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I tend to agree. Getting slightly aggy about this topic. Looking at pics I don't see a ton of space which shouldn't be surprising with newly designed stadiums maximizing prime seating. Going to be a shitload of press etc. utilizing space outside of team area. It's not Georgia or SEC sticking it to us. Give me a break.

It's not "discovering ability to lead". It's that he has no fucking experience. I reiterate. He was a HS coach during COVID. A resume for a young offensive coordinator that would make a little more sense looks something like: (i) D1 player, (ii) GA at Power 4 program, (iii) Assistant at small school, (iv) position coach at Power 4 school, (v) OC at small school, (vi) OC at larger school. And then it is still a leap to take over Oklahoma. Again, people point to Lincoln but Lincoln had a significantly better resume when he took over OU AND he was 3 years older. Again, this kid has never even stepped foot inside a power 4 facility as an employee until last week. Success at this profession requires more than just basic X's and O's knowledge. It's relationships with a staff that knows how to teach what you teach, ideally years of experience helping an OC formulate game plans against top tier defenses, reps upon reps as a play caller and not to mention things like knowing how to recruit on top of all of that. Offensive coaches work their whole lives in this profession and 95%+ never reach the level of an OU offensive coordinator position. So either Brent fucking Venables found a game planning/play calling savant that doesn't need any experience for immediate success or this kid is going to be learning on the job in a must win year. So good luck with that Sooners.

I mean he's 29. This kid was an OC at Seminole high school during COVID. Sure, there is a chance this kid ends up being the real deal but it's a major fucking red flag OU (not UH or even Tech but OU) is taking a risk on this kid. He has no real relationships for a "staff" at this point even if he wanted to bring some along (which apparently BV is not allowing anyways). So he's stuck with a staff that was absolute shit this year, that are all significantly older and more experienced than he is, and who, to my knowledge, he has absolutely zero relationship with. So sure, it could work, but it's not even close to a 'slam dunk' hire. I have no doubt OU fans have convinced themselves they found the next Lincoln Riley but even Lincoln had 2 years as a position coach at Tech and 4 years at East Carolina before taking a big jump. So yeah - good luck kid.

One of my thoughts as well is that at least we have the opportunity to pull the Vegas LTIR games if we so choose. Probably depends on what his recovery looks like closer to the deadline.

Home loss to 4-8 Kentucky is worse than a road loss to 6-6 OU in my book. To be clear, I think Ole Miss has a better case than Miami. As does South Carolina for that matter. Miami is a clear #4 out of that group if I was voting.

Like I said, strong disagreement for numerous reasons (not to mention that Notre Dame doesn't really bring more eyeballs than Texas if that is what you are insinuating) but hope we don't find out.

If both Texas and Oregon lose then I think 6, but yes, one of those 4. To be clear, considering the potential for movement behind it's impossible to know whether 6 is really better than 7, for example, from a matchup standpoint but it will be one of those. They are going to maneuver spots 5/12 in all sorts of ways to avoid rematches and, if possible, intra-conference round 1 games, just like we see in basketball. I'll be shocked if the final bracket isn't extremely appealing from a TV matchup standpoint. At the end of the day that is really their (unspoken) job.

Huh? Ole Miss has the "worst" loss of those 3.

Strong disagree absent a blowout loss. I hope we don't have to find out but I'm pretty confident they aren't going to overly penalize teams that are actually playing an extra game.

For everyone bitching about Bama, who in the fuck should be ranked ahead of them? I'm sorry - they are MUCH more deserving than fucking Miami. It was pretty straight forward from my perspective. The real test is what they do if Clemson beats SMU.

Yeah, think I'm passing on this. Think they overpriced it for the limited time window. Will probably want to get into the stadium well before kick.

Alright at this point I had to just look it up. We got the ball back with a 10 point lead with 10:49 in the 4th. We ran it 3 straight plays for gains of 8 yards, 16 yards and 8 yards. Then on 2nd and 2, we ran it for a loss of 5 yards. Then the 3rd and 7 was the shitty Bond route that should have been converted. Then the fucking Punt got blocked. We didn't get the ball back until 4:32 left when A&M had 2 TO's left and we ran to make them burn timeouts which was the obvious play. There was no "abandoning giving Quinn the ball". It was exactly what you would want to see from a play calling perspective in that scenario when you are beating their ass at the line of scrimmage.

I just don't think this is correct, at least for last week. Both 2nd half drives where we turned the ball over were great drives with good mix of run/pass. First drive pass heavy before the pick six (we should have ran the damn ball at that point). Next drive more run heavy but with multiple passing conversions. I don't think we really "abandoned" the pass until the end when we were 100% milking clock. We were trying to run the clock out before the 3rd and 7 incompletion to Bond for sure (and that was on Bond) but lost 5 yards on 2nd and 2 the play before. I just have absolutely zero issue with anything we did in that A&M game offensively outside of the play call on the pick 6. I thought Sark called a great game other than that. That was still some shit luck despite the play call. Then Quinn has to protect the ball better his next drive and then the punt block was just WTF. But as far as a macro "state of our offense" that is the best we have seen in a long time despite the WTF plays that made the game closer than it was.

The only play I can think of off the top of my head the last few weeks where this was a problem in the 2nd half was the 3rd down pass to Bond last week about halfway through the 4th and that was pretty clearly on Bond fucking up the route. It was wide open and Quinn through it to the correct spot. I'm sure there are others I'm not thinking of, but we've run the ball really well in the 4th quarter the past 3 games.

