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2 minutes ago, A’Dam Psycho said:

We 110% beat OKSt and TCU with decent officiating. Bama was more in the area of a few missed calls that fucked us. 

Dude blaming officiating in those games is stupid. Our fucking head coach cost us those games more than officiating. 
 

we blew 14 point leads in them. Officials didn’t make us blow those leads. 
 

 

The only game you can legitimately say officiating cost us was Bama. 

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1 hour ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

As it is done on every message board for every other program.

Think people aren’t bitching about Michigan today? OSU? Think Georgia fans aren’t chirping about having to survive a last second FG attempt and all the crap that went on last night? What about Bama fans watching Georgia play for a title while being in the midst of the greatest run in college football history?

I wish we could bitch about the results of a playoff game that involves our team. Instead, I’m stuck reading bitches talk about a stupid bowl game in which we didn’t have bijan, Rojo and DMO and still almost walked away with a win against a 10-2 Washington team that had all their studs play. 

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1 minute ago, A’Dam Psycho said:

We 110% beat OKSt and TCU with decent officiating. Bama was more in the area of a few missed calls that fucked us. 

Alabama was straight up gifted a 5 point differential on two non-calls. Potentially another 4 on a different one. Maybe a few instances, but whatever else Texas jacked up, 5+ points in a 1 point loss is pretty brutal. 

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5 minutes ago, Had Enough said:


This is awesome. Thanks for the effort. As for the guys you noted as starters/started, if we had similar guys come in this year, I’m not sure they’d be starters. Hodges would probably get crucified. And, well, Wiley. Also, I was thinking they said on yesterdays broadcast that no one else wanted Hodges when he hit the Portal. I’d assume the Georgia transfer is a backup to the frosh.

Correct. Hodges had very little interest from everyone but Dykes played against him when he was at SMU and said he would take a chance on him.

Newton was their Ryan Watts and Perry raised the floor of their safety room. They made a good eval on Hodges.

Bringing over Ali from SMU was of course a no brainer but the rest of their offensive portal takes did almost nothing. 90% of that offense was in place when Dykes stepped to to the podium for the press conference.

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2 hours ago, Stunns38 said:

 


I don’t think the cigars wanted Strong, Patterson and Powers did.

 

If Red McCombs was representative of what the BC’s wanted, this would be correct.   Always felt Charlie and Tom were pushed on us by the media who thought they were the next names out their to take over a major program and the leadership bought it, hook line and sinker.  See Brent Venables  at OU unfold the next few years to see it outside our bubble 

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3 minutes ago, Levi said:

I wish we could bitch about the results of a playoff game that involves our team. Instead, I’m stuck reading bitches talk about a stupid bowl game in which we didn’t have bijan, Rojo and DMO and still almost walked away with a win against a 10-2 Washington team that had all their studs play. 

Yeah ok. The larger point is that there will be people bitching about the team regardless of the success. UT fans aren’t unique no matter how much they like to tell each other so in a burnt orange circle jerk. 
 

And the fans complaining about their much more successful programs probably have legitimate gripes too. 

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5 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Dude blaming officiating in those games is stupid. Our fucking head coach cost us those games more than officiating. 
 

we blew 14 point leads in them. Officials didn’t make us blow those leads. 
 

 

The only game you can legitimately say officiating cost us was Bama. 

We blew a 14 pt lead against TCU when we lost 17-10?

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One of the funny things is we lost all our games by one score/possession.  Watching those games is infuriating and frustrating and magnifies any and all mistakes, whether players, coaches, or officials.

But, WE LOST THE GAMES BY ONE SCORE, against some pretty salty competition.  And yeah, we gave up some leads, too, but it felt more like we earned those leads than last year, when we built up some pretty improbable leads against pretty inarguably better teams (OU with Williams).  There may be some reason to take heart in those factoids.

