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49 minutes ago, Scuba Saba said:

You will get the gist of my comment I hope. Did Sark make a Faustian bargain with QE and Arch. Keep QE with NIL and the promise of not sitting him to maximize his pro prospects. Keep Arch with NIL and the promise of starting in 2025. Unfortunately, the bargain severely damages our 2024 season and tries to fill inside straight in 2025. That is to say, will the 2025 team be able to support Arch to the extent the 2024 team could have?   

Something very much along those lines is my supposition. I think there were likely outside factors that played in the mix as well as Sarks ego crossed with proclamation that Ewers was our starter prior to the season. Which was cart and which horse, I am sure I don't know. A mixed bag of influence, money and ego that I'm sure we're never going to know full details about. 

But.. I think your idea likely is the primary factor.

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I have the ultimate two remaining answers on the 1st and goal, one of which has already been proposed. 

 

1. The Ravens showed us yesterday how to run the tush push, without possible harm to the QB.  Utilize a strong non-QB.  They use the TE.  Take the snap from center the old-fashonied way and tush push works, about 99% of the time.  I think I have seen it stopped once. 

2. I remembered this morning Johnny Walker, RB for UT in the 80s, he flew over the pile, and this tactic was copied by Bo Jackson, among others. 

If I remember correctly, Walker would line up in the I, run to the line, take the handoff from a QB taking the snap directly from center, plant both feet on or about the 2 yard line and fly over the pile at the goal line.  He was such a great flyer, he might have been able to take off from the 3, but I don't remember. 

I just saw an article online and he was nicknamed "Sky" Walker.  I don't remember that, but he definitely flew over the goal line whenever needed. 

Maybe we need to recruit a flyer, but we can afford to do this now that we have NIL.  

 

So, we now have at least four ways to gain one yard of which we utilized 0 the other day, and all four require taking the snap directly from center:

1. QB sneak

2. fake FB dive, roll out, run pass option

3. Tush push-strong man not QB. 

4. Fly over the goal line. 

 

Is there any problem with teaching the QB and strong man to take the snap from center? serious question. 

 

 

 

 

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5 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

lol. I’ve got that idiot on ignore and have stayed away from the board for the most part since Friday because of posters like him. Surly needs to fatwa his ass

The worthless little cunt stain bitch posts so much shit across the Football and Recruiting Boards that by the "Even a Broken Clock is Right Two Times a Day" Principle he's got so much cred that it would take a hell of an effort.

But I'm in.  It would apparently be a more acceptable solution that what I told him to do, which earned me got me a day in the clink after the little pussyfuck cried to to admin.....

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48 minutes ago, JGrayDBU said:

I have the ultimate two remaining answers on the 1st and goal, one of which has already been proposed. 

 

1. The Ravens showed us yesterday how to run the tush push, without possible harm to the QB.  Utilize a strong non-QB.  They use the TE.  Take the snap from center the old-fashonied way and tush push works, about 99% of the time.  I think I have seen it stopped once. 

2. I remembered this morning Johnny Walker, RB for UT in the 80s, he flew over the pile, and this tactic was copied by Bo Jackson, among others. 

If I remember correctly, Walker would line up in the I, run to the line, take the handoff from a QB taking the snap directly from center, plant both feet on or about the 2 yard line and fly over the pile at the goal line.  He was such a great flyer, he might have been able to take off from the 3, but I don't remember. 

I just saw an article online and he was nicknamed "Sky" Walker.  I don't remember that, but he definitely flew over the goal line whenever needed. 

Maybe we need to recruit a flyer, but we can afford to do this now that we have NIL.  

 

So, we now have at least four ways to gain one yard of which we utilized 0 the other day, and all four require taking the snap directly from center:

1. QB sneak

2. fake FB dive, roll out, run pass option

3. Tush push-strong man not QB. 

4. Fly over the goal line. 

 

Is there any problem with teaching the QB and strong man to take the snap from center? serious question. 

 

 

 

 

The Johnny Walker that I recall was a WR on the the "Shock the Nation" team in 1990.

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This is who Steve Sarkisian is. A very likable coach with two sides.
 
SIDE 1: Sark revived the UT football program and has racked up some big wins.
 
Won the Big 12 title going out the door. Excellent.
 
