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  1. On the west coast cuh is a phrase crips use when addressing someone. Like cousin, but cut off.
  2. No matter what ole buddy said to you, you were going to drag his ass regardless. It's kinda your thing.
  3. I tried my best to NOT give her a celly but folded when she was 12. Hell, we were in LA when she was 6 and 90 percent of her class had phones.
  4. Mr 45k posts out here post shaming........bwhahahahaa
  5. I think the battered fan syndrome is getting to all of us. Some of the best coaches there is literally nothing special about them outside of their ability to find talent. We wandered in the desert for a decade because we weren't loading the cupboards like we used to. This is the first time I can say we are getting top recruits since early Mack. Best QB available? Got em. Best running back? Got em. When's the last time we had a 5 star wideout? When the last time we've had a 5 star lineman? Our recruiting was faltering and it showed in the draft and our dwindling NFL presence. Sark seems to be convincing people who can play anywhere they want that they should play here. We can go around in circles about NIL but I am of the opinion that the top kids are gonna go where they get showcased the best. I think if we keep loading up like this winning is inevitable.
  6. The best thing that ever happened to Zay might be coming from Desoto. Cook is a swaggy/cocky bastard that ain't coming here to play school. Until now nobody here has threatened Zay's position as top dog in that room. If Zay stays he will get pushed to keep the number 1 receiver role as well as the NIL money for best receiver. If Zay is competitive he will step it up to stay on the mountain top. Let's hope "little brother" being on campus pushes him to get better.
  7. I have seen comments like this for the better part of a decade and I think we've forgotten what championship talent looks like. 30 future NFL players in 05 and we still barely won a championship. We need competent line play on both sides, a running game, a good QB, and some skill players that make plays when its time to make them. This year we had a running game and everything else was mediocre. We were stout against the run but couldn't get to the QB when it really mattered. We had zero big plays in the passing game when we needed them, and none of those dudes were able to turn short balls into long plays. To move forward we have to have a legit pass rush. We have to get better at QB/pass protection, and we have to get more explosive outside. If we can do that we can win the conference and put ourselves in the mix.
  8. Offensive line, defensive line, and QB play for those that need help.
  9. Look, I don't need the insults. Save them for someone else. Whatever your opinion of me is of your own manufacturing. Outside of this board I am a regular guy that just played enough football to understand what I am seeing and how things work. I am not on here claiming I know a guy or am big inside the program. Go chase after those dudes. I state my opinion strongly because I have a lot of faith in it. Nothing more, nothing less.
  10. There are 3 areas that destroy you as a coach when it comes to wins and losses. Line play and QB. If you are good in the trenches and have solid QB play you are in the hunt. TCU had a lot of question marks, but they are solid in those depts. That's the reason people here aren't sold on him. Case in point, Manny Diaz looked like a rock star when he inherited Boom's defense. As soon as those guys were gone he was trash. Coaching in college is about talent recognition and development if you wanna be around long term. Period. Some coaches can run a team, but can't recruit and develop. Herman was like that. Good with other people's guys but not good at finding his own. Dykes may be one of those guys. Jury is still out.
  11. Someone in the booth is validating what he is seeing. Greg Davis did NOT look like a genius with VY. VY was off script quite a lot. Greg looked good for about half a season when we started running Colt's offense and then teams caught up to us. The thing with Sark is he has always looked good to great calling plays at the college level. We've seen his bottom at Washington and his top at Bama. For me though we just aren't executing well right now and we are STILL scoring points at a decent clip. So my thing is pretty simple. If we look solid offensively now how good to we look when the line isn't busting every other play, our WR's can catch, we have more than 2, and our QB has a year or two experience under his belt? We are currently 25th in scoring with all the issues we have.
  12. If Sark has any blame its allowing guys who fail to step on the field. Guys are making dumb ass mistakes and just trotting back out there. For example, the throw up the right sideline to Worthy at the 3:20 mark of the vid below was a back shoulder throw. Defender is over the top so all Worthy has to do is slow down. Some of the runs we called didn't go where they were supposed to go because someone on the line missed their assignment causing them to pick somewhere else. For example, at the 1:51 mark of the 1st quarter we are running a play that has some wiggle room to the outside. However, Majors(65) and Campbell(52) are doubling a D-lineman, and Majors just lets a guy shoot the gap and blow the play up in the backfield. Now instead of 2nd and 5 its 2nd and 11 and you are behind the chains. 13:30 mark and 1st and 10. We just had a big play on the scramble and dump pass to Worthy. We run Outside Zone, a play that is wheelhouse for KRob to take advantage of his speed, and it hits for 11 yards. However, true freshman DJ Campbell allows himself to get separated from his man, instead of continuing to stay locked and driving him. He gets called for a hold. Now its 1st and 20. We go on to score anyway but you get the point. These are the plays that are killing us, not Sark's playcalling. 22 min mark of the vid below. 1st and 10 we get Krob loose for 15 on the rail route we love so much. We run it again and - false start. 1st and 15 we call a pin and pull but instead of Sanders pinning his man he gets manhandled and ends up blowing up the play by running into the pulling lineman. 2nd and 11 we get Worthy loose up the sideline-drop. 3rd and 11- Worthy wide open up the seam-drop. This is the problem not the playcalling, and its been like that all year. agreed
  13. Let's break down what we are asking for here. We want one of the best playcaller/designers in the game to hand the reigns over to someone far lesser than them at their craft? Playcalling is a feel thing. If a guy who gets brought in has to learn Sark's system he isn't going to be nearly as good in the moment. Now I know what Surly is going to say here, and that is Sark isn't good in the moment. What I will say to that is a lot of what Surly is seeing isn't always what the play was designed to do. We would be really good offensively if we didn't have so many errors in execution.
