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  1. 2 hours ago, Ricky Butler said:

    The truth is somewhere in the middle. I wish we were recruiting like Georgia and OSU, but a Penn State or Notre Dame class isn't the end of the world. It just puts a lot more pressure on our evaluations and development which is very TBD.

    We have recruited better than Pedo State and Notre Dame and still don't have the necessary talent at several key positions to win consistently. Time to recruit like Bama, OSU and Georgia. The likelihood of the 4 and 5 stars being studs is much higher than the 3 stars we are staring at right now if we miss our remaining top targets. I say no to bread!

  2. 37 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

    Not a huge fan of this stance he keeps staying on, same answer for Arkansas. I get what he’s saying but I don’t think it’s a bad thing to use a little bulletin board material as a way to get the team hyped up a bit.  let’s not treat OU like it’s any other week.   

    I think this is the Saban approach. You have to make your team get up for each and every opponent. That's how you build a dynasty. 

  3. 25 minutes ago, ousux said:
    2 hours ago, UTEE97 said:
    The silver lining, if you can call it that, from our Arkansas debacle and subsequent QB change is that we can change the narrative from "Texas is not ready for prime time" to "Texas is a different team with Casey leading." I am not sure the lines can develop fast enough for us to win the Big 12 this year, but if they do, we could still have a shot at the playoffs. If we are in contention at the end of the year, the Arkansas loss may not be looked upon by the pundits as a bad loss because we experimented with a Freshman QB to start the season that just didn't work out.

    If piggy beats aggy next week (who has taken over our most overrated spot in recent years) then even staunch haters will be forced to give us some credit. Is this a playoff caliber team? Probably not, but if they can play up to their potential in remaining games and the injury gods are good to us..winning the Big 12 isnt out of the question.

    Hope piggy didn't exhaust all their energy on us and still have plenty left in the tank. They just don't hate Aggy the way they hate us. 

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  4. 5 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

    I hope that's right.  But you could just as easily say "Texas is a different team when they play a shitty Rice team than when they play a decent pissed off Power 5 team."  That's not an excuse, but lets not act like a game against Rice is can produce any real data.  Casey's snaps against Arkansas (which looked better clearly better than Card's) showed us way more than his snaps against Rice.  

    Well, the team has to win the conference for this narrative to mean something, which also means they would have improved a lot since Arkansas. 

  5. 22 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

    But almost every person around this program that sees a lot more of it than us expected Card to get the job.  

    By "almost every person around the program" if you mean IT, I am right there with you. Plenty of other observers thought Casey was more poised and ready. 

    The offense looks choppy with Card because sometimes he can make the big throws and other times he will get 3 and out. With Casey, the offense has always been more fluid even when he doesn't hit the big throws.

  6. The silver lining, if you can call it that, from our Arkansas debacle and subsequent QB change is that we can change the narrative from "Texas is not ready for prime time" to "Texas is a different team with Casey leading." I am not sure the lines can develop fast enough for us to win the Big 12 this year, but if they do, we could still have a shot at the playoffs. If we are in contention at the end of the year, the Arkansas loss may not be looked upon by the pundits as a bad loss because we experimented with a Freshman QB to start the season that just didn't work out.

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  7. 2 hours ago, UTEE97 said:

    Let's start fast, score 50+ and then let Card play Q4. We haven't dominated a lesser team like this in forever. We need a performance like that to get this program out of our decade long funk.

    Better than I had hoped!

  8. Just now, Wishbone said:

    His “off games” are also lopsided victories.

    We will never see another coach like him. He is an utter perfectionist who demands perfection every game, every snap. How does one train their mind to stay this focused and driven is beyond me. I am just in awe.

  9. 1 minute ago, Michael Knight said:

    uh cause they've had the same coach this entire time?

    I meant despite having different coaching stuff, except for the head guy of course. Other great coaches have those off games from time to time but Saban never seems to have an off game. 

  10. 5 hours ago, immamac said:

    It's been blatantly obvious for some time that best player doesn't start or get playing time. That doesn't mean that sometimes the best player does start. 

