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6 hours ago, txexlonghorn23 said:

If we fired Sark, who would we even legitimately go after?

 and if he gave up play calling to be more of a just a CEO HC, who would we go after for OC?

Gotta ask us in 2028.  I think that’ll be his last year here.  
 

 

Also, sark was at his best at bama and I’m not sure he picked the players there but he probably coached 11 first round guys there.  
 

compare his Atlanta offense to Kyles.  He took over for him

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7 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Word on the street is that Sarks pet turtle walker has a regents board members cocaine that she gave to Sark last christmas and since then he on did it with money moore and ryan wingumb, but not sure it really does cookin hold up? Who will watch with eyes?

Could someone translate this to English?

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On 10/12/2025 at 11:39 AM, Skipper said:

Fuck all the haters.  Sark took us out of a decade + of absolute shit football.  Some people are incapable of appreciating the good times. 

Gotta confess at this point I'm pretty shook.

I think expecting him to play call or game plan out of the shit show that is our OL and Arch is way too much.

Then again, Arch and the OL is Sark's fault.

I remain hopeful that Sark fucked up by expecting Flood to do his job like he just let PK PK and he's learning.  But this is supposed to be his forte, so I really expect him to see that his OL is shit and was always going to be shit and compared to the alleged talent level, has always been relatively shit.

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I barely even watched last night's game.  My gut told me that after the RRS we'd regress right back to where we were before that game and my gut was dead on.  That OLine and Arch are too painful to watch for me.  It's embarrassing how bad they are.  It really is.  I don't know how Sark keeps a straight face saying things like he says after games.

Knowing what he has been given it is quite anger inducing to witness.

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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

Gotta confess at this point I'm pretty shook.

I think expecting him to play call or game plan out of the shit show that is our OL and Arch is way too much.

Then again, Arch and the OL is Sark's fault.

I remain hopeful that Sark fucked up by expecting Flood to do his job like he just let PK PK and he's learning.  But this is supposed to be his forte, so I really expect him to see that his OL is shit and was always going to be shit and compared to the alleged talent level, has always been relatively shit.

Skipper calls this offense the good times LOL.  I bet he was thrashing all the haters during the Charlie era too.

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The post game presser tells all.
Complete lack of introspection, burying his head in the sand, saying “it’s the little things”, saying it was a culture win, etc.
There’s an air of him acting like this is the way he wants it to be, it just needs a few tweaks.

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18 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

I heard a little of the post game press conference last night. Sark actually broke out the “half the teams in the SEC lost tonight” trope. 

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19 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

I heard a little of the post game press conference last night. Sark actually broke out the “half the teams in the SEC lost tonight” trope. 

Steve Slocum

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18 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

I heard a little of the post game press conference last night. Sark actually broke out the “half the teams in the SEC lost tonight” trope. 

That’s a troubling sign. After the week before last when he was like no one can win in the swamp bullshit. The team shouldn’t suck like this and it’s all underneath him. He’s the MAN and he can cannot effectively be a HC. He cannot CEO this shit half ass and also call plays that for the most part suck. They aren’t even dependent most of the time on what the defense is giving him. Last week was peak sark. 
Dude is not dialed in. At Florida his body language sucked and same for last night. Does he not want to be here? What the fuck is going on? If we lose next week what will the excuse be? Other teams had a bye week and we didn’t? 
 

You cannot tell me there aren’t people that don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes. They just ain’t saying it. I have never seen a coach look this lifeless and reactionless and shuffling like Linus Brown down the sideline. His body language the cameras kept capturing. He looked like he did not want to be there. The team sees that shit. I just wish those in the know would say what is going on. 
 

what is he doing well? The offseason? No. Evaluating players? No. Most of our good RBs like That Guy said are happy accidents. His skill guys aren’t panning out the same way as the ones who he didn’t pick. Is he calling plays well? Depends. Arch seems to have regressed 100% from last year and that’s a factor but he still isn’t taking what a defense gives him outside of OU. Our OLine is awful. What is Sark doing well? He sucks at pressers. What the fuck is going on with him? 

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4 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

What do y'all think CDC was telling him here? It looks like the most uncomfortable bear hug.

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"Whaddaya say to the idea of us sneaking outta here with a couple of hookers and a bag of blow?"

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I have been on the bring in an OC train for a while but at this point it won't matter.

Sark is detached and as one poster said lifeless.  You can see it during the game and how lost he was before OT. He didn't talk to the team or anyone to get them up.  I just don't think he wants to be here and is going through the motions and the team feels it.  
 

