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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. So tie game you go 3-and-out after burning a minute and they get the ball back same place they got it anyway with the same or more time left on the clock. Your comment reads "if in hindsight we would have done this other thing and it would have worked perfectly and we won that would have been great." yeah no shit
  2. You forgot the part where the FATE faction overlooks any/all improvements year-over-year in recruiting, game planning, or results (such as Alabama) because the only acceptable result is to be 12-0 and win the national championship each year. And lays 100% of everything at Sark's feet because he's he coach! Ewers made a bad decision throw into the DB for an INT? Shoulda coached him up better than that Sark! "Call the touchdown play Sark!!!" These are the same type of people who use the term "money whip" with regard to coaches and players as if we're fated to get positive results because Texas is rich. Spoiler: we're not. We have improved every year that Sark has been on campus and the trend line is still pointing up overall. This isn't Herman who was immature and a shit recruiter or Strong who was shit overall and just looked lost. Fate people need to stop being a prisoner of the past. And BTW most people were roundly criticized on that thread comparing this year to 2005, there is no comparison. As Alan Greenspan would say "irrational exuberance." Yeah I'm hope. But I temper hope with logic. You can be hopeful and acknowledge our shortcomings and areas we need to improve. Anyone ready to cut bait on Sark due to FATE as defined above needs to be ready to get another Herman or Strong, because that's a real possibility.
  3. Well played
  4. This narrative needs to die, it's wrong. Ewers and the offense was in rhythm with the hurry up and it was keeping OU on their back foot. It was also negating a Venebles strength of matching the defensive call to our alignment and tendencies, plus subbing. You give much of that up when you slow it down. The assumption baked into your comment above is that we would still have moved the ball down the field by going slow, which is NOT a given. The thing to get annoyed with is the flip from aggressive (staying with the hurry up) to conservative (kicking a FG and not going for it when they're in FG block alignment on 4th and 5 and we come out in the offense). Still, we took the lead. This loss is a team loss but the defense is more on the hook. Playing prevent is playing for OT with 1:17 left. Gabriel really only had to drive 35 yards for a FG which is not a problem in soft zone.
  5. Lulz about people talking about "I could be the biggest donor EVAAAAR" ....are you one of the 756 Billionaires in the US? If so I applaud you and wonder what you're doing on Surly. Otherwise, I'm reminded of what someone here once said: "...and I have the biggest most satisfying dick on the Internet"
  6. You don't hire a Sark-type coach and then turn him away from his greatest strength. He's not the mackbrown-texasfootball style CEO. If we want the CEO-style coach, it's better to fire Sark and find one than try to get Sark to become that.
  7. Gabriel burned our blitzes and we rarely got pressure. We did much better in a soft zone and umbrella coverage. When we went to blitz he'd run for 15 or dink/dunk us.
  8. People gonna hate on Sark and it wasn't the best call although we DID score and take the lead. Can't say for certain what woulda/coulda/shoulda happened otherwise. Other choke moments in the game: * JT Sanders having the ball in his hands and not being able to come down with the TD in the first half * Dropped INT in the endzone * Ewers 1st INT which was braindead * Ewers fumble/not sliding * Entire D-line not being able to get pressure after all we heard was how we outclassed them at the line of scrimmage on D-line * 1st and goal from the 1 yard line turning it over on downs after we heard how we outclassed them at the line of scrimmage on O-line * Multiple lack of focus pre-snap (e.g. not biased/opinion-based/Rig XII) penalties * Lack of PK adjustments to DGs scramble. We played timid and scared. We looked shocked at the physicality of OU. Our vaunted line of scrimmage play was ass. JT's injury hurt, and i'm sure Major's did as well. Credit to the OU fuckfaces for executing, we didn't. If we don't shoot ourselves in the foot with the stuff above we could have won by 10-14. But we did, they didn't and we lost. Now we need to win out and hope to see OU again in Dallas for the BigXII championship and just play better.
  9. I sat on the OU side in the early 2000's during one of mackbrown-texasfootball's patented 60-point beatdowns. It was...unpleasant. #CSB
  10. 11am games draw the best TV numbers. It’s the reason FOX has “big noon” instead of “big Saturday night”
  11. Our regular rotation of OOC games should include: Cupcakes who will cash a check to take a beating at DKR-TMS: UTSA UNT UTEP Rice Texas State (now in the Sunbelt!) and if we need more we can choose from plenty of relatively close schools like La Tech, La Monroe, Tulsa, New Mexico, NM State, etc. Low-end but still brand names, if they're willing to accept 2 for 1's. Wyoming Nevada Fresno St. Purdue Minnesota Oregon St. (they will regress to their mean) Washington St. Boise St. Memphis Tulane (for the away trip mostly) Virginia Indiana Army, Navy, AF Northwestern Rutgers Hawaii High-end brands, home & home: Michigan Ohio St. USC Washington Oregon Penn St. UCLA North Carolina Clemson Florida St. Miami Michigan St. Wisconsin
  12. Wait in instances like this can players transfer in-season? Or can they just enter the portal in anticipation of moving post-season?
  13. Ferentz must have a Mack Brown-Texas Football level hold on that administration. Iowa is a decent brand, maybe they feel like high-floor low-ceiling is their best case and are willing to give the keys over to Kirk to retire on the job while getting his kids paid?
  14. Wait, did Herman ever win 4 in a row?
  15. "...and in the back of the end zone there's Xavier Worthy, diving for the ball...he caught it! Oh but Bob it looks like he landed in the prickly pear patch (sponsored by Deep Eddy) again...yeah he's probably done for the day. Another receiver falls victim to the cacti." We'd make so many great memories
  16. Going negative $25MM YoY means the athletics departments are cutting entire sports at that point. Most of these schools are already subsidizing the AD either with direct transfers or high student fees. It also makes any type of long term planning very difficult or impossible - how do you spent on facilities or fund raise at that point, it's super tough. Same reason the PAC schools turned down Apple's earn-it offering; it's lack of guarantees. On top of all that, the low/no/negative rev sports are typically women's sports so now there's a Title IX issue on top of all of that...
  17. Wonder if he's going to medical RS...year 7 here we go!
  18. Does losing to Army mean that surly is done meatriding Traylor now? There were many posts last season and summer about "I hope we bring in Traylor when Sark inevitably fails" "doing more with less" "just biding his time for Texas to call him up" etc (all paraphrased). Well he just lost to a service academy by 8, at home. That sure as hell ain't our standard.
  19. I'm going to enjoy seeing USC and that fuck Caleb score 10,000 points on these guys.
  20. Is that the squints ref who fucked us on the reg?
  21. As evidenced by your prior take on PK, agreed.
  22. Slow brained isn't always about the people. Sometimes it is. It's also about not having to think and process and react as much because the formations, calls, alignments, etc have changed every year with a different DC. Just having that consistency makes the same player look smarter and faster. "A bad plan executed well is better than a good plan with shit execution."
  23. Art Briles is a stain on humanity. You can tell he's been poking his disgusting face around looking to see if the fervor has quieted down enough for him to return to society, and after that maybe even to coaching a power CFB program. I'm happy that even the inbred fuckers from OU gave him the stiff arm, that's gotta sting. DIAF.
  24. Sark's best game he's called at Texas. Kept Bama off balance, adjusted after the half. Stayed aggressive even when we brainfarted a few times. Managed the clock well. Could have been 50 points if our receivers caught everything.
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