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  1. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    People are going to transfer. Nature of the times. But how many players do you think we could've saved with these two changes. Bigger rotations. No hard stance on portal entries? Think about it. French is leaving and McCutcheon is not. What's the difference?
  2. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    This is a board full of Texas grads so I will speak in term that we all understand. Awhile back I worked for an organization at the executive level. Every week I was on a call and all we talked about was the usual, ways to flow money to the bottom line to increase shareholder profits. Most of the discussion was ways to take from the little guy in the company. For example, if your bonus criteria was 50% Ebidar and 50% top line sales, we would give you a YOY goal that was unattainable, or if you were hitting it we would raise it mid year. Anywho, I hated the organization. I wanted to leave. As a former athlete I have torn my ACL 3 times, and needed an OATS procedure plus shaving of my meniscus. I had 90 days full disability pay so I took it. I was out 89 days and when I came back I turned in my notice. That's what people do when they don't like you. Our players are the same way. Our coaches go over their houses and sit on their coaches and tell their mothers how they are going to take care of their babies. Then they get them signed and forget about them. The kids are over on the other part of the field working with the 3's and 4's and the coach, self admittedly, isn't seeing them because he is busy with the starters. Kids feel hopeless. Then that hopelessness turns to being jaded. Then when the time comes and they have a chance to turn around and put a dick in your ass they are going to do it. Now are you going to stop kids from asking for more money? No. But if Sark was moving around, watching all the kids at practice, and giving them a little pat on the back, saying, "Keep working. I see you", that gives kids hope. A bigger rotation where kids get in the game and get to make a play makes them feel seen and gives them hope. Not going "We're Texas" and telling kids if you get in the portal you are never coming back might help. How many players went back to their schools. Pushing kids out of the program for the next shiny object is another one. Many here might disagree with what I am saying but what we can all agree on is the way they are currently managing things isn't working. People turn ugly when they feel unwanted or unappreciated.
  3. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    Agreed and i will take it one step further- The O-line has been a problem for Sark's entire tenure here. Bijan masked a lot of the problems at first as well as the general weakness of the Big12. People like to bring up that they got drafted but the problem wasn't if they did or did not have talent. It was that they were a mismatch and therefore struggled against strong opponents. Here is what I mean from left to right. Banks could do both pass pro and run block. Conner was great at pass pro but was getting pushed in the backfield on run plays. Majors struggled handling someone solo in the run game. Campbell was mauling people in the run game but struggled with simple line stunts and such in pass pro. Williams was one of if not the most penalized players in college football and, as we know, prone to whiffing on his assignment in pass pro. When you build a team you start with a concept. Then you recruit O-linemen that fit your ideology. Michigan says we are going to run the football. So they pick linemen who above all can move people in the run game. As such Michigan has rushed for at least 100 yards vs Ohio State 5 out of 5 times the last 5 years, with a 252 yard performance, and a 297 yard performance in there. We don't build to an identity. We just grab guys. We had enough in the passing game but Sark can't help but chase shiny objects. We really really really need help on the O-line but here we are. We will likely grab guys just like the old guys and end up struggling to run again this year. We let a couple guys go that we know for a couple hundred thousand to chase a dude that will cost a couple million and we don't know will work out in our system. We have to fix the interior O-line. It's a must in order to make a deep run.
  4. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    100% agreed. I am never trying to have a pissing contest with him. That dude comes and finds me wherever I post. There are certain posters who just look at the name of the poster and start arguing just because its you.
  5. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    And that's exactly what they weren't doing. Did you get hit on the head? What is wrong with you? At no point was Georgia worrying about our running game. You are arguing hypotheticals that didn't happen. Geezus dude everyone and their momma knows we were better out of 11 than 12. Stop.
  6. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    Look dude, you are losing focus. The point of the still was to show how they were lining up vs 12 personnel. What does rolling coverages from Cover 2 to 3 or 4 to confuse the QB have to do with anything about the run game? Answer- Nothing. If a team respects your running game they are going to add a man to the box. Simple as that. Last year ND ran the ball primarily out of 11 personnel. As the game wore on Georgia started walking down a safety to deal with ND's running game. If you are getting killed in the running game you are not going to keep lining up 12 yards off the ball at the snap. Why are we even having this discussion? Again, in 2026 I am not going to waste time arguing with you. Good running game = more guys in the box. More guys in the box = less guys against the pass. = what makes 12 personnel effective. Unless you are us and can't run the ball no matter what you are in. I am not "ignoring the effectiveness of personnel groupings". I am saying if you don't have the roster to run what you want run what you can to the best of your ability. Flawed or not.
  7. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    Geezus dude, you are always so argumentative. Whether or not a single play was successful or not is not important. It is a fact that both this year and last year we were far more effective out of 11 personnel than 12. That is not even up for debate. Go chart the game play by play yourself and you will see that what I am saying is correct. I don't know what it is about you that when I post, no matter how true it is, you are going to instantly oppose it. I could say the sky is blue and you would say "well actually....".
