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1 hour ago, satyanash said:

Ohio State lost their All-American center to an ACL tear against Michigan, and are now playing for the national title.

Everyone is dealing with injuries, this is a silly conversation to be having.

ND had two o-linemen making their first starts of the year against Penn State and were missing their best DT. Penn State had to shuffle their o-line mid-game. Texas was probably the healthiest semi-final team.

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4 minutes ago, Texasrocks said:

Totally agree. I'm hoping Sark learns from this. It seems weird to say that Sark is killing it as a head coach and punching himself in the dick as a playcaller.

his identity is wrapped up in it. at this point, you'd also have to wonder what aspects of his coaching might suffer if he isn't calling plays. 

 

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2 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Well, he sure as shit didn't do that.

Right that would have been preferable to what he did. My point being I'm not sure he learned from his mistakes and we are demonstrably better. We absolutely regressed on the offensive side which is his "wheelhouse"

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7 minutes ago, naija said:

his identity is wrapped up in it. at this point, you'd also have to wonder what aspects of his coaching might suffer if he isn't calling plays. 

 

I don’t even think he has to relinquish it entirely but he certainly needs some kind of support or someone that he respects enough to check him. Or maybe just someone to help him design a more effective plan overall in the red zone.

9 minutes ago, mdmost said:

He needs to hire a goalline specialist who can help him figure out not just the pesky short yardage goalline plays but in general plays in the red zone. 

 

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2 minutes ago, naija said:

his identity is wrapped up in it. at this point, you'd also have to wonder what aspects of his coaching might suffer if he isn't calling plays. 

I assume it would be like Urban Meyer - he'd hire someone to run his offense. Lane Kiffin doesn't call plays for Ole Miss, but it's his offense. My hope is that Sark would be removed enough from the play calling that he could help problem solve when things aren't working. Though you're probably right, he doesn't sound like he's ready to give up play calling. 

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1 hour ago, TexArcher said:

The red zone play calling was bad.  But, in fairness, if we run it between the tackles 4 times and get stuffed, the *exact same people here* are losing their minds about how you can't do that against Ohio St, blah, blah.

Look, the offense underperformed the second half of the year.  It was also missing three running backs and it had QB1 and WR1 playing hurt, linemen were going down, etc.  Go look at the box scores from the first half when we were healthier -- 30+ on Michigan and OU, and 50+ on everybody else.  Then we got beat up and it ground to a halt.

As for going out in the semis two years in a row, some of y'all seem to think that's some kind of a failure.  Well, Ohio State has been consistently excellent for like 25 years, right?  They have two titles, maybe about to be three.  They have a shitload of near misses.  Maybe it's just really hard to finish the deal?  Like maybe all 4 of the final 4 teams are really freaking good, and expecting to win the whole thing more than 1 time in 4 is being unrealistic?

Sark has us where we need to be.  Next year, Arch and CJ are gonna light up scoreboards.  We are winning at least one of the next three national championships.  It's coming.  Y'all chill.

Yep…. 100% this.     We’d be sooooo much better off under Tom right now.  Or was it Burnt Vegetables some wanted?   Or Chip Kelly so flopped at UCLA.    

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13 minutes ago, Texasrocks said:

ND had two o-linemen making their first starts of the year against Penn State and were missing their best DT. Penn State had to shuffle their o-line mid-game. Texas was probably the healthiest semi-final team.

Ohio state playing with backup center and LG because the kicker the starting LG out after the starting LT got hurt. 

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The same problems all year.  Stupid play calling in critical situations and not able to get TDs.

 I think having running qb will change things and why I was on the Arch train.  However I'm very concerned that Sark won't get help with a competent OC even if he still calls the plays. He can't do it all.

Sark gets credit for the great  culture but our two year turn around is due to our NIL.  Reduce the NIL in half, and we aren't making the finals on coaching alone.  This is not a well coached machine (except the D).

Lastly, fuck those dog shit Ohio St jersey wearing bitches.  I hate their fucking fans. 

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Just now, mdmost said:

You may need to log out. 

nah I'm actually fine. but last game and this game and both georgia games showed some serious faults that need to be addressed and fixed or he can fuck off. we are in an nil era. we had the talent to win. we didn't have the coaching. 

you tell me we hold ohio state to 21 offensive points and I'm telling you we win. 

unless our coach sticks to his script

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6 minutes ago, Texasrocks said:

I assume it would be like Urban Meyer - he'd hire someone to run his offense. Lane Kiffin doesn't call plays for Ole Miss, but it's his offense. My hope is that Sark would be removed enough from the play calling that he could help problem solve when things aren't working. Though you're probably right, he doesn't sound like he's ready to give up play calling. 

or Saban, or McVay if he wants to look for another guy thought of as an offensive genius, that somehow at a young age, is able to reliably teach what he wants out of his offense to others and have them run it.

