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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Burt Macklin replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
That would absolutely be a crazy stupid move by Kiffin. He is much better geared towards CFB than the NFL, and with all the major jobs out there, he could easily come away with 9 figures fully guaranteed whether he stays at Ole Miss or goes to a blueblood. He won't get anything like that in the NFL. NFL HC pay is way behind college. Daboll was making about $5 million per year. Kiffin stands a good chance to make three times that amount fully guaranteed for the next 5-10 years. Even if the Giants make a big offer for him, it would probably be less than half the guaranteed money he could get in college. -
I'm in a similar spot with the team. I do think Hutson at LG and Robertson at C is the best OL starting 5 we've had all year and that is a significant improvement, even if the OL still isn't great. I want to believe Sark has finally figured out what Arch and this offense can execute well, which is more of a true spread offense with quick screens, spreading the defense out, and giving Arch easy reads, but the fact Sark said in his presser that the offense we ran against Vandy wasn't really the game plan and he just kept calling it because it worked seems like quite the red flag. I think this UGA game will come down to whether Sark actually understands what this offense needs to run. UGA's pass rush is worse than it's ever been since Kirby Smart took over. They get very little pressure with their front four and have to blitz LBs to create pressure, which leaves them vulnerable to QB scrambling and quick hitting WR screens and slants. That is basically the offense Sark should be running, so if he can pull his head out of his ass, I think we have a very good chance to win. If he wastes the first quarter or two trying to revert back to what he wants this offense to be able to run, then we probably have no shot. Gunner Stockton is a very good college QB. I expect our defense can slow him down, but they will be able to put up points and move the ball against every defense in the country. We need our offense to score at least high 20s to have a chance at winning.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Full Roster Weaponization
Burt Macklin replied to closetojumping's topic in π€«$9.95π€«
That's right. Everyone knows the first place you should look for transfer OL is one of the worst offenses in all of CFB.- 372 replies
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Full Roster Weaponization
Burt Macklin replied to closetojumping's topic in π€«$9.95π€«
If Flood and Sark weren't the Helobious and BO&W of evaluating their OL room, then all of our freshman would've redshirted this year and not seen the field. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Burt Macklin replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
BO&W has nailed it again. Nothing says arrow pointing up like decreasing your win total by 2 wins per year for the last three years. -
It's not just Lebby, it's anyone running the Briles offense. PK's worst game ever might have been the 21 Arkansas game against Kendall Briles. I was expecting our defense to struggle a good bit against MSU, because PK just has not figured out any answer to that offense. Thankfully our offense and ST bailed him out last week. The key to making up for out terrible OL is reading the D pre-snap and getting the ball out quick, which is something Caldwell should be drastically better at than Arch. We give up way too much pressure inside and too many free blitzers for scrambling to be the answer.
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The Athletic Scoops Sark interested in NFL Jobs
Burt Macklin replied to TexasMan's topic in Football
You post a lot of stupid things on this website. This is one of those.- 2521 replies
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I don't agree with this at all. You could've said the same about Ryan Day 2-3 years ago and now he's the CEO and hiring OCs to call plays and that led him to break through the wall and he's got a great shot at winning back to back national titles while replacing like 70% of his offensive personnel from last year. The same goes for Sark. He can hire an OC to still run his offensive system, but have that OC take a lot more of the burden of play calling and lower level tasks. Sark is a really good CEO and recruiter. Being the OC is not his only value proposition as HC. In fact, his offense has been the biggest impediment to UT winning a national title for three years in a row now. He's much more valuable as a CEO and recruiter than an OC while being HC.
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This is such a ridiculous post. The defense was on the field for 40+ minutes and 86 plays because our offense was going 3 and out constantly. Of course the raw yardage number will be high. Kentucky ran a shitload of plays because our offense kept giving them the ball. We held Kentucky to 4.6 yards per play, which is an elite number, especially considering how many plays they had to be on the field. The fact that our defense didn't get gassed and start to fall apart by the end of the game was absolutely incredible. This was 100% a culture win for the defense. And this is one week after the defense held OU to 6 points and created 3 TOs. UT has a top 3 defense in the country by almost every metric. This unit is absolutely elite. Anyone who's doing anything other than praising our defense for winning us the last two games has no clue what they're talking about.
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I love this news. This is going to be a fascinating experiment and comparison of IndyCar drivers vs F2. It'll also just make the F2 season way more fun. I think he'll start out very fast in quali and the races but struggle with Pirelli tyre wear early in the season (unless he does a crap ton of testing before the season, which is possible because he has Gainbridge and Andretti money behind him). I expect him to be the best driver in F2 by the end of the season, but it will be fascinating to see how it plays out. Also for those in here who want to see real, close racing, I highly recommend watching F2. It's a ton of fun to watch and follow and allows you to watch actual racing after an F1 snoozefest most weeks. A lot of quick, young drivers going all out against each other. You see flashes of brilliance and absolute foolishness all mixed together in a tight racing series. The F2 cars can follow so much better than F1, they're smaller, lighter, and don't have nearly as much ERS and other pitwall settings nonsense. Fullraces.com posts every F2 race shortly after if you don't want to have to subscribe to ESPN+. I haven't seen it announced, but I'm hoping the Apple TV rights include the F2 races as well. That would definitely help bring more visibility to F2.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Burt Macklin replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
If they put out a line today, we would probably be favorites over Vandy. After next week? We shall see. A&M would be a no doubt favorite against us. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Burt Macklin replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
lol wut Vanderbilt at home is a significantly more likely win for us than at UGA or home against A&M. We'll be underdogs in all three, but that's out best shot for sure. Vandy's defense is not good. They're still very limited athletically on defense and they don't tackle well, either. We have a way better chance of scoring 20+ on Vandy than either of the other two. LSU's offense is ranked right around where our offense is per advanced metrics and they put up 325 yards and 24 points at Vandy, which was their best offensive performance of the season against an FBS school. -
Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Burt Macklin replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
Considering James Franklin has the PSU money, he could probably sign for about half what he would get normally with FSU (just enough to be able to argue it's market rate and not affect Franklin's PSU payout) and functionally cut Norvell's buyout in half for FSU. That move would make a lot of sense for both FSU and Franklin. -
If it was just aero regs, I could see it allowing cars to follow and race closer a la 2022, because they don't produce as much downforce/dirty air in year 1 of new regs, but adding the engine change too is likely to create some absurd field spread.
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Did you watch the game? Arch missed 7 or 8 wide open receivers from a clean pocket.
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