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5 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Dude blaming officiating in those games is stupid. Our fucking head coach cost us those games more than officiating. 
 

we blew 14 point leads in them. Officials didn’t make us blow those leads. 
 

 

The only game you can legitimately say officiating cost us was Bama. 

Before millers long run, Wiley held Barron on what was the most egregious open field holds I’ve seen in my life. The next play, millers runs for 70 while Watts (I think) gets held by a blocking wr. That 7 points was totally gifted by the refs in favor of tcu. I’m not sure we pull out a win tho with the way our offense was playing. 

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8 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

If Red McCombs was representative of what the BC’s wanted, this would be correct.   Always felt Charlie and Tom were pushed on us by the media who thought they were the next names out their to take over a major program and the leadership bought it, hook line and sinker.  See Brent Venables  at OU unfold the next few years to see it outside our bubble 

Houston boosters pushed Herman and strong armed the Houston area interim AD to get it done without running a search. 

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14 minutes ago, A’Dam Psycho said:

We 110% beat OKSt and TCU with decent officiating. Bama was more in the area of a few missed calls that fucked us. 

 

1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

We’re talking Ok State and Tech games 

 

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1 minute ago, Levi said:

Before millers long run, Wiley held Barron on what was the most egregious open field holds I’ve seen in my life. The next play, millers runs for 70 while Watts (I think) gets held by a blocking wr. That 7 points was totally gifted by the refs in favor of tcu. I’m not sure we pull out a win tho with the way our offense was playing. 

I’m not even discussing TCU. We just got beat by a better team. That one call wasn’t why we lost that game. We didn’t even score a single fucking offensive touchdown. Officiating wasn’t changing that. 

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2 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

I’m not even discussing TCU. We just got beat by a better team. That one call wasn’t why we lost that game. We didn’t even score a single fucking offensive touchdown. Officiating wasn’t changing that. 

@Doc Daneeka post above. 

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16 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Houston boosters pushed Herman and strong armed the Houston area interim AD to get it done without running a search. 

That was the hire that I think 80% of the board wanted and lsu was looking. Ended being a mistake of course

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2 hours ago, Stunns38 said:


It was dumb hiring the back end staff before PK. That probably was the main issue that fucked us last year. That said, PK is a lot more proven than Orlando.

I hope you are correct.   Year 3 should be better if some of those things internally were corrected.   That’s a strange way of having a coordinator start his tenure for sure. 

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5 hours ago, RoyalBevo21 said:

you're missing what I'm saying. Is Texas not capable of being "Loaded to the gills" with NFL talent. I would bet that on Paper Texas has more "star" power than both Michigan and TCU 50% of the field. Hell, I bet Texas has higher ranked recruits than 70% of the top 10 ranked teams...... I realize that just because these players are ranked by some recruiting service that doesn't mean anything. But holy fuck, can a coach that comes to Texas develop a fuckin roster at some point? especially with NIL and the Transfer Portal now. Much easier to have fill in years with transfer players until the younger guys are ready to hit the field. 

Fuck, Sarkisian hasn't even had a full recruiting cycle of kids go through spring camp. We saw development across the board between year 1 and year 2 with what he had left from Herman and his 2022 freshmen class. Since taking the job, Sarkisian has brought in 14 portal transfers so far. That number will likely be close to 18 by fall camp. Roughly 6 portals per season. That is a healthy number, the problem is only Robinson, Ewers, and Watts have produced on the field. While Oghoufo and Tucker-Dorsey were average.

My guess is if Neyor and Angilau had been healthy all season, Texas would have won 10 games. Both were huge losses that would have been significant upgrades over their backups.

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Ultimately, a Good Coach wins the games he should, and at least occasionally wins a game or two he shouldn't.

A Shit Coach usually loses a game or two he should win, and almost never wins ones he shouldn't.

Oops, sorry to interrupt, fellas... y'all go ahead and get back to Routine Surly.

