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On 9/7/2025 at 9:19 PM, ztejas said:

Agreed but we are still so much better than late-era Mack or any version of Herman ball. Ohio State is really fucking good. No one was questioning our physicality week 1. It isn't an accident that on paper we outplayed them but wound up on the wrong side of the scoreboard. 

There was a ton of slop and concerns to be raised from the SJSU game. What I don't understand is people still putting Arch at the top of the list of concerns. The kid is an absolute fucking baller and he's only going to get better. At this level you can live with accuracy and completion % issues when the guy under center consistently puts the ball in the EZ, doesn't take sacks and runs the ball like Josh Allen. Everything else will come along. 

Worst case this is a "down" year and we have to reload and tinker with some shit (maybe make some staff changes) before taking another crack at it next season. 

Anyone that can't enjoy Texas being perennialy relevant on a national level is a sad sack of shit. We all had to sit through a decade+ of Texas being a routine laughingstock. I'm all for high expectations but everything is still in front of this team and they get 2 more tune-ups before their first test in conference. If I'm Florida I am not looking forward to Oct 4th.

Really good post ztejas!

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On 9/8/2025 at 11:07 AM, Rimbo said:

UTEP is pretty handy, I'll give you that. But I don't think even with that, they'll get a happy ending. They'll need some serious manual stimulation to have a chance.

No? Not a single rep? sigh

 

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Posted
5 hours ago, immamac said:

All I know is this shit sucks. There's no energy and there's nothing to even argue about this season. 

Why is Arch grimacing with every throw?  Thoughts?

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Posted
6 hours ago, immamac said:

All I know is this shit sucks. There's no energy and there's nothing to even argue about this season. 

What's worse...

  • Special Teams
  • OLine fuckups
  • WR group no-shows & lack of separation 
  • No explosive RBs and no RB depth
  • Redzone shitshow
  • Arch's slow processing reading defenses
  • Sark's continued playcalling blunders
  • UTEP Cheerleaders
  • Stadium Vendors

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7 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

What's worse...

  • Special Teams
  • OLine fuckups
  • WR group no-shows & lack of separation 
  • No explosive RBs and no RB depth
  • Redzone shitshow
  • Arch's slow processing reading defenses
  • Sark's continued playcalling blunders
  • UTEP Cheerleaders
  • Stadium Vendors

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Our SP+ ranking for Special Teams is currently 135. Out of 136 FBS teams. WOOF.

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Posted
53 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

What's worse...

  • Special Teams
  • OLine fuckups
  • WR group no-shows & lack of separation 
  • No explosive RBs and no RB depth
  • Redzone shitshow
  • Arch's slow processing reading defenses
  • Sark's continued playcalling blunders
  • UTEP Cheerleaders
  • Stadium Vendors

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I've seen worse.

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Posted

Sark did a lot of experimenting against SJSU, especially with the OL. I really, really hope he decides that's enough and the line and offense need these 2 games to establish an identity. Cut out 99 percent of the zone blocking scheme. Power, gap, pin and pull, gt counter... let the 330 lbs bastards do what they're built to do and go move people. 

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Posted
11 hours ago, Rimbo said:

No? Not a single rep? sigh

 

11 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

Negrep for groveling.

When you pick the most obvious topic for punny references, you've got to rise above the crowd. Keep working on it. It's a pretty steep hill that you've come upon.

Posted
17 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

I think a let down against SJSU should have been expected. They had just lost "the biggest opening game in the history of college football" against the team that knocked them out of the playoffs last year. They put so much into that game all offseason, got their bubble burst, and then had an early start against a team that plays a completely different style than they typically see. There's obviously a lot to clean up, but I don't know how you could expect them to be as dialed in as they were against Ohio State. I think we're going to be okay.

I think this is a great post and is solid counter-energy to what @Wulaw Horn and his band of invertebrates have otherwise been putting forth on this thread. 

