Posts posted by closetojumping
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13 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:It’s already the beginning of the end
We've all noted your fatalistic certitude, as you've been spraying this board and the recruiting forum with it, one shitty post after another. Do the rest of us a favor and work on some new material or shut the fuck up. You're trending towards being a spammer with your whiny bemoaning and it's adding zero value to each thread.
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5 hours ago, LCHorn said:
I don’t think he would be done that fast, but he’s going to be dealing with more intense NIL donor fatigue this offseason and CDC is going to be unable to shield him from making semi-public* his plan for fixing it.
*in other words, it’ll leak out a little here but it’ll mostly be shared with the luxury box types.
I know everyone is repeating that Sark the OC has to go-which is weird, that’s his strength. Sark the GM is what needs to go.
Sarkisian as a CEO has been close to elite. That cannot be said for his performance, ever, as an OC while also the HC. Sorry. You cannot find data and cite it to support a counter to the notion that the OC role is not a strength for Sarkisian while also head coaching.
As to the rest, a lot of you guys are chiming in about how this will be handled before the season outcome is even known. If Texas somehow goes 9-3, no one here has a fucking clue what will or won’t be done in public or private. 5-7 to 7-5, sure. Above that, we have no idea.
41 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:This is laughable. Name the amount and I’ll bet you he’s not fired or forced to resign before the ‘28 season.
I want Sarkisian to work out and win titles at Texas and I think he can, which isn’t how I saw the hire on 1/2/21. That said, I feel like him failing ahead of 2028 is a reasonable hedge to my outlook, based on what I’ve seen this year. If you’re taking bets from anyone, I’ll take the counter to your position for $500.
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4 hours ago, JohnnyTapia said:
Is it true Becton was hired because the players under Herman complained about Yancy McKnight so CDC went more towards a speed/endurance ST coach in Becton?
ST was in reference to Special Teams, not Becton. Also, whoever told you that CDC played a role in hiring Becton seems super informed.
2 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:I’ve heard sark and flood are beefing. Weird that flood would want big humans to play finesse.
he will likely be the manny to mack brown ie fired mid year 2026 to save his own job
I keep hearing this shit about Flood and Sarkisian “beefing” from you guys that like to sniff some the farts of some of the more idiotic $9.95ers in Texas’ orbit. I’ve asked about it to several folks and it sounds like this is bullshit or story-inflation.
Beyond that, I just fucking typed out that Flood isn’t calling the shots with approach to how the line needs to be blocking. Sarkisian has always run a soft offense, long before Flood was involved.
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Regarding the assistant coaching discussion, here are some thoughts from my end:
-Flood's not guy driving the bus regarding the approach to OL blocking, according to those familiar with the practices. He didn't forget how to coach overnight, either. So firing him is probably something Sarkisian does in order to save face after the season.
-Sarkisian is a poor OC as a HC. The numbers bear out that he's generally done a mediocre to shitty job and that isn't going to change with a new OLC. One of the biggest issues with Sarkisian's offensive approach is that it is finesse-oriented. That's just not going to fly in the SEC against the athletes they're facing on everyone's front 7s. With the most talented OL Texas has had in decades last year, they often struggled to run the ball against good defenses. Point is, for the OL to really improve, Sarkisian's approach needs to change as much as anything. Seems unlikely.
-Milwee needs to go. Sarkisian needs to hire an independent QB coach with actual skins on the wall. No QB has gotten better at Texas during the Sarkisian era. Not one. 2 of the highest rated QBs of all time have gotten to campus and not improved. One got drafted as an afterthought in the 7th round. The other has become a laughingstock and an accidental meme generator and he's embarrassing himself on a weekly basis. That's all on Sarkisian in some form, but he's not going to fire himself. He needs to fire his buddy and hire someone who can call him on his bullshit and coach the QB room.
-What are we seeing and learning from Chris Jackson? Do we see WRs getting better? It's somewhat hard to discern with the OL being historically terrible while the QB is constantly either running for his life, shitting himself or doing both.
-Too early on Huff.
-I don't see anything happening with Banks and the TEs actually seem like they're improving with reps.
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3 hours ago, Atticus said:
Pretty sure Doug Marrone was hired to replace Flood, but don't let facts get in the way of a good narrative.
Flood replaced Brent Key
You are pig wrestling, which is fruitless, unless you're the pig. All you get is muddy, as there is no winning. Meanwhile, the pig enjoys it.
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1 hour ago, Sgt. Slaughter said:To be fair, I don’t watch the games because the offense is shit and out of sync this year.
Hahahaha. It is to laugh. …
This is year 5. Steve Sarkisian has been given everything. EVERYTHING he has ever asked for or needed with this program. Many people have spent real money to support this fucking dipshit. He’s coaching a soft offense with a shit run game. Maybe you’re too dumb to grasp all of this, but the only pussies involved with this program are those coaching the offense, the finesse bitches on the OL and the QB who shrieks every time he hears footsteps.
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2 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:This T-shirt fan says thank you for that.
