in 24 days. Get your fucking mind right and stand the fuck up.
    32 points
  6. It’s a Camaro- that kind of damage is like a CoExist sticker on a Subaru Forrester
    32 points
  7. Akina has been gone. Players hated Scott, Wisner may come back now, no guarantee but he was definitely gone if Scott stayed. Will be a bunch more coaches gone in the next couple days on both sides of the ball. Akina is guaranteed gone. I believe Jackson is technically not under contract after the bowl game and won’t be renewed. They wanted a soft landing spot for Flood but that’s gonna be the one to watch honestly. Jabbar Juluke is the strong favorite to replace Scott, will be interesting to see Plonsky watch him pimp slap someone on the field and give him the go ahead but here we are. Zero idea if he is bringing his RB with him but we feel very good about bringing in another SEC back through the portal… I can guarantee that our RB next year will be a DUDE and behind a completely rebuilt interior OL
    30 points
  8. IT posted some more portal/NFL notes this morning: -Expect Tre Wisner back at this time. Simon and Clark are expected to return but not a 100% lock. -Most likely Jaime Ffrench will be back. Aaron Butler is likely gone. "We’re interested to see how DeAndre Moore’s agent plays his hand." -Would be surprised if Will Randle returned -Expecting Trevor Goosby back at this time -"Very likely" Hero Kanu will return. Watching Melvin Hills for a potential exit. -At corner, they are watching Wardell Mack, Kobe Black, Santana Wilson and Caleb Chester -"We believe it’s increasingly likely Jelani McDonald will return" - Derek Williams and Johnson-Rubell are the two safeties they are monitoring
    30 points
  9. It really sucks that an injury robbed him of a year and then this year wasn't good enough for him to pursue his dream even if it was a low rated draft pick. I don't know if he's wasting his time, obviously he's not gonna go from Texas to another CFP team - if he goes to G5 then has a good season maybe he'll get drafted? Sucks all around cuz he's a great dude who got freak injured.
    30 points
  10. I wish nothing but the best for Baxter going forward in his career
    30 points
  11. Regarding Baxter, if the guy has good people around him and has managed his money well, he’s a millionaire as he heads elsewhere. He made that money while not knowing the difference between being hurt and injured, then having a sidelining injury and not playing, then being a shadow of his former self and being a net negative when on the field. He will now go somewhere else and collect a paycheck while likely again shattering into a million pieces and not doing much to improve that program’s record. He writes a nice article though. OL, I won’t be surprised if 5 guys leave. 3 minimum. WR, there was at least one costly poor evaluation last cycle that is unlikely to be reupped. Moore can also go be average somewhere else. No one wants to see Wingo leave other than clowns on this site. It would have to be a gamechanger for someone to be a portal priority, apparently. RB, ton of turnover. If they don’t land a very big prize in the portal, shame on them. The emergence of Townsend as a true potential unicorn at TE creates the luxury of wishing Endries well to the NFL and the downside of potentially losing some other promising guys who simply know they’re not going to play a ton behind Townsend. They know it is a pipe dream to retain Hill, but keeping everyone else, including Spence, is a big deal. Some guys at DB think they’re worth more than the portal likely tells them they are but Texas has a ton of depth and talent, as well as experience. Maybe they seek a difference maker at Safety, I guess. Akina, Flood, Jackson, Scott - they could all be seeking employment elsewhere.
    29 points
  12. Man, this. Every single one of us get a finite amount of Longhorn games our lives. If you are on this board, I assume those games mean something to you. Some of you would really prefer we turned down an extra game where we get to watch us play Michigan? There is a way to be disappointed in where the season ended up without being a total pussy about it
