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  1. If there's one thing we love in America more than building someone up, it's tearing them down again.  Deion may be a top 10 all time NFL player and turned around a HBCU on the back of his swagger and reputation as a player, but he is nothing special as a coach.  Congrats from going from 12th in the Pac-12 to (checks notes) 10th in the Pac-12.  Let's see how far that swagger goes once you lose your all-star QB son.  I guarantee Deion "retires" from coaching once his sons are done.  This is just a vehicle to highlight them, nothing more.  If a few other kids like Travis Hunter are able to use their shine to improve Deion's and Shadeur's rep, he's good with that.  Grifter gonna grift, then ride outta town with his middle finger held high blaming the administration and everyone else while lauding his son as the best thing ever.

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  2. 36 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

    Yes. Some SurlyHorns were comparing Card's numbers, after starts vs UTSA, Tech, and WVU to who Ewers had to play against. Or you know....apples to oranges. Lol. I said then that it wasn't really comparable. I was told Quinn sucks, especially by Derka, and that Card was a much better player because of numbers vs totally different teams, just like the first post I quoted. So I am just operating inside the guidelines I was given. Don't hate the player...you know the rest.

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    You're having a statistical argument against this guy?

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  3. Ford was not good, no argument.  He's played much, much better.  Even the best, most athletic defender looks slow when they're indecisive, and OU put Ford in conflict enough between the run fits and pass coverage to make him indecisive.  PK didn't help him much either.  Ant Hill played better both because he's a better athlete but he also was more decisive even when he was wrong (which he was a few times).  

    Seems like we really wanted to flood the 7-15 yard between the hashes area to discourage the drag routes and mid-breaking plays that are DG's favorite area and force him to use his arm to the outside.  That created a big linebacker issue because 1) DG was able to make the outside throws enough, 2) he scrambled and had enough designed runs that our linebackers were flatfooted and worried about giving up that middle third.  Also contributing here: poor gap control on the D-line and also credit to OU's scheme to get the ball out quick which negates a lot of the pass rush.

    If we get the rematch I'd love to see a defensive scheme the next time that prioritizes:

    1. Interior D-line gap control especially up the middle - no up the middle scrambles
    2. D-line edge doesn't over pursue - never, ever should the edges get north of the QB, force all scrambles to the sides and cut the field in half for the QB and defense
    3. 3/4 alignment - more speed on the field, more disguised pressures
    4. More blitzes from more places, especially in the middle
    5. Potentially spy DG - Ant Hill would be good here as he was on Milroe in the Alabama game
    6. More man free - if we're blitzing it's going to be risk/reward and the DBs need to hang on for a few seconds until we get to him.  We know that DG can pick the zone apart.  But if we don't have pocket integrity we're dead b/c those DBs are running with their backs turned and if DG slips the blitz he's running for 30+ yards :( 

    I just think zone is probably not gonna work out awesome with a QB that accurate who gets it out that fast.

  4. 1 minute ago, Skipper said:

    Of all the things to bitch about, I couldn't care less what time he shows up to press conferences.   Dealing with these slapdick Austin reporters isn't in the top 20 things he needs to focus on Monday of a game week.  P.S.  He was on time today it looks like so can put your pitchfork down on that point.

    this LOL.  "oh noes he kept Kirk Bowls waiting"

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  5. 1 minute ago, BevoAbyss said:

    Another solid, fact-filled ad hominem.

    You're right. Post less is a sound option, as there's zero point in analyzing anything for the true believers in Sark World. 

    But, keep on hoping, keep on guzzling that Fireball Kool-Aid. A world of football wonders awaits.

    Adios.

     

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    Bold move, accusing others of ad hominem right before you make a straw man.  Let's see how that works out.

    You can be a "Sark supporter" and still acknowledge failings and areas to improve.  We lost a rivalry game with :15 seconds left.  A game where we played to our floor with three turnovers, and where if you flip any one of our mental errors (players or coaches) the result also flips.  This isn't Texas getting boat raced by 50, it was a back and forth game against a legit opponent who isn't gonna just roll over.

    The onus is on you: if you're going to post that Sark isn't the guy, what's the alternative?  Also explain how we will get that person, how that will put us in a better place going into the SEC, and how we'll retain our excellent recruits who signed up to play for this staff.

