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CJ is an idiot.

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Posted
2 hours ago, Red Five said:

Yeah, hence "in about year three". 

 

2 hours ago, jdhorn92 said:

yeah Sal missed that part.

It wasn’t written clearly at all if you want to be pedantic.

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1 minute ago, Sal said:

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CJ is an idiot.

CJ Vogel is an idiot, but he's not really wrong here. It's not like Sark would say "Yeah, funny thing about that is I actually mentally black out as soon as we get in goal to go situations. I am a bad playcaller and I don't know how to score red zone touchdowns." I'm not opposed to the question being asked but it is kind of diminishing returns at this point. 

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the honest answer would be:

"i don't know why i insist on tunneling off-tackle and never call any other play, but i am not going old-school and taking points that are presented to me in the form of chip shot field goals which is what half of those fuckers on the surl want me to do, so fuck them!"

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1 hour ago, Sal said:

 

It wasn’t written clearly at all if you want to be pedantic.

it was written fine, it just wasn't read well.  Anyone articulate enough to pull out pedantic should have understood it.

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Some team notes from IT

Spoiler

Let’s Start with Arch

One player who could certainly use the chance for quality reps is quarterback Arch Manning. Manning isn’t the sort to have his confidence shaken after a bad game, and he went right back to work this week. His mechanics were like they (almost) always are, and he was personally pretty sharp. However, each practice varied from good, to average, to questionable as far as offensive cohesion.

Right now, ensuring everyone is on the same page on the field is as much a part of Arch’s job as completing accurate passes. His wide receivers have to be in the right spot, his O-linemen have to pick up the right men, etc. Everybody has to see the same thing.

I’m personally curious to see how the offense responds to a defense that is going to junk it up, bring pressure, give Manning foggy reads, and play like it has nothing to lose. Texas could light them up, or Texas might have to solve them before lighting them up. Recall the Rice game ahead of Alabama in 2023.

Overall, it sounds like Arch had a good week, though the offense is still coming together and was a bit hit or miss this.

The Return Game

Another work in progress is the return game. Last week’s sloppy practices translated to the field against Ohio State, as we saw multiple poor decisions—whether bringing balls out of the end zone or letting punts bounce and roll.

This week, Inside Texas thinks there’s a good chance Daylan McCutcheon will get a look at punt return. This is exactly the type of opponent you’d play a freshman against. At kick returner, it sounds like Ryan Niblett will get the call.

Right now, the coaches just want people they can trust. Any return value-add is a bonus.

Aggressive Texas Defense?

It’s well known San Jose State likes to throw and has a quarterback with a pretty big arm. This provides the chance for Texas to play DBs close and get after the quarterback.

As you might expect, the defense had a consistently good week. They’re aided by some quality talent on the scout team offense giving good looks.

Bottom line: if SJSU plays to type, we should see sacks, turnovers, and plenty of three-and-outs. That accounts for heavy rotation on the defensive side of the ball. Texas played a “shorter bench” against Ohio State but still used a fair amount of defensive players. The rotation is going to expand this week.

Due to heavy rotation on defense, we’ll likely see more mental mistakes than normal—but that’s all part of the process.

Subject to Change

It sounds like Christian Clark is going to see his first career carries this weekend. As the most dynamic RB they have, it makes the most sense to start integrating him into the offense now. At minimum, he needs to earn the right to get 5–6 carries against good competition. The team needs him to hit like sources believe he can.

A good game from Jerrick Gibson wouldn’t surprise either.

Wardell Mack 

The redshirt freshman isn’t a partier and he wasn’t out late. That doesn’t mean he didn’t make a questionable decision or two. While IT doesn’t expect him to play this week—when he would have played a lot—his arrest is a very minor blip on the radar.

 

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Posted
9 hours ago, Hookem2147 said:

Wardell Mack 

The redshirt freshman isn’t a partier and he wasn’t out late. That doesn’t mean he didn’t make a questionable decision or two. While IT doesn’t expect him to play this week—when he would have played a lot—his arrest is a very minor blip on the radar.

 

9 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

All evidence to the contrary.

Is there an arrest report available? The only thing I heard was on OTF Bobby saying Mack was out after midnight. 

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10 hours ago, Hookem2147 said:

Some team notes from IT

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Let’s Start with Arch

One player who could certainly use the chance for quality reps is quarterback Arch Manning. Manning isn’t the sort to have his confidence shaken after a bad game, and he went right back to work this week. His mechanics were like they (almost) always are, and he was personally pretty sharp. However, each practice varied from good, to average, to questionable as far as offensive cohesion.