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1 hour ago, SpiralOut said:

Could have FB Dive'd it 4 times and even if you don't get it the Buckeyes are at their own 1 yard line.  Potential safety or you're getting the ball back with plenty of time on their side of the field.  But nah, we'd rather run some long developing outside runs against an elite defense.  Don't know where the idea Sark is some genius playcaller ever came from.  

He’s not. Never was. 

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48 minutes 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. 

Do we need to go through the list of Tom Herman's WTF moments at Texas?

It is long.

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24 minutes ago, Texasrocks said:

Totally agree. I'm hoping Sark learns from this. It seems weird to say that Sark is killing it as a head coach and punching himself in the dick as a playcaller.

ut has a lot of money. the best oc and dc should be on staff. other schools should want them. constantly cultivating coaching talent 

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3 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

ut has a lot of money. the best oc and dc should be on staff. other schools should want them. constantly cultivating coaching talent 

I got no problem with PK and what he's done with this D.

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14 minutes 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. 

Dumb as dirt 

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1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:

1st down was the right call. Then it went to shit.

2nd down should have been a play action boot with instructions to throw it away if it's not here. 

Then pound it 3rd and 4th down. If they stop it then it's a 7 point game with more than 2 minutes and they have the ball on their own goal line. 

I was saying this shit before 1st down. It's not hindsight.

This. The second down sweep. That was really damning in an otherwise very well coached game.

Yes, let's test an elite defense to the field side when they have the leverage after getting stuffed on first down. Great call. Jesus Fucking Christ. This must be what aggy felt like running up the gut on 4th and short for the 109th time.

It didn't matter what we did after that. We were too easy to defend in that situation, especially considering Sawyer had smoked Cam Williams multiple times to that point. The TD was of course worst case scenario but the Ohio State pass rush wrecking the game there was utterly predictable.

1 hour ago, Monahorns said:

Remember it was Sark who took Reggie Bush off the field on 4th and 2 against Texas in 2006.  He isn't going to win big as the Head Coach and OC.  He needs lots of help and I don't see him hiring experienced coaches to help.

Lendale White shredded Texas in that game. I guess you could argue Bush should have been on the field as a decoy but giving White the ball is a very defensible decision. I actually agree Sark's gameday blunders at Texas make me skeptical he can pull off 3-4 straight against CFP caliber teams but this is a really weird one to go back to. You don't have to go nearly this far.

 

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26 minutes ago, Texasrocks said:

I assume it would be like Urban Meyer - he'd hire someone to run his offense. Lane Kiffin doesn't call plays for Ole Miss, but it's his offense. My hope is that Sark would be removed enough from the play calling that he could help problem solve when things aren't working. Though you're probably right, he doesn't sound like he's ready to give up play calling. 

This team called OSU brought in a pretty good play caller too seems to have helped.

Sark can still be Sark and come up with the offensive ideas and his script.

Then turn it over for game day play calling and half time adjustments.

Anyone who doesn't see the need for this isn't paying attention.

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19 minutes 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. 

There's a line and IMO this crossed it. Criticizing Sark is one thing, second guessing anyone's sobriety is another. Don't do that. 

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2 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

There's a line and IMO this crossed it. Criticizing Sark is one thing, second guessing anyone's sobriety is another. Don't do that. 

He didn't second guess anyone's sobriety.  He said because Sark is a "second chancer" himself, he's too lenient and let's others get away with too much.

The can be true without being a flaw.  Hell, it's a positive trait.  One that might come with downside within this particular context.

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6 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

This. The second down sweep. That was really damning in an otherwise very well coached game.

Yes, let's test an elite defense to the field side when they have the leverage after getting stuffed on first down. Great call. Jesus Fucking Christ. This must be what aggy felt like running up the gut on 4th and short for the 109th time.

It didn't matter what we did after that. We were too easy to defend in that situation, especially considering Sawyer had smoked Cam Williams multiple times to that point. The TD was of course worst case scenario but the Ohio State pass rush wrecking the game there was utterly predictable.

Lendale White shredded Texas in that game. I guess you could argue Bush should have been on the field as a decoy but giving White the ball is a very defensible decision. I actually agree Sark's gameday blunders at Texas make me skeptical he can pull off 3-4 straight against CFP caliber teams but this is a really weird one to go back to. You don't have to go nearly this far.

 

You agreed with me.  You can run Lendale but you have to put doubt into the defenders.  It is a consistent pattern of failure with this guy.  I guess it is okay with you. But I want Texas to win championships.

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2 minutes ago, Hondo said:

He didn't second guess anyone's sobriety.  He said because Sark is a "second chancer" himself, he's too lenient and let's others get away with too much.

The can be true without being a flaw.  Hell, it's a positive trait.  One that might come with downside within this particular context.

Or not, it's just college football after all.

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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.

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