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11 minutes ago, Skipper said:

It's just unfathomable we are relying on a known project true freshman as starting LG.  Not because of devastating injuries to multiple players in the 2 deep at the position but because apparently that's the best we have on the roster.  


interesting, heard Arch sent this meme to our centers and left guards:

 

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4 minutes ago, Red Five said:


In fact, they were so fine with what we had on the interior that Neto was set to start at LG for about eight months. Right up until it was time to board the plane to Columbus. Then it was decided that the worst OL we have seen at Texas would be a better option. Nothing about our decision making process at that spot makes sense.

The Neto thing is just weird.  Absolutely has to be more to the story there.   I doubt he's 'good' or it never would have gotten to this point but clearly something had to happen that isn't pure performance/ability related to go from starter to zero snaps at the absolute worst position on the team.

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The Neto thing is just weird.  Absolutely has to be more to the story there.   I doubt he's 'good' or it never would have gotten to this point but clearly something had to happen that isn't pure performance/ability related to go from starter to zero snaps at the absolute worst position on the team.

Has to be something he did to get in the doghouse and then instead of working his way out of the dog house he said “fuck yall then”

Is he even practicing?
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On 10/22/2025 at 12:12 PM, mwaadeeb said:

Anybody here know shit about O-line coaches? Unless we rally and win out someone will have to take the fall, and Flood is the one, as others have said.

I honestly can't remember having a great (even good) OL coach. Seems like we could poach the best under present circumstances, but it never seems to happen, so I'm not holding my breath.

What's bizarre is that our OL, maybe on the strength of talent, took a noticeable step up upon Sark and Flood's arrival.

But it also kind of plateaued at good but not great.

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What's bizarre is that our OL, maybe on the strength of talent, took a noticeable step up upon Sark and Flood's arrival.
But it also kind of plateaued at good but not great.

They got Banks, which allowed them to move Jones back tot eh right where he was more suited. After that, it was mostly just being really experienced though.
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4 hours ago, Fondren & Main said:

It's much worse.

Baker was a 5 star that got downgraded to a 4 star at the last second.  He's supposed to be a stud.

Brooks was highly rated but obviously is not ready.

Campbell is a 5 star who appears to be the only one playing well.

Goosby was a 3 star but he looked much better last year than this year.

Hutson and Robertson are both borderline low 4 star players if ratings are to be believed.  

To be honest, this is a bigger indictment on Sarkisian.  He can see that his guys cannot do what he is asking them to and he refuses to change the gameplan.

Hutson and Robertson were both low 3 stars 

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3 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:


They got Banks, which allowed them to move Jones back tot eh right where he was more suited. After that, it was mostly just being really experienced though.

Also Christian Jones never played OL until his senior year in highschool.

There really seems to be very minimal development at UT, last year or two it was both a combination of ready made player (Banks), somebody that could have learned from anybody because his starting point was 0 (Jones) and extreme experience (Majors and Conner).

There is almost no linear progression or development, so you better get all the ready made because you can't give backups game experience in the low scoring sark offenses, and you sure as hell can't rotate them with the first team.

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Hutson and Robertson were both low 3 stars 

Yep. Both low 3 stars. Both committed on July 2, 2021. Hutson had an 88 ranking, Robertson an 87.
For context, Hayden Connor and Jake Majors also had an 87 ranking.
It felt like Connor and Majors at least showed steady, albeit slow, progress.
I think Hutson and Robertson are lost causes at this point. May as well lump Neto in there, too.
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2 minutes ago, chad.ihrig said:


Yep. Both low 3 stars. Both committed on July 2, 2021. Hutson had an 88 ranking, Robertson an 87.
For context, Hayden Connor and Jake Majors also had an 87 ranking.
It felt like Connor and Majors at least showed steady, albeit slow, progress.
I think Hutson and Robertson are lost causes at this point. May as well lump Neto in there, too.

Agree with the lost cuase of Hutson since he started as a frosh and was beyond awful. Judy by looking at him playing you could tell he would have bust written all over him had he been a4 star. As for Robertson, it's ayatery why they even offered him other than from a numbers sake because he clearly learned nothing from Majors, who was very good, but short-ish. But he could be counted on. 

