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  1. Bags aren't everything, kids want to win. Just like A&M doesn't have the jack to lure away Sark. If you have lived in Austin Why the fuck would you want to move to college station? I would be really surprised to see A&M pull anyone off us. Simply because I don't think they can get a big splash player to bite, and it's too embarrassing otherwise. BUT!!!! Imagine how much cash the Ags would have if they don't average paying for an entire second staff they fired most every year. THAT might present a problem, but wasted money is... will wasted. And the Ags can't help themselves. They always get their hopes up, and convince themselves this is it! Cost doesn't matter! We finally have a chance! The good news for me is that Aggie hopes and dreams will once again be baselessly sky high next season. I sort of got depressed after seeing Aggie hopes and dreams dashed so early this year. It's a lot more fun to have them actually think things are going good, then like clockwork October crushes those dreams. I am very curious to see what kind of contract they write this go round. But who are they really going to get that's gonna make a huge splash?
  2. I dont think the situation is that dire. But of course it is going to require someone higher ranked to slip up. I can think of a variety of highly plausible scenarios in which Texas gets in guaranteed: 1) Florida State loses to either Florida/ACC finalist (ACC misses playoff) 2) Oregon beats Washington but Oregon drops a game to OSU before they beat Washington (PAC misses playoff) Less likely but very plausible scenarios: 3) Bama beats Georgia, Texas gets the nod over a 1 loss Pac 12 Champ Oregon by virtue of a H2H road win against the SEC champ (PAC misses playoff) 4) Bama beats Georgia, Texas gets the nod over Bama by virtue of a H2H road win (assuming Washington wins out, SEC misses the playoff) More unlikely: 5) Georgia loses to Bama and Bama loses to Auburn prior to that result (SEC misses playoff) Very unlikely scenario: 6) Ohio St/Mich winner loses the Big 10 champ game to Iowa (lol) (Big 10 misses playoff) Plenty of ways to still make it into the dance. Which is why ESPN still has us at an 87% chance if we win out. I personally think we will make it if we win out, but that is a big if. The pressure is mounting for everyone, and usually the end of the season is chaotic. Buckle up.
  3. Lunch with Liucci: By Billy Liucci Segment 1 (00:00:00 - 15:42:03) It was a wild week. I said it last night, I had to mix in some family stuff. It's fine. Everything is good. It was stressful. This stuff is not fun. There is an adrenaline thing of chasing down a story, getting the story and juggling it. So many of these kids' parents listen. It's one of my favorite parts of the job. They can become lifelong friends. It is annoying when you put a story out, and you have people trying to go out of their way to villainize the person who put the story out because the kids found out via social media. There are things you can say bad about me. The one thing you cannot say is that I do not consider other people in everything I do, especially in this instance. It's a small group. I like to look people in the eye and say, “You do not know a damn thing about me, the process or what went on.” My first concern was not letting anything out prior to that game. That was a fun night for the kids. They had a freaking blast. I was careful in not wanting to be manipulated in any way in terms of the timing. There were people who had an idea or knew and were saying they didn't agree with it. It was people who mattered. That decision was made at the highest level, and that was my thought. I did not see it being walked back because of the level of decision it was. Ross Bjork said it was his recommendation to the Texas A&M’s President. They took it to the board. The people at the top had to sign off on that. Once they did, there was no walking it back. It takes a toll on you walking around that stadium that night knowing what might happen. Some people don't like us because they dont like success. There has been a success here, and they hate when you talk about things like this. I'm calling that small group right now. Selfish would have been announcing that during College GameDay when kids are sitting at the hotel. I waited until the national people were getting word at 6:45 a.m. on Sunday morning. I was making phone calls, stressing and wringing my hands over it. A. You want the story. We deserve the story. I had had it since the inception of it, but at the same time, it meant a lot to me to make sure it was done, and there was no stopping it. B. I wanted Jimbo Fisher to know. I was as positive as I could be that he knew before leaving that building Saturday night without calling him, thus interfering in the process. It was tough. Here's the thing with Jimbo Fisher. Kevin Sumlin made comments about the toll the job took on his health and family. Jimbo came up from West Virginia, didn't have a lot, and went to Samford to play football. He wasn't a five-star. Forget what you think about him. Think about the human here. He worked his way up to the peak of his profession. He was coaching in front of 100,000 people, doing what he loved, not knowing that was going to be his last time to coach here. I don't know if Jimbo will ever coach again. I think he will. Is he even 60 yet? He loves it. Maybe he does, but not in that type of environment. All of a sudden, he is fired, and he has $75 million. Maybe he goes and sits on his farm in West Virginia. There is a human element we forget sometimes. He has $75 million, but do you think that guy wasn't devasted when he got the news? In the moment, it's OK to