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1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Fuck it, I’m drunk. I’ll say it. 
 

His recovery history from alcoholism is his biggest problem. He’s too lenient and forgiving when it comes to second chances because of how he got his second chance. Some shit he lets fly doesn’t cut it if you want to win titles. 

We wouldn’t have sark if he still battled his alcoholism so be very thankful for it. Fucking shitting on someone’s recovery. Not cool at all 

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26 minutes ago, statsman said:

OU

The Texas offense mostly slogged through that and only blew it open with Wisner creasing OU a couple times.

Watching the elite Texas defense just bludgeon the OU offense was beautiful though.

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5 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

The parallels with Ohio State and Ryan Day are actually pretty similar. 

Both Sark and Day have flaws but only idiots would want them fired or think they're bad coaches. When you keep getting close and stacking talent it's just a matter of time until you break through. 

 

 

 

Hiring Chip Kelly is what had made the "break through" for Day thus far. He did still lose to Michigan though.

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To his credit Sark did make some halftime adjustments and got the ball out of Ewers hands much quicker. Lot of quick throws to receivers and hoping they made plays one on one vs their defenders. More often than not they did and got decent yardage on first or second down. We’d be singing a much different tune about Sark if he had handled the goal line offense better. Unfortunately he didn’t and opens himself to a shit ton of criticism. Hopefully he’ll learn from this.

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10 minutes ago, A’Dam Psycho said:

I mean….are you upset at the truth? A lot of people picked aggy to win that game. People on this sub were ready to blow Elko in the back of a Chevy after the LSU win. So you asked the question and got ur answer

User name and what not.. 

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6 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

The parallels with Ohio State and Ryan Day are actually pretty similar. 

Both Sark and Day have flaws but only idiots would want them fired or think they're bad coaches. When you keep getting close and stacking talent it's just a matter of time until you break through. 

 

 

 

Yep. I have my qualms with Sark but if you're consistently putting a top 5 type team out there, which he has for two straight years, at some point it probably breaks for you on pure chance if nothing else.

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1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Fuck it, I’m drunk. I’ll say it. 
 

His recovery history from alcoholism is his biggest problem. He’s too lenient and forgiving when it comes to second chances because of how he got his second chance. Some shit he lets fly doesn’t cut it if you want to win titles. 

Jesus it’s time for bed. I’m out

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1 minute ago, Billy Pilgrim said:

To his credit Sark did make some halftime adjustments and got the ball out of Ewers hands much quicker. Lot of quick throws to receivers and hoping they made plays one on one vs their defenders. More often than not they did and got decent yardage on first or second down. We’d be singing a much different tune about Sark if he had handled the goal line offense better. Unfortunately he didn’t and opens himself to a shit ton of criticism. Hopefully he’ll learn from this.

It was a genuinely well coached game from Texas... aside from two brutal, kick in the nuts type play calls.

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Sark had some warts this year with playcalling but nothing really went right for us. 

1) Major injuries at RB including our projected starter. 2) Moore and Bond were banged up for half the year at WR. 3) Our tackles were far from healthy to end the season. 4) Ewers was injured early in the year and played like a guy afraid to get hit in the 2nd half of the season. 

Outside of Williams, did we even have another injury on defense? 

 

 

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1 minute ago, Billy Pilgrim said:

To his credit Sark did make some halftime adjustments and got the ball out of Ewers hands much quicker. Lot of quick throws to receivers and hoping they made plays one on one vs their defenders. More often than not they did and got decent yardage on first or second down. We’d be singing a much different tune about Sark if he had handled the goal line offense better. Unfortunately he didn’t and opens himself to a shit ton of criticism. Hopefully he’ll learn from this.

HCs are and always will be, like QBs judged by their successes or failures in the biggest moments. Ask Doug Flutie. 

That said it was Sarks best half time adjustments in 7 games. I guess he focused on that over the break rather than goal line game plans.

Maybe next time he'll do both.

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17 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

Name a game this year where the expectations were realistic.  Every team has warts.  Every coach has bad play calls.  Three years ago Jake Majors was getting driven into the backfield.  Hayden Conner is unable to bend his knees.  Our QB runs a wind aided 5.0 40. 
 

