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View from the Cheap Seats-Dawgs Not ready for Prime Time Next season, can we eliminate bye weeks altogether? TEXAS was scheduled for 2 bye weeks this year. Generally, a bye week is a great time to prepare, make special adjustments for an upcoming opponent, and get healthy. Teams typically have excellent games following a bye week. The Horns? They have been blown out twice this year. Texas traveled to Athens for the first time in history to take on the top-5 ranked Georgia Bulldogs following a bye that, on paper, was scheduled at the perfect time of the year. Not unlike their bye week before playing the woeful Gators, Sark/TEXAS was embarrassed before a Prime-Time National audience. The Horns were unprepared for the game and failed to make the necessary in-game adjustments. Sark/TEXAS/Arch started the game with their hair on fire, a 13-play 60-yard drive deep into Georgia’s Red Zone. And then it begins, the pattern of penalties and dropped passes leading to a field goal instead of a Touchdown. This ould be the last of TEXAS’ scoring in the 1st half, while the D would give up back-to-back TD drives before bowing up and forcing 3 straight 3-and-outs to end the 1st half and keep the game close. D would bow up again on the Dawgs' 1st drive of the 2nd half. After a punt from the offense, the defense steps up once again with an interception, giving Texas a short field, which results in a touchdown. The game is now 14-10 in the 3rd quarter, and you’re telling me there’s a chance. The Dawgs answer with a 10-play 73-yard TD drive, then execute a beautiful on-sides kick, catching TEXAS asleep at the wheel on special teams again, and they would take that recovery to a 9-play 53-yard drive, resulting in another touchdown, effectively putting the game out of reach. This marks the 3rd time in 3 games that Texas has played Georgia that the Dawgs have executed big-time special teams play to make a difference in the outcome. A pattern continues to emerge: TEXAS and Sark are getting outcoached. We like Sark, he’s done some great things at TEXAS. We have to say the unsaid thing, are we looking at the next James Franklin, though Sark has much more class? He cannot win the big games, he continues to repeat too many of the same mistakes, such as getting outscored in the 2nd half and an inability to make in-game adjustments. We’ll say it, Kirby Smart and his staff flat out OWN Sark and the Horns. They are now 3-0 against TEXAS, thanks to far superior coaching, game plans, and in-game adjustments. Smart, Bobo, and their defensive coordinator simply do a much better job of preparing their team than Sark has done. Glass Half Full At the end of the 1st half and start of the 2nd, the defense forced four punts and an interception to keep the Horns in the game. Glass Half Empty TEXAS outcoached again. Penalties and dropped passes are also significant issues. TEXAS abandoned the run far too early, only four rushing attempts in all the 3rd quarter, when the game was still within reach (14-10). Our secondary is too easy to exploit. Worst loss of the Sark era? PLAYOFFS????????? PLAYOFFS?????????? In our best Jim Mora voice. Folks that ship has SAILED. TEXAS is reduced to playing spoiler for Lil Brother’s season and a decent bowl game. Based on pre-season hype (which was absurd and we tried to tell you in the pre-season edition), it's hard to say this season is anything but a disappointment. Offensive Player of the Week Arch Manning, 27 of 43, 251 yards a TD and an INT. It was not his best game, though certainly not his worst. He can’t catch the ball for pass catchers. A strong run game would greatly aid his play (as it does for every QB). Measuring QBR, in SEC play, Arch has only been the better QB vs OU and Vandy. Defensive Player of the Week Ty’Anthony Smith He led the team in tackles with 2 tackles for loss and a sack. Logging some good time to take over for next year. Special Teams Player of the Week Ryan Niblett continues to be a difference maker in returns, though his best return was called back for a penalty, which sent Jeff Banks into apocalyptic mode, and rightfully so. Stats that Matter 2 of 12 on 3rd down, overall ranked #81 in the nation. The most glaring stat (after the final scoreboard) of the night 9, Penalties. TEXAS is #133 out of 134 teams in the nation in penalties. 7-21 TEXAS once again outscored in the 2nd half of a game, a disturbing pattern ?? Dropped passes, at least a half dozen, we did not count, players have to make plays. At least 4, which would have resulted in 1st downs. Congratulations to Michael Taffe for his 2nd semi-finalist nomination for the Bulworth Award for the Best Player who started his career as a Walk-On. Frankly, he was robbed of the award last year. Additionally, Anthony Hill was named a semi-finalist for the Chuck Bednarik Award, Most Outstanding Defensive Player of the Year to go with last week’s announcement of his semi-finalist spot on the Butkus Award list, Best Linebacker. This marks the 5th straight year a Longhorn has made the Butkus Semi-Final list, with Derrick Johnson winning in 2004. In late October, Trey Moore was recognized as a finalist for the Walter Campbell Award for excellence in combined Athletic performance, academic accomplishments, and leadership. On Deck Classic trap game. Coming off a loss and an unimpressive performance, Texas hosts Arkansas, which will be playing what amounts to its bowl game. Upsetting the Horns would be a major salve on their season. Make no mistake, Pigs play tough, despite their record; five of their losses are by three points or less. Should we mention they HATE TEXAS with a jihadist level of intensity? Do they catch the Horns looking ahead to Lil Brother coming to town with the roles reversed? Now it is TEXAS in the role of spoiler while Aggie is all but assured of a playoff berth and potentially an SEC title shot. Can Sark get his team ready, not just for this week, but also for next? Major coaching challenge for Sark Highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JohYSQCHL-I

Yep. The willingness to change is the key! Think the biggest thing is he has to be ruthless on himself ... going to take digging deep and understanding what he has to change to ascend in the SEC and get over the hump.