    We will see what Casey has the next 2 games. If he absolutely blows out tech I think he keeps the starting job until he turns into a turnover machine. 

    Casey is very good, but he's a gamer and seems at his ceiling already, which is fine he's a RS junior that is not a bad thing. Card is good with a ceiling of great, but has no experience and just showed his ass for 3 quarters against a dogshit Arkansas team.  

    I have been in Team Casey for a while even though I think Card maybe our future QB a year or two from now. Casey may throw more picks than Card but that's part of being a gamer and taking chances. He also will give us the best chance to win at this juncture. 

  11. 3 hours ago, Tex-19 said:

    Disagree unless he transfers. Card is young and inexperienced but was the starter for a reason. He has better tools and must have been better in practice. Just needs more experience.

    This staff was familiar with Card even before they got here. Jeff Banks was his primary recruiter at Bama. IMHO They were always going to learn more towards Card unless Casey set the stage on fire. Now it seems like we wasted valuable reps in practice splitting between the two QBs instead of choosing one as the starter early on and giving him the majority of the reps. Both of our QBs are raw so the starter perhaps could have used the additional reps.

  12. 14 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    Well Sark pulled Card and has Casey as the starter in game 3 after a terrible performance. So that's a little different of a result than the previous administrations that would keep forcing a guy back out there. 

    I felt like Sark put Casey as a surrender move. He had given up on the game by then.

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  13. 1 minute ago, RC Horn said:

    You have to give Coach Sark at least 3 years to implement his schemes. The offense he runs is the one that USC ran against us in the Rose Bowl. It's not a simple offense to implement right off the bat. Need to give him some time.  Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that Coach Sark has some MNC rings as well as an offensive assistant at USC in both 2003 and 2004.

    Tom Herman has a ring as an OC at the Ohio State. How did that work out for us? Remember who these successful coordinators worked for because their bosses have had success before and after them.

  14. As a fan it's ok to admit you made a mistake in being on the Card bandwagon. I hope the coaches learn from their mistake and give the more experienced guy with better live game experience a chance to win the games going forward. When I learned Sark was 0-19 as a head coach when trailing by 10+ points at the half, I had to wonder what kind of due diligence Hertzell and CDC did before going all in on Sark? Being a good co-ordinator under Saban shouldn't have been the only determining factor. 

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  15. 38 minutes ago, crony said:

    Ian Boyd from IT:

    Casey Thompson's work in this game, while valiant, was basically mop up duty. It doesn't appear Sark is particularly interested in making Thompson the man behind center this season given his refusal to play him when games are really still in question. However, because Thompson was able to go out there and earn a few touchdowns in garbage time, the quarterback battle will be the talk of town.

    IT has an NIL deal with Card. Take whatever they say about the QB battle with a grain of salt.

  16. I realize many of us are overreacting as most fans would do after a loss but I was really concerned about few things:

    1) Playcalling was bad, worse than any Tom Herman called game. I thought we were going to open things up in this game compared to the last game but what i saw was very predictable playcalling.

    2) No adjustments throughout the game. No change-ups to light a fire under your team's ass.

    3) We left a freshman quarterback in there way too long when it was clear he wasn't going to get the offense moving. That's Tom Herman level arrogance.

    4) We never tried to get Bijan the ball in space. 

    5) On defense, we kept the middle wide open. WTF was that? That was like 3rd and Orlando shit.

    6) Card played horrible. OL was shit amd did him no favors but his decision making was bad. His long throws were wayward and his checkdowns were consistently short of the down marker. Why didn't the coach either correct him in game or give Casey a series or two to see who has the hot hands?

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  17. 1 minute ago, ClubWhatever said:

    You could actually see Casey methodically going through his progressions like he is taught.  Card looked always on the verge of panic.  

    This.

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  18. 2 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

    This.  Card is allegedly the better practice guy but Casey has done it in a game

    Casey has played well in all 3 of his actual game appearances.

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