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14 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.

But this is what people are complaining about - Sark is stubborn and calls plays for the team he wants, not the team he has. He needs to look at his roster, and most notably his QB, and call plays that allow the team to lean on their strengths. He has never done that at Texas. The TCU game in 2022 is the best example. That shit felt punitive. 

5 hours ago, closetohumping said:

Cowherd: sarks teams feel loose.  This was a coaching mismatch

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Stop listening to Colin fucking Cowherd. He is garbage. 

4 hours ago, westexhorn said:

Dillingham? ....ducks

Despite what I said above about Cowherd, there was something of a coaching mismatch in this game. I honestly think Dillingham has the biggest upside of any coach today. He's still young and has plenty of time to develop or disappoint, but I've been watching ASU all season and am impressed with the dude. He's a gambler but he bets smart. He's willing take chances and move his pieces around to create whatever advantages he can. Doesn't always pay off, but the level of innovation and adaptability is something I wish we had more of. Not saying he's a better coach than Sark, but he definitely has some strengths that Sark lacks. 

2 hours ago, bullzak said:

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.

100% TSRH. Our ceiling has been limited since the day we lost Baxter. I love how Wisner has stepped up and I'm glad Blue has settled into his niche, but we do not have an every down back like Brooks, Bijan, or even RoJo. It doesn't excuse all our offense's woes, but it was always going to be a problem for an offense that relies heavily on a successful run game. 

1 hour ago, Burt Macklin said:

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. 

Because Sark is stubborn and bad at in-game adjustments. We come out at half time and the other team has made its adjustments to what we're doing. We don't adjust to their adjustments until the fourth quarter (if at all), and it means we consistently have shitty third quarters. Part of me thinks it would be better for us to be down at halftime against OSU - at least then we would know that we have to change our game up and would have the half to do it. The only other game where we trailed at half was UGA and that was probably our best third quarter of the season. 

59 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.

This is drivel with a bunch of clichés thrown in for good measure. I feel like I'm reading a comment on reddit from some poster who watched two of our games all season and gets most of their football analysis from memes. 

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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.
 

Someone random on twitter kept screaming them to run left behind banks but they never would. Any reasoning for that?
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11 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

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.

 

Through three quarters almost the entirety of Texas run plays were predicated on offensive linemen trying to get to a spot to block someone instead of just blocking what's in front of them. There were a few individual breakdowns here and there, but Texas' plan played to ASU's strengths instead of trying to exploit the physical advantages.

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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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I would love to hear more from the film watchers about our results out of pistol and why we would stray from it. Seems like a big deal.

I kept calling for 2 back pistol yesterday. It’s like Sark did the exact opposite of what works to spite us or simply satisfy his mafia debt, ha.
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2 hours ago, Zeus said:

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".

There are times for time of possession plays.

I wish we had called one instead of the touchdown play on the Ewers interception.

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2 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

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

If by adjusting forever in your adjustments in game you mean forever as in, hasn't happened yet this season I agree. If he can't make them over half time he sure as fuck can't make them in game time. 

Hence, my reason for a game day offense consultant. Sark dreams the schemes and makes the plans. Someone else runs it during actual games. Has to be someone he doesn't think he's smarter than and respects. Hence my vote for Saban or Carol. They get back into the fun of coaching and flexing their smarts/feeding their egos without all the NIL, media, alumni, sponsorship and other bullshit a head coach deals with daily (along with the AD)

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2 hours ago, ATLLonghorn said:

Through three quarters almost the entirety of Texas run plays were predicated on offensive linemen trying to get to a spot to block someone instead of just blocking what's in front of them. There were a few individual breakdowns here and there, but Texas' plan played to ASU's strengths instead of trying to exploit the physical advantages.

This!

Down blocking run some I and punch those tiny, but extremely athletic ASU pussies in their fucking nose.

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4 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

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. 

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. 

This is a much better said version of my post just above.

I've zero issues with Sarks offensive game plan in broad strokes. He is just really shitty at play calling and adjustments in game. 