 

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2 minutes ago, Loop 1604 said:

Can’t wait for another lame duck year of watching him bumblefuck his way to 4-8 and subsequently getting shitcanned. 
 

We all know it’s coming.

Indeed, Snark is a fat mentally messed up lame duck. He should go get a job he is more qualified for ... like selling used computers like he used to 

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9 minutes ago, Loop 1604 said:

Can’t wait for another lame duck year of watching him bumblefuck his way to 4-8 and subsequently getting shitcanned. 
 

We all know it’s coming.

Maybe. What I think is more likely is an eventual change of course to “Well, hell, anyone could win with this much Texas NIL money. He still sucks as a coach.”

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3 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Dude blaming officiating in those games is stupid. Our fucking head coach cost us those games more than officiating. 
 

we blew 14 point leads in them. Officials didn’t make us blow those leads. 
 

 

The only game you can legitimately say officiating cost us was Bama. 

Love your post, but ok state had no penalties. It was a major factor in them winning. 

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47 minutes ago, JohnnyLamJones said:

Indeed, Snark is a fat mentally messed up lame duck. He should go get a job he is more qualified for ... like selling used computers like he used to 

I can't believe how fat Sark has gotten since taking the job. 

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1 hour ago, immamac said:

Love your post, but ok state had no penalties. It was a major factor in them winning. 

While true, we were still in a position to win that game but he went typical Sark bomb it out and pray for the best instead of trying to run the ball in the second half with Bijan and RoJo

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7 hours ago, David Dennison said:

Getting the right coach is luck. Accept that and hope for the best.

Yes and No.

yes in the sense that just like a player…some pan out and some don’t. Successful programs most typically have a coach in waiting to hand the program to…OR if they are ready to fire that coach MOST have interviewed several coaches relying on the AD they hired and chancellor and president and board or whatever they have at the school (people employed to make decisions) to make the ultimate hire. Sometimes they hire search firms and such. Sometimes those firms suck. The point is: a good hire is not just luck. They interview several coaches even if they have one in mind. They determine their identity by hiring this coach or create a new identity or continue an old one based on that HC’s philosophy. They take time with this. They don’t let a bunch of BMDs make the call. They don’t make slapdick hires like the previous two. The schools that have (we know what’s happening at those P5 schools) and they are in the desert too.

IMO it doesn’t take long to build a team anymore and build it quick and sustain it through recruiting and proper portal use. Two years may not seem like a long time but the good ones can do this in that time frame. Maximum three years. Most can scheme with what they have on the roster bc for many they need to win and be visible to have any kind of slight edge in recruiting. Joel Klatt  said this on his podcast. He wasn’t done with Sark just saying he was starting to believe he might not be the guy based on the fact that in todays current CFB landscape with NIL and portal that it can be done. And that the fear is many schools and their fans are like the frog in the boiling water. So it didn’t happen in year two well it will happen in year three…when we have more upper classmen and more of the coach’s type of guys for his scheme. So it didn’t work in year four…well we have a bunch of seniors now and juniors and they are basically his team now so…

Again I respect the opinions of those who believe Sark can achieve this. I want to believe and hope that he can. I feel like Herman,  before him we hired another coordinator. Sark is obviously a much better recruiter. But Sark is too proud to give up main OC duties and we will all suffer next year and the following year when we have a TCU -like 2022 nucleus and we didn’t do dick with it. 
 

It sucked walking out of the Alamo Bowl walking past the hemisphere needle thing which was lit up purple. 62,000 fans…about 70-80% in burnt orange with heads hung low shuffling the half mile back to our respective hotels in near dead silence save the occasional drunken person. One older person to our left lets out a huge sigh and says, “Damn I’m so tired of losing. Why can’t we get this right?” His buddy said “Because we let a bunch of rich assholes pick our coach.” Whether you agree or disagree about Sark and whether or not he can ultimately sustain the kind of success we want…you can’t disagree that we let a bunch of rich non employee non coach types assholes pick our last three coaches. And we are currently 0-2. Let’s fire Mack without a backup plan…Coolcoolcool…

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I agree. He was terrible at Cal and caught lightning in a bottle. Let’s see next year if he returns to 6-6 norm. 
Not so sure about that, he did well enough at SMU to land the froggy job, and going to the championship game will make them a legit threat for in-state recruiting vs us, aggy and blowU.
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So Sark was OC at Bama over the highest scoring offense in their history, or something like that???

