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lol cry harder. Like Sark has said, if you want your fans cheering give them something to cheer about. Outside of defense there hasn’t been anything to cheer about.

Alignment problem not personal issue.

Exactly. This team can’t run block very well vs good SEC DLs. Arch likes to spread it out, Townsend is a good athlete, and we have plenty of talent at WR. This team is a long shot to win a conference or national championship, so play to your strengths to maximize your season.

Do you think 12 personnel struggling also has to do with WR’s and TE’s struggling to block consistently outside of Townsend and maybe Shannon both of them block violently which is needed.

Everyone else can rearrange the deck chairs Formations isnt the issue or a top 2 issue … when you get down to it

2019 LSU ran almost exclusively 11 but put Moss out wide . So while technically 11, he didn't do a whole lot of inline blocking

Might be interested - I'll DM you.

Most of the people I’ve seen have said more of it, not that it should be the majority of our offense.

major. its time

So quit crying and tell us you would hire if you want Sark fired?

Some of yall are funny. Ridiculous but funny. Brains, not balls, are required. Learning relationships, how to learn what you want to know by asking intelligently, maintaining healthy relationships so you’re not cut off, etc. Sark doesn’t owe us answers. He does owe a better product and he’ll either become less stubborn or he’ll be elsewhere. Press conference musings mean nothing in the the real world no matter the size of balls.

I don’t think we have much of a choice any more, especially if the OL isn’t going to improve which I don’t see them any time soon. ATP we aren’t a championship team, we just gotta call and make plays that build confidence then see what else this team can do

I feel like a lot of people have differing opinions. Klatt said recently that it was close to signed, sealed, and delivered until someone from the Texas side leaked it and it pissed Saban off to the point where he said he’s staying put.

He did admit to reaching out on an Akron kid who hadn’t entered the portal when discussing him during the NFL draft. That’s called tampering.

I don’t think this team is going to develop physicality in 2 months, so you may as well just try to score.

Gerry, how many of those national championship teams had a part time HC, part time oc, part time special teams guy and a part time TE’s coach? I hate to be this guy but maybe we need to change our expectations from winning a championship to just making a playoff would be successful?

For the going to 10 personnel predominately talk ... the answer is NO The answer is no. And I get where people are coming from ... the offense is so bad right now. I do believe there is an element of going 10 personnel a lot more that could help Texas get an extra win or two potentially. But here is the NO ... you simply aren't going to win 3 or 4 CFP games in a row predominately 10 personnel. National Champions since 2010 ... I found only one team that ran a lot of 10 personnel that won it all. Clemson in 2018. That Clemson team also rushed for 248 yards per game out of 10. They were a physical team out of 10. Every other NC winning team was 10% or less in 10 personnel that I could find in my search. Ultimately, the answer is one has to have a much more physical offense and run game to attain the big prize. Rush yards per game average of NC winners since 2010: 2025 Indiana - 207.3 2024 Ohio State - 166.4 2023 Michigan - 169.3 2022 Georgia - 211.4 2021 Georgia - 188.2 2020 Alabama - 183.6 2019 LSU - 170.4 2018 Clemson - 248.1 2017 Alabama - 255.0 2016 Clemson - 165.9 2015 Alabama - 200.3 2014 Ohio State - 264.5 2013 FSU - 198.3 2012 Alabama - 222.8 2011 Alabama - 209.7 2010 Auburn - 284.8 Note: The last 22 National Champions have averaged 160 rushing yards or more per game. Here is the question for anyone old enough that watched all these teams ... were they physical on offense? The answer is yes. There were levels of physicality to a certain extent as Nick Saban, Kirby Smart, Urban Meyer, Jim Harbaugh's teams were uber physical, but even the Clemson teams had the needed level of physicality. And when called up on to be physical in the run game in talent neutralized games/situations, they all had the ability to take it to another level with mentality.

Like I thought, just conspiratorial rumor mongering. And Saban did not admit to cheating in that documentary. Quite the contrary. He said the NIL money and the portal tampering made coaching and recruiting more difficult and he didn't want to deal with that. That was a pretty plain and simple statement he made. No super-secrets hiding behind his words or between his sentences. If you have real evidence, then present it. We might all believe you if we saw it.

