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Park Gothic

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  1. I'm making a joke about @Helobious's habit of predicting the exact opposite of what will happen.
  2. I get your point, but I'm ambivalent about how to feel about it. On the one hand, I would like to have a coach who wants to settle down at Texas for the long haul. I think someone like that tends to make long term investments that will better for the program over all. But on the other hand, I don't want a coach who lacks ambition or feels he's already "won" just by getting hired at Texas. I want a coach who feels like he has to prove something every year. In the immortal words of Peter Gibbons, I don't want a coach who's "only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing [his] job" because "that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired." So I like that Sark is ambitious and the only place "up" he can go from here is the NFL. I get it. But I do hope he's still making long term plans for Texas and will maintain that mentality at least until the NFL comes calling with the right job.
  3. I (unfortunately) agree with a lot of your thoughts. Two quibbles, though. First, our WRs, most notably Mosley and Moore, are excellent blockers. I would rather them be excellent ball catchers and route runners, but it is something they do very well and credit where it's due. Second, I think the game in Austin last season looms large in everyone's mind. The CCG last year was an even match in terms of Sark vs. Smart coaching, and that game was essentially lost by a terrible kicker and the defense having a late game collapse. Those late game collapses are an unfortunate characteristic of PK's defense when he drops into prevent, however the defense would not have been in that position if the kicker had been worth a shit. But it seems like people disregard the CCG and focus on the loss in Austin, where we got our ass kicked. What people forget about that game, however, is how badly Ewers handled the pressure that UGA brought. Our OL struggled, but Ewers compounded that struggle. He self sacked and lacked mobility in the pocket. I like Ewers and am not blaming everything on him, but I don't know if that game will be reproducible. Especially when we now have a QB who is good at avoiding pressure. The OL has gotten worse, but the QB has gotten better (in terms of managing pressure), and I think it will be wash. For those reasons, I think this game will look more like the CCG and less like the first contest in Austin. I agree that the odds still favor us losing, but not getting destroyed or being noncompetitive. I think our path to victor is slim, but not nearly as slim as people are making it out to be. Better kicking and punt returns may be the difference. He might literally be retarded. I'm not using that world as an insult or jibe - he appears to have some serious intellectual and emotional developmental issues. I can't help being angry and snapping at him when he posts stupid shit, so I'm putting him on ignore on the off chance that he can't help himself. At this point, I'm worried that I am bullying someone with the mind of a child.
  4. You are projecting your silly bullshit onto Sark. Get fucked.
  5. I respectfully disagree. NIL has helped Sark, but Sark has also adroitly used NIL. And I will point out that many people on this board and within the community helped the AD (and therefore the staff) navigate NIL, but credit to Sark for being willing to engage with that help and partner with it effectively. Do you think Herman would have done as good a job as Sark with NIL? I don't. Not with the transfer portal making it easier than ever for players to get away from a toxic coach. There are also many counterfactuals - cases where a coach had plenty of money and could use NIL to recruit, but still fucked things up. You don't have to look any farther than Jimbo at A&M. All the money in the world, but he's dumb as fuck so they screwed things up. Then they bring an a coach who is at a minimum competent and suddenly things are looking up. Sark is getting a boost from NIL, no doubt. But you can't assume a coach won't fuck up playing even a good hand dealt, and someone else could be much worse. Also, Sark won the Big 12 and a NY6. It's not a national championship, but it's more than we had done in quite a while and certainly more than "ain't shit."
  6. Why do y'all bother arguing with these SECRant rejects? They're either trolls or genuinely that dumb. Either way, not worth your time.
  7. Fify. FIFY
  8. I think Sark has been depending on Flood to tell him whether or not we should pursue OL in the portal. The risk of taking duds may be outweighed by the reward of having a serviceable 8-deep, but that depends on what the room looks like. If it's full of dudes then why risk time and money pursuing options with a lower likelihood of success? But if the OL room looks like shit, then you gotta roll the dice and hope for the best. People say that taking DTs from the portal is a crapshoot similar to taking OL, but Sark has shown that he's willing to do that when the cupboard is bare. I think one of the changes we'll see this off season is that Sark stops relying on Flood to evaluate the OL room.
