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1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

I truly don’t get why we abandoned the run so early

I honestly think we ran it unsuccessfully two or three times and sark was done with it mostly.  Then it was 28-10.

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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

The one thing, what happened with the OL really is inexcusable.  A drop-off from last year should be expected, particularly early in the season, but this OL shitshow is a massive failure.

And I don't really buy the notion that we're at a point where we should be reloading every year and never rebuilding.

We sure as hell proved that we didn't "reload" this offseason, didn't we? I just hope Sark checks out soon if he wants to bail for the NFL. We need an HC who's completely focused on rebuilding. 

7 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

We sure as hell proved that we didn't "reload" this offseason, didn't we? I just hope Sark checks out soon if he wants to bail for the NFL. We need an HC who's completely focused on rebuilding. 

This season either jerked a square knot in Sark's ass or it didn't.  We'll see.

1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

This season either jerked a square knot in Sark's ass or it didn't.  We'll see.

What about Loreal's ass though?

55 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Maybe he wants to play with talent?

Or win a championship?

5 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

This season either jerked a square knot in Sark's ass or it didn't.  We'll see.

He doesn't think any of the issues on the field are coaching rather player lack of execution.

It hasn't.

Do we have an analyst or analysts to scout and track potential high school players and portal players, based on need, or do we rely on Sark and the other assistants to do this?  What does Georgia, Bama, Ohio State and other programs do?  Sure wish Sark would hand over the reigns of the offense to an OC coordinator.

5 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

He made some strides after a bad start but this guy ultimately won't lead us where we want to go. When the defense finally settled in, his offense didn't go jack shit. I get there were drops outside his control but he's not someone who is going to elevate his team. Who knows if that can change. 2 games against really good teams this year, both on the road, both very meh overall. 499f8f15e08bbd611cb7af3875e785e8.jpg

Stick to what you’re good at; smashing tortas.  You clearly don’t know ball.

This thread went from "Arch is a nepo baby, start Caldwell!" to "Why would Arch waste his talents here?" in about 3 weeks. 
Well done, everyone. 
 
 

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arch was solid yesterday.  the receivers were hammered dogshit.

6 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

He made some strides after a bad start but this guy ultimately won't lead us where we want to go. When the defense finally settled in, his offense didn't go jack shit. I get there were drops outside his control but he's not someone who is going to elevate his team. Who knows if that can change. 2 games against really good teams this year, both on the road, both very meh overall. 499f8f15e08bbd611cb7af3875e785e8.jpg

Imagine someone who's actually upset his team lost?

39 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Do we have an analyst or analysts to scout and track potential high school players and portal players, based on need, or do we rely on Sark and the other assistants to do this?  What does Georgia, Bama, Ohio State and other programs do?  Sure wish Sark would hand over the reigns of the offense to an OC coordinator.

Allegedly Harris, Banks and Sark evaluate the talent.  That's right, this dogshit OL, Flood had nothign to do with it.  Allegedly.  And seeing as how Sark took the offseason off, basically Green Harris and Mr. BOBA were in charge

3 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Allegedly Harris, Banks and Sark evaluate the talent.  That's right, this dogshit OL, Flood had nothign to do with it.  Allegedly.  And seeing as how Sark took the offseason off, basically Green Harris and Mr. BOBA were in charge

I don't believe that for one minute..the Co-OC and OL coach doesn't have input on the OL recruits/portals?  I really hope you don't believe that.

Arch continued to take a step forward last night. If he caps off the season playing the way he is playing right now, his bumpy start out of the gate will be in the rear view mirror. 

2 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

And to think no large company has tried to harness our persuasiveness in advertising. Corporations are missing out. 

We are lawsuits waiting to happen.

Just ask blacklab. 

1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

I truly don’t get why we abandoned the run so early

Steve Sarkisian doesn’t either. He’s looking into it. 
 

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1 hour ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Do we have an analyst or analysts to scout and track potential high school players and portal players, based on need, or do we rely on Sark and the other assistants to do this?  What does Georgia, Bama, Ohio State and other programs do?  Sure wish Sark would hand over the reigns of the offense to an OC coordinator.

