Official Coach Sark Thread of Dominance—haters back off

[Reese Bennett 3615]

 

Edited September 10, 2023 by Reese Bennett

[Professor Chesney 499]

That RB draw call on 3rd and 7 to ice the game was masterful.  Cherry on top of a brilliant game plan.

[Skipper 6170]

On 9/6/2023 at 11:58 AM, Tex Long said:

 

My shitty JFC opinion is that this is very nearly a must-win for Sark. Lose it, and the only thing for him to do is to win out.

 

It was still a shitty opinion.  But glad you are back on board!   

[TheFlyingBoat 906]

From the story of his heart issues to him recovering from alcoholism to everything else he has gone through and how he leads the team, Sark is someone I am truly proud to have lead the Texas Longhorns.

[JFKFC 4891]

I 100% didn't think Sark could win a game like this.

I was wrong.

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5521]

7 hours ago, Coach pop a bitch said:

This man beat ousux 49-0

Went into bama and convincingly won

Married way outta his league 

Put some respect on his name

Sark already owns two of the sweetest victories in Texas history

Hook Em!

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5521]

The way this offense can go at light speed or eat up 10 minutes of clock in 2 drives is amazing. Sark has really good grasp of little things that a coach should. This is texas, so that should be obvious, but after seeing Charlie Strong and Tom Herman lose us actual games with dumbass play calls and football 101 mistakes, it's so damn refreshing to see Sark get the basic things right.

[lilMAC25 3802]

2 hours ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

The way this offense can go at light speed or eat up 10 minutes of clock in 2 drives is amazing. Sark has really good grasp of little things that a coach should. This is texas, so that should be obvious, but after seeing Charlie Strong and Tom Herman lose us actual games with dumbass play calls and football 101 mistakes, it's so damn refreshing to see Sark get the basic things right.

Settle down bro. We’ve seen Sark do the same exact thing.

 

Hopefully this is Sark turning the corner.

Edited September 10, 2023 by lilMAC25

[gmr548 16590]

2 hours ago, JFKFC said:

I 100% didn't think Sark could win a game like this.

I was wrong.

Same. Well coached game. Good gameplan, team was prepared for the intensity and environment, and Texas didn't have the stupid procedural penalties/blunders Bama had (like 10 men on the field allowing Crawford to down a punt inside the 5. Only minor gripe is that he got a little too trigger happy looking for the kill shot in the 3rd quarter but to his credit he reined that in.

[KeysPhoneWallet 807]

So it turns out that sark does know what he is doing. Not a surprise to anyone that pays attention to the right things and doesn’t get distracted. Fuck yea!!!

[LTtxfan 49326]

 

 

[Thatguy 8769]

Weird what happens when you get a full compliment of players huh? 

[Js1 85464]

1 hour ago, KeysPhoneWallet said:

So it turns out that sark does know what he is doing. Not a surprise to anyone that pays attention to the right things and doesn’t get distracted. Fuck yea!!!

There were always signs he was the right hire. Great play calling in big games but players couldn’t execute (Thompson at QB, WRs wide open but couldn’t catch it). PK not having the right players and needing a season to gel with the staff. No Patterson for everyone to suck off this year either 

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

7 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Weird what happens when you get a full compliment of players huh? 

Now we see if he can keep those players focused week in and week out and win the conference.

It looks like we might have the horses to run with anybody, so there isn't any excuses for Sark. Would be one hell of a redemption story if he can do something special this year. 

[Snake Diggity 4627]

I gotta admit I thought Sark and Ewers were both bitches who would fold whenever shit got real.  Glad to be wrong.  Hook em Sark.

[Tex Long 4416]

8 hours ago, Skipper said:

It was still a shitty opinion.  But glad you are back on board!   

To be fair, we pretty much all agreed that we won the fight last year, and woulda won scoreboard had Ewers not gone down - well, and ref fuckery.

Sark may well be the first coach we've had in forever who cares as much for his players - no, cares more for the players - than he does for the money men and fans.

[TexArcher 37998]

Hook'em, Coach!

I had my doubts last year as we were squandering 14-point leads.  But, the gameplan last night was a masterpiece.  Dial up a few more and let's win this conference on our way out the door.

[Davis Lane 5588]

I'm thinking Sark is embracing the hate like no one else.

