Everything posted by ATLLonghorn
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[BAN HAMMER THREAD] Washington St fires HC and assistants - Football only
The man seriously played himself.
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Texas Football 2021 In-Season Thread: Can we get a redo?
The way football has changed over the past 5 years in particular I think the areas you want to be really good if you want to be successful are quarterback, receiver, offensive line, defensive line. You can succeed without being good at one of those areas, but you need to compensate elsewhere. For example, having generational talents in Watson and Lawrence allowed Clemson to get away without a great offensive line. Georgia gets by with great line play and whether or not they have the QB and skill guys are going to determine if they win a title this year. The point is, we aren't good at any of those positions. The jury is out if we have *THE* quarterback on campus, but the early indications are no. There's no need to beat a dead horse with our offensive line. We haven't developed the talent at receiver and defensive line. The defensive line isn't as lacking as our linebacking corps, but you can get by without great linebackers if you have a great defensive line and we don't. We've been subpar with that group as a whole. We just aren't good enough at the pillar spots you need to be good at to win. In the micro, the collapses are obviously concerning, but the fact of the matter is, Sark can be the greatest mind in football (hypothetically) but it's putting a band-aid on a bullet hole. How he handles the next 12-18 months are going to determine everything for his tenure. I know it's frustrating to have to wait that long for it, but that's where we are.
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Media/$9.95-er postgame analysis articles (Week 7)
Scipio hit on something that really bothers me. We know the offensive line is dogshit, but teams are now going to account for Worthy every where he goes on the field and the rest of the receiving corps is garbage. Whittington is the only other guy at that position who is any good and he's made of glass.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
He's good at watching tape and coming up with a game script based on what he's seen from opponents, but once opponents make in game adjustments on him he becomes the human shrug emoji. It's a massive indictment of the previous coaching staff (and the holdovers) that this is roster that either has no talent at a lot of positions or just flat out cannot develop talent (hi Andre Coleman) but you want to make $5.7 million a year and be the head coach at Texas find ways to win coin flips games.
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Casey Thompson
A good kid who I respect for sticking it out and waiting his turn (even if he a foot out the door a couple of times) would be really good for a mid-tier team like a non-Cincinnati AAC team but he ain't good enough for a program that wants to win big at the Power 5 level. We don't have one on campus right now who IS good enough to win big at the Power 5 level so it is what it is.
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Uniform Pron
BYU added a sailor coug sticker to make it the sailor game
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Uniform Pron
Yeah they stink. They should try to leave the Big Sky for the WAC which is nothing special in football outside Sam Houston, but the WAC may have ambition of going back to FBS.
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Uniform Pron
Some FCS squads bringing the heat with throwback helmets this week. Central Arkansas Illinois State Idaho
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Clemson @ Syracuse; 6pm ESPN
It's a real indictment of Clemson's coaching staff that they don't have sure fire first round NFL talent and every skill position and now can't do shit on offense.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2023: Strippers, Monkeys, and 5-Stars
Casey Thompson is the fourth most efficient quarterback in the country with an ok but not great arm, a piss poor offensive line and an unspectacular receiving corps. If that isn't a huge selling point for what Sark can do with a quarterback at Texas (not to mention what he did with the Alabama offense) then I don't know what is. It's just fucking bizarre to me that some people think that Texas having a shit offensive line would dissuade a quarterback from coming to Texas more than the fact that Georgia runs a prehistoric offense and despite becoming the 1B recruiting power in college football still hasn't developed a quarterback under Kirby. If you want to play for a coach who will help you develop for the next level you go play for Sark. If you want literally everything else right now you go to Georgia.
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Texas O-line talk
I'm a glutton for punishment so I did more digging. 493th offensive linemen in FBS have played 300 blocking snaps (50 per game or 60 per game depending on how many games your team has played so that's basically players who are starters). Christian Jones ranks 350th in run blocking and 443rd in pass blocking. You cannot keep playing him. You have got to give Jaylen Garth a shot. OK State is good defensively, but home game/bye week is as reasonable a stretch as you're going to get at this point of the season and you have back-to-back road games on the back end of the bye week.
