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I think all of the watches I posted have a bracelet option. If he interested in a GO, I have a contact that may be able to provide a discount if he's looking to by from an AD. @brown water also has a contact at another AD.

Dressier GO Senator or Sportier GP Laureato or GO 70s. Blancpain Air Command is more expensive - not sure what sort of discounts are available. BP Fifty Fathoms is slightly less, but not sure I am a fan of a diver with a Chrono.

@Harrison Stafford Any expected news on AMYZF? Killing me right now.

Sellita movement (although customized and very highly finished) compared to the others which were Schwarz-Etienne.

I have a varied collection. This better? [emoji16]

Damn, digging this.

Royal Oaks does this. They even threatened the homeowner with collection if I didn't pay (I was a guest). I was doing 20 in a 15 and trying to find the street I was supposed to turn on. Had no idea I was going over the speed limit. $100. Rent a cop police force. My friend got a ticket for parking on the street. That's crazy shit and no way would I live somewhere like that. Yes, it is a little different since its a gated neighborhood, but still over the top.

That date window though.

In fairness, he's arguing with an idiot and getting dragged down to their level.

Yep, getting buy in to a new system and staff is much easier when your senior leaders actually lead.

Some people are too stupid to hold more than a single thought at a time. This thread is full of them.

Maybe it's because the players are laughing on the bus after getting their asses whipped. Tough to coach players like that. This isn't a singular issue. They're are dozens of issues at all levels that need to be addressed. Coaching is a part of it but with the current situation I think it's too early to judge and make a declaration this is all just because of shitty coaches. Until we fix the underlying cultural issues we're going to keep cycling through coaches.

Not specifically but he knows they represent the the voice of impatient fans and they need to get it turned around fast which is tough when you're players don't give a shit. Message boards aren't in a vacuum. The narrative is that Texas had to settle on Sark and we have posters here who routinely play up their insider knowledge and denigrate the staff with name calling. I'm sure they're are posters on other message boards that do the same and those message boards are run by members of the media. They help shape the narrative and that does influence public perception. Just look at the passes dropping their Burnt Ends memberships. That is a tangible negative caused directly on this message board which directly impacts our ability to recruit talent. In one rant, Bo Davis shifted the narrative from Seven Win Steve, high ranked players, and coaching failure to explain this season to what is the more accurate root cause which is we need a large roster overhaul. That takes time and thousands and thousands of fans being constantly told the coaching staff sucks makes it less likely they get the time they need to actually turn it around. There's a lot more that goes into it, hundreds of different factors but an honest discussion doesn't seem to be what you're interested in or capable of.

Well, if your players are limited, inexperienced, and have only been in a system for a few months, its quite a bit easier to use the week leading up to the game to take the limited number of things the players do well and develop a game plan to maximize those. Our coaches seem to do that pretty well with the notable exception at Arkansas in which they were unprepared for Card's meltdown. Even when the team isn't consistently moving the ball, there are still a lot of plays out there to be made that aren't being made. Then the other team makes adjustments at half to stop what we are doing well. Ideally, you also make adjustments and your players are able to execute the adjusted game plan to counter the other team. Our players can barely do one thing well after being drilled on it in practice all week. They have no chance to make adjustments on the fly and be effective. Everyone wants a magic bullet, but there isn't one. We need better players in a consistent environment where they can learn all of the intricacies of the offense/defense and be able to effectively execute all of it. That allows the coaches flexibility to make on the fly adjustments and have those actually be effective.

Katfid would.

This should be required reading. You should post it in the Bo Davis thread if hit haven't already.

Agreed. Portal this year will be the deciding factor in whether or not we are hiring a new head coach 2 to 3 years from now.

Bo Davis certainly seemed concerned about his livelihood.

Agreed and I believe I said that I wish he was a little more flexible to make adjustments based on available personnel. That said, I also don't know if any of them truly understood the dumpster fire they were walking into.