  14. You guys are truly some weirdos. You can't just grab an OC. That OC has to have the same philosophy as you do or the marriage won't work. This is a totally different issue than what Jimbo is facing. Jimbo's problem is the game has passed him by, so ANYONE calling plays for him will be better. Except Jimbo will be meddling every step of the way. Lincoln Riley's problem is his defense. He has been carting Grinch around since 19. Texas' issue is they were largely one-dimensional. We had a few schematic plays Sark drew up that would create busts in coverage here or there, but no one catching a ball was making plays on their own. If you had to have someone step up the RB room was the only place you could look to get that. Our receivers didn't make any off script plays all season. That caused us to have to go on 12-14 play drives, which is a nail in the coffin to a young offense. Somewhere along that drive someone with little experience is going to lose concentration and a negative play will result that you cannot recover from. Going forward, no matter the playcaller, the players are going to have to start making big boy plays in order for this offense to turn the corner.
  15. Every black person on this board knows what that stands for. Especially @Slacks since he invented the phrase.
  16. Hopefully he is your black friend.
  17. One outlier doesn't skew the data. The schools at the top year over year recruit at the top year over year. OSU, Clemson, Bama, and now Georgia.
  18. Geezus you guys are always on the ledge. Coaching in cfb is more about recruiting than it is coaching. The teams that are recruiting well are winning all the games consistently year over year. We have sucked large penis for these last 12 years because we were not able to recruit consistently. Prior to that when we were recruiting well it showed in wins and losses. The next guy who can recruit the way we recruited during the early part of Mack's tenure will be The Guy.
  19. Exactly. We are a pretty embarrassing fan group.
  20. Major was not better than Simms. If we played Major all year we lose a couple games elsewhere.
  21. Correct. We struggled mightily protecting the QB. We struggled in general on the O-line. That said, QE showed what he can do when we asked him to run Card's offense in the bowl game. If we can give him more protection, and get close to the same productivity in the running game, I think we will see a corner turned.
  22. For me it started when X came back for a second campaign weighing the amount he did last year. I was like Uh Oh. Showed he didn't feel the need to work on his body, which shows you exactly who/what he is. Imagine thinking 160lbs is good enough to play at this level when you are 6'0. Devonta Smith, the kid who sold X on Sark, was exactly the same 160lbs X was coming out of high school. By the start of his freshman year he was 165lbs, a weight X still has yet to get to. Smith then gained another 7lbs by his soph yr, and finished at 175lbs by the time he left. My second issue that shows a lack of work ethic is that X came in basket/cradle catching the football, and in year two he is still uncomfortable/unwilling to catch with his hands. By now you should've worked on your hands so much with the Jugs machine that catching with your hands is muscle memory. That shows an unwillingness to change as well as not being coachable.
  23. @shadow_operative judges everything in a vacuum. Ewers is a 5* recruit because of the things he can do on the field. Those things don't need to translate into wins in order for him to finish college as the number 1 draft pick. Many a college QB got drafted high off of shitty teams, so let's put that to bed right now. Freshman Ewers didn't play perfect but there are two huge contributions to why we struggled. We allowed more untouched rushers this year than I truly can ever remember us giving up in a single season. We also had guys giving no effort on catchable balls down the field. People can say "you need to get the ball out quick", but that's exactly what they want/expect you to do, so they can come flying up and make plays on the ball. You have to burn teams for dedicating too many men to the LOS. Our issues are all interconnected. Lack of running game for stretches, lack of pass protection, and lack of passing game past 15 yards. Hurt people downfield and they will back off. Miss those attempts and defenses become more and more aggressive. It's simple as that.
  24. This post is dumb. Getting rid of the ball quickly is about thwarting the troubles of pass protection, not about "dumbing it down". Did you see the game last night? The best passer in cfb was struggling in the first half because we sped him up. They adjusted by going to the quick game in he second half and we didn't take away the quick throws. Their receivers CATCH THE BALL and then turn and get yac. Our receivers either drop the ball or catch, but largely get tackled right where they stand.
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