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re: Texas football through 8 games
Posted on 10/31/21 at 6:41 pm to LSUstephen17
Posted on 10/31/21 at 6:41 pm to LSUstephen17
Hate the season, obviously. We’ll have a better idea of what Sark is capable of next year I think.
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Posted on 10/31/21 at 6:43 pm to GamerAg
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Is Thompson still gonna win the Heisman
No Haynes Queen has that locked up
Posted on 10/31/21 at 6:51 pm to LSUstephen17
Not impressed. The first thing he did wrong was not hitting the portal for offensive linemen. I feel like he had a golden opportunity with that and he didn't address it whatsoever.
As far as games go, not impressed. His first half play calling is amazing when they're running their scripted plays. At half time teams make adjustments and things just absolutely fall apart.
His handling of the QB situation has been dog shite. He picked Hudson Card based off of 8 months of work and because Casey Thompson makes bad decisions when it counts. He benched Card after 3 bad quarters against Arkansas (and they were really bad) but hasn't benched Casey after 3 pathetic second halves in a row. Casey isn't the future and we need to see what Card really is.
I hate his on-field demeanor, just no emotion of any kind when we need a leader. He gets this scared look on his face when things start going bad and it seems as if the team feeds off it.
I'm not going to say he is a terrible coach after 8 games but I am definitely not a fan of what I am seeing. I am fine with losing games in year one if I see progress being made but I am seeing regression in a lot of areas. Nothing to do now but drink heavily and hope shite gets better next year.
As far as games go, not impressed. His first half play calling is amazing when they're running their scripted plays. At half time teams make adjustments and things just absolutely fall apart.
His handling of the QB situation has been dog shite. He picked Hudson Card based off of 8 months of work and because Casey Thompson makes bad decisions when it counts. He benched Card after 3 bad quarters against Arkansas (and they were really bad) but hasn't benched Casey after 3 pathetic second halves in a row. Casey isn't the future and we need to see what Card really is.
I hate his on-field demeanor, just no emotion of any kind when we need a leader. He gets this scared look on his face when things start going bad and it seems as if the team feeds off it.
I'm not going to say he is a terrible coach after 8 games but I am definitely not a fan of what I am seeing. I am fine with losing games in year one if I see progress being made but I am seeing regression in a lot of areas. Nothing to do now but drink heavily and hope shite gets better next year.
Posted on 10/31/21 at 6:55 pm to aTm boy
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Im loving the Sark hire. I hope they give the guy an extension.
No way! That is Woodward's secret hire...
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:15 am to GamerAg
Same team just a different coach. Texas has always had overranked players due to their influence with HS player rankings. It isn't a coincidence that their recruits will jump in star ratings. This certainly hasn't help, nor the inability to be able to pick the RIGHT talent for the NEEDS of the TEAM. All Gas, No Brakes? More like All Breaks in the 2nd half, No Gas.
USA Today article is spot on:
"Texas: For the low, low price of $24 million, Texas got rid of Tom Herman and a bunch of assistant coaches who had expensive guaranteed contracts after last season. Problem solved, right? Coaching changes are always the answer at Texas, where the failures are never about anything inherent to the program or administration and always chalked up to the idiot with the whistle. Texas' bottomless pit of resources allows the Longhorns to do as they please and get rid of as many coaches as they wish. But the buyout money Texas has doled out lately isn't exactly making things better. Surely that $24 million could have been spent on more interesting pursuits than watching new coach Steve Sarkisian blow double-digit leads three weeks in a row."
Texas is simply a joke of a program. Most Aggies, while we love making fun of them, really don't care about Texas much anymore. We'd be far more concerned about Baylor than Texas on a football field. But as we all know, the Big 12 is a joke across the board. The statement of "big brother" is long since expired. Keep repeating it as Texas needs to feel better in some ways and LSU fans are not in much of a better situation currently (I could argue Tigers are more of a dumpster program than the Aggies "Big Brother").
They have built their own house and continue to shiite all over it. Kinda sounds like coach Ed O.