Right now, ensuring everyone is on the same page on the field is as much a part of Arch’s job as completing accurate passes. His wide receivers have to be in the right spot, his O-linemen have to pick up the right men, etc. Everybody has to see the same thing.

I’m personally curious to see how the offense responds to a defense that is going to junk it up, bring pressure, give Manning foggy reads, and play like it has nothing to lose. Texas could light them up, or Texas might have to solve them before lighting them up. Recall the Rice game ahead of Alabama in 2023.

Overall, it sounds like Arch had a good week, though the offense is still coming together and was a bit hit or miss this.

The Return Game

Another work in progress is the return game. Last week’s sloppy practices translated to the field against Ohio State, as we saw multiple poor decisions—whether bringing balls out of the end zone or letting punts bounce and roll.

This week, Inside Texas thinks there’s a good chance Daylan McCutcheon will get a look at punt return. This is exactly the type of opponent you’d play a freshman against. At kick returner, it sounds like Ryan Niblett will get the call.

Right now, the coaches just want people they can trust. Any return value-add is a bonus.

Aggressive Texas Defense?

It’s well known San Jose State likes to throw and has a quarterback with a pretty big arm. This provides the chance for Texas to play DBs close and get after the quarterback.

As you might expect, the defense had a consistently good week. They’re aided by some quality talent on the scout team offense giving good looks.

Bottom line: if SJSU plays to type, we should see sacks, turnovers, and plenty of three-and-outs. That accounts for heavy rotation on the defensive side of the ball. Texas played a “shorter bench” against Ohio State but still used a fair amount of defensive players. The rotation is going to expand this week.

Due to heavy rotation on defense, we’ll likely see more mental mistakes than normal—but that’s all part of the process.

Subject to Change

It sounds like Christian Clark is going to see his first career carries this weekend. As the most dynamic RB they have, it makes the most sense to start integrating him into the offense now. At minimum, he needs to earn the right to get 5–6 carries against good competition. The team needs him to hit like sources believe he can.

A good game from Jerrick Gibson wouldn’t surprise either.

Wardell Mack 

The redshirt freshman isn’t a partier and he wasn’t out late. That doesn’t mean he didn’t make a questionable decision or two. While IT doesn’t expect him to play this week—when he would have played a lot—his arrest is a very minor blip on the radar.

 

I know they pay players for intel, but they have to realize that sometimes those players are pushing an agenda that isn’t accurate, right? The Wardell Mack bit is just fucking idiotic. Was he kidnapped by some evil cartel, injected with enough booze to register as drunk and then put him behind a wheel? 

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Bobby

The Horns are working through a couple of injuries that have gone unreported.

At least one defensive starter will be out for Saturday's game. The injury is not expected to be long-term in nature, maybe a couple of weeks.

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Posted
30 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I know they pay players for intel, but they have to realize that sometimes those players are pushing an agenda that isn’t accurate, right? The Wardell Mack bit is just fucking idiotic. Was he kidnapped by some evil cartel, injected with enough booze to register as drunk and then put him behind a wheel? 

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Posted
53 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I know they pay players for intel, but they have to realize that sometimes those players are pushing an agenda that isn’t accurate, right? The Wardell Mack bit is just fucking idiotic. Was he kidnapped by some evil cartel, injected with enough booze to register as drunk and then put him behind a wheel? 

I thought it was driving under the influence of a gummy, as opposed driving while intoxicated.

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31 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

Bobby

The Horns are working through a couple of injuries that have gone unreported.

At least one defensive starter will be out for Saturday's game. The injury is not expected to be long-term in nature, maybe a couple of weeks.

Our depth is so crazy that this could be virtually anyone not named Colin Simmons and it won't really matter (I mean even if we wren't playing shithooks the next three weeks). 

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15 hours ago, Jimmy Two Times said:

CJ Vogel is an idiot, but he's not really wrong here. It's not like Sark would say "Yeah, funny thing about that is I actually mentally black out as soon as we get in goal to go situations. I am a bad playcaller and I don't know how to score red zone touchdowns." I'm not opposed to the question being asked but it is kind of diminishing returns at this point. 

As the stats show, we're better than Ohio State in most other places but the red zone kills us

 

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Posted
16 minutes ago, texifornia said:

As the stats show, we're better than Ohio State in most other places but the red zone kills us

 

OSU also turtled half the game. 
 

Got me thinking back to the Turtle Tom days. First time I’d thought about that part of Herman’s tenure in years 

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45 minutes ago, texifornia said:

As the stats show, we're better than Ohio State in most other places but the red zone kills us

 

Yeah, I'm not saying that we don't have major issues in the red zone. We might have a national championship in the last two years if we executed there. I just don't really think Kirk Bohls asking Sark for an explanation gets us any interesting or new information at this point, which was the point of the original post. 