My dad was raised a Texas fan and then was recruited by DKR. Tore his knee up his senior year as a CB and had offers pulled from everywhere. Ended up choosing Rice over Tulane. He raised his boys to be Texas fans and has been as big a diehard as any person I’ve ever known who actually went to Texas, me included. The t-shirt whines have simply never passed muster for me.
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12 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:You don’t get to say we’re Texas or let’s do better. You fucking smu pony bitch.
I hate to derail someone working on shouting that mouthbreathing imbecile back into a corner, but the t-shirt fan shaming is bullshit. Texas has one of the biggest t-shirt fan followings in the world and Texas benefits mightily from it. You're excluding a lot of fans when you start down that path, and it's a silly position.
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20 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:
Arch might be worse than you. You know who beat OU and aggy and could absolutely hit wide open crossers over the middle? Case McCoy. I said Arch wasn't Case McCoy at the beginning of the year. I ddin't think I'd be correct in saying that because it was aspirational.
I find myself watching other teams during the week with three things making me regularly envious:
1) teams in the red zone not running slowly developing dogshit runs up the middle.
2) offensive lines that can actually move an LOS on a running play.
3) QBs hitting wide open WRs roughly 5-15 yards down the field.
The last one probably makes me the most ragey. Texas hasn't had a competent RZ approach in years and good OLs in the running game might as well be a myth at this point. But having a QB who cannot hit the broadside of a barn? That's new bullshit.
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2 hours ago, Dbeasy said:I’d take 8-4, but that’s a huge disappointment.
Sure, I guess. It feels like a fall from grace, but I've lived long enough to know that there are far more disappointing outcomes than 8-4.
1 hour ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:With PK, I’m not sure a blowout is ever a certainty.
That Georgia game is going to be like Fayetteville in 2021, with the offense and defense trading roles. It really doesn't take much on the road for a game against quality talent in a hostile environment to get out of hand, irrespective of how good someone's defense is.
1 hour ago, Wulaw Horn said:Why would you take 8-4 though? I'm not saying that we won't finish worse- but that's a fail for the season the same as 7-5 or 6-6 or 5-7. Point being, there's nothing good that comes from 8-4, and it's possible that 8-4 might lead to less soul search than some lesser record.
No QB has gotten better. Arch seems to be much worse. It's bizarre. He's been good at the whole offense thing in the past.
Why would I take 8-4? Because I prefer it to 5-7. You've made it clear in multiple threads that you don't really see how 5-7 could happen and then you start extolling the virtues of a likely 9-3 playoff team or some such, and, hey, you do you. For me? I remember 2021, 2010, 1997, 2014-2016. Some things I learned from those years include key insights like "winning poorly sure still beats the fuck out of losing" and "I enjoy watching a sport I love a lot more when Texas wins its game on Saturdays" and "offseasons suck a lot less coming off of decent seasons versus asshole-flavored seasons".
I am not living in some fantasy realm that 10-2 will happen or that 9-3 gets Texas to the playoffs and if those things don't happen, then change needs to happen and that will only come after a 6-6 type season. I don't think a certain record is going to be the impetus for Sarkisian making some changes. He's either honestly introspective, which I think he is, or he's an idiot. There's no way he's looking at the offensive woes this season and not considering various changes.
This team's beta is too massive to expect consistency and competency all of a sudden. Arch Knoblauch is a below average college QB who fails to get the basics right on a weekly basis. His coach goes into what the coach himself has labeled "playcallers block" at least once a game and often for entire halves. That's also indicative of poor prep and planning during the week, btw.
Beyond all of that, this offensive line is dogshit and we're back to DJ Monroe World in which we might have one playmaker every now and then and that's mostly on special teams. Fuck me, fuck you and fuck Seven Win Steve for this. I feel like I need a cigarette.
1 hour ago, Bevo14 said:This. Winning out is the only outcome good enough to make a lack of change palatable.
You can live with this approach and choose to be completely disappointed in the year. If this team finishes 10-2, I will kiss your bare ass in front of the tower and give you 30 minutes to draw a crowd.
I, and clearly others, am choosing a path of far less disappointment. Give me some ugly wins and I've reset my expectations outside of 2-3 of those accordingly.
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October 21, 2023. Mississippi State beat Arkansas in Fayetteville, 7-3. That was MSU's last SEC win. They've lost 15 SEC games in a row. That will be heralded throughout the CFB media world and on social media when they break the streak two years later, this coming Saturday night.
I hope that isn't the case, but I've been a Texas fan for a long time and that just kind of feels like some Texas football bullshit.
19 hours ago, TornACL said:You older Surly posters probably remember the 1991 Texas at Mississippi State season opener. One of the absolutely most disappointing games I can ever remember.
We were coming off of the Shock the Nation 1990 tour, and despite the 46-3 Cotton Bowl loss, the defense was gonna to be good and Gardere was back at QB. 14 year old me was absolutely convinced that we were gonna run the SWC, get back to the Cotton Bowl and win this time. Texas was back baby.