USA Today article is spot on:
"Texas: For the low, low price of $24 million, Texas got rid of Tom Herman and a bunch of assistant coaches who had expensive guaranteed contracts after last season. Problem solved, right? Coaching changes are always the answer at Texas, where the failures are never about anything inherent to the program or administration and always chalked up to the idiot with the whistle. Texas' bottomless pit of resources allows the Longhorns to do as they please and get rid of as many coaches as they wish. But the buyout money Texas has doled out lately isn't exactly making things better. Surely that $24 million could have been spent on more interesting pursuits than watching new coach Steve Sarkisian blow double-digit leads three weeks in a row."
Texas is simply a joke of a program. Most Aggies, while we love making fun of them, really don't care about Texas much anymore. We'd be far more concerned about Baylor than Texas on a football field. But as we all know, the Big 12 is a joke across the board. The statement of "big brother" is long since expired. Keep repeating it as Texas needs to feel better in some ways and LSU fans are not in much of a better situation currently (I could argue Tigers are more of a dumpster program than the Aggies "Big Brother").
They have built their own house and continue to shiite all over it. Kinda sounds like coach Ed O.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 7:47 am to LSUstephen17
Sark will be fine. He’s not a super star but he’s not as bad as Strong or Herman.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 8:02 am to alpinetiger
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You can, in real time, watch a Texas football game and see the confidence erode out of the UT players when they face adversity.
This is the real issue at play. Its not talent. Its not depth. In the second half of the Arkansas game, only down two scores, every time they showed the Texas sideline the players looked like they had just come from a family member's funeral.
Sark looked like a doctor had just told him he had fatal penis cancer.
They are great front runners but they fold under adversity. Which they had best get fixed before they join the SEC because adversity is pretty much a guarantee.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 8:05 am to SOBMarcus
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Hate the season, obviously. We’ll have a better idea of what Sark is capable of next year I think.
Defense, defense, defense.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 8:06 am to Loserman
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It is year 2 that you can usually tell which way a program is headed
“I’ll drink to that.”
Sark
Posted on 11/1/21 at 8:37 am to FootsFanatic
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Texas is simply a joke of a program. Most Aggies, while we love making fun of them, really don't care about Texas much anymore. We'd be far more concerned about Baylor than Texas on a football field.
This might be more believable if it wasn't your 7th diatribe about Texas in the last 24 hours
Posted on 11/1/21 at 8:50 am to TexasForever
Edit: Either the owner of the KKK Bevo or AWS was so butthurt they blocked it.
This post was edited on 11/1/21 at 11:29 am
Posted on 11/1/21 at 9:01 am to CGSC Lobotomy
I love watching them fail. Seven win Steve may be in jeopardy this year. I think seven wins would be a stretch …
Posted on 11/1/21 at 9:11 am to LSUstephen17
quote:It's a very uninspiring start. Especially when Texas was in great position to win each of the last 3 games and lost all 3 of them.
What are Texas fans thoughts about Sark after 8 games?
I was more concerned about Herman's teams as they failed to close games his first year, too. But he kind of turned that around the next season. However, at no point did I think "Charlie wouldn't have lost that game" when Herman dropped a head-scratcher in year one. We knew he was at least better than his predecessor. Sark - I'm not so sure. There are multiple games that I felt Tom would've been able to close. Particularly, OU and OK State.
It's his first year, and it's transitioned from darkhorse team to complete rebuild. Hopefully the recruiting pans out and he can continue to build the team in his vision, because I do actually believe the vision is a good one. But the players are soft, and while Tom had the same issue with Charlie leftovers that were defiant, I'm still not sure if the current team being soft is a product of Sark's chill demeanor and lack of demand for winning, or the fact that the players are just fragile having played for Herman who ran a Urban Meyer-like dictatorship while achieving Kevin Sumlin-like results.
