All Activity

Re-watched the game late last night and both lines of scrimmage were really good. As for the defense, you had the two penalties that kept the first scoring drive alive and the big play to Tate. Those can be corrected, but they're also things that happen game to game. If you really think Arch will keep missing open throws, I don't know what to tell you. I'll take that defense and run game with Arch's talent every time.

Neal Brown is right there too

Yep! Some Coaches styles don’t work when they are not in charge of who to draft, trade, cut, recruit, etc. That’s why I overlook great college coaches who spent a moment in the pros then went back to coaching college because they knew it wasn’t going to work under the constraints presented when working for a pro sports franchise. “If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.” ~Bill Parcells

The defensive line was awesome. It isn't Colin Simmons and a bunch of others. They played great yesterday.

They went more jumbo EDGE/5 with Kanu to stop the run vs. Ohio State

I thought Justus Terry was out there as well.

I agree its hard to be a HC and a playcaller but at the same time the #1 single thing Sark has done best in his coaching life is playcall. He does need to make some type of change or check and balance system or someone to make some situational suggestions.

Speed kills imo

Can't falt the OL for the 4th and 1. That play was telegraphed and they were totally out numbered inside.

Not quite 30 but a lot of rotation for such a big game on the road. surprised how little Spence played. Would have wanted to see more vasek as well

I don't think their gameplan included having holes consistently created in the run game against their front 7.

Part of me wonders if Sark overcorrected a bit with the switch from speedy to big WRs. I do know this: Worthy, Mitchell, Golden all would have been open all day long yesterday.

Snap counts, according to PFF:

I don't have a complaint. I have an observation, this was week one against the best team probably we'll face all year. I don't control how fans think, nor will I try to, opinions are far and wide. I enjoy them them and some are absolutely comical.

It sucks that we lost, but the players are NOT quitters, so they will be fine. If anything, losing a close game on the road first game of the season shows you a lot about what your strengths and weaknesses are. Strengths: OL better than practice reports...FAR better. Baxter not great, but way better than expected considering his injury. Wingo looked good, physical, fast...every bit as good as Smith. Wisner looked good. Defense was lights out good. I was hoping for a big splash play resulting in a game changing turnover from AntHill, but it never materialized. Guilbeau was our weak point but even he had a good game all things considered. January and Watson were much better than any practice reports led us to believe. LaFau was good all day. CS didn't have his best game, but his competition was very good, so expected. Burke looks good. Weaknesses: Arch missed that first throw and it seemed to affect him after that. His body language and facial expressions were very negative, but at the end he had some step in his step. Not enough misdirection compared to what we've seen from Sark the first 4 years. On the bright side, these threads bring out the quitters and trolls. We may not see you after the 4th game of the year.

From what I heard all off-season, it sounded like Hero Kanu was playing more with the 2nd and 3rd string. However, it looked like he was on the field a lot. Was that more because he's better or Sark wanted more experience against the Buckeyes? Does anyone have the snap count for each player?

That is much more of an exaggerated, overreaction than anything said here. What's your specific complaint? Arch sucked? Yeah, he did. We still suck in the red zone? Yeah, we do. It only cost us the game against the defending national champions.

Ohio st back 7 on defense is very talented. I think they’re going to have some issues up front. Was not impressed with their DL and Edge. Michigan might be able to run it down their throat again.

Nah. A basic brain will read nuance. I was thoughtful about the huge if but of course some can only comprehend in binary.

I got exactly what I expected🤣. A win and there's no reason to play the rest of the season, give us the natty already. A loss, and it's fire errbody, Sark sucks, Arch is a bust, and Texas should disband the football team.

It was shocking how bad he played. Now we know why Quinn started. I thought Sark was just being loyal

Mosley is pretty great at getting open and catching the ball. Getting him back will help, but it will still require the QB to be able to hit the broad side of a barn.

I have to admit this board behaved better than the one many of our mods came from, where they soil themselves over our first three and out. Let’s hope this holds.

Welcome to the internet, and to college sports. What did you expect?

It’s funny when teams open with like minded teams. My guess is Bama isn’t as bad as they looked, and neither are we or Clemson.