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Texas O-line talk
SIAP and I don't know why I do this to myself, but here are PFF's blocking grades from yesterday, run blocking on the left and pass blocking on the right. Karic's pass blocking grade is bad enough, but Christian Jones just isn't a power five conference player. They have to try something else.
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Rock bottom?
DGAF if this is unpopular or not, but it's accurate: Yesterday absolutely fucking sucked. It was the most gutting loss for me since Tech '08. However, while Oklahoma is the game that 100 percent without question want to win more than any on the schedule, in a vacuum it's also probably the least important game on the 2021 schedule in terms of games the Texas program needs to win in order to believe there is and will be progress under Sark. As far as yesterday is concerned, the Athletic did a piece a while back that was an anonymous survey of recruiting coordinators and one thing they said was that winning and losing isn't as important as you think it would be to recruits. Their line of thinking is that they'll come in and make weak spots better. So a historic pants shitting really fucking sucks, but the net loss overall probably isn't much. So why are the other games more important? Here's Texas' record against the rest of the middle tier Big 12 teams since 2010: Baylor: 6-5 Iowa State: 7-4 (3-3 last six) Oklahoma State: 4-7 Kansas State: 6-5 TCU: 3-7 West Virginia: 5-4 We all want Texas to be this big swinging dick program and go 14-0 every year, but shit man, we gotta get back to 10 win seasons regularly before that and that shit ain't gonna happen until we start beating the rest of the Big 12 teams (as long as we're still in this limp dick conference) So no, yesterday wasn't rock bottom. Yesterday was probably a Top-5 stomach punch loss in the last 40 years, but everything you want to achieve is still in front of you. Start by kicking Okie Lite's ass, handle your business the rest of the year, get the rematch with OU and finish the fucking job this time. Can they do it? That's not the point. The point is there's still plenty you can achieve this year.
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Hey PK -- What would you say you do here?
Shiiiit, letting Naivar stay on after the Utah Alamo Bowl would've been a better option than what we got now.
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Texas O-line talk
All I hope is that today taught Sark that offensive line has to become a major priority in recruiting now and going forward. The talent pool is shit right now and they need a quick fix. If they have to hit the portal this winter then fucking do it.
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Hey PK -- What would you say you do here?
We knew the hires the previous coaches made at the DC position were questionable. This one was supposed to be good and it's been a complete disaster. It's so deflating.
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OU sucks game week.
Louisiana, Rice & Tech we didn't need to do anything Arkansas we didn't need to do anything for a horribly different reason TCU we just let Bijan put the team on his back I'm excited for tomorrow because I think Sark has some wrinkles in the playbook he hasn't needed yet and what better time to use them than against OU.
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TEXAS QB TALK
I was curious to see Casey's numbers on deep balls and they aren't good at all, but I was surprised to find that he barely throws to the outside.
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Good win by Sark today.
Any time you can go from a two score game to a two score game you gotta do it.
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klanaggy pirate @ soldier texums :: 6pm SECN
The second best thing that has happened to A&M football this century is the playoff committee sparing them a skull fucking by Alabama and them being able to complain forever that they were "robbed"
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[Surly Official] Texas @ TCU Game Thread - 11am on ABC
I thought the decision to make Card the starter was odd, but the best I can tell is that this staff immediately recognized Casey's inability to throw a deep ball and hoped the passing game could be more vertical with Card and he just ended up not being it either.
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[Surly Official] Texas @ TCU Game Thread - 11am on ABC
You know an officiating crew is bad when the CENTER JUDGE is noticeably fucking terrible at his job.
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[Surly Official] Texas @ TCU Game Thread - 11am on ABC
I know the Kwiatkowski hire was universally well liked, but the early returns are just horrendous.
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Texas opens as a 6 point favorite @TCU
I'm not saying Ole Miss won't cover and you're right about a track meet, but dinging Alabama for only beating Florida by two points on the road when Florida is MILES AND MILES better than the best teams Ole Miss has played while Ole Miss hasn't played a road game yet is just fucking wild.
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Texas opens as a 6 point favorite @TCU
I hate this game every year. It's Gary Patterson's Superbowl and it will always be more important to them than us. I also have this feeling the last time we play them before we move to the SEC is the last time we're going to play them in the regular season because I don't see an upside in scheduling them anymore. We still might just that much better than them, but it's not a game I take lightly. I hate those fuckers.