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1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Do y’all think he’s a Tito’s guy now or still Grey Goose?

With that hair cut? Wine coolers is my bet. Zima probably. He probably misses Bartles & James everyday. 

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Just now, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Aint nooone forcing me on no instagram

 

That is my point.  The description and screen shots of it showed up here.  You never had to even sniff IG and you're, nonetheless, now fully aware of what she was putting down.  

You never had a choice because you read this thread. 

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1 minute ago, Cajun said:

That is my point.  The description and screen shots of it showed up here.  You never had to even sniff IG and you're, nonetheless, now fully aware of what she was putting down.  

You never had a choice because you read this thread. 

I think we'll be OK.

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6 minutes ago, Cajun said:

 

That is my point.  The description and screen shots of it showed up here.  You never had to even sniff IG and you're, nonetheless, now fully aware of what she was putting down.  

You never had a choice because you read this thread. 

What was actually posted?

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56 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

Don’t disagree, he went from having an edge to looking like he had been to a busted hypnotist. It wouldn’t bother me at all to see passion on the sideline.
 

He looks detached for the most part but it’s bc he decided to also be the OC and he’s not really watching the defense in the field. He’s thinking of plays in his head.

 

And realizing nothing will work bc our O line is busted that he was responsible for addressing in the offseason. That’s what that far away I just seen a ghost look is about. 

I think he was actually focused on how to blame this on the players rather than holding himself or any of his staff accountable. Add to it, this focus on figuring out his top blame game strategy prevented him from checking out the most recent Murder With My Husband podcast. Also it was difficult crouching yesterday and who the hell can focus when you're forced to stand while not being able to watch your favorite YouTube podcast on your IPad. 

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7 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

I get your overall point but several of those players are terrible examples

I used ant hill as an example because I remember specifically one of the recruiting insider guys on here talking about how he had no clue how to play the LB position. Sanders was a DE who was soft as charmin and had to switch to TE because he was too athletic to keep off the field. You think worthy and Mitchell were wr’s when they showed up at Texas? I’m fully aware development happens in college but you shouldn’t have to teach these mother fuckers how to crawl or walk, they should have some refined positional skills when they show up at a place like Texas rated as a 5 star. In your defense there are probably much better examples but those guys pop out at me in the last 3 years. 

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so if his wheels are truly off can he be fired for cause?  is that in his contract?  I know that’s been addressed here somewhere but I’m not reading 50 pages searching for it.

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5 minutes ago, futureman said:

so if his wheels are truly off can he be fired for cause?  is that in his contract?  I know that’s been addressed here somewhere but I’m not reading 50 pages searching for it.

I think you force him to take a nfl job and call it an even split. Firing him for getting sloppy drunk again would be massively embarrassing for Texas. 

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58 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:

I think you force him to take a nfl job and call it an even split. Firing him for getting sloppy drunk again would be massively embarrassing for Texas. 

given his history, I guess I always assumed that to hire someone like sark you would need to hedge for the fact that he's an alcoholic before you guaranteed him whatever 60, 70, 80 million dollars that we gave him.  I haven't seen his contract so I don't know what it says.  and I don't know that he's drinking, but this has been one hell of a weird year and his demeanor is off.  let's just say I'm somewhat familiar with alcoholism and the thought of guaranteeing that amount of money to a guy with a history of termination for getting bombed on the job (and then suing the school that fired him) seems like ignorance from the BOR, if not incompetence.  or maybe there are clauses in place.  but I don't write the contracts or do the hiring, I'm just spitballing here.

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Something is just waaaayyyyy off with Sark.   I just have to go back to his comments at halftime when he said our run game was doing well.  I could understand him saying something maybe not completely in line with what was seen with the defense and being wrong.  But he’s calling the offense so he should absolutely know if something is not working.    

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7 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:

Something is just waaaayyyyy off with Sark.   I just have to go back to his comments at halftime when he said our run game was doing well.  I could understand him saying something maybe not completely in line with what was seen with the defense and being wrong.  But he’s calling the offense so he should absolutely know if something is not working.    

He also said they practiced and we're ready for the onside.  Watch the tape.  None of those on the front line had any idea it was coming or what to do.

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11 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

He also said they practiced and we're ready for the onside.  Watch the tape.  None of those on the front line had any idea it was coming or what to do.

It is conceivable that they practiced it, but didn't bother to remind the players to look out for it.

