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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Park Gothic replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
If your joke was that Bryant didn't get drafted, then I regret giving you too much credit. That's on me. I should have known better. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Park Gothic replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
I was ready to jump on you about this, but you're not that far off. Kelly Bryant threw only 10 fewer picks than Ewers, but that was also in fewer attempts and more seasons at QB. So your point is valid. Kelly Bryant - 14 picks / 762 attempts (5 seasons) Quinn Ewers - 24 picks / 737 attempts (3 seasons) -
Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Full Roster Weaponization
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Easy to hate Oklahoma. Hard to hate cheddar peppers and cherry limeade. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Park Gothic replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
1) People do things for multiple reasons. Sometimes you do something that will accomplish an desired outcome and maybe achieves secondary and tertiary desired outcomes, despite being less likely. As I noted, the man has done it before in other situations. 2) I fully admit that I am speculating and wearing my Bevo-lenses. Don't miss the forest for the trees. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Park Gothic replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Park Gothic replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
I agree with Klatt, with a caveat. I think Sark knew how things were going to go. But I don't think he wastes learning opportunities, and I think pulling Ewers gave him a chance to let Ewers reset but to also show Arch (and the fanbase) that Arch wasn't ready for prime time. That Arch isn't some savior. He's literally saying "let me show you why you're not starting. You don't want this smoke week in and week out." I'm sure he has it in the back of his mind that Arch's legs or deep ball might turn the tide, but that was unlikely and would have been a pretty nice problem to have were it true. If you remember the spring game a couple of years ago, Sark did the same thing - he put a freshman Manning in against our ones on defense. The deck was stacked against him and Manning struggled, understandably. But it also showed everyone that Arch wasn't going to come in and take the job from Ewers. With Ewers, Murphy, and Manning on the roster, that room could have fallen apart in 2023, but it didn't. I will admit there were times that I wish Sark would pull Ewers - most notably the Kentucky game. But I'm capable of cooling off and letting it go. I might second guess my betters, but you have to be able to move on when they show you they're right. Much of this is speculation on my part and I will fully admit that i wear burnt orange glasses. But the guy knows how to manage that room. Scottish timepiece or whatever his name is definitely doesn't. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Park Gothic replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
Because he was a QB. He knows what getting pulled can do to a guy's confidence and mindset. He isn't going to pull his starter unless he knows either (1) the guy he's replacing the starter with is better, or (2) the guy getting pulled needs a hard reset. He pulled Card against Arkansas because Card lost the job. Thompson was clearly the better QB at that point and that's how it stayed. He pulled Ewers against UGA and when he went back in, Ewers suddenly played better. Ewers needed a hard reset. Those are the two times I can remember Sark pulling the QB at Texas, and it was the right call both times. I can understand the people criticizing Ewers, but the people who think they know better than Sark about which QB to play get a massive Lucille Bluth-style eyeroll from me. Sark is fallible just like anyone. Maybe he was too loyal to Ewers or worrying too much about keeping his locker room together. But when I see which posters in this thread are convinced that Sark is wrong, it bolsters my faith in the man. Because those posters are, for the most part, either pathologically miserable or just plain stupid. "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." -
Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Full Roster Weaponization
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SIAP, but Scipio let it slip on the latest EGAT that Jordyn Tyson at ASU was the WR we were hoping would enter the portal.- 190 replies
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Lending his voice free of charge. What a great service to the community.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Full Roster Weaponization
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I wouldn't be surprised if he had graduated, but his linkedin suggests he is still seeking his bachelors - https://www.linkedin.com/in/justice-finkley-1b2096239/ Sidenote, didn't know he had an NIL deal with Sonic. Yet another reason to like the kid. -
I would assume the answer is "all of the above." Coaching from KB, another year of S&C, us having better edges to take the pressure off the interior, etc. etc. etc. It's great that he improved as much as he did, but I'm still completely shocked by it.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Full Roster Weaponization
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I went ahead and looked up where some of our guys went, because I couldn't remember and I still want good things for them. Justice Finkley went to Kansas. He was maxed out and was seeing less and less playing time every season. Can't fault the kid for wanting to play and its a good school academically, but for some reason I thought he came to Texas to eventually go to medical school. KU has a medical school too, so that may still be the plan, but I'm surprised he didn't stay to graduate. I will miss his mom's online presence, she was awesome. Aaron Bryant went to Vandy. Good for him, that seems like a solid move. I gotta ask, how bad was he that he couldn't find the field for us with how much we needed a run stuffer? I would have thought he would at least be in the three-deep this season. But Vandy is a great spot for any kid from the south who values a degree. Jaray Bledsoe and Derion Gullette both transferred to Mississippi State. That seems like a drastic step down. Both guys are from Texas and both were billed as freak athletes (although Gullette's injury may have limited his upside), so I would have thought someone local would have picked them up. Or at least someone better than MSU. Either way it's a shame, I had high hopes for these guys. I don't really give a shit about Niblack, Mitchell, or Cook. -
Yep. Broughton was a fucking liability in 2022 and barely a JAG in 2023. Then suddenly in 2024 he's a solid disruptor and pass rush specialist on the inside. Credit to Kenny Baker for that, I guess. Because I thought Broughton had zero chance of sniffing the NFL.
