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  1. 2 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

    it's really nice knowing that we're not at a coaching disadvantage damn near every week like we were during the Garrett regime.  i'm not saying McCarthy is the second coming of Vince Lombardi or that he doesn't have room for improvement, but between McCarthy, Kellen Moore, and Dan Quinn, the Cowboys aren't going to get outcoached often.  with the coaches doing their jobs, it's on the players to execute.  and i feel good about that with the talent they have.

    Quinn makes a VAST difference over the zero we had last season.

  2. Regarding Dak, I didn’t think it was smart to bury the salary cap with a Dak contract, but right now he’s playing at an ELITE level, Top 5. Keep that up (or close) and his contract isn’t that onerous.

  3. 6 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

     You are missing the point trying to argue a percentage point here of there. The point was a lot of good coaches throughout history didn't come out setting the world on fire right away. Context matters.

    The real point is that most coaches good or otherwise DONT follow the career path of a Saban or Dabo. 
     

    Sarkisian has a ways to go to change his own career path.

  4. 9 hours ago, futureman said:

    never hated him, he just sucks. we’ll have a decent win-loss record this season and dak will put up his garbage time stats, and then we’ll lose in the divisional round, rinse repeat. anyone who disagrees can bookmark this post so they can come back to it and go fuck themselves in january. 

    high quality GIF

  5. 3 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Wonder if SARK gets a report after the game about "opportunities missed/mistakes made" ??

    I agree that on 2nd down at end of 3rd quarter right after the HORNS penalty, SARK should have allowed clock to run out to rest players and regroup for the 4th quarter for that 2nd and long play.  That 2nd down play looked rushed, and the offensive players were not mentally ready to execute that play.

    I also agree that after two returns on kickoffs fall short of the 25ydline, that the 3rd time TEXAS should not have returned that kick.  

    Better clean that second half offensive shit up -- looked like Arky game bullshit again.  Bucky on HornFM this morning is frustrated that SARK didn't try a few "Draw Plays" in second half to slow down the blOU pass rush...

    Not sure WTF the defense is gonna do to get better -- HORNS are currently 9th in defense in the B12 only one spot better than Kansas.  

     

    We will play less productive offensive teams.

     

    I suspect we will settle in somewhere around the middle of the conference as far as D goes.

  6. 16 hours ago, Eggo said:

    While true that it's unlikely Sark becomes Saban, the point of using Saban as an example is to show that 6 games is not enough time to know if he's mediocre, unlucky, or just bad at his job. If we can give someone like Herman four years, I ain't giving up on Sark for losing this one. 

    Sagan’s career record was 43-26 (.623) before joining LSU (if I’ve counted correctly).

     

    Michigan State was 5-6, but officially 0-11 due to ncaa violations in 1994 (the year before Saban got there).

  7. 49 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

    What does the below record scream?

    6-5-1

    6-6

    7-5

    6-6

    9-2

    Overall 34-24-1

    That is Nick Saban at Michigan State.  His LSU record wasn’t unreal either but he did have that 13-1 National Championship season.  Once Saban got to Alabama and was able to get unreal recruiting advantages over everyone else suddenly he is a genius.  Listen, Saban is a fantastic coach but college football is a sport where you can be a decent coach and still have success (See Mack Brown, great recruiter and good not great coach but with the talent he amassed he was able to win a lot)  Sark may or may not be the guy but your comment of “which season in this screams he’s gonna break out” is idiotic.  I am guessing you would have been screaming at LSU when they hired Saban with the above record that he shouldn’t have been hired.  Is Sark going to be the next Saban?  I doubt it but if he could figure out how to load his teams with 5 star players at every position every year I think he could be great.    

     

    BUT WHAT ABOUT SABAN is a terrible fucking argument. 
     

    should we have kept Strong because “BUT WHAT ABOUT DX BIBLE”?

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  8. 57 minutes ago, Steelers Roll Left said:

    Too early for conclusions on Sark- negative OR positive.  Those defending Sark under the guise that he needs time to replace Herman players and recruit his own are correct.  But it is also true that Sark was a plan B hire after an aggressive pursuit of our Plan A and real reason for letting Herman go in the 1st place (Urban Meyer) so it isn’t ludicrous to wonder if Sark is just the next Strong or Herman.  It just isn’t fair to draw conclusions yet.  