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  6. Good that we don't have one.  There is nothing, not a damn thing that Sark or any coach can say in a post-loss presser that will make anyone happy.  All he can say is "We didn't play well enough to win and that's on me, I take full accountability for the loss, congrats to OU."  But that's boring and a dozen reporters have stories to write and need content so they ask the same tired questions over and over.  Then the coach resorts to coach-speak to avoid 1) throwing his own players under the bus, or 2) making excuses/sounding whiny.  And the second the coach slips up and admits a player screwed up or an official missed a key call or whatever there will be multiple posts here about "there goes Sark blaming the players" "there goes Sark making excuses, not our standard!"  ...we complain about coach speak but the problem is us.  We don't accept the truth.

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  7. I have a 2020 GMC Sierra.  Inside is nice but the screen is tiny compared to the current Ram and Ford.  4x4 is good, I've towed a few times but it's not my main use case.  I like the pro tailgate or whatever they call it for carrying oversize stuff in the bed.  The interior materials are good but not awesome, I'd put Ram, Ford, and Toyota ahead.  Haven't had any reliability issues with it yet.  It's a shade too big but all the full sized trucks are like that now.

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  8. 11 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    At worst, u go to OT

     

    the “we had em on their heels so we need to rush on offense” is outweighed by the cons of doing so. Vastly. We should have won on an Auburn fg

    So tie game you go 3-and-out after burning a minute and they get the ball back same place they got it anyway with the same or more time left on the clock.  Your comment reads "if in hindsight we would have done this other thing and it would have worked perfectly and we won that would have been great."  yeah no shit

  9. 4 hours ago, BevoAbyss said:

    Here's why. This is the underlying pattern supporting all the analyses here, pro-Sark or anti-Sark. In essence, there are two types of well-meaning and long-suffering UT fans here. 

    1. HOPE. Those who have hope that Sark (or Herman, Strong) is the GUY, no matter the counter-evidence right before everyone's eyes. The extreme example of hope is believing 2023 team compares well to 2005. 

    -- They will always have a comeback or counter to justify their hope. After 15 years of suckitude, it is totally understandable to want to have hope. I get it. 

    2. FATE. Those who accept fate that Sark (or Herman, Strong) is NOT the guy, given the key evidence: wins, losses, inexplicable losses, epic losses, massive choke losses, etc. 

    -- We can see Sark is NOT the guy after massive blown leads in year 1, five losses in year 2, including a beatdown from TCU with Sonny F*cking Dykes on national TV. Washington shut Sark down, too.

    The HOPE faction calls the FATE faction a bunch of pussies for not being true believers in Sark. Before that it was Strong and Herman. No matter the epic or inexplicable losses and screwups from these dudes, it took years for many to give up hope. 

    -- The FATE faction knows we're screwed (winning no big titles) until we roll the dice on the next coach. And still may be screwed then, given our recent track record.

    I accept this fate. 

    You forgot the part where the FATE faction overlooks any/all improvements year-over-year in recruiting, game planning, or results (such as Alabama) because the only acceptable result is to be 12-0 and win the national championship each year.  And lays 100% of everything at Sark's feet because he's he coach!  Ewers made a bad decision throw into the DB for an INT?  Shoulda coached him up better than that Sark!  "Call the touchdown play Sark!!!"  These are the same type of people who use the term "money whip" with regard to coaches and players as if we're fated to get positive results because Texas is rich.  Spoiler: we're not.

    We have improved every year that Sark has been on campus and the trend line is still pointing up overall.  This isn't Herman who was immature and a shit recruiter or Strong who was shit overall and just looked lost.  Fate people need to stop being a prisoner of the past.  And BTW most people were roundly criticized on that thread comparing this year to 2005, there is no comparison.  As Alan Greenspan would say "irrational exuberance."

    Yeah I'm hope.  But I temper hope with logic.  You can be hopeful and acknowledge our shortcomings and areas we need to improve.  Anyone ready to cut bait on Sark due to FATE as defined above needs to be ready to get another Herman or Strong, because that's a real possibility.

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  10. 13 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

    In 15 minutes, you guys are gonna be fuckin fine with this.  So I'll just sum it up this way, as fast as I can. 

