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1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Off the field, Sark is arguably the best HC in football. Staff hires, recruiting, portal, NIL, culture...firing on all cylinders. 

On game day, there are notable improvements that need to be made. Mainly his inability to understand the power of momentum and managing the game properly. From the couch, it looks like he takes on too much responsibility and it's creating some blind spots. 

Sark rightfully loves the saying "Adapt or die.". I absolutely agree with the overall sentiment. Hopefully he's willing to look closer at his game day issues and adapts. 

 

all of this ^^

whatever happens this year is who we are. Past that, it is imperative he talks/shows structural changes to how the offense is designed, deployed and called, and how the game itself is managed. He is murder to MO faaaaaaaaaar too many times

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2 hours ago, closetohumping said:

What are the parameters?  Accomplishments?  Doing less with more?  Or who would you pick as your HC?  

The parameters are "I literally cannot think of a guy I'd rather have coaching Texas".

Kirby?  Nope.  He's a dick.  Day?  LOL.  Lanning?  Weird.  DeBoer?  Seems to be showing his ineptitude.

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7 minutes ago, F250 said:

If Sark were to step away from running the offense, who would be a good OC to fill that role?

16 wheeler incoming.

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11 minutes ago, F250 said:

If Sark were to step away from running the offense, who would be a good OC to fill that role?

Hopefully someone who can scheme people wide ass open like I see every single week from teams with far less talent.  What's even crazier is they get it done without all the weird shit.

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Loreal coming back in the picture fucked up his thinking, Lol.

Seriously, we need an experienced play caller to assist Sark from the booth. I don’t think Milwee can cut it.

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17 minutes ago, Stunns38 said:

Loreal coming back in the picture fucked up his thinking, Lol.

Seriously, we need an experienced play caller to assist Sark from the booth. I don’t think Milwee can cut it.

Can’t help but be distracted by how much money she seemingly spends. 

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3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

The parameters are "I literally cannot think of a guy I'd rather have coaching Texas".

Kirby?  Nope.  He's a dick.  Day?  LOL.  Lanning?  Weird.  DeBoer?  Seems to be showing his ineptitude.

I would take Kirby every day of the week and twice on Sundays. 

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6 hours ago, RichUT said:

It looked like we had turned the corner in the red zone at about he half way mark of this season. But as of late? I wouldn't say that red zone execution is a strength by any stretch of the imagination. Just go look at how inept we were against UGA in the SEC title game if you want examples. 

Run the football and size at receiver are huge values in the red zone. Most good redzone teams have one of these qualities if not both. We need a bruising back. Someone around 220 with some feet. If ASU had our backs they would've run for 50 yards too. Their back was making his own yards. Ours were going down with single arm tackles.

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On 10/9/2021 at 1:20 PM, Randolph Duke said:

Sorry, Sark, but fuck you. 

I officially abandon UT athletics.

I’m not sure anyone associated with UT athletes has a clue how to do their job. They just raise prices every year and call themselves “marketers.” 

2005-2021= much humiliation.

The players now get paid huge money and not a one of them could pray to be qualified for the big money position of sniffing Lincoln Riley’s jock. 

Sorry, UT athletics, Its not just that you can’t deliver anything but loses, it’s just that you are losers.

Damn. Now I understand why Randolph Duke is in hiding.

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8 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

The parameters are "I literally cannot think of a guy I'd rather have coaching Texas".

Kirby?  Nope.  He's a dick.  Day?  LOL.  Lanning?  Weird.  DeBoer?  Seems to be showing his ineptitude.

Pretty much this.

Nick Saban’s run of success has cast a shadow over college football that only time will fix.

His level of success was remarkable. 
It’s also not replicable in an NIL era.

There is just too much parity and rosters can change on a blink of an offseason.

Sark is great, terrible, meh, amazing, stubborn, and innovative.

We’re stuck with the devil we know.

He’s elite in the NIL era as it stands now.

He’s gotten Texas to back to back semifinals.… which has only been accomplished by 6 other teams.

Alabama - 4 times (includes a run of consecutive 2014-2017 seasons and the 2020/2021 seasons)

Clemson - 4 times ( all part of a run of 2015-2020)

Oklahoma - 1, 2019/2020

tOSU - 1, 2017/2018

Georgia - 1, 21/22

Michigan - 1, 22/23

and now Texas - 1, 23/24

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

Pretty much this.