consider the human there that failed at what he was paid to do. I was thinking about that yesterday. There's a human side. There is a family side too. I am not saying you should not fire coaches. Of course, you should. That is the sport. They are compensated very handsomely, but that doesn't change the fact that it's not really a day to celebrate when you make a change when the guy isn't winning as much as you want or expected them to. This machine, and this is why I think they to be careful about who they hire, this thing does not have championships. We don’t have trophies around here. I was just talking to Greg McElroy and Cole Cubelic. The expectations are absolutely reasonable. They are not based on history. Even though A&M historically hasn't won like powerhouse programs, expectations have nothing to do with history. I said prior to the Mississippi State game that a win wasn't going to be enough. Before that meeting, I felt bad energy/vibes coming out of Ole Miss in terms of the wolves circling. Ole Miss, the wind was blowing in a certain direction. These road trips get you. Segment 2 (15:42:03 - 20:57:00) The thing about the Kevin Sumlin vs. Jimbo Fisher graphic, was not only was it annoying, but people would fall into the "Should not have fired Sumlin" rabbit hole. That wasn't the point of it. They need to make a good hire this time. I really like the message Josh Pate has said about A&M. It is a tremendous job. You could win massively here. You have to find the right guy, and they haven't. You hope they aren't heading to the dark ages. A&M needs this hire to hit. You see programs that have a lot of history going through dark periods more than A&M has, This will be a 7-5 team or 8-4 with a ton of talent. I know, some of it will go out the door during the transition. I think a lot of that would happen anyway. That was part of the concern. It happens to everyone. This is really important for Ross Bjork, the decision maker, to get this one right. Get the right guy and get him quickly, and don't give me this crap, I don't want to hear. Segment 3 (20:57:00 - 22:53:08) "The board told Jimbo he was let go on Saturday. He stormed out of the locker room and left for the ranch. That is not true. There is a lot that is not true that I get. Don't give me the "We need a strong coach. He needs to be organized and be friends with everyone." That is something you put on your list that we desire. Have that on the list. Plenty of people check that box and can recruit lights out. Everyone can put elite players on the field. The biggest part of the job is keeping this team together as much as you can because if you do, you have a winner on day one. Segment 4 (22:53:08 - 36:01:10) I love it for Elijah Robinson. He deserves it. The players are happy with it, and I think coaches on staff, like Bobby Petrino and D.J. Durkin. They will respect that. This could be fun for Elijah. This could be a good audition for him. Not only around here but for anywhere. Elijah is Elijah. He is real. He is lovable. He will show love but also push you and make you better. There is a reason he is paid as much as he is to be a position coach. They could not afford to lose him. He is an elite recruiter. Of everyone on that staff that you want to keep, no matter what your next head coach is, it's Elijah Robinson. Period. It doesn't mean it can't work without him. You can't get caught up on one coach or player during a transition, but I think it would be incredibly important and beneficial to the next coach if he is a prominent member of that staff. I can't even put into words how far that would go in terms of keeping guys here, recruiting efforts and putting together the right staff. The connection of Elijah and Terry Price, I would have said the same damn thing about TP when Kevin Sumlin was fired. Fisher retained Price. We all know what TP's value was. Elijah is the exact same way. How cool would it be to see Elijah go 3-0? Go beat LSU in Baton Rouge, and go win a bowl game. Have this team get to nine wins. All of these things are important in terms of retention and setting the coach on the path to win right away. You have the potential to say whoever walks in there, has a loaded roster from day one. I don’t think we will quite be able to say that because of the damn portal nowadays. Durkin is a hell of a recruiter. He is a pro's pro. He is another guy who is loved in the building. He is doing a great job on the recruiting trail. Guys like that stand out. Between that and making a quick hire, you have the potential to retain a lot of this. You will lose some. There are no two ways around this. You will lose guys you want to keep, and they will make a big deal of it on social media. If you hire the right coach and they sell it right, you can have a contending team on day one at Texas A&M. This week, they are talking to people. You would love to see it wrapped up in a couple of weeks. From the end of Mississippi State to the end of LSU is two weeks. You would love to see a decision by the middle of that week following LSU. There isn't a name that has floated to me that I have not thought about. I think Kliff Kingsbury is a really intersting one. Go get Dan Lanning. Go get Dan Campbell. Go get Kalen DoBoer. Look at what he is doing right now at Washington. Those are highly unlikely, but if you start talking about these other candidates, I like a lot about Elko. Kliff is intriguing. Somebody mentioned Todd Monken. He is doing great work with the Ravens and Lamar Jackson. He won a couple of national titles with Stetson Bennett at Georgia. It's day one. I try to tell y'all exactly what is happening, and what is exactly happening is there is not a standalone candidate. There are not two or