Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Not wholly disagreeing with your post, but with respect to Concepcion and Craver, sometimes there's luck involved. And Mosely seems to be a bright spot in the receiving corps from the portal. I'm thinking a big part of the problem with WR is the same one with Arch. The shittastic OL really fucked up their development curve. To me, this all comes back to the colossal failure that is the OL in Sark's fifth year.
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Adopt A Playoff Team?
That's some 2008 thinking right there.
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Texas @ Georgia November 15, 2025 - The Beginning or The End
They're the elite of the elite, no question. And they've been building it at least twice as long as Texas under Sark. Day gets the benefit of continuity from Urb. Smart from Richt. Sark gets . . . Tom Herman.
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Adopt A Playoff Team?
Yeah, IU, or gulp ND. I'm not sure IU is going to fare very well against intense competition, but we'll see. For all the reasons we have to hate ND, Freeman is a likable guy with a likable team.
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Texas @ Georgia November 15, 2025 - The Beginning or The End
This comes right back to OL and run game. Sark tries to run more, bleed the clock. Completely rational approach. But mostly because of OL and not just this year, run game just is not that effective, particularly when predictable. Then there's the defense. PK has always had this softish secondary, "keep everything in front of you" approach that just gets worse in "prevent mode."
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[Monkeying Around] Jeff Banks…
Banks is a lot like Flood it seems. Almost instant improvement upon arrival and stagnation since. Kick/punt coverage has been pretty good, returns, also. But there's an issue with penalties and seeming lack of preparation for trick plays, but those are pretty rare except for Kirby.
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2025 Week 13: Arkansas @ Texas.
Same. He put himself in a hell of a spot this off-season with some of his decisions. I recognize the fallacy of "who is better to replace him," but we don't have a great hiring record.
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Landman
The whole ridiculous caricature of its subject matter is pretty specific.
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Hey PK -- What would you say you do here?
Eh, as said before, it seems to be PK's strong preference to keep things in front of the D. Remember DIllon Gabriel? There have been some other pre-Akina performances like that. Akina just compounds the problem.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
I don't know that he's miserable due to his personal life issues, and if he is, I think he probably knows he can't do a geographical to fix them. Geographical is drunk code for moving/running away from a situation. If he's sideline-miserable, I think it's because he knows he fucked the dog with the OL and maybe some of his other decisions in the off-season. With the OL and a brand-new QB, he put himself in a situation that any coach, including Kirby, would be hard-pressed to coach their way out of. It's too bad it has come to this, whatever the reason, but the tale will be told this off-season.
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Hey PK -- What would you say you do here?
Lining up in soft zone has been a PK trademark whole time he's been here. Confused zones have always been an Akina trademark. Toxic combo.
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Texas O-line talk
And for all our alleged talent the last couple of years, the OL was subpar, particularly in run-blocking. Not this level of disaster, but not what you need to win championships against elite teams.
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Texas @ Georgia November 15, 2025 - The Beginning or The End
Doesn't look like Baxter is going to amount to much. Don't know if it's the injuries or just him. He flashed just a little before the injuries started, not enough to know. He's been pretty unimpressive since.
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Our guys are smiling and taking pics on the field
Question relating to the above: how hard has Kirby hit the portal? We act like the portal and NIL are the solution to all recruiting ills. I think it's more like catching lightning in a bottle than a systematic solution for recruiting. Ranking-wise, Sark has recruited better than any coach at Texas since early-mid Mack Brown. Ranking doesn't tell the whole tale, though, obviously. He's also gotten some gems out of the portal. Kirby/UGa has a recruiting machine with long-term success going back 10 years now (and I think Richt was going pretty well there too), just like Saban's Alabama and tOSU. Hell, a couple of our best portal players came from Alabama and Georgia. That might tell you something.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Check out who the kick went to. Doubt that was on purpose, but . . . fuuuuuuck.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Goddammit. Kirby is not "a decent coach." He's the heir apparent to Saban.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Cmon man.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
He fucked the OL and he knows it and bad enough that he can't really coach around it. He almost fucked Arch in the process. What happens in this off-season will tell us a lot.
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Our guys are smiling and taking pics on the field
Maybe the players have an understanding that the team kinda sucks this year.
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Texas @ Georgia Watch Party - Austin - Celis Brewing 10001 Metric Blvd
White and Grand Cru accelerated my alcoholism considerably. Fuck, I'm glad I quit drinking before it became $7.50/pint.
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Texas @ Georgia November 15, 2025 - The Beginning or The End
Yep. Still Sark's fault, but with a serviceable line to start the season, it's probably a whole different deal. Arch and the WR wear in on a more "normal" schedule, run game flourishes more, everything is better. The relatively frequent defensive collapses are a concern, though.
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Texas @ Georgia November 15, 2025 - The Beginning or The End
We've been behind and behind the chains an awful lot.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
6-16 at FAU Herman?
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Gonna double down on this OL?
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Texas @ Georgia November 15, 2025 - The Beginning or The End
I don't give a shit about the playoffs. It was clear four games in this team wasn't doing shit even if it got in the playoffs. A&M is the season now.