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Park Gothic

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  1. I can’t believe he doubted our defense like that
  2. Sark was just too loyal to Ewers. Cost us a championship. This is what is so bizarre and confusing. He looked great against teams who were, at worst, better than UTEP. The fuck happened?
  3. Counterpoint - PA is part of Sark’s offense and these cupcakes are a golden opportunity for reps. In games that matter, we absolutely should be making Manning’s job easier. But for now it’s good to make him eat his vegetables.
  4. You could also just sit there at rock bottom and wallow in it. Every UCLA fan Im friends with says they are unserious program and that the current admin doesn’t give a shit about being good at football. It is a revenue generator and they won’t spend any more time or money on it than is absolutely necessary.
  5. The play action will continue until morale improves.
  6. I've always thought the comparisons between Clark and Bijan were pretty questionable, but this is definitely one similarity. I remember in 2022 when Choice had to coach Bijan to run straight through holes - dude kept wanting to dodge when the play called for him to run downhill. And taking advantage of his strength to turn a 1-yard gain into 4 yards was a huge step forward in Bijan's development. Now, Clark is trying to do the same thing, dancing when he needs to dive. Sometimes you need to just get small and run hard to get a couple of more yards.
  7. Oregon looks like an absolute buzzsaw. Especially their blocking.
  8. Seeing this with full context actually makes me feel more despondent about our third down offense than just reading Baber's tweet in a vacuum. So thanks. DJ Campbell is a massive disappointment and I'm starting to wonder if he's too dense to be developed into a draftable guard. I don't think it's impossible when the user's number of posts is greater than his total rep. And if the difference is more than a hundred or so, then one dedicated asshole could technically do a one-man fatwa. Not that I've ever thought about it.
  9. I'm coaching my kid's little league soccer team. I just had to do a training session from the Positive Coaching Alliance. Had a lot of stuff about giving encouragement and criticism in a 5:1 ratio, giving "compliment sandwiches," filling players' "energy tanks," and giving players a "mistake ritual" so they can move on to the next play. Which led me to think a lot about the value of shame and how we, as modern Americans, have lost shame as a valuable tool. And I'm worried that Flood has been leaning on the Positive Coaching Alliance playbook a bit too much. Our OL needs to be ashamed of how they played last week, and the coaches need to be reinforcing that feeling of shame. We need some "Private Pyle sucking his thumb while his buddies do up-downs" kind of coaching. Just some psychologically traumatizing coaching techniques. This isn't U6 soccer. These men are getting paid too much money to play like children.
  10. These fucking people used to decide who won the national championship.
  11. They're taking Harrison Bergeron a bit too literally then
  12. I don't mind if a young and relatively inexperienced team takes time to get on the same page. But there's no excuse for the number of penalties. They're driving me fucking crazy. Especially from guys with plenty of snaps like Campbell and Hutson.
  13. Look, posting this kind of shit tells everyone here you are either too dumb to understand what other people are saying to you or just a blatant troll. Either way, you're not worth anyone's time.
  14. Is it worth watching? I liked how the first season started off but then it just got more and more meh until I didn't care about any of the characters at the end.
  15. Sark calls plays for the team he wants, not the team he has. It’s one of his biggest drawbacks as a coach and has lost us at least one game every year hes been here, save for maybe 2023.
  16. Bolded the run. Stroh is the only OL that gets stood up and Hutson is still moving around to seal off the back side and catch any trailing DL. I'm obviously speculating, but to my eyes if Arch keeps running the ball outside like the play is designed, he has enough space and time to get the TD.
  17. I've gone back and watched the game twice now, because I hate myself. I am in complete agreement with you. Sark started off with a somewhat vanilla game plan, although not nearly as vanilla as people have been saying. The more I watch, the more I see open pass catchers that Arch didn't even try to hit. And that's on top of the times he made the right reads but fucked up the throw. Sark didn't kill it with this game but there was a lot of meat that Arch left on the bone. This is especially true in the red zone. Sark actually called several TD plays while we were in the redzone. And this is something that I was initially furious about and am having to retract my statements about Sark's playcalling. You know that frustratingly stupid "up the gut on 4th and short" call where there was no way we were going to get it? Sark schemed up two TD passes and a TD run in the series of plays before it. The guys just didn't execute. At that point I become more sympathetic to him just calling a simple play where he hopes we get lucky. Because what the fuck else can he do? Sark's RZ playcalling was much better than I remembered and it is baffling to see how poorly Arch executed it. I can't assume we win even if Arch makes all the right calls and throws because OSU would have changed it strategy as well. But man, we would have had a much better chance.
  18. The issue is not whether or not you wear Texas gear. It's the decision to not wear Texas gear after a loss.
  19. Buddy, you came on this website, of all websites, and said you don't wear your Texas gear after a loss. What kind of reaction did you expect from people? And to be clear - I get the point you were making. You don't want to have to deal with the ball ache of a conversation that is talking about a frustrating loss. But that's immaterial when you are making the conscious decision to hide the fact that you are a longhorn. Nobody made you post that, and if you didn't want to catch shit then you should do a better job of hiding your shame.
  20. "The pride and winning tradition..." Pretty much the same thing with the sooners. Just some good natured shit talking and then chatting politely about our respective trips like normal people. Although opposing fans who are at destination wedding are more likely to be a normal class of person and not mouthbreathing goons, so our experiences may not be representative. I'll also say that, according to all of my friends who went to Columbus, the buckeye fans were fine. Certainly better than fans in Lubbock or Fayetteville.
  21. Man, you have some awful takes in this thread. I was in a small town in Mexico for the game and my buddy and I ended up watching it in a bar with a bunch of sooners who were there for a wedding. We saw them at the hotel and all over town for the rest of the trip and you know for damn sure I wore my Texas bar cap the whole time. The shit talking is invigorating for the soul.
  22. If nothing else, this shows why coaches will go with experience over talent when push comes to shove.
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