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gmr548

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  1. It's funny isn't it. The only thing that got Sark out of the Seven Win Steve zone was nailing the PK hire.
  2. This is unironically worth sucking the water supply and power grid dry.
  3. Oh, I read this as one of the hosts suggested it. A listener makes more sense. We're not the dumbest fanbase as a whole but our dumbest can compete with anyone.
  4. Yeah, Cam Williams was always going to be a project and him making a stupid decision to leave early isn't on Flood.
  5. I don't think they really trust the second CB spot. It was also the correct strategy against UTEP. You stop the run, take away explosives, and make them execute their way down the field, converting 3rd and longs along the way. There's not really a reason to play that game anything but pure vanilla.
  6. He threw a couple strikes early. Said RB swing pass, he hit an intermediate throw over the middle for a nice gain a few plays later. He honestly looked fine in first quarter. The offense stalled early because Sark elected to put the emphasis on bullying UTEP in short yardage and we couldn't do it, which is a separate conversation. I think the red zone sequence in the second quarter is where it went to shit. He was personally responsible for botching that, not just the play where he threw the INT but every snap, and I think he knew it. Next time Texas got the ball, Sark went really run heavy and Arch didn't throw again until the 4th and short PA overthrow to Livingstone. You could see his bad body language on TV. Completely cooked mentally and at that point we were 3-4 throws into the 10 straight incompletions. Bunch of hot garbage consisting of obvious pressing and mechanical breakdown after that. If you squint he kinda sorta rebounded after that stretch, so there's that I guess.
  7. Think you might be falling for a bit there lol
  8. I mentioned this last year and got smoked for it but the vast majority of the OL/DL that were responsible for the 2023-24 playoff runs were Herman recruits. Sweat, Murphy, Collins, Broughton, Sorrell, Jones, Majors, Conner. Sark and staff did not ID and eval any of those. Kelvin Banks is the obvious exception but I don't know that you get a lot of credit for that eval, everyone in the country had an offer in and he was a stud from day one. Fortunately it does look like the ability to evaluate and develop from start to finish is there on the DL side, which is impressive given coaching turnover. And certainly Flood did good work with Jones and Majors (less so Conner). But the career arcs of DJ Campbell, Cole Hutson, and Cam Williams are the first returns we have on Flood's ability to evaluate/develop his own guys and they are... a mixed bag. Campbell and Williams are/were both inconsistent and undisciplined, Cole Hutson is just bad. Goosby looks pretty solid at LT. I think you can cut Baker some slack as a second year guy, I don't even know if he's 20 years old yet. Campbell is another one who could have gone wnywhere in the country but his development, while not completely absent, does leave you wanting more. The rest of Flood's recruits either don't look great after several years or can't get on the field over guys that don't look great after several years. I don't know that we have proof of concept that we can actually evaluate OL talent.
  9. The alcohol thing is so dumb. Obviously it's barely worth addressing because of the nature of the rumor, but we'd all go to the mat defending the case for Vince Young as the GOAT of college QBs. I'm sure he developed that drinking habit after college, right?
  10. All of this is why the mood is what it is. We watched two years of football at that level after wandering the desert for 13 years with almost entirely mediocre to bad teams. This year feels more like the latter. The difference between last year's offense - a good but not great unit - and this year's would make an uninitiated observer assume there were major rule changes in the sport. 2010 is a comp but it's not the only one. 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2017 all featured strong defenses paired with bad offenses helmed by young QBs struggling to find their way. They all finished the regular season within a game of .500 and were 0-4 against a slate of OU teams that weren't particularly special, with the exception of 2017. That script is hardly unique to Texas either. Recent OU teams in 2022 and 2024 had the same fate. Michigan had the same fate last year, though they got the payoff of upsetting Ohio State. The list goes on. Turns out it's pretty hard to win games in a game where the objective is to score more points than your opponent when you aren't very good at scoring points. Barring a miracle it's pretty obvious where this is going. I wouldn't be shocked if we get to 8-4; we have 3 G5's instead of 2 and a generally soft conference schedule (I think we're going to beat Florida; Arch puts balls in the turf and the stands, Lagway puts them in defender's chests). Though I'd favor them at this point (you can still get OU anywhere from +6.5 to +9.5, apparently), anything can happen in Dallas and the front 7 is going to give OU fits. We could beat aggy, their defense is still bad and Collin Klein seems determined to counterbalance his playing career against Texas in his coaching career. But there are plenty more L's coming and the trip to Georgia is going to be humbling.
