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Park Gothic

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  1. Taking my life in my hands here, but... I think Sark did that this year. This is the first time in his tenure at Texas that I can remember him calling plays for the team he has rather than the team he wants. At the beginning of the season, it was clear that he wanted to run his pro-style offense, with a lot of 12 personnel and play action. He wanted to run the ball to set up those long developing pass plays. That shit wasn't working and, to his credit, he moved away from it. I think he abandoned the run more than he should have, but that seems like a biproduct of him trying to figure out how to maximize the offense. In the past, I think Sark keeps calling his offense and if the players don't execute, it's on them. He definitely did that in 2022. He was more versatile in 2023, but I think that was more about us having the right personnel rather than him adapting. Same thing in 2024, except with worse skill personnel (no elite RB, no Worthy or Mitchel) but we managed to get by on with a veteran QB and OL. Sark was still calling his offense, though, and it almost lost us same games. This year it finally caught up with us. We lacked any elite talent on offense, outside of QB, and did not have the experience at QB or OL that we enjoyed last season. And we saw the results - everything on offense sucked until Sark got into "panic mode" and started call a spread offense. Once he realized that was the only kind of offense that worked for us, he kept with it. But I think the UGA game showed why Sark was reticent to make that change - the spread is designed to make the offense easier for less talented teams. But it won't work on elite defenses, who have the talent and the coaching to negate the benefits of a spread offense. You need something that confuses them and puts them in conflict, which is what Sark's offense is designed to do. TL;DR - I think Sark adapted this season, which is something he really has not done and which I doubted he was capable of. I wish he had done it sooner, but I understand why he didn't. Silver lining. Hindsight is 20/20. blah blah blah.
  2. Honestly, I've hoped wondered if the poor OL haul is in part due to the uncertainty about Flood's future.
  3. I can see a path to this thread becoming the worst on this board. Long way to go and a lot needs to go wrong, but I think we can thread the needle. We just need to bring in more politics, religion, dick punches from the seasons gone by, and Big 12 nostalgia.
  4. Not ripping on you, but Mel Kiper doesn't know shit about fuck.
  5. Coaches are interested parties. They'll advocate for whatever advances their interests. It's "hypocritical" in a way, but it's also understandable. The CFP Committee, on the other hand, is supposed to be disinterested. Its interests should be the same every season - to put the 12 best teams in the playoff according to the selection rules (5+7). But it keeps changing the criteria and justifications for its choices to suit its own unspoken interests, which is far worse than anything that a coach does.
  6. But we already have a fantastic athlete with drop issues. More than a couple, actually.
  7. What's weird to me is that Bama's numbers and our numbers are the inverse of one another. Bama to make the CFP? -950 for yes +590 for no Texas to make the CFP? +590 for yes -950 for no Is there some notion that we will get in if Bama loses to UGA?
  8. I think a lot of men fall into the bad habit of infantilizing women and calling it chivalry (or courtesy, if you don't like the connotations). I don't agree with the people ripping on @Nicole44, but it's par for the course on this board. She's more than capable of sticking up for herself.
  9. The palace intrigue at Auburn is ridiculous. All these redneck millionaires who think they're Machiavelli. Edit: And it looks like Durkin is staying at Auburn -
  10. I don't have an informed opinion about gambling services and how they set odds, but wouldn't that be a reflection of how people are betting, rather than the odds makers having some inside information?
  11. Dude even has a burnt orange turtle neck.
  12. Nobody asked you, Sally. Fuck off back to the Big 12 thread.
  13. I don't disagree with your doom scenario (after all, having a shitty home slate + no post season would be terrible for fans and support). But I gotta push back on the rest of your comment. We lost three games and are still in the race. UVA, BYU, and Duke have a shot. Multiple SEC and B1G teams are locks for big games in the CFP. That is great for the sport as a whole. If this was 2011, our season would have been on life support after the OSU loss. It would have been completely dead after losing to Florida. So many more fans are still engaged in December, it's amazing. And there are certainly negative side effects too, which you have pointed out. But I think the CFP is a net-positive for the sport.
  14. Still not worth dealing with Bonnie Thompson's bullshit.
  15. They also don't want to split their TV / CFP money with the rest of a conference. Notre Dame and Ohio State both earned $20 million from the CFP last season. Ohio State split it's money with the rest of the B1G and received roughly $1.1 million as its share. Notre Dame split it with no one and kept all $20 million.
  16. Live look at CTJ learning how the rest of us live:
  17. Elko gives me big "post-Sopranos Gandolfini" vibes. Not even joking, dude needs to start looking after himself or he's going to end up the same way.
  18. I’m talking about the “threw trash at babies” type comments. I didn’t see a single A&M fan get hassled in any way shape or form. The “worst” that happened was the standard chants and shit. They are giant crybabies who have to pretend we’re monsters so they can stoke their moral outrage and sense of superiority. I didn’t mind the mariachi band but the variety show thing does get tired.
  19. Holy shit, the absolute fiction in those threads. They really are a cult- can’t even accurately perceive reality.
  20. I was bellowing “POOOOR AGGIES” at the top of my lungs all the way down the concourse and outside Gate 8. I still can’t talk this morning.
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