I'm also of the opinion that he's "protecting" himself and Quinn with his game plan too much. I think it limits Quinn which is part of the mental issues Quinn has in games. When Quinn is cut loose and allowed to "play the game", he shines and last night was the perfect example of that reality.

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This is a much better said version of my post just above.
I've zero issues with Sarks offensive game plan in broad strokes. He is just really shitty at play calling and adjustments in game. 
I'm also of the opinion that he's "protecting" himself and Quinn with his game plan too much. I think it limits Quinn which is part of the mental issues Quinn has in games. When Quinn is cut loose and allowed to "play the game", he shines and last night was the perfect example of that reality.

I think many of us fans have PTSD so bad from 2010-2021, they are blind to Sark’s major issues and thinks that anyone criticizes him wants him fired. We’re grateful for him and what’s he’s done but hopefully he can keep growing and address his flaws. That’s it. They want to attack anything that goes against their narrative.
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5 hours ago, Stunns38 said:


I think many of us fans have PTSD so bad from 2010-2021, they are blind to Sark’s major issues and thinks that anyone criticizes him wants him fired. We’re grateful for him and what’s he’s done but hopefully he can keep growing and address his flaws. That’s it. They want to attack anything that goes against their narrative.

Yeah, I think that's the nature of the world today and it's evident in several threads. Lots of reasons for it but I think it stems from social media at the core. You're with "us" or against "us" and the political landscape sure has shit has negatively impacted that reality.

It's possible that I support and I'm grateful for Sark while at the same time see issues. Just like I can support and like Ewers as a player and see issues. It's not all binary. It isn't team Love Sark and team Fire Sark. Sark has greatly outperformed all my expectations, EXCEPT, his game day execution. Even there I'm not saying it is ALL shit, we would not have won as many game as we have the past 2 years if it were. Rather, I'm calling out specific issues with his game day execution and the data supports my positions. Doesn't mean I want Sark fired or hate Sark, at all. It means I want Sark to adapt aspects of his coaching, like the best college football coaches in history have, so he becomes one of them. That ultimately results in Texas AND Sark being more successful. That's not anti Sark at all.

The day this board becomes "Never question players or coaches and don't post any negative things or you're anti-Texas" is the day it becomes aggie and I'm fucking out.

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4 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

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.

The red zone struggles were not really an issue in 2021 with Casey and Hudson. Even though we went 5-7, we were #4 in the country at converting RZ drives into TDs at 74.47%.

In 2022 when Quinn and Hudson took over, the RZ TD conversion rate dropped to 62.07% putting us at #65 in the country. This drop from #4 to #65 came even though we were averaging more RZ rushing YPC than in 2021 (and still had Bijan and Rojo in the backfield).

In 2023 the RZ TD conversion rate was worse at 50.82%, #120 in the country. This year in 2024 (prior to yesterday’s game) the RZ TD conversion rate is actually better at 65.63%, #48 in the country (prior to yesterday’s game). 

So why the drop from 2021 onwards? Is it Quinn? Is it Sark? Is it Sark’s play calling for Quinn? Is it changes in the rushing game that negatively impact Sark’s playcalling? Our offense has been pretty consistent at staying around 34-35 ppg throughout the entirety of Sark’s tenure. The defense has shown significant improvement with opponent ppg decreasing yearly from 31.08 (2021), 21.62 (2022), 18.93 (2023), 14.47 (2024).

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I love the he's a shitty play caller posts when he's known in the coaching world as one of the best play callers and play scripters.  So much so that 2 hall of fame coaches hired him to run their offense and call their plays in Pete Carroll and Nick Saban.  Even elite play callers will have shitty series, and shitty games.  Hell, I've seen plenty of games where Sark dials up a brilliant play only for someone to drop a pass, miss a block, or over throw a WR.  I have a lot of gripes about yesterday's game but Sark can fucking call plays as long as he wants because whomever we hire to replace him is very likely to be a fuck ton worse.  We're in the semi's two years in a row, maybe let's keep doing what is working.  Criticizing Sark is fair game but I think jumping to the idea that he should give up play calling is a stretch.  I also can't imagine he's going to do that.  Dude rubs shoulders and meets with Shanahan, McVay, McDaniels, Andy Reed every offseason to discuss schemes/plays in the and he's going to give up control of his offense to some young dude that may or may not know 1/10th of what he does?  