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5521]

God fucking damn we're set at QB with sark. Imagine what Arch is going to look like when Quinn finally leaves and Arch has extended time under Sark's system before even starting.

[Coach pop a bitch 5488]

 

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5521]

"Huge. The University of Alabama, Nick Saban, Tuscaloosa — changed my life. At a moment of my life when things were not going great, he extended me an olive branch and everybody here was so supportive of me coming here. Then bringing me back a second time to then having had open-heart surgery while I was here. These people here mean a lot to me. I'm very grateful for everybody at Alabama and in Tuscaloosa for what they showed myself, my family, my wife, so to come here and to play them and to play the way that we played, it's humbling. Life kind of goes full circle on that kind of stuff. Not to get overly emotional about it, but it means a lot."

 

Man I love Sark's story so far. I love a flawed person who owns and accepted their failings and moves past it. What a great redemption story so far, seriously inspirational shit.

[TwiceHorn 31516]

5 hours ago, Js1 said:

There were always signs he was the right hire. Great play calling in big games but players couldn’t execute (Thompson at QB, WRs wide open but couldn’t catch it). PK not having the right players and needing a season to gel with the staff. No Patterson for everyone to suck off this year either 

I think Huckleberry observed that maybe some of the drops were player "tension," squeezing too hard.

In the past, that player tension has shown itself in stupid penalties and other execution fuckups.  With getting the right talent, getting the guys used to the system and confident in performing within it, that tension and anxiety is getting squeezed out.

I'll repeat it, but I think it was pretty valid that Texas as a team had forgotten how to win. I don't think anything exemplifies that more than our third quarter/second half performances, not only under Sark, but under Herman as well.  They didn't really believe in their first-half performances, knew the other team was going to adjust and focus on the team weaknesses (load the box), and the pucker factor just went to 11 and mistakes led to more mistakes led to a shit show.

I think Sark tried various tactics to try to overcome that by letting them see themselves execute in the third quarter (aggressive plan, conservative plan, run, pass) with varying degrees of success.  That even happened last night.

And without a key player like Ehlinger (who never forgot), there just wasn't going to be a lot of success until we overcame that.  

And the kicker finally was that after Alabama scored to take the lead, we executed a great game plan to score, and then score again.  And instead of mistake leading to mistake, success led to success.  Some luck involved there, but the players finally executed.

I'm not sure we're 100% out of the woods on that, yet.  Now we have to deal with prosperity.  But I think the collective knowledge of how to win is being regained.

[Thatguy 8769]

1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

I think Huckleberry observed that maybe some of the drops were player "tension," squeezing too hard.

In the past, that player tension has shown itself in stupid penalties and other execution fuckups.  With getting the right talent, getting the guys used to the system and confident in performing within it, that tension and anxiety is getting squeezed out.

I'll repeat it, but I think it was pretty valid that Texas as a team had forgotten how to win. I don't think anything exemplifies that more than our third quarter/second half performances, not only under Sark, but under Herman as well.  They didn't really believe in their first-half performances, knew the other team was going to adjust and focus on the team weaknesses (load the box), and the pucker factor just went to 11 and mistakes led to more mistakes led to a shit show.

I think Sark tried various tactics to try to overcome that by letting them see themselves execute in the third quarter (aggressive plan, conservative plan, run, pass) with varying degrees of success.  That even happened last night.

And without a key player like Ehlinger (who never forgot), there just wasn't going to be a lot of success until we overcame that.  

And the kicker finally was that after Alabama scored to take the lead, we executed a great game plan to score, and then score again.  And instead of mistake leading to mistake, success led to success.  Some luck involved there, but the players finally executed.

I'm not sure we're 100% out of the woods on that, yet.  Now we have to deal with prosperity.  But I think the collective knowledge of how to win is being regained.

   I think we are overthinking it here. Last year our only explosive receiver was X. In the second half of this game we only threw one ball to him which he dropped, and no targets in the 4th at all. The rest of the time he was used to take the top off while everyone else got one on one.  The result is big plays for Mitchell, Whitt, and Sanders. Last year we tried to put Cain in the role but he was constantly running bad routes or just not giving a lot of effort. We seemingly had no other option which had us targeting X a lot more than we should. You add AD and all the sudden we have two receivers that are a problem one on one. The field is now wide open and this helps Quinn see where the ball needs to go.

