Everything posted by Thatguy
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Texas Roster 2026
This is a board full of Texas grads so I will speak in term that we all understand. Awhile back I worked for an organization at the executive level. Every week I was on a call and all we talked about was the usual, ways to flow money to the bottom line to increase shareholder profits. Most of the discussion was ways to take from the little guy in the company. For example, if your bonus criteria was 50% Ebidar and 50% top line sales, we would give you a YOY goal that was unattainable, or if you were hitting it we would raise it mid year. Anywho, I hated the organization. I wanted to leave. As a former athlete I have torn my ACL 3 times, and needed an OATS procedure plus shaving of my meniscus. I had 90 days full disability pay so I took it. I was out 89 days and when I came back I turned in my notice. That's what people do when they don't like you. Our players are the same way. Our coaches go over their houses and sit on their coaches and tell their mothers how they are going to take care of their babies. Then they get them signed and forget about them. The kids are over on the other part of the field working with the 3's and 4's and the coach, self admittedly, isn't seeing them because he is busy with the starters. Kids feel hopeless. Then that hopelessness turns to being jaded. Then when the time comes and they have a chance to turn around and put a dick in your ass they are going to do it. Now are you going to stop kids from asking for more money? No. But if Sark was moving around, watching all the kids at practice, and giving them a little pat on the back, saying, "Keep working. I see you", that gives kids hope. A bigger rotation where kids get in the game and get to make a play makes them feel seen and gives them hope. Not going "We're Texas" and telling kids if you get in the portal you are never coming back might help. How many players went back to their schools. Pushing kids out of the program for the next shiny object is another one. Many here might disagree with what I am saying but what we can all agree on is the way they are currently managing things isn't working. People turn ugly when they feel unwanted or unappreciated.
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Texas Roster 2026
Agreed and i will take it one step further- The O-line has been a problem for Sark's entire tenure here. Bijan masked a lot of the problems at first as well as the general weakness of the Big12. People like to bring up that they got drafted but the problem wasn't if they did or did not have talent. It was that they were a mismatch and therefore struggled against strong opponents. Here is what I mean from left to right. Banks could do both pass pro and run block. Conner was great at pass pro but was getting pushed in the backfield on run plays. Majors struggled handling someone solo in the run game. Campbell was mauling people in the run game but struggled with simple line stunts and such in pass pro. Williams was one of if not the most penalized players in college football and, as we know, prone to whiffing on his assignment in pass pro. When you build a team you start with a concept. Then you recruit O-linemen that fit your ideology. Michigan says we are going to run the football. So they pick linemen who above all can move people in the run game. As such Michigan has rushed for at least 100 yards vs Ohio State 5 out of 5 times the last 5 years, with a 252 yard performance, and a 297 yard performance in there. We don't build to an identity. We just grab guys. We had enough in the passing game but Sark can't help but chase shiny objects. We really really really need help on the O-line but here we are. We will likely grab guys just like the old guys and end up struggling to run again this year. We let a couple guys go that we know for a couple hundred thousand to chase a dude that will cost a couple million and we don't know will work out in our system. We have to fix the interior O-line. It's a must in order to make a deep run.
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Texas Roster 2026
And that's exactly what they weren't doing. Did you get hit on the head? What is wrong with you? At no point was Georgia worrying about our running game. You are arguing hypotheticals that didn't happen. Geezus dude everyone and their momma knows we were better out of 11 than 12. Stop.
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Texas Roster 2026
Look dude, you are losing focus. The point of the still was to show how they were lining up vs 12 personnel. What does rolling coverages from Cover 2 to 3 or 4 to confuse the QB have to do with anything about the run game? Answer- Nothing. If a team respects your running game they are going to add a man to the box. Simple as that. Last year ND ran the ball primarily out of 11 personnel. As the game wore on Georgia started walking down a safety to deal with ND's running game. If you are getting killed in the running game you are not going to keep lining up 12 yards off the ball at the snap. Why are we even having this discussion? Again, in 2026 I am not going to waste time arguing with you. Good running game = more guys in the box. More guys in the box = less guys against the pass. = what makes 12 personnel effective. Unless you are us and can't run the ball no matter what you are in. I am not "ignoring the effectiveness of personnel groupings". I am saying if you don't have the roster to run what you want run what you can to the best of your ability. Flawed or not.