After watching the Horn offense completely disappear for entire halves at critical times this year, I can't help but believe that it was Saban on the headset saying,

"...okay, Steve, second down, Smith needs the ball... give me a flair to the strong side that takes advantage of that new Corner they just subbed..."

and stuff like that on virtually every play Bama ran.

Sark (Headset)(Looking at clipboard): "X-25 right, swing 3 yada yada."

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9 minutes ago, Irish Wrist Watch said:

So Sark was OC at Bama over the highest scoring offense in their history, or something like that???

After watching the Horn offense completely disappear for entire halves at critical times this year, I can't help but believe that it was Saban on the headset saying,

"...okay, Steve, second down, Smith needs the ball... give me a flair to the strong side that takes advantage of that new Corner they just subbed..."

and stuff like that on virtually every play Bama ran.

Sark (Headset)(Looking at clipboard): "X-25 right, swing 3 yada yada."

I had to look it up after this comment.

We had 7 games this year with less than 35 rushing attempts. Bama in 2020 had 3.

In both seasons the offense had two games with over 40 pass attempts, but Bama exceeded 35 rushing attempts in both while Texas was below 35 in both with the egregious 18 in that pathetic performance against Washington.

Saban most definitely told Sark to run the damn ball. The swings in game plan from game to game this year also show absolutely zero offensive identity. Bama was pretty consistent across the board from week to week.

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12 minutes ago, Irish Wrist Watch said:

So Sark was OC at Bama over the highest scoring offense in their history, or something like that???

After watching the Horn offense completely disappear for entire halves at critical times this year, I can't help but believe that it was Saban on the headset saying,

"...okay, Steve, second down, Smith needs the ball... give me a flair to the strong side that takes advantage of that new Corner they just subbed..."

and stuff like that on virtually every play Bama ran.

Sark (Headset)(Looking at clipboard): "X-25 right, swing 3 yada yada."

Check out Alabama's 2020 OL and then compare it to ours.

Report back.

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1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

Check out Alabama's 2020 OL and then compare it to ours.

Report back.

Not even attempting to run the ball for stretches of games while throwing 50 times with the essential true freshmen QB and Bijan/RoJo at RB is stupid regardless of OL.

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5 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Check out Alabama's 2020 OL and then compare it to ours.

Report back.

Looking at my post above we outrushed Bama on 6 fewer attempts but fell a slight 1500 yards short passing on 20 less attempts. I wonder what we should have emphasized more?

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3 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Not even attempting to run the ball for stretches of games while throwing 50 times with the essential true freshmen QB and Bijan/RoJo at RB is stupid regardless of OL.

I don't disagree. 

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Jfc not this stupid ass argument again. When you are blowing teams out by 20+ each week you tend to run the ball a lot. When you play close games or have to come from behind you tend to throw more. That’s football.

Here are the games this year (2022) where Bama ran the ball more than 35 times- Louisiana Monroe, Arkansas (Young hurt), A&M (Young hurt), Ole Miss and Austin Fucking Peay. All their close games (Texas, Tennessee, LSU) they *gasp* couldn’t run the ball the whole 4th quarter.
 

Thinking there is some magic number of carries that guarantees you a win is laughable.

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So it's clear that Sark as OC needs a real HC to tell him what to call, play-to-play.

That makes things a lot easier to move forward. It looks like an immediate fix might be moving Patterson to new title AD VP for Football and de facto HC and keep Sark as titular HC, but actual OC, i.e. no or limited interaction with DC and STC. 