    Again, That’s a reasonable argument. 

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  9. 6 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

      It depends on where that data was accumulated. For example, Saban was an average coach at Mich State. Now he is the greatest coach to ever put on a headset at Bama. Why the difference? Recruiting pools matter. The school name matters. It's hard to win at a school that has no recruiting pool and no name history. Especially if you aren't the snake oil salesman some coaches are.

    Nick Saban is a sample of 1.

     

    maybe 2 if you want to shoe horn Dabo into the argument.

     

    there are literally hundreds of others who did the same and then failed miserably at bigger better recruiting schools.

     

     

    DX Bible was abysmal in his first couple of years, and then won multiple conference titles. Should we have used that sample of 1 as a basis for continuing to keep Strong?

     

     

    note: I’m still not advocating to fire Sarkisian.

  10. 1 minute ago, mdmost said:

    Yes. I don't care what Sark did at USC and Washington half a decade ago. I only care about the here and now. He's 5 games into his tenure and lost a tough game to the school's bitter rival in one of the most charged atmospheres in college football. If anything, this loss will help move the team forward because he probably has a mile long list of things he knows needs work. Arkansas showed him he needed to go to Casey and run Bijan more. OU will show him to not sit on a lead since your defense can't get a stop. 

    I disagree, but that’s a reasonable argument.

  11. 5 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    There are times I think this fanbase doesn't deserve a single shred of happiness because at the first sign of adversity we do reactionary shit like this. Yes, it sucks to blow a 21 point lead. But Sark rolled out a pretty great game plan to build a lead on OU. Then youth, lack of talent, and some questionable coaching came into effect. There is a talent disparity between us and OU, especially in the trenches. OU also has continuity in their offensive and defensive coaching that we will never have if we don't stop trying to fire every single coach after a loss or less than ideal season. I don't know if Pete K is the answer but look at what he's working with. This same defense lost leads last year. We simply do not have the guys there to be a consistent winner yet.  

    Is it really reactionary to look at 87 games worth of data and say “he is who is record says he is”, though?

     

    If you say “yes”, then we owe Strong an apology and another 3-5 seasons before we toss him out.

  12. 4 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

       Hahaha. I get it man, you were furious about the loss and made a thread in anger. It's cool. We've all made bitchass threads. Doesn't make us bad people and that's why I don't go around negging people like a middle school girl. However, if you recall I just came off what was probably getting negged 100 times for saying Herman was a bad hire. No one came to my rescue. If I recall you were one of the people doing the negging, so turnabout is fair play. You made your bed my bro, but here is some plus rep to get back in the game. You don't deserve to get negged into oblivion.

    I’m not really even that mad. And what I said isn’t exactly outrageous or out of line with Sarkisian’s history.


     

    as far as the Herman thing, I have no clue, and if I dropped Neg on you for posting that Herman wasn’t a great hire, well… I apologize and you’ve certainly gotten the last laugh.  

    i “generally” don’t neg people anymore either, Although I’m sure I’ve dropped my share.

  13. Just now, Herbie Hancock said:

    Take the loss pussy.  We passed for 400 yards, had a 200+ yard receiver and a 100+ yard rusher. We have a long way to go. Coaching didn't lose yesterdays game nor did it lose the arky game.  Sugar went to shit because of our play in the trenches.

    Indeed, we did.

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  14. 10 minutes ago, burntorangebongos said:

    You are not going to give him credit for getting the team to come out and punch the Sooners in the mouth and get up by 21 points?  That was the strategy, they executed great but then the Sooners adjusted and even had to change out their QB to get into their game and he was a better choice against us than the starter, much better. They could work on our weaknesses and with the help of some very bad calls, crawl out of the hole we got them into. That sucks that it wasn't deeper or that a call didn't go our way. But CS level of incompetency? You're still drunk.

    One of us is still drunk, It isn’t me.


    You should try reading that post about Sarkisian not approaching CS levels of incompetency again. 

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