Nick Saban’s run of success has cast a shadow over college football that only time will fix.

His level of success was remarkable. 
It’s also not replicable in an NIL era.

There is just too much parity and rosters can change on a blink of an offseason.

Sark is great, terrible, meh, amazing, stubborn, and innovative.

We’re stuck with the devil we know.

He’s elite in the NIL era as it stands now.

He’s gotten Texas to back to back semifinals.… which has only been accomplished by 6 other teams.

Alabama - 4 times (includes a run of consecutive 2014-2017 seasons and the 2020/2021 seasons)

Clemson - 4 times ( all part of a run of 2015-2020)

Oklahoma - 1, 2019/2020

tOSU - 1, 2017/2018

Georgia - 1, 21/22

Michigan - 1, 22/23

and now Texas - 1, 23/24

 

 

Just look at the other 2 teams in the semifinals. Ohio State and Penn State fans hate their head coaches. 

Nick Sabans don't grow on trees. Every top-tier coach in the country right now has some major warts outside of maybe Smart. 

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9 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

The parameters are "I literally cannot think of a guy I'd rather have coaching Texas".

Kirby?  Nope.  He's a dick.  Day?  LOL.  Lanning?  Weird.  DeBoer?  Seems to be showing his ineptitude.

Dillingham? ....ducks

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10 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

The parameters are "I literally cannot think of a guy I'd rather have coaching Texas".

Kirby?  Nope.  He's a dick.  Day?  LOL.  Lanning?  Weird.  DeBoer?  Seems to be showing his ineptitude.

Did you know Ryan Day is 68-10?

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10 hours ago, hookem48 said:

If Ewers could even halfway throw a deep pass all this Sark needs to not call plays stuff would be gone.

If Sark would stick to the intermediate stuff, Ewers throwing a keep-them-honest deep ball every once in a while would be far more effective.

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7 hours ago, chemHORN said:

Sark could solve a lot of his problems by not waiting till his back is against the wall to start using the middle of the field.  I mean a Slant is legal in college football right?

It’s been discussed at length how Ewers appears to be much more comfortable throwing outside the numbers than the middle of the field into more traffic.

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2 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

Pretty much this.

Nick Saban’s run of success has cast a shadow over college football that only time will fix.

His level of success was remarkable. 
It’s also not replicable in an NIL era.

There is just too much parity and rosters can change on a blink of an offseason.

Sark is great, terrible, meh, amazing, stubborn, and innovative.

We’re stuck with the devil we know.

He’s elite in the NIL era as it stands now.

He’s gotten Texas to back to back semifinals.… which has only been accomplished by 6 other teams.

Alabama - 4 times (includes a run of consecutive 2014-2017 seasons and the 2020/2021 seasons)

Clemson - 4 times ( all part of a run of 2015-2020)

Oklahoma - 1, 2019/2020

tOSU - 1, 2017/2018

Georgia - 1, 21/22

Michigan - 1, 22/23

and now Texas - 1, 23/24

 

 

The thing that makes Saban so great was his loyalty to nothing/no one. Constantly evaluating and evolving. 

 

This is where Sark could go from really good to great. The problem I have with the premise of "did everyone forget Texas sucked from 2010-2022?" Nope, but the standard is the standard. You can't just be at Texas to get all the hype and praise that comes with that and not deal with any of the negative. 

If we're keeping it 💯 Sark and the offense have underachieved this season despite the overwhelming talent advantage over their opponents. We can't just gloss over that because Sark brought us back to life. Otherwise, things just get stale and fall apart again just like when Mack got lackadaisical. If you can't be honest and approach your own failures, tyranny isn't far away. 

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We don’t have the RB we really need. Put Jonathan Brooks on this team and it’s an offensive juggernaut. We go entire games where play action is dead in the water.

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12 hours ago, TheRRKid said:

How do we feel about how he addressed the red zone issues from last season? Hoping he can sit down this offseason and figure out third quarters 

This is where I am.  Last year, red zone was a clear issue - we've improved.  This year, 3rd quarters are killing us.  I don't know if it is how we respond to having the lead, or if it is some halftime adjustment the other teams are making that we can't account for.  According to teamrankings.com. we are:

9th in 1st quarter scoring.

9th in 2nd quarter scoring.

65th in 3rd quarter scoring.

