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  1. 19 minutes ago, Levi said:

    Maybe Flood has too much agency with the Oline

    This is likely consistent with Sark's recovery mindset.  He's not going to try to control his subordinates.  He's going to tell them what should be done, likely on a consensus basis, and free them to do their jobs and expect them to do their jobs.

    The point about Bama above is likely on point.  Sark was reliant upon good recruiting, evals, and the other coaches doing their jobs.  He does his and results follow.  But the presence of Saban made those assumptions and reliances valid and now they may not be so valid.

     

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  2. 1 hour ago, statsman said:

    I have a few questions- you say Mr. Guevara entered legally in 2004, and applied for asylum in 2005? How did he enter in 2004- student visa, tourist visa, or just (as was common once) walk across to a border town for a visit, just showing an ID?

     
    His asylum request- is he legit at risk if he returned to El Salvador (hasn’t El Salvador’s governance changed a few times?)? Or, is that just a way to apply for legal residency after overstaying a visa? Is it correct to assume that at no point in the intervening 20 years that Mr. Guevara never visited El Salvador, because, you know, he was at risk?

     I notice that from 2005-2025, Dem administrations were in charge, and presumably not hostile to immigrants, especially asylum seekers and refugees. I’m curious as to why he was not able to gain legal status. 
     
    A little googling shows that an asylum seeker may be employed, but must get a renewable permit to work. These permits must be renewed every 150 days. Honest question- is Mr. Guevara diligent about legal filings and the system is just that difficult, or was he lax about some elements, figuring it didn’t matter?

    Answered here. https://www.aclu.org/cases/guevara-v-francis?document=Petition-for-Writ-of-Habeas-Corpus-and-Complaint#legal-documents

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  3. 2 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

    A big part of it was Arch looking for the TD play on every down. I don't know if it was the playcall or a young QB not trusting his team's ability to methodically march down the field and score. He was not looking for the intermediate passes at all. If it was Arch, then why didn't his OC talk to him in between the drives?

    Yeah, something in his head seems to tell him to take the longer route where he can see separation.

    When he's "forced" into a short route, it's basically LEEEEEROY JENKINS, like that throw over the middle to Mosely that blew right past him into the arms of a defender.

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  4. 3 hours ago, Hard Times said:

    No worries, that record will be broken again this Saturday. Of course half of them may be against Caldwell after Arch is carted off the field. 

    Can someone tell me just what QB could be successful behind this OL with a coach calling nothing but long pass plays??

    I don't believe sark is "calling nothing but long pass plays."  I'm gonna assume every play has short, intermediate, and long routes, even if designed for one of the short routes.  And even if the play is designed for the short or intermediate route, I doubt Sark is going to order Arch to take only the short or intermediate.  Arch seems to have a preference, conscious or otherwise, for longer routes, where hopefully he can see separation between the WR and defenders  And, maybe rightfully so, because he's pretty scary on short and intermediate routes.

  5. 11 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Interested to see what a MRI shows

    Yeah, kinda surprised anyone would put any stock in x-rays on an injury like that.  They don't show soft tissue injuries with any accuracy, afaik.

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  6. 1 minute ago, Dahobbs said:

    That's a separate issue. We don't have the talent on the oline. We refuse to recruit actual talent and instead try to out smart everyone by hoping to find some diamonds in a bag of coal. This is a huge roster mismanagement issue. 

    I don't disagree at all.  Im just positing that most of the offensive struggles flow from the OL.  When we had the talent, allegedly, we weren't as good as we needed to be and now that the talent is gone  . . .  fugeddaboutit.

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  7. 12 hours ago, Billy Pilgrim said:

    I think Sark’s top priority is an O line coach. Failure there is ruining everything else offensively. It’s crazy as shit that we have several different head coaches, offensive coordinators and O line coaches since 2005 but we haven’t been able to put together an above average offensive line in 20 years.

    Agree.  I think this is the central issue.  Despite the improvement, we haven't gotten to championship level OL play and it infects everything else.

  8. Just now, BurntEyes said:

    It's not just the OL and we have been putting guys in the NFL yet still have those issues.

     

    The OL, despite the individual talent, just was not that great, ever.  Not championship caliber and bitched by championship caliber D.

