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31 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Yeah, I don't know. But it's part of the job, and he tried his best. Wish he displayed that much fire and urgency with the other (more important) aspects of being a HC this past season. 

 

 

28 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

As someone mentioned above, it's important to point out the absurdities of the playoff selection "process". 

It’s absurd and every time they trot someone out there to explain it. “Bama played a tough game at Auburn (uh what).” We get this crap as an explanation.
 

By Sunday morning the teams that know they are on the bubble aren’t likely to get in (W/L or SOS or head to head or none of the rivalry games fell the way that was needed.) not saying those teams would do this but I’m a chick I think this way: band together. Make one statement. Say the field should be expanded to 16. The teams on the bubble have their coaches out there in one statement saying they would be willing to play a buy in. Air it that morning. We are willing to play each other for a shot at the dance. While everyone is playing CCG games. Get it out to Fox Sports and ESPN so they can talk it up. 
 

I guess it’s better than seeing what we do each year. It’s a moment without hope. Coaches going out there explaining how absurd it is but they don’t get in. Force their hand. It never helps for the current year. Vandy won’t have another Pavia. Lost year. We are playing our peak football. Lost year, Miami fucking best ND head to head and it doesn’t matter. Miami still has to root for teams to win to still get in. Offer to play a game in their home stadium. 
 

I realize what I wrote is absurd but so is explanation from the committee and there is no oversight. Force their hand and say hey fuckers do you want a badass CFP or not? We are willing to play each other to get in. 
 

listening to committee head talk about this shit is worse. And it’s oh well here’s a bowl game. Nah. Flip the script on them I guess until it’s 16 games with some rules that aren’t fucking subjective to this degree. 

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Yeah... Sark making the case publicly forced the CFP committee to answer publicly for their decisions.  The CFP committee looks so bad right now because of those answers that no one cares that Sark looked a little whiny.

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14 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Yeah... Sark making the case publicly forced the CFP committee to answer publicly for their decisions.  The CFP committee looks so bad right now because of those answers that no one cares that Sark looked a little whiny.

The committee looks bad but this year is a lost year for the teams on the bubble that didn’t get in. We will never get that back. Every year there are two or three teams playing some damn good football that don’t get in. Lost year. Everyone sees the absurdity. But it doesn’t help the teams who don’t get in. Fucking committee. 

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1 hour ago, Nicole44 said:

I was speaking from the perspective of if you are explaining you are losing kind of thing. Has anyone successfully politicked  to get in? In all the years of the playoffs has there been a team perceived to be on the bubble who made it in bc of the politicking? 

Nick saban did it the year bama didn’t win their own division and somehow they still made the playoffs. The year prior he said if you don’t win your conference you can’t possibly be good enough to make the playoff to keep Ohio state out and then stood at the same podium and told the media bama is the 4th best team in the country even if they didn’t play for a sec title. 2016 Ohio state made it which pissed saban off and 2017 bama showed saban’s hypocrisy knows no bounds. 

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29 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:

Nick saban did it the year bama didn’t win their own division and somehow they still made the playoffs. The year prior he said if you don’t win your conference you can’t possibly be good enough to make the playoff to keep Ohio state out and then stood at the same podium and told the media bama is the 4th best team in the country even if they didn’t play for a sec title. 2016 Ohio state made it which pissed saban off and 2017 bama showed saban’s hypocrisy knows no bounds. 

Coaches are interested parties. They'll advocate for whatever advances their interests. It's "hypocritical" in a way, but it's also understandable. 

The CFP Committee, on the other hand, is supposed to be disinterested. Its interests should be the same every season - to put the 12 best teams in the playoff according to the selection rules (5+7). But it keeps changing the criteria and justifications for its choices to suit its own unspoken interests, which is far worse than anything that a coach does. 

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28 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

Coaches are interested parties. They'll advocate for whatever advances their interests. It's "hypocritical" in a way, but it's also understandable. 

