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2 hours ago, victory88 said:

long post…
 

Multiple things can be true.  Sark isn’t a shit coach.  Dude took over a dumpster fire.  Won us a conference championship when we were in a 15 year drought, took us to another one,  two back to back semi final appearances, multiple award winners, all Americans, and the most NFL draft picks in a 2 year span in Longhorn history.    Oh yeah, we’re recruiting about as well as I can remember.  He gets credit for turning the program around and the guy is going to get more time than he probably deserves to fix the mess we are in.

 

The mess we are in is solely on Sark.  This roster has had very little turnover as far as guys leaving.  The roster is how he wanted it.  These are his hand picked players, his coaches, his schemes.   I personally feel this entire program went into this offseason entitled.  Sark thinks he’s Saban/ Carroll running a NFL program.  This is still college football where you need to get as many reps as possible to a young team.   We have been resting players all spring, all summer, through fall camp, and through the first 3 games.   When was the last time you had the same starting 11 play more than 1 game this season.  It’s clear this offense has no chemistry.  It’s clear that they did not hit the weight room hard.  It’s clear the coaches gameplan all offseason was that we were just going to out talent teams and use our depth.  We joked about Napier and Venables running hard practices while we took a NFL approach with load management.  Well we now have a soft fucking program and a soft fucking culture.  These guys looked shell shocked yesterday like they did against Arkansas.

 

We have not hit rock bottom yet guys.  This team through 5 games has no identity, no play makers, undisciplined, no mental strength.  
 

Sark is going to have to take a long look in the mirror.  I was always for Sark calling the plays, but with everything a HC has to do, he needs to pass off the game planning and play calling to a good OC that can spend his entire time on scheming and calling plays.  He needs to re-evaluate the O-line schemes.  His entire offense is predicated on running the ball and play action.  When we can’t run the ball, this offense is broken.  Nothing will fix it until we run the ball.  Whether it’s personnel or scheme, him and Flood have to figure out something new bc what they are trying has been figured out.  Teams like fucking UTEP dominated our OL.  Our WRs scare no one.  We went from playmakers like Worthy, Whittington, Mitchell, Golden, Bond to a group of JAGs who do not have any elite traits.  They are not bad.  But the reality is that that we have 4 WRs in Wingo, Moore, Livingstone, Mosley that all show be WR3.  None of those guys would beat out any of the guys mentioned above.  
 

As for defense,  PK is going to get some slack from me.  For two seasons, we have been elite.  But at some point you gotta scheme pass rush.  You can’t just man up and play and hope to out talent big name programs that recruit at our level.  DT recruiting was completely mismanaged by Sark and Bo that we are now suffering from it.  We had to bring in 6 portal guys bc we literally had 2 freshman DTs on the roster.

 

This is going to get worse before it will get better.  He’s not going to be able to wave a wand and this OL becomes magically physical.  We are going to get beat by ou, uga, aggy and probably will be in toss up games against the rest.  This is a 5-7 and 6-6 type team like the 2021 team.  We are in full blown rebuilt mode again.  He’s shown he did it once, let’s see if he can fix his own mess now.  We’re going to have to be find some play makers on offense and some OL in the portal this offseason.  Offense needs to be completely revamped.  Defense I feel can still be good with our major changes.

 

Sorry for the rant but this season just stings considering where this program was, how we were recruiting, the hype, having a Manning, having players in the program with the same coaches, same system, the #1 ranking… and this is the product we got.  We are not even remotely competitive offensively in games against power 4 defenses.  That won’t get fixed this season unfortunately. 

Well at least he's a good QB developer and knows how to hire an OL coach 

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Posted
2 hours ago, VaLonghorn99 said:

The defense shit their pants while the offense was struggling with ibs - as another poster said, 21 points should have been enough to win this game

This.  It was not a good defensive showing at all.

Posted
3 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

This didn't happen. Where are you seeing anything about UT taking a train to Gainesville?

I believe a commercial or one of the commentators said the last time we played them in the 50s or something it was like a 48 hr train ride for the team to get to Gainesville

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Posted
23 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

This didn't happen. Where are you seeing anything about UT taking a train to Gainesville?

