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  1. Worthy breaking his ass on that slip would be peak 2021 Texas.
  2. TCU becomes a better job without having to deal with Texas and OU in the conference. Especially when the Big 12 will likely remain the third best football conference in the country behind the SEC and BIG. Losing Texas is a non-factor and OU is being replaced with another playoff contender in Cinci. Then you add two teams frequently in the top 25 this past decade in BYU and UCF? Even Houston is on the way up with stability under Dana. Losing OU means they do not have that obvious tent pole program that will start every season in the top ~5-8, sure, but it also opens things up for everyone else to make more regular runs toward a conf title. Our departure makes a dent in their wallets but they've assembled an entertaining package of teams who should have no trouble regularly putting their champ into an expanded 8 team playoff. Conversely SMU is kind of fucked moving forward due to the alignment shuffle.
  3. I want to dismiss this by saying anyone too bad to see the field at that position this year, with who is actually playing, will not be missed.. FR or not. Yet considering how fucking inept our defensive coaching staff has been (especially with personnel usage) I am definitely not going to automatically assume fault is with the player. Sounds like he might be headed to Ole Miss to join Hutzler.
  4. The solution is simple. We lock Sark into a small room with the monkey, now having developed a taste for human flesh, and we don't open the door until nature has taken its course. Then we turn around and go full fucktard like Aggy and offer 150M fully guaranteed over the next 12 years to Matt Rhule. Finally we hire a street gang to kidnap what I assume to be the 20-30 pet cats Plonsky has and hold them hostage until the bitch rubber stamps any and every asinine corrupt as fuck hire and/or NIL program we can think up.
  5. Literally this past winter?? We wanted Raymond, and had a very good shot at landing him, but compliance went full retard and blocked it over concerns that he would get pulled into that rape cover up scandal at LSU. Some on here have continually backed that decision and I will continue to call them fucking pussies. Its not like we couldn't have just fired Raymond after the fact if he actually got any of that dirt thrown his way. Having Raymond on board alone would have locked up Harris for certain, probably Anderson and Mathews and given us a very real shot at fighting Coombs for Brooks in the 2022 class alone. Texas has this absurd fucking guideline about not allowing the hiring of any coach or staff member that is even tangentially involved in an active ongoing investigation. You think PK fucking blows as DC? We wanted Pruitt. That was Sark's top choice. He didn't give the tiniest of fucks about the scandal (and I would point out the NCAA still has not hit Pruitt with a show cause and likely never will) but we literally couldn't hire him because some bullshit guidelines that our administration actually gives teeth. Same deal with the like ~3 top choices of Sark for director of recruiting (and Harris has done a fairly abysmal job in the role). We need compliance to be put in their fucking place and a lot of these antiquated red tape guidelines to be torn the hell up. They were mostly put in place by dickhead Ivy league twats that hate sports anyway. The current reality of college athletics is that short of posting videos of you handing bags of cash to players on twitter you are essentially untouchable. I'm not even saying Sark SHOULD have hired Raymond, or Pruitt, or any of the various ultra shady DOR candidates.. but he wanted to and wasn't allowed. So yes our head coaches, even in football, are at times handcuffed. edit: I just remembered that thanks to Burnt Ends we have literally posted video of us handing bags of cash to players. NIL is wild. I guess I need a new analogy.
  6. Yep. How we close out this recruiting class and especially how we address clear needs in the portal are going to be more important for landing Arch than however these remaining games play out. Same thing with how Sark handles coaching staff changes this winter. They will want to see evidence that Sark is making the necessary changes to make us more competitive but I don't think they give two rat fucks about how we are currently playing. The exception of course being if we just absolutely shit the bed, lose 3 of the next 4, and become such a dumpster fire that no one will want to transfer or sign here. But even then it would be more about the future looking bleak than having anything to do with us collapsing week after week against top 15 teams.
