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5 minutes ago, Honeysucklerose said:

Congrats to the Sarks. I suppose the divorce stuff was rectified??

Well, it wouldn't be the first time that having a baby saves a marriage.

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3 hours ago, Laxtonto said:

Baby Sark doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo. Baby Sark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo. Baby Sark!

 

We need a laughing/fuck you combination emoji for "that's funny, but now that song is stuck in my head."

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Posted
4 hours ago, Navin R. Johnson said:

This baby better not distract Sark during a title run 

I mean, this was everyone's first thought but you're the first one to actually say it out loud.

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Man, nothing I wrote comes across well and I took 2 cracks at it. I hope it all works out. Being 51 and raising a kid is tough for anyone let alone being a head football coach at Texas. Hopefully they have the support they need from CDC and the administration. I'm sure they do. 

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1 hour ago, UTGrad98 said:

Man, nothing I wrote comes across well and I took 2 cracks at it. I hope it all works out. Being 51 and raising a kid is tough for anyone let alone being a head football coach at Texas. Hopefully they have the support they need from CDC and the administration. I'm sure they do. 

That is a reasonable concern, and I think you phrased it respectfully enough. 

That being said, this is like his 4th kid. They get easier as you go, especially when the older kids aren’t toddlers anymore. Plus having millions and millions of dollars makes everything easier. 

Posted
4 hours ago, UTGrad98 said:

Man, nothing I wrote comes across well and I took 2 cracks at it. I hope it all works out. Being 51 and raising a kid is tough for anyone let alone being a head football coach at Texas. Hopefully they have the support they need from CDC and the administration. I'm sure they do. 

Sark can afford a full-time nanny(s). It's the wife who could derail his sleep, focus, and mindset.

Fingers crossed

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22 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

We need a laughing/fuck you combination emoji for "that's funny, but now that song is stuck in my head."

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Posted
42 minutes ago, Magus Ossis said:

Live-in nanny is a major mistake unless old and ugly. It won't matter whether he even experiences attraction if she thinks the nanny is potentially a rival.

He needs a live-in substitute daddy, not a nanny.

Posted
54 minutes ago, Magus Ossis said:

Live-in nanny is a major mistake unless old and ugly. It won't matter whether he even experiences attraction if she thinks the nanny is potentially a rival.

Ok Tiger.

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In the midst of all the NFL draft hoopla, some talking head mentioned that Sark has a history of problems with scoring in the Red Zone. Having not followed his pre-Texas career much, I don't know if that's accurate, but the last couple of seasons ended with Red Zone failures.

So... offseason fully engaged, how does he fix things?

 

 

Posted
10 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

In the midst of all the NFL draft hoopla, some talking head mentioned that Sark has a history of problems with scoring in the Red Zone. Having not followed his pre-Texas career much, I don't know if that's accurate, but the last couple of seasons ended with Red Zone failures.

So... offseason fully engaged, how does he fix things?

 

 

Easy.  Call the Touchdown Play.

Posted
28 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

In the midst of all the NFL draft hoopla, some talking head mentioned that Sark has a history of problems with scoring in the Red Zone. Having not followed his pre-Texas career much, I don't know if that's accurate, but the last couple of seasons ended with Red Zone failures.

So... offseason fully engaged, how does he fix things?

I'm not going back to look at USC or UW, but at Texas, here are the redzone scoring numbers:

             TD Scored          FG Scored    Combined Scoring    National Rank

2021     35 (74.5%)          9 (19.2%)       44/47 (93.6%)           6/130

2022    36 (62%)             16 (27.6%)      52/58 (89.7%)           13/131

2023    31 (50.8%)           18 (29.5%)      49/61 (80.3%)           89/133

2024    44 (63.8%)          11 (15.95%)     55/69 (79.7%)           111/134

There's a lot more noise than signal here. 

Scoring in the red zone has really only been an issue for Texas in the last two seasons, which are ironically must better than Sark's first two seasons. So it seems like red zone scoring percentage is a poor proxy for overall program performance. It's also important that our scoring opportunities (i.e., trips to the red zone) have gone up every year, while the number of times we score has been "inconsistent" (although if I were charting this, the trend line would up). By inconsistent I mean lingering within a certain range, but jumping around erratically within that range. The ration of TDs to FGs has also been inconsistent. 

If we were only looking at national ranking, then we have consistently been getting worse, with a huge drop off from 2022 to 2023, and a significant drop off from 2023 to 2024. So there is a numbers based argument that scoring in the red zone is becoming an issue for Sark, especially in the last two years, but I think that isn't the full story or even really a meaningful way of looking at the numbers. In terms of raw numbers, we scored more TDs and settled for fewer FGs in 2024 than in any other year. in contrast, 2023 was our worst season for TDs and settling for FGs, while the scoring percentage was not significantly different. 

Maybe Sark is just going for it more, consequences be damned? Maybe he had less confidence in Ewers and Auburn, and tried to run it more from the red area? Again - I think there' s more noise than signal to this metric, and it seems more like something that pundits like talking about. The numbers just don't seem correlated, and I don't think it matters that much if your red zone scoring percentage isn't impacting your program performance. 

Posted (edited)
24 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

The ranking going from 6th to 111th doesn't seem noisy.

Would you rather be Team A or Team B:

  • Team A made 20 red zone trips all season and scored on 19 of those trips - scoring percentage is 95%, good enough for second place in all of CFB in 2024. 
  • Team B made 100 red zone trips all season and scored on 80 of those trips - scoring percentage is 80%, sitting at 97th place in 2024.

I hope your answer is Team B, because that's a team that probably made the CFP unless their defense was historically bad. Meanwhile, Team A finished third in the MAC. To me, "signal" means metrics that are related to a team's success, while "noise" are numbers that have an attention getting quality but don't actually mean anything. Red zone scoring presented as a percentage and rank feels a lot more like noise. 

 

Edit - actually, we don't even have to do a hypothetical. Would you rather be 2021 Texas or 2024 Texas?

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Posted
1 hour ago, Park Gothic said:

Would you rather be Team A or Team B:

 

None of the above.

I want to be 2025-26 Texas and I want to score touchdowns in the Red Zone at a better rate. 

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On 4/22/2025 at 8:01 PM, SimkinsMan said:

My man is cooking in the portal. 

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On 4/6/2025 at 1:24 PM, Magus Ossis said:

Live-in nanny is a major mistake unless old and ugly. It won't matter whether he even experiences attraction if she thinks the nanny is potentially a rival.

Ok Tiger.

 

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