three. There's a list. They will use the search firm that A&M is contracted out to. They will use that to weed out a lot of it so A&M can narrow it down. There is no one or two guys sitting at the top of a list right now. As of Monday morning, that is not the case. I know people say every AD walks around with a list in his pocket. Well, yeah. Ross probably has a list, but this is different because of the money you are paying Jimbo. All those guys I mentioned will get calls. They may get advice on who they should hire. Mike Elko, if he had not left for Duke, he would have been the perfect inside promotion. What's even better is now he has Power 5 experience. There is one person I haven't dove into it, but had Luke Fickell not taken to the Wisconsin job last year and been at Cincinnati one more year, would Fickell be the guy that every A&M fan would want? I don’t know if he would come. When we think about these things, don't forget about stuff like that. Segment 5 (36:01:10 - 44:27:09) Not evolving to the game was part of it, but Jimbo certainly tried in terms of recruiting, portal and NIL. Offensively, was slow. There was a lot. Maybe tried to do too much of it on his own. That's hard to do. Sometimes coaches don't realize that. Some personalities want to do everything on their own. It worked for him at FSU. College football is so unique in how much it changes almost every five years. Whether it be the rules, style of play, the portal, NIL, or realignment, it's ever-changing. They don’t have a recruiting coordinator yet. They never added that. They don’t have a high school relations guy. They made hires, but they weren't out there. The other thing that got him is there was some misfortune with those quarterback injuries. Has the caliber of the staff gone down? I think some of it, though, was big misfortune. People don't like hearing that, but it's real. In 2020, they would have been really damn good in a regular season. They might have been better. A&M had the layout to be the second-best team in the SEC that season. Who is to say that if Ohio State had played more games, they would not have dropped one? A&M would have been 12-1. Ohio State loses one game, and A&M is in there. Describing his tenure, it was really close. They could not quite get over it. There are a million reasons why. It was not just one. When they were putting together that No. 1 class, had they finished off the 2020 season in style... Maybe you get additional recruits. That was the moment, dropping those road games, that was your chance. That is when it could have flipped
  4. OK people, hear me out. We are going to win this game. Why, you ask? Well pull up a chair and listen to this truth serum. 1. Iowa State is a pretty good football team. They have good coaches, they have good schemes, but they do not have players that can really threaten us outside of maybe Jayden Higgens. Last year they survived on running the same pass route to the same guy over and over again in critical situations to move the chains. That guy is gone, the QB who threw those passes is in gamblers anonymous. The skill talent is not nearly as dangerous as last year, although they have two quality receivers. Rocco Becht has become a serviceable QB for them this season, but he is not a run threat, having run for a total of 81 yards all season. That means we get to play things a bit more honestly instead of selling out to stop the QB run like we did against Houston - which opened up all of those deep crossing routes. 2. They do not have an explosive run game. Their leading rusher has 460 yards on the season. I think we will shut that down very quickly and make them one dimensional. 3. Referees - What?! Fuck B12 Refs amirite? Yeah, you are right, except this. When we get late into the season and there is a B12 team in the running for the CFP or BCS, historically the refs tend to give some calls to the teams in the hunt. It means money for the conference, it means money for the schools, and they get to decide that maybe a missed PI or holding call will be soothed by a couple million dollars extra to the school that season. 4. You know who won't be soothed? Matt Campbell. I fully expect his head to explode off of his shoulders and shoot into space due to the blood pressure when we start beating their asses. Death of a coach on the field is always distracting for a team. 5. Sark has figured out the 3-3-5 flyover defense to an extent in the passing game. He spent a good portion of the game in trips sets, which forced the defense to come out of their shell and declare their coverage. Gundy did this earlier in the season and I think Sark caught on and used it against TCU. That is why we were getting those deep shots in the first half, and how we got 1 on 1 coverage to AD Mitchell on the crucial third down play late in the game. Ewers went for over 300 on Saturday against a team running exclusively 3-3-5. I think we do it again this week to clean up the reads for Quinn pre snap. 6. Iowa States top 3 leading tacklers are all DBs. That is a problem. Their top LB has 21 tackles on the year. That tells me that they have front 7 issues. If they want to keep those safeties back trying to confuse the pass game, we should have some room to run provided Sark doesn't get as predictable as he got last week. I was literally screaming for an RPO in the fourth quarter. I expect Iowa State to come out with their safeties deep and prove that we can run the ball before they break their shell. So long as Baxter and Blue run patiently and not up the backs of our linemen, I think we will see some quality rushing yards this week. To me that all adds up to a road W provided we don't run into some bullshit 40 MPH wind with a -5 windchill.
  5. Rimbo