Epic beatdowns of OU. Fantastic.
49-0 in 2022
34-3 in 2024
 
Handled Aggy 17-7. 
— Huge win no matter that it could have been a 31-0 shutout 
 
Beat BAMA at Home in 2023.
-- SEC SEC SEC! Lulz.
 
Twice to the final four of playoffs
Two playoff wins this year.
-- Almost epic choke v. ASU, which leads to Side 2
 
SIDE 2: Sark coached perhaps the most EPIC losses in all of UT history.
 
2021: Blowing 18 point lead to OU with under 3 minutes left in 3Q.
2021: Losing to KU at home: 57-56. 
2022: Vaunted offense stuffed by TCU on nighttime national TV. 
— Could not score a TD against Sonny Fucking Dykes.
 
2024: Lost playoff v. Washington
— 4 shots to win from inside 15 yard line in final seconds. Not even close.
 
2025: Lost playoff to Ohio State
— 1st and goal disaster in the most epic collapse/ending of any big UT game. Ever!
 
The two worst 1st and Goal from the 1 yard line chokes in all UT history (at least since 1960s).
— 2023 v. OU
— 2025 v. Ohio State
 
Two CFP semifinal games .. ready to be won  … chances to play winnable title games.
Could not score with first downs from the 1 and inside red zone. 
 
CONCLUSION:
Sark's won some big games. Sark finds ways to blow big games. In EPIC fashion. 
That’s why the jury is still out on if he will win a title… even with Arch.
We simply do not know which Sark shows up in the biggest games.
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20 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

The worthless little cunt stain bitch posts so much shit across the Football and Recruiting Boards that by the "Even a Broken Clock is Right Two Times a Day" Principle he's got so much cred that it would take a hell of an effort.

But I'm in.  It would apparently be a more acceptable solution that what I told him to do, which earned me got me a day in the clink after the little pussyfuck cried to to admin.....

Most of his reps are from posting recruiting updates 

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7 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

Well, we've reached a milestone of sorts. The posters on TexAgs are more sensible than many posters on Surly:

 

Funny to see the sips going after Sark and Ewers. Sark has put them on the map again in such a short time. Ags would kill for his success over the last two years.

There are plenty of posters on this board who while might not be aggy definitely have some aggy in their DNA.  

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On 1/11/2025 at 1:54 PM, RoyalBevo21 said:

Agreed, we're basically "so close U" Texas rarely capitalizes on its big opportunities. It's very frustrating that this university seems refuse to flex it's muscles at times. 

About the 1984 Cotton Bowl.  Both January 2025 and January 1984 have something in common.  We lost our star RB in both years.  In 1983 Edwin Simmons was the best freshman RB in the country.  Go back and look at his Texas-OU highlights.  Unbelievable speed hitting the hole, was going to run for probably 1300 yards easily.  Had knee injury, doctors somehow found out one of his legs was significantly shorter than the other and he was basically done.  

Other thing in common, we had the best D in UT history in 1983 and this one ranks #2 or 3 imo.  The 1981 D was probably better than this one.  Harder hitting, but didn't have to defend much against the pass. 

The question to ask is how long will we be in the wilderness?  January 1984 to 1990-shock the nation, only to be humiliated against Miami.  Then six more years to James Brown, "maybe we'll beat them by 21?" and then finally 8 or 9 more years.  I actually count beating Michigan in the 2005 Rose Bowl as being completely back to National prominence, as it laid the foundation for the 2006 game.  I strongly believe knowing the scene and all the things about the Rose Bowl helped the team immensely.  

We are most definitely not going into the wilderness x number of years after this year.  We should be back, right away. 

 

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51 minutes ago, BevoAbyss said:
This is who Steve Sarkisian is. A very likable coach with two sides.
 
SIDE 1: Sark revived the UT football program and has racked up some big wins.
 
Won the Big 12 title going out the door. Excellent.
 
Epic beatdowns of OU. Fantastic.
49-0 in 2022
34-3 in 2024
 
Handled Aggy 17-7. 
— Huge win no matter that it could have been a 31-0 shutout 
 
Beat BAMA at Home in 2023.
-- SEC SEC SEC! Lulz.
 
