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8 minutes ago, speed817 said:

So who would we bring in to replace Flood?  Do we try to bring Searels back?

I know some TCU boosters who would be happy to broker a trade of Ricker for Flood. 

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10 minutes ago, speed817 said:

So who would we bring in to replace Flood?  Do we try to bring Searels back?

How is there no new coaching blood in this position group? Does any OL coach with a pulse become an OC? And so to have someone that will stick around they have to be incompetent? 

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I think it has more to do with the offense. We’ve had poor results with industry veterans like Wickline, Herb Hand, and now Flood. I don’t think pro style offenses are that suitable for the college game. When it’s working it’s cool, but it’s not plug & play, success doesn’t translate to new personnel seamlessly. Our most dominant ground game in the last 15 years came from the Veer & Shoot, that OL coach is at ECU. 

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We are so, so much worse in the middle of the line than last year. And we lost Hayden Conner and Jake Majors. They were not exactly Studdard and Sendlein. How is it possible the players we are playing there are that much worse than those two?

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Other than Calvin Banks, who was the top high school OT recruit in his class, which lineman has Flood developed? Sark's tendency to keep the dead weights around will be the downfall of him.

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4 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

did we leave him on the tarmac in gainesville?

Hopefully we left him in front of the plane on the runway. 

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That O line is horrible. Florida was mainly rushing only 4 guys and they still had trouble pass blocking majority of the game man. Have they been playing these last few weeks? I wonder if it's 2010 again when guys were skipping workouts. 

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Another thing I noticed is how sometimes one of our linemen would completely miss a block and let a defender come through and poor Arch was running for his life. A few of those Florida sacks the RB would bump them some and wouldn't stay with the block, or they couldn't block and got pushed right into Arch. That shit needs to be fixed. 

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14 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Never trust anyone named Kyle. 

You know, I can actually confirm this. We left a bar on 6th one night after not giving a fuck, and Kyle (you dip-shitted twat-faced horrible dorm mate) just tore out of the street and ran into a truck and got out and ran and left the other 3 of us alone until the cops arrived. Surprisingly we didn't get a ticket and he gave us a ride back to campus. Kyle comes in the next morning and asks "Hey, where'd y'all go? I thought you would be right behind me?" Fucking brainlet dumb fuck.  He didn't even go to jail! His car was all fucked up, tho. That sucked caused it was a 1970-something impala. A rolling pussy wagon. 

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I got to thinking about prior shit shows under Sark and the one that comes to mind is how bad our defense was looking under PK during Sarks first season.  Didn’t Sark bring in Gary Paterson as a consultant during the second year of Sarks regime to help PK fix the Defense?  Who out there in college or of NFL pedigree is an offensive line guru who could step in help Flood get his head out of his ass?   

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would prefer to post this in the open but out of respect to the caveman spoiling the same thread from another board which is a nice summary

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We've already seen Kyle Flood's absolute best at Texas, and it wasn't good enough to win a championship. The 2024 OL was the most experienced line Ive ever seen at Texas and very talented, with multiple expensive five-stars and future draft picks. It was the payoff year of a multi year investment and development cycle and what were the returns? Weak at the point of attack. Can't run the ball AT ALL on the top tier teams in college football. And the absurd amount of penalties which is the most consistent feature of Sark's tenure at Texax (which happens to coincide with Floods tenure as OL coach at Texas). So should we be surprised at the steep year over year degradation in performance along the OL now? Actually, we should be somewhat because none of us really knew what Flood has been cooking up in the OL development pipeline over the past few years. We do now. And it's gross. Flood has had broad autonomy to identify his guys in recruiting and then coach them up over years. Fail and fail. None of his multi-year developmental interior OL are fit for purpose. Notably, most of these were not highly touted recruits that involved any material NIL investment or even a competitive recruitment. We took culture guys with the right measurements. Very Mack Brown. And we also have a looming tackle crisis in 2026, Floods fifth season at Texas. That's the talent acquisition/roster management failure. The developmental failure is also manifest. These guys are shockingly weak at the point of attack, miss assignments, commit penalties at an alarming rate and lack technique. So what exactly has Flood been doing at Texas? Not knowing his own unit, clearly, because we were hearing that we had TEN players we trusted to start on the OL this year. What a joke. I don't see any way Sark can bring Flood back next season. This is a catastrophic failure across the board - talent evaluation, roster management, development, performance. Failure to correct persistent problems. We need an off-season emergency talent transfusion and a complete overhaul to our OL program. Flood's gotta go.