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Posted (edited)
7 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

Jfc not this stupid ass argument again. When you are blowing teams out by 20+ each week you tend to run the ball a lot. When you play close games or have to come from behind you tend to throw more. That’s football.

Here are the games this year (2022) where Bama ran the ball more than 35 times- Louisiana Monroe, Arkansas (Young hurt), A&M (Young hurt), Ole Miss and Austin Fucking Peay. 

We were ahead by double digits in at least 2 of the games we failed to run the ball in the second half or even attempt to run the ball. Tech/Ok State. 

 

It's not about hitting some magical number of rushing attempts for me, it's our decision to completely abandon it. < Response to your edited reply earlier.

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17 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

We were ahead by double digits in at least 2 of the games we failed to run the ball in the second half or even attempt to run the ball. Tech/Ok State. 

If you take out the final 4 plays of the Tech game (30 seconds left down 3 have to pass) we ran the ball 13 times and passed 9 times in the second half.

If you take out the final 2 drives against OSU (down 7 3 minutes left and down 7 56 seconds left), we ran the ball 15 times and passed 12 times in the second half.

We never abandoned the run until we had to. 

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Posted (edited)
6 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

If you take out the final 4 plays of the Tech game (30 seconds left down 3 have to pass) we ran the ball 13 times and passed 9 times in the second half.

If you take out the final 2 drives against OSU (down 7 3 minutes left and down 7 56 seconds left), we ran the ball 15 times and passed 12 times in the second half.

No, no, no. You see we needed to run the ball more even when we were not being successful on 1st and 2nd down, and were left with plenty of 3rd and longs leading to three and outs, and the inability to run the ball more.

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Posted (edited)
1 minute ago, HtownHorn said:

No, no, no. You see we needed to run the ball more even when we were not being successful on 1st and 2nd down, and were left with plenty of 3rd and longs leading to three and outs, and the inability to run the ball more.

Yeah cause chunking 20+ yard bombs was way more successful than feeding our Doak Walker winner and RoJo

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I just caught up to the video clip in question.

Wut?  That's nothing.  I'm actually glad to see our coach has a pulse.  The PA had no reason to be holding Sark back, he wasn't going anywhere.  A little verbal bitchslap is par for the course.

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If you take out the final 4 plays of the Tech game (30 seconds left down 3 have to pass) we ran the ball 13 times and passed 9 times in the second half.
If you take out the final 2 drives against OSU (down 7 3 minutes left and down 7 56 seconds left), we ran the ball 15 times and passed 12 times in the second half.
We never abandoned the run until we had to. 

Pretty sure in both those games we lost possession on downs in enemy territory. Both, if I remember correctly, included 3 runs. It was the most critical possession in the Tech game. And in the 2nd half. It was also the drive that reinforced to McGuire that going on 4th was the right move.

We lost both in part because we failed to use our screen/short game. Generally just lost our creative play calling.
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20 hours ago, immamac said:

Love your post, but ok state had no penalties. It was a major factor in them winning. 

They had no penalties called on them. Whether or not there were actually no penalties... haven't seen such fuckery since Teaff's last game at Baylor.

And oh by the way, those same heroic defenders Stillwater are currently officiating the Cheez-It Citrus "Run train on the Boilermakers like they were an LSU staffer" bowl.

Seriously fuck those refs. I hope they all die of combination of AIDS, testicular cancer, and the clap.

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Posted (edited)

Sark 2023 Report Card

A+ 15-0 National Champions or 14-1 Title Loser

A   13-1 or 12-2 Big 12 Title, Playoff Loser

A-  13-1 or 12-2 Big 12 Title Loser, Major Bowl Winner

B   11-3 Big 12 Title Loser, Bowl Winner

C 10-4 Big 12 Title loser, Bowl Winner 

D 9-4

F 8-5 or worse

 

 

 

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