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Park Gothic

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  1. Get fucked @Wilcox Cummingtonite you pathetic waste of skin. Go root for Oklahoma.
  2. Wow. A holding call.
  3. With the PI too. Fuck em.
  4. My optimism levels are dangerously uncautious right now. If I hope too much we’ll lose.
  5. 1) Stroh and Brooks are pretty big 2) Even calling them β€œspeed bumps” is an insult to speed bumps
  6. Damn, Arch took that hit like a champ
  7. Sark is finally doing what we’d all hoped he would - call plays for the team he has, not the team he wants.
  8. He’s been insufferable since the UK game. Broken brain, may have legitimate mental illness.
  9. We're talking about a test that was developed and administered by doctors, subject to scrutiny by the football program and the player's family. You are talking about a cop watching you spell the alphabet backwards while he was probably thinking "is this guy so drunk that I'm willing to deal with the paperwork?" I just don't think the concerns you have about field sobriety tests translate. Also, don't drink and drive.
  10. I think the offense that Vandy runs is the kind of offense that PK is good at stopping. He really struggles with a Briles-style offense (like what Lebby runs at MSU), but the offenses that rely on ball control and being efficient, without a lot of danger of explosives are in his wheelhouse. That gives me some confidence about how our defense is going to match up with Vandy. Our offense? Β―\_(ツ)_/Β― I'm down for a fatwa. Dude is aggressively stupid and has terrible banter.
  11. I was talking about QB development and you went off on a tangent about playcalling. I wish Sark would call plays that focus on the strengths of our offense and roster, but that's a separate issue. At any rate, people don't get better at a job by just doing the parts of it they find easy. They get better by doing the hard things. If I were trying to justify Sark's playcalling - which I'm not - I would say that he calls a prostyle offense to get players ready for the NFL, and that was probably discussed as part of their recruitment. The spread offense is popular in high school and college because it's easy to run by less talented and experienced players. It's not nearly as popular in the NFL because of the massive jump in talent, especially among the DBs. Surely you've heard the term "system QB" as a disparagement for productive college QBs when they go in the draft? That's what it's about.
  12. It's actually a lot of idiots. And given the already high percentage of idiots on this website, I can sympathize with someone who assumes the inmates are running the asylum. Just look at the "Sark to the NFL" thread.
  13. Weird to see Campbell with such a low score. He's usually the best OL.
  14. I think we agree about limiting expectations for Caldwell, but I'm not signing off on this whole "QBs regress under Sark" thing. There could be some validity to it, but I disagree with the evidence people have used. First, Ewers looked a lot fucking better in 2023 than he did in 2022. And although he took a step back in 2024, that may be attributable to a nagging injury. That's what Ewers has said and it makes as much sense to me as the idea that he regressed under Sark. As to Manning? We barely saw him play before this season, and most of his snaps against good competition were as a wildcat QB. I don't think he threw a pass against a P4 opponent outside of MSU. And Arch looked good in 2024, but how much of that was Sark keeping things simple for him / playing poor competition / having better WR and OL? There's too many variables that could explain the apparent "regression" of Ewers and Manning for me to pin it on Sark.
  15. This is where I'm at as well. If Arch can't go, then I hope Caldwell's experience and ability to hit the short passes in rhythm gives us enough on offense to make up for the bad OL and RB play. Add to that the lack of film on Caldwell to limit Vandy's ability to prep. But your comment about the game plan and small playbook is the crux of the thing. Will having Caldwell at QB be enough to get Sark off his bullshit and force him to call the plays we can actually run? For him to accept that these are college players with limitations and let them play within themselves? I really hope so.
  16. I don't know. I'm trying to keep my expectations for Caldwell tempered. It seems highly probable that he is a decent but limited QB who has just happened to play well in brief moments. The sample size for his production against quality opponents is just too small. If that's correct - and I honestly hope that it isn't - then we may need Manning to beat Vandy. If Manning can get cleared and he wants to play, then I hope he plays. It would be better for us if Caldwell can give us enough to win on Saturday and we can afford to let Manning rest, but I just doubt that's the case. But maybe that's just my battered longhorn syndrome acting up again.
  17. I'm fucking dying, ha ha holy shit.
  18. Y'all remember when we had ZERO players go in the 2022 draft? Y'all remember when we fumbled both the Milroe and the Ewers recruitments? That was Herman's recruiting, not Sark. Y'all think Arch would come here with Herman at the helm? Fuck no. And say what you want about Arch as a QB, him committing here was a massive boost for the program. Reading these comments has me feeling like I took crazy pills. The team was spiraling and headed for the dumpster as soon as Ehlinger graduated. And not because Sam was some amazing QB but because he provided actual leadership and stability. Herman had some positive qualities as a coach and playcaller, but I swear y'all must have fucking amnesia to think Sark isn't a massive improvement over Herman. This is another Herman vs. Sark thing - and I'm genuinely curious to get your opinion - do you think Herman could have managed all the seismic changes that happened to CFB in 2021? That he could have handled NIL and the transfer portal exploding? Because I personally think he would have fucked that up something fierce. Sark, for all his problems, was at least able to accept the help and resources offered to him and use them effectively. To be clear, I'm not giving Sark credit for putting together NIL at Texas or anything like that at all. But I'm saying he took the gift that was offered and profited from it. I have very little faith that Herman would have done anything with it at all.
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