Twice to the final four of playoffs
Two playoff wins this year.
-- Almost epic choke v. ASU, which leads to Side 2
 
SIDE 2: Sark coached perhaps the most EPIC losses in all of UT history.
 
2021: Blowing 18 point lead to OU with under 3 minutes left in 3Q.
2021: Losing to KU at home: 57-56. 
2022: Vaunted offense stuffed by TCU on nighttime national TV. 
— Could not score a TD against Sonny Fucking Dykes.
 
2024: Lost playoff v. Washington
— 4 shots to win from inside 15 yard line in final seconds. Not even close.
 
2025: Lost playoff to Ohio State
— 1st and goal disaster in the most epic collapse/ending of any big UT game. Ever!
 
The two worst 1st and Goal from the 1 yard line chokes in all UT history (at least since 1960s).
— 2023 v. OU
— 2025 v. Ohio State
 
Two CFP semifinal games .. ready to be won  … chances to play winnable title games.
Could not score with first downs from the 1 and inside red zone. 
 
CONCLUSION:
Sark's won some big games. Sark finds ways to blow big games. In EPIC fashion. 
That’s why the jury is still out on if he will win a title… even with Arch.
We simply do not know which Sark shows up in the biggest games.

Seriously man…those losses in ‘21 and ‘22 sucked donkey balls, but they were not by any stretch epic or historical. Winning any or all of them would have been great, but it wouldn’t have accelerated where we are now, nor did losing them hold us back in any way. 

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It's almost like some people don't realize that Ryan Day is on his third try at this.  Jim Harbaugh took three tries to win.  Smart and Dabo and yes Saban took 2.  In the CFP era, there are exactly two coaches who have won it all in their first trip to the playoffs.  Urban Meyer and LOL Ed Orgeron.  And other than Saban pretty much all of them who have gone have lost as much or more than they won it all.  

Tom Herman moose out front should have told ya

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15 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

Seriously man…those losses in ‘21 and ‘22 sucked donkey balls, but they were not by any stretch epic or historical. Winning any or all of them would have been great, but it wouldn’t have accelerated where we are now, nor did losing them hold us back in any way. 

The Oklahoma loss is historic as it was one of if not the largest blown lead in the Red River Shootout. 

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1 minute ago, AlrightAlrightAlright said:

The Oklahoma loss is historic as it was one of if not the largest blown lead in the Red River Shootout. 

I'm sure that historic win is keeping all the sooners warm at night as they stare straight into the abyss of suck.  

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9 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

It's almost like some people don't realize that Ryan Day is on his third try at this.  Jim Harbaugh took three tries to win.  Smart and Dabo and yes Saban took 2.  In the CFP era, there are exactly two coaches who have won it all in their first trip to the playoffs.  Urban Meyer and LOL Ed Orgeron.  And other than Saban pretty much all of them who have gone have lost as much or more than they won it all.  

Tom Herman moose out front should have told ya

Most of us realize that and are very happy with Sark. But the lingering issues holding us back right now are specifically Sark's territory. Game management, play calling, and an inconsistent offense with RZ issues. 

Maybe Arch at QB helps. But ideally Sark recognizes and willingly addressing these issues starting this offseason.  

 

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5 hours ago, Skipper said:

JFC.  This board is going to lose their minds when Arch inevitably throws 3 picks in a game next year.  Anything less than a heisman is going to be unacceptable the way you all have built Arch up in your minds.

Arch wouldn't have thrown those picks if he'd more playing time this year!! 😘

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1 hour ago, Surly Bevo said:

It's almost like some people don't realize that Ryan Day is on his third try at this.  Jim Harbaugh took three tries to win.  Smart and Dabo and yes Saban took 2.  In the CFP era, there are exactly two coaches who have won it all in their first trip to the playoffs.  Urban Meyer and LOL Ed Orgeron.  And other than Saban pretty much all of them who have gone have lost as much or more than they won it all.  

Tom Herman moose out front should have told ya

You do know Day played for a National Championship in his second season as a head coach at OSU right? Yes covid season but.. are we throwing it out completely?

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9 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

You do know Day played for a National Championship in his second season as a head coach at OSU right? Yes covid season but.. are we throwing it out completely?

