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Park Gothic

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  1. Here is Scipio's write up on the defense (credit to @satyanash) along with a scathing review of our DB play: Relevant portion for those who don't want to click a link: We were straight up bad all game, even before MacDonald came out. It was just covered up by our pass rush. Which is part of why it's nice to have such a good pass rush. What's news to me, however, is that Scipio puts a lot of the blame on Derek Williams. I've been blaming Guilbeau for most of the breakdowns. While I think Guilbeau definitely shares part of the blame, it may be that he's trying to do too much from the CB position to make for poor play from Williams. The more I watch the Vandy game the more I have to agree that Williams seems to have lost something in terms of his aggression and awareness. I still think Guilbeau is a poor fit at CB, however, and should move back to nickel.
  2. I thought that Akina was brought in as a last minute replacement for Joseph. His real value add was that he could help Texas pivot to more man coverage and groom Mark Orphey to take over as the real coach of the secondary. I though giving him the passing defense coordinator role was a little weird, but figured it was a "we need to justify his salary" kind of thing. I have a lot of respect for Akina, but he is too old to be the HNIC of the DB room. Great to have him on staff, but I sincerely hope his not actually calling the shots.
  3. I'm assuming that the relatively unknown quantities of Casey Thompson and Hudson Card (who was actually picked as the starter back in 2021, before...Arkansas) seemed like moldable clay to Sark, while Sam was what he was. To be clear, I think Sark should have kept Sam on the roster if only for the intangible qualities that Sam brought to the team. But I don't think Sam was actually planning to stay for another season. Yeah...you've put it more bluntly than I would have, but the story sounds like bullshit to me.
  4. I've heard a few comments from the last month or so that Sark ran Sam off, but I had never heard that before. It seemed clear at the end of the 2020 season that Sam was going to declare for the draft - he sat out the second half of the Colorado bowl game. Was he interested in coming back when Herman got the boot and Sark said no? That seems crazy to me - maybe Sam wasn't a good fit for Sark's offense, but he was the unquestioned leader of the team. Surely Sark could see the value in keeping him around to help transition to the new staff?
  5. Sark's first season, coming off covid restrictions and with zero draft eligible players getting drafted? Herman fucked the roster and the team's mentality, and Sark did not have the time or the infrastructure to unfuck it. Plus, the dude just came from Bama. I assume he looked around the locker room and thought "shit, we've got a guy like Bijan? Surely I can do something with these guys." He had no idea how much quit players like Casey Thompson, Josh Moore, and BJ Foster had in their hearts. Not trying to defend Sark's '21 season, but it is certainly possible to defend it. Now 2022? A lot of our struggles that season are on Sark, his stubbornness, and his ego. We should have gone much better than 8-5, especially with winnable games against OSU and Tech. The TCU games was especially maddening, because it seemed like we had turned a corner.
  6. Earlier this year I complained about the Mateer injury because I wanted to play a healthy OU. Part of my reasoning was that we wouldn't get credit for beating OU if their backup QB played, and even if Mateer played people would say he sucked because his hand was still hurt. To a certain degree, that's what is happening now - I've heard at least two national talking heads mention that his hand wasn't fully healed when OU played us in the context of ranking OU ahead of us despite the head-to-head. But here's the thing - I was wrong. Not in the sense of being factually inaccurate, but in the sense of being worried about something that won't matter. College football fans and journalists love narratives. Each season has stories and those stories impact how we view our team and the sport more broadly. And that's what you are talking about here and what I was talking about with the Mateer injury, narratives. We don't like how those games went because we knew how people would spin the story. But the committee doesn't work that way. Most of the comparisons they do are blind and are data driven. Although the "narratives" may have some secondary influence on how committee members think about the season, it's impact is de minimis. Now I'm not an idiot to say that the committee doesn't look at the teams or that they are completely blind. But to the extent that they compare helmets, they do it with an eye towards money and ratings. And that kind of bias will always favor Texas. That's a long way of me saying that I'm sympathetic to your concerns, but that they are ultimately misplaced. The refs tried to job us pretty hard, but it won't affect the rest of our season.
  7. Hey man, we don’t kink shame on this board.
  8. FFS. Clearly didnt break the plane
  9. What’s the deal with Guilbeau this season? He’s never been great in the backfield but it’s gotten especially bad. Can he not handle the move to CB? Could he move back to star/safety? Hes a good enough athlete that I’d like to see him deployed in some way, but he clearly can’t see the field well enough.
  10. This is why I can’t get too worked up about the 4th quarter performance. The refs had their full body weight on the scales. It was blatant. I don’t think anyone else will get that level of special attention, but let’s just hope FanDuel doesn’t have other plans.
  11. Maybe, but I’m more talking about the cumulative bullshit of the last 4 weeks. Goes waaaaaaaaaay beyond the game threads. Or have you not read the “Sark to the NFL” thread?
  12. I like to think of myself as a patient person, but the last three weeks - during which we have not lost a game - has done more to engender my hatred for half the people on this site than the entire firs four seasons of Sark’s tenure. I’m an emotionally stunted retard and even I can see that y’all can’t process anything that doesn’t pass through your angry emotional filters. Sark and PK played this game exactly how you are supposed to. That’s what made the officiating so egregious. Also, Gilbeau to too dumb to play DB. Fire Akins for playing him, I guess? but you morons who are still complaining despite Sark and Manning’s having one their best games of the season need to go. The fuck. Away.
  13. Fucking stupid posts. Ref ball kept this from being an absolute blowout. Or did y’all want Sark to air it out with a multiscore lead and only 5 minutes left in the game?
  14. Get fucked @Wilcox Cummingtonite you pathetic waste of skin. Go root for Oklahoma.
  15. Wow. A holding call.
  16. With the PI too. Fuck em.
  17. My optimism levels are dangerously uncautious right now. If I hope too much we’ll lose.
  18. 1) Stroh and Brooks are pretty big 2) Even calling them “speed bumps” is an insult to speed bumps
  19. Damn, Arch took that hit like a champ
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