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Duane Moore

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  1. This is as good an explanation as I’ve seen and makes a lot of sense. Have you gone back and confirmed it on the game film (6+ in the box results in pass play and vice versa) or is this based on your first watch observation? That and the LG position.
  2. Not mentioned so I take that as good news. We’ll see when the injury reports come out tomorrow night. He certainly didn’t carry a heavy load against UK. Will be watching MSU’s report to see about their big RB, Bothwell. Lebby said he was day to day after missing the UF game, and is the kind of RB that gives the middle of our defense problems.
  3. I think there is something to be said for this observation. Take a look at other teams who started the season highly ranked, lost an early game, and then just imploded once their bubble was burst (Clemson, Penn State, FSU). This team still seems like it is battling, even if on one unit the battle is primarily against ourselves. At some point that may give out, but some credit is due to the players for playing hard this long. A team that has quit doesn’t make that goal line stand in OT last week.
  4. Imagine what our season would be like if we had Vanderbilt’s LG
  5. Fingers crossed
  6. Got it. You just named every QB that started during my 4 years at UT (unless Donovan Forbes snuck in a start for a game or two I don’t remember) Funny how we remember specific games so well many years later. We had just gotten on a bit of a run that season, upsetting a good Arkansas team in Little Rock on the last second Tony Jones TD, and beating Tech at home. U of H was not a good team and hadn’t been for a while, but were breaking in the run and shoot under Jack Pardee. I had gone to Padre with a bunch of buddies for the weekend and had been drinking at Blanca White’s in Matamoros, and when we got back to the American side we turned the game on the radio and listened to that game in anger and outrage in the parking lot of the border crossing station. I just remember kicking a bunch of cars, I was so pissed. Start of a miserable three year experience with those fuckers until redemption night in 1990.
  7. Right, that’s the one I saw after the OU game. Would be interested in seeing what it was for UK because it felt a lot closer to the UF avg than the OU one.
  8. Not a denial! https://x.com/travis_l_brown/status/1980346043868107207?s=46
  9. IYKYK, my fellow veteran of the McWilliams era.
  10. And that sporadic positive reinforcement is probably what makes Sark keep going back to his “long ball” play calls. The talent is there for the big payoff, it just isn’t consistent enough to win. He’s like a human slot machine and Sark is the old lady with her bucket of quarters.
  11. Duane Moore

    Hubris

    Good summary and compelling case, I just don’t think Sark will listen. He’s done better as the head of the program than I thought he would, and I think he’d probably get even better at self scouting and quality control if he didn’t have to be coming up with game plans and play calling every week. I go back to the fact that Jimbo is the only play caller head coach for either side of the ball who won a national championship this century. Josh Heupel at Tennessee is facing many of these same criticisms in his year 5 and most Tennessee fans want him to give up play calling duties as well.
  12. Interesting chart. I’d like to see the average yards to target in each game to see if there is correlation. we know there was between the UF and OU games, I haven’t seen one for the UK game but it certainly felt like the targets were further downfield.
  13. They’ll never see it coming!
  14. But we know what worked, we saw it in the OU game. That game showed what our team does well on offense and then in the first series the next game he runs a bullshit double-reverse flea-flicker on a 3rd and 3 rather than doing something simple that would get 4-5 yards and move the chains. I swear it’s almost like he just can’t accept winning with a conservative, ball control offense and would rather lose games going big game hunting.
  15. Basically setting up like the Kansas game in 2016, KU had lost 19 conference games in a row going into that one.
  16. Sadly, I will admit the death of hope and agree to the terms of surrender at 8-4. I might even enjoy it a bit depending on who the W’s are.
  17. Agree. I haven’t seen any indication PK wants to be a HC. From what I understand he doesn’t even run the entire defense, just the fronts. On Sark, when was the last coach that won a national championship that was calling the plays on offense or defense? I don’t think Kirby does at UGA. Maybe Jimbo at FSU in 2013?
  18. This is how I took it as well. He’s a 22 year old kid trying to represent a multibillion brand and also trying to be a leader in the locker room so he’s looking out for his teammate against outsiders. He knows the offense sucked. Arch knows it too, he said as much. That’s why Arch looked so dejected, he knew he played like shit and he let his teammates down. But Taaffe is going to stick up for his teammate in public. I never put much stock in lost game comments from players, and this is no exception. The red flag would be if Taaffe started casting blame on the offense in one of these.
  19. I thought he was getting divorced from L’Oréal? We need a separate thread to keep up with the gossip about the Texas athletics program.
  20. They don’t call him a coach on the field for nothing!
  21. Any chance both Florida coaches get the axe today?
  22. He’s not exactly gambling on this one.
  23. Which begs the question - if you scheme up wide open plays that your offense has consistently shown they cannot execute, are they good plays?
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