I'd say you're probably right on Neto as well. He's a lost cause at this point. How do you go from being in the starting lineup all spring and most of summer to just losing out to Stroh? A player who literally offers nothing of value on the team. Make it make sense, you know? 

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On 10/23/2025 at 10:39 AM, Drifterwood said:


Has to be something he did to get in the doghouse and then instead of working his way out of the dog house he said “fuck yall then”

Is he even practicing?

If it isn't something like that, it's unfathomable incompetence for the coaches to allow someone worse than Stroh to eat up 4 years of scholarship and then come in to the season intending him to be the starter anyway. 

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1 hour ago, William Bludworth said:

Here's to hoping Stroh doesn't Max Merril his way to 5 years taking up a scholarship. Hopefully the new coach just tells him he can't cut it and may want to fight another school, or be a walk-on. 

The danger of pulling a kid's scholarship is that you risk pissing off his high school coach and his cronies, especially if said player isn't struggling academically and doesn't get into off-the-field trouble. Maybe that's less of a concern now with the no-penalty transfer portal, IDK. You can encourage Stroh to leave, but Sark shouldn't just cut him. 

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14 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

The danger of pulling a kid's scholarship is that you risk pissing off his high school coach and his cronies, especially if said player isn't struggling academically and doesn't get into off-the-field trouble. Maybe that's less of a concern now with the no-penalty transfer portal, IDK. You can encourage Stroh to leave, but Sark shouldn't just cut him. 

Sarcasm?

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41 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

The danger of pulling a kid's scholarship is that you risk pissing off his high school coach and his cronies, especially if said player isn't struggling academically and doesn't get into off-the-field trouble. Maybe that's less of a concern now with the no-penalty transfer portal, IDK. You can encourage Stroh to leave, but Sark shouldn't just cut him. 

Honestly, we've reached a point of who cares what high school coaches think? This is a pay for play issue now. Shit, even the G-League is allowing those guys to jump from what was once considered "pros" to now they can get into college because the lines are so blurred. 

As for Stroh, I just don't want that guy taking up a scholarship that can be used for someone who will actually be athletic and contribute. Scholarships are pulled all the time, and not even for getting into trouble, but for the sake of X player is better, and Y player has stagnated. Offer them a preferred walk-on if they don't want to have a sit down and discuss possibly transferring. 

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3 minutes ago, Jkwellborn said:

Be like Saban and give him a medical.

Be like Saban and just not give a fuck. It's a cutthroat job, and these coaches are making generational wealth. Any of us that work in any business where we have to make tough decisions, even if they're "kids" compared to us, you have to make that decision for the betterment of your company/program.

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55 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Sarcasm?

No, I guess I'm just stuck in the Mack Brown Era when it comes to recruiting. It's a new world. What was once true is no longer so. I guess coaches only deal with agents now, not the high school corch.

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1 hour ago, DFW Horn said:

The danger of pulling a kid's scholarship is that you risk pissing off his high school coach and his cronies, especially if said player isn't struggling academically and doesn't get into off-the-field trouble. Maybe that's less of a concern now with the no-penalty transfer portal, IDK. You can encourage Stroh to leave, but Sark shouldn't just cut him. 

I am still generally not a fan of pulling a kid's scholarship outright if they're making good faith effort to do everything asked of them. Especially if they haven't been there long enough to finish their degree. ou have 85 spots and a few of them are going to be dead weight for one reason or another. So it goes.

That said, the landscape is way different now. These guys are quasi professionals, they get paid and a former starter at Texas, no matter how bad, would have no shortage of options in the portal.

Also, we have two OLs from Frisco and both of them are refried ass. The mean streets of Collin County don't strike me as the place to go looking for a dog on the OL. 

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On 10/23/2025 at 1:03 PM, TwiceHorn said:

What's bizarre is that our OL, maybe on the strength of talent, took a noticeable step up upon Sark and Flood's arrival.

But it also kind of plateaued at good but not great.

Pancake factory gave a huge NIL first movers advantage for that first OL class.  We've followed that up by neglecting the position group, the same thing that was the biggest cause of wondering the desert for 15 years.  It's bleak.

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10 hours ago, WBT said:

Pancake factory gave a huge NIL first movers advantage for that first OL class.  We've followed that up by neglecting the position group, the same thing that was the biggest cause of wondering the desert for 15 years.  It's bleak.