61st in 4th quarter scoring.

link: https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/1st-quarter-points-per-game

 

Let's see if Sark can figure this one out in the offseason...

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Brian and Rod on the OTF reaction video to the game yesterday think/theorize that Sark is comfortable/reliant on the defense, and there's a sense of complacency that comes with that. <shrug>

If the one-and-done nature of the playoff games didn't address that yesterday, it's doubtful it's getting fixed against Ohio State. Also, Rod made an interesting point about Sark mentioning just because he calls a deep ball as the pre-determined play, Quinn still has the ability to get out of it if what's presented on the field isn't there, but unfortunately he'll still throw those ill-advised deep balls without going through the other options. 

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14 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Off the field, Sark is arguably the best HC in football. Staff hires, recruiting, portal, NIL, culture...firing on all cylinders. 

On game day, there are notable improvements that need to be made. Mainly his inability to understand the power of momentum and managing the game properly. From the couch, it looks like he takes on too much responsibility and it's creating some blind spots. 

Sark rightfully loves the saying "Adapt or die.". I absolutely agree with the overall sentiment. Hopefully he's willing to look closer at his game day issues and adapts. 

 

Hopefully, but the same play calling and game management issues have been apparent for four years now, and he hasn’t done anything yet. I think he needs to hire a play caller, so he can focus more on game management, execution, and red zone issues. Oh and figuring out how the fuck our team is consistently terrible in the third quarter. I’ve never seen a team struggle so consistently in one quarter of almost every single game in a season. There’s something gems doing wrong. It’s too big of a sample size now to dismiss it as a quirk. 

8 hours ago, gmr548 said:

Sark's very obviously a much better program builder/manager than he is gameday coach. That is what it is. Some of these posts are insane though. I thought it was a bad hire - let me tell you, it's much easier and more satisfying to simply admit you were wrong than to bump this thread with texags grade takes every time Texas has a bad game.

Last year Texas was a legit top 3 team and they're somewhere between the third to sixth best team in the country this year. Just signed the consensus number one recruiting class after 3-4 straight top 5 classes. He's got us right there. Texas is a top 5 program right now. Not theoretically, not one of the top 5 best jobs. Top five program today. I don't know how some of y'all can forget 2010-22 so soon but this program looks so much better on the field even when not playing its best.

The "we need a real OC" bits are especially stupid. Being an elite OC is what got Sark where he is. It's perhaps his only real value add on game day. You don't kneecap that strength. Then you just have a middling game manager and a lesser OC.

I agree with everything you said, except for the last part. I’m not saying he should hire a new OC and run their offense, but he should hire a QB coach/OC to call plays from his offense, so he can focus more on game management and execution. Sark’s biggest value add as an OC is his scheme/overall offense.

People overrate play calling. Play calling is very much part fo the 80/20 rule. Not many are so good or bad at it that it makes a huge difference. Sark’s never been a particularly good play caller on game day, so he should delegate that responsibility so he can focus on other issues on game day. He can still have control of the game plan and give plenty of input during the game. 

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I would like to see up tempo first couple possessions out of halftime. Almost feels like we are sleepwalking. We can get enough easy completions out of that to keep possession 

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1 minute ago, bullzak said:

I would like to see up tempo first couple possessions out of halftime. Almost feels like we are sleepwalking. We can get enough easy completions out of that to keep possession 

It's a realistic adjustment that Sark should consider. Absolutely. 

 

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55 minutes ago, morehornsepower said:

This is where I am.  Last year, red zone was a clear issue - we've improved.  This year, 3rd quarters are killing us.  I don't know if it is how we respond to having the lead, or if it is some halftime adjustment the other teams are making that we can't account for.  According to teamrankings.com. we are:

9th in 1st quarter scoring.

9th in 2nd quarter scoring.

65th in 3rd quarter scoring.

61st in 4th quarter scoring.

link: https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/1st-quarter-points-per-game

 

Let's see if Sark can figure this one out in the offseason...

Maybe allowing guys to post to SM during halftime is part of the issue. They seem to lose complete focus. 

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I think our offense is smoke and mirrors. Quinn has regressed we don’t have a running attack and the o line doesn’t look so great when they play a good team. We were helped out by an easy schedule so we weren’t really tested. Tre has 1000 yards but any time a good defense comes along that disappears.