  7. If you want to be a simpleton and pretend like advanced measurables can quantify the very real impact of consistently having to play and adjust to competent offensive coordinators than so be it. As you put it that would certainly be an excruciatingly lazy and uninformed take. The normalized stats suggest that he did a good job at Washington, and he did, but they can not quantify the greater context of the lack of competency that he was facing on the opposing side lines. He simply was not challenged with any regularity as he has been this season and its resulting in a string of games in which he is very clearly being out coached. There is a cumulative effect when you play coaches able to exploit your flawed play calls and failed adjustments week after week, each able to take advantage of the additional information gained on your tendencies and personnel. Then you have the greater context of Lake's increasing role at Washington, including being given play calling duties.. and you want to pretend like that is not perhaps a major red flag? Considering what we are seeing each and every week now? We were sold on the 'it was just to keep Lake happy' narrative but maybe they just internally figured out that he fucking blows at in-game adjustments against any halfway decent coach? Washington was able to show up big in a few OOC games but so did Herman. I really like PK's scheme in theory but holy shit he is basically a boxer just crying and covering his face at this point while the opposing teams destroy him with body shots.
  8. You fire him out of a cannon and into the fucking sun if you can get Muschamp or Lanning but both are EXTREME longshots. Better chance that one of those two ends up Bama and the other remains at Georgia DC role. I am really curious what would happen if Saban drops Golding though... that was Sark's choice behind Muschamp/Lanning/Quinn. Golding isn't really up to that 'Bama standard' but I would prefer him to PK to be perfectly honest. There are just so many unknowns around PK considering the relatively dogshit teams they faced 90% of the time in the PAC and his sharing so many duties with Lake for much of his tenure. edit: I agree with what someone said earlier. Unless you can find an actually elite guy, which is very unlikely, you just make sure to hire a Co-DC who is a proven entity / defensive playcaller just in case this fucking mess continues into year 2.
  9. Everyone keeps saying that Muschamp wouldn't leave Georgia while his son is a walk on there. We just need to send him our film and show him that his son would actually start for us. Easy.
  10. Raymond seems set to stick around for at least one season under whoever the new coach is at LSU and go from there. There are still some other excellent DB coaches we can and should kick the tires on. My first call would be Karl Scott (current Vikings CB coach who spent prior two years at Bama) and make absolutely goddamn sure he is loving the NFL and see if money could sway him back to college ranks.
  11. I doubt he will decommit until he is ready to directly flip to another program. From what I know of the kid and the people around him they are savvy enough to likely avoid the potential 'decommit from Texas, Tucker goes to LSU where you are potentially not a take and then Texas doesn't want you back' scenario. I expect someone from the DL group to break first (maybe Aaron Bryant?).
  12. I wish I lived in world where Texas was corrupt enough to just hire Pruitt as a replacement for Joseph.
  13. The lack of usage of Wiley blows my fucking mind. Maybe he can't catch a damned thing in practice but he seems to be reliable in actual games / scrimmages that fans and writers have access to. Dude is the single biggest mismatch we can create on the field next to only Worthy's raw speed and he is MIA every red zone trip.
  14. I came here specifically to question whether the same sunshine pumping smooth brains would try to peddle their "Early playing time!" "Recruits don't care about results like fans do" nonsensical bullshit.. and two examples were already waiting. Get a fucking grip. Both of you. Those same kids could play right away at Kansas or a hundred other toilet teams in the country. Texas has become an absolute joke again amongst recruits. Few things are more damaging to a program than becoming a meme and we are getting fucking roasted in group chats and texts between recruits right now in a way we haven't seen since the Strong era (and that isn't speculation). Early playing time will help up us with JAGs but the elite talent can go play early at plenty of other programs not fun by an incompetent dipshit. EARLY PLAYING TIME IS NOT APPEALING IF YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING TO BE POORLY DEVELOPED AND LOSE 4-5 GAMES A FUCKING YEAR.
  15. The fact that Aggy is actively in talks trying to buy Stewart at the moment isn't an assumption. The fact that Winfield wants to play for Tucker, but isn't wild about playing so far from home at Michigan St, is also not an assumption (he has told people close to him). If you can't put two and two together and guess what will happen when Tucker is suddenly coaching at LSU you are even more of a fucktarded smooth brained cunt than you normally look. Personally I think Winfield stays in this class and we land Stewart but hedging against those two outcomes is exactly why we are now talking with the new WR.. which is the question that was being addressed.
  16. There are reasons to feel confident with Stewart right now but the kid has completely flipped things around twice already and now Aggy are getting involved with the usual bag bullshit so its best to consider him a coin toss. I think it has more to do with Winfield; I don't see him bailing for Michigan St... but if Tucker gets the LSU gig as many expect will happen? Yeah he gone.