The CFP Committee, on the other hand, is supposed to be disinterested. Its interests should be the same every season - to put the 12 best teams in the playoff according to the selection rules (5+7). But it keeps changing the criteria and justifications for its choices to suit its own unspoken interests, which is far worse than anything that a coach does. 

That’s why it would have been interesting if the teams on the bubble that had coaches out there politicking had banded together and presented a proposal for the committee to consider, hey we will play each other for a chance to play into the dance, they’d have to address it. At the very least. Even if they said no. We could offer to host two games this weekend at Texas for the play in teams, we will sell tickets at like $10-20 bucks, whatever the fuck help fans with hotels and what not. They have enough cameras as they routinely have so many damn games every weekend. A network would cover it, winning. Telling the committee they are busted and wrong may make changes for next year but it doesn’t help the bubble teams this year. Forcing a proposal like that down their throats at least addresses the committee absurdity and gives the bubble teams a chance were they all in agreement to “we will play each other to have a shot to play into the playoffs.” Committee likely says no but at least you can get all the sports stations and writers to discuss the proposal as opposed to coaches fighting a losing battle to politick to get in. There was one year I thought Bama had 3 losses and the committee said no. It’s rare but it does happen. 

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My issue with Sark is he is slow to make adjustments, and CLEARLY has his favorite plays that he calls repeatedly throughout a game.

I don't EVER have to see another WR screen.

He gets predictable.  And the better coaches like Day and Smart see it and exploit it.  We have the talent to beat anybody.  We don't have the coach.

I'm hoping he takes the next step in his OWN evolution and wakes up to the fact HE is what is holding this team back

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1 minute ago, hornyjay said:

My issue with Sark is he is slow to make adjustments, and CLEARLY has his favorite plays that he calls repeatedly throughout a game.

I don't EVER have to see another WR screen.

He gets predictable.  And the better coaches like Day and Smart see it and exploit it.  We have the talent to beat anybody.  We don't have the coach.

I'm hoping he takes the next step in his OWN evolution and wakes up to the fact HE is what is holding this team back

Taking my life in my hands here, but...

I think Sark did that this year. This is the first time in his tenure at Texas that I can remember him calling plays for the team he has rather than the team he wants. At the beginning of the season, it was clear that he wanted to run his pro-style offense, with a lot of 12 personnel and play action. He wanted to run the ball to set up those long developing pass plays. That shit wasn't working and, to his credit, he moved away from it. I think he abandoned the run more than he should have, but that seems like a biproduct of him trying to figure out how to maximize the offense. 

In the past, I think Sark keeps calling his offense and if the players don't execute, it's on them. He definitely did that in 2022. He was more versatile in 2023, but I think that was more about us having the right personnel rather than him adapting. Same thing in 2024, except with worse skill personnel (no elite RB, no Worthy or Mitchel) but we managed to get by on with a veteran QB and OL. Sark was still calling his offense, though, and it almost lost us same games. 

This year it finally caught up with us. We lacked any elite talent on offense, outside of QB, and did not have the experience at QB or OL that we enjoyed last season. And we saw the results - everything on offense sucked until Sark got into "panic mode" and started call a spread offense. Once he realized that was the only kind of offense that worked for us, he kept with it. But I think the UGA game showed why Sark was reticent to make that change - the spread is designed to make the offense easier for less talented teams. But it won't work on elite defenses, who have the talent and the coaching to negate the benefits of a spread offense. You need something that confuses them and puts them in conflict, which is what Sark's offense is designed to do. 

 TL;DR - I think Sark adapted this season, which is something he really has not done and which I doubted he was capable of. I wish he had done it sooner, but I understand why he didn't. Silver lining. Hindsight is 20/20. blah blah blah. 

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1 hour ago, hornyjay said:

I don't EVER have to see another WR screen.

WTF?  That's been a pretty productive play on the aggregate for Sark's entire tenure as an extension of the run game and a staple as the screen action sets up a bunch of other things.   Bad take.

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