Well sunbelt billy and his 1-3 team ran a train on Sarks asshole for what seemed like 48 hours. 

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Posted
3 hours ago, victory88 said:

I was always for Sark calling the plays, but with everything a HC has to do, he needs to pass off the game planning and play calling to a good OC that can spend his entire time on scheming and calling plays.

there was a moment before the 2-minute warning in the first half where it was instantly clear the situation called for using a timeout and he was busy calling a play, talkiing about a play being called, whatever, he was completely oblivious to the game situation

oblivious

 

3 hours ago, victory88 said:

Our WRs scare no one. We went from playmakers like Worthy, Whittington, Mitchell, Golden, Bond to a group of JAGs who do not have any elite traits.  They are not bad.  But the reality is that that we have 4 WRs in Wingo, Moore, Livingstone, Mosley that all show be WR3.  None of those guys would beat out any of the guys mentioned above.  

disagree on this - a lot of difficult catches were made yesterday by the entire crew and i counted 2 egregious misses by arch - one for the 4q pick and the other overthrown wingo non-td - otherwise under extreme duress with no protection he was moving the ball and the receivers were part of that

since UT owns UiL can we just go get a 6A-D1 school's line and run them out?  at least they might keep arch alive

the rb room is also not the problem - we have no idea what we have there when sark calls off-tackle on 1st down behind paper maiche blocking

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Posted
1 hour ago, DFW Horn said:

This didn't happen. Where are you seeing anything about UT taking a train to Gainesville?

It's what the broadcasters said before the game started. Unless I heard them wrong, the broadcasters commented that the Texas team actually took the train to Florida instead of flying. And that it was a ~40 something hour long trip. It caught my attention because it sounded like a bizarre thing to do.

Posted (edited)
4 minutes ago, ATXbronco said:

It's what the broadcasters said before the game started. Unless I heard them wrong, the broadcasters commented that the Texas team actually took the train to Florida instead of flying. And that it was a ~40 something hour long trip. It caught my attention because it sounded like a bizarre thing to do.

 

I think that was in 1940. It was understandable though. We were soon to be at war and the Tchoupitoulas Bridge was pretty new. 

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1 minute ago, Bevo said:

 

I think that was in 1940. It was understandable though. We were at war.

Yes, the broadcasters said the team took a train there in 1940. We were not, however, at war yet.

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The one play where Kobe Black fell down and Jelani McDonald did his best Frankenstein impression trying to tackle their WR should go down in Longhorn history as equally embarrassing as the Crabtree TD play. I thought a Texas team tackling that poorly was behind us.

 

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1 minute ago, UTEE97 said:

The one play where Kobe Black fell down and Jelani McDonald did his best Frankenstein impression trying to tackle their WR should go down in Longhorn history as equally embarrassing as the Crabtree TD play. I thought a Texas team tackling that poorly was behind us.

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Just now, UTEE97 said:

The one play where Kobe Black fell down and Jelani McDonald did his best Frankenstein impression trying to tackle their WR should go down in Longhorn history as equally embarrassing as the Crabtree TD play. I thought a Texas team tackling that poorly was behind us.

 

Those two guys can only hope they have the football career that Earl Thomas, who looked like a moron not even getting himself involved in that play, had

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Just now, DFW Horn said:

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Jelani McDonald's play/lack of effort was much worse. If we don't give up that 55-yeard TD, we probably walk away a winner yesterday.

Posted
7 minutes ago, ATXbronco said:

Thanks guys, I missed the 1940 part.

 

If they would have taken Amtrak, and scheduled to arrive on Friday, they would probably arrive tomorrow. Which in retrospect, would not have been a bad thing.

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Posted
Just now, UTEE97 said:

Jelani McDonald's play/lack of effort was much worse. If we don't give up that 55-yeard TD, we probably walk away a winner yesterday.

Black getting stiff-armed on his ass while trying to jam the WR at the line was equally bad and embarrassing. No official is going to call that OPI. It's just hand fighting you often see at the snap.

