the thing about all of the mentions that VY was really struggling his redshirt sophomore year against OU and Mizzou before turning it around (besides the fact that we’re comparing arch to VY) is that the solution to VY’s problem was for mack and GDGD to get the fuck out of the way and just let VY (and in turn RT, jamaal, selvin, etc) be himself and do his thing. we literally just needed our coaches to get out of Black Jesus’s way. that’s not the case with Arch.
something is clearly off, because he never looked like this last year. we all expected him to take a step forward, and instead he looks like a make-a-wish kid dying of throwing-shoulder cancer. which means that there’s either some magic, instant fix that we need for sark to find, or, that we are supremely screwed as we’ve hitched our wagons to Arch, and there’s no one else who is going to step in and take over. the most pessimistic person on the planet could not have predicted this level of complete ineptitude. if the answer isn’t something that we can discover and fix overnight then this season (and this board) are going to get ugly.