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ASU mostly played eight in the box and one deep. This would have been the one time I believe the quick wide receiver screen should have been called more? But who am but a sun burned lazy beach bum on Galveston Island?

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12 minutes ago, Magabro said:


This feels like empty calories with how the last game went rushing wise

Silly to diminish a year long performance by a player that wasn't even a starter prior to injury based on a single game performance. It's particularly silly when the run blocking wasn't very good and the player in question is an RB.

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3 hours ago, victory88 said:

I love the he's a shitty play caller posts when he's known in the coaching world as one of the best play callers and play scripters.  So much so that 2 hall of fame coaches hired him to run their offense and call their plays in Pete Carroll and Nick Saban.  Even elite play callers will have shitty series, and shitty games.  Hell, I've seen plenty of games where Sark dials up a brilliant play only for someone to drop a pass, miss a block, or over throw a WR.  I have a lot of gripes about yesterday's game but Sark can fucking call plays as long as he wants because whomever we hire to replace him is very likely to be a fuck ton worse.  We're in the semi's two years in a row, maybe let's keep doing what is working.  Criticizing Sark is fair game but I think jumping to the idea that he should give up play calling is a stretch.  I also can't imagine he's going to do that.  Dude rubs shoulders and meets with Shanahan, McVay, McDaniels, Andy Reed every offseason to discuss schemes/plays in the and he's going to give up control of his offense to some young dude that may or may not know 1/10th of what he does?  

If you don't think a bunch of dumb fucks on Surly know more about play calling than Sark then you need to get with the program here.

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3 hours ago, victory88 said:

I love the he's a shitty play caller posts when he's known in the coaching world as one of the best play callers and play scripters.  So much so that 2 hall of fame coaches hired him to run their offense and call their plays in Pete Carroll and Nick Saban.  Even elite play callers will have shitty series, and shitty games.  Hell, I've seen plenty of games where Sark dials up a brilliant play only for someone to drop a pass, miss a block, or over throw a WR.  I have a lot of gripes about yesterday's game but Sark can fucking call plays as long as he wants because whomever we hire to replace him is very likely to be a fuck ton worse.  We're in the semi's two years in a row, maybe let's keep doing what is working.  Criticizing Sark is fair game but I think jumping to the idea that he should give up play calling is a stretch.  I also can't imagine he's going to do that.  Dude rubs shoulders and meets with Shanahan, McVay, McDaniels, Andy Reed every offseason to discuss schemes/plays in the and he's going to give up control of his offense to some young dude that may or may not know 1/10th of what he does?  

So what's your hypothesis for our third quarter woes and what is your opinion on what Sark should do differently to correct them?

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1 hour ago, hookem48 said:

If you don't think a bunch of dumb fucks on Surly know more about play calling than Sark then you need to get with the program here.

Do you believe that Sarks play calling and adjustments have been perfect? Could you help we idiots who know nothing about football understand why our 3rd quarter scoring has been so bad with such great play calling and half time adjustments? I'm an idoit and ask kindly for your help with my regards. I don't want to come off as some 2%er Horn and could really use the knowledge. 

Thank in advance.

 

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10 hours ago, victory88 said:

I love the he's a shitty play caller posts when he's known in the coaching world as one of the best play callers and play scripters.  So much so that 2 hall of fame coaches hired him to run their offense and call their plays in Pete Carroll and Nick Saban.  Even elite play callers will have shitty series, and shitty games.  Hell, I've seen plenty of games where Sark dials up a brilliant play only for someone to drop a pass, miss a block, or over throw a WR.  I have a lot of gripes about yesterday's game but Sark can fucking call plays as long as he wants because whomever we hire to replace him is very likely to be a fuck ton worse.  We're in the semi's two years in a row, maybe let's keep doing what is working.  Criticizing Sark is fair game but I think jumping to the idea that he should give up play calling is a stretch.  I also can't imagine he's going to do that.  Dude rubs shoulders and meets with Shanahan, McVay, McDaniels, Andy Reed every offseason to discuss schemes/plays in the and he's going to give up control of his offense to some young dude that may or may not know 1/10th of what he does?  