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5 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Love Taaffe and his story but his comments are a reflection of sark. He’s essentially sarks echo chamber. If this is the attitude of the players and thought process then we’re beyond fucked. 
 

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The only way he beats Georgia is on playstation, ala Matt Leinart shilling for gamba

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10 hours ago, Cajun said:

It wasn't a choice for you, me,  and a lot of other people who read this thread.  Reading this thread was the choice.  This stuff gets reposted all over the place.  One doesn't have to be a L'Oreal IG follower or lurker to come across it.

So, the answer is no, it's not a choice for most here.

I didn’t bother to click it, did you? I made the choice not to. 

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30 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

He also said they practiced and we're ready for the onside.  Watch the tape.  None of those on the front line had any idea it was coming or what to do.

Yep.    Maybe one of the $9.95 er’s will finally sack up and ask why this team was so ill prepared after a week off in today’s press conference? 

This should be asked along with a further explanation about what he saw was fantastic about our running game at halftime.  Might want to also ask why they didn’t prepare for the stacked deck officiating we knew would be in front of us too.  

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Posted
8 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Gerry Hamilton 

Posted 7 minutes ago

Most important coaching week for Sark since November of 2021

After an awful fourth quarter and yet another loss to Georgia, Steve Sarkisian now faces his toughest coaching task since November of 2021. Not just his toughest, but easily most important. 

While that may seem extreme because it was year one, this is a true "culture" test and will be very telling about the future of the program under Sarkisian. Texas lost 30-7 in Ames to Iowa State November 6, and followed up by surrendering 57 points at home to Kansas. There were three other losses wrapped around those two games, but it was Iowa State and Kansas that showed a truly broken culture in the Texas program that Sarkisian and staff had to get out of the locker room. 

Since that time, the only talk about the "culture" at Texas has been positive through the program build. You guys know I think "culture" is a bit of a catchphrase that is coach speak for the most part.

But real talk about a program's "culture" is front and center this week. Because it's about to be tested in a way it hasn't in a while. 

Texas is atop the underachievers list of teams this season. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the No. 1 pre-season ranking, this team is much more talented than the performances on the field this season. It's been an undisciplined, inconsistent, at times the look of disinterested leading down the path of how much do you truly care in aftermath of the Florida game. 

I believe this week and Saturday is going to define Sarkisian's tenure moving forward. Texas simply can't lose to a bad Arkansas team. But just as important, the Texas team has to have the appearance that they are pissed off, truly care and are taking the field Saturday to prove a point. Beat Arkansas by a couple of scores, and then beat Texas A&M in Austin six days later. There simply is no other option if Sarkisian want's to keep any of the positive momentum that was built with the program the two seasons prior. 

As bad as the Georgia game was in the way the loss happened, a loss to Arkansas would be disastrous, period. It would send very difficult questions rippling through the university, fan base, nationally, the NIL agent world and more. 

And I will depart with this ... a loss to this Arkansas team should be looked at as unacceptable. Absolutely unacceptable. 

Coach speak is over. Nobody wants to hear it. This week is 100% about accountability, and then performance on Saturday. 

 

 

This is spot on..    100% spot on.   

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27 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Love Taaffe and his story but his comments are a reflection of sark. He’s essentially sarks echo chamber. If this is the attitude of the players and thought process then we’re beyond fucked. 
 

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Nah, Georgia just looked like the much better team. They’re a clear example of what elite talent along with elite coaching looks like when paired together. 

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9 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

 Might want to also ask why they didn’t prepare for the stacked deck officiating we knew would be in front of us too.  

Not to be argumentative, but how does a coaching staff or player prepare for "stacked deck officiating"?

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3 hours ago, Sheep Have Wool said:

If you are of the opinion that Indiana wouldn't beat us and isn't substantially better at fundamental football, I suspect you haven't watched them much this year. And how is Indiana treating those tier two teams? They won their WTF game. We've lost ours and gone into overtime twice and into a nail biter against rosters that are vastly inferior to ours. 

I was completely unaware they handed out a ten win trophy. Why is this a down year? We're reloading after a run? How's that working out for Ohio State?

Who indeed?

Man, I like your film breakdowns, but...

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Yes, they were supposed to be here. We recruited them. We've paid them a fuck load of money. We've intentionally recruited JAG OL because they're large humans or something. Our ability to identify talent is a B-, on a good day. If only we could identify the folks responsible for making these evaluations!