    9-1

    The blown leads will get addressed by giving some of our young talent another year. We are what we are this year. The whining is that it's probably going to cost us a game we should win, and losing a game now may be enough to keep us out of the last Big XII Championship game.
  6. C-Man

    9-1

    And that would represent substantial progress. Hell, 9-1 is already progress from where we were In Year 1 under Sark no matter what happens from here. Personally, I don't think we can win the whole thing so I'm not overly fixated on the CFP. I just want to win the last Big 12 Championship that we will play for. If that gets us into the Final 4, that's great. Otherwise, I'm going to feel pretty good with a 10, 11 or 12-win season that includes the Big 12 trophy as a final "fuck you" to the rest of the league on our way out the door.
  7. Texas will never play a complete game, until we try too. It's not just passing the ball. Granted, QE missed a couple of reads and throws, but the mindset was clearly different in the 2nd half. Notice anything different between the 1st half & 2nd half, keeping in mind the last pass to AD was 35 yards? Texas started 5 playmakers on offense that were destined to play in the NFL next year and passed for 74 yards in 30 minutes of football. Completing a pass on 3rd & 1 is good, completing it for a 3 yard loss is worse than Greg Davis levels of idiocy. Play our normal game, the 1st half, and Texas wins going away. Instead we get outscored in the 4th Qtr 20-3 by a bad TCU team and lose our MVP in the process.
  8. Like I've been saying all season, IDGAF about the spreads or any of that shit. Just win. Even if we beat a mediocre team by 1 point, a wins a win. Shit the last time we were 9-1 was Mack and the last season we had 9 wins or more was 2018. Iowa State and Tech are very winnable. Just keep pounding away. Am I nervous about going to Ames? Yes because ISU is dangerous. Am I confident we can win? Of course. Just 2 seasons ago we finished 5-7 with a six game losing streak. Now We're sitting at 9-1(could be 10-0) with a double digit road win over mighty Bama. The program is headed in the right direction.
  9. texasdago