I also don't seeing him pulling an Urban and quitting. 


 

 

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1 minute ago, Hornsome said:

I have been on the bring in an OC train for a while but at this point it won't matter.

Sark is detached and as one poster said lifeless.  You can see it during the game and how lost he was before OT. He didn't talk to the team or anyone to get them up.  I just don't think he wants to be here and is going through the motions and the team feels it.  
 

I also don't seeing him pulling an Urban and quitting. 


 

 

Seeing his demeanor on the sidelines this season makes the jump to NFL rumors seem way more plausible. I can totally see him growing tired of the year round recruiting trail commitments and seeking the greener grass in the League.

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44 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

What do y'all think CDC was telling him here? It looks like the most uncomfortable bear hug.

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I don’t know. But Sark had the same body language at Florida. None of us seem to know what’s going on with him. If the insiders know they ain’t saying. He looks lifeless and overwhelmed like he is being forced to coach football against his will. I don’t also care for his wife being on the sidelines. I said it. We don’t pay her to coach. Why is she there?
 

He won’t give up being an OC. He won’t make any changes. He will pull out the game plan for last year and dust it off. He shows zero emotion when our defense saved his and Arch’s and the offense’s ass last night. None. The defense was on the field for 40 fucking minutes man. That’s not even a side of the ball he’s involved in. And when they are on the field he’s barely engaged. What the fuck is happening with this mother fucker? And his wife can sit in the stands like all the other wives ok. We ain’t paying her. To coach. 

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4 minutes ago, USNALonghorn said:

Seeing his demeanor on the sidelines this season makes the jump to NFL rumors seem way more plausible. I can totally see him growing tired of the year round recruiting trail commitments and seeking the greener grass in the League.

I can see Sark praying that Mike McDaniel gets fired in Miami and takes over as HC with his old QBs Tua and Quinn on the roster. It’s a perfect scenario for Sark and would explain why he’s already checked out of coaching the team. That and all the non-football shit swirling around him here in Austin. 

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13 minutes ago, Hornsome said:

I have been on the bring in an OC train for a while but at this point it won't matter.

Sark is detached and as one poster said lifeless.  You can see it during the game and how lost he was before OT. He didn't talk to the team or anyone to get them up.  I just don't think he wants to be here and is going through the motions and the team feels it.  
 

I also don't seeing him pulling an Urban and quitting. 


 

 

I asked this a few weeks ago but when, if ever, has he pulled the team together and got into their ass about how they were playing mid game?

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55 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

What do y'all think CDC was telling him here? It looks like the most uncomfortable bear hug.

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Rather LBJ-ish.

I do think CDC is going to have some form of come to Jesus with him, about an OC, some new assistants, something.

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6 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Hell CDC hates his wife. 

Where is all this Loreal rumor-mongering coming from?

The non-rumor facts are probably bad enough in that they announced a divorce and then reconciled over a baby.  That just doesn't sound to me like any kind of good personal/private life.

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6 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Maybe we can use what’s been going on to for cause him. Hell CDC hates his wife. 

I don’t know her in person and never will, but I’m starting to hate her for being massive distraction and Sark (guy who gets paid multiple millions) for failing to manage that distraction.

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13 minutes ago, MrBig said:

I can see Sark praying that Mike McDaniel gets fired in Miami and takes over as HC with his old QBs Tua and Quinn on the roster. It’s a perfect scenario for Sark and would explain why he’s already checked out of coaching the team. That and all the non-football shit swirling around him here in Austin. 

I’m not in Texas and don’t follow any talking heads or gossip queens about this program. 

The bolded, underlined text - I’ve seen this posted in varying ominous versions for a few weeks now. What are the non-football issues? 

I do agree he looks absolutely checked out during games. But my theory is he is overwhelmed and embarrassed of how putrid his offense is and struggling with the lack of talent he had pegged as being capable (Arch, Wingo, OL, TEs). 

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2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Where is all this Loreal rumor-mongering coming from?

The non-rumor facts are probably bad enough in that they announced a divorce and then reconciled over a baby.  That just doesn't sound to me like any kind of good personal/private life.

I heard she had an affair with one of the players. No idea if it's true or not. 

