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Park Gothic

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  1. Do you know who you’re talking to? Both. The answer is both.
  2. Guys. There is literally football on every night for the next two months. You gotta save something for the off-season.
  3. My friend just made this point to me ("look at how UK played against UGA last season") and something clicked for me. The comparison is accurate, but backwards. We aren't UGA in the "UK vs. UGA 2024" scenario, we are Kentucky. It's just that the "Kentucky" team won in 2025.
  4. I don't even know what we're arguing about anymore. But watching those clips was fucking painful.
  5. Scipio said on the latest EGAT that Taaffe played the whole 4th with a broken thumb and refused to come off the field (or just didn't tell the trainers).
  6. Taaffe apparently played the whole 4th quarter with a broken thumb. Did not tell the trainers because he did not want to come out.
  7. A problem with blaming Flood is that he's not calling the blocking schemes. Recruiting, talent evaluation, and development are all on Flood. But when Sark calls for a blocking scheme that we cannot execute, when there are apparently blocking schemes that we can execute, that's on Sark. I'm not sure what the dynamic is between them, but we are all over the map with our blocking schemes this year and we do not have the OL for that kind of game. We need to stick to the few things that we do well enough. Sure, let's figure where Flood is fucking up in the offseason. Maybe even consider making a change. But when you go from our blocking against OU to our blocking against UK, you know that a big part of the problem is scheme.
  8. I would honestly settle for a new QB coach with a proven track record outside of "he recruited Arch Manning"
  9. Like seeing Baxter is “probable” rather questionable, which is what I was expecting.
  10. My point is less that Flood should keep his job and more that we should move that tangent to the Coaching Staff thread or the Texas O Line thread.
  11. No, just as his OC, DC, and various position coaches.
  12. Yeah, only shitty coaches hire retreads. That like stupid asshole Nick Saban.
  13. Are we at the point where we are wishcasting for a new OL coach? Because I have some thoughts and none of them are reasonable or well informed. This seems like the thread for that kind of speculation.
  14. Small silver lining, but at least the offense isn't turning the ball over a ton. Like, having a bunch of short offensive series sucks because it gasses the defense, but we at least did not give UK prime field position. A fumble or interception could have been the difference in this game.
  15. Not to poke the bear, but I think this is the angriest I've ever seen you.
  16. Before his stint at Florida, I had always considered Napier to be a very good QB coach. Now I don't know what to think.
  17. I think Wingo is an excellent athlete and a so-so receiver, based largely on the fact that he cannot catch a ball that isn't thrown right in his hands. That being said - yes, it is unreasonable to expect him to try to catch this ball. He would have to anticipate that it would be in the dirt and start his dive the moment it left Manning's hands. Oddly enough, DeAndre Moore did just that later in the game. The throw from Manning was low, but Moore anticipated that and was already on his way down for the catch when the ball was in the air. But that is an elite level of situational awareness (which apparently did not carry over to the run out of bounds late in the 4th) that I don't think you can reasonably expect from any receiver.
  18. If we're 9-3 that means we only lost one of our remaining five games. Assuming that loss is to UGA, we'd have wins over a top-15 OU, a top-10 Vandy, and a top-10 A&M. Our losses would be to OSU, UGA, and a head scratcher against Florida. If we kept it close in the loss to UGA, you would 100% see a push to put Texas in the CFP. That being said, I still think we get left out at 9-3. Don't want to get left out? Don't lose to Florida.
  19. Man, do you just wake up and try to think of the dumbest shit to type on this board?
  20. But it's a vicious cycle. He can't hit the easy throws because he's getting pummeled, and he is going to keep getting pummeled because he can't hit the easy throws. The other posters in this thread are saying we need to start the game with a plan that protects Arch and schemes around the OL's deficiencies. That let's Arch get into a rhythm and helps him make the layups. Starting the game with a plan that relies on long developing pass plays will be a recipe for disaster because it puts us in that vicious cycle. We scored more points and gained more yards on OU than anyone else this season. OU's opponents (outside of Texas) are averaging 7.2 points per game. We scored 23. OU's defense gives up an average of 198 yards per game against teams not named Texas. We had 302 yards of offense. And if you say OU has not faced a lot of quality opponents, well you're not wrong. But my point isn't that our offense is amazing. It's that the OU defense is legitimately good and we played well against them. It was a good performance against a good defense, and probably the best offensive performance we've seen all season. That's why people think it was a good game for the offense.
  21. I wonder if Sark has started to look at this season like Ewers' 2022 season for Arch. I remember Sark's playcalling against TCU and OSU almost felt punitive, like he was going to force Ewers to throw the deep ball until it finally clicked. The beatings will continue until morale improves sort of thing. We've been saying "Sark calls plays for the team he wants, not the team he has" for a long time, but I don't think he does that because he's ignorant. By the halfway point in the season, he knows what he has. I think it's because he believes we need to play those games his way so the team can learn how to be the team he wants, even if it means we lose. Which, as a fan, I hate. I think that's a dumb plan, especially in sport where next year and even next week is promised to no one. We need to play to win the games, don't worry about your 3 year plan or whatever. But maybe that's just me coping. I don't know. I just cannot make sense of his playcalling in a game like Kentucky. And before one of the confederacy of dunces claims its because Sark is a pussy or a moron - no, he's neither of those things. But like any coach, I think he has an ego and I think he believes that his way is the right way, and if we lose doing things his way, then it's on the players.
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