And your opinion is that players are being negatively recruited because we were historically bad at developing offensive talent? That's the reason we're not getting good players? Charlie Strong hasn't coached here since 2016, and Tom Herman beat Georgia.

To the extent that negative recruiting is causing problems for us getting truly elite players, I suspect that pointing at two highly ranked QBs and a bevy of receivers that haven't really developed might be more of a factor than shit that happened with different coaches while current players were in elementary or middle school.

And our best players are currently on the bench? This honestly wouldn't shock me. We just now figured out our best starting OL. Tragically, we're the only team in the NCAA that wasn't allowed to practice or even look at players until the first game of the season.

You'll have to remind me again who is responsible for evaluations, development, and the two deep.

Well, if my options are "play action that no one respects because we gave up on the run game in the first quarter" and "just fucking drop back", sign me up for option B. Arch - much like every other college player - is unsurprisingly doing much better when he's asked to do things he can do. Hear me out: what if we did that for the whole offense?

This season has revealed that this off season was an unmitigated disaster, and we weren't doing super great with evals before then. We hired Duane Akina. Our coach schemed up an offense for a team he doesn't have. I'm pretty sure that team hasn't existed since NIL introduced significantly more parity.

As far as I can see, Sark is of the opinion that other teams aren't allowed to have good players or watch our film, all of his college players are superheroes, and having a mid TE pick up a crashing end on the other side of the line while we're doing... something? is a plan for football success. After all, on paper, it's genius.

Are our players also shooting us in the dick? Totally. No one can blame Simmons getting offsides on (definitely bad) officiating. First half Ryan Wingo can fuck right off. But I also need a coach that is putting the players he is responsible for recruiting in positions to succeed. I don't need him squatting, looking at a play sheet for a team he doesn't have, instead of reminding them that yeah, that Kirby Smart dickhead might try something on this kickoff, so maybe keep your head on a swivel.

I hope Sark can sort his shit out, but let's not make excuses because winning is hard.

 That's a lot of words. Even for me. Let me see what I can do. 

 

Look dude Indiana didn't do anything special. They went and got a solid QB out of the transfer portal. Again. Three of their top 4 receivers are from the portal. Their two top RBs are also from the portal. Even then, last year they had a favorable schedule(like aggy) and got throttled by Ohio State 38-15 when they finally faced them. Then they lost their first game in the playoffs. That's a feel good story, FOR THEM. You can stay at Indiana for decades by repeating that process. Meanwhile here you guys wanna jettison Sark to the moon for being 7-3 against a schedule that included the number 1 and 5 teams, and two top 10 wins vs Oklahoma and Vandy. AFTER two straight playoff appearances. 

You guys expect us to just reload like Ohio State and Georgia, but don't see that we don't get the talent they do. WE think our shit doesn't stink, but the top kids see us as a tier below them. And why wouldn't they? In their lifetime Texas hasn't been good. So we get project 5 stars, instead of the ready to go kids. Cam Williams was a project, and spent his time here busting protections with regularity. DJ Campbell still isn't polished. Wingo can't catch, isn't physical, and doesn't run crisp routes. But man can he run past defenders on lesser teams on screen passes. Let's not leave out our QB. Now thinking back to when I heard the Manning really wanted him to sit and learn, I realize they knew what we now know, which is the kid was behind developmentally. 

Texas, Ohio State, and Georgia all replaced their QBs this season. We are the only ones struggling, and it's not just "the line". We have the worst QB of the three currently. We have the worst receiver corps of the three. We have the worst O-line of the three. We have the worst RBs of the three. We have the worst TEs of the three. I mean, we had 2 receivers go first round in the last few years. Ohio State has had 4. We got 2 4th round TEs. Ohio State had a 4th and 3rd. We got a 1st, 2nd, and 4th and 5th rnd back out the last few years. Ohio State has had 2 2nd rounders, so we got them there. But then we've gotten a 1st rounder, a 5th rounder, and two 6th round O-line drafted. In that same time frame Ohio State has had 3 1st round, a 3rd, 3th, 6th, and 7th. 

When we won the National Championship, USC was the talk of the town. However, if you look back we were the better team across the board from top to bottom. When Bama was winning they were better top to bottom. Same with Georgia. Same with Ohio State last year. If we wanna get to winning titles we need to find a way to start getting better players. 

Here are all your words back at you. 

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1 minute ago, DFW Horn said:

Not to be argumentative, but how does a coaching staff or player prepare for "stacked deck officiating"?