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You never saw Nick Saban’s wife on the sidelines twirling her latest monarch Caftan showing off. Never. Ask any North Carolina fan (whether you think the fans deserve to believe they should at least win half their games or not) how they feel about that influencer troll girlfriend of Belichick’s on the sidelines showing off as though she has a right to be there. 
 

part of me honestly thinks because Sark did such a poor job as OC following Kyle at the Falcons that he feels he can do a better job in the pros than Shanahan. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind a trade right now. Swap Shanahan for Sark. Shanahan been working with Purdy and Mac Jones and somehow making that shit work with playcalling. I do not want to see L’Oreal’s butt on the sideline. 
 

Since sark shows zero presence when the defense saves his ass time and again if he’s going to look like a hologram at least go sit on the bench with Arch and Caldwell and coach them up. Ya know? Sit down with them and start showing them things. PK running the defense for 40 mins while sark looked completely detached was something to see last night. Not engaged at all. What the fuck? 

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3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Gotta confess at this point I'm pretty shook.

I think expecting him to play call or game plan out of the shit show that is our OL and Arch is way too much.

Then again, Arch and the OL is Sark's fault.

I remain hopeful that Sark fucked up by expecting Flood to do his job like he just let PK PK and he's learning.  But this is supposed to be his forte, so I really expect him to see that his OL is shit and was always going to be shit and compared to the alleged talent level, has always been relatively shit.

Flood can go be a "Co-OC" somewhere else...we need an OL coach.

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12 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Where is all this Loreal rumor-mongering coming from?

The non-rumor facts are probably bad enough in that they announced a divorce and then reconciled over a baby.  That just doesn't sound to me like any kind of good personal/private life.

Because people who are in those circles don't fucking like her. It's a real thing. 

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6 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

You never saw Nick Saban’s wife on the sidelines twirling her latest monarch Caftan showing off. Never. Ask any North Carolina fan (whether you think the fans deserve to believe they should at least win half their games or not) how they feel about that influencer troll girlfriend of Belichick’s on the sidelines showing off as though she has a right to be there. 
 

part of me honestly thinks because Sark did such a poor job as OC following Kyle at the Falcons that he feels he can do a better job in the pros than Shanahan. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind a trade right now. Swap Shanahan for Sark. Shanahan been working with Purdy and Mac Jones and somehow making that shit work with playcalling. I do not want to see L’Oreal’s butt on the sideline. 
 

Since sark shows zero presence when the defense saves his ass time and again if he’s going to look like a hologram at least go sit on the bench with Arch and Caldwell and coach them up. Ya know? Sit down with them and start showing them things. PK running the defense for 40 mins while sark looked completely detached was something to see last night. Not engaged at all. What the fuck? 

We should temper all of this discussion perhaps with an acknowledgement that head football coaches probably do not have conventionally healthy marriages or probably any other kind of personal relationship.  It's just the nature of the beast.

And, they can afford nannies and all kinds of shit that might keep a wife happy or distracted enough to put up with an absentee husband.

That said, at some level, a dysfunctional marriage has to fuck up the coaching part.

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I have a hard time believing Sark could get a HC job in the NFL. His body of work as an OC in Atlanta was not good. Now the wheels are coming off of his program at a spot where he has every imaginable advantage. His body language is very strange right now. Im afraid things are about to spill over for him. 

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28 minutes ago, MrBig said:

I can see Sark praying that Mike McDaniel gets fired in Miami and takes over as HC with his old QBs Tua and Quinn on the roster. It’s a perfect scenario for Sark and would explain why he’s already checked out of coaching the team. That and all the non-football shit swirling around him here in Austin. 

I'm sure Miami is salivating at hiring Sark after watching last night's 179 yard, 8 first down masterpiece.

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Posted (edited)

Cross posting this from the Kentuck game thread because this is where it really belongs.

First, we had a lot of younger starters coming into this year. However, despite that fact Sark decided to run "NFL style" spring and summer drills which are essentially non-contact. The thought behind this is that it reduced chances for injury. It can work in the NFL because there is almost no season where a team places 3-5 starters on the OL. It doesn't work in college because OL is among the latest developing positions in college football. It also has some of the largest misses because the physical changes between 18-22 of men that large can great decrease or enhance their ability to execute the game plan. Second, because you don't get to see them in full speed contact drills it becomes nearly impossible to make the proper evaluations of growth and development among those type of players. As an important side note, the exact same is true of the QB position regarding growth and evaluation in college. If a QB isn't seeing real world speeds and pressures you can't evaluate his real world growth and ability.

