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William Bludworth

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  1. I do honestly admire the optimism about eventually one of those teams breaking through, I just don't see it happening anytime soon. The talent gap between just Texas and A&M is pretty substantial. I googled the averages between 2022-2025 and Texas is 4th and A&M is between 10-11 (10.5 is what it says). That's not a small margin in recruiting. However, with portal additions it's hard to know, but both teams recruit mainly HS talent, but A&M has had to use the portal substantially more than Texas, and it's paying off this year. Now if Elko can continue to recruit elite HS kids (the bread and butter of contenders) and has an eye for talent that aren't rated "elite" the gap will shrink over time. But he has to at the very least recruit top-5 for the next 5 years to even the gap by recruiting ratings standards, just as Sark has done. But after this year, you're losing Concepcion (great pickup), but keeping Craver and Bethel-Roman (a very solid recruit), but then you have to beak in more high school kids, and you aren't going to have a Bethel-Roman every year, which is no easy task. You lose Moss. But keep Owens (he's trash, I'm sorry. He just is), Smith, and Daniels, but you're bringing in two solid RBs, and already have two RS, but they still need to catch up to the speed of the game. You get Reed back, who is much better than any of us speculated would be. So while you do have talent at WR coming back, you still need at least 3 more quality starters, and I don't see any on the roster, so a talented frosh like Myles will either sink or swim, or Aaron Gregory/Kelshaun Johnson (I don't see him making an impact in year one, but I also don't follow Klein's usage of RS-FR, either. He's seemed fast in HS, but I don't and didn't follow him as a recruit and didn't care if we landed him or not. I know we wanted him at some point, but we ended up with Lockett, Ffrench, and McCutcheon, who I believe is a stratosphere ahead of Johnson, but I'm a Longhorn). I know it looks like I'm tearing your team down, but I'm not. You're just an aggie and it's easier to use aggie players since we all know them. So you lose Moss, Daniels, and Smith, but keep Owens (net negative), and then someone named Jamarion Marrow as a RS-FR, Tiger Ridem Jr RS-FR, and true frosh Hatton (who I believe will be a stud) and Edwards (he'll most likely RS). That's tough, man. That's a lot to replace in the RB room. You lose Concepcion, but get back Craver and Bethel-Roman (both net positives), and then RS-FR five-star Myles back from injury (unknown if injury will linger), as well as RS-FR Izaiah Williams, Kelshaun Johnson, TK Norman, and true frosh Aaron Gregory (will be good), Madden Williams (will be good), and then three-star guys. That's still a lot to replace in the WR room. And we haven't even gotten to the OL or DL/D in general. Neither of us are Ohio State or Bama under Saban, Kirby where we can just re-load. But the gap is still there. If Sark beats Elko this year it's going to start looking like a Sark vs Venebals problem, or a Sark vs Kirby/Day problem, and that's not good, especially if your key to getting either home field advantage or not in the CFP is in the way. But that's assuming you have another magical year when if you can beat Arizona State, Texas, Tennessee, LSU (it all depends on who they hire. They're a shit show but have talent), Alabama, Florida, Mizzou. Miss St (who have made a serious turn around) and Auburn (I refuse to mention scrubs with little talent like Kentucky, Samford, Arky, SC). The same goes for us, as we have to beat Ohio State, ou, Tennessee, Florida, Ole Miss, and A&M. Right both Texas and A&M are #8 and #9 in recruiting, but like always they'll make a jump before signing day. But it's a great first class for Elko, but he has to keep it up. My point being, tech isn't making that jump to NC, neither is Indiana for now, and it'll be interesting to see how Elko faces off against let's say Ohio State, Georgia, Bama. Oregon, Ole Miss, etc. Does he have the talent? Can he sustain talent and not regress? Those are issues with A&M and have been. I realize it's a new regime, but this is uncharted territory, and y'all had the easiest schedule in the entire conference by a country mile, and were gifted a win against ND (but whatever.a win is a win). There is a reason for over 4 decades a blue blood or new blue blood has won the NC and no one else beneath them has. We're far closer to Georgia talent-wise and they just rag dolled us in embarrassing fashion. Ours is a coaching issue, not talent issue, and if we continue on the path we're on, we'll be seeing a new regime come 2028.
