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Park Gothic

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Sark's playcalling in the 4th when he gets out of his head and into his bag:
  6. 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.
  7. Football board stupidity is starting to infect the 9.95 board. A tale as old as time.
  8. 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.
  9. This is quite the thread. Some of y'all need therapy. Some of y'all just need a drink. Regardless of the factual accuracy of any of the following, I'm sticking with these priors when I think about Sark and his future at the program: 1) The story was not accurately reported. There may have been some truth to it, but fishing for a raise, gauging interest, backroom fuckery all seem just as likely. By all appearances, Sark likes to recruit and likes coaching in college. Would he move to the NFL? I'm sure he would, I think he probably views NFL headcoach as the pinnacle of the career mountain for a guy like him. But I think he learned enough from a guy like Saban that you need to wait for the right job. Neither Miami or Tennessee are the right job. Y'all need to calm your tits and quit reacting to every rumor and report. 2) Sark has his drinking under control. I don't think the man is sober and, as far as I know, he's never claimed to be. People can be modest drinkers. People can be heavy drinkers who keep that shit from affecting their job. I personally don't really give a shit what Sark does in his free time as long as his coaching doesn't suffer. As far whatever happened this off season, seems more likely to be family oriented than substances abuse. 3) Loreal Sarkisian is a non-entity at the Texas program. I think speculating about their bedroom is tacky and somewhat ridiculous, but whatever, y'all seem to enjoy it so have fun. But y'all are vastly overestimating her significance or impact on this team. I agree that the less you hear / see the HC's wife, the better, but I have not seen her insist on being part of the team's public image. I don't know much about her as a person and I haven't been forced to at any point in the past 5 years. I call that a win and have no interest in changing things. I much more worried about the OL and Manning's concussion status. Worrying about Sark and the NFL is something I will save for January.
  10. Do you know who you’re talking to? Both. The answer is both.
  11. Guys. There is literally football on every night for the next two months. You gotta save something for the off-season.
  12. My friend just made this point to me ("look at how UK played against UGA last season") and something clicked for me. The comparison is accurate, but backwards. We aren't UGA in the "UK vs. UGA 2024" scenario, we are Kentucky. It's just that the "Kentucky" team won in 2025.
  13. I don't even know what we're arguing about anymore. But watching those clips was fucking painful.
  14. Scipio said on the latest EGAT that Taaffe played the whole 4th with a broken thumb and refused to come off the field (or just didn't tell the trainers).
  15. Taaffe apparently played the whole 4th quarter with a broken thumb. Did not tell the trainers because he did not want to come out.
  16. A problem with blaming Flood is that he's not calling the blocking schemes. Recruiting, talent evaluation, and development are all on Flood. But when Sark calls for a blocking scheme that we cannot execute, when there are apparently blocking schemes that we can execute, that's on Sark. I'm not sure what the dynamic is between them, but we are all over the map with our blocking schemes this year and we do not have the OL for that kind of game. We need to stick to the few things that we do well enough. Sure, let's figure where Flood is fucking up in the offseason. Maybe even consider making a change. But when you go from our blocking against OU to our blocking against UK, you know that a big part of the problem is scheme.
  17. I would honestly settle for a new QB coach with a proven track record outside of "he recruited Arch Manning"
  18. Like seeing Baxter is “probable” rather questionable, which is what I was expecting.
  19. My point is less that Flood should keep his job and more that we should move that tangent to the Coaching Staff thread or the Texas O Line thread.
  20. No, just as his OC, DC, and various position coaches.
  21. Yeah, only shitty coaches hire retreads. That like stupid asshole Nick Saban.
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