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  1. I never said any of that. He’s an information guy and I think his business and his passion for UT put him in a unique position to deliver good and relevant information to the people we are all hoping will make Texas what it should be. To make things work in this new landscape, information is at a premium, and it moves at a really fast pace. There’s no way to keep up with it all unless you’re doing it full time. To do that, you have to monetize your time, and Bobby has proven he knows how to do that time and time again. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say he’s been one of the most successful people in the college sports information/entertainment space. And he’s unabashedly pro Texas football. I think that’s super valuable to the program.
  2. If Billy Liucci is as beneficial to A&M as Bobby is to us then Billy deserves their fans admiration and the money that comes with it.
  3. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I’d bet good money you would be wrong. I fucking love the guy for what he does for Texas football. How about the guys behind this website? Burnt Ends didn’t just appear out of thin air. They wanted to get in the fight and they did, and now look. TE room looks pretty good to me.
  4. He understands the college football landscape extremely well and he uses that understanding to help our program how he can. He loves UT to the point that he covers it for a living, and so I appreciate that he wants good things for UT sports because it’s good for him. It has been very surprising to me in the past to find out major college football programs act on bad or inadequate information. Bobby gives our program what I believe to be the most honest information he has. I really like Gerry too. They are college football fans and they want Texas to be good at college football. As far as what they do behind the scenes, I’ve only seen little bits and pieces, but I’ve seen enough to place Bobby especially in the category of someone who uses action, not words, to try to make good things happen for Texas football. I consider him a great asset to the program, and also a die hard fan who loves this school. In my book, he’s a “longhorn legend”.
  5. If there's anywhere I'm not going to direct my anger, its at Bobby. He's a part of the answer behind the scenes if there ever was one. Not gonna blame him for going the optimist route, it benefits his business.
  6. This is where I am. I think my head is kind of locked up because its shocking to me we could suck this bad with all this money at play. It makes the possibilities for fireworks inside the program likely. I went from thinking we would sneak into the playoff to doubting we can even get to 8-4. Its not like we barely lost to ohio state, blew out our three cupcakes, and lost a heartbreaker at the swamp against some good competition. The whole picture thats been painted so far is undeniable, there are multiple position groups on fire and its shell shocked our QB who already had an epic amount of pressure on him. This is a dark timeline so far this season. Doesn't feel like we are done bleeding, feels like we are just getting started.
  7. Reserving my judgement until I find out if these were seed oils or not.
  8. My point in saying that is benching Arch would effectively be blowing up the narrative that this entire program is built upon. Arch is the centerpiece of the whole deal for better or worse. We could have a QB even better than Caldwell on the bench and Sark would roll with Arch.
  9. May have had some phone calls that ran late........
  10. Sounds like they already have evidence that Sanchez was the aggressor and snapped. Crazy situation. May have just thrown it all away.
  11. I'd be shocked if it was a serious thought at all in the staffs minds. If Arch gets straight up benched that means we are in full running around like chickens with their heads cut off level of panic.
  12. Arch had an ugly game and is struggling with fairly simple 1st reads. When I watch the film (obv dont have access to the all 22) its clear to me he's not ready to run the offense at a high level. He's just missing too much. However, he really is running for his life. Im now convinced part of the reason he's having the yips and is in his head is because he knows his o line is a complete disaster. Thats a tough realization when you know that means you're capable of getting sacked every single play, because his "first read" becomes pocket awareness and not where to go with the ball. He showed some real moxie and playmaking ability against Florida. The raw tools are there. I think his development has been stunted by this horrendous o line, and I think he was significantly overhyped and over ranked. He was a high four star that played against bad competition and was going to need time. But the film speaks for itself: 1- He has no time 2- Hes struggling big time with 1st read coverages #2 doesnt get fixed until #1 does. He's not super human. In the mean time Sark has to use everything at his disposal to relieve the pressure for him, and hes not doing that schematically. He better start or we are going to lose more than we win.
  13. This is a bad spot we are in. NIL comes with expectations, thats the case for every program. NIL on our scale comes with expectations to match it. What that means to me, based on the guy I know who is putting up serious money, is the bare minimum expectation is to make the playoff. Sark asked for a lot and has received a lot. Its one thing for us to fall short in the red zone in the cfp semifinal. Its another to have an o-line so completely broken that your donors investment in building around Arch Manning is completely wasted for the season. Speaking of Arch, Sark looked in these donors eyes and told them if they put up the money for the pieces around him, we will land football Jesus in the form of SEC fball royalty. Sark has been telling our donors that he's a QB expert, and in his expert opinion Arch is the best hs prospect hes ever seen and has shown him everything he needs to see these last two years to step in and play at a high level. Sark got his money, but how does his situation here change if he goes 7-5 or even worse at this stage of the cycle? At a minimum, he will lose some donor support. At this stage, I don't think we are in a situation where our donors are going to double down when they have already given so much. MASSIVE game for Sark coming up.
  14. I have no idea how to sanely have any confidence in our chances in this game after watching our o-line get abused by UF. We received confirmation that UTEP was not an aberration. Our o line is completely broken. There's no help coming for this game. I don't know how you win with that.
  15. We need a play calling OC, an OL coach, a QB coach, and a ST coordinator. This offense completely blows. Sark has messed up. He'll get a full cycle to get it fixed but I'd imagine there are some donors wondering where the money went.
  16. Just feels like a bad spot for Florida. Theyre leaking oil and beat up. We've been getting bad press after tripping out of the gate a bit. Had a chance to get healthy, preach a chip onto our shoulder, and basically start a brand new season. Solid game here changes the narrative and Im sure the coaches know we need it heading into OU. No way to not be worried about the OL, but even there I gotta wonder if we are actually this bad or just had poor effort in games we werent worried about losing. Of course there's one possibility out there that I think is in the back of all of our minds, we just wont bring that up.
  17. Texas is a southern state, a southwestern state, and a plains state. Right now we are in the southern state version of our conference affiliation. Big 12 was the plains affiliation and we did heavy flirting with the PAC to be a southwestern member. Northern Mexico/South Texas is its own region. I'm sure if they were connected to a major football conference we wouldve done plenty of flirting with them too.
  18. 34-17. We dominate time of possession and they score a trash time td in 4th Q. Arch has an ok game, running game shows improvement. Defense looks dominant.
  19. Yea seems spot on. Dont know much about Napier and now that I think about it I think Im feeling bad for him because I was told one time that hes a good dude. For all I actually know hes not. With Herman he went off the reservation before he even started with us. Just an epic dipshit.
  20. Gerry mentioned if it were him calling the shots at UF, he would throw 15m a year at Marcus Freeman.
  21. I kind of feel bad for Napier. He seems like hes completely in over his head.
  22. I still believe this team has its best football in front of them and I think Texas can sneak into the playoff on the back of a very good defense. Im not expecting a SEC or national championship. At this point I'm hoping to get the Arch train fully on the tracks and ready for a big campaign next year. Also, I think our schedule sets up well for us this season and I think its possible for us to make the playoff at 9-3.
  23. Maybe Stroh could contribute at an ok level with more time, I don't know. I do know he's not good enough today to play OL for even a decent unit. He simply isn't able to do it and I worry he's the canary in the coal mine for our whole offense, because you can't have a link that weak in your OL and win a championship. The fact he's still starting makes me worry he's our best option which right now would only mean we simply arent good enough.
  24. This defense looks exactly like my 3rd graders 7 on 7 defense. I cant stop seeing it.
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