For a healthy program with a reasonable succession plan from one coach to the next 2-3 years is plenty of time. We are the opposite of that and it will take more time. I think they should get 5 years unless they display incompetence or are an asshole as long as their are signs of improvement year over year. See our last two coaches. I'd say 4 years now with the portal without coordinators being dumped after a year or two. And I'm not discounting the fact that the previous two coaches made their bed with horrendous staffs from the outset. Those needed overhauls. I don't think that's the case now. Sark can call an effective offense and PK was widely considered a homerun because he had been successful for years at UW. Sark the head coach is an unknown despite some people's insistence that getting sober and working under Saban couldn't possibly provide an opportunity to improve on his previous stints as head coach. If we can really take advantage of the portal and overhaul the roster this year then Sark has a chance. If not we can continue this discussion with the next coach. Because you're right, 4-5 years isn't going to happen in the world today. This year is on the players, imo. And I think that's pretty clear based on recent developments. Let's see what years 2 and 3 bring without overhauling the staff assuming things are moving in the right direction. Year 4 should be very good 10+ wins and if not then make changes.

Agreed, and for the short term that worked. Manny's scheme worked originally as well. But can it hold up after coaches have a year or two of film to scheme around? Manny's obviously didn't. We don't know about Robinson's defense because he was let go with Mack. PK went for years fielding a pretty salty defense with Washington. I don't think he forgot how to coach and unlike Manny Diaz, he actually had an extended history of success prior to being hired meaning offensive coordinators knew his scheme. Is he maybe too stubborn in sticking to his scheme instead of adjusting to his personnel...maybe that's the case, maybe it isn't. But that also depends on whether you take a short term fix view or a long term view and whether you think the problems are all coaching or at least in part on the players. If he wants his scheme to be effective, the players have to live it and practice it and learn how to execute it under live fire. That takes time (more than a few months of practice and 9 games). Unfortunately a lot of our fanbase is like asking a 7 year old if they want a ice cream now or a bicycle in a week. They'll take the ice cream. Do what's best right now, right now, right now. Not tomorrow, right fucking now. You never get the bike if you can't have the least bit of patience. You don't build a culture like that, you don't build build consistency like that, you don't develop player leadership like that. So I'll give PK the benefit of the doubt for now, no matter how frustrating it is (and I was screaming how much he sucks in this last game). If we aren't seeing the benefits of learning the same system towards the end of next season, then maybe its a different discussion we're having.

A bandaid. Sure, it would be easy to simplify the scheme and it probably would help some right now. Do we want a bandaid or do we want to actually fix the problem? I'd prefer to get players in and keep them in the same system for a few seasons to see what they can do once they truly grasp the system. I realize in this day and age of instant gratification, that's an unpopular opinion, but its the only way to truly fix things. It will be painful. Depending on who portals after the season, next years' defense may be just as bad as this year. But if the system works (and PK has a pretty good track record that it does), then for me its worth the short term pain to get it right.

What if a player is running wide open and they don't throw his way or they throw his way and its out of bounds or its on target and he fails to catch it. I'd say that primarily is what is happening in the pass game. Which in turn kills the run game because it isn't much of a threat if we can't execute consistently. We make any one or two of those during the last 4 games and we likely win because it completely changes the dynamics of the game. It opens up the run, it puts the opponent further down and makes them one dimensional. And again, how many different assignments have these players had over the last 6 years. Someone posted above that Okafor has had 5 oline coaches in 6 years. WTF do you expect when he's learning something different every year? Instead of consistency and working on identifying the correct assignment and making the play, they stand there looking confused as shit. You think that's on the coaches. I think that's the result of a turnstile of coaches. You don't teach during the season, you execute what you have been taught. These guys haven't had enough time to learn and practice and practice and practice until it becomes routine. And with the OL especially, it only takes 1 of 5 guys to miss their assignment to blow the play up. Repetition is the key. Dump the bad, non-motivated players and start the rebuild with continuity for the next 2-3 years and it will pay off.

