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  1. This will probably look stupid in hindsight, but I'm starting to develop a gut feeling Texas is going to kick Vandy's teeth in. Something that looks like the aggy game last year. Doesn't get beyond a 10-17 point margin because of clunky offense but doesn't feel that close.
  2. Someone didn't get invited to the frat house. I was referring to the specific position groups I mentioned. Sark is drunk right now. Unless he's not. I don't know. Want a beer?
  3. Well with the rumors about Arch maybe he tought Sark would be cool to party with.
  4. All this talk about takes from back when Sark was hired. We all had'em. Some were right, some were wrong, most were a bit of both. And yet as we sit here today, one Real Man of Genius appears to be firmly in the lead for most accurate take:
  5. I saw an 8-4/9-3 type season as possible, but as more of a floor type outcome. Thinking being that there was a lot to be excited about, but we were replacing a ton of talent, so any step back on the DL, young QB struggles from Manning, and maybe a bad bounce or two could lead a few tough losses the likes of which we'd managed to avoid in 2023-24. I did not expect to be sitting here at the end of October thinking 9-3 is the hard ceiling if absolutely everything goes right. Young and/or inexperienced players having upsand downs is one thing. The OL being the worst in P4 and the QB flirting with that level at times is another thing entirely. Spectacular failure of evaluation and development that can only be laid at the feet of the coaching staff.
  6. My brother in Christ, I don't know if you're a newcomer to Texas football or what, but it was less than four years ago that a 2-10 Kansas team broke its 21 game FBS losing streak in DKR, and they came into the game having not even played a FBS team within one score on the year. Vanderbilt is a 7-1 SEC championship game contender. Texas may win this game, Texas may lose this game, but it will not remotely compare to that.
  7. You mean something like going out and playing your way to a 17 point defecit against Mississippi State after the news breaks the morning of the game? I'm not really worried, it is what it is. I expect playing at home against a top ten opponent is a motivator regardless of the coaching situation. But emotions can change over the course of a given game, over the course of a week, etc. Saying the team's psyche is a wild card - an unknowable factor that could be material to the outcome - isn't worrying; it's just pointing out a fact.
  8. Mack and VY is a great example of my point. Mack & staff recruited VY and ultimately made the decision to stop trying to force things and "let Vince be Vince," as has been repeated so often repeated over the years. If Sark had a 20 year old VY on the roster, do you think he'd adapt and let Vince be Vince, or would he keep trying to fit a square peg in a round hole? We all know the answer because we've seen it and continue to see it.
  9. Sark has done a wonderful job rebuilding the program and raising the floor. Short of a full on meltdown, he's certainly earned the right to lead the program and try to take that last step for the foreseeable future. That said, to me it seems obvious his flaws as a coach will hold us back from going from the top 5-10 level squads he's put together the past couple years to winning a NC, and I think last year may be the closest we ever get to a SEC title under him too (very light 8 game league schedule that will never be replicated). If some NFL team wants to give us a get out of Sark free card and we have a chance to hire someone better suited for the task at hand now, which is different from the task at hand in 2021 when Sark was hired given the state of the program, I'd absolutely take that. This happens all the time in sports, by the way. Richt to Smart for a potent CFB example. Some coaches are able to work bad teams into good or even very good ones but sometimes another coach is best suited to elevate a team to championship level.
  10. Jerry Jones really out here working the rumor mill this week.
  11. Things like this don't get solved at this point in the season. We're going into game nine. The team is what it is. On the one hand, Texas matches up well with Vandy's run heavy offense and the team and crowd will likely be excited for the first home game in a month and the first conference home game of the year - welcome shot in the arm given the ride they've been on the past month. Team should be feeling some confidence after the rally in Starkville. This should be a lot easier to get up for that a roadie against UK or MSU. On the other hand, Vanderbilt is better than both MSU and Kentucky, who Texas coulda/shoulda/woulda lost to if not for their own shittiness on the field and on the headsets. The only reason Texas is not universially considered the worst team in the SEC right now is that they kicked themselves in the nuts just one or two times fewer than Kentucky or MSU did. That's not a super high bar to clear and they still barely managed it. Presumably Lea and the Vandy staff are not as dumb as Stoops and Lebby. The OL is the worst in P4 and will continue to hamstring the offense even if you get P4 replacement level play out of the QB position, which is not at all a given. Wild cards: What's the dynamic in the locker room with the Sark rumors having time to bake in? What's Manning's status and, assuming Caldwell starts, what does he give you in a full game context? Is Taaffe playing? I think the only outcome that would really surprise me is Vandy just delivering a black saturday, 56-7 type beatdown. Beyond that, I think both teams have viable paths to victory both tight and comfortable. Will be an interesting one.
  12. Man, I am out of loop on the gossip rag stuff lmao. Rhule would indeed be really funny... for OU and aggy. Would be a garbage hire. Kiffen has a far better resume as a HC than did Sark when he was hired here. I don't know if he'd get Texas over the top but there's every reason to believe he'd maintain a CFP competitive level. Collin Klien should have gotten a Big 12 championship ring from Texas in 2023 because he playeda huge part in Texas beating K State. And he followed it up with a 0 point outing for A&M in 2024. This does not make the point you want it to. I'd throw out Jedd Fisch as a Plan C type contingency hire if it gets to that point. He's done good work at Arizona (claening up after Sumlin) and Washington (got them to a bowl game after DeBoer gutted the program and is going to have them at 9-3 this year, and has recruited well). Demond Williams would likely come in tow, which would be huge. This is the gossip I really want in on.
  13. This is what seems fishy to me. Strip out every difference between the college and pro games, and the differences between college and pro HC jobs, and what are you left with? A really mediocre W-L record against teams with comparable talent and a mediocre stint as a NFL OC on a team with some decent pieces. I know NFL front offices can talk themselves into anything but I just do not even see why a NFL team would be interested in Sark as a HC.
  14. I finde the PFF grades above interesting because to me, Stroh was noticably better in pass pro than Brooks, who was struggling with Missippi State's blitzes - even the simple ones. Stroh at least made attempts to keep his eyes up and stay square to the LOS. That has just been a foreign concept to Brooks and it's a cardinal sin of pass protection. I cut Brooks some slack as a true freshman whose head is no doubt spinning, and the fact that all his prior reps in training were at tackle as far as I know. But he is a sieve when any kind of pressure package is involved, the book is out. I think it helped Stroh that by then both 1.) Game script had pretty much erased the Texas run game, so his past deficiency there wasn't as big a deal; and 2.) Mississippi State started pressuring less with a big lead (dumb). Maybe it was mostly the latter that made him look better and I'm putting too much emphasis on individual performance. Agree with you the long term prognosis is not good either way. This is a bad OL, one of the worst in P4, and will continue to hamper game plans. Completely unacceptable what's become of this room.
  15. I am still generally not a fan of pulling a kid's scholarship outright if they're making good faith effort to do everything asked of them. Especially if they haven't been there long enough to finish their degree. ou have 85 spots and a few of them are going to be dead weight for one reason or another. So it goes. That said, the landscape is way different now. These guys are quasi professionals, they get paid and a former starter at Texas, no matter how bad, would have no shortage of options in the portal. Also, we have two OLs from Frisco and both of them are refried ass. The mean streets of Collin County don't strike me as the place to go looking for a dog on the OL.
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