re: Texas NIL Narrative

Dark admitted in Destin that Tx spent $25M on its roster this year while denying the extra $15M the social media tried to add.

Lol

Don’t know but it’s less than $25M. Sark/Tx bought our 5* CB on signing day. How much did he cost? $2M?

In the 10 days before last year’s signing day, we lost:

#1 5* Underwood ($12++M) to Mich,
#15 5* CB K Phillips ($2?M) to Utx, and
top 30 5* DL ($2M) to USC.

It’s not development imo. It’s $,$$$,$$$

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Don’t be an arse-hat.

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You’re asking someone whose sole responsibility on this site is to be an arse hat.. he does it to get a response, which is exactly what we all do, food for thought, yes, I sometimes entertain the clown as well..

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I’m not convinced that Sark is the “offensive genius” that some in the media make him out to be, but there’s no disputing that (a) he inherited a mess (b) has turned the program around and (c) is developing talent.

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I actually have a theory on this.. I think Sark has dumbed down his offense in order to eat more clock and keep his defense off the field.

If you go back and look at his first two years at Texas, his offense was a lot more powerful, even with Quinn at the helm.. and we had leads in almost every game, but we couldn’t run the ball and when we scored, we scored too quick.

So in my opinion, he is trying to learn how to win games and has dialed back the offense..

the other side of the coin is that Quinn sucked throwing the deep ball, which is a huge staple in Sark’s offense. So perhaps it’s a combination of both, either way the dudes won 25 games last two years so I feel like he’s doing something right..

He went 8-5 his second year, but didn’t lose one game by more than one score.. in fact the only game we’ve lost in three years that was more than that was when Georgia punched us in the mouth last year..

Well, I guess that’s not true.. the pick six at the end of the Ohio State game makes that one join the list as well.

2022-2024

8 losses by 38 pts (all within a score)

+ Georgia and OSU by 14 each

All but the 1st Georgia game last year were winnable. He is close.. but tbd if it continues this year.. lots of new people at new positions

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actually have a theory on this.. I think Sark has dumbed down his offense in order to eat more clock and keep his defense off the field. If you go back and look at his first two years at Texas, his offense was a lot more powerful, even with Quinn at the helm.. and we had leads in almost every game, but we couldn’t run the ball and when we scored, we scored too quick.

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You may be right. But the counter to that then is why couldn’t we run the ball? I know we lost our two best tailbacks, but our OL was supposed to be legit, and against the better teams they just couldn’t impose their will in the 4th quarter and run the ball. I know the sacks mess up the running stats but it was really inexplicable why too many times we just couldn’t run the damned thing.

And as Exhibit B there’s the infamous 1st and goal call… My biggest concern w Sark is that he has a tendency to overthink things rather than just be really good at some of the basics. If the schemes are too complicated (e.g. pulling a 300 lb tackle rather than just asking him to beat the crap out of the guy in front of him) it opens the door to too many points of failure. (And to be clear I get that sometimes you want to pull the tackle, but I just feel like with our crew we should’ve been able to run the ball a lot better, and I blame scheme which affects mentality).

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Texas NIL Narrative

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It’s nil+portal. No development needed. Buy proven talent ready contribute day 1.

It’s pro ball with unlimited free agency and no salary cap. Teams with money have an incredible advantage.

When it works
You’re called a genius

When it doesn’t
You’re called an idiot

Sometimes it works
Sometimes it doesn’t

Next time
run it up the middle,
until you can’t
cause even if it fails,
you’ve still got a chance

Oh you’ve still got a chance

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Yeah, I don’t know why did that but it sounded like a song so I went with it