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Posted
4 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

I wouldn’t expect a lot of sacks. SJS’ offense is predicated on quick passes.  

I'm hoping for clean deflection, possible tip drills, ints, and hopefully a pick 6.

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1 hour ago, Red Five said:

I thought it was driving under the influence of a gummy, as opposed driving while intoxicated.

No clue. Sub in "injected a gummy" for the booze part. It's a dumb fucking take to say he wasn't out late and doesn't party. He was arrested after midnight, was he not? Even to college students, after midnight can be considered late night. If getting high isn't some version of partying to the source, the source fucking sucks. It read like gaslighting and they shouldn't have published that nonsense. It's no different than CJ Vogel telling his audience that there was no real issue with Goosby's health pretty much while Goosby was at the hospital undergoing surgery. 

11 minutes ago, BurgleBro said:

I'm hoping for clean deflection, possible tip drills, ints, and hopefully a pick 6.

Nothing wrong with hoping for any of that, but take a look at the CSU box score from last year. SJSU isn't the same team, but there are similarities between the approaches for each offense. 

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2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

I know they pay players for intel, but they have to realize that sometimes those players are pushing an agenda that isn’t accurate, right? The Wardell Mack bit is just fucking idiotic. Was he kidnapped by some evil cartel, injected with enough booze to register as drunk and then put him behind a wheel? 

Is he underage?  If so, any amount of booze is a DUI not just drunk levels.

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1 minute ago, Gene Parmesan said:

Is he underage?  If so, any amount of booze is a DUI not just drunk levels.

God. Poetic license was murdered by the Internet. The rise of pedantry might actually be the clarion call for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. 

Do you also think it is improbable that a cartel set him up, Gene?

 

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3 hours ago, closetojumping said:

I know they pay players for intel, but they have to realize that sometimes those players are pushing an agenda that isn’t accurate, right?

I don’t know why it never occurred to me that this would happen.

Parker is on their payroll obviously.

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I'm gonna be pissed if Sark shuts down the offense in second half if we have a comfortable lead at halftime. 

These players have been through a gauntlet of tough opponents over the last 12 games. Let them have fun and gain some confidence. If only there was a phrase for not letting up and and trying to dominate throughout...

 

 

 

 

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21 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

I'm gonna be pissed if Sark shuts down the offense in second half if we have a comfortable lead at halftime. 

 

I'll be more pissed if we don't have a comfortable lead at halftime. 

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Posted (edited)
27 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

I'm gonna be pissed if Sark shuts down the offense in second half if we have a comfortable lead at halftime. 

These players have been through a gauntlet of tough opponents over the last 12 games. Let them have fun and gain some confidence. If only there was a phrase for not letting up and and trying to dominate throughout...

 

 

 

 

As @closetojumping implied, possible CSU box score incoming. 

 

Semi related what if we see Caldwell in the 4th 😆 

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Posted (edited)
26 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

I'll be more pissed if we don't have a comfortable lead at halftime. 

Stop. Texas is going to beat the fucking brakes off of this team. There's way too much anchoring bias going on because of who we had to play week 1. And they're going to be pissed off coming off that loss. The 3 G5s we played last season lost by a combined 159-10.

Even if Arch does his cold-starting a chainsaw impression again the D and S/T won't need any help dragging their nuts on these guys. Maybe the O is still a little clunky and it winds up something like 38-7 or 42-10 instead of 56-0. Either way Texas will be able to get way into the depth chart by the 4Q. 

(Vegas has it 44.5 to 8 fwiw)

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7 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Stop. Texas is going to beat the fucking brakes off of this team. There's way too much anchoring bias going on because of who we had to play week 1. And they're going to be pissed off coming off that loss. The 3 G5s we played last season lost by a combined 159-10.

Even if Arch does his cold-starting a chainsaw impression again the D and S/T won't need any help dragging their nuts on these guys. Maybe the O is still a little clunky and it winds up something like 38-7 or 42-10 instead of 56-0. Either way Texas will be able to get way into the depth chart by the 4Q. 

(Vegas has it 44.5 to 8 fwiw)

Stop what? I wasn't predicting it. Just making a snarky comment. I couldn't care less if Sark slows the offense down in the second half. We need to work on execution of all plays, including running into a stacked box. We don't learn much by showing that Wingo is faster than everyone for San Jose State's defense. 

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4 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

Stop what? I wasn't predicting it. Just making a snarky comment. I couldn't care less if Sark slows the offense down in the second half. We need to work on execution of all plays, including running into a stacked box. We don't learn much by showing that Wingo is faster than everyone for San Jose State's defense. 

