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re: Week 8 Offensive Success Rankings
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:15 am to Bham Bammer
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:15 am to Bham Bammer
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It's a lot easier to scheme things up when you've got NFL talent at QB and RB, the entire OL, and a Heisman-winning WR
Aside from the Heisman-winning WR don't they have that at Texas?
Their last 2 QBs were #1 overall in the country in their classes.
They have tons of talent all over the field
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Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:16 am to Buckeye06
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Aside from the Heisman-winning WR don't they have that at Texas?
Their last 2 QBs were #1 overall in the country in their classes.
They have tons of talent all over the field
Pretty clearly the biggest thing is their OL is just flat out bad. And you can't run Sark's offense with a bad OL.
The QB is clearly struggling with important things too, but I think it all goes back to the OL issues. His entire operation works out from a very good OL, and in his system if you don't have that you have almost no shot.
This post was edited on 10/20/25 at 11:18 am
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:18 am to SummerOfGeorge
That's fair but they have tons of OL talent, just aren't maximizing it obviously.
For whatever reason, Texas' OL always seems soft.
For whatever reason, Texas' OL always seems soft.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:20 am to Buckeye06
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That's fair but they have tons of OL talent, just aren't maximizing it obviously.
For whatever reason, Texas' OL always seems soft.
It is a little wild, because Flood is a very good OL coach and they've had good o-lines and recruited well. I don't know their specifics but I do remember that there was a lot of discussion from Texas fans on whether they should have hit the portal harder, but they trusted their internal guys. Clearly they whiffed on that.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:27 am to Old Sarge
Texas is too high.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:38 am to SummerOfGeorge
This is the best summary of the Sark system I have ever read. Thank you.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:39 am to Old Sarge
I mean talk about a useless statistic. Indiana hasn’t played a single team that will be ranked at the end of the regular season.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:41 am to jryanw
Indiana
quote:won on the road at Oregon.
I mean talk about a useless statistic. Indiana hasn’t played a single team that will be ranked at the end of the regular season.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:43 am to jryanw
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Indiana hasn’t played a single team that will be ranked at the end of the regular season.
Except for the top 5 team they beat on the road I guess
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:46 am to hookem33
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I think the bigger question is, how the hell did he ever earn the title "offensive guru"? If that simply a media creation?
I think a lot of it is that your pundits hype the team up so much during the offseason that gets picked up by national media. Texas pundits are either massive homers when things are going well or setting the dumpster on fire when they aren’t. For whatever reason national pundits accept everything they say as gospel since they do zero research themselves and often have a vested interest in Texas doing well because of the amount of viewers and money they bring to the table.
This happens often with Texas coaches and players. It can be good when the team is good like during the Vince Young years that creates a feeling of being unstoppable but when the wheels come off, everything goes to shite.
I think the problem now is that everyone notices it more so you can’t hide actual data anymore. Sark is good but he’s never been on the Petrino level.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:46 am to Bham Bammer
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You aren't wrong, but those two years offensively stand out among the entire Saban years.
Yeah I get it...but the chances that we are ever going to field a dramatically more talented team than everyone else in the SEC is just not realistic...therefore he is going to fail here.
he really needs to jump to the NFL. I think he'd be more successful there.
This post was edited on 10/20/25 at 11:49 am
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:48 am to BAP Enthusiast
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I think a lot of it is that your pundits hype the team up so much during the offseason that gets picked up by national media.
Don't most programs have those guys? I mean, you guys have Lucci. He's every bit as big a homer as Ketch.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:54 am to hookem33
Difference being ESPN doesn’t parrot anything that Liucci says.
ESPN gave the hype the weight of national media, not homer pundits.
ESPN gave the hype the weight of national media, not homer pundits.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:54 am to hookem33
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Don't most programs have those guys? I mean, you guys have Lucci. He's every bit as big a homer as Ketch.
He’s a homer sure, but he’s more realistic and not delusional pie in the sky hilarity that you see often with the comparably uninformed Texas pundits. Liucci has unparalleled access to the program that virtually no one else has while guys like Ketch are basically locked out because the Texas program does not allow that kind of access. This creates a problem wherein the hype runs uncontrolled and gets way out of proportion.
I mean Texags hypes things up a lot but I’ve rarely seen anything like predicting Heismans before the season begins like what Ketch and others do.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:54 am to AGGIES
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Difference being ESPN doesn’t parrot anything that Liucci says.
Oh no doubt we get a lot more hype at ESPN than most programs. Not all of us fall for it, however.
If Pete K leaves to take a HC job, and I have to think some are going to come calling, we are truly fricked. He's the reason we are in a lot of games that we have no business being in....like, well Kentucky. if not for this Defense and Niblet we would be FUBAR.
well that and the fact that Stoops is clearly a dumbass.
This post was edited on 10/20/25 at 11:58 am
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:56 am to AGGIES
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Difference being ESPN doesn’t parrot anything that Liucci says. ESPN gave the hype the weight of national media, not homer pundits.
You would think they would learn by now that those guys don’t have the level of access Liucci has and they often make things up as a result. Unfortunately, that’s the state of modern media now where no one cares about factual data. ESPN does the same thing on their end so integrity isn’t really that high of a concern for them.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:56 am to jryanw
I would bet money Oregon, Illinois and Iowa finish ranked
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:57 am to hookem33
Well sure. Informed like yourself fans know the difference.
But that type of thing is the rat poison for the program.
Consider how ESPN completely brushed aside the OL rebuild…
But that type of thing is the rat poison for the program.
Consider how ESPN completely brushed aside the OL rebuild…
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:58 am to AGGIES
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But that type of thing is the rat poison for the program.
You can say that again. We are eat up with that shite most seasons.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 12:01 pm to stuntman
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Am I just blind or is LSU nowhere to be found on that chart?
We’re in there nestled between Purdue and Boston College. That tracks.
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