When he was hired, I said it was a lateral move at best for Texas. Both guys (Herman, Sark) are offensive mindset geniuses (according to all their peers and everyone in cfb), but there’s no justification for running a program like Texas when he hasn’t made strides running every as a head coach.
Some guys can do everything and delegate like a CEO (like Saban and Urban and even Mack), and others are just really good at specialty things like QB development and running the offense. The guy on the sidelines on Saturday had the look on his face like he had been let down by his team and didn’t know how to react or how to respond. He looked like he wanted to throw up, and just squatting there, staring at his team made it look like he had no idea what to try next.
When it was obvious to everyone to put in a more mobile quarterback when the offensive line was giving Card no time at all, he chose to throw behind the sticks and stick with a qb that couldn’t throw accurate deep balls and provide an a deep ball threat so Arkansas could continue to stack the box (not even stack the box, but just not play deep). As soon as Thompson came in, the offense had a little more life.