Guess what play Chip Kelly called on 4th and 2 earlier in the game?   A toss sweep to Judkins that got blown up for a loss.

What do you consider realistic expectations?  This is year 4 of sark right?   Hey we’re in the final four two years in a row. But honestly, other than Bama, where had he over exceeded our expectations?  And even the Bama game, Milroe was just getting started.  Let’s hope he doesn’t fuck Arch up

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4 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

Yep. I have my qualms with Sark but if you're consistently putting a top 5 type team out there, which he has for two straight years, at some point it probably breaks for you on pure chance if nothing else.

Mack Brown and Bob Stoops agree with you.

Saban and Meyer think you're hilarious.

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1 minute ago, closetohumping said:

What do you consider realistic expectations?  This is year 4 of sark right?   Hey we’re in the final four two years in a row. But honestly, other than Bama, where had he over exceeded our expectations?  And even the Bama game, Milroe was just getting started.  Let’s hope he doesn’t fuck Arch up

I'll one up you.

What was the biggest win this year?

Michigan?

ASU?

Clemson?

OU?

aggie?

 

 

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10 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

The Texas offense mostly slogged through that and only blew it open with Wisner creasing OU a couple times.

Watching the elite Texas defense just bludgeon the OU offense was beautiful though.

And Bolden fell on wisners fumble .  

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I’ll probably get torched for this post (bad timing for that comment) but you guys had a great season.  No, it didn’t end with a national championship, but that only lands on one of 133 teams.  You were one of the very best.  Be pissed you lost.  I get that.  But be proud that you got to the semis.  That’s hard to do.  Very hard.  And you guys are set up for long term success.  I wish we had 1/4 of the resources you have.  You may very well be here next year.  That’s something most of us only dream of.  You are positioned to do it.

Don’t you have other shit to worry about and just let us be pissed about football
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Just now, closetohumping said:

Is this an attack on PK?  Sark hired PK. You don’t have to denigrate our D to give sark his flowers

Huh? 

I'm saying sometimes there's luck involved. A big reason our D was dominant is because we didn't have many major injuries. A big reason our offense was probably only a top 20ish offense instead of a top 10 offense was because of injuries. 

Sometimes shit doesn't go your way with injuries. 

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Just now, BurntEyes said:

I'll one up you.

What was the biggest win this year?

Michigan?

ASU?

Clemson?

OU?

aggie?

 

 

Michigan was ranked in the top ten at the time.  That was a fox game. Joel klatt had to sell the game but even he knew a blowout was coming.  
 

asu was garbage.  Clemson snuck in.  Aggy had a young qb.  Ou had a young qb and no receivers.  Actually first quarter, Quinn and sark kept ou in the game.  So now that I think about it, the one game where we exceeded expectations was CSU

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I’ll probably get torched for this post (bad timing for that comment) but you guys had a great season.  No, it didn’t end with a national championship, but that only lands on one of 133 teams.  You were one of the very best.  Be pissed you lost.  I get that.  But be proud that you got to the semis.  That’s hard to do.  Very hard.  And you guys are set up for long term success.  I wish we had 1/4 of the resources you have.  You may very well be here next year.  That’s something most of us only dream of.  You are positioned to do it.

FUCK YOU LET ME FIGHT THROUGH MY FEELINGS
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1 hour ago, Longboard Horn said:

Should have used Arch on the 1

He got hurt on his one play. I couldn’t believe the broadcast didn’t even bring it up. I’m assuming concussion because the training staff took away his helmet.

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1 minute ago, closetohumping said:

Michigan was ranked in the top ten at the time.  That was a fox game. Joel klatt had to sell the game but even he knew a blowout was coming.  
 

asu was garbage.  Clemson snuck in.  Aggy had a young qb.  Ou had a young qb and no receivers.  Actually first quarter, Quinn and sark kept ou in the game.  So now that I think about it, the one game where we exceeded expectations was CSU

I dunno man, we win at Vandy. We all know First Bank Field is a tough place to win.

