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  1. You asked "what is actually going on?" and got responses to that question. "what is the staff doing about it?" is a different question. Also, expecting the staff to comment on anything regarding Yips Manning's treatment is a level of naivete I wouldn't have otherwise attributed to you.
  2. The truth is that the coaches and players are as confused by Farce Manning's in-game collapses as anyone else. He's looked great in practices for years and looked great in the fall camp run up to Ohio State, right until he bounced the ball to Moore on the first pass. Do you think reporters like Burton can publicly say that? It's hardly productive for even me to say that, but I'm kind of sick of the middling discussion you guys are all having about the coaching staff as it relates to Arch Ankiel. There's no grand conspiracy to elevate a guy because of his name. He's not losing practices. Other guys aren't performing better. The guy looks fine and then is going out in games and melting all the fucking way down. Maybe he's always wanted to be in theatre and this is his grand interview as performance art in an effort to gain entry to Juilliard and then he can put this whole football thing behind him? This is just bizarre shit. I do think one of the biggest things Sarkisian can help course correct on is removing 3rd and 4th reads for a bit. Sounds absurd, but that's an issue, from my perspective. He needs to be: primary, secondary, check down/run/throw it away - 1, 2, 3. Dude is taking too long to go through progressions and then panic throwing.
  3. Hey man, how in the fuck can you be as big a fan as you are of this sport and not know that the ACC only plays 8 conference games. Come the fuck on.
  4. QBs can will teams to victory. In my lifetime, I’ve seen James Brown, Vince Young, Colt McCoy and Sam Ehlinger do it. I played on a few teams where someone simply refused to lose on a given day and it didn’t matter what adversity came our way. Some of that is the magic that makes football and sports great. No amount of analytics or reason or “clutch doesn’t exist” dork nonsense gets to remove that from the equation, sorry. Just shut the fuck up if your argument, declaratively, is “Stroh must be the option, trust the coaches”. No thanks. We are witnessing one of the worst OL performances at the P4 level, ever, if they continue to play Stroh. He’s not just incompetent, he’s harmful. I don’t remember seeing anything this bad with guys playing under Tim Nunez and Mac McWhorter, which is stunning. There’s something emotional going on with some decisions being made right now. Anyone trying to reason their way out of this is incorrect and can get fucked.
  5. @MrBig hey man, what the fuck are you doing? Jesus fucking Christ, you football board idiots.
  6. I hope so. I blame you for the UTEP game.
  7. So is @Wulaw Horn just sitting in a dark room, listening to death metal at max volume, right eye twitching as he rocks back and forth on the floor, sobbing? I don't see an SHSU game week thread.
  8. I'm trying to understand a few things here: 1) You think people are going to look at AP voted rankings and then stop watching the game on tv? Is this a serious concern or position? Do you know how long the rankings have been idiotic? Longer than there have been tvs in most households. This goes back to the beginning, and yet viewership and interest only goes stronger. 2) You think the "2 wins vs top 25 opponents" statement is going to continue to carry water? Neither of those teams are still in the top 25. Hell, I'm not sure either Florida or Boise are even getting many votes at all. Texas went through the same shit last year. Opened the season with 4 ranked teams on the schedule and beat all but one of them. By the end of the year, many of those teams were no longer ranked and idiots were ridiculing Texas, a program that will play anyone, anywhere, any time, for having a weak schedule. They got ZERO credit for those teams being ranked earlier in the year (Michigan, OU, ATM).
  9. "We shall see!" - Uh, no, we are seeing. They're quarter of the way through their schedule. 3 TDs, 3 INTs, completing less than 60% of his passes and looking generally like dogshit against quality opponents.
  10. I don't know what the deal is regarding Owens. I know that there is a strongly held belief that Lacey is a 5 star stud in a 3 star body. Now, given the questions many of us have regarding the QB coaching and the staff involved, I don't know how reliable that thinking really is.
  11. @TreatyOak is going to come by at any minute and show us his receipts regarding Cade Klubnik so far this season. He's looked super awesome, as has Clemson overall.