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Yes - this is the kind of off-season content that I come here for. Between baseball's success and the incessant infighting on the football board, I may make it until August.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Park Gothic replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
There really some people who love to be miserable and this thread is great proof of it. It’s one thing to distort your sense of reality to make yourself happier, then there’s whatever the fuck is going on in here. -
I owe CTJ an apology. I regret posting the Raising Arizona gif. I forgot how deep this tangent can go. Also, the Cohen Bro's remake of True Grit is super underrated. I didn't love it at first, but I think I now prefer it to the original.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Park Gothic replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
"This site" is not down on Ewers. A meaningful minority of posters are down on Ewers, but most of them are in the "good guy but ultimately disappointing" camp. I'm in the pro-Ewers camp, but I have no problem with the people who are disappointed in him. Dude never realized his full potential and had several holes in his game, so I get the frustration. But an even smaller minority of that minority are genuinely rooting against the guy and are thrilled by how low he went in the draft. They like that because it proves them "right" and they would rather feel vindicated than have good things happen to one of the top QBs to play at Texas. That's why I would say it's not a CR thing - the CR shit is just another justification they can toss on to their "feel good" pile, but if it wasn't that it would be something else. Those are the people who are so down on Ewers. Don't lump the rest of us in with them. -
Official Coach Sark Thread of Dominance—haters back off
Park Gothic replied to SimkinsMan's topic in Football
Would you rather be Team A or Team B: Team A made 20 red zone trips all season and scored on 19 of those trips - scoring percentage is 95%, good enough for second place in all of CFB in 2024. Team B made 100 red zone trips all season and scored on 80 of those trips - scoring percentage is 80%, sitting at 97th place in 2024. I hope your answer is Team B, because that's a team that probably made the CFP unless their defense was historically bad. Meanwhile, Team A finished third in the MAC. To me, "signal" means metrics that are related to a team's success, while "noise" are numbers that have an attention getting quality but don't actually mean anything. Red zone scoring presented as a percentage and rank feels a lot more like noise. Edit - actually, we don't even have to do a hypothetical. Would you rather be 2021 Texas or 2024 Texas? -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
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Is there an observer effect on Surly, where we can prevent these derails by calling them out beforehand? -
Official Coach Sark Thread of Dominance—haters back off
Park Gothic replied to SimkinsMan's topic in Football
I'm not going back to look at USC or UW, but at Texas, here are the redzone scoring numbers: TD Scored FG Scored Combined Scoring National Rank 2021 35 (74.5%) 9 (19.2%) 44/47 (93.6%) 6/130 2022 36 (62%) 16 (27.6%) 52/58 (89.7%) 13/131 2023 31 (50.8%) 18 (29.5%) 49/61 (80.3%) 89/133 2024 44 (63.8%) 11 (15.95%) 55/69 (79.7%) 111/134 There's a lot more noise than signal here. Scoring in the red zone has really only been an issue for Texas in the last two seasons, which are ironically must better than Sark's first two seasons. So it seems like red zone scoring percentage is a poor proxy for overall program performance. It's also important that our scoring opportunities (i.e., trips to the red zone) have gone up every year, while the number of times we score has been "inconsistent" (although if I were charting this, the trend line would up). By inconsistent I mean lingering within a certain range, but jumping around erratically within that range. The ration of TDs to FGs has also been inconsistent. If we were only looking at national ranking, then we have consistently been getting worse, with a huge drop off from 2022 to 2023, and a significant drop off from 2023 to 2024. So there is a numbers based argument that scoring in the red zone is becoming an issue for Sark, especially in the last two years, but I think that isn't the full story or even really a meaningful way of looking at the numbers. In terms of raw numbers, we scored more TDs and settled for fewer FGs in 2024 than in any other year. in contrast, 2023 was our worst season for TDs and settling for FGs, while the scoring percentage was not significantly different. Maybe Sark is just going for it more, consequences be damned? Maybe he had less confidence in Ewers and Auburn, and tried to run it more from the red area? Again - I think there' s more noise than signal to this metric, and it seems more like something that pundits like talking about. The numbers just don't seem correlated, and I don't think it matters that much if your red zone scoring percentage isn't impacting your program performance. -
The audacity of saying this when the Quinn Ewers thread is just a click away.
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Actually this is an even bigger personal failing. JFK.
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that is a personal failing on your part.
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