  11. Yeah, just like Texas manged to out-athlete the Big 12 in spite of mediocre QB and OL play for a decade plus, right? Just like OU, at #7 in the 247 talent composite for 2024, out talented most of its schedule? Or Florida State, at #13, running through the ACC? I don't know how a Texas fan can make a comment like this with a straight face. How do you not know better? Don't overestimate how far athletic talent takes you when said talent sucks at football. Right now, a lot of the offense sucks at football. And the 1.000 talent really sucks at quarterback.
  12. The thing about a top 25 is you have to include 25 teams.
  13. It would honestly be really impressive if we hold Oklahoma to 14 given we're going to get shut out.
  14. Dante Moore is on the right track. He had to play immediately which is always tough, and did so on a medicore UCLA team, but he seems to be off and running at Oregon. Need to see him play higher level competiton of course. The rest of them, I mean, woof.
  15. The jokes write themselves.
  16. Generally I agree and I don't think the offense is ever going to be a plus this year. But the QB play has been so bad that if a personnel switch gets you replacement level play there, the offense can at least not be an outright liability. That would materially change the outlook.
  17. Man, Gilbeau has been dogshit this year. Lucky for him it jst gets glossed over because of Arch.
  18. We don't have a servicable starter either. This isn't last year where we were getting B-grade QB play from a third year starter and the fans thought the backup who had functionally no college experience could come in and be an A down the stretch playing for championships. We're getting an F right now. There is absolutely no way Caldwell, Owens, or Lacey would be this bad. I'd keep Lacey out because I wouldn't be interested in throwing a true freshman to the wolves but Caldwell is an experienced FBS QB and Owens is in his second year in the system. One of them can definitely hit the easy, schemed open underneath/intermediate throws and execute at replacement level in the RPO game. Pair that with this defense and we can at least grind out a 9-3 type year that, while obviously a step back from the past couple years, isn't a setback. Right now we're spiraling into the kind of 6-6/7-5, black saturday at the Cotton Bowl kind of territory that cedes some of the ground the program gained over the past few years. There is no downside.
  19. Last year actually resolidified my belief that Texas will never get to the mountaintop under Sark unless it's just 1.) An unbelieavbe amount of talent stacked on one team that can overcome coaching flaws; and/or 2.) A ridiculous, lightning in a bottle individual playoff run from the QB position ala Joe Flacco's Super Bowl run. He's been a great program builder but he continues to be mediocre as a pure football coach and I don't think he's likely to rip off 3-4 in a row against comparable talent.
  20. Seven Win Steve, you say?
  21. What would that even look like? Today was sub 50% completion and sub 5 ypa. You regress from today and you're talking about losing to SHSU. You have to consider giving Caldwell a look. I don't holdany illusions about having a plus QB sitting on the bench but this team doesn't necessarialy need that. This team can compete if the QB can hit the easy stuff. Arch can't. He looks like you dropped a HS QB out there. After Arch once again cannot execute the opening script against SJSU, Caldwell has to get some game run. And if he plays competently he should get the nod going into SEC play. Arch can play again after Georgia ends any ideas of SEC title contention.
  22. If Cole Hutson has a million haters, I am one of them. If Cole Hutson has only one hater, it is me. If Cole Hutson has no haters, I have left this world.
  23. Eli, meanwhile, unfortunately that's just his face.
  24. lol do you consider the NFL preseason appointment TV too?
  25. I don't think we can even compete with the most obnoxiously whiney fanbases on the whole, just don't have the depth, but I'll be goddamned if I wouldn't but our best up against anyone. Bravo.
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