    9-1

    Yup... and we have a very realistic 11 win season ahead of us so all in all, as painful and stressful this season has been, I'm thankful that we're eking it out. Even if we win out then go to and win the Big 12 Championship, I can handle us somehow not ending up in the playoffs... I'd be fine going to a bowl game, beating another team and ending up 13-1. I think all of us would have given our left nut before this season for that. I'm not going to stress over scenarios, what ifs, etc. and realize that all of that is worthless until we win the next game and the next game, etc.
  10. The prevailing thought among ISU fans was our best chance to win involved Texas being out of the Big 12 race and god awful weather so that your team would throw in the towel from Jump Street. Since of neither of those are likely to come to fruition (one for sure isn't), it really doesn't matter now. Our chance to victory is going to ride on whether or not we can force turnovers and then score off of them. If Texas plays a clean game, they'll cover.
  11. Thatguy

    9-1

    People here see the recruiting rankings and don't understand that it means potential. A lot of these kids don't know shit and have just been getting by on pure athletic ability. We still have a ton of shortcomings and we tend to lose intensity once we get up on a team. 0-line- Our center and LG are weak in the run game and our RG is strong but busts some assignments here and there. We struggle with consistency and cannot just line up and run on a team when we want to. Receivers- We have one receiver that catches everything but loafs, and another receiver who is dynamic with the ball in his hands but gets pushed around by DBs and never wins a physical contest with a defender. Every game they take turns trying to see who can get a receiver killed by missing blocks. TEs- Our superstar TE struggles blocking. RBs- One RB is nails, another one is big and physical but tip-toes and doesn't run with good feet, another one is too lite, and the other one is fast but doesn't run with patience. D-line- Our starting tackles are monsters against the run, but as TCU showed if you wait til they sub out you can go with pace to keep them on the bench and run on the backups. Ends cannot get home with any kind of consistency. We have no natural pass rushers. LBs- One is slow when in conflict. The other one busts assignments on the regular. The young dude is fast and physical but doesn't know shit yet and is constantly flying all over the place but is wrong often. CBs- Watts is physical but slow. Brooks doesn't challenge receivers enough allowing QBs to throw perfectly on rhythm, and loses inside leverage constantly. Other guys are young. Barron is a stud but hurt. Safeties- Slow. Late. Bad angles. Only make plays when the call confuses the QB or a deflection or such. None have made a break on a ball that was thrown well. Over the course of a 60 min football game each one of these rears its ugly head. All of them showed up against TCU. They are who they are. Accept it.
  12. Conclusion: Aggy is flailing and made an impulsive decision after losing to Ole Miss (or Tennessee). How do we know this? There's only two possibilities: (1) it was planned before those losses or (2) it wasn't. Let's use the process of elimination to determine which of these possibilities is more likely. If this had been planned out... Jimbo probably should have been given a chance to talk to his team. The search for a replacement should be much further along if not already done. There would be basically nothing to gain from releasing the coach this late into the season. Every penny of the buyout as well as the true cost of getting the new staff (consultants, interviews, onboarding, the contracts themselves) would have been budgeted If this was not planned out... Dumpster fire optics No clear frontrunner. Players hitting the portal early. Weasel words in the presser about how the buyout will be paid and no details about the true cost of the decision. I feel pretty safe in concluding that Aggy leadership made a rash decision here with suboptimal consequences to ensue. Thinking Aloud: Why would Aggy make such an important decision impulsively rather than strategically? I'll treat two related questions separately here: (1) Why fire Jimbo Fisher and (2) Why fire him now? 1. He hadn't been winning (duh) but from Aggy's