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Park Gothic

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  1. If a fat fucking retard like Burt Bielema can make time to "hop on the wife," then I will damn well expect the HC at the University of Texas to tend to the Mrs. Let's not pretend that the majority of the people slinging shit on this thread ever thought it was a joke.
  2. Football board stupidity is starting to infect the 9.95 board. A tale as old as time.
  3. Agreed with these points. Akina / PK called uncharacteristically soft coverages last week. I don't know if we saw something in MSU's offense that we didn't like or what, but it was strange. I think @Js1 is probably right and PK was having flashbacks to OU in 2023 - Shapen isn't quite the level of dink-and-dunk artists that Gabriel was, but he works well in the Briles system. Guess it's that Baylor DNA. Outside of their TE, I don't think Vandy has the speed or the athletes to really worry us. I'm more concerned about us getting gutted on slants over the middle. That was a constant problem in 2023 and this secondary, without Taaffe, seems almost as vulnerable as that unit. I'm especially disappointed in Guilbeau. I didn't even expect much from the dude, but he seems dumber than a bag of rocks. I 100% agree that we need a "whole team" game this week. It seems like some weeks the offense plays well enough to win (Florida, MSU) and other weeks it's the defense leading the way (OSU, UK), but we've only seen one game against real competition where both sides of the ball carried their weight - OU. And even against OU, the offense needed an entire half before it found its footing. If the whole team comes to play, I think Texas can beat Vandy comfortably. We have better athletes and comparable coaching. Pavia is veteran, clever, and dangerous with his legs, but that can be accounted for. There's enough tape on him and this team plays well against mobile QBs. If Sark calls a friendly scheme and Caldwell can hit the easy passes, that should be enough to make up for the lack of a run game. Side note, but I'm following the staff's lead and abandoning my hopes for a run game. The RB room is too banged up and too young, and our OL is dogshit anyway. I'm hoping we can scrape together enough offense on the ground to keep Vandy's defense honest, but we will live and die by the QB's arm. Man, you have completely lost the plot the last two weeks. Did you start rooting for Texas in 2022 or something? Why are you not desensitized to baffling adversity for this program? How are you still this soft? Seriously, you are reaching @6th Street's level of pants pissing and shitposting. Say what you will about @satyanash's negativity, at least he generally includes some analysis or information about why he is dooming. You just seem to feel compelled to type dumb shit in every thread. We get it. You don't think the team is very good. Try posting something else, or maybe just stay away from the football board for the rest of the season.
  4. This is quite the thread. Some of y'all need therapy. Some of y'all just need a drink. Regardless of the factual accuracy of any of the following, I'm sticking with these priors when I think about Sark and his future at the program: 1) The story was not accurately reported. There may have been some truth to it, but fishing for a raise, gauging interest, backroom fuckery all seem just as likely. By all appearances, Sark likes to recruit and likes coaching in college. Would he move to the NFL? I'm sure he would, I think he probably views NFL headcoach as the pinnacle of the career mountain for a guy like him. But I think he learned enough from a guy like Saban that you need to wait for the right job. Neither Miami or Tennessee are the right job. Y'all need to calm your tits and quit reacting to every rumor and report. 2) Sark has his drinking under control. I don't think the man is sober and, as far as I know, he's never claimed to be. People can be modest drinkers. People can be heavy drinkers who keep that shit from affecting their job. I personally don't really give a shit what Sark does in his free time as long as his coaching doesn't suffer. As far whatever happened this off season, seems more likely to be family oriented than substances abuse. 3) Loreal Sarkisian is a non-entity at the Texas program. I think speculating about their bedroom is tacky and somewhat ridiculous, but whatever, y'all seem to enjoy it so have fun. But y'all are vastly overestimating her significance or impact on this team. I agree that the less you hear / see the HC's wife, the better, but I have not seen her insist on being part of the team's public image. I don't know much about her as a person and I haven't been forced to at any point in the past 5 years. I call that a win and have no interest in changing things. I much more worried about the OL and Manning's concussion status. Worrying about Sark and the NFL is something I will save for January.
  5. Do you know who you’re talking to? Both. The answer is both.
  6. Guys. There is literally football on every night for the next two months. You gotta save something for the off-season.
  7. 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.
  8. I don't even know what we're arguing about anymore. But watching those clips was fucking painful.
  9. 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).
  10. Taaffe apparently played the whole 4th quarter with a broken thumb. Did not tell the trainers because he did not want to come out.
  11. 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.
  12. I would honestly settle for a new QB coach with a proven track record outside of "he recruited Arch Manning"
  13. Like seeing Baxter is “probable” rather questionable, which is what I was expecting.
  14. 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.
  15. No, just as his OC, DC, and various position coaches.
  16. Yeah, only shitty coaches hire retreads. That like stupid asshole Nick Saban.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Not to poke the bear, but I think this is the angriest I've ever seen you.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
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