Instead, we had like 200 yards of offense, looked totally impotent, and those hillbillies celebrated like free Oxy and crystal meth had dropped from the heavens.
I fear that Saturday's game will at times bring bank brutal memories of that day. And so I think I will get drunk Saturday afternoon.
Go Horns.
This pretty much me exactly. I was stunned and pissed after that 1991 MSU game, but I'd only been watching games since the loss to Georgia in the Cotton Bowl 7 years earlier and didn't fully understand things just yet.
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If you could be guaranteed an 8-4 finish to the regular season, yet you do not get to pick the wins and losses, would you take that record, right now?
I would take 8-4 if I could, without hesitation. 2 of the last 3 games involved one of the worst Texas offenses I have ever seen and one of those games also included a lackluster defense. I feel like the chances of seeing more abysmally shitty offensive performances over the next 5 games are really high and there's a solid chance that the defense plays like asshole again as well.
A blowout loss to Georgia feels inevitable and an embarrassment in Starkville feels very plausible. 5-7 is more likely than 10-2. Hell, 9-3 would fucking stun me.
My biggest problem with all of this is that there is no excuse for it. This is year 5 and Sarkisian has been given every resource. This is his doing and the offense is his bailiwick, yet the offense looks like an FCS unit.
Also, name a QB that has been on a Texas roster and actually gotten better during their time on campus while Sarkisian and Milwee have been running that room. Like, name a single one.
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9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
Yeah, the French toast at Bardot is fucking unreal.
It’s been a running joke with our group for years. Take a murse or fannypack to the brunch and then tuck away what you don’t eat of the french toast loaf into that, and then just randomly pull it out and snack on it while at the craps or blackjack table later in the day. If I saw someone do that, I’d likely have a cardiac arrest on the spot from an explosion of laughter.
My wife ordered it one time. We had deviled eggs to start and I had a benedict of some sort. She knocked down about 1/8 of the french toast and asked me to help. I think I took down another 1/8 and we asked for the check. No regrets. It’s delicious anyway.
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7 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:
I said wow 9 times tonight. One fully extended shovel pass, one left handed throw under pressure, and 7 sacks.
The first two, you’re right. The left handed pass was terrific. He also placed a throw perfectly on a guy’s chest deep and the dude dropped it, but, man, there’s not much else.
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I opted to go to the Wizard of Oz with @SydneyCarton and another buddy while everyone else did other stuff after our Friday brunch at Bouchon. A couple of things pertaining to the last page+.
1) I hadn’t seen the Wizard of Oz since childhood and I had low expectations. Just wanted to see what the hubbub about the Sphere was all about. I was personally blown away. It’s a sensory explosion and the story/film is still terrific, to boot. It’s 75 minutes and that is perfect. Get the 300 or 400 section seating for tickets if you do it. Lower than that missed some experience.
2) I used to push for our group to go to Mon Ami Gabi for brunch when we’d visit. It’s fallen off. Bardot and Bouchon blow it out of the water for brunch these days. If you’re in the Venetian, don’t overthink it. Take Bouchon, make sure you at least try the scrambled eggs and whatever soup they have that day, and never look back.
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19 minutes ago, Iguana said:
"Also, OU has never scored more than 2 offensive touchdowns against an SEC opponent since joining the conference." ?????
1st OKL 13:11 OKL - Gabriel,Dillon 9 yd run (Schmit,Zach kick), 5 plays, 22 yards, TOP 01:03 702nd OKL 05:23 OKL - Walker,Tawee 1 yd run (Schmit,Zach kick), 10 plays, 75 yards, TOP 04:04 17143rd OKL 10:21 OKL - Walker,Tawee 1 yd run (Schmit,Zach kick), 13 plays, 75 yards, TOP 04:39 27174th OKL 00:15 OKL - Anderson,Nic 3 yd pass from Gabriel,Dillon (Schmit,Zach kick) 5 plays, 75 yards, TOP 01:02 3430Sadly, this took effort.
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There are plenty of examples of guys who were valued for their work as OCs or DCs who eventually gave up the playcalling role as an HC. Saban, Drinkwitz and Mack Brown are easy examples to recall either due to proximity or recency. There are many examples of guys who refused to drop being a playcaller and it cost them their jobs. Will Muschamp and Billy Napier are easy examples for this board.
Now, name the guys who called plays and won national titles, real quick. Spurrier is one. Who else? Sir Edward Beauregard Orgeron, Esq., certainly didn't. Meyer? Nope. Smart? Nope. Swinney? Nope. Carroll? Stoops? Nope. I guess Jimbo Fisher, somewhat hilariously, is another.
Point is, you can find one about every dozen years or so who did it. The rest of the guys dating back to the early 90's were all very involved with their sides of the ball, but they recognized what needed to happen in order for them to truly win. There is a boneyard full of HC tenures in which the guy couldn't let go of his shiny object and cost himself, his program, his players, and the program's fans a shot at greatness. It's just selfishness. We've already pointed out that the results for Sarkisian are visibly short of elite and the trend is decidedly negative, and the sample size is not small. His case for continuing down this path is paper thin.