  Defensively, we were good last year but our weakness was our lack of pass rush. All the sudden Burke and Sergio Kindle Jr show up and we have 5 sacks in a single game and 7 in two games. Last year we had 27 sacks total. If we keep at this clip we will have 42 by season's end.

  We've simply added better players and are benefiting from their productivity. There is no magic elixir. We play that game last night with no AD, Burke, and Hill and we lose.

Edited September 10, 2023 by Thatguy

[TheFlyingBoat 906]

10 hours ago, lilMAC25 said:

Settle down bro. We’ve seen Sark do the same exact thing.

 

Hopefully this is Sark turning the corner.

How many of those times were players being coached to do the right things, running into the right position to do things as they were coached and then dropping the easy catch though? Some of it was bad adjustment but most of the time I felt like he got it right even last year when we blew leads 

[CurlyDumps 4477]

anyone still want this guy?

 

[Whitewater Horn 968]

That was pretty damn satisfying to see Sark devise and execute an attacking and aggressive game plan in all phases. If that wasn’t arousing enough, the play calling was some of the best we’ve seen in quite some time. I can’t remember the last time I’ve felt that our offensive weapons were being used correctly and to maximum effect, and that the defense consistently brought pressure and disrupted the opposing QB. To be fair, Bama did their share of dick stepping in that game to affect the end result, but that performance by Sark and the team was legit progress and warrants optimism. 

[Doc Daneeka 6769]

4 minutes ago, Whitewater Horn said:

That was pretty damn satisfying to see Sark devise and execute an attacking and aggressive game plan in all phases. If that wasn’t arousing enough, the play calling was some of the best we’ve seen in quite some time. I can’t remember the last time I’ve felt that our offensive weapons were being used correctly and to maximum effect, and that the defense consistently brought pressure and disrupted the opposing QB. To be fair, Bama did their share of dick stepping in that game to affect the end result, but that performance by Sark and the team was legit progress and warrants optimism. 

Saban’s post-game press conference: “We were in quarters and he called a quarter-beater” and just kind of shrugged. It was very fucking gratifying. 

[TotallyLegit 3053]

5 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

Saban’s post-game press conference: “We were in quarters and he called a quarter-beater” and just kind of shrugged. It was very fucking gratifying. 

It might be an underrated aspect of this game that Sark has a history of coaching against Kevin Steele and knew what to expect from when Sark was at Bama and Steele was at Auburn.

[LTtxfan 49326]

10 hours ago, Js1 said:

There were always signs he was the right hire. Great play calling in big games but players couldn’t execute (Thompson at QB, WRs wide open but couldn’t catch it). PK not having the right players and needing a season to gel with the staff. No Patterson for everyone to suck off this year either 

I liked the two defensive coaching additions

• Payam Saadat (Defense Analyst)
• Jacquies Smith  (Edges)

 

Saadat’s experience in the double eagle flex system

"This is a defensive system that was originally pioneered by Dick Tomey at Arizona in the early 1990s." 

 

https://hookemheadlines.com/2023/05/26/texas-football-sarkisian-hires-payam-saadat-replace-gary-patterson/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=NFLdraftmaverick

 

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2576903-jacquies-smiths-wild-ride-to-become-the-nfls-best-player-youve-never-heard-of

[lilMAC25 3802]

2 hours ago, TheFlyingBoat said:

How many of those times were players being coached to do the right things, running into the right position to do things as they were coached and then dropping the easy catch though? Some of it was bad adjustment but most of the time I felt like he got it right even last year when we blew leads 

Some of it? Yes. Other times, he couldn’t coach his way out of a wet paper bag last year.

 

let’s hope Horns are past that. He made real changes after 1st part of 3rd last night and we started moving the ball again.

 

he deserves all credit for what we’ve done this year, just had to keep it up.

Edited September 11, 2023 by lilMAC25

[Doc Daneeka 6769]

2 minutes ago, lilMAC25 said:

Some of it? Yes. Other times, he couldn’t coach his way out of a wet paper bag last year.

 

let’s hope Horns are last that. He made real changes after 1st part of 3rd last night and we started moving the hall again.

What changes did he make?

[lilMAC25 3802]

4 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

What changes did he make?

He called the plays that worked.

 

That’s simplistic, yes, but true. He adjusted to the changes Bama made on D to start the 3rd and we started making plays. That is in no way an insult. Sark showed out.