  2. Up-vpte for the movie gif. Hilarious movie
  3. We are so fucking bad. Like, we're listening to my neighbor talk about their crypto currency strategy while their house is being foreclosed, bad. I would hang my head in shame, but I don't want my head to get first dibs before the rope around my neck.
  4. You can't just talk shit these days. Too many people have an itchy trigger finger and are just waiting for the right opportunity to use it.
  5. Fuck, man. I really hope he pulls through. God that's horrible.
  6. Dude, that Florida loss is going to haunt us for a long time. Inexcusable loss. Sark is such a spineless pussy, with an OL coach who can't see Stroh fucking sucked, so the brainlet in the third qtr decided to put Brooks, a T who has never played G in his life, to take over. Genius move. We need an entire staff overhaul. Akina needs to go, Orphey needs to go, Nansen can stay, but PK is working with is hands tied behind his back. You don't go from being a top 3-5 defense to whatever the fuck we saw last night if you have to replace Gideon and Joseph with an elderly retread and a guy who was hand picked by Sark from our apparent football sister school, Rutgers.
  7. What we need is an entire staff overhaul. Flood is shit, Banks is shit, Chad Scott is as useless as Banks, Akina needs to go, I don't know what the fuck Orphey is even teaching, Milwee for sure needs to get his pink slip. LaNorris Sellers does nothing. To say I miss Joseph. Gideon, and Choice would be equivalent to a Ferrari missing its steering wheel AND engine. We downgraded so badly, and of course Sark dips into the University of Texas at Rutgers for a coach. Choice was a great teacher and recruiter. This bullshit about being young is just that...bullshit. It's recruiting shitty players on the OL, a shitty defensive staff, we're two years into having just one serviceable RB. Incredible. I'm sure the recruits just loved seeing Kirby drag his nuts over Sarkisian's face for the third time. I bet Atkinson and Cooper were thrilled and very impressed with our dysfunction on offense and defense. At least Wingo finally realized he has hands AND for the firdt time ever caught a 50/50 ball. WR is fine, Arch did ok other than run forward and sack himself. Our OL wasn't as bad as I thought, but defensively, we are pathetic. What does Flood and Sark do regarding penalties we keep racking up? Clearly they aren't fixing the problem. Only Sark and Nansen should be retained.
  8. That's not surprising. Last night while the game was on I posted after our fourth or fifth penalty we were already like 122nd out of 136.
  9. We had two absolute studs in Murphy and Sweat, and got some good stuff from a Jaylon Ford, a young Ant Hill, Broughton, and Collins, but we had a true frosh DB in Muhammad, and Derek Williams, but McDonald and Barren hadn't become freaks yet. Barron was still very good, tho. hadn't come into bis own, Taaffe was still learning, but our DL was pretty much befrer of talent. Now, if we put our 2024 defense out there, we win that game. We were just that dominant. Those dudes had Mazi Smith, DJ Turner, Mike Morris,Mason Graham, Junior Colson, Michael Barrett, and then offensively they had JJ McCarthy. Blake Corum, Donovan Edwards, Kalel Mullins, Roman Wilson, Luke Schoomaker, Colton Loveland, Cornelius Johnson. Offense we had Ewers, Brooks, Ced Baxter, Worthy, Adonai Mitchell, JT Sanders, Whittington, and then a bunch of either Yung bucks who didn't play much, like Jaydon Blue, Keilan Robinson, Wisner hadn't become the ou and aggy dagger yet, and we did have a good OL with Banks, Christian Jones, Jake Majors, DJ Campbell, and Hayden Connor, and they (not Banks or Jones) would hdlavw gotten abused and Ewers would have self-sacked himself. We would have lost by 2 TDs, minimum. They were just that much better. Their OL was a well-oiled machine.
  10. Again, I was so focused on Endries sucking I blocked it out of my mind. The game was just so awful I just didn't even bother to memorize that part. Did he get any other opportunities like Endries? Not being a smart ass, I just don't remember it.
  11. I honestly don't remember it, and it's probably because I was so focused on how awful Endries is.
  12. We weren't beating that Michigan team that man handled the same Washington team that made us look special needs. That Michigan team would have pushed our defense around and bodied our offense. It would have been nice to at least make the NC game, tho. But the notion we could have won is silly message board moronity.