I think the one thing Sark doesn’t have this year is a QB or a RB that makes off schedule plays. This is not a knock on Quinn or Wisner or Blue, but an elite offensive playmaker makes his coaches looks good at every level of football. And it’s not because those coaches nail the perfect play call. 
 

TLDR: we just need Bijan or VY or Devonta Smith to sprinkle in some magic every 3rd or 4th series. 

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17 minutes ago, Ricky Butler said:

I think the one thing Sark doesn’t have this year is a QB or a RB that makes off schedule plays. This is not a knock on Quinn or Wisner or Blue, but an elite offensive playmaker makes his coaches looks good at every level of football. And it’s not because those coaches nail the perfect play call. 
 

TLDR: we just need Bijan or VY or Devonta Smith to sprinkle in some magic every 3rd or 4th series. 

While QE isn't a scrambler by any means, I really hope we add that wrinkle in a couple of times vs. OSU.  It was there for the taking vs. ASU and would help keep their ends from crashing on run plays and slow up the LB blitz just a step - which is all Blue needs.

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Typical clickbaity headline, but good summary of Sark's struggles in the ASU game. 

Also agree with Gerry Hamilton who hated the punt block call after ASU went three and out on first drive of game. Defense got a 3 and out, just get the fucking ball back on offense. Instead ASU extends the drive and gets their only points of the 1st half. 

 

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1 minute ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Typical clickbaity headline, but good summary of Sark's struggles in the ASU game. 

Also agree with Gerry Hamilton who hated the punt block call after ASU went three and out on first drive of game. Defense got a 3 and out, just get the fucking ball back on offense. Instead ASU extends the drive and gets their only points of the 1st half. 

 

No one should click on this regardless of the content just because of the stupid fucking title. 

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5 minutes ago, trythisathome said:

No one should click on this regardless of the content just because of the stupid fucking title. 

I already called out the trollish headline. It's a Longhorn media guy who did weekly interviews with Ethan Burke during the season. The content is fair criticism. 

 

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5 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Typical clickbaity headline, but good summary of Sark's struggles in the ASU game. 

Also agree with Gerry Hamilton who hated the punt block call after ASU went three and out on first drive of game. Defense got a 3 and out, just get the fucking ball back on offense. Instead ASU extends the drive and gets their only points of the 1st half. 

 

I randomly landed on this video yesterday. I had never seen this dude before. I liked it. Just simple analysis and not your typical "trying-too-hard YouTube content." Just fun x and o and strategy discussion that you'd have anywhere. I find low key,  conversational content refreshing right now -- opposed to over-the-top, morning radio broadcast voice or hot take YouTube or podcast culture. Probably helped that i agreed with most of his thoughts. 

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22 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

I already called out the trollish headline. It's a Longhorn media guy who did weekly interviews with Ethan Burke during the season. The content is fair criticism. 

 

I think the point is fuck supporting clickbait headline nonsense.   Would never click on something like that no matter how good the "content" is.  Clown shit.

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4 minutes ago, Skipper said:

I think the point is fuck supporting clickbait headline nonsense.   Would never click on something like that no matter how good the "content" is.  Clown shit.

Basically all of YouTube is clickbait headlines. It's annoying, I agree. That's why I mentioned it first, and to watch the content for fair criticism. Guess it didn't work, lol. 

 

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11 minutes ago, Skipper said:

I think the point is fuck supporting clickbait headline nonsense.   Would never click on something like that no matter how good the "content" is.  Clown shit.