  9. I was just about to type the same thing. A win over Georgia legitimizes Texas to a lot of people who have already written us off. Beating Vandy did the same thing, but to a much lesser degree. It showed people that Texas is a good team, but it didn't show that we're at the top of the sport. Beating UGA will give us the bona fides that voters need to put us in the CFP. Even if we lose close to A&M (God forbid), a win over UGA will probably be enough to get us over the hump. Gotta beat Arkansas obviously. I don't know if beating A&M gets us into the CFP if we lose to UGA. It's too easy to dismiss a win over A&M as a rivalry game in Austin that has it's own particular hoo-doo that won't translate to other games. Honestly though, if I have to pick a loss I would rather lose to UGA and beat A&M. Consequences be damned.
  10. Schools are probably also concerned about the enrollment cliff (also called the demographic cliff) where enrollments are projected to shrink significantly in the near future. They've been spending like drunken sailors and have jacked tuition to the tits on the strength of low-interest student loans from the federal government. Those chickens are coming home to roost and the people running the schools have no idea how to handle the situation. They think selling one of their most profitable assets (football TV deals) will give them a big enough cash infusion to get by. A lot like a junkie doing whatever it take to get the next hit and worrying about the consequences later. I just read my kids the story of the golden goose. Seems pretty basic. But I doubt schools will realize what they've done until it's too late.
  11. Because our OL fucking sucks, Bobby. The fact that they suck less now - after doing a lot of tinkering that should have happened in the off season - does not change the fact that they still suck. I appreciate that Cole Hutson and Conner Robertson are good teammates or whatever, but they should not be starting at Texas. They should be experienced depth that we rely upon when one of our starters is hurt.
  12. Not that I agree with Satya's pessimism, but the only teams we've faced with athletes comparable to UGA are OSU, Florida, and OU. And all of OU's comparable athletes were on the defensive side of the ball. The team has clearly grown and improved since the losses to OSU and Florida. But even though we beat OU, we did it with defense and special teams. The offenses did enough for us to win, but they didn't cover themselves in glory either. So even though it's not a perfect predictor, that sample size does not fill me with hope and optimism about us playing a team with some of the best talent we've seen all year.
  13. He is, at best, a quality stop gap until Henderson gets there.
  14. We really gonna drag the Ewers bullshit into this thread too. Really. Keep that stupid bullshit quarantined to the appropriate thread, don't shit up this one as well.
  15. Look, I'm prepared to be shouted down as a regard but...that looks like DPI to me. Not at the end of the play but towards the beginning. You can jam the WR at the LOS with about 5 yards of leeway, but you can't just jam the dude his whole route. I don't have a perfect view, but it looks like the DB is impeding the WR's progress all the way into the EZ. Just looking at the end of the play I would not have thrown that flag, maybe I would have even flagged the WR for "pushing" the DB. But watching the whole thing, it looks like the WR is just trying to run his route through the DB and the DB only stops riding him to go for the ball. These fucking posts, man. I appreciate you doing the work to pull these, but they're putting my blood pressure through the roof. The refs were so goddamn terrible all game. The ones on Burke and Lance Jackson are especially egregious and were obvious in real time. The dude literally had Burke spun around he yanked him so hard.
  16. Look, I know we're down bad, but we're not "raid the Ivy League for OL" down bad.
  17. I think I missed something, but watching some reviews of the game and I just realized that Lefau did not play much against Vandy. Looked like Hill, Moore, and Smith were our starting LBs. I know Lefau has struggled a bit this season, but I didn't think it was bad enough to drop him down to the second string. Has there been any discussion about what's going on with him? All I can remember about him against Vandy was the somewhat bullshit pinkie-facemask call.
  18. You're probably right about McDonald, although I wish he would stick for another year. Unless this is a particularly thin draft class, he could improve his stock by playing on a team with more experience around him and an offense that holds up its end of things.
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