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3 hours ago, gmr548 said:

I think the defense just got caught sluggish coming off a bye and were unprepared for Florida to come out with their hair on fire. Still a bad look, because that was very predictable given Florida's circumstances as a program, but that unit has been good enough for long enough that it's reasonable to think that was more of a "one of those days" performance. I think we probably still have a top 5-10 defense at the end of the year unless the team just quits.

The last three words are a real possibility if we get dog stomped on Saturday.  

Posted
3 hours ago, DFW Horn said:

Which unit was worse yesterday? OL or DL?

I'm not surprised the offense struggled in that environment. I'm shocked UF was able to impose its will in the running game, especially in the 1st Half. Of course, the offense's struggles made things harder on the defense bc they're on the field too long. It was an embarrassing overall performance with 2 weeks of preparation. 

OL. By a LARGE margin.  
 

on the Wingo TD. 71 and YOU blocked the same number of defenders

Posted
2 hours ago, DFW Horn said:

Sark got out-coached by Sunbelt Billy, too. Lagway executed what they wanted to do on offense - quick throws.

What are those? Never heard of them. 

Posted
2 hours ago, William Bludworth said:

Correct. Lagway made our db's look mid, though they're not. Our front 4 couldn't get to the QB (and I don't want any motherfuckers coming at me about the refs), and PK/Sellers just have no clue what to do with Simmons, even if it is obvious to Helen Keller. 

I don’t remember a lot of times where my brain screamed “THATS HOLDING” yesterday…

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4 minutes ago, lilMAC25 said:

I don’t remember a lot of times where my brain screamed “THATS HOLDING” yesterday…

I know, I know. Me too, man. But at the end of the day they just beat the shit out of us. Lagway made some absolutely dime passes and his WR's were extremely clutch. He made throws so perfect at times there was nothing our DBs could do. He made one long pass close to the endzone so perfect, and Littleton had perfect technique right on him and the ball was literally centimeters from his fingers and the WR caught it. It was unbelievable. I just sat there and said to myself there was absolutely nothing Littleton could do it was so perfect. 
 

We don't even need to get into the offensive shit show. 

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Posted
5 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

I'm not happy about it or making excuses, but I think we just need to accept that is a transition year for Texas. 

Losing all that experience from last year's OL is clearly too much to overcome. 

Arch and Quinn are basically opposites with their QB strengths/skills and Sark's offense looks completely different. The transition has been rough and it's gonna take some time. I think Arch will be good but gonna take longer than we hoped and expected.

Create a competition at RB to find out who can be the man next year. If no one breaks out by the end of the season than get a stud in the portal. 

 

A transition year in this era shouldn’t exist. Complete failure on Sark

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1 hour ago, UTEE97 said:

The one play where Kobe Black fell down and Jelani McDonald did his best Frankenstein impression trying to tackle their WR should go down in Longhorn history as equally embarrassing as the Crabtree TD play. I thought a Texas team tackling that poorly was behind us.

 

Kobe was a sloth in HS. Why he was highly rated and that we’re still trying him at outside corner are both mysteries. 

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Posted
1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

A transition year in this era shouldn’t exist. Complete failure on Sark

100% true. In this day and age of the portal, transition classes should never exist, and certainly not at a place like Texas. Ever. 

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2 minutes ago, UnhappilyMarried said:

Kobe was a sloth in HS. Why he was highly rated and that we’re still trying him at outside corner are both mysteries. 

Really? I actually don't remember that. Huh. Last year when he got some playing time he looked good, but, uh so did Manning, so...yeah.