It could be more of a way to get the discussion going further about how in the last two games, the SEC Refs have tried to put their thumbs on the flow of the game.   Again this isn’t so much about in the UGA about the penalties we committed although a couple of them were ticky tacky BS when compared to the on film documented calls that even Herbie and Chris thought were missed  and were not called on UGA.  

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8 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

 You guys expect us to just reload like Ohio State and Georgia, but don't see that we don't get the talent they do. WE think our shit doesn't stink, but the top kids see us as a tier below them. And why wouldn't they?

I hope Coach Sarkisian can identify the responsible party and correct that. Lord knows he has all the resources necessary to get anyone and anything he wants. 

And I agree that players can’t see us as on the level with Georgia and Ohio State. We’re 0-5 against those teams in just two seasons and haven’t been prepared to play a single one of those 5 games. Hope Sarkisian can find the responsible party and fix that. He should be beyond pissed off at the job they’re doing. 

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10 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

It could be more of a way to get the discussion going further about how in the last two games, the SEC Refs have tried to put their thumbs on the flow of the game.   Again this isn’t so much about in the UGA about the penalties we committed although a couple of them were ticky tacky BS when compared to the on film documented calls that even Herbie and Chris thought were missed  and were not called on UGA.  

When the game was tight they absolutely put their weight into the game. A few hold and no hold calls the no call on the DPI. It only took a span of 5 mins of game time influence but it happened. 

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20 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

 That's a lot of words. Even for me. Let me see what I can do. 

 

Look dude Indiana didn't do anything special. They went and got a solid QB out of the transfer portal. Again. Three of their top 4 receivers are from the portal. Their two top RBs are also from the portal. Even then, last year they had a favorable schedule(like aggy) and got throttled by Ohio State 38-15 when they finally faced them. Then they lost their first game in the playoffs. That's a feel good story, FOR THEM. You can stay at Indiana for decades by repeating that process. Meanwhile here you guys wanna jettison Sark to the moon for being 7-3 against a schedule that included the number 1 and 5 teams, and two top 10 wins vs Oklahoma and Vandy. AFTER two straight playoff appearances. 

You guys expect us to just reload like Ohio State and Georgia, but don't see that we don't get the talent they do. WE think our shit doesn't stink, but the top kids see us as a tier below them. And why wouldn't they? In their lifetime Texas hasn't been good. So we get project 5 stars, instead of the ready to go kids. Cam Williams was a project, and spent his time here busting protections with regularity. DJ Campbell still isn't polished. Wingo can't catch, isn't physical, and doesn't run crisp routes. But man can he run past defenders on lesser teams on screen passes. Let's not leave out our QB. Now thinking back to when I heard the Manning really wanted him to sit and learn, I realize they knew what we now know, which is the kid was behind developmentally. 

Texas, Ohio State, and Georgia all replaced their QBs this season. We are the only ones struggling, and it's not just "the line". We have the worst QB of the three currently. We have the worst receiver corps of the three. We have the worst O-line of the three. We have the worst RBs of the three. We have the worst TEs of the three. I mean, we had 2 receivers go first round in the last few years. Ohio State has had 4. We got 2 4th round TEs. Ohio State had a 4th and 3rd. We got a 1st, 2nd, and 4th and 5th rnd back out the last few years. Ohio State has had 2 2nd rounders, so we got them there. But then we've gotten a 1st rounder, a 5th rounder, and two 6th round O-line drafted. In that same time frame Ohio State has had 3 1st round, a 3rd, 3th, 6th, and 7th. 

When we won the National Championship, USC was the talk of the town. However, if you look back we were the better team across the board from top to bottom. When Bama was winning they were better top to bottom. Same with Georgia. Same with Ohio State last year. If we wanna get to winning titles we need to find a way to start getting better players. 

Here are all your words back at you. 

If you can only win with the most talented roster are you really a great coach? "Project 5 Star" is a weird narrative. To become a 5 star means you display attributes that show you are above the high school level and could compete in college day 1. Perhaps recruiting services are giving out 5 stars easier now, but the point still stands. 

 

Sark has also displayed he doesn't evaluate talent very good. Beginning with starting Baxter over Brooks. Some of his evals seem FUMP-like in the instance of "are you just offering stars by their name or are you actually evaluating the player?" 

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9 minutes ago, scramblyn said:

When the game was tight they absolutely put their weight into the game. A few hold and no hold calls the no call on the DPI. It only took a span of 5 mins of game time influence but it happened. 

