I thought it was known that if a player officially entered the portal (submitted paper work) Sark made it clear there was no returning to Texas. Which is how it has to be. And you would be 100% correct. So if that is the case why is he saying this at the 18:30 mark instead of the truth, which is if you go in the portal it's over?
Lol. Dude, Moore isn't WR1. We threw 54 balls to Wingo and schemed the passing game around him hoping he would tap into that "potential". Moore was fine in the role Sark put him in, which was basically a security blanket.
Moore is a solid receiver. We just didn't utilize him. Our second most productive receiver. Last year Moore had 7 TDs to Golden's 9 with 20 less targets. We worked him in the short game and he was solid.
You are a receiver on the team. Early part of the season you are involved. Towards the end of the season your touches and time on the field drops. You are out of the starting rotation and are the 4th guy coming in. You can feel that. You can feel your role slipping away. You probably had a talk or two about what you can do to get on the field more. You aren't going to come in all cocky asking for 800k. It doesn't even make sense. Now it makes sense that Moore would do that, but a guy who has only played this year and a limited role at that? come on.
Dude, I've addressed everything you've said. Given you scenarios. The player himself comes out and tweets. You are just going to call anyone that has that opinion a liar. You see, when the program says its about money it turns into he said she said and the player is the one who looks like the asshole. There is no proving it one way or the other. Dude played in the bowl game. 24 hours later he is in the portal and pissed off. I was told he was informed he didn't have much a role here. You were told he wanted 800k. Bobby says he was offered mid 6 figures. I guess RS Freshman Nate Kibble didn't like his money either huh? That's 17 kids that have now portaled out. From a blue blood that is winning with a top tier QB and one of the best DCs in the country. You check writers need to get to work.
If a kid is told he 6 on the rotation of 4, regardless of the money you are pushing him out. You know he isn't just going to "not play". It's not even a conspiracy. It's what coaches do when they want to push people out. It's weird to me that you guys think 16 people went into the portal because they wanted more money. Lol. But I will leave y'all too it. This is why I stay off the recruiting board.
That's not how it goes. You are part of an organization that does end of year evals. Your boss calls you in for yours and explains what they think your role will be going forward. They do this shit even at the high school level fellas. It's not rocket surgery. Don't you think it's weird all the other "want more money" guys already had their talks and were in the portal? Parker plays in the bowl game and then all the sudden jumps in the portal and firs out a "it wasn't me" tweet? Connect the dots Jimmy.
We talk a lot of shit but you know I have no ill will toward you. Same with @Dahobbs. Truly, my worry is us being a revolving door where as soon as we get someone in, we are losing just as much or more. That's kinda what is happening. We came into this season with 3 decent LBs, Hill, Smith, and Lefau. Two left, and now even if we get one decent one we are still thin. Plus kids talk. Shaun Rogers daughter is a friend of my daughter and is at SMU playing volleyball. If the SMU program is bullshit and my daughter was thinking about committing Kennedi would tell her do not come here. Like football, all these kids been playing against each other or on the same club teams(7 on 7) since middle school and keep in touch. We've lost a lot this season for a blue blood program who had a strong year with a strong finish. We used to have people portal out, never to be heard from again. However, now are losing serious contributors at a time when we are winning and we just brought in one of the best DC's around. That's all I am saying. I've flamed this thread enough. Time to move on.
Out of my depth? You just watched an entire season that went sideways because we didn't get kids properly evaluated due to small rotations and lack of experience. Yet you still don't recognize what is right in front of your face. So a few questions for you? Why was Arch, a guy who had been here two years already at the start of the season, not ready to go day one? Why did we not know whether or not we had a LG or C who could play coming into the season? Why were we playing Baxter all year only to find out that Clark can run the football? Why were there a ton of mistakes in the secondary when Taafe went out? For a guy who according to you is "pretending to know what is going on during a given play", I sure as shit have been right a lot on this board huh? I called this season last year when you guys were beating your chests about how 2025 was the year. Was it a lucky guess? Or was I telling you last year that Arch was staring down the deep routes, and the interior O-line has been a problem since Sark has been here? Oh, what? I was? Then shut the fuck up, because I don't remember you being the voice of reason AT ALL.
I'm suggesting the chain of command doesn't have to report to you if it decides there was no negotiations to be had. You guys come into play when there is interest of working something out. You 9.95ers are something else man.
If you think I am a tunnel vision guy then you haven't been paying attention. This isn't about Parker, this is a trend that I am not liking across the board from Sark and as I said, it's hurt. College football isn't the NFL. You have to come out swinging. We get Ohio State game 2 next year and Tenn, OU, Florida, and Ole Miss game 4, 5, 6, 7. If we come out sluggish we could be looking at 3 quick losses and be out of the CFP halfway through the season. We are losing over 20 players through portal and draft so far. Fifteen of which were on the field for us this season. That's a lot of replacing that needs to be done to be playing at full tilt game 2. That is my concern.
Lol. You claimed the kid asked for 800k even after he is posting HIMSELF to say he was pushed out. So who looks to have the correct information here mr check writer? So you are saying the kid comes to you, the check writer, to ask for a particular amount and then you go to the coach to see if that amount is in line with what they mentally allocated to said player?
If you were told that the reason they let Parker go is because he asked for 800k then you had 9.95 information and not someone on the inside speaking their mind. There are levels. Parker is clearly telling the Longhorn faithful in so many words, they are lying about it. From the horses mouth.
The problem that I am concerned about that @Dahobbs and @Codaxx aren't hearing is that a large reason we've been losing games is because we've had to grow up during the season due to a lack of experience. At the end of 2024 everyone said how Arch was going to come right in and be an immediate upgrade. I was screaming from the mountain top about some of the things I saw him struggling with and sure as shit he did struggle early on. Sark has a bad habit of of not getting backups reps and keeping his rotations small. That hurt us when receivers went down. That hurt us with running backs. That hurt us on the line. That hurt us even with Arch Manning. If every season 50% of your team is learning on the job you are going to take some lumps that have you on the outside looking in. Now it's going to be 2026. We are going to be breaking in new backs, receivers, and linemen. On D all 3 levels too. That may cost us a game or two before we get settled in just like it did this year. Then 2027 we break in another new QB and 15 more players from the portal. See where I am going? Sometimes you just have to coach up your roster and quit looking for shiny new objects everywhere else. Brennan Thompson just caught over 1000 yards this year. We could've used that. Sometimes the answer to your struggles is already on the bench.
As I said upthread the narrative being pushed by the admin is that these kids are leaving because "they are asking for too much money and we can't do that so..". This is untrue, and this is Parker and his rep's way of telling us and prospective teams that he was pushed out. I told you guys I had people behind the scenes. I tried to toss you guys a bone but you guys are just buying that 20 or so Longhorns are all just leaving because they are greedy. No! There are a couple but we are pushing most of them out.
Man, I don't know if you know or not but I really don't give a fuck what you think about me. If I call someone trash maybe there is a reason behind it. Maybe I know something going on behind the scenes that brought me to that opinion that I am free to express because this is America Jack.
Indiana is whipping everyone's ass with zero homrerun hitters anywhere. There is something to be said for experience. But keep telling us different though. Cig is showing you why you are wrong.
Because he was pretty trash. And it was all season. Injuries dont make you the most penalized lineman in the country. He was busted protections early in the season.