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  1. Why would Jerrin portal?

    Honestly I forgot he had eligibility left. Sneaky COVID years still out there. I do feel for a kid who has put four years in and meets that end but I hope it’s true. He is maxed out, not a pro prospect, and the safety position badly needs an upgrade.
    That would be good news.
     
    Could be great news if he really commits himself and makes a jump like Sweat and Coburn did the past two years. 
     
    Still want Caldwell tho. 

    he looked committed this season

    Collins played pretty well this year. I assume he got the “look at Sweat/Coburn” sell and will be in the first rotation. If he works and plays with the contract year motivation Sweat did he could definitely be an all SEC type and make himself some money.
    I believe that was part of the reason why he left there. He still believed he was a corner, but wasn't being used in a way that let him be successful.

    He’s two years older and wiser, and probably has an easier time accepting that his pro prospects are likely better at S than CB. At least that’s the narrative I’m running with if that ultimately comes to fruition.
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  2. I hope there'll be an opportunity to welcome y'all to Husky Stadium some time. That's a home-and-home most of us have always wanted to see.

    Easily number one home and home series I want to see Texas play. Yes please to a football trip to Seattle in September. Our AD clearly hates us booking trips to Ohio, Georgia, Florida, and Arizona (yes I realize the middle two are off the books), all of which are varying degrees of shitty and hot.
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  3. Worthy wanted out of Michigan because they wouldn't accept a credit to let him enroll early. 

    I see. My memory is hazy. Thanks to Michigan for playing school too hard.
  4. https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/39226273
     
    how in the hell did he not come up with this

    lol shut up

    He wasn’t watching the game on TV. It takes a second to realize the ball is out from where he was. The ball was lost between the bodies of three guys. Washington players are standing around too. Gunner Helm is closer and stands there the entire time while Worthy tries to get into the pile but I don’t see you bitching about Helm.

    It was loose on the ground there for a moment, I wish he had executed the recovery better, but that’s not exactly something WRs practice.
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  5. These are the qbs we lost to this year:
    Gabriel - 22 years old, made his 43rd career start against Texas
    Penix - 23 years old, made his 44th career start against Texas 
    I can't help but wonder what this thing looks like if covid doesn't happen the year before Sark takes over.

    Well, off the top of my head Texas has no Sweat, Jones, or Whittington so it’s a two-way street.

    Michigan doesn’t look like such a dumpster fire and maybe Worthy sticks with them.

    Hell, Tom Herman goes 10-3 and might not get fired.
  6. The issue at safety is I'm not seeing anybody in the portal currently that's as good as somebody like Humphrey. 
    Just take a corner like Humphrey, upgrade that position, and then maybe you can spin somebody down like Black to safety in order to improve that position group. 

    Yeah I think you basically take best available DB at this point. If that’s a corner then cool. Move Austin Jordan to safety where he belongs
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  7. There is no world where he's in any competition for QB1 next year unless he really falls apart mentally and loses all discipline this offseason.
    Having Arch behind him is plenty enough pressure to stay ahead of the curve.
     
    Let's not make the same mistake OU and Ohio State seem to be making in running off their successful starting QBs. 

    I don’t understand how we as a fanbase cannot understand the value of experience at QB given we’ve witnessed since 2010
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  8. Uh, I said goodbye to friends and cleaned up the remnants of our little watch party. This morning I was slow to log on for work because my head hurt and I was tired from a few too many beers and shitty sleep, but I got there eventually. I’ve wasted time posting on Surly.

    There’s not much to deal with. Ran into a really good team in their own right that happened to be an atrocious matchup. If Penix and Co abusing the Texas defense in route to victory wasn’t on your radar of possible outcomes then either remove the burnt orange shades or pay more attention. Texas won the Big 12 and competed for a national championship, they exceeded my preseason expectations by a significant margin and it was a really fun year. Last night was house money honestly. The OU loss lingered in my mind much longer and more intensely (and still does to an extent).

    You can actually feel excitement for the future without ODing on a ridiculous degree of Kool Aid. That takes the edge off.

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  9. Proud of what Blue has become throughout the season. From wanting to transfer to stepping up when needed and provided a nice combo with Baxter. Not sure you can really take him off the field next season. 

    If Brooks leaves there is a compelling argument Blue is the best RB on the roster.

    I did not expect to type any part of that sentence at the end of this season. Tashard Choice is a witch.
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  10. One aspect that's interesting to me is that Sark has gotten a lot of credit, and rightly so, for rebuilding our lines quickly and to an SEC standard. But Washington by and large won the LOS on both sides last night. Not sure what to make of that.