I also take solace in the fact that all-time great coaches have had extremely mediocre results when they got started only to turn the corner later on after instilling a culture. And inversely, guys who got off to hot starts at new jobs with the previous coach's players have shown tendency to fizzle out when they're charged with finding their own talent to recruit and plug into their plan. We may not have expected worse than the alamo bowl going into Sark's first season, but it's not like we were expecting much better, either.
tl;dr - Time will tell. It's his first season, and I'm not freaking out.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 9:13 am to LSUstephen17
quote:Yea good luck with that. Most aggies are more enamored with Texas losing than their own team winning. This has been shown by their "traditions"
I wasn’t asking that read my post. I’m specifically wondering what UT think of Sark.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 9:15 am to XWing atAliciousness
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while achieving Kevin Sumlin-like results.
Coach 1: 32-18 (50 games)
Coach 2: 36-14 (50 games)
Which one is Herman and which one is Sumlin?
Posted on 11/1/21 at 9:20 am to MackDaddyBrown
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It doesn't matter at this point. Not gonna make some excuse for him like "he needs his guys", but the question just isn't ripe until year 3.
Charlie Strong: “I baked the cake at Texas. Now it’s Tom Herman’s job to put icing on the cake & win a lot of games"
Charlie Strong baked the cake for 3 years. All that Herman had to do is “put icing on the cake and win” . Obviously Herman doesn’t know how to ice a cake. Now you’ve had the baked cake for 3 1/2 years (6 years in the making) and it looks like the cake is flat. So what year are you guys looking at now? Looks like the cake was really a mud pie.
This post was edited on 11/1/21 at 9:22 am
Posted on 11/1/21 at 9:22 am to GatorOnAnIsland
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So what year are you guys looking at now?
I think you meant to say "we". You aren't fooling anyone with the Florida tag.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 9:24 am to XWing atAliciousness
In reply to X-Wing
- There is nothing better than watching all the surrender cobras after another longhorn choke job
- There is nothing better than watching longhorn players throw a tantrum on the field
- There is nothing better than knowing the “Meltdown” quotes will be littered with profanity from those tshirt sip fans
And there is absolutely nothing better than watching someone such as yourself attempt to justify it all. Texas is an embarrassment, and so are those that defend their antics. The world is just a much brighter place when the sips lose …
- There is nothing better than watching all the surrender cobras after another longhorn choke job
- There is nothing better than watching longhorn players throw a tantrum on the field
- There is nothing better than knowing the “Meltdown” quotes will be littered with profanity from those tshirt sip fans
And there is absolutely nothing better than watching someone such as yourself attempt to justify it all. Texas is an embarrassment, and so are those that defend their antics. The world is just a much brighter place when the sips lose …
Posted on 11/1/21 at 9:26 am to CGSC Lobotomy
Not sure. Those numbers are almost exactly alike, so you can understand the comparison. I would sincerely hope Sumlin had the better record of the two considering he inherited a Heisman winning QB and played two FCS teams per year. And even with that, still never won his division or appeared in a NY6 bowl game.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 9:26 am to TeLeFaWx
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Sark will be fine. He’s not a super star but he’s not as bad as Strong or Herman.
Probably this. Dont think he will have them competing for championships every year (certainly not once they moved to the SEC) but hes not nearly as douchy as Herman was so I doubt he loses the lockerroom the way that guy did. Could see him being about like Sumlin, maybe a couple really good seasons occasionally but mostly 7-9 win ones.
I think their true problem is in the post above though.
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Texas has always had overranked players due to their influence with HS player rankings. It isn't a coincidence that their recruits will jump in star ratings.
Back in our Big 12 days the shorthorns used to always call it sour grapes in recruiting, but from what I've seen over the last decade it really is true. Some random 3 star guy that shows interest or commits in Austin? All of a sudden gets bumped up to a 4 star. Their team the last few years isnt nearly as good as they think it is on paper because of constantly inflated recruiting rankings. Sark's first issue to fix is just flat out bringing better talent on campus. And that can take awhile unfortunately, better hope the powers in charge give him time to do it.
This post was edited on 11/1/21 at 9:30 am
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