Remember Wisener running roughshod over OU last year? That is what committing to the run game looks like. We need to reopen that playbook the rest of the season. Hook'em

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@CJ Vogel I have a question for you about special teams in general. How come on punt returns the receiving team never puts the gunners on their a$$ right off the line of scrimmage? I’ve never seen a team do this and I know you can’t do it every time because I’ll adjust but if they aren’t expecting it, I think it would be a great way to set up a punt return. Is there something I am missing here?

If my Grandma had wheels, she’d have been a bike. Get over it, he’s our coach, and he’s taken us to two semi-finals, which were 1 score games. Sark is better than 95% of coaches in CFP and that’s literally a fact. His record shows it, his results show it. He’s not perfect, but he’s gotten us closer than almost anyone else. Just because he’s not Nick Saban or Kirby, that doesn’t make him a bad coach.

I love the post, @mymy32 I'm going to disagree with you a bit. I have a lot of conversations about parity, especially on volleytalk. I do not believe there is that much parity in the main women's sports, whether it's basketball, softball, or volleyball. In volleyball, there are rarely any upsets in the first two rounds among the top 12 teams. You'll see a #4 seed lose to a #5 seed every now and then, but that's about it. You almost never see a #1 seed lose in the Sweet 16 round, partly because they're playing on their home floor, but not entirely. So to get to a Final Four a #1 seed primarily needs to beat one team in the Elite Eight round, and the #2/#3 seeds need to beat two very good to elite teams, the way Texas did when they edged out Tennessee then stomped Stanford in 2023. I don't think that's possible without good to great serving. To your point, I do think the teams are evenly matched up enough, that if you can't get the opponent out of system on your serve on a regular basis, you simply can't score enough during your service rotations to keep up. So Texas last year, which was a very good team, with good serve receive, elite back row defense, the best OH in college volleyball, a freshman phenom at opposite, and a barely adequate 2nd OH, with terrible middle blocker production in both attack and on the block, ended up earning a #1 seed and faced Wisconsin in the Elite 8. But I posted at the time Texas had no chance of winning at that level, because regardless of their strengths and weaknesses, they couldn't get the other team out of system with the serve, so they were putting pressure on their own defense to side out at a 70% or better rate, because anything worse they couldn't outscore the opponent. When Texas surprised everyone in 2023 to win the national championship it was primarily on the back of their serve. When A&M upset 3 teams in a row last year, including a juggernaut in Nebraska on their home floor, it was because they found a new gear for their serving. At an elite level if you can't get the other team out of system with the serve you'll lose, because other elite teams will be able to. It's why you hear every coach talk about how every match really comes down to serve/pass. Now, serving isn't everything. Indiana is annually one of the most fearsome serving programs in the country, because Steve Aird preaches it. But he doesn't have the talent at the other positions because he can't recruit at that level at Indiana. But Gary, who was a great libero for Indiana, didn't even serve for them. Aird had another libero sub for her on the serving rotation because to put it bluntly, Gary is awful. Or in the SEC, the best serving team this year isn't Kentucky or Florida or A&M. It's Alabama. They were eating our lunch. But truthfully, they're eating everyone's lunch from the service line. But it's not enough because they don't have the players at other positions to take advantage of it, because they can't recruit at that level. There is absolutely a big difference in an elite pin hitter versus a great one, IMO. I watch Babcock at Pitt, and it's jaw dropping what she's able to do. Or Skinner her junior year. Or Eggleston the 3 years prior to that. Or Eva Hudson last year at Kentucky. There is a big gap this year in competitiveness between the top 5 teams in Nebraska/Louisville/Kentucky/Pitt/SMU and the rest of the field. And that's normal most years. Louisville has issues because they have traditionally counted on 6 rotation shorter OHes, but they've certainly made them work enough to get to championship matches, and maybe that will be the case this year. Kentucky has Deleye and then Gaerte at the opposite. SMU has Suli Davis. Nebraska is basically a juggernaut at every position. If you took away their top 5 players, the remaining players would be Final Four contenders. But one thing all of those teams have in common is that they're good to great at serving and serve receive. Which means whoever beats them in the tournament is going to have to perform better in that regard. And Texas hasn't been in a position to do that either last year or this year. Which puts a ceiling on what they can accomplish until they get it fixed.