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1 minute ago, Darth Tron said:

Unfortunately, the purview of the modern college football coach includes that exact thing.

no debating that. but that fades once you get your players on the field and have to execute; and in that aspect, there are some head-scratching moments. 

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2 minutes ago, utexas8 said:


Granted, manning can bail him out with his legs. Sark is all Quinn

The passing game downfield will be so much better, but that fact is a bad thing to say around here….   I’d bet anyone anything we have more passing yards next year. 

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1 hour ago, SpiralOut said:

Bert clearly was ass last year and he's even worse this year.  Sark has done fuck all to deal with that.

Last year Burt had an 83% FG% and broke the all-time Texas record for most FGs made.  He was 75% from 40-49yds and 50% from 50yds+.

This year Burt has a 64% FG% and is 43% from 40yds+.

He is not the same player he was last year. 

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18 minutes ago, naija said:

no I wouldn't, doesn't mean that Sark is a better coach than Swinney. Swinney has 2 NCs against what everyone will agree was the best coach of all time, in the era, when people would say Bama was able to just stack talent more than most.  He finds himself in an era that doesn't suit his personal sensibilities well, but as far as coaching a football team, how do you downplay his accomplishments? relate this to basketball, it would be like discrediting Jay Wright as a pure coach as well, because he too can't/won't navigate the NIL landscape.

Oh, I guess we were considering right now, and not life time achievements. What actually matters. 

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3 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Off the field, Sark is arguably the best HC in football. Staff hires, recruiting, portal, NIL, culture...firing on all cylinders. 

On game day, there are notable improvements that need to be made. Mainly his inability to understand the power of momentum and managing the game properly. From the couch, it looks like he takes on too much responsibility and it's creating some blind spots. 

Sark rightfully loves the saying "Adapt or die.". I absolutely agree with the overall sentiment. Hopefully he's willing to look closer at his game day issues and adapts. 

 

Sark for better or worse is a tactician and believes in continuity. Look at his lack of utilizing Manning. It’s only about loyalty and internal support for “the guy”. We’re definitely in a great position with him for the long term and see continued national success, This is no Mack Brown.

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45 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

Yes he can design plays with the best of them.   But he lacks rhythm, situational awareness and maybe all this movement is too complex for these kids

Sark doesn’t have the situational awareness a HC needs to properly manage the clock and make the correct play calls. This is definitely holding Quinn and the offense back.

Sark needs a flight simulator in the form of playing Madden. It doesn’t even have to be the fancy console Madden, it can just be Madden mobile which is basic as fuck. Sark brain farts in the circumstances where we can all see it coming. 

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2 minutes ago, TheRRKid said:

How do we feel about how he addressed the red zone issues from last season? Hoping he can sit down this offseason and figure out third quarters 

It looked like we had turned the corner in the red zone at about he half way mark of this season. But as of late? I wouldn't say that red zone execution is a strength by any stretch of the imagination. Just go look at how inept we were against UGA in the SEC title game if you want examples. 

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It feels really good to be one of 4 teams that will have an opportunity to play for a National Championship, two years in a row. I would love to see solid back-to-back, dominant games like I just saw with Ohio State, but it is what it is at this point. As the NIL era moves forward, looking at what OSU did, perhaps Sark in the off-season, takes some time to think about handing off OC to someone else. But like others... I'm not sure his personality or ego is willing to do something like that.

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1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Off the field, Sark is arguably the best HC in football. Staff hires, recruiting, portal, NIL, culture...firing on all cylinders. 

On game day, there are notable improvements that need to be made. Mainly his inability to understand the power of momentum and managing the game properly. From the couch, it looks like he takes on too much responsibility and it's creating some blind spots. 

Sark rightfully loves the saying "Adapt or die.". I absolutely agree with the overall sentiment. Hopefully he's willing to look closer at his game day issues and adapts. 

 

all of this ^^

whatever happens this year is who we are. Past that, it is imperative he talks/shows structural changes to how the offense is designed, deployed and called, and how the game itself is managed. He is murder to MO faaaaaaaaaar too many times

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2 hours ago, closetohumping said:

What are the parameters?  Accomplishments?  Doing less with more?  Or who would you pick as your HC?  

The parameters are "I literally cannot think of a guy I'd rather have coaching Texas".

Kirby?  Nope.  He's a dick.  Day?  LOL.  Lanning?  Weird.  DeBoer?  Seems to be showing his ineptitude.

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11 minutes ago, F250 said:

If Sark were to step away from running the offense, who would be a good OC to fill that role?