Yea but he didn't win it and for that a semifinal loss and 4 losses to Michigan they were ready to run him up a pike a few weeks ago.  If Freeman joins the first-timers club Day goes right back on the delusional fan base freak-out watch on the 21st.  

This board is no less freak out if their was a win on Friday and a loss on the 20th.....you know that.  

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40 minutes ago, AlrightAlrightAlright said:

In my opinion his biggest staff need is a dedicated special teams coach. The special teams this year is not acceptable if you want to win a title. 

The OL unit and Coach Flood were a bigger disappointment this past season for me... plenty of talent that did not improve.  

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1 hour ago, Surly Bevo said:

It's almost like some people don't realize that Ryan Day is on his third try at this.  Jim Harbaugh took three tries to win.  Smart and Dabo and yes Saban took 2.  In the CFP era, there are exactly two coaches who have won it all in their first trip to the playoffs.  Urban Meyer and LOL Ed Orgeron.  And other than Saban pretty much all of them who have gone have lost as much or more than they won it all.  

Tom Herman moose out front should have told ya

 

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2 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Yea but he didn't win it and for that a semifinal loss and 4 losses to Michigan they were ready to run him up a pike a few weeks ago.  If Freeman joins the first-timers club Day goes right back on the delusional fan base freak-out watch on the 21st.  

This board is no less freak out if their was a win on Friday and a loss on the 20th.....you know that.  

Oh I'm not arguing that Texas is less psychotic, just other rabid fan bases are equally psychotic and Day, is now playing in his second national championship. So.. Day 2, Sark 0

Also, I still haven't seen a single Surly poster suggesting Sark should be fired. Rather discussing the issues, cause this season had plenty, trying to figure out why, and hoping Sark makes changes.

If we aren't going to do that, and it's all rah rah our coach rules and can do no wrong... 

It's fucking Texags, and I'm fucking out. 

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21 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

You do know Day played for a National Championship in his second season as a head coach at OSU right? Yes covid season but.. are we throwing it out completely?

He took over a stacked team that went 13-1.  Sark took over a team that went 7-3 and that had serious personnel issues.

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19 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Yea but he didn't win it and for that a semifinal loss and 4 losses to Michigan they were ready to run him up a pike a few weeks ago.  If Freeman joins the first-timers club Day goes right back on the delusional fan base freak-out watch on the 21st.  

This board is no less freak out if their was a win on Friday and a loss on the 20th.....you know that.  

Not to mention the fact that tOSU had been stacking 5* like lumber since about 2013 at the latest.

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7 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

He took over a stacked team that went 13-1.  Sark took over a team that went 7-3 and that had serious personnel issues.

Yeah cause head coaching turnover of a NC caliber team never resulted in dramatic drop in production.  Michigan, Washington and Bama fans would like a word with you. In his second year Day played for the NC and now he's playing for the NC again. I didn't bring up Day, but if we want to compare performance vs Sark there is reality there is narrative. And I still don't see anyone asking for Sark to be fired. 

 

2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Not to mention the fact that tOSU had been stacking 5* like lumber since about 2016 at the latest.

Michigan, Washington and Bama fans would like a word with you. 

Who brought up Day in the first place?

Is there room for improvement in Sark's coaching or would you both say he's perfect?

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18 minutes ago, Constant said:

 

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Blake was a very good recruiter.

The only black head football coach at Oklahoma, Blake recruited more than half of that championship team’s 22 starters, including future N.F.L. players like safety Roy Williams and linebacker Rocky Calmus.

The mere mention of that fact seems to agitate Stoops, who did recruit quarterback Josh Heupel, tailback Quentin Griffin and linebacker Torrance Marshall, all vital players in Oklahoma’s 13-2 victory against Florida State for the national title at the end of the 2000 season.

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35 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Yea but he didn't win it and for that and 4 losses to Michigan they were ready to run him up a pike a few weeks ago.  If Freeman joins the first-timers club Day goes right back on the delusional fan base freak-out watch on the 21st.  

Whereas we want to build a statue of Sark for his results 

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43 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

Yeah cause head coaching turnover of a NC caliber team never resulted in dramatic drop in production.  Michigan, Washington and Bama fans would like a word with you. In his second year Day played for the NC and now he's playing for the NC again.

