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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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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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Posted

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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Posted
3 hours ago, SOHHvet08 said:

 

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Drevno’s inclusion on the staff also suggests Sarkisian foresaw issues with the offensive line this offseason and began to seek help and possibly contingency options in the event that things went south.

what does this even mean?  has he been on the staff since summer?? the tweet makes it seem like it's a new addition 

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3 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

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That is such a bitch-made f'n pussy comment. 1-3 record before they physically worked your soft ass team, you clueless fuck. How about you figure shit out in austin before you start worrying about how the other 135 teams may or may not do. 

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26 minutes ago, BurgleBro said:

It still hasn't really really sunk into my head how badly Sark has fucked up the management of this team.  Like i see all the evidence and my brain just won't fully believe it went to this level of shit so badly and quickly. 

Read and continue to reread @someguy amazing post a few pages back in this thread and it will eventually flip the switch in most everyone’s brains. All signs point to this being a lost year. Sark is 💯 to blame bc of his NFL pro-style bullshit and the fact fucker won’t get in a booth if he stubbornly insists on being both OC and HC. 

His ego is a major problem for him. for The team and for us fans. He is the architect for our misfortune, period.

While OU was practicing their asses off (as well as several schools) like they were Rocky training to fight Drago, Mr. know it all Sark had light no contact practices. And pretty much ditched anything in the spring,

 

so It’s no wonder the staff had no fucking clue what the reality was until faced with it against OSU. And they are still denying it, sark is denying it, his ego won’t allow him to accept he dug a massive hole in the road in front of our team’s bus bc of his approach to the season starting in March 2025. Period. 

 

 His ego needs to get its ass kicked. Harder than it ever has been. He needs to look up during a home game and see a plane fly over with a banner that says “get your ass in the booth, Sark.” 
 

I would think given all he has overcome as a recovering alcoholic he would know that the definition of insanity is doing the same shit over and over and expecting different results. He should know this. And sadly, he is gonna Sark his way to getting fired and will get hired again and do the same fucking thing. This is the reality unless he digs deep, admits we have no culture and just a shit slogan, his NFL prostyle BS is dumb as fuck, and that wins are earned not given just because we are 🤘🏼

 

if he can do that he can save his job. If he cannot pivot and scrap the entire shit prostyle bullshit he will be gone at some point.
 

those blaming this player (Arch—would he have benefited from spring practice and a game and heavy late summer practices???) or that player or thinking Caldwell would fair any better is MERELY some people  not wanting to accept that sark is the architect of our so far shit season. Its  him. Sark. 

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6 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

Read and continue to reread @someguy amazing post a few pages back in this thread and it will eventually flip the switch in most everyone’s brains. All signs point to this being a lost year. Sark is 💯 to blame bc of his NFL pro-style bullshit and the fact fucker won’t get in a booth if he stubbornly insists on being both OC and HC. 

His ego is a major problem for him. for The team and for us fans. He is the architect for our misfortune, period.

While OU was practicing their asses off (as well as several schools) like they were Rocky training to fight Drago, Mr. know it all Sark had light no contact practices. And pretty much ditched anything in the spring,

 

so It’s no wonder the staff had no fucking clue what the reality was until faced with it against OSU. And they are still denying it, sark is denying it, his ego won’t allow him to accept he dug a massive hole in the road in front of our team’s bus bc of his approach to the season starting in March 2025. Period. 

 

 His ego needs to get its ass kicked. Harder than it ever has been. He needs to look up during a home game and see a plane fly over with a banner that says “get your ass in the booth, Sark.” 
 

I would think given all he has overcome as a recovering alcoholic he would know that the definition of insanity is doing the same shit over and over and expecting different results. He should know this. And sadly, he is gonna Sark his way to getting fired and will get hired again and do the same fucking thing. This is the reality unless he digs deep, admits we have no culture and just a shit slogan, his NFL prostyle BS is dumb as fuck, and that wins are earned not given just because we are 🤘🏼

 

if he can do that he can save his job. If he cannot pivot and scrap the entire shit prostyle bullshit he will be gone at some point.
 

those blaming this player (Arch—would he have benefited from spring practice and a game and heavy late summer practices???) or that player or thinking Caldwell would fair any better is MERELY some people  not wanting to accept that sark is the architect of our so far shit season. Its  him. Sark. 

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Per 3-11-2025 interview: 

 

As a result, the Longhorns will have fewer contact periods and more teach periods with more controlled scrimmages instead of going for 140 plays.

“Just a little bit of a shift philosophically, as I touched on even back in December, actually, when I first brought this up. The NFL model is such that I think that they teach really well, and it’s something as I’ve studied those guys and I’ve gotten around them here the past few years — you guys know I like to do that in the springtime is go see NFL teams — is making sure we’re teaching really well, making sure that we’re developing and growing as a program, and not just our young players, but really developing our older players to be really dialed into the details of what we’re trying to do. And so again, I feel like you have to in this day and age, be adaptable and not be afraid of change and I think this is an area where we can grow as a program to be better suited for the challenges of the schedule as we know what it was here last season,” Sarkisian said.