Teams have a GM now who is in charge of all that.  Brandon Harris is our GM. A 30-year-old with no experience outside of our building. He started here in 2019.

If he had a major say in the personnel this year, idk, seems like he might fucking suck at GM'ing.

14 hours ago, DFW Horn said:

We sure as hell proved that we didn't "reload" this offseason, didn't we? I just hope Sark checks out soon if he wants to bail for the NFL. We need an HC who's completely focused on rebuilding. 

I think this is mostly at the feet of Flood. I am sure the staff got together before the portal opened and each position coach stated what they needed. Sark's mistake was having faith in his staff. Ultimately it is on him, but he was led astray by his position coaches. 

13 hours ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

Where does he portal? Ole Miss seems like a good landing spot.

Stanford - no pressure, ACC play will add confidence and Andrew Luck will provide QB whispering and facial hair advice.

42 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

He will not be in the 2026 draft.  He has like 12 starts

 

it'll depend on who has the #1

giants or saints would be highly desirable landing spot, maybe tenn falls into that category. maybe  

3 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

it'll depend on who has the #1

giants or saints would be highly desirable landing spot, maybe tenn falls into that category. maybe  

His film is behind Mendoza and Moore.   Simpson too 

On 11/16/2025 at 5:30 PM, Nicole44 said:

A Sark special. Keep in mind after LOSSES the past FIVE years  he almost always has said that we shoulda run more. I can count at least what ten times off the top of my head he’s said that after a loss.
 

i mean I wish he knew who was in charge of calling plays and utilizing RBs? Maybe someone could put in a good word for Sark so we could run more? Maybe even employ some FB action and so on. 

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We did get some movement in the run game.. Then the false starts and holding calls started coming.. How many good runs did we have that turned into 1st and 20 because of a hold? 

2 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

We did get some movement in the run game.. Then the false starts and holding calls started coming.. How many good runs did we have that turned into 1st and 20 because of a hold? 

Not many since our RBs only had 10 carries. 

1 minute ago, Thiefery said:

We did get some movement in the run game.. Then the false starts and holding calls started coming.. How many good runs did we have that turned into 1st and 20 because of a hold? 

A few no doubt. But in our three losses to Georgia (sark v Kirby) we had a total of combined rushing yards of 83. Three games. Average of 27.76 a game. We didn’t even get that in this game. But point received that you made. Penalties are a killer. And so are drops and mental fuck ups. No question, 

9 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

it'll depend on who has the #1

giants or saints would be highly desirable landing spot, maybe tenn falls into that category. maybe  

lol he isn’t going #1 this year Jesus Christ 

5 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

lol he isn’t going #1 this year Jesus Christ 

 

you're gm of the giants / saints / raiders, you're passing on him if goes pro ? 

 if !

On 11/16/2025 at 8:06 PM, deech said:

I honestly think we ran it unsuccessfully two or three times and sark was done with it mostly.  Then it was 28-10.

Actually it was 14-10 and he was scribbling on this white paper run run run, then he looked up and didn’t know why it was 28-10.
 

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On 11/17/2025 at 10:06 AM, tx 3 putt said:

this isn't the 4th qb drafted ...

 

I don't know.  I was at the GA game and so harder to diagnose from the stands.  I watched the 2nd quarter last night on replay before I couldn't take it anymore.  Arch post 1q drops was absolutely like 1st half of the season arch - sped up,  side arm bullshit,  happy feet, bad keep decisions, etc.  Maybe the pressure got to him after good start,  so perhaps its just a reps/experience thing to get him comfortable being uncomfortable - but he has to be better when the chips are down or this team will be shitty next year.  

It's not Arch's fault that Wingo isn't a number 1 receiver.  Guy tripped over his feet and arm tackles several times when he stood to gain big yardage.

On the interception, Moore got hooked.  The FUCKING REFS weren't the reason we lost, but they definitely had their thumbs on the scale early.  Hell, one play they fucked us out of 2 WHOLE YARDS when Wingo caught the ball.  There was some absolute horseshit going on with the officiating.  Georgia got away with offensive holding, a false start and defensive holding.  We FUCKING FART on someone and out come the holding flags.  IT WAS RIDICULOUS AND DEMORALIZING!