True. But they didn’t fail to notice an onside kick. They didn’t put Swiss cheese coverage in the back end. 

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4 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

I hope Coach Sarkisian can identify the responsible party and correct that. Lord knows he has all the resources necessary to get anyone and anything he wants. 

And I agree that players can’t see us as on the level with Georgia and Ohio State. We’re 0-5 against those teams in just two seasons and haven’t been prepared to play a single one of those 5 games. Hope Sarkisian can find the responsible party and fix that. He should be beyond pissed off at the job they’re doing. 

You can't just buy everything you want. If you could we would have it. Some kids wanna go to a winner. My daughter just signed her letter of intent to play college volleyball. Full ride, but a lesser program. Do you know how many of her friends passed on more money because they wanted to go to a bigger/better program? Some kids just wanna be part of a winner. Geography matters too. Ohio State is the ONLY tier 1 program above I-40 from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Sark is ultimately responsible but imo we have to be patient. We've made great strides in getting back to the mountain top, but we have to start looking in the mirror and seeing the 7 that we are, instead of the 10 we think we are. 

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“Texas, Ohio State, and Georgia all replaced their QBs this season. We are the only ones struggling, and it's not just "the line". We have the worst QB of the three currently. We have the worst receiver corps of the three. We have the worst O-line of the three. We have the worst RBs of the three. We have the worst TEs of the three.”  -That Guy

I find this quote above strange.  Seems to me we have the worst OL and TE of the 3 by a long ways not something close.  Like our OL and TE groups are worse than mediocre teams in the P5 conferences (especially the IOL).  Same goes for RB.  I wonder if our QB would look better if he had a functioning OL that could run block, TE’s that could block and catch the ball in an explosive fashion, RB’s that were explosive (Wisner is OK and that’s about it).  Even WR’s drop the ball and don’t look all that great.  I am confident if you put Manning on Ohio State or Georgia they would be just as good or maybe even better than they are now.  Coaching and talent evaluation has killed this offense.  Plus mix a little bad play calling in by Sark.

 

 

 

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13 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

 That's a lot of words. Even for me. Let me see what I can do. 

 

Look dude Indiana didn't do anything special. They went and got a solid QB out of the transfer portal. Again. Three of their top 4 receivers are from the portal. Their two top RBs are also from the portal. Even then, last year they had a favorable schedule(like aggy) and got throttled by Ohio State 38-15 when they finally faced them. Then they lost their first game in the playoffs. That's a feel good story, FOR THEM. You can stay at Indiana for decades by repeating that process. Meanwhile here you guys wanna jettison Sark to the moon for being 7-3 against a schedule that included the number 1 and 5 teams, and two top 10 wins vs Oklahoma and Vandy. AFTER two straight playoff appearances. 

You guys expect us to just reload like Ohio State and Georgia, but don't see that we don't get the talent they do. WE think our shit doesn't stink, but the top kids see us as a tier below them. And why wouldn't they? In their lifetime Texas hasn't been good. So we get project 5 stars, instead of the ready to go kids. Cam Williams was a project, and spent his time here busting protections with regularity. DJ Campbell still isn't polished. Wingo can't catch, isn't physical, and doesn't run crisp routes. But man can he run past defenders on lesser teams on screen passes. Let's not leave out our QB. Now thinking back to when I heard the Manning really wanted him to sit and learn, I realize they knew what we now know, which is the kid was behind developmentally. 

Texas, Ohio State, and Georgia all replaced their QBs this season. We are the only ones struggling, and it's not just "the line". We have the worst QB of the three currently. We have the worst receiver corps of the three. We have the worst O-line of the three. We have the worst RBs of the three. We have the worst TEs of the three. I mean, we had 2 receivers go first round in the last few years. Ohio State has had 4. We got 2 4th round TEs. Ohio State had a 4th and 3rd. We got a 1st, 2nd, and 4th and 5th rnd back out the last few years. Ohio State has had 2 2nd rounders, so we got them there. But then we've gotten a 1st rounder, a 5th rounder, and two 6th round O-line drafted. In that same time frame Ohio State has had 3 1st round, a 3rd, 3th, 6th, and 7th. 

When we won the National Championship, USC was the talk of the town. However, if you look back we were the better team across the board from top to bottom. When Bama was winning they were better top to bottom. Same with Georgia. Same with Ohio State last year. If we wanna get to winning titles we need to find a way to start getting better players. 

Here are all your words back at you. 

