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6 hours ago, butthurt said:

Sark side piping Screenshot_20231205_121330.thumb.jpg.474779bf54b867e1956f58371887f320.jpg

 

if i'd just won the conference championship i'd be side piping too.... (never heard that term before.... thx surly).

3 hours ago, Orange&White said:

Someone should stroke a $100k check to Jimbo to just stand on the sidelines with headset on during the Texas v. aggie game next year.

I legit laughed out loud. I'm guessing he'd do it for free. 

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On 12/4/2023 at 10:47 PM, Slacks said:

In years, he's ahead of Mack by a lot. 

Mack made it so he can get there, though. 

Darrel Royal would like a word with you. But unlike Mack, he dead. But he won for us 3 real NCs. Actual, earned. Class act. Bowed out when the game (i. e. players) got too weird for him. 

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Well, I was wrong in shying away from a “giant” leap, but no one wanted to take my 10 win bet and they dismissed my optimism about the Alabama and Tech games. It was cool seeing people writing that Sarkisian didn’t inherit a shit culture  

Sarkisian did even better than I thought and earned my A/A+ on the season. 

Reading back on my position a year ago, I’d be fine defending everything I wrote about what I had seen from him. And I’d be glad to tell him he kicked even more ass than I was willing to predict. And that, on top of the wins, I’m proud of the way he’s representing my school off the field, as well. 

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On 12/5/2023 at 7:21 PM, smoky said:
On 12/5/2023 at 12:23 PM, butthurt said:
Sark side piping Screenshot_20231205_121330.thumb.jpg.474779bf54b867e1956f58371887f320.jpg
 

Death, taxes and Roll Left in the Big 12 title game...

More impressive than that Strong  15" finger pic at the OU game a few years ago...

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51 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

 

Add...   AP's B12 Coach of the Year 

 

Let me see if I got this right. Sark is the AP's Big 12 coach of the year, but he is not the Big 12's Big 12 coach of the year? (That goes to Gundy.)

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19 minutes ago, n64ra said:

Let me see if I got this right. Sark is the AP's Big 12 coach of the year, but he is not the Big 12's Big 12 coach of the year? (That goes to Gundy.)

Yeah the coaches voted Gundy. The writers voted Sark.

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1 hour ago, n64ra said:

Let me see if I got this right. Sark is the AP's Big 12 coach of the year, but he is not the Big 12's Big 12 coach of the year? (That goes to Gundy.)

we're not done with yormark yet

not by a damned sight

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12 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

If I were the AD, I would immediately sign him to a contract extension that pays him $78M if we fire him. The number could decrease somewhat each year but still be much higher than any other buyout. However, I would make sure the extension allows him to leave for any other job. I know this seems like poor financial management, and is unprecedented, but it demonstrates our commitment to our success. 

Edit: I’ve been hesitant to share this, but it’s really been bugging me that we didn’t present him w a future championship trophy at his opening press conference. We could have left the date blank. It would have been a beautiful gesture that would have been really respected by all the other schools. 

Shit, let’s just win a couple more games and give him one with the full date!

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Question for the Board:

Penalties are often attributed to coaching.  In some ways, as when a player loses composure and gets an unsportsmanlike, I get it.

In other ways, like repeated false starts from OL and TE, I don't.

Like parents, I suppose, a coach whose players repeatedly misbehave is responsible.

Not sure I'm willing to attribute yips or dumbassery to coaches (or parents).

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1 hour ago, lilMAC25 said:

What an absolutely incredible season and job by Sarkisian. He proved me wrong in every manner and exceeded my every expectation for this program under his leadership. 

 

kudos to him for what he has accomplished.

Yesterday is going to sting for awhile but 2023 was a helluva ride.  Kudos to Coach.

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Great season. I do think the K. Rob being out there to return kicks and Washington instantly testing that shows the difference in coaching staffs and how much Sark still has to learn.  

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What an absolutely incredible season and job by Sarkisian. He proved me wrong in every manner and exceeded my every expectation for this program under his leadership. 
 
kudos to him for what he has accomplished.

Undoubtedly this, for starters. I did not have this team sniffing the CFP this year. Last night stings with the way it went down but it was kind of house money for me. It was a great season. A season that will be a part of program lore. Sark absolutely deserves credit for building the program up to a place where that can even come together at all, let alone the fact that it actually did.