  12. Snapcounts and PFF grades for the shellacking OU put on Temple:
  13. Unfriendly reminder to idiots posting on this thread about Quinn Ewers and what all that entails - there is a thread dedicated to that shit, so go the fuck over there with Ewers stories and fantasies. Thanks. In other news, clearly something that is happening right now that isn't working is Sarkisian getting way too fucking cute with personnel and playcalling management. Regarding personnel, yeah, January can't go because he's got a throat injury. Maybe Baxter can't go with a real hamstring injury. A lot of the other guys being held out for dings and cuts need to be getting reps with their units, as much for the unit as for the player. "It's a long season" as a refrain sounds dumber than a soliloquy from Spider2YWhateverTheFuckThatIdiotIsCallingHimselfNow. This is not a playoff team as currently presented. This is 1991 Texas incarnate. Get guys out there and figure out some cohesiveness, as they all might be/probably are playing 13 games max this season. If Sarkisian and his combover idiot friend know that Yips Manning isn't going to be fixing much by Florida, have some fucking courage and put in the Caldwell spare early against SHSU and let's see what he can do with the first team unit. Regarding playcalling, it's time to go in the bag a bit for Arch Rocker and let him cut some deep balls loose, early. If he lands a few of those, maybe that loosens the guy up and his bugs get fixed. If that happens and he's still Glitch Manning, then go back to the earlier point about Caldwell. Get him in there. At some point, Texas needs to be running the actual offense that Sarkisian wants it to run. This is a brutally inexperienced offense. They need to be figuring out how the actual playbook functions at full speed and seeing reps there. Other personnel things that should be getting analyzed are: 1) LG - they played Stroh with the 1st unit exclusively in order to get them gelling. How did that work out? If progress isn't being made there, let someone else get similar reps in this next game. 2) 3rd String QB - Lacey has passed Owens. However, they want him to redshirt. If Arch Knoblauch isn't functional and Caldwell gets hurt or sucks as well, Lacey would ostensibly be the guy. All 5'10", 170 pounds of him. So get the guy reps against SHSU in the second half and let him run the offense.
  14. Funny how? What’s funny about it?
  15. He’s missing guys by 4 yards on short and stop routes. This is straight up psychological. Insisting otherwise just shows your abject stupidity and the rest of us aren’t in the mood for it.
  16. @Red Five We finally know why Sarkisian went out and got Caldwell. We were told it was related to concerns with Owens. Now I realize that the dude was watching Arch Knoblauch in practices and scrimmages and realized he needed some form of a backup plan, asap.
  17. Thread title isn’t quite Alabama Ball Gargling or Sam Bradford Seems Like He Sucks levels yet, but it is trending there, and it’s making me laugh when I visit the site and see it near the top. Garrett Gilbert? Hell, I’d take Garrett Gilbert. Arch Manning isn’t in danger of becoming Garrett Gilbert. He looks like he’s already become the football version of Chuck Knoblauch. Steve Sax is starting to worry that Manning might have the fucking yips. I’m not “worried” about it, personally. I’m sure of it. That dude couldn’t be more mentally weak between the lines on a football field if he was carrying a stuffed animal out there with him and sucking on his pacifier.
  18. Kelly represents Plonsky’s Last Stand. That’s been good enough to keep her job a few times, but those cards have all been played. Outside of a miracle, I assume Texas has a newer, better coach to open the 2026 season.
  19. Where are you staying and what kind of dining experience do you want?
  20. I said this in the random game thread last night, but I feel like repeating it here: Del Conte needs to have his hair on fire getting UCLA on the schedule, maybe even for this year in the second bye week. Add a 13th game next year, whatever it takes. I think we have a losing record against these bastards and they’ve had a history of catching Texas as just the wrong time. We need this. Let’s go, right now.
  21. He’s gotten into some really, really fringey pussy. We’re not here to shame.
  22. How quickly can we get UCLA back on the schedule? Can we dump UTSA and get them on there next year? We need like 3 or 4 in a row here with these guys, as well quickly as possible.
  23. Also, the intentional grounding call against Weigatron when the defender was trying to rip his head off was a typically terrible Big 12 officiating call. Holy shit.
  24. Avery Johnson looks like a fucking clown with that hairdo. You’re a leader of a P4 team, you fucking dumb shit. Cut your hair you fucking hippie.
  25. You're just biased against Texas State's chief rival. Incarnate Word is best not trifled with if ASU knows what's good for them.
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