Posted
1 hour ago, Hagbard Celine said:

there was a moment before the 2-minute warning in the first half where it was instantly clear the situation called for using a timeout and he was busy calling a play, talkiing about a play being called, whatever, he was completely oblivious to the game situation

oblivious

 

disagree on this - a lot of difficult catches were made yesterday by the entire crew and i counted 2 egregious misses by arch - one for the 4q pick and the other overthrown wingo non-td - otherwise under extreme duress with no protection he was moving the ball and the receivers were part of that

since UT owns UiL can we just go get a 6A-D1 school's line and run them out?  at least they might keep arch alive

the rb room is also not the problem - we have no idea what we have there when sark calls off-tackle on 1st down behind paper maiche blocking

Wingo drop was a tough one. That was a big play in a tight window between the CB and Safety. This Arch’s first pick came on the next play or 2 plays later 

Posted
2 hours ago, JBJ said:

This.  It was not a good defensive showing at all.

Not sure it’s been mentioned, but WTF with the rotations. I believe I saw Umeozulu and Lance Jackson playing on the 2nd drive. Love the rotations and playing to play 16 games, but you are in conference play and it was apparent that this was going to be a battle after 1 drive. You have tighten the rotations. Not sure snap counts, but Burke didn’t appear to get a ton of run. He is your most physical edge player and been great against the run. 

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Posted
20 hours ago, Newy25 said:


Flood’s handling of the offensive line is a fireable offense. He needs to be fired as soon as the season is over and we should aggressively attack the portal like we did at defensive tackle. Four to five players, minimum. 

This is the first offseason where Sark is going to need to fire an assistant. Let’s see how he handles his first real adversity running this program and if he has what it takes to make the change. 

I get the angst in this thread but Sark did fire Andre Coleman after one year and had a mutual parting of ways with Brennan Marion after a year. Flood is a much different situation given how long they’ve coached together but let’s not rewrite history. There’s plenty else to bitch about. 

Posted
17 hours ago, Not a Sock said:

Shut the fuck up about the OSU game. It’s abundantly clear now that OSU figured out that Texas was fraudulent and played a hyper conservative game plan. OSU was happy to sit in 12 personal and protect their young QB because they only needed to score 14 given how awful our offensive. We had success running the ball because OSU was happy to sit back and protect the deep shots and force Texas drive the field which it can’t do.

I wouldn't say they figured out we were fraudulent.

They made a safe gamble that the OL they pretty much bitched last year wasn't any better and probably a good deal worse and they could make our rookie QB suffer some.  That safe gamble turned into a big win when our OL pretty much sucked and so did Arch.  But they knew neither of those things in advance.

Posted
9 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

I’ll just leave this here

 

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Texas needs Nico Iamaleava to transfer in, save it from Arch Manning

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/10/05/texas-needs-nico-iamaleava-transfer-ucla-arch-manning-struggles/86414695007/

I’d rather run the wishbone with Christian Clark as qb than bring in Nico 

Posted
11 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

Not sure it’s been mentioned, but WTF with the rotations. I believe I saw Umeozulu and Lance Jackson playing on the 2nd drive. Love the rotations and playing to play 16 games, but you are in conference play and it was apparent that this was going to be a battle after 1 drive. You have tighten the rotations. Not sure snap counts, but Burke didn’t appear to get a ton of run. He is your most physical edge player and been great against the run. 

No shit.  I texted my group and said why the fuck is Sarkisian rotating like we are playing FUCKING RICE!?

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Posted
23 minutes ago, William Bludworth said:

100% true. In this day and age of the portal, transition classes should never exist, and certainly not at a place like Texas. Ever. 

It's just more evidence that he needs to ditch the OC and play calling duties and manage his program like a modern head coach.

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9 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

Not sure it’s been mentioned, but WTF with the rotations. I believe I saw Umeozulu and Lance Jackson playing on the 2nd drive. Love the rotations and playing to play 16 games, but you are in conference play and it was apparent that this was going to be a battle after 1 drive. You have tighten the rotations. Not sure snap counts, but Burke didn’t appear to get a ton of run. He is your most physical edge player and been great against the run. 

Simmons - 49

Zina - 18

Jackson - 16

Burke - 13

Vasek - 9

Posted (edited)

Since we’re bitching about anything and everything now. I think Sarks injury philosophy of holding players out for any little thing is creating an atmosphere of pussification. There is a difference between injured and hurt. Hurt players obviously shouldn’t play. For instance, Wisner should have played in our last game. 

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