Texas did not look out of place last night in a CFP semifinal. Yeah, they lost because they had a few too many miscues and the NFL QB and WRs, plural, on the other side balled out; but Texas went out and competed at the sport’s highest level. As a fan that’s all you can really ask for at the end of the day. Every champion has some luck and breaks go their way and that wasn’t there for Texas last night. Oh well.

I will say I had a sneaking feeling that Sark’s deficiencies as an in game coach could bite Texas in this one and I do think that was the case. Sark has no doubt elevated the floor of this Texas program to the point where the expectation of competing for a 12-team playoff spot on a near-annual basis is reasonable. As long as they continue to bring in and develop talent like they have I think that’s the case. And really that’s all I’m looking for as a fan. I can live with quite a few 8-9 win seasons, especially assuming we’re eventually looking at a 9 game SEC schedule, as long as there is 1.) A winning record vs OU, and 2.) Some 10+ win upside years every few years where the team competes for a conference and national title. After this year I think Sark is capable of meeting that bar so consider me converted.

But I’m not sure I believe Sark will ever put together 2-3 games against similar talent and quality coaching to actually win a national championship though. But hey, Mack Brown didn’t have any hardware… until he did. He’s no doubt earned the opportunity to lead the program into the SEC with the full support of the fanbase and admin for the foreseeable future.
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7 minutes ago, GTJ1982 said:

Great season. I do think the K. Rob being out there to return kicks and Washington instantly testing that shows the difference in coaching staffs and how much Sark still has to learn.  

Dude followed him from Bama, stuck with him and did have a good arm to carry the ball, didn't work out great but I get it.

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3 minutes ago, gmr548 said:


I can live with quite a few 8-9 win seasons, especially assuming we’re eventually looking at a 9 game SEC schedule, as long as there is 1.) A winning record vs OU, and 2.) Some 10+ win upside years every few years where the team competes for a conference and national title.

 

3.) Punk aggy at every opportunity.

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Dude followed him from Bama, stuck with him and did have a good arm to carry the ball, didn't work out great but I get it.

I mean, I get that he returned one for a td in the last game, but it wasn’t like he was gonna catch it.
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Question for the Board:
Penalties are often attributed to coaching.  In some ways, as when a player loses composure and gets an unsportsmanlike, I get it.
In other ways, like repeated false starts from OL and TE, I don't.
Like parents, I suppose, a coach whose players repeatedly misbehave is responsible.
Not sure I'm willing to attribute yips or dumbassery to coaches (or parents).

In the vacuum of a single game I agree but stupid procedural penalties have been a consistent theme under Sark. Especially with the emphasis he puts on motion, not having that cleaned up after three years is an indictment on the staff. I’m not going to sit here like I think it’s a huge one because I don’t, but when you’ve got experienced guys still setting the team back because they able to execute sets pre snap it tells me you’re not effectively teaching.
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For much of the year, we had trouble scoring in the red zone, especially when we had to pass it. We lost because we could not score on 4 plays inside the 15. Sark proved that he can learn from mistakes, for example going for 4th down instead of taking the points. I'm hoping he scrutinizes his play designs inside the red zone. There's something seriously lacking there. Didn't help that the team played tight for much of the game. Bad time to have a poor showing which sucks because we were peaking towards the end of the season.

With that said, I'm fully on the the Sark bus. He brought us back from obscurity and is recruiting lights out. He needs to hire better secondary coaches because that was a weakness all season and didn't ever get better. I think he and the team will learn from this game. We'll be the better for it.

 

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3 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Didn't help that the team played tight for much of the game.

For whatever reason, I still think this team is a bit mindfucked.  The execution errors continue and I'll call the procedure penalties execution errors because I don't think we had all that many play execution errors in the form of huge missed blocks, big drops, etc. other than perhaps Ewers doing some Ewers stuff.

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I think the O knew that the D couldn't stop Penix and Washington. They knew they had to score points to give us a chance. That probably made them play tight.

We played poorly on both O and D. Penix was fucking on. He was dropping dimes. He's fucking good. We got beat by a better team. It happens.

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I’m still trying to wrap my head around how we recovered from the 2 second half fumbles and had a legitimate chance to win. It felt like Sark did a helluva job slowing the game down and keeping it from spiraling out of control. I’m sad that it’s over because there’s no telling how next year plays out, but it was quite a ride. Get these new DBs in here and let’s stifle the SEC. There’s no Penix on our schedule next year. 

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33 minutes ago, CycleTex87 said:

I also think that Meatchicken will roll UDub.

I dunno man.  I didn't get the feeling watching them play yesterday that UM is really ready to defend a dynamic offense with great success.

