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What does Texas do with Arch

Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:32 am
Posted by SanAg
San Antonio, TX
Member since Oct 2016
463 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:32 am
Not a troll post. It is genuinely an interesting situation. I watched most of the Texas - Kentucky game and Arch Manning is simply not a good quarterback.

For most other QB’s, he would be benched for at least a time, but Texas is stuck in a way due to Arch’s NIL as well as his name. Sark is in a predicament. If he benches Arch, then you might have some higher ups/Mannings not happy, which is not good for the program, yet if you leave him in then your offense is crippled.

Arch seems like a decent kid, so I am pulling for him when not playing A&M.
Posted by Old Sarge
Dean of Admissions, LSU
Member since Jan 2012
61175 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:33 am to
Play him in EVERY GAME for the next two years


Please
Posted by Rankest
Alpine
Member since Aug 2025
51 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:34 am to
The daily Arch thread came early today
Posted by MtVernon
Member since Jul 2024
10089 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:34 am to
Portal him to Ole Miss and watch him excel.
Posted by CoachFranWasHere
Austin, TX
Member since Jul 2021
691 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:38 am to
This does beg the question. Lots of assumptions below. Just spitballin'

Supposing Arch is playing because Sark is being directed to play him . .

Does this also imply Sark is protected from any fallout if Arch continues to underdeliver?

I think for optics, it doesn't. Sark might have his neck on the chopping block without any protection.

Regardless of the case, Sark should be coaching his arse off, tailoring the offense around Arch's strengths and improving his weaknesses.

I doubt we will ever know the complete story. Probably a few dollars involved.

Arch seems like a good kid.

Hope the steers continue to lose.
Posted by hookem2522
Member since Jan 2022
2053 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:39 am to
Portal him to anm just to watch em throw their current QB under the bus.

Aggy doesn't know much about anything, BUT they know a lot about throwing QBs under the bus.
Posted by Bham Bammer
Member since Nov 2014
16071 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:42 am to
This is a troll post but there is a decent discussion to be had. Arch clearly hasn't lived up to expectations, but there's also blame to lay at the feet of the coaching staff and OL. That said, Arch's future at UT will probably be determined over the remainder of the season.
Posted by Buster83
Somewhere in Texas usually
Member since Aug 2021
5321 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:42 am to
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BUT they know a lot about throwing QBs under the bus.


And which QB's would that be dumbass?
This post was edited on 10/20/25 at 10:44 am
Posted by MtVernon
Member since Jul 2024
10089 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:46 am to
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Supposing Arch is playing because Sark is being directed to play him . .



Very possible that the Texas AD is just as deep in the Arch thing as Sark is. Which means Sark is safe (unless he gets fall guy'd)

However, another issue is that Sark has had Arch under his tutelage for 2.5 years, and Arch has shown that he has the raw material. A second big problem is that Sark did not recruit/portal any OL during the offseason, which is now a disaster.

Third strike against Sark is he has this flippant California way of dismissing asswater performances, and gaslighting reporters/fans.
Posted by Bham Bammer
Member since Nov 2014
16071 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:47 am to
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Third strike against Sark is he has this flippant California way of dismissing asswater performances, and gaslighting reporters/fans.


Yes, the condescending tone that he uses for a guy who actually hasn't accomplished anything of substance is off putting.
Posted by Old Sarge
Dean of Admissions, LSU
Member since Jan 2012
61175 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:50 am to
Sark currently has a 62 % winning average as a head coach

I really don’t see this getting any better
Posted by MtVernon
Member since Jul 2024
10089 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:53 am to
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Sark currently has a 62 % winning average as a head coach


And he had worse than that when he was hired. So I never understood.

The only thing I can figure is that CDC (Texas AD) is heavily manipulated by buzz names and bling-bling over substance.

Sark has always had the media on kneepads for whatever reason.
Posted by BuckeyeGoon
Member since Jan 2025
835 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:58 am to
Texas has the defense to compete for a national championship right now, I just dont understand how Sark went into this season with a project qb when they had all the other pieces to possibly win a national championship. Arch has been in the program for over two years now, Sark had to have known he wasn't ready for sec football.
Posted by Jster15
Member since Aug 2019
2895 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:02 am to
Would that be like benching Ewers for Manning last year or Major Applewhite for Chris Simms? Both cases of famous family names being played under pressure from the Texas big money donors instead of the better player.
Posted by Decker
Member since Nov 2015
3679 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:11 am to
Do players have buyouts now?
Posted by NickPapageorgio
Yuma, AZ
Member since Oct 2014
1115 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:15 am to
The Manning family is not interfering with Texas offensive personnel decisions so you can trash that theory.

Thats just not how Archie, Olivia, Cooper, Peyton and Eli do things at all.

Its all on Sark if Arch keeps starting.

No sane booster would be demanding he continues to start either.

Its on Sark 100% at this time.
Posted by lewis and herschel
Member since Nov 2009
15399 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:17 am to
Arch is headed to the rubbish bin of history. He should have gone to a smaller program and cut his teeth.

Irrational expectation on him.
Posted by Shocco
Member since Nov 2015
1743 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:17 am to
TX is stuck with Arch the same way Bama was stuck with Milroe.
Posted by tBrand
Member since Oct 2022
2488 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:25 am to
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Its on Sark 100% at this time.

Yeah the booster interference talk is nonsense. Sark is going to ride with Arch forever because not doing so would mean Sark isn’t some offensive genius QB whisperer.
Posted by Buckeye06
Member since Dec 2007
24874 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:28 am to
quote:

hen you might have some higher ups/Mannings not happy, which is not good for the program


It's worse what is happening right now. He needs to sit the pine. The backup came in for one throw against OU (I think?) and threw an 18 yard dart
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