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  9. 1 minute ago, BrickHorn said:

    So did the ultra talented 2023 and 2024 teams. Despite all that NFL talent on the roster, we somehow managed to lose 5 games over two years and nearly dropped a few more. Sark has major flaws, and he is either incapable or unwilling to fix them. 

    Im beginning to think it's pretty much all about the OL.  OL play took a step up from long-term abysmal with Flood and then plateaued at a level less than what the talent seemed to indicate.  Better, much better, but not good enough.  Then we lost that talent and it has become apparent that we were not in "next man up" phase like the defense has been (but also showing cracks this year).

    The OL is why the run game falters even with all world backs.  It got our QB injured and in his head.  It fucked the red zone.

    It's probably also why the offense cant execute in game situations the way it executes in practice, which I think may be Sark's major flaw.

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  10. 2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Imo, the failure of the Democrats to hold banks and financers accountable for the 2008 financial crisis is the original sin. They broke the social contract with their voters in favor of sucking their donors dicks. The Dems sowed the seeds of discontent and trumpism by truly giving them a REAL "both sides" argument 

    Yeah, that may be the pinnacle of D corporatism, but it had been brewing for quite some time.  And persists to this day.

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  11. 4 minutes ago, Hornsome said:

    We aren't undefeated with Quinn.  We struggled in Arky, aggy and Georgia to get points and couldn't put SEC teams  away last year. Florida had a good defense and the type that gives us fits. Quinn had negative rushing yards for the year and it would be worse this year.  We were an awful red zone team, had crap load of 3 and an outs and batted balls. Quinn was a seven round pick for a reason. He also had a top 10 tackle, a first round WR, a fourth round TE, and a fifth round RB.  If Bond didn't have his legal troubles, he is a 3-4 round pick. We are much worse at every position on offense and we also got lucky with opposing teams having injury issues when we played them last year.
     

    At some point, it  to be a qb issue and is a coaching issue.  No matter who is qb, our offense is consistently underperforming.  I'm sick of screen shots that show open players and how Sark is a master at play calling. If college players can't execute it without Alabama (of old) talent it's a shitty offense.  I'm thinking Quinn and Arch would have been better under a different QB whisperer.

     

    I think really the main issue last year was OL.  It wasn't as stark as this year, but they couldn't block a run game for shit and fell apart in pass protection just enough to get Quinn hurt and running for his life, at least in his mind.

    And that with the majority of the OL getting drafted.

  12. 6 minutes ago, TheYoungHorn said:

    Arch was playing hero ball yesterday.

    he doesn’t have a hero ball scheme or team built around him. If it was Herman calling his hero ball get your qb murdered game, like we saw Sam so many times, maybe we pull that one out by a miracle.

    Sark wants this offense to be the mac jones bama machine.

     

    he refuses to adjust to the fact he doesn’t have those WRs, running backs or line.

    i don’t care how many touch downs he can scheme open, we need an offense that can reliably move the chains and stay on the field and then can execute in the red zone. 

     

    As said elsewhere, I think he sees these same players executing his machine in practice just like they did at Bama and assumes they will be able to do so in games and any failure there is more aberration than who the players are.

    And that may be the difference between year after year of stacking high five-stars with good evals and development (Bama, Georgia) and a couple of years of stacking mid-high five stars with maybe not so good evals or development.

    And I think he accounts for the slop between Texas today and Bama then with things like "godalmighty, Mac Jones could do this, why can't Quinn or Arch do this."

  13. 3 minutes ago, VirginiaLonghorn said:

    Steel sharpens steel.  Pudding against pudding, OTOH …

    True enough, but until this year, the O has been going against one of the best Ds in the country.  But practice just isn't game time for a variety of reasons.

    I am guessing Sark developed this disorder at Bama, with their talent and execution, including a mediocrity like Mac Jones.

     

  14. 1 minute ago, Surly Bevo said:

    There are exceptions of course (coaching icons like Saban and Meyer and weird cases like Orgeron) but the majority of coaches these days break through and win their first national championship between years 5-10 at their respective school (Day, Smart, Harbaugh, Dabo, hell even Mack).  Sark has a little more rope given what he has done so far but if the next few years start to trend away from where years 3 and 4 were, it won't look good for his long-term chances to add to that list and that's when a decision had to be made.