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26 minutes ago, TheAuditor said:

I don't know.  I was at the GA game and so harder to diagnose from the stands.  I watched the 2nd quarter last night on replay before I couldn't take it anymore.  Arch post 1q drops was absolutely like 1st half of the season arch - sped up,  side arm bullshit,  happy feet, bad keep decisions, etc.  Maybe the pressure got to him after good start,  so perhaps its just a reps/experience thing to get him comfortable being uncomfortable - but he has to be better when the chips are down or this team will be shitty next year.  

I am really not sure what people are watching. Arch was the 2nd highest graded played on the offense according to PFF. He got the shit kicked out of him again. He got 0 help from WRs (drops), OL, or running game. I guess people just look at box scores and do not care about the context. Not many Qbs put up numbers in that environment, let alone a 1st year starter.  Anyone thinking that loss was a reflection of Arch's play just is not paying attention. 

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27 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

I am really not sure what people are watching. Arch was the 2nd highest graded played on the offense according to PFF. He got the shit kicked out of him again. He got 0 help from WRs (drops), OL, or running game. I guess people just look at box scores and do not care about the context. Not many Qbs put up numbers in that environment, let alone a 1st year starter.  Anyone thinking that loss was a reflection of Arch's play just is not paying attention. 

Sorry,  I thought this was the Arch thread,  not the game thread.  Arch looked good in the first quarter and then looked like shit in the 2nd quarter.  That's my point.  I'm not saying he lost the game,  I'm not talking about the game outcome at all.  He doesn't react well to in game stress at this point in his career - its better than it was early in the year, but still not good enough.  He had not great, but reasonable time to throw in that quarter.   4 of the 5 drops were in the 1Q when he hit guys in the hands and looked great.  The 2nd quarter was filled with poor QB play - that interception was on him - I watched that a bunch and yes Moore got hooked, but that pass was high regardless because he sidearmed with unset feet.   The 1 min drill was piss poor,  he takes a sack instead of throwing it away.  The post to moore was open and he simply overthrew him.  He's still inconstent, and the down side comes out when he feels the pressure of the game on him.  

I agree he's not the biggest problem and would be better with better around him , but let's not pretend he's operating at a high level for entire games at a time.

42 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

It's not Arch's fault that Wingo isn't a number 1 receiver.  Guy tripped over his feet and arm tackles several times when he stood to gain big yardage.

On the interception, Moore got hooked.  The FUCKING REFS weren't the reason we lost, but they definitely had their thumbs on the scale early.  Hell, one play they fucked us out of 2 WHOLE YARDS when Wingo caught the ball.  There was some absolute horseshit going on with the officiating.  Georgia got away with offensive holding, a false start and defensive holding.  We FUCKING FART on someone and out come the holding flags.  IT WAS RIDICULOUS AND DEMORALIZING!

LOL,  yep,  agree with all of this.  I was watching the constant -1, -2 yards on the ball placement the whole game and wondering WTF.  

44 minutes ago, TheAuditor said:

Sorry,  I thought this was the Arch thread,  not the game thread.  Arch looked good in the first quarter and then looked like shit in the 2nd quarter.  That's my point.  I'm not saying he lost the game,  I'm not talking about the game outcome at all.  He doesn't react well to in game stress at this point in his career - its better than it was early in the year, but still not good enough.  He had not great, but reasonable time to throw in that quarter.   4 of the 5 drops were in the 1Q when he hit guys in the hands and looked great.  The 2nd quarter was filled with poor QB play - that interception was on him - I watched that a bunch and yes Moore got hooked, but that pass was high regardless because he sidearmed with unset feet.   The 1 min drill was piss poor,  he takes a sack instead of throwing it away.  The post to moore was open and he simply overthrew him.  He's still inconstent, and the down side comes out when he feels the pressure of the game on him.  

I agree he's not the biggest problem and would be better with better around him , but let's not pretend he's operating at a high level for entire games at a time.