    That good lines exist outside of the SEC and always have? I wouldn’t think much about it.

    I also don’t think Washington won the LOS handily. They won in a critical area - pass blocking - and that was the single most important subset of the LOS battle given what Washington was bringing in terms of passing offense and what Texas was bringing in the back end. Texas defended the run well, ran the ball very well (not enough most would say), and while Washington did get home a couple times it’s not like Ewers was running for his life all night.
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  11. With the talent we're accumulating, 8-9 wins would be a letdown. Top classes shouldn't just win 8-9 games a year. That's for Ole Miss to do. We better be better than that. 10 wins should be mandatory with our talent. We're only behind Bama and Georgia currently in recruiting , and we've shown we can beat Bama. I believe we can beat Georgia as well. I'm sure we'll lose a few games in year 1, but year 2 I expect 10 win seasons. 8-9 ain't going to cut it. Aggy wins 8 games, we should be better than that with Sark. That's when recruits start looking away. We have the talent to win 10 games. If we start dropping off, so do the recruits to Bama, LSU, Georgia, and even Ole Miss. 

    The only two teams that have run through the SEC at consistent 10+ win clips are Bama and Georgia. Recruiting at a top 5-10 level hasn’t stopped A&M or LSU from failing to hit that mark plenty of times. Especially adding a ninth league game (I’m assuming this happens here in the next couple years), when these elite recruiting programs are going to play each other more often and simple math tells you there’s more Ls to go around, I would not expect to be the Bama and Georgia of recent history. That much more so with the likes of Ohio State and Michigan on non conference schedules, and I’m sure more upper tier programs to come. If you expect consistent 10-win seasons that’s great but that’s on you when you’re disappointed.

    And that’s okay The sport is changing man. 9-3 is going to be a coin flip for a playoff appearance. If one of those Ls is to a marquee OOC opponent you’re in the mix for a CCG spot. Competing for championships is the bar for me.
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  12. Michigan has a better overall DL than us. UW exposed our edge play and we really had no answer for it. They also have a guy in Will Johnson who can allow them to play more leveraged coverages.
    Jake Majors is good for one illegal snap a game. For a guy with his experience, it makes no sense for him to keep making the same mistakes. Christian Jones was overmatched against Trice and ZTF. They picked on the middle to right side of the line with the games and pressures. 
    Experience plays a role in presnap penalties too. The bigger the moment gets, people begin to fold more. Sorrell lined up in the neutral zone and still jumped offsides.
    Guys were too tight and felt the magnitude of the moment too much. It happens. The experience is invaluable though, for both the players and the coaches.

    Yeah. I felt it last night and reflecting this morning I definitely think the moment was just a little too much for Texas, both staff and players.

    Many eventually great teams/programs come up short in these kind of situations before ultimately getting to the top. The hope is that this ends up being a building block.
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  13. I dunno man.  I didn't get the feeling watching them play yesterday that UM is really ready to defend a dynamic offense with great success.
    It would seem that UM could mostly run at will on them, so maybe we'll get to test out that hypothesis.  Somehow, maybe just because all run all the time bores me, I just don't think running all the time is really a solution to UW.  They're going to get the ball and score.  
    Maybe not fair basing it off bowl games, but the Big 10 just doesn't seem to have been much of a gauntlet this year.  Even less so than the PAC12.

    Part of defending an offense like that is keeping them off the field. Michigan isn’t going to get out possessed 13-2 in a quarter. They will be committed to the run in a way Texas never was. Their defense is also just better, particularly on the back end and rushing the passer. They just matchup with Washington a lot better than Texas does.

    It will be an interesting contrast of styles for sure. Washington absolutely can win - Michigan is not at all equipped to chase UW down if they get out to a lead - but I lean Michigan because I think they will dictate the terms/style of the game like UW did to Texas.
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  14. Agreed. People really don't understand how difficult it is. We were in good position much of the night, but Penix was just dropping the ball in there. That is extremely hard to defend. You HAVE to pressure a QB like that. We couldn't hit him.

    Yep. Texas was never, ever going to win this game with Penix having as much time and room to work as he did. There is not a college secondary that can cover Washington if the game is put on their shoulders. It is what it is.
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  15. I really want to see arch next year but will Quinn come back if he thinks he will get passed up by arch? 

    If he gets passed up by Arch then he should think about a career in something other than sports. There is no reason he shouldnt be able to improve his game enough to retain the job. 

