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7 hours ago, someguy said:

I think it is now clear that the NFL style program that Sark has sought to implement is a massive failure.  NFL players are grown men who have made it through the college ranks as elite players, and with small roster sizes most players have to scratch and claw to obtain and maintain their roster spot.  They have the maturity and professionalism to handle a professional mindset.

Sark has said to anyone who will listen that Texas was going to pace themselves to prepare for a 16 game season.  Implicit in that is that Texas will, naturally of course - by virtue of how highly ranked and outlandishly talented the players are - make the playoff.  The regular season is for preparing to peak in the post season.  They ditched the spring game.  They eased up on fall camp.  They've been less physical in practice.  Sark openly talks about wanting to avoid running the team down, wanting to avoid injuries.  There is some wisdom in that, but wherever the ideal balance is, Texas is far away from that.

That works in the NFL with professionals.  We're learning that doesn't work with college players.  It creates a soft culture.  Players who aren't finished products but act like they are.  

There were a handful of players who left it all on the field Saturday.  The majority were largely indifferent.  Attitude reflects leadership.  This is a self inflicted lost year.  I hope adjustments are made and the program gets back to acting like wins are earned and not assumed.

Ya, that's a terrible thing to put in place. The 90s Cowboys kicked the shit out of each other in practice. Injuries are part of the game. Very unlikely you finish with the same 22 you start with. What a soft ass approach. 

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2 hours ago, DanTheHorn said:

 

2) He sucks at in game adjustments.

It took him about five games to give up on Ewers throwing deep when the in-game evidence showed it wasn't going to work. Sark has to sit down and take time to think before making an adjustment. He talks about the flow of the game influencing his decision-making, but to the rest of us, it's clear he's oblivious to the flow of the game, evident in not taking points, throwing deep, and pitching the ball on 2nd down.

 

This aspect is Terry Bowden as HC at Auburn all over again.  FFS

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A rebuilding year is completely inexcusable. We’re in year 5 and have brought in the most talent the program has seen outside of 2000-2002. And considering the access to the transfer portal, there’s no reason why we should ever have a “rebuilding year” that is below 9 wins. We are staring down the barrel of 5-7. Im sure we find a way and get to 7-5 but considering the expectations of where this team was and the hype around them, that has to call into question the leadership and decision making process at the top level of the team. Anyone justifying the performance and horrid outcome of the season chalking it up to youth and inexperience is missing a much larger point of what was being done to avoid that possibility over the last 5 seasons.  

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Posted
42 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:

This aspect is Terry Bowden as HC at Auburn all over again.  FFS

Milwee was his OC at Akron and is helping to carry on the tradition of sucking ass at in game adjustments.

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23 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

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It’s giving Herman’s “Of Mice and Men” analogy after losing to Maryland.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24568960/texas-longhorns-coach-tom-herman-invokes-mice-men-loss-maryland-terrapins

Texas, Herman said Monday, was like the simple but brutish Lennie from Steinbeck's classic "Of Mice and Men." The Longhorns tried so hard to win that they killed their chance to do it.

"Lennie wanted so badly to touch the rabbit and play with the rabbit -- he squeezed it so hard, he killed the rabbit," Herman said, noting he told linebacker Gary Johnson to read the book. "I know that seems maybe out there a little bit. I think that's what the first quarter was. We wanted it so badly, we got in our own way quite a bit."

Herman mangled the analogy a bit. In the novel, Lennie kills a puppy, a mouse and a woman and only dreams of rabbits. And Lennie gets killed at the end.

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11 minutes ago, MrBig said:

It’s giving Herman’s “Of Mice and Men” analogy after losing to Maryland.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24568960/texas-longhorns-coach-tom-herman-invokes-mice-men-loss-maryland-terrapins

Texas, Herman said Monday, was like the simple but brutish Lennie from Steinbeck's classic "Of Mice and Men." The Longhorns tried so hard to win that they killed their chance to do it.

 

"Lennie wanted so badly to touch the rabbit and play with the rabbit -- he squeezed it so hard, he killed the rabbit," Herman said, noting he told linebacker Gary Johnson to read the book. "I know that seems maybe out there a little bit. I think that's what the first quarter was. We wanted it so badly, we got in our own way quite a bit."

Herman mangled the analogy a bit. In the novel, Lennie kills a puppy, a mouse and a woman and only dreams of rabbits. And Lennie gets killed at the end.

No fucking way this story is real

I must have killed those brain cells that remembered this bull shit last decade

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From Tim Drevno's bio  

- He's in his mid fifties. 

- Other than 2014, he was with Jim Harbaugh from 2004 through 2017, at San Diego, Stanford, San Francisco and Michigan.

 

 

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Full career timeline - 

 

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I seriously fell for the evil empire I thought we were building, turns out we just got some revenge of the Sith Green bullshit.  

Please tell me we have a morality clause at the ready because we are one embarrassing loss away from Sark finding refuge at the bottom of a bottle. His answers today were not great. Pepper your angus folks we could be in for a bumpy, bumpy ride.

Vote of confidence, players only meeting, release of internal video of coaches “showing concern” take your pick.

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Posted
2 hours ago, SOHHvet08 said:

 

On the one hand, it's good that Sark wants another set of eyes and a fresh, unbiased opinion about OL personnel.

But it's embarrassing that it's come to this given his staff's experience. Open up competition during practice. Go 1's vs 1's for a couple of segments, including goalline. Maybe something good will come of it.

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3-star-Flood coming home to roost.

Partly new starters, party scheme, partly talent...after 5 years and with transfer portal options and a mostly unlimited budget, seems like we are in the wilderness for no good reason.

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I assume that because he's a consultant, he's going to have a powerpoint with some bitching transitions to show why we suck.  He'll then have suggestions about how to "rightsize" the line through the portal.

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1 hour ago, Getafix said:

 

From Tim Drevno's bio  

- He's in his mid fifties. 

- Other than 2014, he was with Jim Harbaugh from 2004 through 2017, at San Diego, Stanford, San Francisco and Michigan.

 

 

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Full career timeline - 

 

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For info, Rushing yards per game rank as OL Coach. 

2009 Stanford - 11th (Toby Gerhardt 1,871 yard season) 

2010 Stanford - 17th 

2011 SF 49ers - 8th

2012 SF 49ers - 4th

2013 SF 49ers - 3rd 

2014 USC - 67th 

2015 Michigan - 85th 

2016 Michigan - 33rd 

2017 Michigan - 49th

2018 USC - 106th 

2019 USC - 119th 

2020 USC - 121st 

2022 UCLA - 6th 

2023 UCLA - 17th 

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