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gmr548

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  1. I am still generally not a fan of pulling a kid's scholarship outright if they're making good faith effort to do everything asked of them. Especially if they haven't been there long enough to finish their degree. ou have 85 spots and a few of them are going to be dead weight for one reason or another. So it goes. That said, the landscape is way different now. These guys are quasi professionals, they get paid and a former starter at Texas, no matter how bad, would have no shortage of options in the portal. Also, we have two OLs from Frisco and both of them are refried ass. The mean streets of Collin County don't strike me as the place to go looking for a dog on the OL.
  2. Boy that's a slap in the face to Georgia Tech. Unless they were discussing conference games, in which case, real bold to say two of the three remaining are the biggest challenges.
  3. I'm surprised the most obvious opponent comp wasn't made - aggy. MSU is aggy without oil money.
  4. You are talking about the SEC. There would have to be a black HC in the SEC for that to happen.
  5. Offensive offense obliterating optimism of online oafs If you want a metaphor, I think the very first snap where Arch turfed a wide open 20 yard gain to Deandre Moore is going to be hard to beat.
  6. We only got the ball with a chance to win because of a very unfortunate injury timeout on the Washington side. If we had won that game it would have been the back in of all back ins. We lost because we brought a bad pass defense to a matchup with the best passing offense since 2019 LSU. That said, the defense competed and forced Washington to make several difficult plays. They made them. What margin for error Texas had evaporated by fumbling away two turnovers. You can look at a couple different ways but it boils down to Washington being the better team. Is what it is.
  7. Echoing some of the sentiments here and in the media, I think the defense could be in a tricky spot here. They are going back on the road after playing an 80+ snap OT game where they had to essentially win the game on their own. Mississippi State is not that good but Lebby has had success with tempo, QB runs, and quick passing concepts against PK both at OU and MSU. If given the kind of possession advantage that Florida and Kentucky had, they will score some points. If the offense can't hold up their end of the bargain here, Texas will lose. That's really what it comes down to. The MSU defense isn't anyhting special but it's not the worst in P4 level that Arch and the Texas offense put up numbers on last year. Arch & co. are going to gave to play passable P4 level football to win the game. Not that high of a bar but it's also not a bar they've cleared in the majority of games to date. Who knows what we get Saturday?
  8. Eh. We weren't a serious threat to score the TD, especially under the pressure of having to do so. I'd take my chances at winning the game with 1 yard in 2 plays. Do agree with this. Or if you're going to snap the ball at all there they need to be a couple simple inside runs. If you gain 1 yard in 2 plays then whatever. Kick on third to giveyour chance to recover a botched snap. Don't get cute.
  9. I've said I think we're going 7-5 or 8-4 at this point, which would be 2-3 or 3-2 down the stretch with three games against ranked opponents and one of the two unranked on the road. I don't think that's a flaming hot take with what this team has put out there; but no I haven't said the ceiling absolutely tops out at 7-5. Of course this team could beat MSU and Arkansas, as well as Vandy and/or A&M at home if the passable offensive side shows up, even if I think it's unlikely we get all four. The only game I would just wave the white flag on right now is Georgia. This offense isn't going on the road to Athens and playing winning football.
  10. But to be fair, same for this. Going for it was the right call. They had a chance to functionally end the game by getting a yard in two snaps. You literally cannot get a better deal in football. The play calls though, good lord.
  11. Somewhere out there, some hoarder's got a nice pint of 2015 vintage whole milk in the fridge that aged considerably better than this.
  12. I normally stay away from parsing words in press conferences, because they're almost always just coachspeak, but that's phenominally dumb. RBs had six first half carries. We absolutely aired it out. That's detatchment from reality and not a good sign.
  13. This was also with Ewers hobbling around on a sprained ankle, and Arch probably should have gone in the game.
  14. Well, the million dollar question that none of us have insight to is what the rest of the QB room looks like in practice and whether they give you a better chance to win. Do you think Caldwell, Owens, or Lacey elevates this offense to the point that winning out is possible? I personally don't, and in that sense it could be reasonable to try to have Arch play through the struggles if you see potential there on the other side. Of course, if you're serious about winning games this season, you probably do have to give someone else the ball because it truly almost cannot get worse, but I don't think we are at this point. This isn't a CFP level team, just don't have it on offense. So it seems to me the hope is Arch grows from this and can lead a better unit next season. Beyond that,we're obviously not benhing Arch anyway just given the politics and narrative of th whole situation. Honestly I think it's likely we ride or die with him until next season, and if he still sucks by this time next year maybe you see Lacey when we're out of contention.
  15. Brother it's 2025. Men can go to therapy now. You don't have to do this.
  16. Uh, even if that's the case, that's complete abdication of his own assignment. Sit this one out.
  17. We have Jim fucking Harbaugh's OL coach on staff and Kyle Flood is still employed!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
  18. DJ Campbell still routinely gets completely perpindicular to the LOS when helping the man next to him in pass pro, which is a cardinal sin. At least once he allowed a blitzing LB a completely free rush by doing so. I'd have to rewatch and I'm not going to do that but unless he was damn near perfect otherwise this is some bullshit.
  19. You know how we won last night because Kentucky shit down its own leg? Mississippi State and Arkansas have a touch of IBS as well. Vandy and aggy are at home and this program has generally played to the level of competion under Sark. The defense will certainly bring it. You can expect those games to be competitive. So we'll herp derp our way to a hard to watch 7-5/8-4. I would find something else to on 11/15 though. Honestly I may not even watch the Mississippi State game. We will probably win because they are bad. Either we play better and it's uneventful or it's another brutal, coin flip slog like last night. Doesn't seem like a great use of time either way. May just need to detox from this team until Vanderbilt.
  20. Genuinely appreciate the leadership from Taaffe but the glaring takeaway from that clip is Arch sitting there pouting. This clip doesn't say what you want it to.
  21. When I said lifeless I was referring to the product on the field. Sark's body language in game doesn't seem much different to me than in years past. He has always had that deer in the headlights look when what he's doing isn't working and a little shellshocked when it seems like a loss that will derail goals is imminent. As for the off field stuff, I'm not at all plugged in, but surely the whiplash of going through a divorce and then a reconciliation with a mf baby in your 50s can't be helpful. I think piling on his personal life is out of bounds though. And consider the context when you think about insider reports about donors or AD or whoever not liking his wife. Not saying it's the case, but it wouldn't be the first time old white money couldn't really put a finger on why they don't like a younger black woman. Agreed. And if we had gotten past that Washington team, we matched up much better with Michigan than they did. Do we win the game? I don't know, Michigan was really good. And it would have been a glaring mismatch in terms of HC quality. But it would have been very competitive. Last year, even though we got to the semis on a good draw, it was obvious before the CFP started that were not the best team in the country or even a top 3-4 type team. We are going to look back on that 2023 squad with a bit of "what could have been," though I'll still always remmeber that team fondly. They, unlike 2024 and 2025 Texas, were a lot of fun to watch even with the ups and downs.
  22. Side note, FSU over Alabama gets significantly more mind boggling every week.
  23. We lucked out of the Sark Specials in 2023. We got lucky and beat K State thanks to some really bad coordinator level decisions on KSU's end and still needed them to inexplicably shank an XP. We were also lucky to get out of the UH game alive with a very fortunate spot call from the refs. Last year it happened in the Georgia game at home and we got embarassed. I think we maybe just lucked out of what was supposed to be the Sark Special for this year (Florida sort of counts given how embarassingly unprepared we were, but they have talent) thanks to Kentucky's coaches seemingly having mini strokes at several points, most notably at the 1 yard line in OT.
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