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Geezus dude, you are always so argumentative. Whether or not a single play was successful or not is not important. It is a fact that both this year and last year we were far more effective out of 11 personnel than 12. That is not even up for debate. Go chart the game play by play yourself and you will see that what I am saying is correct. I don't know what it is about you that when I post, no matter how true it is, you are going to instantly oppose it. I could say the sky is blue and you would say "well actually....".
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Texas Roster 2026
As you know Codaxx, 6 O-line and 12 personnel packages only work if you can force the defense to bring extra men into the box to handle the run. That means no 2 safeties over the top and 1v1 coverages on the outside. However, if teams ignore your big packages and simply sit back in coverage, it's all worthless, and might as well run more receivers. Here is Gawga last year in the SEC Championship game sitting in two deep while we are in 12 personnel. Safeties 12 fucking yards off the ball, giving zero fucks about the run game. Here is Georgia this year with Arch still sitting back in coverage while we are in 12 personnel. Again, safeties 12 g-damned yards off the ball, caring as much about the run game as @Nicole44 cares about a relationship with anyone on Surly. Sorry fellas. What the Dawgs look like when they respect your 12 personnel. Safety walked up in the box creating space on the outside for receivers. Again, if there is no change in how they defend you when you line up with two tight ends on the field(12 personnel), and you are still going to run the football for 30 fucking yards, why would you hamstring your QB in the passing game with less targets? Sark is stubborn about his 12 personnel. That dude loves him some tight ends, but he doesn't have the personnel to run it. So dude runs it anyway, and we all blame the quarterback when dumb ass Sark has Juan Davis and Spencer Shannon in the game, instead of a 3rd receiver. "Why can't he find anyone open?". That's the kind of shit I was pointing out last year with Quinn but people only wanna listen now that it's Arch, and "he has all the tools", so it can't be him. Yeah, for those that are just tuning in it's been going on for a couple seasons now. Finally coach gave in and started running way more 11 personnel. That, and a big change in route concepts, is a lot of the reason Arch turned the corner. That said, you know Sark is salivating to go right back to 12 personnel heavy percentages as soon as he thinks we can run it. @Nicole44 once said, "It's like he is auditioning for the NFL, and I think she is dead on. Until we fix the interior O-line all of this is shit. Doesn't matter if you have two tight ends out there mauling people if your guard and center are getting ragdolled like Colt was by Ndomukong Suh in the 09 Big12 CCG.
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Texas Roster 2026
Yep. The whole purpose of 12 personnel is so you can have an advantage in the run game by putting bigger bodies on the field. The reason why 12 sucked so much here the last two years is because the interior O-line can't block. Someone was always getting beat. Either getting pushed in the backfield or beat so quickly that the back had to juke a defender a millisecond after getting the ball. So you have no running advantage and your second TE can't catch passes. So basically you just volunteered a receiving target off the field making it easier to defend you. That's why we were so much better in 11. We ran shitty out of 11 too, but at least we could throw it. Lol
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Texas Roster 2026
The position you play doesn't determine if Sark is trying to get you the ball. We move people around too. Progressions change depending on the play design. For example, when we run the fake screen where the blocking receiver fakes his block and then goes, he is the first reed. Sometimes that guy is a TE. Your catches are determined by the amount of times we try to get you the ball. We weren't throwing him the ball dude. Nothing you say can make that different. Again, I will tell you the same thing I said earlier. I have the All22 for these games. I can easily put all the dropbacks up while he was on the field and prove it to you. What you will see is us using him to clear space. Then 2 or 3 times a game we will look his way. Lastly, Mosely played the last 9 games bruh. He was back for the SEC opener.
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Texas Roster 2026
I follow recruiting I just don't participate on our board with the blowhards, and that's exactly what I said. We don't get guys in the rotation and we expect them to feel something for the program? Why would they? No snaps and a kid is hearing you aren't good enough to play here. Some snaps and a kid is hearing you are next. Throwing kids some scraps matters. It shows you believe in them and then maybe just maybe they don't bend your ass over when it comes time to negotiate.
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Texas Roster 2026
Look at it from his perspective. Sark parked his ass on the bench with nary a care about his future. Now all the sudden the tables have flipped and he should be loyal? If Wisner didn't ask for more money and CJ was healthy Clark would've never seen the field. Now he has a little leverage and is probably pissed.
