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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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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.

CHIEF

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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

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