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10 minutes ago, tokamak said:

Of course the problem is that we've ended up with these "lottery ticket" types starting on the OL this year when they in reality should never have seen the field, or at least not any time soon. It's a fine strategy if we fill in as needed with the portal and the occasional 5-star high school blue chipper. For whatever reason, we've been skipping that 2nd part of the plan, hence a major reason why we started the season #1 and are going to end up in the Whogivesashit Bowl.

You are talking about one player in Stroh. We developed the other three 3-star consensus guys in Goosby, Huston, and Robertson. Brooks should have never been used there as a true freshman, and he might still develop into an OT to replace Goosby after 2026.

Had the coaching staff rolled out the current OL to start the season, I bet we'd be in a slightly better place than we are. Even so, they should have brought in at least two interior portal guys for insurance purposes but Sarkisian took the off-season and spring off from serious roster evaluation.

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4 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

You are talking about one player in Stroh. We developed the other three 3-star consensus guys in Goosby, Huston, and Robertson. Brooks should have never been used there as a true freshman, and he might still develop into an OT to replace Goosby after 2026.

Had the coaching staff rolled out the current OL to start the season, I bet we'd be in a slightly better place than we are. Even so, they should have brought in at least two interior portal guys for insurance purposes but Sarkisian took the off-season and spring off from serious roster evaluation.

Hutson stinks, Robertson is average at best 

5 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

You are talking about one player in Stroh. We developed the other three 3-star consensus guys in Goosby, Huston, and Robertson. Brooks should have never been used there as a true freshman, and he might still develop into an OT to replace Goosby after 2026.

Had the coaching staff rolled out the current OL to start the season, I bet we'd be in a slightly better place than we are. Even so, they should have brought in at least two interior portal guys for insurance purposes but Sarkisian took the off-season and spring off from serious roster evaluation.

Yea but they might have run off an Omeozulu if they did that. 

1 hour ago, Beer Drinker said:

Yea but they might have run off an Omeozulu if they did that. 

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8 hours ago, tokamak said:

Of course the problem is that we've ended up with these "lottery ticket" types starting on the OL this year when they in reality should never have seen the field, or at least not any time soon. It's a fine strategy if we fill in as needed with the portal and the occasional 5-star high school blue chipper. For whatever reason, we've been skipping that 2nd part of the plan, hence a major reason why we started the season #1 and are going to end up in the Whogivesashit Bowl.

Are you just repeating the criticism of the early season, or do you not believe the line, which is all new starters, hasn't improved?

On 11/25/2025 at 6:37 PM, Red Five said:

There were some funny comments on OTF about Jett Walker. I mean, they weren't meant to be funny. "He'll be a real team-first guy. Great for culture. You can tell he's unselfish" etc. 

Jett Walker can play. I don’t know if he’ll be a pure RB here, but he’s a natural player. I guess people are whining because he’s a white RB, but he’ll get on the field here. 

4 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Hutson stinks, Robertson is average at best 

It's hard to take you seriously when your default response to anything is he sucks.

27 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

It's hard to take you seriously when your default response to anything is he sucks.


Have you not read the wisdom of Burnt Orange and White in the past?  His takes are Helobius-esque. 

Hutson has lost his job twice now and had consistently graded in low 60s to 50s on PFF. Only reason he’s even playing now is the god awfulness of Stoh and a true freshmen not being ready. Robertson is a slight improvement over Hutson at center but he’s average at best. DJ Campbell is the same player he has been for 3 years straight and there hasn’t been much improvement there. All the guys outside of the freshmen mentioned are 3rd to 4th year guys that aren’t good and haven’t been developed as you are trying to say. 

3 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Hutson has lost his job twice now and had consistently graded in low 60s to 50s on PFF. Only reason he’s even playing now is the god awfulness of Stoh and a true freshmen not being ready. Robertson is a slight improvement over Hutson at center but he’s average at best. DJ Campbell is the same player he has been for 3 years straight and there hasn’t been much improvement there. All the guys outside of the freshmen mentioned are 3rd to 4th year guys that aren’t good and haven’t been developed as you are trying to say. 

That C and LG combo though was noticeably better the second they made the change. I do wonder what some of those first half of the season games would have looked like if we had started out like this. It may have been enough to get a win at Florida, and then our season is completely different. 

2 minutes ago, Red Five said:

That C and LG combo though was noticeably better the second they made the change. I do wonder what some of those first half of the season games would have looked like if we had started out like this. It may have been enough to get a win at Florida, and then our season is completely different. 

Just because that combo is better doesn’t mean either is good or well developed. Fuck man, you and me Out there would have been better than stroh/hutson combo

4 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

DJ Campbell is the same player he has been for 3 years straight and there hasn’t been much improvement there

Do you not remember how terrible he was when they first put him out there?  He was a sieve.  He’s gotten a lot better at pass protection. 

Just because that combo is better doesn’t mean either is good or well developed. Fuck man, you and me Out there would have been better than stroh/hutson combo

I’m pretty sure that you would die if you tried to play offensive line in a college football game against Georgia.
37 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Just because that combo is better doesn’t mean either is good or well developed. Fuck man, you and me Out there would have been better than stroh/hutson combo

I think Hudson and Robertson just have way more experience and real game reps, so they actually know what to do. And when you know what to do, you play faster and more physical because you’re not out there thinking every snap.

 

It feels like the offensive staff tried to start the season by putting the most athletic guys on the field and hoped they’d pick things up quickly. But they clearly didn’t grasp the system as fast as Flood expected, that’s why the OL looked so bad early on. We couldn’t pick up a stunt to save our lives.