Comparing last seasons IU team to this years is certainly a choice. Have you watched them play? They are playing elite football. 

I was hoping our RB room was just banged up and not 100% and Georgia was gonna be the game where they stepped it up. Unfortunately it does seem like this years RB room is not at a level commensurate with the compensation. 

The OL is bad and there's no real reason for that. 

The WR are significantly worse than last year and as bad as I can remember going back to 2021. 

The IDL got their shit together and has played substantially better since Florida. 

EDGE is damned good. 

LB is good enough but we can get more there. 

DBs have been hot and cold, but mostly hot. Not sure how much is scheme and how much is clear lack of film study or football IQ. Physically they aren't getting juked out of their pants they are blowing assignments or coverages are way too soft. 

A head coach can easily work with his staff to work on all these things, right now it seems like sark is more interested in being an OC than he is a head coach. He hasn't been honest with his assessment of personnel, he's clearly spending too much time on stuff that isn't the other team that they are facing and the team is no longer responding well to him, the team quit in that second half and it's fucking embarassing. 

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6 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

I like how thatguy always turns it back to qb.  Slick

It's part of it. In sports its your job to play better than the guy in the same position across from you. No matter what that position is. 

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15 minutes ago, RoyalBevo21 said:

If you can only win with the most talented roster are you really a great coach? "Project 5 Star" is a weird narrative. To become a 5 star means you display attributes that show you are above the high school level and could compete in college day 1. Perhaps recruiting services are giving out 5 stars easier now, but the point still stands. 

 

Sark has also displayed he doesn't evaluate talent very good. Beginning with starting Baxter over Brooks. Some of his evals seem FUMP-like in the instance of "are you just offering stars by their name or are you actually evaluating the player?" 

Who are all these teams winning championships with shitty rosters? Where I am sitting it sure as shit looks like the teams winning are doing it with the most talented rosters. Unless you are Michigan and you cheat your way there. 

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10 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

You can't just buy everything you want. If you could we would have it. Some kids wanna go to a winner. My daughter just signed her letter of intent to play college volleyball. Full ride, but a lesser program. Do you know how many of her friends passed on more money because they wanted to go to a bigger/better program? Some kids just wanna be part of a winner. Geography matters too. Ohio State is the ONLY tier 1 program above I-40 from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Sark is ultimately responsible but imo we have to be patient. We've made great strides in getting back to the mountain top, but we have to start looking in the mirror and seeing the 7 that we are, instead of the 10 we think we are. 

I hear lots and lots of excuses. 

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The Oline is bad because they are asked to do too much. Last year's line got away with it because they had played a ton of football and had NFL tackles. A lot of those holding penalties and backfield disruptions are due to our guys being late on some kind of pull or reach block

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7 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

I hear lots and lots of excuses. 

Mostly, his terrible take is:

Texas is shitty and not Georgia or OSU. IU isn't as good as we think and pay no attention to what's happening at aggie or Tech. 

Trust Sark and stop complaining.

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Then let's keep turning over coaches and see how that goes for us. 

Or boosters can just stop writing checks and treat this as a hobby instead of a passion. 

Posted
4 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Then let's keep turning over coaches and see how that goes for us. 

you know we are closer to being 5-5 than we are to competing for a championship, right?  What's your excuse as to why we barely beat Kentucky and Miss St?  Are we not more talented than they are?

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Who are all these teams winning championships with shitty rosters? Where I am sitting it sure as shit looks like the teams winning are doing it with the most talented rosters. Unless you are Michigan and you cheat your way there. 

Does Texas have a shitty roster?  If so, who’s in charge that should have made sure that didn’t happen?  I agree with you that talent wins championships.  This team should have been good enough to make the playoffs.  They shouldn’t have struggled all year with mediocre teams like Miss St and KY and losing to FL.  They shouldn’t be able to stay within 10-14 points of GA in Athens.  Worse teams than ours seemed able to hang with Georgia.  I am not arguing to fire Sark (not sure he is that great either) but things need to change if Connor Stroh is the guy you trot out at left guard in year 5 of your tenure.  I would also argue that Sark has had a relatively good year when it comes to injuries.  These players, for the most part, are who he and his staff wanted to play all year.  It’s not like the O line sucks because the top 3 starters blew their knees out in the offseason or earlier in the season.  

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1 minute ago, Tex Pete said:

Or boosters can just stop writing checks and treat this as a hobby instead of a passion. 

How has that worked for us the last 20 years? 

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