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Park Gothic

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  1. Why do y'all bother arguing with these SECRant rejects? They're either trolls or genuinely that dumb. Either way, not worth your time.
  2. Fify. FIFY
  3. I think Sark has been depending on Flood to tell him whether or not we should pursue OL in the portal. The risk of taking duds may be outweighed by the reward of having a serviceable 8-deep, but that depends on what the room looks like. If it's full of dudes then why risk time and money pursuing options with a lower likelihood of success? But if the OL room looks like shit, then you gotta roll the dice and hope for the best. People say that taking DTs from the portal is a crapshoot similar to taking OL, but Sark has shown that he's willing to do that when the cupboard is bare. I think one of the changes we'll see this off season is that Sark stops relying on Flood to evaluate the OL room.
  4. I was just about to type the same thing. A win over Georgia legitimizes Texas to a lot of people who have already written us off. Beating Vandy did the same thing, but to a much lesser degree. It showed people that Texas is a good team, but it didn't show that we're at the top of the sport. Beating UGA will give us the bona fides that voters need to put us in the CFP. Even if we lose close to A&M (God forbid), a win over UGA will probably be enough to get us over the hump. Gotta beat Arkansas obviously. I don't know if beating A&M gets us into the CFP if we lose to UGA. It's too easy to dismiss a win over A&M as a rivalry game in Austin that has it's own particular hoo-doo that won't translate to other games. Honestly though, if I have to pick a loss I would rather lose to UGA and beat A&M. Consequences be damned.
  5. Schools are probably also concerned about the enrollment cliff (also called the demographic cliff) where enrollments are projected to shrink significantly in the near future. They've been spending like drunken sailors and have jacked tuition to the tits on the strength of low-interest student loans from the federal government. Those chickens are coming home to roost and the people running the schools have no idea how to handle the situation. They think selling one of their most profitable assets (football TV deals) will give them a big enough cash infusion to get by. A lot like a junkie doing whatever it take to get the next hit and worrying about the consequences later. I just read my kids the story of the golden goose. Seems pretty basic. But I doubt schools will realize what they've done until it's too late.
  6. Because our OL fucking sucks, Bobby. The fact that they suck less now - after doing a lot of tinkering that should have happened in the off season - does not change the fact that they still suck. I appreciate that Cole Hutson and Conner Robertson are good teammates or whatever, but they should not be starting at Texas. They should be experienced depth that we rely upon when one of our starters is hurt.
  7. Not that I agree with Satya's pessimism, but the only teams we've faced with athletes comparable to UGA are OSU, Florida, and OU. And all of OU's comparable athletes were on the defensive side of the ball. The team has clearly grown and improved since the losses to OSU and Florida. But even though we beat OU, we did it with defense and special teams. The offenses did enough for us to win, but they didn't cover themselves in glory either. So even though it's not a perfect predictor, that sample size does not fill me with hope and optimism about us playing a team with some of the best talent we've seen all year.
  8. He is, at best, a quality stop gap until Henderson gets there.
  9. We really gonna drag the Ewers bullshit into this thread too. Really. Keep that stupid bullshit quarantined to the appropriate thread, don't shit up this one as well.
  10. Look, I'm prepared to be shouted down as a regard but...that looks like DPI to me. Not at the end of the play but towards the beginning. You can jam the WR at the LOS with about 5 yards of leeway, but you can't just jam the dude his whole route. I don't have a perfect view, but it looks like the DB is impeding the WR's progress all the way into the EZ. Just looking at the end of the play I would not have thrown that flag, maybe I would have even flagged the WR for "pushing" the DB. But watching the whole thing, it looks like the WR is just trying to run his route through the DB and the DB only stops riding him to go for the ball. These fucking posts, man. I appreciate you doing the work to pull these, but they're putting my blood pressure through the roof. The refs were so goddamn terrible all game. The ones on Burke and Lance Jackson are especially egregious and were obvious in real time. The dude literally had Burke spun around he yanked him so hard.
  11. Look, I know we're down bad, but we're not "raid the Ivy League for OL" down bad.
  12. I think I missed something, but watching some reviews of the game and I just realized that Lefau did not play much against Vandy. Looked like Hill, Moore, and Smith were our starting LBs. I know Lefau has struggled a bit this season, but I didn't think it was bad enough to drop him down to the second string. Has there been any discussion about what's going on with him? All I can remember about him against Vandy was the somewhat bullshit pinkie-facemask call.
  13. You're probably right about McDonald, although I wish he would stick for another year. Unless this is a particularly thin draft class, he could improve his stock by playing on a team with more experience around him and an offense that holds up its end of things.
  14. You should be worried, but it's not about the SEC mandating that certain teams get protection or Vegas sticking its dick in the mash potatoes. I'm sure some of that is happening (especially Vegas and the Vandy game), but you are right that those shouldn't really be factors against UGA. The reason you should be worried is because the refs love Kirby. It's because he worked the refs every chance he got. He's chummy with them before and after games, but he's also in their ear the entire time the game is happening. They know if he doesn't like a call that they're never going to hear the end of it. And they allow him to get up their ass because he's so friendly to them outside the games. It's not some big conspiracy or anything, just personal preferences working their way into calls. Throw that on top of the fact that most of the refs don't have any love for Texas and you've got some meaningful bias to overcome. You remember how much favorable treatment Gundy got? Kirby is the SEC's version of Gundy. That's what should be concerning.
  15. ... we all agree that Manning looks good and we're happy with his level of play? And we're done litigating who said what about benching Manning because that shit is all in the past? With the obvious caveat that if he reverts we can all lose our minds again. Or do we need to keep yelling at each other?
  16. Here is Scipio's write up on the defense (credit to @satyanash) along with a scathing review of our DB play: Relevant portion for those who don't want to click a link: We were straight up bad all game, even before MacDonald came out. It was just covered up by our pass rush. Which is part of why it's nice to have such a good pass rush. What's news to me, however, is that Scipio puts a lot of the blame on Derek Williams. I've been blaming Guilbeau for most of the breakdowns. While I think Guilbeau definitely shares part of the blame, it may be that he's trying to do too much from the CB position to make for poor play from Williams. The more I watch the Vandy game the more I have to agree that Williams seems to have lost something in terms of his aggression and awareness. I still think Guilbeau is a poor fit at CB, however, and should move back to nickel.
  17. I thought that Akina was brought in as a last minute replacement for Joseph. His real value add was that he could help Texas pivot to more man coverage and groom Mark Orphey to take over as the real coach of the secondary. I though giving him the passing defense coordinator role was a little weird, but figured it was a "we need to justify his salary" kind of thing. I have a lot of respect for Akina, but he is too old to be the HNIC of the DB room. Great to have him on staff, but I sincerely hope his not actually calling the shots.
  18. I'm assuming that the relatively unknown quantities of Casey Thompson and Hudson Card (who was actually picked as the starter back in 2021, before...Arkansas) seemed like moldable clay to Sark, while Sam was what he was. To be clear, I think Sark should have kept Sam on the roster if only for the intangible qualities that Sam brought to the team. But I don't think Sam was actually planning to stay for another season. Yeah...you've put it more bluntly than I would have, but the story sounds like bullshit to me.
  19. I've heard a few comments from the last month or so that Sark ran Sam off, but I had never heard that before. It seemed clear at the end of the 2020 season that Sam was going to declare for the draft - he sat out the second half of the Colorado bowl game. Was he interested in coming back when Herman got the boot and Sark said no? That seems crazy to me - maybe Sam wasn't a good fit for Sark's offense, but he was the unquestioned leader of the team. Surely Sark could see the value in keeping him around to help transition to the new staff?
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