 

And honestly, Arch’s early-season struggles probably made it even worse. When your QB is still finding his rhythm, it magnifies every protection mistake. I think the staff assumed the offense would be further along than it actually was, so they thought the talented lineup would gel as the season went on.

 

But the offense sputtered out the gate, the OL issues were magnified, and they realized they had to make a change. That’s when they went back to Hudson and Robertson  not because they’re the most athletic, but because they’re the ones they trusted to be assignment-sound.

1 minute ago, D3zii said:

It feels like the offensive staff tried to start the season by putting the most athletic guys on the field and hoped they’d pick things up quickly. But they clearly didn’t grasp the system as fast as Flood expected, that’s why the OL looked so bad early on. We couldn’t pick up a stunt to save our lives.

What the fuck were we doing all spring and summer? It's actually hard to believe it took until week 8 or whatever it was to settle on this starting five. And that's not even getting into the whole Neto disaster. 

40 minutes ago, Red Five said:

What the fuck were we doing all spring and summer? It's actually hard to believe it took until week 8 or whatever it was to settle on this starting five. And that's not even getting into the whole Neto disaster. 

man that spring game would have held identify some weaknesses 

2 hours ago, Red Five said:

That C and LG combo though was noticeably better the second they made the change. I do wonder what some of those first half of the season games would have looked like if we had started out like this. It may have been enough to get a win at Florida, and then our season is completely different. 

Yeah, Hutson and Robertson are average at best but that combo beats FL (still loses to Ohio State).  The fact that the coaching staff had a playoff level team and found a way to miss the playoffs without having major injuries to blame is malpractice.  Blame Sark, Flood, Akina, whomever but this team is good enough to not have 3 losses.  

57 minutes ago, nineliveslost said:

man that spring game would have held identify some weaknesses 

The spring game wouldn’t have did anything. It’s just a show

 

its the practices that would’ve revealed everything, but when you opt to do OTA’s and coddle your players because your afraid of injury  you miss that . . 
 

I hope to never see that shit again

On 11/26/2025 at 7:22 AM, Red Five said:

When Wright flips to SMU he’s gonna get another one of those threads where everyone posts the same pics and gifs of hot chicks and Thor yelling yes! etc.

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9 hours ago, nineliveslost said:

man that spring game would have held identify some weaknesses 

You do realize the coaches see these guys everyday in spring ball, fall camp, and practice during the season. Some of this board identified our best starting 5 involved moving Hutson to LG and starting Robinson at C early on in the season. I’m not sure if it is Sark’s or Flood’s stubbornness that we didn’t start the season that way or just major incompetence that they didn’t realize it until Hutson got hurt. 

11 hours ago, SarkAfterDark said:

You do realize the coaches see these guys everyday in spring ball, fall camp, and practice during the season. Some of this board identified our best starting 5 involved moving Hutson to LG and starting Robinson at C early on in the season. I’m not sure if it is Sark’s or Flood’s stubbornness that we didn’t start the season that way or just major incompetence that they didn’t realize it until Hutson got hurt. 

But the spring game would have allowed us all to see the cluster fuck together, like one big happy family 😁

12 hours ago, SarkAfterDark said:

You do realize the coaches see these guys everyday in spring ball, fall camp, and practice during the season. Some of this board identified our best starting 5 involved moving Hutson to LG and starting Robinson at C early on in the season. I’m not sure if it is Sark’s or Flood’s stubbornness that we didn’t start the season that way or just major incompetence that they didn’t realize it until Hutson got hurt. 

I'm still not sold that Neto just wasn't on the same level as Stroh. He's got to be in the doghouse or something. 

53 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

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flipping from Texas to the 4-7 fighting Hudson's is certainly a choice. 

1 hour ago, Hookem2147 said:

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Wonder what the impetus for such a flip might be.  Straight NIL overpay? Early PT? Girlfriend? Blue a favorite color? Wanting a front row seat at the biggest coaching circus in CFB? Or a combination thereof? 

I think it's a combination of some late NIL money entering the picture and our depth chart.  Didn't Gerry mention something like this?

10 minutes ago, cafe society said:

I think it's a combination of some late NIL money entering the picture and our depth chart.  Didn't Gerry mention something like this?

Gerry said later in the thread it is straight NIL

15 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Aren’t they all

No. Derek Cooper committed to Texas a month after we weren’t in his top 5 because of the academics.

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1 hour ago, Coelenterate Fuccboi said:

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55 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

Bush league move.

 

Fuck em. Half of this board has spent all year talking about how much Max Wright sucks anyway.

54 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

Bush league move.

 

More likely that he was pushed out. 

On 11/26/2025 at 7:22 PM, BurntOrange&White said:

Hutson stinks, Robertson is average at best 

Good enough to push around the aggy DL to the tune of 218 yards rushing.

3 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

Good enough to push around the aggy DL to the tune of 218 yards rushing.

Yeah and get out QB rocked most of the night. I'm glad we won but coming here to try and dunk about these two ass players aint it

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So with every eye in America interested in college football seeing the Aggies getting their shit pushed in what changes in 2026.  Anyone changing their minds other than Max Wright?

11 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Yeah and get out QB rocked most of the night. I'm glad we won but coming here to try and dunk about these two ass players aint it

200+ yards rushing, Manning played like crap for most of the game. With the season on the line, Sarkisian went to the running game when it mattered and those guys delivered. Just can't admit you are wrong, which is why almost the entire board thinks you are a fucking cunty bitch.

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