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Texas Roster 2026
Most of the dudes in the portal are leaving their school because they aren't being utilized, which means they aren't Jeremiah Smith. So the negative stories outweigh the positives. The Big Dawgs are usually using who they recruited. So burning bridges is way more harmful to us than it is to a lesser school. Times are different now. When Bama was pushing out players, they had 5 stars on top of 5 stars, so they still won, and kids like going to a winner. However, look at them since the portal. Line isn't great. Can't run the football. Defense is shaky. They no longer can just load up on 5 star kids, so misses and kids opted elsewhere hurt a lot more than they used to. You are thinking about the last part wrong. You said earn your pay. Well, Sark has a short rotation so unless someone in front of you gets knicked up, you aren't getting an opportunity to earn your pay. Seriously, Lockett came in and grabbed two balls and a touch. He probably been pissed off the whole season knowing he was balling in practice but couldn't crack the lineup. That little bit of run he got might just have saved him from entering the portal.
- Texas Roster 2026
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Texas Roster 2026
You are missing the big picture. Livingstone and McCutcheon are both from Lovejoy. Say they both get pushed out after their first year you can say goodbye to getting recruits from Lovejoy going forward. Same with Dibble and the punter from Atascocita. I worry about us burning bridges to high schools that have good talent because of our inability to get kids coached up/minutes/ keep them feeling like they are part of the program. All these kids know each other and are paying attention to what's going on with the classes before them. They talk. If our high school recruits keep not working out we are going to start losing them. That's my real worry. That's the shit that was happening in the 2000's. Ricky(we all love Ricky) was having his issues staying on the field. Cedric flamed out. The big 3 receivers flamed out. We started to be known as the school that couldn't develop offensive players. Then we stop getting them. Texas has not produced one Mike Evans. Look how many LSU got. That's my worry. You start to develop a rep and then the well dries up.
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I said he gets open, not does everything right. Of course hig game needs work he is a freshman. That's what WR coaches are for. I am not going to spend a bunch of time arguing with you. You won't find a single coach that will say that was a good ball. Not one. I will also send you the all 22 for all the games I have and you can point me to where he struggled to get open. The Tape doesn't lie. Cignetti, a guy who does a pretty good job of evaluating talent, offered him a spot. The kid isn't a five star, but he is a solid player, especially considering he is a freshman.
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Bro, there was nothing the receiver did or did not do that was going to stop the DB from getting to that ball by where it was located. I get the receiver didn't run the crispest route, but come on bro. Location was off. It's okay to say "Arch threw a bad ball". It's not going to hurt you. He threw plenty of good balls later. But we are getting away from the point, which is he gets open easily on his targets. We just didn't really target him. My goal in 2026 is not to argue with you as much. So I concede the ball location part of the discussion.
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Ball was thrown behind him on the first one giving the DB a chance to break it up. How, in any world of football, can you blame that on the receiver? Wow. Ball should be thrown to the sideline. Receiver could've attacked it better but that was 100% an off throw. 2nd one if Arch puts that anywhere but on his feet he has 10 more yards, maybe more depending on blocking.
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Parker Livingstone
Somebody that knows what's up. Shit is ugly. Protect your sources.
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Look. I don't pretend to know what he ran. All I know is what he put on tape. He was open when we targeted him. 80% of the time he was on the field he was just out there to run off defensive backs and create space for who Sark wanted the ball to go to. So you can see him running 1/2 speed knowing it's not coming his way, and true to that, Arch never looked his direction. For example, he was targeted 3 times vs Aggy. He was open all 3 times. Two of those were not caught. I will let you judge where the ball was thrown whether or not they should've been. Keep in mind that these are part of his "drops". 2025 Texas O vs Texas A&M.mp4 I have All 22 of the offense vs Ohio State, Kentucky, MSU, Pig, Georgia, Vandy, and Aggy. That's pretty much consistent in every game. You are more than welcome to the film if you wanna take a look. That's why I get so irritated at the way Sark runs his offense. We bury guys in the rotations and progressions and keep them there, even when the other dudes aren't playing well. Imo, a better ball on the two "drops" and Parker finishes the game with 3 for 60-70 or so. McCutcheon same thing. Just out there being a decoy and running off DBs for the other guys.
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- Texas Roster 2026
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Texas Roster 2026
Now Livingstone was below average because we don't like him anymore. Keep in mind as a freshman he had 516 yards and 6 TDs on only 29 targets. He had drops for sure but he wasn't chopped liver. We are going to get somebody out of the portal older than him with his exact stats and talk about it being a solid pickup. I hate the portal sometimes. Ughh. Also, when all of your receivers are dropping the ball you might wanna look at why. Targeting a little off? Ball being rifled at short distances? We need to catch the ball but we also need the ball to be more catchable.
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Parker Livingstone
Lol. What do you think the day crew is doing all day?