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Posted
1 hour ago, BurgleBro said:

It still hasn't really really sunk into my head how badly Sark has fucked up the management of this team.  Like i see all the evidence and my brain just won't fully believe it went to this level of shit so badly and quickly. 

This is where I am. I think my head is kind of locked up because its shocking to me we could suck this bad with all this money at play. It makes the possibilities for fireworks inside the program likely. I went from thinking we would sneak into the playoff to doubting we can even get to 8-4. Its not like we barely lost to ohio state, blew out our three cupcakes, and lost a heartbreaker at the swamp against some good competition. The whole picture thats been painted so far is undeniable, there are multiple position groups on fire and its shell shocked our QB who already had an epic amount of pressure on him. This is a dark timeline so far this season. Doesn't feel like we are done bleeding, feels like we are just getting started. 

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7 hours ago, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said:

what does this even mean?  has he been on the staff since summer?? the tweet makes it seem like it's a new addition 

on3 says that Drevno's Wikipedia page was updated to show that he's been here since September 11th. In all likelihood, that means he's been here all this season, so we shouldn't look for any drastic changes or quick-fixes. Instead, this smells like a desperation "leak" by Sark's publicist, trying to show that Sark sees the problem and is taking steps to address it. Yeah, right. 

When you practice good-on-good, it's a zero-sum game. Sark & Co. evidently took those results to mean, "Since our DL is top-notch and the OL looks good against them, the OL must also be top-notch." Then a funny thing happened to the DL in Gainesville . . . 

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53 minutes ago, Royale with cheese said:

on3 says that Drevno's Wikipedia page was updated to show that he's been here since September 11th. In all likelihood, that means he's been here all this season, so we shouldn't look for any drastic changes or quick-fixes. Instead, this smells like a desperation "leak" by Sark's publicist, trying to show that Sark sees the problem and is taking steps to address it. Yeah, right. 

When you practice good-on-good, it's a zero-sum game. Sark & Co. evidently took those results to mean, "Since our DL is top-notch and the OL looks good against them, the OL must also be top-notch." Then a funny thing happened to the DL in Gainesville . . . 

From the practice reports I remember the O Line never got much praise. It was always "well the defense is clearly much better but that's all to be expected in camp, nothing to see here folks". 

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33 minutes ago, Cap Hooked said:

From the practice reports I remember the O Line never got much praise. It was always "well the defense is clearly much better but that's all to be expected in camp, nothing to see here folks". 

I've noticed varying degrees of football knowledge on this site over the years. Still, people here seem to get the basics. 90%or more of the posters on this site, if you gave them a budget to manage to attain players, would know to prioritize the offensive line. Offensive line was an afterthought for the University of Texas in real life.

It is a level of recklessness and stupidity so profound, it is hard to believe it is real. Yet, here we are.

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Posted
8 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

Per 3-11-2025 interview: 

 

As a result, the Longhorns will have fewer contact periods and more teach periods with more controlled scrimmages instead of going for 140 plays.

“Just a little bit of a shift philosophically, as I touched on even back in December, actually, when I first brought this up. The NFL model is such that I think that they teach really well, and it’s something as I’ve studied those guys and I’ve gotten around them here the past few years — you guys know I like to do that in the springtime is go see NFL teams — is making sure we’re teaching really well, making sure that we’re developing and growing as a program, and not just our young players, but really developing our older players to be really dialed into the details of what we’re trying to do. And so again, I feel like you have to in this day and age, be adaptable and not be afraid of change and I think this is an area where we can grow as a program to be better suited for the challenges of the schedule as we know what it was here last season,” Sarkisian said.

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The 08-10 comparison increases with this being Sarks philosophical change to go from physical intense practices to this  in how Mack decided to change our offense 

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1 hour ago, Cap Hooked said:

From the practice reports I remember the O Line never got much praise. It was always "well the defense is clearly much better but that's all to be expected in camp, nothing to see here folks". 

They were talking about this on one of the podcast yesterday ( I forgot which one at the moment) and how it makes sense the defense was getting all the praise.  This and how little Arch got reported on in the positive like he was really making good passes to Wingo or whoever .   It was assigned to the defense being that good.  

If we would’ve conducted a more traditional Spring , some of these glaring flaws we are witnessing in real time would’ve been the chatter during the summer leading up to the August reporting day.  Sark and staff were able to control the narrative until they couldn’t.  The Ohio State game could be written off as battle between two very good teams that could’ve gone either way and statistically we did beat them.  Then two ho-hum performances against cupcakes could be written off too as just that although some warning signs were flashing against UTEP.   Even the Sam Houston game had some warning flags as it should’ve been a game where we dumped 42 or more on them before half and the bench played most of the second half.  

 All of that unraveled before our very eyes last Saturday.  .   

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Posted (edited)
9 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

Per 3-11-2025 interview: 

 

As a result, the Longhorns will have fewer contact periods and more teach periods with more controlled scrimmages instead of going for 140 plays.