perspective the decision to fire is more complicated than that. It is affected by the $76 million dollar elephant in the room and can't be made exclusively based on whether he's winning--you ALSO have to (A) reach a firm (and I mean VERY firm) belief that Jimbo is not going to turn things around and (B) convince yourself that the cost of delaying the inevitable is greater than the cost of the buyout. Part A is the "leash" most coaches at other programs get for at least two years, although when the expectations are so high that you're receiving national championship plaques based on the foregone conclusions of your future successes, it's fair to say that the leash would have been a bit shorter in Collie Station than anywhere else. Good thing for Jimbo there's that Part B, which had the perverse effect of greatly lengthening the leash. Part B, again, is about the appraised value of the future success Aggy believes (in its mind) it would be missing out on because of Jimbo's performance compared to the knowable dollar amount it would cost to break up with Jimbo. You don't fire him unless this appraised value is pretty high. Even in a mediocre season, Aggy football probably makes a decent amount of money. So how much more would Aggy be making if their team had been CFP contenders, and how much more does Aggy believe (in its mind) it could make? Not much, and a whole lot, respectively. Aggy therefore appraised its hypothetical future success an astronomical amount. When the case could be made, behind closed doors, that the only thing standing between Aggy and that hypothetical future success was Jimbo Fisher, it would not be a matter of if, but when and how, to fire him. 2. Why now? This gets back to Aggy's self-appraisal of the value of its hypothetical future success in the absence of Fisher. Like a married man convinced he would be drowning in a sea of post-separation pussy, Aggy reasoned to itself that the quicker the bandage is ripped the quicker they could transition to those hypothetical future successes. But... ...that doesn't quite answer the question of why now because it leaves unanswered the question of why not before? After all, all the same factors were in place last season. His trajectory was near or worse than Sumlin's, and you don't pay top dollar to get the exact same results. What could it be, then? I wonder, what is different about 2023 that makes the prospect of another year of Jimbo Fisher absolutely intolerable? Did they really think, in 2022, that Jimbo's team would turn a corner this season? I suppose anything is possible. So rather than draw any firm conclusions I'll simply speculate. An Educated Guess: Jimbo Fisher already would have been a dead man walking into the 2024 season; the looming possibility of an embarrassing narrative (Jimbo's firing caused by a loss to Texas) so terrified Aggy that they were spooked into an impulsive decision intended to pre-emptively squash that possibility, consequences (and budget) be damned. TLDR: $100M paid for a built-in excuse for losing to us in 2024.
  13. If we can avoid this phenomenon whereby we melt down inexplicably in the third quarter and cough up a huge lead we should win convincingly. After TCU I have learned my lesson. TCU was the one of the games on our schedule where I legit saw us winning by multiple TDs. A game we’d dominate from start to finish. I am not taking any team left on the regular season or post season schedule for granted. It’s always their SuperBowl when we come to town and everyone wants that win. I get that. But we pretty much manhandle these guys and go up in games like this throughout Sark’s career here and are up by like an average of 21 points and inexplicably blow this lead in a stunning fashion. We should win this game. This ain’t a great Iowa State team. But neither was UofH or TCU. Both teams that we came out against firing and then just…stopped. It’s one thing if an overmatched team comes out with everything they have. That’s expected and our team and talent just runs them over. This isn’t what is happening. Hopefully, we handle our business and aren’t in a dogfight the last five minutes of the game. That surely favors Iowa State with the mounting injuries and the massive loss of Brooks to an ACL which we are all upset about. kick some ass Horns! Don’t let up! Finish! 10-1 is within our grasp. Fuck the Big 12. 🤘🏼
  14. UTGrad98

