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Tex-19

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  1. He's a Vandy alum and Nashville native so that would be tougher than you'd think. But also, he was doing very poorly before Pavia and the New Mexico assistants arrived so idk if I'd trust him tbh.
  2. What are the buyouts for assistants like Flood and Milwee? And if it's the full $1.5mm for Flood, do you can him now or spend that $1.5mm on portal OL this offseason?
  3. Oh I think I see what you mean now. So there are enough shaded tents you can hang out in without track views, there just isn't much shade while watching the cars?
  4. I read somehwere there were a couple others, I think Turn 19 and 4 upper rows. Is that wrong?
  5. Is there a decent amount of shade for GA tickets (on Friday)? Trying to decide whether we do GA or spring for something covered which is obv more expensive. Never been before.
  6. Elko is about to be a top-5 paid coach (by A&M) imo A lot of early Matt Rhule speculation for PSU. He played there.
  7. Haven't read the article and don't plan to. The Athletic has been clickbait trash for a long time now. Not worth the time to read it even if it were free. Unfortunately they're getting a lot of clicks out of this one..
  8. Also - NFL teams take a light-contact offseason approach because the players have a union and have negotiated that as part of the CBA. If the coaches were allowed to go full pads year-round, you can bet your ass they would do a lot more of it.
  9. This. Not sure why anyone expects anything but coachspeak in pressers and that's for every coach nationwide. What do y'all think he's gonna say? He's not gonna openly tell the fucking media what he really thinks, nor should he
  10. This is one of the most mystifying things on the season for me. Not only sacks but we're 99th in TFLs. It's basically the same players and coaches so what happened?
  11. It's definitely hard to read the field when you're having to play human frogger in the backfield from the second the ball is snapped. Can't look two places at once. I guarantee Lagway wouldn't have done so well if he got even half as much pressure as Arch did. As for the slow reads, we probably should've expected that more than we did given his inexperience vs high-level opponents. That's pretty common for first-time starters but hype-train rolled too far. Will he fix it? Who knows. But there's a good chance that improves over time.
  12. One thing that hasn't been talked about much here is tackling. Their RBs probably averaged 3 yards after the first tackler arrived which makes a HUGE difference in converting 1st downs. 3rd and 7 vs 3rd and 4. And that's before even talking about the secondary like the long Wilson TD. Meanwhile our RBs once again went down on first contact every time.
  13. Thanks for posting this as I know you seem to have some inside insight. I posed a question about this somewhere on here yesterday. It's shocking how much the trenches have regressed compared to other Sark years. And it's not just the new players: Goosby has regressed after playing impeccably last year against good opponents. We are 99th in TFLs right now with a returning cast of DEs/LBs who lived in the backfield last year. Tackling was terrible this weekend.
  14. It's the same people that wanted to bench Quinn for Arch last year. And who always want the backup QB
  15. So are we ever going to find out what's going on with Neto and Chatman (supposedly some injury)? I still don't understand how Neto goes from 1st team all offseason to at least 3rd string behind two traffic cones. I can only assume he is transferring at this point. My live eye test agreed with Brooks being the worst of the bunch. Seemed like he got beat every dropback.
  16. Agree that Arch is too slow processing right now and often not seeing the open guys. The good news is that often comes with inexperience so it could very well improve. The physical tools are there, I liked his toughness and pocket mobility, now the processing needs to catch up. We'll see. With that said, Arch is not at fault for most of those pressures. The LG and C were getting whipped nonstop and middle pressure is the toughest to deal with. Nick Brooks literally got a 0.0 pass blocking grade from PFF. The RBs averaged 1 ypc. The OL was as bad as it looked. Early Quinn would have folded. Final year Quinn would have taken 10 sacks but also got the ball out faster on some plays.
  17. I agree. Most QBs would have folded by the 2nd quarter with the pressure he was getting. He did well avoiding the rush, taking a lot of big hits while still delivering the ball reasonably well. Obviously he missed some throws but all things considered (2nd ever road start in a tough environment, no run game at all, no pass pro at all, defense not helping), that was actually a decent performance. He is still slow to read the field but that should probably be expected for a guy making his 2nd start vs decent opponents. And the timing throws are a struggle, which certainly hasn't been helped by Wingo, Moore, and Mosely being hurt most of the offseason. Ex: that one INT was totally a timing issue between him and Mosley. Arch threw it before Mosely came out of his break like he's supposed to, but it was too soon. That could be on either guy but ultimately just timing. Not a shocker considering Mosely has practiced for 2 weeks now..
  18. Didn't Sark try some NFL-style "OTA" approach to the spring this year with less contact because of how many games we'd played? I get the need for rest but maybe that backfired. Especially for newer starters like the OL.
  19. Side note - does LaAllen Clark suck? Our pass rushers that were so damn good last year have done jackshit this year.
  20. OL was worse by far. That was an all-time bad performance. Arch was playing Frogger back there DL, and defense in general, was shocking to me though. 4 ypc actually isn't that terrible in college but it isn't great. Tackling at LB/DB was also poor which led to a lot of extra yards. The lack of pass rush or run game penetration is worrisome. All year we just haven't been seeing the negative plays we've had the last couple years. Lagway was playing on a gimpy foot and we never made him move off his spot. Any pressure at all and he probably folds. I don't understand where Simmons, Moore, Burke, Hill, etc have gone in the pass rush compared to last year.
  21. Banks can stay for TEs but we need a new special teams coordinator. We're fine in kick/punt coverage and even returns but the amount of "turnovers" given away by our special teams every year is way more than we're getting. Flood probably needs to go. The OTs have been fine although Banks was already good as a true freshman. The iOL has been a consistent issue and it's a major reason for the red zone woes. Yesterday was the worst yet. Not that OC/QB were the biggest problem yesterday, but I still think a dedicated OC/QB coach is in order too.
  22. OT yes but I don't think it'd be that hard to get an average LG or C out of the portal if we tried. And average would be a huge upgrade at those two positions
  23. That's kinda my point though. Most billionaires have better things to do with their money so one outlier can totally tilt the playing field. It's enough money that the decently wealthy can't bankroll it themselves but small enough money that a single billionaire easily can if they want to. There isn't much rhyme or reason to figuring out who that one outlier will be or at which school. I mean who would've guessed Larry Ellison would be bankrolling Michigan because his wife went there? A whole roster's NIL is peanuts to him.
  24. The crazy thing about college sports is that you could say this about pretty much any P4 school in the country. Look at Stanford - wealthiest alumni in P4 but they don't give a shit. Then look at Tech - one weirdo billionaire decides this is his life mission and now they're a major player. I'm willing to bet lots of other "poor" schools have individual alums who could instantly vault them to the top of NIL without breaking a sweat if they wanted. CFB payrolls are peanuts in the grand scheme of the business world and people make insane money in a lot of random industries that don't require a Harvard education. Ex: Kentucky has a 9-billionaire from the founding family of Public Storage. It certainly helps your odds to be someone like Texas with lots of potential big donors, but the "it only takes one" thing is true a lot of places.
  25. Lol
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