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Park Gothic

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Weird to see Campbell with such a low score. He's usually the best OL.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. I'm fucking dying, ha ha holy shit.
  10. 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.
  11. Concerns are legitimate. Then there's whatever the fuck this thread has turned into.
  12. She’s not gonna fuck you dude. You say something like this, with appropriate caveats like β€œit’s possible” β€œkind of remind me,” and people without any reading comprehension are going be arguing β€œwell CTJ said Sark goes on 20 day benders!” Im not blaming you but that’s how this shit gets started. And then we have 40 pages of this absolutely embarrassing bickering.
  13. Just for context, Troy went on to lose that game 21 to 38. Caldwell went 14/21, for 156 yards, one TD, and one INT. And before y'all think I'm shitting on the guy, that Iowa defense was really good. They held teams to an average of 18 ppg. I'm just saying let's not only look at the dude's highlight reel.
  14. Agreed. We're in year 5 and some things need to change. Maybe that's just a change to how practices are run, maybe it's giving up playcalling, or maybe it's even more drastic changes to the staff, but we need to see him do work to keep the ship afloat. If he does nothing - despite there being glaring issues with the program in contrast to the standard he has set - then that is an extremely negative data point. Maybe then we can talk about whether it's time to move on. But it would be ridiculous to not give the man a chance to course correct after all the good work he's done. People try new things, sometimes they don't work out. People are loyal to their friends, and that's a good thing, to a point. You have to give some grace and remember that we're all human beings. We can have high standards and still be reasonable. Unfortunately, Sark has got an ego and he's extremely stubborn. I could easily see him sticking with his process and staff because of some "I'm the head coach and we're doing it my way" bullshit. At that point you start thinking exit strategy, but it needs to actually get to that point first. As to all the shit flinging around about his personal life, that just reeks of frustrated fans being overly credulous about rumors because they're angry. I'm sympathetic, but it has jumped the shark.
  15. I wasn't sold on all of this. Seemed to outrageous too be true. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. But you just dropped a truth bomb right on my head. It was on reddit, the front page of the internet? Well shit, it must be true.
  16. You really want to fire a coach for going 8-4 in this carousel? I like to spend other people's money as much as the next guy, but I would rather save something for NIL and rev share instead of wasting on paying Sark not to coach. Plus, I still like Sark as HC. He's not perfect, but y'all are too quick to forget the terrible coaching luck we had before him.
  17. Sark's playcalling in the 4th when he gets out of his head and into his bag:
  18. If a fat fucking retard like Burt Bielema can make time to "hop on the wife," then I will damn well expect the HC at the University of Texas to tend to the Mrs. Let's not pretend that the majority of the people slinging shit on this thread ever thought it was a joke.
  19. Football board stupidity is starting to infect the 9.95 board. A tale as old as time.
  20. Agreed with these points. Akina / PK called uncharacteristically soft coverages last week. I don't know if we saw something in MSU's offense that we didn't like or what, but it was strange. I think @Js1 is probably right and PK was having flashbacks to OU in 2023 - Shapen isn't quite the level of dink-and-dunk artists that Gabriel was, but he works well in the Briles system. Guess it's that Baylor DNA. Outside of their TE, I don't think Vandy has the speed or the athletes to really worry us. I'm more concerned about us getting gutted on slants over the middle. That was a constant problem in 2023 and this secondary, without Taaffe, seems almost as vulnerable as that unit. I'm especially disappointed in Guilbeau. I didn't even expect much from the dude, but he seems dumber than a bag of rocks. I 100% agree that we need a "whole team" game this week. It seems like some weeks the offense plays well enough to win (Florida, MSU) and other weeks it's the defense leading the way (OSU, UK), but we've only seen one game against real competition where both sides of the ball carried their weight - OU. And even against OU, the offense needed an entire half before it found its footing. If the whole team comes to play, I think Texas can beat Vandy comfortably. We have better athletes and comparable coaching. Pavia is veteran, clever, and dangerous with his legs, but that can be accounted for. There's enough tape on him and this team plays well against mobile QBs. If Sark calls a friendly scheme and Caldwell can hit the easy passes, that should be enough to make up for the lack of a run game. Side note, but I'm following the staff's lead and abandoning my hopes for a run game. The RB room is too banged up and too young, and our OL is dogshit anyway. I'm hoping we can scrape together enough offense on the ground to keep Vandy's defense honest, but we will live and die by the QB's arm. Man, you have completely lost the plot the last two weeks. Did you start rooting for Texas in 2022 or something? Why are you not desensitized to baffling adversity for this program? How are you still this soft? Seriously, you are reaching @6th Street's level of pants pissing and shitposting. Say what you will about @satyanash's negativity, at least he generally includes some analysis or information about why he is dooming. You just seem to feel compelled to type dumb shit in every thread. We get it. You don't think the team is very good. Try posting something else, or maybe just stay away from the football board for the rest of the season.
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