    Everything else we(I) am doing is just disgruntled speculation because what the hell else are we supposed to do. 

    I'm not ready to throw in the towel on him.  

    A clearer-eyed view of this team, what they lost, and who was left and how well-proven they were should have indicated that this would be an off-year.  Maybe not this off, but off nonetheless.

    This team seems to be exposing some of Sark's shortcomings, or maybe its completely hindsight bias and people fitting what they're seeing into preconceived patterns.

    This is his first real adversity and he deserves an opportunity to respond, to fix it, in my opinion.  How and what he does will determine his fate, much more so than the outcome of this season.

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  15. 4 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    I feel like the offensive struggles were dictated by personnel decisions before the game even kicked off. 

    Trotting Stroh out there to start again was malpractice. What a disaster. That was a five alarm fire even in our cupcake wins and they ignored it. 

    SItting Wisner for a few weeks and giving him almost every single RB carry against a tough Gator D? Not one touch for Gibson or Simon? Strange. 

    I assume that Gibson was off the table because of the wet conditions.  That's defensible.

  16. I have this theory that Sark sees good execution in practice and from that assumes that players can execute the schemes and play calls.

    But once reality shows that they aren't capable, because of talent, or mentality or whatever, Sark refuses to change up the calls.  Like he assumes the execution failure is more an aberration than who the players are and what are their limitations in a game scenario, despite evidence to the contrary.

     

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  17. 4 minutes ago, Atticus said:

    Quinn would have taken 10 sacks yesterday, but maybe Sark would have been more willing to run more quick game with him back there. Why we didn't do more to get the ball out fast is beyond me

    It just seems Arch is constitutionally incapable of doing that.  I might think that any plays designed to be quick hitters still have intermediate and long reads, for decoy purposes if nothing else, and Arch may fixate on them despite instructions to go with the quick one.

    Or, whatever the hell was going on in his head on the play to Wisner in the end zone.

    The interception that was intended for Mosely across the middle seemed like kind of a quick hitter, but you saw how he handled that.

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  18. 3 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    As a former Texas O-Lineman, I’ve never seen the Longhorn offensive line struggle like this. It’s beyond concerning — protection is collapsing, no push up front, and it’s killing every drive. We must go back to max protection. Football isn’t 7-on-7 — it’s won in the trenches. Right now, Texas is losing that war every snap. It doesn’t matter who’s at QB or how loaded your skill room is… if you can’t protect or move the D-line, you’re done.

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    Name rung a bell, but couldn't remember when he played.  Because he didn't much.  Class of 99, Parade All American.  Transferred to Blinn, signed again.  Started like seven games.  An all-time bust.  Alfio Randall-Veasey at the time.

    He might still know what he's talking about though.

  19. 4 minutes ago, ZanTheFan said:

    I think we are saying the same thing. Only in the last couple of years have you started seeing officially licensed throwback or "vault" gear for Texas. And to reiterate - I don't know how it works - but I suspect that has less to do with increased demand for the product and more to do with our licensing department finally allowing companies to produce the older marks.

    I get the impression that the powers that be spent a lot of years building the brand and did not want to weaken the steer head logo by flooding the market with screaming bevo and cranky bevo and runnin' horns bevo, etc. 

    I may be in the minority but personally I own more "vault" logo gear than stuff with just the iconic steerhead.

    Close.

    A trademark becomes abandoned, by statute, after three years of non-use.  So, for a lot of schools, there are a number of abandoned throwback logos and such that they can't/don't claim a trademark in and therefore can't/don't license.  So a "throwback" seller may be able to get away without paying royalties or having a license for a while anyway.

    UT is pretty savvy and ruthless and made little efforts here and there to make sure even ancient, largely unused logos and marks did not go abandoned.  So any attempt by a seller to go royalty free on an old logo would be met with a cease and desist from Pirkey Barber and be forced to sign up with CLC/Learfield, whoever they are now.

  20. 14 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Yeah he just has ill-advised interceptions and completely refuses to hit open receiver underneath.

    With or without pressure.

    Pressure turned Ewers into a basket case most of the time.  Arch just is a basket case, the pressure doesn't make it any worse.  He actually stood and delivered a couple of times today.

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