 

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in the above spoiled content the following names are mentioned:

Matt Mattox

Greg Studrawa

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Oct 05, 10:49 AM
I rarely post in program information anymore on message boards. But since it is always more overreaction than logic after a loss I'll share what was said this morning from those that can affect change. Arch is not thought of negatively by those that understand development. The gameplan was just flat out bad on both sides of the ball. The crux of it all is line play. After the game Flood was heavily discussed. Not because of 1 game but because of the current state of the OL in both pipeline and development. Those that spend the money are quite aware that we will be spending a great bit of our portal allocation to the OL. I personally think that Flood making it to next year is about 50/50 after the conversations I was privileged to participate in. There are 7 games left. He is actually coaching for his job. The LG decisions are just really problematic. The lack of portal addtions is on Sark and Flood. Sark ain't going anywhere so you can do the math. We will see. This team is an OL away from winning a Natty. Regardless of your belief. Young talent needs time to develop. We are incredibly talented everywhere but the OL. The RB room is hard to judge given the fact that there is literally nowhere to run at the moment.

 

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Just looked at our OL on the roster and it's grim going forward outside of a few like Cruz (hope and fingers crossed), Connor Robertson (hope), Nate Kibble (a for sure hit), Brooks (let's see), Neto (if he doesn't transfer and gets his shit together. Hope. Fingers crossed), Baker (quality snaps already, he'll get better. Not worried), Goosby (stud), Chatman (still young, but promising), Cojoe (hopefully an upgrade at RG on penalties alone). 

9. That's grim. Only 2 of which I can definitively say will/have panned out in Goosby, Baker, and Kibble. The others, I don't know. What an absolute shit show. 

Kyle Flood needs to be fired for negligence, laziness,incompetence, moronity. 

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1 hour ago, Nueces River Rat said:

I got to thinking about prior shit shows under Sark and the one that comes to mind is how bad our defense was looking under PK during Sarks first season.  Didn’t Sark bring in Gary Paterson as a consultant during the second year of Sarks regime to help PK fix the Defense?  Who out there in college or of NFL pedigree is an offensive line guru who could step in help Flood get his head out of his ass?   

Fixing the defense had little to do with Patterson and more to do with getting better players. Kwiatowski had plenty of skins on the wall to need Patterson. The problem with the defense is the giant hole Bo Bavis left in his room when he left and having to overspend on DT talent from the portal. Now, Flood has had 5 years and gotten almost every player he wanted and the OL looks completely lost. There were veterans in the portal available to replace the 4 starters that were lost. hell OSU lost just as much as we did and went to the portal and their OL is getting better as the season goes, ours has gotten much worse. It's been 5 years and the same simple stunts and simulated pressures confound this OL consistently. Of course, it also doesn't help that Sarkisian's system offers few quick throws and doesn't try to take advantage of the middle of the field with in breaking routes and slants unless it's a RPO.

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19 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

@immamac the last 2-3 pages of the OL-talk thread, this thread, and the who is the next OC thread, are the same discussion, requesting you please merge all of it in to one thread whichever one makes most sense

 

Last time Sark was an HC, his OC drove him to drink, and he got fired. For cause, no buyout and the OC got his job.

Would you ever hire another OC?

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Hagbard Celine said:

would prefer to post this in the open but out of respect to the caveman spoiling the same thread from another board which is a nice summary

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We've already seen Kyle Flood's absolute best at Texas, and it wasn't good enough to win a championship. The 2024 OL was the most experienced line Ive ever seen at Texas and very talented, with multiple expensive five-stars and future draft picks. It was the payoff year of a multi year investment and development cycle and what were the returns? Weak at the point of attack. Can't run the ball AT ALL on the top tier teams in college football. And the absurd amount of penalties which is the most consistent feature of Sark's tenure at Texax (which happens to coincide with Floods tenure as OL coach at Texas). So should we be surprised at the steep year over year degradation in performance along the OL now? Actually, we should be somewhat because none of us really knew what Flood has been cooking up in the OL development pipeline over the past few years. We do now. And it's gross. Flood has had broad autonomy to identify his guys in recruiting and then coach them up over years. Fail and fail. None of his multi-year developmental interior OL are fit for purpose. Notably, most of these were not highly touted recruits that involved any material NIL investment or even a competitive recruitment. We took culture guys with the right measurements. Very Mack Brown. And we also have a looming tackle crisis in 2026, Floods fifth season at Texas. That's the talent acquisition/roster management failure. The developmental failure is also manifest. These guys are shockingly weak at the point of attack, miss assignments, commit penalties at an alarming rate and lack technique. So what exactly has Flood been doing at Texas? Not knowing his own unit, clearly, because we were hearing that we had TEN players we trusted to start on the OL this year. What a joke. I don't see any way Sark can bring Flood back next season. This is a catastrophic failure across the board - talent evaluation, roster management, development, performance. Failure to correct persistent problems. We need an off-season emergency talent transfusion and a complete overhaul to our OL program. Flood's gotta go.

 

Small correction, 2026 would be flood's 6th year, not 5th.  Which makes it even worse somehow 

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