    Y’all ready for eight full months of this?
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  16. Despondency probably takes an early lead until NSD 2. Texas takes control of the offseason with a big spring game victory. Despondency tries to come back with 105-110 degree heat indices starting in June and continuing for so long that it feels like summer never ends. It may never cool off in Texas but the Kool Aid will be flowing for the trip to Ann Arbor and provide some relief. We’ll see how it goes from there.

    Ultimately I’m taking Texas, but despondency covers.

  17. Question for the Board:
    Penalties are often attributed to coaching.  In some ways, as when a player loses composure and gets an unsportsmanlike, I get it.
    In other ways, like repeated false starts from OL and TE, I don't.
    Like parents, I suppose, a coach whose players repeatedly misbehave is responsible.
    Not sure I'm willing to attribute yips or dumbassery to coaches (or parents).

    In the vacuum of a single game I agree but stupid procedural penalties have been a consistent theme under Sark. Especially with the emphasis he puts on motion, not having that cleaned up after three years is an indictment on the staff. I’m not going to sit here like I think it’s a huge one because I don’t, but when you’ve got experienced guys still setting the team back because they able to execute sets pre snap it tells me you’re not effectively teaching.
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  18. What an absolutely incredible season and job by Sarkisian. He proved me wrong in every manner and exceeded my every expectation for this program under his leadership. 
     
    kudos to him for what he has accomplished.

    Undoubtedly this, for starters. I did not have this team sniffing the CFP this year. Last night stings with the way it went down but it was kind of house money for me. It was a great season. A season that will be a part of program lore. Sark absolutely deserves credit for building the program up to a place where that can even come together at all, let alone the fact that it actually did.

    Texas did not look out of place last night in a CFP semifinal. Yeah, they lost because they had a few too many miscues and the NFL QB and WRs, plural, on the other side balled out; but Texas went out and competed at the sport’s highest level. As a fan that’s all you can really ask for at the end of the day. Every champion has some luck and breaks go their way and that wasn’t there for Texas last night. Oh well.

    I will say I had a sneaking feeling that Sark’s deficiencies as an in game coach could bite Texas in this one and I do think that was the case. Sark has no doubt elevated the floor of this Texas program to the point where the expectation of competing for a 12-team playoff spot on a near-annual basis is reasonable. As long as they continue to bring in and develop talent like they have I think that’s the case. And really that’s all I’m looking for as a fan. I can live with quite a few 8-9 win seasons, especially assuming we’re eventually looking at a 9 game SEC schedule, as long as there is 1.) A winning record vs OU, and 2.) Some 10+ win upside years every few years where the team competes for a conference and national title. After this year I think Sark is capable of meeting that bar so consider me converted.

    But I’m not sure I believe Sark will ever put together 2-3 games against similar talent and quality coaching to actually win a national championship though. But hey, Mack Brown didn’t have any hardware… until he did. He’s no doubt earned the opportunity to lead the program into the SEC with the full support of the fanbase and admin for the foreseeable future.
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  19. Deja vu, butterfly effect, or wtf ever.  I posted that I knew we were fkd after the opening kickoff screwup against ou by the looks of our players.  Turned the tv off and never watched the rest.  Felt the same after our procedure penalty before the first offensive play last night and doubt I will ever watch the rest.  Fan since Jan. 1, 1964 and 20 year plus season ticket holder, so not a newbie, just tired of the SOS.  If I placed bets after the start of games I could make a fortune, but at my age would not be able to do anything with it.  Cheers

    The first time Texas touched ball in the 2006 Rose Bowl was a muffed punt that set USC up in Texas territory and led to a USC TD. I assume you turned that game off too?

    I will say I couldn’t help but laugh when Texas jumped offside on both the first offensive and defensive snaps of the game. Very on brand.
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  20. Our coaching staff is overrated. They aren’t near as good as they think they are. 
     
    Next year won’t be easy. I see 2-3 losses at least. Michigan and Georgia for sure are Ls.

    10-2/9-3 is competing for a 12-team playoff spot and a SEC championship berth if one of those Ls is Michigan.

    I think we need to know what Ewers is doing before making any serious predictions about next season but if you wouldn’t take that you are dumb. That is the reasonable bar for success.
  21. We need a different DB coach.  Missed at least 2 opportunities to pic off those bombs if the DBs get their heads turned to find the ball..At the very least could have knocked the passes down.  Haven't had good DB coaching since Akina.

    This is the staff change I want to see long term. I know they aren’t shaking shit up after this year but the secondary looking completely lost has been a consistent theme while the front has improved. Replacing PK is simply not justifiable but Terry Joseph’s body of work as CB coach and passing game coordinator is dogshit after three years
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