Hopefully someone who can scheme people wide ass open like I see every single week from teams with far less talent.  What's even crazier is they get it done without all the weird shit.

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17 minutes ago, Stunns38 said:

Loreal coming back in the picture fucked up his thinking, Lol.

Seriously, we need an experienced play caller to assist Sark from the booth. I don’t think Milwee can cut it.

Can’t help but be distracted by how much money she seemingly spends. 

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6 hours ago, RichUT said:

It looked like we had turned the corner in the red zone at about he half way mark of this season. But as of late? I wouldn't say that red zone execution is a strength by any stretch of the imagination. Just go look at how inept we were against UGA in the SEC title game if you want examples. 

Run the football and size at receiver are huge values in the red zone. Most good redzone teams have one of these qualities if not both. We need a bruising back. Someone around 220 with some feet. If ASU had our backs they would've run for 50 yards too. Their back was making his own yards. Ours were going down with single arm tackles.

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On 10/9/2021 at 1:20 PM, Randolph Duke said:

Sorry, Sark, but fuck you. 

I officially abandon UT athletics.

I’m not sure anyone associated with UT athletes has a clue how to do their job. They just raise prices every year and call themselves “marketers.” 

2005-2021= much humiliation.

The players now get paid huge money and not a one of them could pray to be qualified for the big money position of sniffing Lincoln Riley’s jock. 

Sorry, UT athletics, Its not just that you can’t deliver anything but loses, it’s just that you are losers.

Damn. Now I understand why Randolph Duke is in hiding.

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8 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

The parameters are "I literally cannot think of a guy I'd rather have coaching Texas".

Kirby?  Nope.  He's a dick.  Day?  LOL.  Lanning?  Weird.  DeBoer?  Seems to be showing his ineptitude.

Pretty much this.

Nick Saban’s run of success has cast a shadow over college football that only time will fix.

His level of success was remarkable. 
It’s also not replicable in an NIL era.

There is just too much parity and rosters can change on a blink of an offseason.

Sark is great, terrible, meh, amazing, stubborn, and innovative.

We’re stuck with the devil we know.

He’s elite in the NIL era as it stands now.

He’s gotten Texas to back to back semifinals.… which has only been accomplished by 6 other teams.

Alabama - 4 times (includes a run of consecutive 2014-2017 seasons and the 2020/2021 seasons)

Clemson - 4 times ( all part of a run of 2015-2020)

Oklahoma - 1, 2019/2020

tOSU - 1, 2017/2018

Georgia - 1, 21/22

Michigan - 1, 22/23

and now Texas - 1, 23/24

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

Pretty much this.

Nick Saban’s run of success has cast a shadow over college football that only time will fix.

His level of success was remarkable. 
It’s also not replicable in an NIL era.

There is just too much parity and rosters can change on a blink of an offseason.

Sark is great, terrible, meh, amazing, stubborn, and innovative.

We’re stuck with the devil we know.

He’s elite in the NIL era as it stands now.

He’s gotten Texas to back to back semifinals.… which has only been accomplished by 6 other teams.

Alabama - 4 times (includes a run of consecutive 2014-2017 seasons and the 2020/2021 seasons)

Clemson - 4 times ( all part of a run of 2015-2020)

Oklahoma - 1, 2019/2020

tOSU - 1, 2017/2018

Georgia - 1, 21/22

Michigan - 1, 22/23

and now Texas - 1, 23/24

 

 

Just look at the other 2 teams in the semifinals. Ohio State and Penn State fans hate their head coaches. 

Nick Sabans don't grow on trees. Every top-tier coach in the country right now has some major warts outside of maybe Smart. 

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7 hours ago, chemHORN said:

Sark could solve a lot of his problems by not waiting till his back is against the wall to start using the middle of the field.  I mean a Slant is legal in college football right?

It’s been discussed at length how Ewers appears to be much more comfortable throwing outside the numbers than the middle of the field into more traffic.

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2 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

Pretty much this.

Nick Saban’s run of success has cast a shadow over college football that only time will fix.

His level of success was remarkable. 
It’s also not replicable in an NIL era.

There is just too much parity and rosters can change on a blink of an offseason.

Sark is great, terrible, meh, amazing, stubborn, and innovative.

We’re stuck with the devil we know.

He’s elite in the NIL era as it stands now.

He’s gotten Texas to back to back semifinals.… which has only been accomplished by 6 other teams.

