You hate to lose, I feel like we’ve done that enough for the last 12 years, but I really hope that woke this team up.
These slow starts have to stop, last year it was the ending , now we can’t start fast but we finish very strong. Sark has to find a way to play complete games. Idk what it is, but as the head coach it’s your job to fix whatever is at a disconnect. Hopefully this game gets these players attention, cause is no way in hell this was the same team we had in Tuscaloosa, the passion that team played with was nowhere to be found Yesterday. Sark has to be better also, I honestly think the coaching staff underestimated OUs front and the coaches turtled . Sark showed us in Bama he knew what to do to end games, and didn’t. He talks about Complimentary football but I felt like he did the defense a disservice . We may have stop Gabriel but anyone at the game would tell you, We really couldn’t stop that OUs offense, and I get it, we need to score so the offense is in hurry up mode. But once we got inside the 40 Sark could have slowed down and ate Clock, but he didn’t, even so why do you call that on 3rd?? Is like you didn’t even want to try and score, you were satisfied with a FG, and maybe you did believe in your defense, cause they’ve shown you they can do it, but PK didn’t help with the prevent defense giving them, everything underneath. Grabiel showed you all day that’s what they do, and do it at a fast tempo to get them down the field. I was really just disappointed with the coaching at times in this game. At least make them earn it. Put some heat on Gabriel.
is so much I can say but ultimately, we have to be better coaching wise. I hope this helps Sark to make adjustments to how he does a few things.