  13. Why? We got just as good of a WR in Mosley, and we didn't need two WR portals because we weren't bereft of talent at the position like they were, who is third behind two bad asses in Wingo, even for all his faults, and DeAndre Moore in receiving. The only thing he fucked uo on was Endries. He didn't even try for Tanner Haziol (transfer from Wisconsin to Houston? Who is 56/570/5 TD's for the season, Jamari Johnson (Oregon), Terrance Carter Jr (tech 31/419/5). Out of 7 TE transfers, Endries was 4th, and if we remove him from the equation, 4 out of 6 have so far panned out, and we settled, because of course we did. Washington didn't even get a shot last night, because God forbid we have a TE out there who can catch, but Sarkisian has to follow his inner Mack Brown and play older players, regardless if they're less talented, over younger players because... Well, that's the mystery. And exactly why we aren't winning shit. He refuses to play the best on offense or even give younger players a chance because they haven't sweat enough blood for the program. He's a loser coach who gets pantsed on national TV any time he has to play a fellow blue blood or a new blue blood. He's a hand me down Mack Brown 2.0. Great recruiter, can't win it all without divine intervention, which so far we haven't seen in 5 years.
  14. Easy answer— It's about the culture and improving eaxh day. Every game is a learning experience, working as a team is the goal. Translation– I'm deflecting away from the actual problem, and I don't think there is anything wrong with the coaching. It's the players not executing what is being told, even if it's the same repetitive play call every defensive coach, regardless of how shitty they are, or the talent gap we have, knows is coming. Earlier in the year we wanted to try out a new lineup, and there were some bumps and bruises along the way, but we decided it was necessary to make a change in the lineup during the Florida game because we needed more speed and want to run IZ, but lack the proper upperclassmen to do so, so we're having to run outside zone, which leaves my hands tied behind my back. No, I don't believe it's a recruiting issue, and I don't believe we need to find guys in the portal to help out. I believe we just need to keep doing what we're doing by using homegrown players, even if in year 5 we are still having a little issues, but I will get with my staff and go to the think tank and figure something out. Kirby and I are good friends, and he dd a tremendous job. We had several plays if they went our way we could have won, but they have great defensive backs and had has over 8 PBU's on the night. Arch is still our guy and he'll continue to learn. We are not replacing any coaches. That block against Warren Roberson that killed Niblett's return is just part of the game. Everyone does it. Yes,.I understand the frustration that we rank 122 out of 136 teams in penalties per game, and we work on fixing those every practice. We're getting better. We decided to use Jack (Endries) over Jordan (Washington) because we felt like he would be more ready, even though Washington is averaging 15.6 ypc, and Endries is 8.4, but he's older, and games like these we gotta get older players out there, no necessarily the most talented. - Steve 'I'm about to be fired in 2027 or bolt to the NFL to save face' Sarkisian Aka: do nothing pussy-fest to fix the glaring issues because he knows best, and his staff does a wonderful job of recruiting and developing talent, even though the last two CFP appearances were mostly Herman recruits outside of portal players and 3 of the 5 OL. Even the most die on the hill Sark apologists have to look in the mirror and realize when you are 0-5 against your supposed peers in recruiting the last 5 years, he isn't taking us to or winning us a NC. He's Mack Brown 2.0, and it's all about the kids, while it took literally Jesus to win Mack a NC. Maybe Arch comes back like VY the next year and he starts throwing darts because it has finally 'clicked,' but as of right now we are drowning in a creek of sewage and Sark is lost. We need a HC, not a coordinator masquerading as a HC.
  15. The one you keep under your pillow?
  16. He was fast until his knee injury. He's slow as fuck now, yeah. Before, no. Go back and look at his runs against Washington and tell me he was slow.
  17. For Christmas, everyone in my family is getting nothing! If I can't have nice things, NO ONE CAN HAVE NICE THINGS!
  18. That was one shitty pass. If a ball had a buildup from Colace and needed to burst out shit, that would be the pass.
  19. One arm and gravity are his kryptonite
  20. I'll be handing out razors on the corner of San Jacinto if anyone is interested.
  21. Sark could have last year's Eagles team and would still lose to Kirby. That's how much he sucks taint sweat.
  22. He was clearly down, dumbfucks. What review is needed? We're already embarrassed, we need more dumbassery?
  23. Our coaching staff vs aggy team is a diarrhea of fugazi
  24. At least we will beat aggy. That's always a given.
  25. We look like Georgia against TCU, except this Georgia team is above average, and we are coached by Steve Sarkisian.
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