“Just a little bit of a shift philosophically, as I touched on even back in December, actually, when I first brought this up. The NFL model is such that I think that they teach really well, and it’s something as I’ve studied those guys and I’ve gotten around them here the past few years — you guys know I like to do that in the springtime is go see NFL teams — is making sure we’re teaching really well, making sure that we’re developing and growing as a program, and not just our young players, but really developing our older players to be really dialed into the details of what we’re trying to do. And so again, I feel like you have to in this day and age, be adaptable and not be afraid of change and I think this is an area where we can grow as a program to be better suited for the challenges of the schedule as we know what it was here last season,” Sarkisian said.

 

 

The NFL mode - in the NFL - l works for several reasons:

  • Every player has been in a demanding minor league system (read: NCAA football) for at least 3 years.
  • Most NFL players are a couple of mental or physical errors from being benched.  And a few more plays from being cut.  That is motivating.
  • The poor teaching NFL coaches get weeded out rather quickly
  • The NFL model has evolved to where it is because (1) collective bargaining (2) player commitment to results.

College players are neither mature enough nor results-oriented enough to consistently execute like this, IMO.  I am not advocating beating the hell out of each other, but practicing blocking and tackling remains important.  See Saturday.

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9 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

 

The NFL mode - in the NFL - l works for several reasons:

  • Every player has been in a demanding minor league system (read: NCAA football) for at least 3 years.
  • Most NFL players are a couple of mental or physical errors from being benched.  And a few more plays from being cut.  That is motivating.
  • The poor teaching NFL coaches get weeded out rather quickly
  • The NFL model has evolved to where it is because (1) collective bargaining (2) player commitment to results.

College players are neither mature enough nor results-oriented enough to consistently execute like this, IMO.  I am not advocating beating the hell out of each other, but practicing blocking and tackling remains important.  See Saturday.

Sarks entire bet on past success being an indication of future performance with his bullshit its gonna be a long season sitting starters for 1/3 of the season is insane. 

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9 hours ago, D3zii said:

I almost threw up when I heard that shit. 

His dumbass is going to get undressed this season for completely botching the OL.  Now we know why the red zone has been deficient.  Kyle Flood (and maybe S&C) sucks at developing the inside of the OL.

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21 minutes ago, westexhorn said:

His dumbass is going to get undressed this season for completely botching the OL.  Now we know why the red zone has been deficient.  Kyle Flood (and maybe S&C) sucks at developing the inside of the OL.

I really don’t think it’s S&C because the other side of the ball is physical and generally dominates(the Florida game was their worst in 2 years roughly). If I were a betting man considering everything CTJ has said I’d wager sark called the shots on who played and overruled flood for that. 

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43 minutes ago, westexhorn said:

His dumbass is going to get undressed this season for completely botching the OL.  Now we know why the red zone has been deficient.  Kyle Flood (and maybe S&C) sucks at developing the inside of the OL.

It won't just be the OL botch, real questions have already started to surface about his approach to coaching QBs. If I as a dumb fat couch coach can see similar issues between a 5 star QB that consistently got worse while at Texas and a new 5 Star QB who appears to be horrible, so will the rest of the world. Sark isn't addressing issues and doesn't understand that in college you have to align your approach to the talent. The NFL approach of get the players to run your system just doesn't work. Clearly neither does the NFL practice methodology. 

We fans are complaining about the exact same issues on offense we did last year. EXACT SAME. Some want to throw Arch under the bus, some blame the OL, some blame the RBs, some point to pieces of each one, but when every.fucking.one of these issues were the same things we bitched about last year, it should become abundantly clear where the real issues lie. Hell, there is a 700+ page thread from last year here arguing QB vs OL vs RB vs WR and guess what, its the fucking HC and his shit staff. The writing was on the wall, and I admit I missed it. Tried to incorrectly blame the QB. However, even there I recognized issues with the game plan. 

Speaking of game plan. 

Two words to know how bad it is. 

Third Quarter 

But I'll add a single play to bring it home. Ballet 360 pirouette flounder, flounder fall. 

No? How about first down run up the middle with an underperforming (putting it kindly) OL and smallish RB that, to date, I would guess has lead to a total of about 30 yards in 5 games despite doing it every fucking first down. What about slow developing WRs routes with an underperforming OL and a young QB. Add in some play action where said young QB turns his back to increase issues. That's brilliant.

No man, the issues are and have been clear. Sark doesn't know shit about coaching an offense. 

Speaking of RZ, know how many times we've run a bootleg reverse at the goal line? Once, it was a TD for Arch.

 

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32 minutes ago, westexhorn said:

His dumbass is going to get undressed this season for completely botching the OL.  Now we know why the red zone has been deficient.  Kyle Flood (and maybe S&C) sucks at developing the inside of the OL.

Doesn’t seem to have much to work with but I guess he selected his players 

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11 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Doesn’t seem to have much to work with but I guess he selected his players 

Sark selected both the players and the staff. Where does the fault lie? 

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Just now, Im_smarter_then_you said:

I’d be pissed if I were Flood then 

I don’t buy that there is friction between them. 
 

These guys worked together and chose this OL combo.

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