  17. Extremely high. It is one of the things helping us against Georgia right now. Even if Monken does not get a HC gig this year he is almost certainly going to be gone by the time Manning gets on campus. That makes his relationship with Kirby Smart more important than anything they build with Monken.. and Smart is the kind of greasy used car salesman the Manning family reportedly doesn't resonate well with. In the very least it helps slow the process down and removes the risk of him going ahead and committing to Georgia some point in November. Would think we are the only program he would lock himself to before ~February because he is likely wanting to see the replacement OC, if they get one, first for understandable reasons.
  18. Highly doubt Pole Assassin is going to be on board with a relocation to Pullman. There is also the issue of his kids; I don't know the current status of that dynamic and its really none of our fucking business but when coming to Texas one of the stated reasons was being closer to them. Not going to fully dismiss it because yeah.. its his alma mater, but it wouldn't make a ton of sense for him when comparable gigs in this region are likely to come calling soon as well.
  19. For thinking that Sark will look to upgrade the DB staff if a unique opportunity presents itself? If the Co-DC tag is available and he actually has a real shot at landing someone like Raymond, now clear of the scandal, or Coombs if OSU is stupid enough to cut him entirely loose or he doesn't accept the demotion? I never said either situation was likely, nor do I expect Choate gets that job in the first place, but you either think that Jospeh is untouchable (making you a fucking moron) or you think Sark isn't ruthless enough to fire a guy after year one.. in which case you are still a fucking moron but also clueless.
  20. Well yeah.. whoever we brought in would be replacing either Joseph or Gideon. We would still need to also fill the LB role.
  21. Would love to have the excuse to part ways amicably with Choate. Not saying we should be trying to force him out the door or anything but freeing up that Co-DC tag would go a long ways towards allowing us to bring in an elite guy for the secondary. He has been.. fine, in recruiting, but I can't think of anyone likely to bail on us if he were to depart.
  22. It was already answered above. Raymond was in the middle of a major sexual assault coverup scandal at LSU. It was a non-starter with compliance even though anyone with half a fucking brain knew the investigation would get buried and none of it land on current coaches (exactly what happened btw).
  23. I'm not going to defend the fucking idiocy or bias within our compliance department but the Raymond situation came at the worst possible time. Everything was still in the air with the sexual assault coverup investigation going on at LSU. Even a more reasonable and fair compliance team would have likely pumped the breaks on a candidate that might well be outed just a couple months later as a major player in a scandal that size. Raymond came out of that fairly clean afaik so it should be an easier sell moving forward. Hard to imagine the new LSU coach not wanting him to say or him picking Texas even IF we could get him cleared so probably a mute point.
  24. Blue leaving makes sense considering how we are just feeding Bijan every game. We haven't really had much choice in the matter, if we want to win, but Blue was sold on the idea that even with one top RB everyone else would still get to eat. He even praised us for that on twitter a few games into the season. It struck me as odd at the time because Sark is literally known for just hammering the ball to the best 2-3 guys at their respective positions over and over again. 'Spreading the love' is not exactly a mantra he endorses (for the most part). In the games since Blue tweeted that glowing praise about 'Everyone eats at Texas" we've not really seen Brooks once, Roschon's role feels greatly diminished (stats might say otherwise) and Keilan isn't exactly getting many traditional rushes. It is what it is. Then you look at Miller popping the fuck off this season and it is completely understandable he might be feeling some buyer's remorse at the moment.
  25. It is true that he would probably react poorly to a proposed permanent move to the slot but the current situation is vastly different from what he faced at Bama. They wanted to move him permanently to WR, on a team loaded at the position with elite talent, and he was unlikely to ever get any carries out of the backfield there again. We can offer him a return to RB in the Spring and a continuance of the same handful of touches from the backfield he is getting now in the interim. Shouldn't be hard to convince a kid with NFL aspirations the value of playing ~20 snaps a game for the rest of the season in the role he will almost certainly be playing in the next level. All that said.. he might just fucking suck at running routes. Might not be able to catch a damn thing if its contested. There are plenty of reasons why moving Moore inside and going with Washington, whose a great run blocker, on the outside could be the better move. I would hope we see more creativity and experimentation after the bye week with personnel packages.
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