2 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

He got hurt on his one play. I couldn’t believe the broadcast didn’t even bring it up. I’m assuming concussion because the training staff took away his helmet.

Yeah, he got hurt on a spearing that wasn't called, reviewed or even discussed much.

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45 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

I’ll probably get torched for this post (bad timing for that comment) but you guys had a great season.  No, it didn’t end with a national championship, but that only lands on one of 133 teams.  You were one of the very best.  Be pissed you lost.  I get that.  But be proud that you got to the semis.  That’s hard to do.  Very hard.  And you guys are set up for long term success.  I wish we had 1/4 of the resources you have.  You may very well be here next year.  That’s something most of us only dream of.  You are positioned to do it.

I've got no time nor desire for your kind words and positive outlook.

I'm here to bitch and moan about shit and I don't need you comin' round with your Mary Poppins "Sun will come out" skip de da bullshit.

Take it to the Lulz sub you bear lovin' commie! 

Also, yeah, were doing pretty good.

But FUCK YOU!

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Drew Kelson and Wadlington both said on YouTube postgame that the goal line sequence is extra hard to swallow because they felt up to that point it was one of the best offensive gameplans we’ve had all year and we made a lot of good adjustments on the fly considering the hand we were working with (No Golden for 3/4ths of the game, Bond disappearing again).

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55 minutes ago, UTHornFan014 said:

That probably pisses me off more than the play call. Sark thinks that play didn't work because we didn't block it perfectly? I don't think it was possible to block that play "perfectly" given OSU crashing down. We had a pulling guard that had to somehow try to block 2 free defenders. 

He just needs to own the shitty play call. 

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stolen from a retired football writer : the worst 1st and goal series, ever 

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4 hours ago, chainsaw said:

The correct play was called (Len Dale White), we were just better.

Right play, wrong personnel.

Iirc, they were killing us with the 2 back all game. They killed the whole season in 2 back.

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4 hours ago, satyanash said:

As much as Herman’s pigheaded stubbornness was infuriating, sometimes you need that sort of mentality.

Remember the 4th and 1 against Georgia in the Sugar Bowl? Herman said "fuck it, we are running it straight ahead four straight times and we're going to get into the end zone if it kills us". And that's what we did to win the game. 

That's not stubborn. That's playing the probabilities. 

Getting half a yard 4 times is reasonable.

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4 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Fuck it, I’m drunk. I’ll say it. 
 

His recovery history from alcoholism is his biggest problem. He’s too lenient and forgiving when it comes to second chances because of how he got his second chance. Some shit he lets fly doesn’t cut it if you want to win titles. 

You almost exclusively post dumb shit, and this is the tops. Get fucked you dumb cunt.

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The offense had first and goal from the one yard line to tie the game with about a minute left.  We managed to turn that into a 14 point loss. All year, we found stupefying ways to keep lesser teams around for closer-than-necessary wins.  Its not surprising that our season ultimately ended by finding a stupefying way to lose to a team of roughly equal talent and ability.  Sark is our guy and I appreciate the much he has done right, but the dude has got some shit to figure out on offense.

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Offense can’t score more than 14 points, Quinn had zero pocket presence just as we’ve seen all season. It was obvious to anyone that Sark should’ve had Manning ready sooner if we really wanted to go get a natty this year. 
 

Yall can post all the stats in the world about Quinn and I was rooting for em, but deep down we all knew he wasn’t going to be able to get it done. 
 

Now we can all be aggys and say “we’ll get em next year”! 
 

Waste of talent again this year. 
 

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19 minutes ago, Goredho said:

The offense had first and goal from the one yard line to tie the game with about a minute left.  We managed to turn that into a 14 point loss. All year, we found stupefying ways to keep lesser teams around for closer-than-necessary wins.  Its not surprising that our season ultimately ended by finding a stupefying way to lose to a team of roughly equal talent and ability.  Sark is our guy and I appreciate the much he has done right, but the dude has got some shit to figure out on offense.

Yep find a QB with literally any pocket presence and we win the national championship. 