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Posted

Bobby is saying as many as 6 players in the two-deep could be out for UTEP.

Wisner, January and Mosley are obviously three. I guess the other three to monitor would be Moore, Taaffe and Simmons? I think it was mentioned Endries exited with an ankle at some point last weekend but I think he returned. 

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Bobby is saying as many as 6 players in the two-deep could be out for UTEP.
Wisner, January and Mosley are obviously three. I guess the other three to monitor would be Moore, Taaffe and Simmons? I think it was mentioned Endries exited with an ankle at some point last weekend but I think he returned. 

Don’t forget Manning’s shoulder injury.
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Posted
10 hours ago, ATXhorn17 said:

Our SP+ ranking for Special Teams is currently 135. Out of 136 FBS teams. WOOF.

Now I don’t feel as bad for making the fire Jeff Banks thread. Maybe I’ll make another!

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I recall consternation after we played Rice and Wyoming in 2023. I also remember us looking pretty good against a ranked Louisiana team in 2021. Plenty of other examples, but there's just not much you can take away, good or bad, in G5 games. The only things I'm focused on are whether Arch can start hitting short and intermediate passes and if the OL can stop committing false starts. 

Posted
10 hours ago, ATXhorn17 said:

Our SP+ ranking for Special Teams is currently 135. Out of 136 FBS teams. WOOF.

SP+ is still mainly using data from last year.

Paragraph right above the rankings:

Note: Early in the season, ratings are based primarily on preseason projections, including special teams ratings. Over the course of the season, preseason numbers are slowly phased out from week to week.

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Posted
1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

I think this is a great post and is solid counter-energy to what @Wulaw Horn and his band of invertebrates have otherwise been putting forth on this thread. 

I mean, I guess we will just have to agree to disagree about where we are at right now. Everyone knows that you are a soft touch and willing to overlook pretty apparent problems because you want to "trust the corches"

I hope I'm wrong.  Still think 10-2 or 11-1 is more probable than any other outcome but I want to see them start playing to a standard on offense sooner rather than later b/c eventually it will matter. 

I'm wound up b/c I truly believe this is the best chance, by far, of winning a national title since 2008/09. I'm grading on a curve with high expectations on this team, and maybe that's unfair.

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SP+ is still mainly using data from last year.
Paragraph right above the rankings:
Note: Early in the season, ratings are based primarily on preseason projections, including special teams ratings. Over the course of the season, preseason numbers are slowly phased out from week to week.

Even taking this into consideration, it seems pretty hard to believe. We haven’t fucked special teams up that badly so far this year.
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Posted
18 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

I'm wound up b/c I truly believe this is the best chance, by far, of winning a national title since 2008/09. I'm grading on a curve with high expectations on this team, and maybe that's unfair.

Winning a national title is never easy, but I'm not sure I can look at this year or future years and say it will be easier than the path we had in 2023 or last year.  As the playoff expands, it creates more opportunities for injuries, bad luck, the ball bouncing in funny ways, etc. The playing field seems to be more level than ever before in the college game due to a variety of factors.

I think we all have high expectations of this team and they need to play better, but it's balancing those expectations with the fact that the sport has changed to the point where you are trying to set yourself up to peak at the right time. Going 10-2 in the regular season and setting yourself up for a playoff run is considered a good season. Hell, 9-3 is likely going to start being considered a good season once the SEC starts playing 9 conference games, if we continue to play the Notre Dame and Ohio State types out of conference. 

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6 minutes ago, Drifterwood said:


Even taking this into consideration, it seems pretty hard to believe. We haven’t fucked special teams up that badly so far this year.

It would be nice to know what is playing into that number on special teams. Are they weighing punting, kicking, and returns all equally? Is there a way to factor in coverage stuff? If your kickoff specialist just kicks it through the endzone every time, so your opponent starts on the 25, how is that compared to a team that kicks it to the 5 and tackles their opponent on the 23?

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