Edited September 11, 2023 by lilMAC25

[Doc Daneeka 6769]

3 minutes ago, lilMAC25 said:

He called the plays that worked.

 

[Zeus 6109]

3 hours ago, Whitewater Horn said:

That was pretty damn satisfying to see Sark devise and execute an attacking and aggressive game plan in all phases. If that wasn’t arousing enough, the play calling was some of the best we’ve seen in quite some time. I can’t remember the last time I’ve felt that our offensive weapons were being used correctly and to maximum effect, and that the defense consistently brought pressure and disrupted the opposing QB. To be fair, Bama did their share of dick stepping in that game to affect the end result, but that performance by Sark and the team was legit progress and warrants optimism. 

That sequence of going fast and just running RB swing back and forth and getting 4-8 yards easy was so sweet. Bama defenders didn't have the speed on the back end to stop it, just punishing them with motion and scheme. 

[Zeus 6109]

2 hours ago, lilMAC25 said:

He called the plays that worked.

 

That’s simplistic, yes, but true. He adjusted to the changes Bama made on D to start the 3rd and we started making plays. That is in no way an insult. Sark showed out.

I was out pushing my kid on the bike listening to the press conference and Quinn sounded like he said play cards ? Instead of play calls. 

Got me thinking, the ultimate no-tell offensive play calling would be a deck of plays and just turn them over and ignore down and distance and momentum and everything. Sounds like something mensa would do lol I'd probably be a bad play caller. 

[Doc Daneeka 6769]

8 hours ago, lilMAC25 said:

He called the plays that worked.

 

That’s simplistic, yes, but true. He adjusted to the changes Bama made on D to start the 3rd and we started making plays. That is in no way an insult. Sark showed out.

The changes he made were… adjustments? OK, what adjustments did he make?

I’ve only watched once and I wasn’t focused on that level of detail the first time through. What adjustments did he make that allowed the plays to start working again?

[TheFlyingBoat 906]

7 hours ago, Zeus said:

I was out pushing my kid on the bike listening to the press conference and Quinn sounded like he said play cards ? Instead of play calls. 

Got me thinking, the ultimate no-tell offensive play calling would be a deck of plays and just turn them over and ignore down and distance and momentum and everything. Sounds like something mensa would do lol I'd probably be a bad play caller. 

You don’t want a no tell offense though. The whole point of an offensive game plan is to exploit defensive tendencies and part of that is showing plays that set up the big play because they were overreacting to the ones before it that lead them to either being trapped without the personnel to handle what you want to do or reading the wrong information from your alignment

[lilMAC25 3802]

2 hours ago, Doc Daneeka said:

The changes he made were… adjustments? OK, what adjustments did he make?

I’ve only watched once and I wasn’t focused on that level of detail the first time through. What adjustments did he make that allowed the plays to start working again?

Tempo for certain. Also I think he went with some misdirection on the 2nd and 3rd drives (which didn’t score, but did move the ball).

[Gandalfish 350]

No matter what happens for the rest of the season or his career for the Longhorns, we'll always have that great win in our memories.

Thanks for that Sark! 🤘

[Tex Long 4416]

7 minutes ago, Gandalfish said:

No matter what happens for the rest of the season or his career for the Longhorns, we'll always have that great win in our memories.

Thanks for that Sark! 🤘

Memorable game, for sure. I'm adding it to the '62 Arkansas game and some others. Last year woulda been one of them, if Auburn's FG had been the last score... instead, it's one of the Might-have-beens, but errbody got plenty of them.

 

 

EDIT: Damn, hit the save button, and it was "saving" for nearly a minute. Bet we see dupes galore this mornning.

Edited September 11, 2023 by Tex Long

[Doc Daneeka 6769]

1 hour ago, lilMAC25 said:

Tempo for certain. Also I think he went with some misdirection on the 2nd and 3rd drives (which didn’t score, but did move the ball).

Texas varied tempo throughout and Sarkisian pretty much always has motion and misdirection. 

The main difference is that Texas didn’t hit the plays that were there for a while but that’s going to happen against crappy teams from time to time, let alone against Alabama. They varied blocking schemes… as he said in his press conference, if you don’t Alabama will beat your ass eventually.

That something doesn’t work doesn’t make it a bad call or a bad approach. 