I mean it's a somewhat valid question. I guess it comes across as clickbait. But three decisions on special teams literally almost "cost" Texas a game. Along with other aspects.

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50 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Typical clickbaity headline, but good summary of Sark's struggles in the ASU game. 

Also agree with Gerry Hamilton who hated the punt block call after ASU went three and out on first drive of game. Defense got a 3 and out, just get the fucking ball back on offense. Instead ASU extends the drive and gets their only points of the 1st half. 

 

I still can't believe we missed the block. Seemed like we got there so quick we could have grabbed the ball before the punter actually kicked it. 🤦‍♂️ 

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1 minute ago, UTHornFan014 said:

I still can't believe we missed the block. Seemed like we got there so quick we could have grabbed the ball before the punter actually kicked it. 🤦‍♂️ 

Agreed.  I don't disagree with the decision to go for the block.  They clearly saw something on tape to exploit. It was a player execution issue, not a coaching decision issue.  It should have been a TD.  My fixable special teams concerns are not being prepared for fakes no matter the field position.  We've been caught in back to back games. 

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50 minutes ago, UTHornFan014 said:

I still can't believe we missed the block. Seemed like we got there so quick we could have grabbed the ball before the punter actually kicked it. 🤦‍♂️ 

It's like the ball became a hologram.

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2 minutes ago, Ricky Butler said:

Banks schemed a block. It was there. We were there. Plays like that change the outcomes of games. Gerry is being a pussy. 

Situationally, there's just no need to scheme a punt block after the first drive of the game. Particularly as the heavily favored team. We got the desired 3 and out, let's receive the ball and get the offense going. The downside ended up extending the drive, and set an early precedent for the TOP differential. 

The reward wasn't worth the risk that early in the game IMO. Save that shit for a more crucial part of a game. 

 

 

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Just now, Hank Kingsley said:

Situationally, there's just no need to scheme a punt block after the first drive of the game. Particularly as the heavily favored team. We got the desired 3 and out, let's receive the ball and get the offense going. The downside ended up extending the drive, and set an early precedent for the TOP differential. 

The reward wasn't worth the risk that early in the game IMO. Save that shit for a more crucial part of a game. 

 

 

We were playing to win. 

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16 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Situationally, there's just no need to scheme a punt block after the first drive of the game. Particularly as the heavily favored team. We got the desired 3 and out, let's receive the ball and get the offense going.

The downside ended up extending the drive, and set an early precedent for the TOP differential. 

The reward wasn't worth the risk that early in the game IMO. Save that shit for a more crucial part of a game. 

It was the riskiest possible punt block, dead on from 12 o'clock.  Maybe coach the dude better to accept failure as opposed to running into the punter.

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On 1/2/2025 at 12:52 PM, Jkwellborn said:

So all this offense needs to really go is a first round talent at running back?

A 230lb punishing RB would make this team... awesome because we have a 230lb RB.

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10 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Also agree with Gerry Hamilton who hated the punt block call ...

Isn't the rule protecting punters inapplicable if he takes off and runs before kicking? Useta be, but I've not kept up with it. Is it a tackle box thing? I thought the guy did take a few steps first... it was amazing that the blocker managed to miss the ball? Hell, I thought he caught it with his belly.

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31 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

Isn't the rule protecting punters inapplicable if he takes off and runs before kicking? Useta be, but I've not kept up with it. Is it a tackle box thing? I thought the guy did take a few steps first... it was amazing that the blocker managed to miss the ball? Hell, I thought he caught it with his belly.

There was definitely some commentary I saw to the effect that it shouldn't have even been a penalty but those refs were so incompetent no way they were getting that one right.  Agreed I still have no idea how he didn't block it.  It was probably the biggest sure thing whiff I can recall.

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On 1/2/2025 at 9:08 AM, 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. "Hey coach, Quinn's 2-for-100 on deep posts for his career, maybe think twice about that one" with < 6 mins left and leading, for example

On 1/2/2025 at 3:06 PM, Magabro said:


This feels like empty calories with how the last game went rushing wise

That and, I mean, it was game 15.

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