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  1. And fail to see that a healthy ration of all that shit is landing on and spattering them.
  2. I think those were very wrongheaded, Arch alone. never mind the other losses. It makes me wonder if, had preseason expectations been more grounded, there would be less angst here.
  3. Yeah, that's the nuttiest part.
  4. And, often, staff changes are part of the death spiral. And, as to what is he doing if he's not OC, there were a lot of people outside of 9.95ers. like former players, praising the culture and recruiting this off-season. And he's certainly improved things significantly.
  5. Well, part of the problem I see here is yeah Saban benched Hurts -- for Tua -- and Milroe for Buchner, who was next up in their pipeline, ahead of current QB Ty Simpson. Not for a guy that was specifically brought in because the next guys in the pipeline were a JAG and a true frosh.
  6. I actually don't recall a throw at anyone's feet last night. Progress?
  7. One wonders has the pundits and $995ers been more realistic about Arch, the losses, and the youth on offense if we'd be a bit less aggro. There are some semi-legit complaints that we should never have a "rebuilding" season, but I think that is unrealistic, even in today's landscape.
  8. Got anything to add?
  9. The preacher was Rev. Eric Folkerth, pastor of Kessler Park UMC and BJ 1985, The University of Texas at Austin. I grew up with him at church and have followed him over the years. Great guy. https://kpumc.org/staff https://ericfolkerth.com/bio
  10. I don't think he's really stopped doing it. These complaints are a lot of the same complaints there have always been. To the extent his body language or coach speak is relevant, I attribute that to frustration and puzzlement. He's obviously fucked up some talent evals, notably that of his OL and OL coach. And overestimated some of his skill players, especially in terms of what of his favorite offensive schemes and calls they can execute reliably. And these are "common-thread" complaints, variations on the same thing. He thought he could do with OL and the rest of his position coaches what he did with PK and has been wrong on that. And should have known better as an offensive guru. And that maybe goes back to the whole "spread too thin" as OC/HC.
  11. That's just a blinding glimpse of the obvious right there. Geezus people. That sort of "arrogance" is inherent to the profession. As the stupidity of interpreting coach speak at pressers is inherent to fanbase.
  12. I'm not saying it's an excuse, per se. There are a lot of coaches, socio- or psychopathic ones most likely, CEO-types too, that wouldn't let this bother them in the least. I think one of the things we initially liked about Sark was that he wasn't one of those types, at least as far as we knew. Sark has a narrow window to correct course here and the fact that he has to do it at all is not particularly encouraging. But I'm not going to pretend that I know or can predict what he's going to do.
  13. We should temper all of this discussion perhaps with an acknowledgement that head football coaches probably do not have conventionally healthy marriages or probably any other kind of personal relationship. It's just the nature of the beast. And, they can afford nannies and all kinds of shit that might keep a wife happy or distracted enough to put up with an absentee husband. That said, at some level, a dysfunctional marriage has to fuck up the coaching part.
  14. The consensus seems to be that we ran an outside-zone heavy run game to exploit Venables' defense, which was known to be exploitable that way. And Tre is pretty good at it. And that opened up a few things for Arch. And we went away from anything consistent like that to a grab bag of concepts that we're not very good at executing. While I can identify an OZ running play and know we didn't run many, I can't analyze much beyond that. Would be happy to hear your thoughts.
  15. I understood. Thought it was an interesting point and very possibly valid. Every now and then, things line up for him and he executes a pretty great throw.
  16. Where is all this Loreal rumor-mongering coming from? The non-rumor facts are probably bad enough in that they announced a divorce and then reconciled over a baby. That just doesn't sound to me like any kind of good personal/private life.
  17. Rather LBJ-ish. I do think CDC is going to have some form of come to Jesus with him, about an OC, some new assistants, something.
  18. I guess part of the reason for the OZ plan against OU is Venables is known to be weak against it. So perhaps the thinking was what worked against OU isn't gonna work against anyone else, or Kentucky. But that seems to be overthink. And maybe Tre was overworked/injured and perceived to be the only reliable RB, especially for OZ running.
  19. Well, if they had scored a TD, they would have won the game, that much is crystal clear. We weren't going to score a TD in OT absent extraordinary luck. But why not wait until another OT to do that? Because against our DL, that was a very low-percentage play. There is a line of thinking, though, that if you can't punch it in from the 1, you should just quit football. See, eg, every surly game thread with the ball on the 1 in the last five years, but especially against UGa and tOSU, where the odds are also pretty slim.
  20. So, is he a football dumbshit or over-coached. There have been some allusions to all the coaches in his ear, relatives, private coaches, our staff.
  21. I'm not really in favor of mid-season fires, but I wouldn't object to an assistant coach being canned midseason. Especially if that coach is Kyle Flood.
  22. Well, all I have done is explain why a bunch of nattering nabobs thought Arch would be great this year, or at least an improvement on Ewers. It was rational, as far as it went. The bigger question, for which there probably is no single answer, is why does he suck. It seems Sark knew he wasn't ready for prime time last year and was right. I guess he hoped another year would be a breakthrough. Seems he's still hoping there, while the other hand fills with shit. I don't think I'm gonna fault him for not playing Caldwell. Even if he fulfills our expectations, it's a short-term solution that's not going to get us an NC or even in or very far in the CFP. I think Sark has to have his eye on next year and what the blue fuck we're going to do with Arch, Lacey, a gimpy frosh Bell, and whoever we drag in from the portal. Some small chance remains that Arch gets it together. I'm also guessing that it is Sark's preference to bring a QB along relatively slowly, for better or worse. And then there's the OL problem, which may not have a quick fix and also risks headfucking (if not bodyfucking with injury) whoever is QB1 next year.
  23. Definitely. For years and multiple coaches all we hear is we out talent everyone. It's certainly not true when it comes to the UGa and OSUs of world and it may not be true at all. This season, with the Arch hype and the failure to seriously temper OL expectations may be the worst $9.95 yoink in a long history of them.
  24. While they conveniently ignore Miriam Adelson. And the various other weirdo elites like Elmo and Thiel that back them.
  25. You're a much more sophisticated observer than I. I don't see this as being contradictory, I was just speaking in broad strokes about why Arch may have appeared to be the solution to our woes last year. When Arch was in last year, he wasn't asked to do much. If and when he was pressured, he gave the appearance of being more composed than QE. He ran pretty well. He threw better deep balls and, therefore, as stated by gmr, everyone assumed he could throw the short/intermediate passes when called upon to do so. That turned out to be a terrible assumption. And, as you note, it seems he can't see the middle of the field. He's a DC's dream.
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