    That is the most humiliating game in the last fuckin 10 years I've been involved with. how can we fuckin not score 1st and goal from the 1? How could you fuckin do that? What do you think you are doing?  This isn’t some goddamn game!!! It’s about our lives!!!!! Like I said 15 minutes from now you won’t give a shit, but I gotta fucking live with this embarrassing game for the rest of my fucking life!!

    Well played

  11. 30 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    To me, the discussion about fg vs going for it on 4th down pales in comparison to the absolute coaching malpractice of not milking the clock earlier in the drive

     

    thats what we need to be bitching about. Hiking the ball with 22 seconds left on the clock 5-6 times lost us the game in the end. Fin

    This narrative needs to die, it's wrong.  Ewers and the offense was in rhythm with the hurry up and it was keeping OU on their back foot.  It was also negating a Venebles strength of matching the defensive call to our alignment and tendencies, plus subbing.  You give much of that up when you slow it down.  The assumption baked into your comment above is that we would still have moved the ball down the field by going slow, which is NOT a given.

    The thing to get annoyed with is the flip from aggressive (staying with the hurry up) to conservative (kicking a FG and not going for it when they're in FG block alignment on 4th and 5 and we come out in the offense).  Still, we took the lead.  This loss is a team loss but the defense is more on the hook.  Playing prevent is playing for OT with 1:17 left.  Gabriel really only had to drive 35 yards for a FG which is not a problem in soft zone.

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  12. Lulz about people talking about "I could be the biggest donor EVAAAAR" ....are you one of the 756 Billionaires in the US?  If so I applaud you and wonder what you're doing on Surly.  Otherwise, I'm reminded of what someone here once said: "...and I have the biggest most satisfying dick on the Internet"

  13. 11 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

    Sarks a good dude. Good recruiter. But until we get an O coordinator we will always be middle of the road even in a year in which we have everything going for us we still find ways to shit the bed and championship programs don’t.   Many teams turn it around after a year or so. We stay down blowU was dogshit last year and in a year flipped it 

    You don't hire a Sark-type coach and then turn him away from his greatest strength.  He's not the mackbrown-texasfootball style CEO.  If we want the CEO-style coach, it's better to fire Sark and find one than try to get Sark to become that.

  14. 3 minutes ago, Irish Wrist Watch said:

    On that last Texas drive, when we were trying to kill the clock, on third and long, seems like Sark called a run play that netted five or so and centered the ball for a FG. He had two choices: We saw one play out. We lost. The other was to go for a first down with a pass. If you get it, you run out the clock and win. If you don't, an incompletion stops the clock, you gotta punt and OU has one timeout left. He put the games in the hands of the D, and they failed. I'd like to blame him, but he may have made the percentage call.

    The D we'd become used to didn't show up. Looked like a basic prevent set up instead of blitzing and forcing errors. Common fucking mistake that cost us. 

    Gabriel burned our blitzes and we rarely got pressure.  We did much better in a soft zone and umbrella coverage.  When we went to blitz he'd run for 15 or dink/dunk us.

  15. People gonna hate on Sark and it wasn't the best call although we DID score and take the lead.  Can't say for certain what woulda/coulda/shoulda happened otherwise.

    Other choke moments in the game:

    * JT Sanders having the ball in his hands and not being able to come down with the TD in the first half

    * Dropped INT in the endzone

    * Ewers 1st INT which was braindead

    * Ewers fumble/not sliding

    * Entire D-line not being able to get pressure after all we heard was how we outclassed them at the line of scrimmage on D-line

    * 1st and goal from the 1 yard line turning it over on downs after we heard how we outclassed them at the line of scrimmage on O-line

    * Multiple lack of focus pre-snap (e.g. not biased/opinion-based/Rig XII) penalties

    * Lack of PK adjustments to DGs scramble.

    We played timid and scared.  We looked shocked at the physicality of OU.  Our vaunted line of scrimmage play was ass.  JT's injury hurt, and i'm sure Major's did as well.  Credit to the OU fuckfaces for executing, we didn't.  If we don't shoot ourselves in the foot with the stuff above we could have won by 10-14.  But we did, they didn't and we lost.  Now we need to win out and hope to see OU again in Dallas for the BigXII championship and just play better.

