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The Watts penalty for going too low on the lineman was horrendous. There’s a reason it’s rarely called. It has to be super egregious and Watts simply took him on in his upper stomach area. The illegal motion with Sanders and Campbell was also dumb. They held Sorrell once badly and Sweat at least twice badly.

I mean I understand what you’re saying but not running the ball more in the first half was not the reason we lost the game. The defense was never on the field longer than 4:30 minutes, and they had 2 drives consisting of 1:41 and 3 min (TO’s called for the turnover on down’s). The defense was not being gassed by the Washington offense in the first half, that would be the 3rd quarter. Theres nothing Sark can do from the offensive side of the ball that is going to stop Penix from throwing absolute dimes against our poor secondary play. It was almost inevitable.

Uh, it was evident early that the secondary was not going to stop the Washington passing attack. Penix had almost 300 yards passing in the first half but Sark not running the ball a couple more times cost us the game? The fact that we were tied at 21 was almost a miracle.

I mean damn it was right there

I’m not sure what AD was doing there. He looked like he was jogging at first and had he turned, Ewers could have thrown a bullet to his back shoulder. The CB was playing off it seems like.

Eh, maybe. It’s anecdotal but I found Surly through social media and I know a few others have as well. I was regularly going through Twitter and Reddit for my Texas fix until I kept seeing memes on Twitter that originated from Surly. Eventually I decided to check this place out and found that it was waaaaaay better than social media. The overall quality of discussion is just something you’re not going to get at the other places. I think if you create the right content then there could be a bridge made to this site. Something as simple as doing more with the Burnt End TE’s through social media would be cool. I like that podcast interviews but I think we could do more to attract a wider audience. I’ve seen it have mentioned getting interns to run some of the social media stuff which could work. Interviews mixed with activity’s are big on tik tok. All age fans would like watching our TE group do a round of golf (or putt putt if it’s more accessible) and have them be interviewed on various topics outside of just football. Let fans see more of their personalities and get to know them better.

As one of the younger users on here, I understand the content struggle around my generation and the ones after. Luckily I was raised a bit old school and picked up a couple books growing up so I don’t mind the reading involved here. I also don’t think there’s a big “gap” between older and younger posters. We all want the same thing for the most part, just that maybe newer posters should lurk more at first to get a feel for the culture of the board and understand its layering. For example, there is a big difference between posting on the football/recruiting threads compared to the movie or travel threads. I think if you want to attract a younger audience, Surly is going to have to be better with Twitter and TikTok. Like immamac and others stated, the attention span on those sites are small and quick to the punch. But I believe for the most part, younger generations like to attach personality to a face. For example, it was absolutely hilarious watching RGBIII shotgunning a beer at 1 o’clock in the morning in the urban thread, then months later him being on national tv discussing Texas and NIL. The same for the Arkansas away game trip. Need more of that type of content that can be packaged and delivered through social media. It would boost the sports side of things but it could also bring more traffic to the travel/food and movies boards. This site isn’t your average message board but on the outside it is which turns off the younger crowd.

More like five guys with all the bussy talk.

I remember in Sarks first year Paul had a weird obsession with the S&C program and he hasn’t mentioned it much since. He still is a better read post game than Boyd by a wide margin tho. I bet the subs that do stay on IT are doing so because of his insight/interaction.

This interaction is the only thing I’ve seen that offers some stuff from the rule book.

That second point is big. In todays landscape, any coach saying otherwise is Dabo or some other narcissistic person. The NIL support allows Sark to have a seat at the table for players/recruits/portal that otherwise would not be attainable. His job is to be the elite recruiter and close the deal. I’m happy to see that he’s honest and upfront about it.

So I guess co-DC wouldn’t do it either?

I’m almost certain Sark did an interview with Texas reporters the week of the championship game.

Because Sark did the same?

Yep. You’re describing “deserving”.

Texas at 3 and FSU at 4 would be weird if they’re going for the most deserving angle. Undefeated teams would technically be most deserving unless you want to also slide a bit of eye test in there. Then they might as well put bama at 4 because Plummer does not play for Washington, Texas, Michigan or Bama.

The problem with the “best” is that it takes a lot of eye test into account. They fell flat on their face putting Oregon in front of both Texas and Bama. There was plenty of evidence for Texas/Bama but somehow completion percentage was in play? Having bama jump over an undefeated FSU would make them look stupid imo. They’re going with more deserving so they can save face. Maybe they will go full out “deserving” and put the undefeated teams ahead of us and in return we can kick the shit out of Michigan.

I want Michigan first round so bad.

SIAP somewhere else

I think if Ewers were to be playing for an air raid team, his poor mechanics and inconsistencies reading the defense wouldn’t matter. Instead Sark runs a deeper playbook that utilizes more than simple reads and Ewers is having to actually learn how to be a complete quarterback. I’m not sure if Ewers will ever live up to his rating coming out of high school and that is fine imo. At least we are seeing him continually getting better even tho it may not be as fast as some would like. If he comes back next year, there’s no reason to think that he can’t turn the flashes we see this year into regulars in ‘24.

Because recruiting classes and their rankings are mostly about perception, and that is all they have left from the jimbo era that resembles some kind of success. Without the greatest class ever signed in college football staying and not transferring out, everything dollar spent was for nothing. Aggie actually believes by keeping the class together with the same defensive staff, they will somehow come out of this “okay”. It literally took Sark, with a better overall staff than a Aggie, a season and two full off-seasons to get the Herman era players playing up to their potential. Jimbo wasn’t the problem defensively and whoever replaces him will need a miracle to fix his Oline travesty.

He’s got better in that area since last year but there’s still room for plenty of improvement. He had another self sack against tech when all he had to do was hit Sanders wide open underneath. At least Ewers is checking it down more this year. I think something else the scouts want to see is more complete games from him. Weirdly, when Ewers starts off a little rattled he usually finishes strong (OU and Iowa st being examples).

No Stoops is on you. God just did the opposite because you put Christmas second.

No way that is true. It’s reads like desperation for fans trying to cope that they didn’t have the money or the attraction to pull a big name with every coach worth a damn saying no. Fisch is close to a Stoops but at least Stoops has multiple 10 win seasons and won’t bolt at the first sign of success. Plain and simple they settled and can’t face reality.