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3 minutes ago, immamac said:

I have a bad feeling about this one guys. The headspace is bad.

Arkansas is a good offense (#12 OFEI). Green is a good QB. Texas secondary hasnt played particularly well the last month.  Any team capable of putting up 30 pts is a legit threat to Texas. Their defense is bad. 94th in DFEI. That should be big advantage, but I have little faith that the OL will make things easy for the offense vs any SEC defense. 

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5 minutes ago, immamac said:

I have a bad feeling about this one guys. The headspace is bad.

Stop it, Texas will mud hole Arkansas on the back of Archibald, formerly knows as knoblauch now known as Mr completion percentage, Manning. Take a shot of something strong and believe. 

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51 minutes ago, MuellerHorn said:

Most important coaching week for Sark since November of 2021 - Gerry

Gerry from the top rope. He isn't wrong, though.

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Most important coaching week for Sark since November of 2021

 

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Most important coaching week for Sark since November of 2021

After an awful fourth quarter and yet another loss to Georgia, Steve Sarkisian now faces his toughest coaching task since November of 2021. Not just his toughest, but easily most important. 

While that may seem extreme because it was year one, this is a true "culture" test and will be very telling about the future of the program under Sarkisian. Texas lost 30-7 in Ames to Iowa State November 6, and followed up by surrendering 57 points at home to Kansas. There were three other losses wrapped around those two games, but it was Iowa State and Kansas that showed a truly broken culture in the Texas program that Sarkisian and staff had to get out of the locker room. 

Since that time, the only talk about the "culture" at Texas has been positive through the program build. You guys know I think "culture" is a bit of a catchphrase that is coach speak for the most part.

But real talk about a program's "culture" is front and center this week. Because it's about to be tested in a way it hasn't in a while. 

Texas is atop the underachievers list of teams this season. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the No. 1 pre-season ranking, this team is much more talented than the performances on the field this season. It's been an undisciplined, inconsistent, at times the look of disinterested leading down the path of how much do you truly care in aftermath of the Florida game. 

I believe this week and Saturday is going to define Sarkisian's tenure moving forward. Texas simply can't lose to a bad Arkansas team. But just as important, the Texas team has to have the appearance that they are pissed off, truly care and are taking the field Saturday to prove a point. Beat Arkansas by a couple of scores, and then beat Texas A&M in Austin six days later. There simply is no other option if Sarkisian want's to keep any of the positive momentum that was built with the program the two seasons prior. 

As bad as the Georgia game was in the way the loss happened, a loss to Arkansas would be disastrous, period. It would send very difficult questions rippling through the university, fan base, nationally, the NIL agent world and more. 

And I will depart with this ... a loss to this Arkansas team should be looked at as unacceptable. Absolutely unacceptable. 

Coach speak is over. Nobody wants to hear it. This week is 100% about accountability, and then performance on Saturday. 

 

I disagree with the premise.  The Arkansas game won't really make a difference one way or another, as far as overall program trajectory.  This is 9.95 hyperbole.  The die has been cast on the Sark era.  Offensively, it's undisciplined football where we can scheme guys open and we move the ball based on whether the QB has the skill and time to hit them, but we can't consistently run the ball or outcoach anyone.  Defensively, it's soft pass defense that needs a crap QB and/or high draft picks at DB to stop people.  None of that will change whether we win or lose the last two games.

Edit:  special teams - it's inconsistent results due to spotty attention to detail.

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6 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

I disagree with the premise.  The Arkansas game won't really make a difference one way or another, as far as overall program trajectory.  This is 9.95 hyperbole.  The die has been cast on the Sark era.  Offensively, it's undisciplined football where we can scheme guys open and we move the ball based on whether the QB has the skill and time to hit them, but we can't consistently run the ball or outcoach anyone.  Defensively, it's soft pass defense that needs a crap QB and/or high draft picks at DB to stop people.  None of that will change whether we win or lose the last two games.

Edit:  special teams - it's inconsistent results due to spotty attention to detail.

We WON’T consistently run the football. Who knows if we can or not?

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9 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

I disagree with the premise.  The Arkansas game won't really make a difference one way or another, as far as overall program trajectory.  This is 9.95 hyperbole.  The die has been cast on the Sark era.  Offensively, it's undisciplined football where we can scheme guys open and we move the ball based on whether the QB has the skill and time to hit them, but we can't consistently run the ball or outcoach anyone.  Defensively, it's soft pass defense that needs a crap QB and/or high draft picks at DB to stop people.  None of that will change whether we win or lose the last two games.

Edit:  special teams - it's inconsistent results due to spotty attention to detail.

if sark loses he's fired, is what he's saying and I don't think it's hyperbole I think it's objective fact that he's losing or has already lost the locker room.

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2 minutes ago, immamac said:

if sark loses he's fired, is what he's saying and I don't think it's hyperbole I think it's objective fact that he's losing or has already lost the locker room.

Ok this is definitely hyperbole.  He is not getting fired if he loses to Arkansas.  Please.  I see no evidence of losing the locker room.  I saw a team that played hard but played generally stupid.  You talk to players, so what is the objective fact besides seeing dumb football on Saturdays?