    9-1

    It all comes down to Florida state losing. The big 10 champ will likely be undefeated so they are in. The sec champ will likely either be undefeated or have 1 loss so they are in. The pac 12 champ will likely have 1 loss although 2 loss champ is possible. We make it in over a 2 loss pac 12 champ. If FSU loses 1 game to either Florida or Louisville, we will go ahead of them. That's it. Those are the scenarios. And I shouldn't have to say this but any team who doesn't win their conference is NOT going ahead of us. That is asinine and stupid beyond belief. If we win out the worst we end up in the playoff rankings is 5th. Best is 3rd.
  15. I guess he will just have to come back and win the Heisman and get a statue at DKR. He is a unique runner at Texas. Not especially fast. Not especially powerful. No amazing cuts. But he has patience and vision that are really elite. He follows blockers perfectly and picks up 5 yards when it looks like the play is busted. I don’t think an ACL tear is going to hugely impact him over the long term. And our line is going to be even better next year. Hopefully if he does decide to come back we reward him with a monster year.
  16. They won't be able to come up with the money before one of the genuises in their brain trust plants the idea of simply defaulting. The conversation would go: "What happens if we don't pay him." "Well, he would sue us." "And would he win?" (call in the lawyers) "If Jimbo sues us would he win?" "No. Coaches are always fucked against Texas public universities." And yes, they are stupid enough to allow their desperation to attempt a default.
  17. We are going to need 30+ to win this game.
  18. I'll tell you how this game is gonna go. We will get up 20+ in the first half. By the end of the game we will be in a 50/50 situation to win or lose the game with under 2 minutes left.
  19. With all of the concern about not being able to close out games (which I agree with), at least one thing is true: Our youngest players like Baxter, Hill, Manning, etc...all they know about Texas is that we have won 9 games out of 10 played. We have won nearly every close game. We have won on the road, at night, even in Tuscaloosa. That's going to pay dividends going forward. They are used to winning, and they expect to win, and they know what it takes to win. It's about time. 9-1.
  20. He gave it to them in spades (not PC) last night. Unfortunately, I don't think we are going to get a chance. No one considers Texas the best 1 loss team, even though we should be. All good points. "There were a few points last night' ... you mean mean the entire 4th quarter (except for AD's catch). 9 straight runs to start the 4th quarter; ended in a FG when we need a TD. Sark punches all the right buttons, but he screwed the pooch last night. All Gas. No brakes? My Ass. The 2nd half was the most disappointing display of Sark's football IQ I have seen to date. 3 damn points. Much worse than Herman's turtling. I expected it from Tom, not Sark. 1. Losing Brooks, and our coaching: Our probability of going to the playoffs fell off a cliff last night. Even if we make it, we will get out coached by whoever we would play. We have the best team, and it's not going to matter. 2. Brooks & Baxter should have been done by then, and getting towards the end of Blue's turn by that point in the game. 3. I get wanting to play smash mouth football and force your will, but we don't have an offensive philosophy and OL that plays consistently well enough to do that. Running the Red-cat on 4th down with QE spread wide as a decoy was so f*cking stupid for so many reasons. QE coming off a tough injury for a QB, spread wide as a WR, is a serious threat? Really, to who? Damn arrogant of Sark to shout we can beat your 11 with our 10. Well, 9 1/2 anyway. 4. Of all places to run, right behind Hayden Conner? Weathervane Conner. The turn your back and let the defender run right past you and stuff the play Conner. The I'm not as smart as I thought I was Aerospace Engineer to Geography major Conner (No offense to Geography majors or anyone else who didn't like 808A). The perfect compliment to Bryce Foster Conner. Texas would be much better off with Campbell just mashing whoever is in front of him, the occasional yips be damned. Sorry. 5. Did AD give up on a downfield pass play? Would you blame him? 1 catch in the 1st half. AD saved our ass last night. 3rd time this year that play has been money. Why don't we throw it 3 times a game? Some rule I don't know about that says you can only do it once a game ? If AD had 10 targets a game, he would have a 1,500 yard year. 6. I think JWhitt had 1 target (thrown well behind him(, no receptions. Hustled his ass off, as always, to cause a fumble on the pic. He should get a slant look after every Brooks 9 yard run. 7. The only pass to Cook was that abortion of a WR (Worthy) screen. . Worthy was going to attract everyone on the field to that play, and he did. Minus 3 yards on 3rd and 1; I had Greg Davis nightmares all night! 8. CFB Playoffs; The further we get, the more the Alabama game looks line an anomaly. My brain would not allow me to vote Texas over a 1 loss Alabama or Oregon. Yes, Alabama was a big game, but the constant late 4th quarter wins against teams we should have beat by 3 or 4 touchdowns waters down our single good win. 9. All Gas, No Brakes? Great line. Unfortunately, that's all it is. Texas has the best collection of playmakers in college football, and they spent the second half idling. What a waste. 10. Sark's continued lack of awareness of how Texas is viewed by the B12, and others, is most unsettling. Starting with trying to hire a Stoops, and having no clue what Fayetteville would be like. But, that was 3 years ago. He does not appreciate how bad teams want to beat Texas, and why it is so important to crush their spirit early and not let them hang around all night. The B12 ref f*ckery. Sark, not the team, deserved to lose last night. Texas got all the close calls, or no calls, towards the end last night. 10. Recruiting: Texas has a great group of players, team chemistry, guys bought into the All Gas, No Brakes mantra. Great place to be, and an easy thing to sell. Until last night. AGNB? Not even close. That was butt ugly. Umm ... The play calling was everything. Intentionally crippling a balanced offense that was working was, pick a word, ... This is by far Sark's biggest FU. Losing Brooks. 100% on Sark. No way Brooks should have been the bell cow this late in the game. When you abandon the FORWARD pass to start the 2nd half... surprise, surprise, Gomer, ...things tighten up. That shit is normal for damn near every team we play. Not Rice nor the rent-a-win games, but all our conference foes. The tackle was clean; bear hugging the knee when he was already down as the they rolled on the ground was dirty as fuck.
  21. This. YALL hammered Sark after the OU & KSU game for being to aggressive so he learns and goes conservative which btw would have worked with Brooks, Baxter has to learn to break a tackle. Not to mention the drive before TCU had the ball for seeming like the whole 3rd Qtr. The last thing you want to do is go aggressive and put your defense right back on the field after a quick 3 and out. Haven’t we already been down this road???? That doesn’t work just because a coach wins with less talent doesn’t mean he’s going to know how to handle more talent.
  22. Bevo&Pevo