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4 hours ago, Hookem2147 said:

He got hurt on his one play. I couldn’t believe the broadcast didn’t even bring it up. I’m assuming concussion because the training staff took away his helmet.

Probably should’ve just had Manning run the offense instead of pretending he’s Tim Tebow. 
 

Then again that defeats the whole point of starting Quinn over him so I guess that’s not allowed because of reasons. 

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27 minutes ago, Zeus said:

Yep find a QB with literally any pocket presence and we win the national championship. 

Or find 5 all americas on o-line that will block perfectly 100% of the time.  Which isn’t to say there isn’t some shit to figure out with the O-line, too.

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The Ohio St TD before half was a stupid gift from PK. There was no need to blitz considering risk-reward with amount of time left and was same level of stupidity as the shovel pass play called right before halftime against Bama in NC game.  Texas won the third quarter and could have taken lead to win.  Maybe next year.

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Being able to criticize him in the SEC title game and the playoffs says a lot.

Mistakes were made, and I hope he moves to correct them, but a lot of great shit along the way as well as we finished Top 3... again.

If this is "who he is" I'll take it. Excited for Arch's era to begin.

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Inside of four years, Sark has gotten us from 5-7 to consecutive 10+ win seasons and top five finishes.

The portal helps accelerate that, but recruiting, development, and culture are still essential.

And he has done this with:  a) a limited QB b) a flawed OL pipeline and c) horrendous luck with injuries at RB.

We're not TCU or FSU flashing in the pan with a new coach.

The teams we like to compare ourselves with have been doing this for nearly a decade or more, except nemesis UW, whose QB is starting in the NFL in his first year now.

 

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3 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

You almost exclusively post dumb shit, and this is the tops. Get fucked you dumb cunt.

Well, I'll say this.  IF it is required that you be a complete screaming asshole when players don't execute, which is an an alleged attribute of successful head coaches (Saban), then his recovery philosophy is probably never going to permit him to be that guy.

That's a big IF.  And most of his qualities as a recovering person are going to be beneficial.

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7 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Fuck it, I’m drunk. I’ll say it. 
 

His recovery history from alcoholism is his biggest problem. He’s too lenient and forgiving when it comes to second chances because of how he got his second chance. Some shit he lets fly doesn’t cut it if you want to win titles. 

Wow

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10 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Inside of four years, Sark has gotten us from 5-7 to consecutive 10+ win seasons and top five finishes.

The portal helps accelerate that, but recruiting, development, and culture are still essential.

And he has done this with:  a) a limited QB b) a flawed OL pipeline and c) horrendous luck with injuries at RB.

We're not TCU or FSU flashing in the pan with a new coach.

The teams we like to compare ourselves with have been doing this for nearly a decade or more, except nemesis UW, whose QB is starting in the NFL in his first year now.

 

You are more talented than every team you play, not named Ohio State & Georgia.  You SHOULD have 10 wins out of the blocks.  That's your floor.

The playcalling sucks after Sark gets off-script.  He doesn't utilize the talent he has available, and sometimes actually impedes it.

Maybe he can learn and get past it.  The flow of talent ain't stopping anytime soon.

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7 hours ago, Atticus said:

If you see anything wrong with what Sark had to say about that playcall there, I dunno what to tell you.

Not being to displace the man in front of you makes it extremely difficult to run goal line offense. 

He believed he could get them out leveraged, and it went far worse than expected with the loss of yardage.

It would have been a great call if it worked, but it didn't. The OL was not good enough for us to win today, that's really what football comes down to more often than not.

Yeah, the red zone against a really good d just exacerbates our team flaws in an iffy OL and lack of power running, and where it's too easy to defend what we're (our QB) actually good at.

It seems like one attempt to bounce it outside is reasonable, but you can surely quibble with the way we went about it.

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'When we got down there, they went to big people,' Sarkisian said of the OSU formation. 'I couldn't quite tell, I was on the far side of where it got leaky, but it's one of those plays, if you block it all right, you get in the end zone. We didn't and we lose quite a bit of yardage.'

Blames his blocking instead of coaching. He's not him. It was a fun season. I'll be back next year. 

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