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17 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:

Stop it, Texas will mud hole Arkansas on the back of Archibald, formerly knows as knoblauch now known as Mr completion percentage, Manning. Take a shot of something strong and believe. 

Sam Houston was 5he only team on our schedule we're capable of mudholing.  This team is shit.

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9 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

Ok this is definitely hyperbole.  He is not getting fired if he loses to Arkansas.  Please.  I see no evidence of losing the locker room.  I saw a team that played hard but played generally stupid.  You talk to players, so what is the objective fact besides seeing dumb football on Saturdays?

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37 minutes ago, immamac said:

I have a bad feeling about this one guys. The headspace is bad.

The headspace on this board is bad because Longhorn fans are ridiculous. I think the team will get it together. 

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I’m pretty sure he won’t be “fired”. If he’s gone it will be something else. I personally think he’s here next year. He needs to reevaluate OL coaching and secondary coaching though.

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4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

The headspace on this board is bad because Longhorn fans are ridiculous. I think the team will get it together. 

I mean yeah eventually. But most teams get it together by week 2 or 3. Not 10

35 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:

Stop it, Texas will mud hole Arkansas on the back of Archibald, formerly knows as knoblauch now known as Mr completion percentage, Manning. Take a shot of something strong and believe. 

This schtick is tired and played out this year. We’ve mud holed zero teams 

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4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

The headspace on this board is bad because Longhorn fans are ridiculous. I think the team will get it together. 

I’m not sure what “get it together” means with this team. They’ve proven for 10 weeks that four quarters of competent football is too much to ask. 

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27 minutes ago, immamac said:

if sark loses he's fired, is what he's saying and I don't think it's hyperbole I think it's objective fact that he's losing or has already lost the locker room.

I have a hard time believing Sark would be fired even if we lose out

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34 minutes ago, immamac said:

if sark loses he's fired, is what he's saying and I don't think it's hyperbole I think it's objective fact that he's losing or has already lost the locker room.

Yep. This is where I’m at. No chance he survives if he loses to 2-8, 0-6 Arkansas and then A&M. If the “die is already cast” on the Sark era, then a horrible loss, followed up by a loss to A&M should do him in more quickly. There are plenty of other reasons there is doubt in Sark. It’s not like he’s getting fired for one season. Going 7-5 and losing to two SEC bottom dwellers after basically telling everyone this is a playoff team is pretty fucking terrible and would be, in my mind, the final nail. 

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1 minute ago, MuellerHorn said:

Yep. This is where I’m at. No chance he survives if he loses to 2-8, 0-6 Arkansas and then A&M. If the “die is already cast” on the Sark era, then a horrible loss, followed up by a loss to A&M should do him in. There are plenty of other reasons there is doubt in Sark. It’s not like he’s getting fired for one season. Going 7-5 and losing to two SEC bottom dwellers after basically telling everyone this is a playoff team is pretty fucking terrible and would be, in my mind, the final nail. 

If they lose to arkansas it won't be by a little. It'll be by a lot. 

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The media is certainly kicking up stuff and putting the onus on Sark for how the season has turned out. If he is not given a chance to turn it around then  it stands to reason imo that more is brewing behind the scenes of just a bad football season. Thats how I read this shit Desmond and others are putting out. Don’t mean it’s true but sometimes where there is smoke there is fucking fire, 🔥 and sometimes people are just talking out their asses. I have never seen Desmond though float stuff like that. But I am not on instagram 

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4 minutes ago, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said:

no press conference today?  or is just really late? 

Probably late. Have they ever been on time? Also just in case…

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I dont know what would happen if he loses to Arkansas at home. A lot of people seem to be stuck in the old model of cfb. Nowadays if you lose the locker room and you lose the donors its pretty much over. The money gets turned off like a light switch, recruits cancel visits, players opt out and hit the portal. You cant even pay for your roster for the next season at that point. You're done. 

Sark would have to go to his money guys and make major promises about hiring a playcalling OC and  shifting gears completely. I just dont see him doing that. 

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49 minutes ago, immamac said:

if sark loses he's fired, is what he's saying and I don't think it's hyperbole I think it's objective fact that he's losing or has already lost the locker room.

Sark's not getting fired before the aggy game, and if we lose to Arky then beat aggy and win a bowl game, Sark will likely be welcome back.

I agree that his seat will get hotter if we blow this game, but I don't think it's a GTFO loss for him.

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24 minutes ago, SuckitKevin said:

PK was at his best when he had a secondary coach that could teach what went with his style. Is Jimmy Lake a possibility?

The most improvement I’ve in the D was when Gary Patterson was brought in as an advisor 

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5 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

It’s amazing what the loss to Florida is doing to this team and fan base

It's also that we got bombed by Georgia and almost lost to Mississippi State and Kentucky.

It's not as if everything's cool if only we'd beaten Florida.