That huge piece said, there is also a critical aspect of aligning your game plan to the skillset and abilities of your players. Because you can have wholesale changes at QB and skill positions in a single year and need to replace 3-5 starters on OL, what worked with one group of OL, one group of skill players and one QB may not work well or at all with an entirely different set of each. Texas faced all these save RB who we returned. If you haven't seen them in full speed practices in summer and fall camps it's absolutely impossible to make these adjustments because you can't evaluate the skills and abilities of the players. 

So, you have to wait for actual games to see both these faults, weaknesses and strengths. Ohio State made them all very clear. However, despite that reality and given we then faced 3 teams we absolutely outmatched those adjustments were not nessecary in order to win convincingly. So, basically no changes were made to blocking scheme, passing or running game. 

Which leads us to Florida. Sark is a very easy read for a competent DC and HC. His habits and play calls are extremely predictable. While Florida is a struggling team they do have talent physically on the defense. So, a coach who is about to get fired schemed against a predictable offensive game plan that our players couldn't execute very well. The result were exactly what you saw. 

WHICH lead Sark to alter blocking schemes, QB play, RB play for OU. He simplified blocking from complex strategies and long developing WR routes to shorter routes, very non-complex down blocking schemes, shorter much quicker WR routes, alternative running lanes that were quick hitting and didn't make his young QB turn his back to the field. 

It worked really well against a very good OU defense and Texas was greatly helped by an OU offense that could not do jack shit. So, in addition to a less complex scheme that our underdeveloped OL and young QB could better execute, fatigue on OU defense also helped. 

Then came Kentucky where Sark went back to the complex blocking, longer WR routes, same predictable RB runs that also develop slowly and a coach who's not a complete idiot prepared for just that. Sark did it because just like the 3 crappy teams we played and incorrectly Florida he thought the talent would over come poor execute by the Texas players against a far less talented team physically in Kentucky. 

It didn't. Sark will do the same against the next mid-tier opponent and then just shit the bed against quality ones. 

It's what he does and it won't change. 

Why did go away from what worked for OU? Cause he's a offensive genius of course. Ego comes before the fall.

Why do we look so bad?

Bad talent evaluation in recruiting, inability to evaluate the talent in spring and practice given NFL style approach, complex blocking schemes and long developing WR routes without the talent and abilities to execute them.

Edit- 2 important additional aspects. Sark does not create offensive game plans to align with the skillet of the player he has at his disposal. This is complicated by a clear inability to evaluate talent (partially due to the NFL practice) and just bad evaluation of talent. Second, Sark does NOT adjust to the defensive scheme of opponents. He doesn't take what the defense gives us, rather he tries to impose his will against defensive schemes, whether it is working or not. 

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36 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

I don’t also care for his wife being on the sidelines. I said it. We don’t pay her to coach. Why is she there?

I thought he was getting divorced from L’Oréal? We need a separate thread to keep up with the gossip about the Texas athletics program. 

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4 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

I thought he was getting divorced from L’Oréal? We need a separate thread to keep up with the gossip about the Texas athletics program. 

Publicly announcing a divorce, changing your mind, and then announcing the birth of a baby not many people knew about 9 months later opens you up to tons of scrutiny even if you are just a regular Joe Schmo. But being the head coach of the University of Texas and pulling shit like this is on another level. 

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27 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

We should temper all of this discussion perhaps with an acknowledgement that head football coaches probably do not have conventionally healthy marriages or probably any other kind of personal relationship.  It's just the nature of the beast.

And, they can afford nannies and all kinds of shit that might keep a wife happy or distracted enough to put up with an absentee husband.

That said, at some level, a dysfunctional marriage has to fuck up the coaching part.

College football is a business and Sark is paid millions to run ours. In the business world if an executive was doing a really shitty job, nobody is giving them the excuse of oh, marriage issues. It's fucking expected, man up and do your job.

...but you want to play Candyland, pretend Sark isn't failing as a millionaire executive of a business. Fine, let's play Candyland for a minute and throw Steve a pity party?

The very first thing I would ask a friend or family member making millions as a corporate executive that was having issues with work life balance due to familial issues would be, are there responsibilities at work you aren't properly delegating? Are there any opportunities to offload some of them to capable work associates or any of your direct reports? Maybe some areas that needs more attention than my friend/family members is able to provide given all their other duties and their home life issues. 

Guess what.... Steve has Just fucking that area. It's called the offense and he could hand off those responsibilities to competent direct reports, focus on being just an HC and giving the extra time back to himself to focus on his family matters. 

But.... he fucking isn't.

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