[lilMAC25 3802]

1 minute ago, Doc Daneeka said:

Texas varied tempo throughout and Sarkisian pretty much always has motion and misdirection. 

The main difference is that Texas didn’t hit the plays that were there for a while but that’s going to happen against crappy teams from time to time, let alone against Alabama. They varied blocking schemes… as he said in his press conference, if you don’t Alabama will beat your ass eventually.

That something doesn’t work doesn’t make it a bad call or a bad approach. 

I was about to post that Sark then had the team in lawnmower tempo for much of the 4th. 
 

again, nothing that I posted should be taken as a slight against Sark in this game. We just have to see the same going forward.

 

 

as for the idea that “if it doesn’t work it doesn’t mean it’s bad”, it certainly does mean that if you lose. That’s the way it works. 

[Doc Daneeka 6769]

3 minutes ago, lilMAC25 said:

I was about to post that Sark then had the team in lawnmower tempo for much of the 4th. 
 

again, nothing that I posted should be taken as a slight against Sark in this game. We just have to see the same going forward.

 

 

as for the idea that “if it doesn’t work it doesn’t mean it’s bad”, it certainly does mean that if you lose. That’s the way it works. 

Only if you’re a simpleton. Sometimes the right call just doesn’t work, for myriad reasons. 

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5521]

What's very encouraging about Sark so far is that this has been a process with steady improvement throughout his entire tenure here so far. At no point has Texas not been getting better since he arrived, even in the offseason. It makes the changes feel more foundational and permanent than something flash in the pan. So far he looks like the perfect coach to lead us to the SEC.

[Goredho 17413]

9 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

Only if you’re a simpleton. Sometimes the right call just doesn’t work, for myriad reasons. 

Wait, I thought coaching was rochambeau?

[lilMAC25 3802]

20 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

Only if you’re a simpleton. Sometimes the right call just doesn’t work, for myriad reasons. 

That doesn’t make any sense:

 

Sark is the Head Coach of the team. When the team succeeds (wins) he gets credit.

When it fails, he gets the blame. That’s the reality of sports since coaches starting being paid.

 

Thankfully (and deservedly) he’s getting credit this season.

[Doc Daneeka 6769]

1 minute ago, lilMAC25 said:

That doesn’t make any sense:

 

Sark is the Head Coach of the team. When the team succeeds (wins) he gets credit.

When it fails, he gets the blame. That’s the reality of sports since coaches starting being paid.

 

Thankfully (and deservedly) he’s getting credit this season.

Who gets the credit and the blame is a different question than whether a call can be judged as bad because it failed. 

VY slips on 4th and 5 and Texas loses to USC. Does that make the call bad?

Sweed drops the TD in Columbus. Does that make the call bad?

[Js1 85464]

3 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

Who gets the credit and the blame is a different question than whether a call can be judged as bad because it failed. 

VY slips on 4th and 5 and Texas loses to USC. Does that make the call bad?

Sweed drops the TD in Columbus. Does that make the call bad?

Yes. Sark made a lot of right calls. Dropped passes are on the WR. We could have won by 3 TDs. 

[lilMAC25 3802]

10 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

Who gets the credit and the blame is a different question than whether a call can be judged as bad because it failed. 

VY slips on 4th and 5 and Texas loses to USC. Does that make the call bad?

Sweed drops the TD in Columbus. Does that make the call bad?

Yes.

 

That’s the nature of sport and fandom.

 

Who gets blamed for the 2001-2004 losses to OU? Is it the players? Or is it Mack Brown (and GDGD)?

 

I guess Charlie Strong was treated wrongly and fired too early. 5-7 for 3 straight seasons weren’t his fault at all.

Edited September 11, 2023 by lilMAC25

[Doc Daneeka 6769]

3 minutes ago, lilMAC25 said:

Yes.

 

That’s the nature of sport and fandom.

 

Who gets blamed for the 2001-2004 losses to OU? Is it the players? Or is it Mack Brown (and GDGD)?

Only the simplest of simpletons would say it was a bad call to leave a game in VY’s hands, regardless. 

The nature of sport, for people who have the remotest clue, is to put the game on your go-to guy. If he fails, he fails. This is why Carroll still gets shit for his Super Bowl call whereas if he gives it to Lynch and it failed, that would be that. 

Edited September 11, 2023 by Doc Daneeka