Longhorns halftime points versus ohio st. 0 ou 3 georgia 3 steve needs help with plays yo

Top HC records against AP/CFP ranked Top 5 teams in their 1st 5 seasons: Pete Carroll 6-2 Kalen Deboer 6-3 Bob Stoops 5-3 Lincoln Riley 4-3 Darryl K. Royal 3-3-1 Bobby Bowden 2-2 Kirby Smart 3-4 Lou Holtz 3-5 R.C. Slocum 2-4 Dan Lanning 2-4 Marcus Freeman 2-4 Nick Saban 2-6 Ryan Day 2-7 Mack Brown 1-3 Dabo Swinney 1-3 Joe Paterno 1-3-1 Lane Kiffin 1-4 Brian Kelly 1-5 Brent Venables 1-5 James Franklin 1-8 Jim Harbaugh 0-7 Like they say, “Winning is hard” especially in the SEC. I have full confidence in Steve Sarkisian and his ability to get over the hump. He’s been mentored by great coaches, builds a great culture, and has a clear vision for his team. Building a Championship Team takes time and he has the ability, skills, knowledge, work ethic and most of all the talent needed to do it. Keep grinding, keep the faith, and good things will come.

Agree with the offense, but you saw what teams did to the CB opposite Manny. Think what’s going to happen when Manny declares for the draft.

Horrible. Hoping for the best

Texas hosts South Carolina at 1pm on SECN+. Let’s go ladies! 🤘

No. I want a fundamental recognition of weaknesses and changes to address them. I'm not advocating that he fire anyone. But he can't sit back and continue to the status quo. He's hit a ceiling. He needs to be not ruthless like Saban, Kirby, and evidently not like Day and be willing to change.

Awful news. https://x.com/nypost/status/1990091588794462364?s=46

We did well against Ohio State, OU. We had Vandy covered for 3Q, and I think the whole team took their foot off the gas in 4Q. Pretty hard to swallow last night, but we did have them pretty well covered for the whole middle of the game. Seems like the whole team melted down in 4Q. We had penalties and a lot of bad bounces last night. I think that Stockton and GA look pretty good right now….we looked like we belonged until the 4Q.

You have one year left with Arch. Go all in. Rethink the freshman five star WRs we have on campus. Lower their NIL if they’re not proving to be elite. Go all in on the Cam Coleman sweepstakes. Rebuild the entire interior OL from LG to C to RG with experienced SEC quality starters. Rebuild the RB room. Keep Simon, bring in Cooper and get at least one starter SEC quality RB with experience who can be a difference maker in game one against Ohio State in Austin. If we go into that game with Wisner or a freshman starting at RB I’m going to pull my hair out. Georgia did this exact thing with Etienne last year and won the SEC with him. Defense has holes as well but we gotta start with fixing the offense because not being able to even score 20 points in games is entirely too much pressure to put on our D regardless of who we have on that side of the ball.

Heard a well connected Georgia person yesterday say we offered 3x them, who knows

Miss State, Vandy and now UGA QBs have had their best games against Texas. Florida and Kentucky had greats games too. Only SEC qb to have a bad game against Texas is Mateer. With Green and reed coming into Austin this seems concerning for an “elite” defense

He has guys like that on his roster. Everyone does.

Listening to 3rd and longhorn, Aaron Williams said its ultimately on the players. And Little Hills said back in their day you got pulled because the team was so stacked it was next man up. This team doesnt have that kind of depth. And I also dont think you can coach like that anymore or you'd lose everyone to the portal. So how does it get corrected. The way college football is constructed in today's game its not as cut and dry as it used to be

I doubt Kirby would take them knowing they chose Texas for the money. He’s made it clear he doesn’t want guys like that on his roster

Well, we’ll never know. Will we? Strange 60+ year coincidence if you ask me.

If OU and Texas were still in the B12 with this tech team and their roster due to NIL, tech would’ve probably swept them both.

Tyler Akinson, flip watch activated… I’ll add Justice Terry to portal to Georgia as well

I’ve noticed our “culture” varies with every win and loss. Psst, it doesn’t work that way. And “just money whip them” doesn’t work either. Tech has yet to win a conference in 60+ years. And their only shot at relevance has come with us and okie leaving.

Come on man. Fear not, nothing is lost that cannot be easily found. It is a loss and a good lesson on how to finish. We know what it feels like to be finished now we have to do that to other teams.

Big 12 Texas vibes, year over year strength without the excuse of we lost this player or that is what separates the good from the great programs. We shall see what happens from here.

I agree with just about everything you said. Sark’s script was fine, but sloppy, undisciplined teams that don’t pay attention to details make the kind of mistakes Texas made from start to finish last night.

How do we allocate the NIL funds for the optimal roster. Are we paying more to bench players than starters this yr. If you play well u get more pay should also be pay cuts for not playing well

Spend the amount necessary in the portal . You can’t tell me this staff put everything they had in the portal this past offseason. You’re the university of Texas and should be able to outbid damn near everybody. Your already paying large amounts to some underperforming players on this years roster. Look at tech . They bought themselves a damn good team . Sark preaches culture yet his culture seems shitty. Players chirping midfield after losing by 25 isn’t a winning culture.