ASU wanted the game way more than us. They kept scrapping away. They basically ran it the whole time. Defense was great first half but what do you expect them to do? They can’t hold up against scat (neither can he) the second half. The offense has to figure it out.

This all hangs on sark. Quinn did play great in overtime. But this isn’t on him, it’s on sark. He knows who Quinn is, he knows what the run game is, he knows what the kicking game is. You are supposed to be an offensive genius, figure it out.

Our secondary hasn’t been tested much but the last 2 games Muhammad is breaking down. 2 successful fake punts this year is unacceptable. Trusting Burt in the sec championship game and being okay with scoring 3 points in OT and trusting him yesterday is unacceptable. Score 7 points.

Do I trust him next week? Nope. He’s shown us what he is in big games. Georgia and washington. He needs to let it hang next week if he wants a chance. If you need to play arch more for the running game do it. Leave everything on the table.

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I haven’t watched the game yet, but was shocked at the time of possession differential. 
That isn’t our standard.

It was 20-10 in favor of ASU at the half. That’s what happens when you do nothing offensively after a 2-play TD drive to open the game and then run a punt back for TD.
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51 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Another thing to consider is Quinn has been our QB for 75% of Sark's tenure. Clearly they really like and respect each other, but in my view it doesn't seem like a great fit. Sark has curated the passing offense the last 3 years based on QE's perceived strengths and weaknesses, but clearly defenses have figured out the best way to defend us. 

Let's see what happens next year with Arch. That's gonna really show us if the problems are more with Sark or Quinn. If we have the same lulls, RZ struggles, and 3rd quarter issues, it's clearly a Sark problem. But we might be a lot more explosive and successful on offense next year with Manning.

 

 

 

Well, counterpoint, if we DON'T have any of those struggles it begs the question why didn't start Arch o let him play second half vs Georgia1 or at least give him a lot more reps this season. There will be questions either way.

I think it comes down to what many here have already noted. You can't game manage, play call, and head coach all at the same time. Further, a head coach needs someone they respect to question certain choices. Without it, it turns into a player fault issue in the coaches head. 

In my dream world we have Carol or Saban as an offensive and special teams "Advisor" or some such. It's still Sark's offensive scheme and plan with some "consultants" for game day calls.

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33 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

We didn't go into protection mode yesterday, we went into regard mode. 

Yeah, throwing deep on 2nd and 4 with 6 minutes left and an 8-point need ain't protection mode. Neither is 3 straight passes out of the 2-minute warning when we are already in FG range (maybe I should adjust my expectations of what FG range is moving forward). 

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I don't necessarily think Sark needs to give up play calling duties, but he does need to bring in someone as an analyst who will get in his ear and challenge him during games (so basically he needs someone on offense to do what Gary Patterson did on defense a few years ago).

Sark can design plays better than anyone in college football, but that doesn't matter when you are unwilling to adjust when things aren't working. The trouble running the ball yesterday was almost entirely schematic. Texas was running its standard outside zone scheme, but Arizona State was well-coached and ready for it AND it played to their strengths. ASU was slanting against the run and the Texas offensive line was just simply unable to get to their blocks. They needed to simply things and run more inside run and power plays to get the run game going.

And that's just one example. It seems like Sark will stick with stuff that doesn't work for far too long to his detriment. It takes him a LONG time to adjust to things during games and they need to be more flexible.

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1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

I haven’t watched the game yet, but was shocked at the time of possession differential. 
That isn’t our standard.

Honestly fuck time of possession. 

Score TDs on 1 play every drive. We won't have to worry about red zone offense. 

Sark was calling the TD play quite often. We weren't doing much else offensively. Either a negative play or a big play. 

Need to involve Helm more and run more easy mesh plays to the WRs. 

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40 minutes ago, utexas8 said:

I think our offense is smoke and mirrors. Quinn has regressed we don’t have a running attack and the o line doesn’t look so great when they play a good team. We were helped out by an easy schedule so we weren’t really tested. Tre has 1000 yards but any time a good defense comes along that disappears.

ASU wanted the game way more than us. They kept scrapping away. They basically ran it the whole time. Defense was great first half but what do you expect them to do? They can’t hold up against scat (neither can he) the second half. The offense has to figure it out.