Alabama - 4 times (includes a run of consecutive 2014-2017 seasons and the 2020/2021 seasons)

Clemson - 4 times ( all part of a run of 2015-2020)

Oklahoma - 1, 2019/2020

tOSU - 1, 2017/2018

Georgia - 1, 21/22

Michigan - 1, 22/23

and now Texas - 1, 23/24

 

 

The thing that makes Saban so great was his loyalty to nothing/no one. Constantly evaluating and evolving. 

 

This is where Sark could go from really good to great. The problem I have with the premise of "did everyone forget Texas sucked from 2010-2022?" Nope, but the standard is the standard. You can't just be at Texas to get all the hype and praise that comes with that and not deal with any of the negative. 

If we're keeping it 💯 Sark and the offense have underachieved this season despite the overwhelming talent advantage over their opponents. We can't just gloss over that because Sark brought us back to life. Otherwise, things just get stale and fall apart again just like when Mack got lackadaisical. If you can't be honest and approach your own failures, tyranny isn't far away. 

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12 hours ago, TheRRKid said:

How do we feel about how he addressed the red zone issues from last season? Hoping he can sit down this offseason and figure out third quarters 

This is where I am.  Last year, red zone was a clear issue - we've improved.  This year, 3rd quarters are killing us.  I don't know if it is how we respond to having the lead, or if it is some halftime adjustment the other teams are making that we can't account for.  According to teamrankings.com. we are:

9th in 1st quarter scoring.

9th in 2nd quarter scoring.

65th in 3rd quarter scoring.

61st in 4th quarter scoring.

link: https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/stat/1st-quarter-points-per-game

 

Let's see if Sark can figure this one out in the offseason...

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Brian and Rod on the OTF reaction video to the game yesterday think/theorize that Sark is comfortable/reliant on the defense, and there's a sense of complacency that comes with that. <shrug>

If the one-and-done nature of the playoff games didn't address that yesterday, it's doubtful it's getting fixed against Ohio State. Also, Rod made an interesting point about Sark mentioning just because he calls a deep ball as the pre-determined play, Quinn still has the ability to get out of it if what's presented on the field isn't there, but unfortunately he'll still throw those ill-advised deep balls without going through the other options. 

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14 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Off the field, Sark is arguably the best HC in football. Staff hires, recruiting, portal, NIL, culture...firing on all cylinders. 

On game day, there are notable improvements that need to be made. Mainly his inability to understand the power of momentum and managing the game properly. From the couch, it looks like he takes on too much responsibility and it's creating some blind spots. 

Sark rightfully loves the saying "Adapt or die.". I absolutely agree with the overall sentiment. Hopefully he's willing to look closer at his game day issues and adapts. 

 

Hopefully, but the same play calling and game management issues have been apparent for four years now, and he hasn’t done anything yet. I think he needs to hire a play caller, so he can focus more on game management, execution, and red zone issues. Oh and figuring out how the fuck our team is consistently terrible in the third quarter. I’ve never seen a team struggle so consistently in one quarter of almost every single game in a season. There’s something gems doing wrong. It’s too big of a sample size now to dismiss it as a quirk. 

8 hours ago, gmr548 said:

Sark's very obviously a much better program builder/manager than he is gameday coach. That is what it is. Some of these posts are insane though. I thought it was a bad hire - let me tell you, it's much easier and more satisfying to simply admit you were wrong than to bump this thread with texags grade takes every time Texas has a bad game.

Last year Texas was a legit top 3 team and they're somewhere between the third to sixth best team in the country this year. Just signed the consensus number one recruiting class after 3-4 straight top 5 classes. He's got us right there. Texas is a top 5 program right now. Not theoretically, not one of the top 5 best jobs. Top five program today. I don't know how some of y'all can forget 2010-22 so soon but this program looks so much better on the field even when not playing its best.

The "we need a real OC" bits are especially stupid. Being an elite OC is what got Sark where he is. It's perhaps his only real value add on game day. You don't kneecap that strength. Then you just have a middling game manager and a lesser OC.

I agree with everything you said, except for the last part. I’m not saying he should hire a new OC and run their offense, but he should hire a QB coach/OC to call plays from his offense, so he can focus more on game management and execution. Sark’s biggest value add as an OC is his scheme/overall offense.

People overrate play calling. Play calling is very much part fo the 80/20 rule. Not many are so good or bad at it that it makes a huge difference. Sark’s never been a particularly good play caller on game day, so he should delegate that responsibility so he can focus on other issues on game day. He can still have control of the game plan and give plenty of input during the game. 

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