I do not think he played poorly by any measure. If you are saying he does not react well to getting hit constantly that is an interesting bar to judge a QB on. His ability to navigate a dirty pocket is one of his greatest strengths, if it wasnt I do not want to think about what the record looks like for Texas right now. I think the 1 turnover was actually a pretty solid result vs Georgia. Yes his feet were not set, probably because the left guard was driven back and he could not step into the throw. One of the big reasons Texas is not a a complete disaster on offense this year is the lack of turnovers from the QB position, which was a major issue last year. Did Manning make a couple of poor decisions? Of course, name me a QB that would not. I have watched HOF QBs look poorly under constant pressure. Your bar for solid QB play is not realistic. 

2 hours ago, TheAuditor said:

I don't know.  I was at the GA game and so harder to diagnose from the stands.  I watched the 2nd quarter last night on replay before I couldn't take it anymore.  Arch post 1q drops was absolutely like 1st half of the season arch - sped up,  side arm bullshit,  happy feet, bad keep decisions, etc.  Maybe the pressure got to him after good start,  so perhaps its just a reps/experience thing to get him comfortable being uncomfortable - but he has to be better when the chips are down or this team will be shitty next year.  

 

he was pressured on 30 drop backs

 

 

All following Data is per CFBStats 

Texas National Offensive Rankings:

Total offense: #80

Scoring offense: #64

Rusing Offense: #103

Passing Offense #50

Sacks Allowed: #86

Tackles for Loss Allowed: #106

First Downs: #108 

Time of Possesion: #97

Red Zone Conversions: #85

Third Down Conversions: #82

Of note: Arch Manning's #40 ranking in Passing All Games is the highest single stat of the entire Texas offense kept by CFBStats that I found.

Penalties: #119 (both O and D)

Yes you’ve posted that multiple times thanks. The autism around here lately is impressive. 

44 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Yes you’ve posted that multiple times thanks. The autism around here lately is impressive. 

You convince idiots to stop posting horrible takes with bad insight and I'll stop posting the data that makes them look regarded.

Thanks for your attention to this matter. 

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2 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

 

Thanks for your attention to this matter. 

Should be in all caps 😁

22 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

You convince idiots to stop posting horrible takes with bad insight and I'll stop posting the data that makes them look regarded.

Thanks for your attention to this matter. 

What was the horrible take you were responding to here. Who did you make look regarded

1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

All following Data is per CFBStats 

Texas National Offensive Rankings:

Total offense: #80

Scoring offense: #64

Rusing Offense: #103

Passing Offense #50

Sacks Allowed: #86

Tackles for Loss Allowed: #106

First Downs: #108 

Time of Possesion: #97

Red Zone Conversions: #85

Third Down Conversions: #82

Of note: Arch Manning's #40 ranking in Passing All Games is the highest single stat of the entire Texas offense kept by CFBStats that I found.

Penalties: #119 (both O and D)

We went from "wasting a great defense" to wasting a "great Manning" in the span of 4-5 games. It's been an interesting season.

2 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

Yes you’ve posted that multiple times thanks. The autism around here lately is impressive. 

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1 hour ago, UTEE97 said:

We went from "wasting a great defense" to wasting a "great Manning" in the span of 4-5 games. It's been an interesting season.

Surly might have but I've never wavered that the issues of our offense were 100% Sark. 

And anyone that looks at our defensive stats wouldn’t be arguing how great it is either.

Many people formulate opinions based on emotion then with that bias "see" confirmation in performance even when the data contradicts that position. 

Arch has never been the issue and the data confirms he is the single best part of our offense. That makes people uncomfortable and frustrated because it contradicts their confirmation bias.

As the world turns.

11 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

Yes you’ve posted that multiple times thanks. The autism around here lately is impressive. 

Sorry that Arch is playing better and the national media is seeing it.  Find another fall guy for Sarks shitty coaching.  Fanboi 

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5 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Sorry that Arch is playing better and the national media is seeing it.  Find another fall guy for Sarks shitty coaching.  Fanboi 

I’ve given Arch his props as of late and am Sark neutral. You got the wrong guy pal. Spamming those stats and his AI Sark squatting shit is annoying.

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