    27 points
  13. Just the dumbest shit on a daily basis.
    26 points
  14. Time will tell, but part of the shift in the recruiting landscape has been an actual focus on grassroots evaluation. This has always been a fantasy for most recruitniks for big schools and a reality for developmental schools. Whether Sarkisian or Smart or Heupel or Riley or any other name at a big program, they all fall victim to starfucking and walled garden recruiting analysis among their staffs. They can claim to be turning over every rock, and that's bullshit. They're by and large fed names and film by the same sources every cycle, and that's the pool of players that they decide to choose from on the recruiting trail. Now, with an expanded payroll for staff, should someone desire, they could really start turning over rocks. Can't go everywhere on that front, so you start locally and tap your extended high school coaching network, should you have one. This is part of what Texas decided to do in this last cycle because the ground was continuing to shift on the recruiting landscape and prices/values kept escalating into the stratosphere. So, not only was Texas hamstrung out of the gate for 2026 because of Sarkisian's personal bullshit, which put them behind on a lot the 4 star talent that they'd normally build a class with, but the House Settlement created a flood of money for schools that previously didn't have much, and that began driving up everything. Texas made the choice to do what they had to do when it came to the highest priorities, continue to recruit guys they believed in who weren't interested in renegotiating throughout the process, and then dig into the hard part that schools like Texas often get to ignore. The outcome is barbelled. Texas signed multiple prized recruits that they believe to be best bets in panning out early. They also signed a bunch of guys that literally chose Texas for the free ride and otherwise old school recruiting things like staff, tradition, guys going to the NFL, etc. Not a ton of in between guys who have the rankings on paper but still represent a mixed bag of questions. Each player either has very few open questions or a shit ton of questions about their upside at Texas. Do we see more of this for Texas? I don't know. Texas isn't being dumb about just rev-share for NIL and they have a hell of a lot of corporate interest. They're not going to be cheap, but they cannot afford to be stupid. Does the market stay ridiculous? No clue. I guess I'm hopeful that the hard work side of things pays off, but we may not know that for a few years. Continuing that approach might be really smart or fail miserably. Texas isn't the only top 5/top 10 recruiting school that had to look at all of this and edit their way forward, btw. Ohio State tried to take the "we're Ohio State and only rev-share will supply our NIL" approach and they were castigated for months by their fans online for doing so. Georgia looked at things similar to Texas and stood on their business in multiple recruitments. While we mock Nagy's hype and bullshit, OU also pragmatically looked at their circumstances and made choices accordingly. Meanwhile, USC, Tennessee, Miami, Florida and LSU all kind of went nuts in various ways for various reasons. When Oregon or Michigan throw Knight and Ellison money around, that's sustainable. Is what USC is doing sustainable? It is whispered around the recruiting circles and allegedly by other coaching staffs that much of the almost $10M allocated for this incoming class is currently unfunded. That wouldn't be the first time Riley pulled that move and then had to scramble to make good on his deals. Florida and LSU were just flat out desperate to hang on to their talent and considering PSU as an alternative route, they probably made the right choices. I'm kind of just waiting for the bottom to fall out of Miami's NIL. It's not all coming from the same source, but they do not have the same resources across their base that many of the rest in the upper tier do.
    25 points
  15. Nicole will find the culprit, and they will be dealt with
    25 points
  16. I guess every OL entering the portal is going to have multiple posts here salivating over the player, irrespective of whether anyone knows a fucking thing about his competence and capabilities. So we have that going for us, which is nice.
    24 points
  17. I'm not a rah rah Newsome guy but he spits the plain truth more than any other public official I've seen.
    24 points
  18. A lot of controversy about that, actually. Some scholars translate it: "should have hit the portal for offensive line."
    24 points
  19. Kyle Flood and Steven & 5 thought that this guy was going to do well as a starter at LG. Nothing kills my hope for the future under this regime more than when I try to fathom how in the fuck those two idiots came to that conclusion.
    23 points
  20. Moore leaving ultimately to the portal instead of the NFL is what I've been arguing now for weeks. If he goes to the NFL end of things, he's an UDFA based off of what I have seen. He'll get a shitty grade or already has one. The agent will put out feelers and someone in college will be willing to throw $500k at him for another year. Good luck for everyone with that. That said, that's a significant clearance of payroll without taking a major roster hit. Either one of the younger guys is ready, or several are, or they can bring in someone elite or offering a more efficient spend with similar productivity. I'd take any of those outcomes over Moore getting his ask again from UT.
    23 points
  21. ND quits on the season. With a win in the Citrus Bowl, Texas will move into a tie with them for 4th on the all-time win list. Hook'em!
    23 points
  22. https://people.com/immigrants-approved-for-citizenship-pulled-out-by-officials-at-oath-ceremony-11863779
    22 points
  23. Before hearing Mendoza speak After hearing Mendoza speak
    22 points
  24. Whether or not Flood is back is a bit irrelevant to the premise of whether or not he actually did his job this year. The answer to that question is that he did not, and that is a belief held within Belmont and among its benefactors. Flood was apparently challenged about using the portal to field his best 5 and he effectively said “my team is on the court (field)” and ended the discussion after last season. His loyalty was not rewarded and it cost Texas. He went late into this season calling Connor fucking Stroh one of his kind of guys. Solid work. That dude is walking and the portal is being used heavily this cycle and none of that is because Kyle Flood has done his job and deserves to continue to draw a salary from Texas.
    22 points
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