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Hank Kingsley

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  1. Yeah, clearly Arky and A&M are nowhere near the level of UGA, but they are the two best homes games this year.
  2. Yes, considering we had an inconsistent and out of rhythm offense for the vast majority of the season, a top 4 finish is great. Now it's time for our offensive minded HC to seriously address and fix the issues on offense.
  3. I'd rather watch a Charlie Strong Texas game than this shit.
  4. While I generally hate the sequencing of next year's schedule, I think it sets up nicely for the first year under Arch. I'd break the season up into 5 segments. 1. Opener vs. Ohio State - Obviously extremely tough game, both teams have to replace a ton of players. I like have the starting QB entering his 3rd year in the program. No matter what, we will learn A LOT from this game. 2. Cupcake month. Home vs. SJSU, UTEP, BYE WEEK, Sam Houston. Plenty of opportunities for playing time and figuring out our rotations on both sides of the ball. 3. AT Florida, OU in Dallas - Gators will be tough. OU the following week. Important middle stretch. 4. AT Kentucky, AT Miss St., home vs. Vandy, then 2nd BYE WEEK - All manageable and winnable games. 5. AT Georgia, home vs. Arky, home vs. A&M - Nut cutting time.
  5. I really liked Ehlinger but probably don't hold him up as highly as some others on here. But he was tough as fuck and sacrificed his body every week for Texas. I understand why fans would love him.
  6. We all know that, man. Let people vent.
  7. Quinn's weaknesses are Arch's strengths. Mobility, physicality, footwork, pocket courage, deep ball, zip...these are all traits Arch showed consistently in his playing time this year. Yes, it was vs. inferior competition, but it was also his first real playing time. I think the offense is going to look very different next year. Doubt we see as many slow developing plays, bunch formations, and one read designs.
  8. It's just nice to have clarity if he was knocked out of the game or not.
  9. I just added CSU game to his 2024 highlight reel. arch full 2024 highlights.mp4
  10. Hopefully a reporter asks about this in the next PC and we get some clarification if Arch was knocked out of game or not.
  11. Going back in the game to some earlier frustrations. Gbenda gets the INT on first 3rd quarter OSU drive. Our first offensive play is 10 yards and a first down. Then run for 1 yard on 1st down, run again for -2 yards (this particular play call was infuriating), then a checkdown pass to Wisner on 3rd and long, punt. Be aggressive, Sark! Take a fucking shot. Dial up that special play call. Try to seize the momentum. Fuck. 3rd and 5ish first play of 4th quarter at our own 44, Quinn misses an open Golden for an easy 1st down. The game was tied, and there's a good chance we take the lead for the first time in that game if we convert. Just a massive play that has to be executed.
  12. No offense to OP, but if this is gonna be the catch all Manning thread for the next 2-3 years, can we change the title from "Arch Manning Being Arch"? We can do better.
  13. That was my initial reaction, but after thinking about it I want Ohio State to win. I want it to feel very clear that we lost the NC in this game, for Sark's sake. He needs to adapt on game day. Also I want our revenge victory in Game 1 next year to be against the defending national champs.
  14. Quinn seems to be a great young man and he loved playing for the University of Texas. He deserves respect and I think his overall legacy at Texas is secured and people will generally be positive about it over time. The victory at Alabama was a sea change moment for this program and he led the way that night. And 4th and 13 will live on. The expectations were always high and a lot of his defenders felt that was unfair. But we are Texas. And QB expectations are always high. But the larger issue is he and his camp set those expectations themselves from the beginning. Reclassifying and skipping your senior season of high school, particularly as a QB and #1 recruit in the country, was a huge deal and truly elevated everyone's expectations. That's gonna create or add to the "prodigy" or "generational" label. I have zero inside info and will admit it's a bit unfair to speculate, but I would guess that QE personally didn't really want to skip his senior year. I watched a good interview with him recently, and he basically said the best time of his life was playing High School football at SLC with his friends. He loved every minute of it. His family/team seem to be pretty influential, and I'd guess they pushed it. Then he becomes maybe the first big name to score a huge NIL deal at Ohio State. That too will add to the hype and expectations. His QB trainer is Mahomes' trainer. I bet he is was miserable sitting 3rd or 4th string in Columbus and not playing his real Senior year with his HS buddies. But he got paid at least. He transfers to Texas shortly after and is named the starter right away. The rest is now history. But let's be real and accept that a lot of the "unfair expectations" were self-inflicted.
  15. I hope you're right that Quinn plays well in the NFL. But also here's what's going to happen. Arch is gonna open up this offense and we will be better and more explosive next year.
  16. I made this 2024 Arch highlight real a few weeks ago. arch season highlights.mp4
  17. After the fumble return at 28-14, Quinn on 2nd down rolled out right after feeling pressure and threw an incompletion. I think that was the first time he moved out of the pocket? Or did I miss things earlier?
  18. There's basically only one play you can't call in that situation and it's a RB wide toss. It's a play that if not executed properly gets serious negative yards, which is what happened.
  19. I've been plenty critical of Quinn on this thread. Sark fucked this game up at the end and deserves most of the criticism.
  20. This game is on Sark much more than Quinn. Ewers made some really nice plays, missed some crucial throws, particularly that 3rd down and 5ish to Golden to start the 4th quarter. That really hurt and was the moment to take momentum and control of the game. Ugh. Sark botched the goal line sequence. Hopefully that Quinn sack fumble on 4th down doesn't linger with fans. The 2nd down call from Sark is what killed us. Did Arch get hurt? Feels like he should have been in on 1st and goal at the 1 to ride momentum and score. Oh well. Fuck.
  21. It was more than derpy. Sark needs to consider restructuring game day responsibilities or give up play calling duties all together. He struggles with momentum and management during the games and it needs to be addressed.
  22. Some people used QB ratings to shit on Quinn, fair enough. I didn't take it as people preferring these other QBs to be our starter, just as their argument for Quinn's struggles. Which to Huckleberry's point that I misconstrued, was still a dumb take.
  23. Reggie was a freak. The most annoying part of that Heisman race was all the people counting his kick return yards in his final stats down the stretch. "Reggie Bush had 385 total yards tonight!" and 200 of it would be special teams or some shit.
  24. I missed those posts, fair enough. One thing I'll say is this has to be worst year of college QB play I can remember. Maybe some end up being great NFL QBs down the line. But absolute dogshit this season.
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