This all hangs on sark. Quinn did play great in overtime. But this isn’t on him, it’s on sark. He knows who Quinn is, he knows what the run game is, he knows what the kicking game is. You are supposed to be an offensive genius, figure it out.

Our secondary hasn’t been tested much but the last 2 games Muhammad is breaking down. 2 successful fake punts this year is unacceptable. Trusting Burt in the sec championship game and being okay with scoring 3 points in OT and trusting him yesterday is unacceptable. Score 7 points.

Do I trust him next week? Nope. He’s shown us what he is in big games. Georgia and washington. He needs to let it hang next week if he wants a chance. If you need to play arch more for the running game do it. Leave everything on the table.

 

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1 minute ago, Zeus said:

Honestly fuck time of possession. 

Score TDs on 1 play every drive. We won't have to worry about red zone offense. 

Sark was calling the TD play quite often. We weren't doing much else offensively. Either a negative play or a big play. 

Need to involve Helm more and run more easy mesh plays to the WRs. 

If we don't sputter after getting those 14 points and we get 21+ the dynamic of this game shifts drastically. They're not able to run the ball as much and will be forced to throw. But letting them hang around gave them their full playbook for most of the game.

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4 minutes ago, ATLLonghorn said:

I don't necessarily think Sark needs to give up play calling duties, but he does need to bring in someone as an analyst who will get in his ear and challenge him during games (so basically he needs someone on offense to do what Gary Patterson did on defense a few years ago).

Sark can design plays better than anyone in college football, but that doesn't matter when you are unwilling to adjust when things aren't working. The trouble running the ball yesterday was almost entirely schematic. Texas was running its standard outside zone scheme, but Arizona State was well-coached and ready for it AND it played to their strengths. ASU was slanting against the run and the Texas offensive line was just simply unable to get to their blocks. They needed to simply things and run more inside run and power plays to get the run game going.

And that's just one example. It seems like Sark will stick with stuff that doesn't work for far too long to his detriment. It takes him a LONG time to adjust to things during games and they need to be more flexible.

This.  He's a schemer, not a gunslinger and adjusting in-game takes him frickin' forever

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1 minute ago, BurntOrange&amp;White said:

If we don't sputter after getting those 14 points and we get 21+ the dynamic of this game shifts drastically. They're not able to run the ball as much and will be forced to throw. But letting them hang around gave them their full playbook for most of the game.

Yeah and I worry the "sputter" has to do with Sark catching a case of Turtle Toms and flipping the playsheet from "touchdown plays" to fucking "time of possession plays".

Against Ohio State I don't think we will have the luxury of being up 2 scores and deciding to apply the brakes. 

It's literally all Gas from here on out. 

Fuck Ohio State

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1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Another thing to consider is Quinn has been our QB for 75% of Sark's tenure. Clearly they really like and respect each other, but in my view it doesn't seem like a great fit. Sark has curated the passing offense the last 3 years based on QE's perceived strengths and weaknesses, but clearly defenses have figured out the best way to defend us. 

Let's see what happens next year with Arch. That's gonna really show us if the problems are more with Sark or Quinn. If we have the same lulls, RZ struggles, and 3rd quarter issues, it's clearly a Sark problem. But we might be a lot more explosive and successful on offense next year with Manning.

 

 

 

Yup. Sark has had to handcuff this offense over time because of Quinn. I feel this offense could be even more explosive than Ohio St if we had the correct QB. We would see much more down the field passing. This would force the defense to have the fear the passes down the field. Right now, they really don't. They pretty much want Quinn to go down the field because they don't feel he can do it consistently. 

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3 minutes ago, BurntOrange&amp;White said:

If we don't sputter after getting those 14 points and we get 21+ the dynamic of this game shifts drastically. They're not able to run the ball as much and will be forced to throw. But letting them hang around gave them their full playbook for most of the game.

Texas took advantage on that first passing TD which compounded with the kick return.  Then ASU adjusted and Texas didn't.  

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27 minutes ago, ATLLonghorn said:

Texas was running its standard outside zone scheme, but Arizona State was well-coached and ready for it AND it played to their strengths. ASU was slanting against the run and the Texas offensive line was just simply unable to get to their blocks. They needed to simply things and run more inside run and power plays to get the run game going.

FWIW, someone on one of the 9.95 sites charted the run game and only 5 of our 22 RB runs were outside zone. 2 in the first half, 2 in the second half and 1 in OT.

 

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