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1 minute ago, Surly Bevo said:

It’s amazing what the loss to Florida is doing to this team and fan base

As long as we play our schedule (including a good OOC game) a "good" Texas team is going to fluctuate between 8-4 and 10-2 and no doubt this board will melt down after every loss.  This probably isn't even a 'good' Texas team but I don't know how long it's going to take people to adjust to the new realities of college football. It happened to Bama last year.  It will absolutely happen to UGA (they won a couple of coin flips this year).  It will happen to OSU although they have the benefit of a significantly weaker bottom half of the conference.  But it's not a coincidence that the 3 undefeated teams played the weakest conference schedule of the top 10 teams.

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6 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

It's also that we got bombed by Georgia and almost lost to Mississippi State and Kentucky.

It's not as if everything's cool if only we'd beaten Florida.

If we beat Florida, we have a loss to the #1 and #4 teams in the country, both on the road.  Nobody would be thrilled with how Georgia went or the escapes at the other places (kind of like last year when folks were not happy with getting bombed by Georgia or the struggles putting away Vandy, KY, Arky etc....)  but no I don't believe for a moment the dynamic would be the same as it is right now.  

And I should add, I am not saying the dynamic now isn't necessarily warranted, just that I think that is the result that is really at the heart of it.  

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We didnt just lose to Florida. What happened to the OL this season and especially in that game is completely unacceptable. It was a massive red flag that something is very seriously wrong inside the program. Our prized SEC royalty QB has been getting completely punished and we are dead last in the SEC in rushing. Thats with our donors giving Sark extreme levels of support both with $$$ and patience. 

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18 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

It’s amazing what the loss to Florida is doing to this team and fan base

Whatever. We are lucky as fuck to be 7-3.

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26 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Sark's not getting fired before the aggy game, and if we lose to Arky then beat aggy and win a bowl game, Sark will likely be welcome back.

I agree that his seat will get hotter if we blow this game, but I don't think it's a GTFO loss for him.

If they get blown out there is no coming back for aggy. The team will be checked the fuck out, which is the concern right now. This team checked out in Athens. 

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32 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Sark's not getting fired before the aggy game, and if we lose to Arky then beat aggy and win a bowl game, Sark will likely be welcome back.

I agree that his seat will get hotter if we blow this game, but I don't think it's a GTFO loss for him.

In 2025 a non-playoff bowl game should have no impact on job status. They’re truly meaningless with the portal and opt outs and nobody giving a shit. 

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24 minutes ago, Skipper said:

As long as we play our schedule (including a good OOC game) a "good" Texas team is going to fluctuate between 8-4 and 10-2 and no doubt this board will melt down after every loss.  This probably isn't even a 'good' Texas team but I don't know how long it's going to take people to adjust to the new realities of college football. It happened to Bama last year.  It will absolutely happen to UGA (they won a couple of coin flips this year).  It will happen to OSU although they have the benefit of a significantly weaker bottom half of the conference.  But it's not a coincidence that the 3 undefeated teams played the weakest conference schedule of the top 10 teams.

Bama was in year one after losing the greatest CFB coach of all time. We’re in year 5 of a guy that should have never been offered the job. 

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3 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Bama was in year one after losing the greatest CFB coach of all time. We’re in year 5 of a guy that should have never been offered the job. 

Yes, because Bama replaced that head coach with another really good head coach that almost won a national championship with a Pac 12 school. You don't think there was some great roster talent still at Alabama after Saban left? DeBoer was a no brainer hire for anyone. Yet still lost a head scratcher to a shitty OU team that kept his team out of the playoff. And there was a point where the fans wanted him run out on a rail both last season and after FSU. 

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1 hour ago, Sgt Hulk said:

I mean yeah eventually. But most teams get it together by week 2 or 3. Not 10

This schtick is tired and played out this year. We’ve mud holed zero teams 

For the record we mud holed OU (again)and don’t let them forget it. It was the one bright moment this season.

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1 minute ago, Hank_Hill said:

For the record we mud holed OU (again)and don’t let them forget it. It was the one bright moment this season.

And considering that OU has won in Knoxville and Tuscaloosa with that shitty offense, you're damn right it was a mudhole. 

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14 minutes ago, immamac said:

If they get blown out there is no coming back for aggy. The team will be checked the fuck out, which is the concern right now. This team checked out in Athens. 

That is all true.  If the Arky game cascades into the aggy game and we lose both, then Sark has to be done here.

I just don't think the Arky game by itself does it.

What I think is more likely is that we beat Arky, maybe easily, then we lose to aggy.  And at 8-4, then what re: Sark?

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1 hour ago, Pig Bellmont said:

I have a hard time believing Sark would be fired even if we lose out

No way Texas jumps into this bananas coaching carousel.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Sbbruin said:

No way Texas jumps into this bananas coaching carousel.

Hey man, didn't you hear. We're Texas, we can get whoever we want.......

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9 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Yes, because Bama replaced that head coach with another really good head coach that almost won a national championship with a Pac 12 school. You don't think there was some great roster talent still at Alabama after Saban left? DeBoer was a no brainer hire for anyone. Yet still lost a head scratcher to a shitty OU team that kept his team out of the playoff. And there was a point where the fans wanted him run out on a rail both last season and after FSU. 

This year's ou loss was also bad and they're now an Auburn loss away from missing the playoff and wanting him gone again.  And DeBoer is and would still be a really good coach.

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