I'm not even going to bother wading in up-thread to see the entire context of @immamac's post and this conversation, but I can guess and get the gist from this post, so I'll add my personal color to the state of UT Football/Surly/Enthusiasm.
I've been avoiding not just a few threads, not just the football board, but all of that and the $9.95 board like the plague since Saturday. I can't handle it. I read most of the game thread on Sunday, and I read some other threads, and I just can't fucking handle it. All of the idiots, all of the stupid, knee-jerk, ill formed opinions, plus those denying what we saw, and at the end of the day it's just a poisonous stew that I don't have much desire to ingest. Like I need to read stupid post after stupid post about how Arch Manning sucks, or the hype is overrated, or the Quinn Ewers apologists, or the Sark haters, over and over and over? There's literally no incentive for me to be participating on this website right now, or in a greater dialogue about UT football. Here's my short paragraph sentence summary on where we are:
Arch sucked huge ass and his mechanics sucked, Sark did him little to no favors in playcalling and the red zone, which is hardly a new thing and will be a long term albatross on his program. Fine. This doesn't mean Arch can't be a good QB here, or a great QB here, and it's also beyond stupid for people to say we need to move on from Sark, or he needs to hire an OC, or that we're DOOMED! I'll be watching the next 3 games with interest to see what Arch and his mechanics look like (because what we saw Saturday wasn't what we'd seen before) and what kind of improvement we can see as a program.
But's going to be hard for me to come here when the loudest and most active voices are the two ends of the Stupid Poster Spectrum that I despise more than BO&W despises regular showers. I'm guessing I'm not alone with a similar viewpoint.