Again, Day took over for a 13-1 team THAT HE HELPED BUILD and in fact acted as head coach for 3 games the year prior.  Sark took over a 7-3 team that was constructed in a manner he was wholly in disagreement with.

You have no point here.  Stop.

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8 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Again, Day took over for a 13-1 team THAT HE HELPED BUILD and in fact acted as head coach for 3 games the year prior.  Sark took over a 7-3 team that was constructed in a manner he was wholly in disagreement with.

You have no point here.  Stop.

Michigan would still like a word with you.

I notice you deleted my question so I'll post it again. 

Who brought up Day in the first place?

Is there room for improvement in Sark's coaching or would you both say he's perfect?

And you know me well enough to know I'll never stop until I've gone full regard, so why even suggest it. 

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2 hours ago, JGrayDBU said:

Johnny Sky Walker..."Johnny got the nickname "Sky Walker" because of the way he would jump over defenses to score." 

 

 

You’re thinking of Adrian Walker; don’t give a fuck what that idiotic article says, Johnny Walker was never a RB here…

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Jesus Christ to a lot of these comments about faustian bargains and shit. QE played because he knows the entire offense and has been a 3 year starter. Arch has started a total of 2 1/2 games this year. QE has his faults, but at the end of the day we had a chance to beat a team that returned all of their draft eligible defense and they stopped us. We literally could have gone to OT against the team that fuck stomped both Tennessee and Oregon. That's how good our team was. The fluke fumble for a  TD was just that, a fluke. If we didn't  score we lose by a TD to the team playing for it all. It fucking sucks, but shit, at least we showed up and punched them in the mouth. We held a fucking freak show of a WR to 1 catch for 3 yards, and their other best WR to 52 yards. That's their bread and butter and we took it away. That's called sound defense. After we shut them down they went to Tate, who got like 85 yards or some shit. They have what we should have had this year if Baxter doesnt get hurt in August, a two-headed monster RBs. 

We didn't just "shoot ourselves in the dick", we just got beat by a better team that night. That's it. Nothing else to ponder about. Could we beat them?maybe, probably, but we didn't,and now we have to wait to get our revenge game 1 next season. They lose a shiiiiiit ton of their entire defense outside of Caleb Downs. They lose their QB, like us, they will be breaking him in, but Arch has 2 starts under his belt,and regardless of who it was, he beat them. And just like they do, we have a shit ton of talent coming and already on campus as either rs frosh, rs soph,and true fish. We signed the #1 class, and a lot of them will play. 

We get Wingo,who's Arch's favorite target,DeAndre Moore, maybe, but highly doubt Golden, 2-3 of those 4/5 star WR's will be playing in game one. Also, we get Jordan Washington as a bad ass TE, Townsend who is a freak, and finally on defense Baker has give us 3 top shelf DTs, and so far we get Cole Brevard, and former 5 star Travis Shaw,who I believe will be well coached up by Baker and PK.

We still have another portal window to add another 1-2 DT's. Alex January will be back and has played a lot of ball for a frosh. 

Secondary will be fine. Kobe Black isn't Jahde Barron, but Barron wasn't who he is until his 5th season. Black is a damn good DB. Hopefully Taafe returns, and Mcdonald has shown up a lot. JJ-R and Gilbeau will take that extra step like all (most) so. Williams will be back by the end of Sept, I believe. 

This team is oozing with talent.  We're going to be fine. 

As for the Cotton Bowl loss. Fuck it. We lost and they won. Welcome to being a sports fan. We have the talent and the  coaching to get us back to the CFP and win the whole muthafucking thing. Georgia got taken down in rd 2. We should have beaten them, bud we were still finding our identity in the first game, and the SEC championship went to OT and we lost on fade by a QB that only recruiting junkies had ever even heard of. As a sign of joy, we fucking killed Carson Beck's body and mind that he now has to transfer. That's some baller shit right there. 
 

We may honestly be ranked #1 going into the season because ain't nobody gonna beat these big nut, dong dragging on the ground motherfuckers. 

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So, the reason I think I remember this guy.  Round Rock High School, I'm a freshman in the band, and we go to Killeen for the first time, and this guy runs roughshod over us, and the score might have been 21-0 at the end of quarter one.  Or I might be confusing this with the Temple game.  Either way, it made a serious impact.  We won every halftime and lost almost every football game. 

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