I've seen too much Texas football to even want to speak those things into existence. 

I just wanna see Arch hit some throws. 

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On 9/3/2025 at 3:38 PM, ztejas said:

Hey asshole - I may not be better than you but I proudly wore the Texas women's volleyball t-shirt that the nice folks at the downtown men's shelter provided me with Sunday following the game. It didn't even have that many cigarette-burn holes in it and only kind of smelled like urine this time. 

Maybe that means I get less handouts while I'm panhandling on the side of the highway - but those are the sacrifices that us real fans make.

That's dope. Anyone know where I can find an official UT volleyball shirt for men? I'd weer the shit of it. 

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49 minutes ago, William Bludworth said:

That's dope. Anyone know where I can find an official UT volleyball shirt for men? I'd weer the shit of it. 

Sunrise Church in South Austin.

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1 minute ago, Hornmatic said:

Damn shame I couldn’t find a gif for this one. 
 

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I've tried to find a gif for the scene that, I think follows that, where Pigvomit says: "You goddamn motherfuckers." I'd like to be able to post that on this site many times a month.

Posted
10 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

I wouldn’t expect a lot of sacks. SJS’ offense is predicated on quick passes.  


This is totally inaccurate. Like, not even directional correct. San Jose St runs a lot of deep passing plays and rarely throws WR screens. 

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59 minutes ago, texifornia said:

SJSU bringin their stormtrooper uniforms to DKR

 

 

11 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I didn't realize an outfit could be called a "stormtrooper" look if the helmet wasn't white.

I agree with CTJ.  All whites are only storm troopers if the helmet is also white. 

 

 

 

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Friday - Bobby

Spoiler

OTF Premium Friday

 

Bobby Burton

By Bobby Burton

  • 9 hours ago
 

Yesterday, the NCAA Rules Oversight Committee voted to endorse a new transfer portal timeline, one that starts Jan. 2 of 2026 and lasts 10 days.

The new timeline would restrict transfers to a single window of time instead of having two different ones as is the case currently (one window after the regular season in December and then another after spring ball in April/May).

That endorsement of the Oversight Committee carries a lot of weight, but it is not final. The Rules Administration Committee must act before Oct. 1 of this year for it to become the transfer portal rule in January of 2026.

While some may be concerned with the players of the four teams remaining in the playoffs in early January, it's likely that there would be waivers for players on those teams. For instance, a year ago, the NCAA instituted a 10-day window after a team's final game to enter into the portal.

A single portal window is exactly what college coaches have been asking for. They want to calm the flow of players between schools to at least a reasonable pace.

The single portal period would be a move in the right direction for the sport.

But I actually don't think it's the best move the committee endorsed yesterday.

The committee also put forth the recommendation that the entire month of December becomes a recruiting "dead" period. A dead period is not exactly what you might think. Players can still be recruited, coaches can still make phone calls, talk to parents, agents, etc.

But both players and coaches can not make in-person visits. So there can be no official visits to a college campus in mid-December and there can be no coaches on the road the entire month.

My biggest beef with the previous transfer rules is that the timing of them seemed to benefit teams and coaches who did not make the post-season, whether that be a conference championship game, a bowl game or the college football playoffs.

Remember last year when Texas effectively lost a week in recruiting because they were playing in the SEC Championship game?

The previous rules effectively penalized teams who had a good season. That wouldn't be the case any longer if this ruling is enacted.

**

The Horns are working through a couple of injuries that have gone unreported.

At least one defensive starter will be out for Saturday's game. The injury is not expected to be long-term in nature, maybe a couple of weeks.

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During yesterday's media availability, Steve Sarkisian mentioned several players he was looking forward to seeing in action this week. Among them was Nick Brooks, the true freshman offensive lineman.

Prior to his arrest on DUI charges following spring practice, there was talk that Brooks might push for a starting spot come fall camp. He is/was that talented.

I know most folks will be looking at players like Christian Clark and Nick Townsend tomorrow, and they should. After all, they'll be the ones likely to produce the oohs and aahs if they get the ball in their hands.

But Brooks could be one to watch. I don't know what a reconfigured offensive line would look like with Brooks. But this is a guy with the size of Cam Williams and the athleticism that more closely matches Kelvin Banks or DJ Campbell.

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Speaking of the offensive line, I am hoping to see continued strength in the OL tomorrow.

Yes, they looked good against Ohio State. But we don't want OL play to be a fluke.

The big guys - on both sides of the ball, actually - need to enforce their will on San Jose State.

 

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