Did they not? What did they say in the locker room and at practice the last few weeks? Seems like Sark got into it with J. Moore before this. I doubt he was the only one he was riding hard. This wasn't Bo Davis just being mad. This was a coaching staff decision to send a message in a different manner because players weren't getting it. I've seen a lot of jokes about this being 4D chess and this leak being orchestrated. I actually don't doubt that. The players may not care if the staff calls them out in practice, but now they see it going public and seeing the response from the media, fans, and most importantly former players. They know whose side EVERYONE is on. Hopefully that's enough motivation for some of these guys. The rest can leave. I hope the staff is following up on this and meeting with each player individually to deliver the message and either get buy in, or tell them to pack their bags. That simple. If its 5 guys that leave, great. If its 25, even better. Get rid of the anchor that is unmotivated players and lack of player leadership. Painful in the short term, yes. Critical to the long term success of the program, absolutely.

But the point is some players are not motivated and we seem to have a very high percentage of those. It has been a systemic issue for a long time. So blaming a first year coach for them not being hungry isn't really the correct focus. The players have been in a turnstile for the better part of the last decade. There is no consistency. We have a long standing culture of being soft. Is Sark the answer? Maybe, maybe not. But I see progress on offense with respect to the system. Players are not executing. That may ultimately be on the coaches, but there's no way to tell at this stage. You yourself just provided an example that your highly motivated group had a lot of success because the players knew what success looked like and how to work to achieve that success. Your second group of players wasn't motivated and didn't have success. Players. Is it on the coaches to get them motivated, yes. But if you're handed a lot of players who aren't motivated, which appears to be the case, just how much can you do to motivate them? There's only so much. Our team doesn't have motivated players and they don't have any motivated leaders to help implement the change in culture. So is the "regression" as you call it due to Sark and staff's inability to motivate as well as Tom Herman or is there a chance that its due to the fact that the actual player leaders that Tom Herman had (see Sam E, Sam C, and Ossai) are no longer with the program and that lack of leadership while implementing a new system is why the team isn't performing as well? Our talent level is down across the board at very key areas. If those three players are on the team, I think this team looks better than last year's Herman team and as a result they would magically look more motivated. These coaches have not had long to teach their system, teach individual responsibilities for the position and change the culture. Those things take time, especially with a group of players that haven't had much in the way of coaching consistency since they arrived on campus. Any system is going to look like shit at first. We have some talent (possibly overrated), but not as much as the recruiting rankings would otherwise suggest. Especially critical juniors and seniors who should be providing leadership to the younger players and helping to establish the culture needed to effectively implement new schemes and a new system. In fact, recent events have shown that we seem to have the opposite of leadership. It is counterproductive to simply blame coaching when those other deficiencies are so prevalent. Give them some time. Sark knows what a healthy lockerroom and 2-deep roster looks like. On offense he's already showing signs of scheming players open. I see a LOT of lack of execution on the players parts - and not deficiencies in the scheme. You can't scheme around players not making plays, you can only scheme to put them in a position to make plays. Its up to the players to execute. They aren't. On defense, the players are clearly confused, standing around, whiffing on tackles. EXACTLY what you would expect with players attempting to implement a new system without ANY player leadership. Our coaches clearly care. Bo Davis is a very good coach and recruiter. He cares immensely as we've seen. There's no way that message was delivered in a Bo Davis bubble. That message has been discussed amongst all the coaches, including Sark, and they know what they are faced with and know they need a roster overhaul. Bo Davis was just the one delivering the message the ENTIRE staff wanted to deliver. Fundamental changes to the culture of a program are tough and painful. They are time consuming. They require buy in. We keep trying something new every few years because we are impatient. I have no problem with Strong or Herman being fired. If a position group isn't getting it done (WRs), then maybe consider a change there. But saying PK can't coach defense is incredibly short sighted. He's proven he can do it over an extended period of time at a very high level. He was considered a homerun hire by pretty much everyone. He didn't forget how to coach. WRs running wide open game after game despite our lack of O-line and QB shows me Sark can scheme an offense. Constantly bitching about seven win Steve or Steve Quitkowski just a few games in does nothing but seed doubt within the program, resulting in the coach feeling like they are on the hot seat and making dramatic changes to coordinators/staff which only continue the cycle of inconsistency.