  8. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    As you know Codaxx, 6 O-line and 12 personnel packages only work if you can force the defense to bring extra men into the box to handle the run. That means no 2 safeties over the top and 1v1 coverages on the outside. However, if teams ignore your big packages and simply sit back in coverage, it's all worthless, and might as well run more receivers. Here is Gawga last year in the SEC Championship game sitting in two deep while we are in 12 personnel. Safeties 12 fucking yards off the ball, giving zero fucks about the run game. Here is Georgia this year with Arch still sitting back in coverage while we are in 12 personnel. Again, safeties 12 g-damned yards off the ball, caring as much about the run game as @Nicole44 cares about a relationship with anyone on Surly. Sorry fellas. What the Dawgs look like when they respect your 12 personnel. Safety walked up in the box creating space on the outside for receivers. Again, if there is no change in how they defend you when you line up with two tight ends on the field(12 personnel), and you are still going to run the football for 30 fucking yards, why would you hamstring your QB in the passing game with less targets? Sark is stubborn about his 12 personnel. That dude loves him some tight ends, but he doesn't have the personnel to run it. So dude runs it anyway, and we all blame the quarterback when dumb ass Sark has Juan Davis and Spencer Shannon in the game, instead of a 3rd receiver. "Why can't he find anyone open?". That's the kind of shit I was pointing out last year with Quinn but people only wanna listen now that it's Arch, and "he has all the tools", so it can't be him. Yeah, for those that are just tuning in it's been going on for a couple seasons now. Finally coach gave in and started running way more 11 personnel. That, and a big change in route concepts, is a lot of the reason Arch turned the corner. That said, you know Sark is salivating to go right back to 12 personnel heavy percentages as soon as he thinks we can run it. @Nicole44 once said, "It's like he is auditioning for the NFL, and I think she is dead on. Until we fix the interior O-line all of this is shit. Doesn't matter if you have two tight ends out there mauling people if your guard and center are getting ragdolled like Colt was by Ndomukong Suh in the 09 Big12 CCG.
  9. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    Yep. The whole purpose of 12 personnel is so you can have an advantage in the run game by putting bigger bodies on the field. The reason why 12 sucked so much here the last two years is because the interior O-line can't block. Someone was always getting beat. Either getting pushed in the backfield or beat so quickly that the back had to juke a defender a millisecond after getting the ball. So you have no running advantage and your second TE can't catch passes. So basically you just volunteered a receiving target off the field making it easier to defend you. That's why we were so much better in 11. We ran shitty out of 11 too, but at least we could throw it. Lol
  10. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    The position you play doesn't determine if Sark is trying to get you the ball. We move people around too. Progressions change depending on the play design. For example, when we run the fake screen where the blocking receiver fakes his block and then goes, he is the first reed. Sometimes that guy is a TE. Your catches are determined by the amount of times we try to get you the ball. We weren't throwing him the ball dude. Nothing you say can make that different. Again, I will tell you the same thing I said earlier. I have the All22 for these games. I can easily put all the dropbacks up while he was on the field and prove it to you. What you will see is us using him to clear space. Then 2 or 3 times a game we will look his way. Lastly, Mosely played the last 9 games bruh. He was back for the SEC opener.
  11. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    We've never had one. Ever. Meanwhile look at Ohio State, Bama, OU, and Georgia. Every is here Kee-Kee'ing, but take a look at Sark's side of the ball in the portal right now.
  12. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    I follow recruiting I just don't participate on our board with the blowhards, and that's exactly what I said. We don't get guys in the rotation and we expect them to feel something for the program? Why would they? No snaps and a kid is hearing you aren't good enough to play here. Some snaps and a kid is hearing you are next. Throwing kids some scraps matters. It shows you believe in them and then maybe just maybe they don't bend your ass over when it comes time to negotiate.
  13. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    Look at it from his perspective. Sark parked his ass on the bench with nary a care about his future. Now all the sudden the tables have flipped and he should be loyal? If Wisner didn't ask for more money and CJ was healthy Clark would've never seen the field. Now he has a little leverage and is probably pissed.
  14. Thatguy replied to LTtxfan's topic in Football
    Most of the dudes in the portal are leaving their school because they aren't being utilized, which means they aren't Jeremiah Smith. So the negative stories outweigh the positives. The Big Dawgs are usually using who they recruited. So burning bridges is way more harmful to us than it is to a lesser school. Times are different now. When Bama was pushing out players, they had 5 stars on top of 5 stars, so they still won, and kids like going to a winner. However, look at them since the portal. Line isn't great. Can't run the football. Defense is shaky. They no longer can just load up on 5 star kids, so misses and kids opted elsewhere hurt a lot more than they used to. You are thinking about the last part wrong. You said earn your pay. Well, Sark has a short rotation so unless someone in front of you gets knicked up, you aren't getting an opportunity to earn your pay. Seriously, Lockett came in and grabbed two balls and a touch. He probably been pissed off the whole season knowing he was balling in practice but couldn't crack the lineup. That little bit of run he got might just have saved him from entering the portal.
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