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  16. I've been to a few 2:30 PM kicks of the RRS, and since the latest CFB scheduling-trend is that "only Losers play at 11 AM," (Craig Way has said it on several occasions) putting this kick at 11 AM seems like a last petty dig at Texas to deny the prestige of primetime ratings to Texas, even if it costs the Big12 money. 
    Texas and Mobilehoma are both undefeated and ranked, and you put it at 11 AM?  That doesn't wash.
    It seems illogical, especially since the Irate8 games on the RRS weekend are run out at teams-with-better-records' timeslots? This seems upside-down, and I wouldn't be surprised if we hear it was forced by Yormark. 
    I know that supposedly the networks have to what amounts to a weekly game-draft of games to fill timeslots, but seeing all the conference games this weekend strikes me of forcing the shit teams in better timeslots even though they're still shitty and will result shitty ratings anyway.
    There's been a lot of pundits question this 11 AM kick in passing, saying that when the RRS becomes a SEC game, it won't be a "only Losers play at 11 AM" game, implying that the RRS will be maximized as a primetime matchup. 
    Maybe the RRS won't be a primetime game, but it should be!
    Even going back to 2:30 PM would be preferable to 11 AM Bullshit!
    FUCK YORMARK!
    FUCK MOBILEHOMA!
    HOOK'EM HORNS!

    11am games draw the best TV numbers. It’s the reason FOX has “big noon” instead of “big Saturday night”
  17. Our regular rotation of OOC games should include:

    Cupcakes who will cash a check to take a beating at DKR-TMS:

    • UTSA
    • UNT
    • UTEP
    • Rice
    • Texas State (now in the Sunbelt!)
    • and if we need more we can choose from plenty of relatively close schools like La Tech, La Monroe, Tulsa, New Mexico, NM State, etc.

    Low-end but still brand names, if they're willing to accept 2 for 1's.

    • Wyoming
    • Nevada
    • Fresno St.
    • Purdue
    • Minnesota
    • Oregon St. (they will regress to their mean)
    • Washington St.
    • Boise St.
    • Memphis
    • Tulane (for the away trip mostly)
    • Virginia
    • Indiana
    • Army, Navy, AF
    • Northwestern
    • Rutgers
    • Hawaii

    High-end brands, home & home:

    • Michigan
    • Ohio St.
    • USC
    • Washington
    • Oregon
    • Penn St.
    • UCLA
    • North Carolina
    • Clemson
    • Florida St.
    • Miami
    • Michigan St.
    • Wisconsin
  18. 6 minutes ago, Gucci_Suit said:

    When we return to grass, we should also do some extra iconic landscaping around the field like they do in the SEC. But instead of hedges, I was thinking cactus? You don’t go into Austin, TX and get a win between the cacti, etc. 

    Or maybe instead of grass, we should zero scape the field? Creative juices are flowing. 

    "...and in the back of the end zone there's Xavier Worthy, diving for the ball...he caught it!  Oh but Bob it looks like he landed in the prickly pear patch (sponsored by Deep Eddy) again...yeah he's probably done for the day.  Another receiver falls victim to the cacti."  We'd make so many great memories :D 

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  19. 9 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    I don't think the media deal is that big a challenge.  This is for football only; basketball and other sports are separate.  And in football, the Big12 gets its media deal; the AAC gets its.  So if you get relegated, you lose out on the Big12 money the next year.  So that is to say you lose out on about $25M.

    Which gets to the ADs' objection.  And you're right about that.  It would take some truly urgent circumstances to get the schools to agree to that.  But right now, the PAC2 and MWC are facing exactly those urgent circumstances.  So it might work.

    Going negative $25MM YoY means the athletics departments are cutting entire sports at that point.  Most of these schools are already subsidizing the AD either with direct transfers or high student fees.  It also makes any type of long term planning very difficult or impossible - how do you spent on facilities or fund raise at that point, it's super tough.  Same reason the PAC schools turned down Apple's earn-it offering; it's lack of guarantees.  On top of all that, the low/no/negative rev sports are typically women's sports so now there's a Title IX issue on top of all of that...

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