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Park Gothic

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  1. Sark calls plays for the team he wants, not the team he has. It’s one of his biggest drawbacks as a coach and has lost us at least one game every year hes been here, save for maybe 2023.
  2. Bolded the run. Stroh is the only OL that gets stood up and Hutson is still moving around to seal off the back side and catch any trailing DL. I'm obviously speculating, but to my eyes if Arch keeps running the ball outside like the play is designed, he has enough space and time to get the TD.
  3. I've gone back and watched the game twice now, because I hate myself. I am in complete agreement with you. Sark started off with a somewhat vanilla game plan, although not nearly as vanilla as people have been saying. The more I watch, the more I see open pass catchers that Arch didn't even try to hit. And that's on top of the times he made the right reads but fucked up the throw. Sark didn't kill it with this game but there was a lot of meat that Arch left on the bone. This is especially true in the red zone. Sark actually called several TD plays while we were in the redzone. And this is something that I was initially furious about and am having to retract my statements about Sark's playcalling. You know that frustratingly stupid "up the gut on 4th and short" call where there was no way we were going to get it? Sark schemed up two TD passes and a TD run in the series of plays before it. The guys just didn't execute. At that point I become more sympathetic to him just calling a simple play where he hopes we get lucky. Because what the fuck else can he do? Sark's RZ playcalling was much better than I remembered and it is baffling to see how poorly Arch executed it. I can't assume we win even if Arch makes all the right calls and throws because OSU would have changed it strategy as well. But man, we would have had a much better chance.
  4. The issue is not whether or not you wear Texas gear. It's the decision to not wear Texas gear after a loss.
  5. Buddy, you came on this website, of all websites, and said you don't wear your Texas gear after a loss. What kind of reaction did you expect from people? And to be clear - I get the point you were making. You don't want to have to deal with the ball ache of a conversation that is talking about a frustrating loss. But that's immaterial when you are making the conscious decision to hide the fact that you are a longhorn. Nobody made you post that, and if you didn't want to catch shit then you should do a better job of hiding your shame.
  6. "The pride and winning tradition..." Pretty much the same thing with the sooners. Just some good natured shit talking and then chatting politely about our respective trips like normal people. Although opposing fans who are at destination wedding are more likely to be a normal class of person and not mouthbreathing goons, so our experiences may not be representative. I'll also say that, according to all of my friends who went to Columbus, the buckeye fans were fine. Certainly better than fans in Lubbock or Fayetteville.
  7. Man, you have some awful takes in this thread. I was in a small town in Mexico for the game and my buddy and I ended up watching it in a bar with a bunch of sooners who were there for a wedding. We saw them at the hotel and all over town for the rest of the trip and you know for damn sure I wore my Texas bar cap the whole time. The shit talking is invigorating for the soul.
  8. If nothing else, this shows why coaches will go with experience over talent when push comes to shove.
  9. Honestly, this board hasn't seemed that much worse than usual. People are saying dumb shit, but it's a day ending in Y so that makes sense. My biggest reason for not participating more since the game is catching up on work I missed over the holiday weekend and my kids school / sports starting up again. Otherwise, the Horns lost a big game against a quality opponent. Sucks, but it's better than losing to Maryland. We can talk about why they lost, but the reasons are pretty obvious. I don't get off on yelling at stupid people (well, sometimes) and I don't think I have anything new to offer that hasn't been discussed to death on here. But I'm still coming to the site for the jokes, the rare nugget of insight, and the fun of sharing the experience with other Texas fans. At least it's nice to talk ball with people who care about Texas as much as I do, which is hard to find in real life. Even if all that "caring" is sometimes expressed in unhealthy or unproductive ways.
  10. Teamwork makes the dream work
  11. You can't invoke her and not post the gif.
  12. That would have been a tough catch, even without the DB draped all over him. And the DB was draped all over him. Although our DBs had been playing Smith pretty physically all game, so I don't mind the no-call. To me, Livingstone was a pleasant surprise and a genuine asset. Putting the memes and jokes aside, he looked more athletic than I expected.
  13. This is the whole fucking thing here. Everyone is using stats to support the argument for going for the TD or settling for a FG, but the real problem is that Sark's playcalling inside the 10 has been terrible. I swear he was better at playcalling in the RZ when we had worse athletes. It's like he loses all feel for the game and for the defense. He's so worried about doing something stupid (like the final RZ sequence at the end of last season) that he decides to basically do nothing at all. Run inside the tackles three times? With a QB sneak to cap it off? Everyone saw that coming. An idiot phoning in plays from his couch could have called those plays. You cannot play bully ball with a team like OSU. If you are going hard up the middle, do it when they aren't expecting it, or at least do it when they have to worry that you might do something else.
  14. I understand why we didn’t kick the field goals. I do not understand the play calling. If you can’t come up with something the defense isn’t expecting, take the points and trust the defense.
  15. There’s a lot of dumb posts in this thread, but you win the prize today.
  16. I think it ends up looking like our game from 2022.
  17. It’s attention getting but in a non-inflammatory or controversial way. Like, a cow is a pretty banal animal, but it’s weird to see one in LA. Especially next to David Lynch and a giant poster of Laura Dern. The cows raises more questions than it answers.
  18. Actresses genuinely love David Lynch because he genuinely loves his actresses
  19. Agree, unfortunately
  20. If I had a good friend, whose grandson was playing QB for A&M, I would probably text him to let him know that I was rooting for his grandson’s team. Because, you know, normal human things. That being said, it is somewhat disconcerting to learn that Archie is friends with Barry Switzer.
  21. Unfortunately no. He's got to travel by trailer and they don't like him to be in the trailer for more than 7 or 8 hours a day. That means the trip up to and back from Columbus would take like 6 days. Hard to justify taking Bevo's team on the road for that amount of time, especially since many of them are students who's school year is just starting.
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