It would seem that UM could mostly run at will on them, so maybe we'll get to test out that hypothesis.  Somehow, maybe just because all run all the time bores me, I just don't think running all the time is really a solution to UW.  They're going to get the ball and score.  

Maybe not fair basing it off bowl games, but the Big 10 just doesn't seem to have been much of a gauntlet this year.  Even less so than the PAC12.

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Michigan has a better overall DL than us. UW exposed our edge play and we really had no answer for it. They also have a guy in Will Johnson who can allow them to play more leveraged coverages.

Jake Majors is good for one illegal snap a game. For a guy with his experience, it makes no sense for him to keep making the same mistakes. Christian Jones was overmatched against Trice and ZTF. They picked on the middle to right side of the line with the games and pressures. 

Experience plays a role in presnap penalties too. The bigger the moment gets, people begin to fold more. Sorrell lined up in the neutral zone and still jumped offsides.

Guys were too tight and felt the magnitude of the moment too much. It happens. The experience is invaluable though, for both the players and the coaches.

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9 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I dunno man.  I didn't get the feeling watching them play yesterday that UM is really ready to defend a dynamic offense with great success.

It would seem that UM could mostly run at will on them, so maybe we'll get to test out that hypothesis.  Somehow, maybe just because all run all the time bores me, I just don't think running all the time is really a solution to UW.  They're going to get the ball and score.  

Maybe not fair basing it off bowl games, but the Big 10 just doesn't seem to have been much of a gauntlet this year.  Even less so than the PAC12.

To be fair, quarterback play was just down across college football this year. Our secondary was lucky the b12 passing attacks weren’t what we’ve come to expect. 

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2 minutes ago, Atticus said:

Michigan has a better overall DL than us. UW exposed our edge play and we really had no answer for it. They also have a guy in Will Johnson who can allow them to play more leveraged coverages.

Jake Majors is good for one illegal snap a game. For a guy with his experience, it makes no sense for him to keep making the same mistakes. Christian Jones was overmatched against Trice and ZTF. They picked on the middle to right side of the line with the games and pressures. 

Experience plays a role in presnap penalties too. The bigger the moment gets, people begin to fold more. Sorrell lined up in the neutral zone and still jumped offsides.

Guys were too tight and felt the magnitude of the moment too much. It happens. The experience is invaluable though, for both the players and the coaches.

Agreed. For the first time all season, it felt like the team, including Sark, let the moment get to them. The last few weeks of the regular season, we played pissed and focused. Last night we played scared and tight. As a program we haven't been here in 14-15 years so I guess it's understandable.

 

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3 minutes ago, B00M said:

To be fair, quarterback play was just down across college football this year. Our secondary was lucky the b12 passing attacks weren’t what we’ve come to expect. 

We lost the OU game because our secondary sucks. Basically last night was 60 mins of the last min of the OU game.

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Question for the Board:
Penalties are often attributed to coaching.  In some ways, as when a player loses composure and gets an unsportsmanlike, I get it.
In other ways, like repeated false starts from OL and TE, I don't.
Like parents, I suppose, a coach whose players repeatedly misbehave is responsible.
Not sure I'm willing to attribute yips or dumbassery to coaches (or parents).

Did I hear the announcers correctly…UW was the most penalized team in the country this season?
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Just now, MirrOlure said:


Did I hear the announcers correctly…UW was the most penalized team in the country this season?

When teams play Texas, they become the least penalized. Someone posted a chart a few weeks back. 

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I dunno man.  I didn't get the feeling watching them play yesterday that UM is really ready to defend a dynamic offense with great success.
It would seem that UM could mostly run at will on them, so maybe we'll get to test out that hypothesis.  Somehow, maybe just because all run all the time bores me, I just don't think running all the time is really a solution to UW.  They're going to get the ball and score.  
Maybe not fair basing it off bowl games, but the Big 10 just doesn't seem to have been much of a gauntlet this year.  Even less so than the PAC12.

Part of defending an offense like that is keeping them off the field. Michigan isn’t going to get out possessed 13-2 in a quarter. They will be committed to the run in a way Texas never was. Their defense is also just better, particularly on the back end and rushing the passer. They just matchup with Washington a lot better than Texas does.

It will be an interesting contrast of styles for sure. Washington absolutely can win - Michigan is not at all equipped to chase UW down if they get out to a lead - but I lean Michigan because I think they will dictate the terms/style of the game like UW did to Texas.
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