How much pancake batter would we need to make a difference. I’m not a big cigar but curious. Do we even make pancakes anymore or is that rolled in to the bigger NIL purse?

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48 minutes ago, William Bludworth said:

It's all moot since Flood is gone, anyway. CDC loves the Director's Cup more than any of us on here love tits and sports. He won't let go of it. And if Sark is the issue regarding that, then bye. 

Unless you have some inside info you're nuts to assume Sark will fire Flood. We'd have to lose 3 more IMO, which we might, but likely it's 2 and he hangs on.

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56 minutes ago, mwaadeeb said:

Unless you have some inside info you're nuts to assume Sark will fire Flood. We'd have to lose 3 more IMO, which we might, but likely it's 2 and he hangs on.

We're for sure beating aggy, but we're losing to UGA, most likely Vandy, and I'm not counting Arkansas out. Our offensive line woes aren't going to get fixed. Both Dan Neil and Tony Hills alluded to it. Neil outright said it, if I remember correctly. Hell, I'm not even counting MSU out. We don't lack talent offensively, other than the linemen. we lack basic fundamentals and shitty play calling on top of a QB who takes 20 secs to get the ball out, and we dont know where it will go. Over the WR/TE head? The ground? 5-10 yards out of reach? 

It won't be Sark firing him, it will be CDC telling Sark to let him go and find someone who can fix this mess and recruit higher caliber linemen. Flood is gone, man. 5 seasons in and we should never be in a position where we have 67% more three star linemen than the four to five, depending on the service, four or five star guys. Someone has to be the scapegoat., and I guarantee you it's Flood simply because our line recruiting has been so abhorrent. He's a lazy ass recruiter, he just grabs "big humans" with no speed. Devin and Jordan Coleman? Terrible takes. Two middling low 3 stars with "offers" (which probably weren't committable) fron Tenn, ou, and Mizzou. Devin didn't even have the same interest, as we beat out Baylor, SMU, Colorado. Duke, Houston,and Miss St for his services. Jackaon Christian? We beat out Colorado State for him. Another low 3*. Nick Brooks is our highest rated lineman at a 4*, but has no ranking number beside him, so he could be anywhere from #330 or #279.

2024? The same thing, except we got to a Center in Cruz, a high 3 star borderlining almost as a 4 star. Nate Kibble, low 3 star, but I will give him a pass since Atascocita is an O-line factory. He took just two guys that class, and instead of practicing what  he preaches and moves guys along the line, we now have three true tackles playing on the line, rather than try a natural G like RS-SO Kibble in that spot instead of panicking and putting Brooks there. Kibble is the perfect G size at 6'3 330 lbs, while Brooks is between 6'7-6'8 and weighs 347 lbs. Brooks is too tall, not to mention he doesn't even know playbook because Sarkisian has to make it so convoluted, while Kibble has been in the system for over a year. As for Neto, I don't know shit. 

Whoever the old Flood was as a recruiter is gone. He's a shell of himself and a net negative. I made the comparison to hiring Mack Brown back because of all the draft picks, individual player awards,  and NC, but he is a shell of himself, too. All Sarkisian did was hire his buddy. He also  brought in AJ Milwee, a two year analyst, and was the OC Akron for 7 seasons, who obviously doesn't understand his job at teaching the QBs, or with his other title Co-OC, we know that is also bullshit. So we have two Co-OC's in Flood and Milwee. Milwee was let go as the OC at Akron once Terry Bowden was fired. They decided it wasn't worth it to retain him, and now we see why, 

Defensively we're fine if you didn't notice. Our season is not 0-6 because of PK and his staff. They have evaluated and recruited extremely well and it shows, whether that's the portal or HS. This is a Sark/Flood problem, and I've already seen a ton of people screaming at CDC, the poor man to fire Flood and get an actual OC. CDC isn't deaf and actually listens to the fans. He also watches the team, and you can't look at me and tel me "Sark can turn this around in no time." No. No  he can't. Hence why Flood will be gone to protect himself from having been a HC at three different schools, and if he's fired from Texas, he'll be radioactive and won't get anther chance at running a blue blood program for a third time.

CDC absolutely loves the Director's Cup, and he will l fire anyone who isn't getting the job done that they're paid handsomely to do. Just ask David Pierce. 

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