JFC dude. It's called watching the fucking games where we were obviously milking clock in the 2nd half the last 2 weeks. So yeah, that is the fucking flaw if you are trying to use pass/run splits to prove a point about the offense generally. LOL Do you really not understand ball enough to understand "throw more when behind and run more when ahead"?

I don't need to do the numbers to know we ran a balanced offense in the first half last 2 weeks. You are the one pulling stats to try to make some point we don't have a balanced offense when you know damn well we ran it (successfully) at a significantly higher than normal clip to protect double digit leads the last 2 weeks. Like I said, in hindsight we should have run it more in the 2nd half last week. I

Now do the first half numbers when we didn't have a double digit lead and intentionally running clock to skew run heavy in the 2nd half (at like 6+ yards a clip at that). Quinn played fine against A&M. The 2nd quarter was elite level QB play. If he can bottle that we will win a national championship. The 3rd quarter drive before the pick 6 was fantastic with good reads on passes and balanced running game. Personally I had bigger issues with the play calls on the 2 turnovers. Once we got it to 3rd and 2 on the pick 6, we absolutely should have ran the ball twice if necessary and lived with the result. There was no way A&M was driving 95 yards on our D. I have no doubt Sark wishes he had that one back. Then, I didn't like the run with Quinn the next series (although he has to do a better job of protecting the ball). But if we call a run play before the pick 6 and score on that drive to go up 24-0, this thread has a totally different vibe.

Funny you say that. I mentioned in the game thread me and a buddy ran into and spoke to Looch at a bar post-game. He claimed there were discussions with reps for Lagway when the Florida season was going sideways early and it looked like Napier would be out, but with the turnaround in Gainesville, the FL NIL $$ is real, matching any offers, and that is off the table. Looking at recruiting thread maybe that FL NIL boost is a real thing across the board. But to the extent that was actually playing out, I'm damn glad it didn't happen as I think Lagway is the real deal. We have to play him next year anyways, but long term would prefer that he be in FL next 2 years than Aggy.

We wore white in Dallas last year (obviously the 1 seed then as well). Georgia drops more passes than damn near any team I see every time I watch them. It may just be who they are.

I think it's clear he's hobbled. Similar to Worthy end of the year last year (and we all know he never got right). Best case scenario is we get the bye. I wonder if Sark considers sitting him this week because it's all over the All 22 film. I don't think Georgia is going to respect him as a deep threat.

Bond just doesn't look right. Not sure what they showed on tv but from the stands I noticed him kind of limping off the field after running a route numerous times. Biggest benefit to the bye week would be to hopefully get him and Moore back to 100%.

I actually fully understand now why visiting fans are always asking for directions to the field after the walk from the tailgate as I was one of them. I do think it's funny how you refuse to acknowledge it's an important game (and in particular this particular version of it) yet you have like 500 posts between the pregame thread and game thread this week, but hey man, keep fucking that chicken. Is this week a big game? Just let me know if I should be excited about going or not.

I've come to believe over the years his Texags persona is largely a bit that has made him a shit ton of $$$. Nothing about meeting him in person really changed that. I do think he's a true fan for sure and was a bit down, but I didn't get the impression he was surprised at how it played out. Like I said, was complimentary of Sark, roster he's stacked, what we've done with NIL etc.

Great game and 24 hour trip to college station. My takeaways: 1. Tailgate scene was solid. The one we attended was a great setup and probably 20% Texas fans. The shocking thing to me was the lack of port a pottys or other restroom options. Apparently they used to open up Reed arena for that purpose but stopped. Luckily bladder of steel was in effect and was able to hang on until stadium but it was a mess with that many people tailgating. I know that can be problem everywhere for busy events but seemed worse. 2. Ingress/Egress from stadium was a mess. Felt like you had to walk forever around and through a tunnel just to get to stadium that was right in front of you if there was a direct shot. Then long ramps to get to even the 100 level endzones (we were in 200). It's certainly not close to Cotton Bowl bad but makes you appreciate our stadium. 3. Crowd was loud in first half until that 2nd TD drive and that just gutted their fans. All their noise felt forced after that. Even when we fucked up in the 2nd half and gave them a chance I don't think any of them really believed they would pull it off. I think a big chunk of that stadium absolutely felt with certainty they were winning that game until they went down 14-0 and reality set in. It was great to witness that type of deflation in person. 4. Quinn was absolute nails in the 2nd quarter. If we can just put that together for an entire game nobody can beat us. 5. My wife and I were only Texas fans in our section within probably 4 rows and 15 people either direction. The meltdown from the stands after that targeting overturn was epic. Pure grown men temper tantrums all around. F bombs galore, "T.U. ref conspiracy" etc. etc. It was like a live Texags thread. Just great. 6. If you had "at least we'll win halftime" from an Ag in the stands on your bingo card check the box. 7. Post game Eyes was fantastic. Not sure how much they showed on TV but team stuck around and soaked it all in. Sark in particular appeared to be loving life. Of course he watched Day lose 4 in a row earlier so no doubt nice to start the rivalry renewal off with a pretty dominating road win. 8. Ag fans were fine (to us) before, during and after game. No issues at all which is consistent with past experience. It's not Lubbock or Columbus (or from what I hear, Baton Rouge) that's for sure. 9. I was expecting a mess after game but it was worse than I thought. Ended up walking to Northgate to grab a drink and wait out uber situation as didn't know what other option we had, but long lines everywhere and basically no cell service at all first hour. Ended up being a good time after a couple of drinks and just enjoyed the victory. We actually met Liucci in the flesh at a bar post game. Nice guy in person and was very complimentary of Sark, the team/roster, etc. All in all, solid road trip and great time. Now on to Atlanta next week!

Well shit. Great game.