    9-1

    Just the messenger and ESPN provided the facts. TCU TEXAS IOWA ST Total D Rank 89 37 29 Total Passing 3946 3371 3290 Pass per game 394.6 337.1 329 Total O Rank 16 14 94 Total Off yards 4549 4593 3478 Yards per game 454.9 459.3 347.8 Avg Point per game 28.9 33.8 25.7 Total pass yds 2971 2758 2186 Two things stand out again. How will we play? Our guys must recognize this is mucho importante game this week and play accordingly. The other is the walking wounded. I mean damn, we need guys to get well and the backups to step up. We're gonna have to dance with one that brought us to the dance. There aren't any returns or exchanges available. These kids are our kids, the teams kids, Sark's kids. So, men let's step up and let's go win one for the 40 acres. We're gonna fight, fight, fight. When hell freezes over, we'll fight 'em on the ice. What do ya say men?
  23. Atticus

    9-1

    We have matched some people's predictions for the season with 2 games to go, have already exceeded the win total from last year, and we still have a ton of meat left on this bone. Hopefully the Brooks injury isn't season ending, but this team is more than equipped to win through the air. Baxter can hit lighter boxes on the interior and we can go 11 or 10 personnel hitting short passes until the deep ball opens up. Of course this means we'll be running with Jaydon Blue into stacked boxes behind Hayden Conner next week. It's a blessing to be 9-1, we already got the style points we needed this year in Tuscaloosa. Gotta win the Big 12, then see what happens from there.
  24. SpiralOut

    9-1

    You feel that way because this team is a few key plays going different from being 6-4. Of course, last year the team was a few key plays going different from being basically undefeated. I would just like to see some mistake free football and better coaching decisions. The days of blowing everyone on the schedule out are over, I'm afraid. Too much parity in the game. Just irks me seeing this team underperform when yet again there's a year we could win the Big12 and make noise in the postseason. I guess that's still on the table, but they're going to have to remove some heads from some asses to get that done.
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