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You have shown zero offensive pulse all game. You are going to need to score a TD at some point. You are at the one foot line. All a FG does is require you drive down again and score a TD, which looked like a daunting task up to that point. You do not kick a FG from the 1 foot line in that situation. Ever. It is just flat wrong to adjust otherwise. It lowers your win probability in every way, making a one possession game, a one possession game.

ehh. don't over think it. the guys you have listed in the higher categories have mostly completed or completed careers. sark is still young, and has shown trajectory up. to me he's in the "great trajectory just show me a championship" category.. around a marcus freeman and maybe a bit higher than james franklin (given how slow his trajectory has been). mack was james franklin before he got the pieces he needed to win a championship. jimmy johnson inherited a great miami program ala ryan day. pete carroll and meyer had ridiculous trajectories out of the gate.. probably more so than saban himself.

Would love to see Rod or the film guy break this down further. Seems the PA eliminated the very quick open opportunities. Lots of time Arch was back there 3+ seconds and couldn’t find anyone open. Except his check down which he refused to hit until the 4th qtr

Agreed, they left the speakers on longer than allowed it seemed. Not using it as an excuse. Their PA team did a great job using the speakers to get their fans loud, especially on 3rd and 4th downs. I sat above our band and only think I heard them after the TD, and even then, couldn’t hear all of Texas Fight.

I’ve been watching sports for over 50 years, long enough to see hype cycles come and go, dynasties rise and fall, and coaching reputations built on everything from rings to press conferences. So I’ve formulated my own coaching tier system. Not based on media narratives, fan loyalty, or sideline swagger — just on what these coaches actually do with the teams they’re handed. Some build greatness no matter the circumstance. Some need a roster full of Ferraris to get out of the garage. And some are masters of the rebuild — turning misfits into contenders, but never quite crossing the finish line. Here’s how I break it down. Feel free to argue, add names, or call me crazy. And while we’re at it… where does Sark land in all this? The Savants These are the true architects. Drop them into any situation — college or pro, football or basketball — and they’ll build a champion from scratch. Doesn’t matter if it’s a reboot, rebuild, a mess, or a no-name roster. They create greatness. Examples: Jimmy Johnson, Bill Parcells, Nick Saban, Pat Riley, Urban Meyer, Pete Carroll, Coach K, Roy Williams, Rick Pitino, Gregg Popovich The Gifted & Talented Only Coaches These guys are elite… if you hand them elite talent. They’ll win titles with a stacked roster, but don’t expect miracles if the cupboard’s bare. Give them a Ferrari, they’ll win the race. Give them a blank canvas, and you’re getting a knockoff Starry Night painted with sidewalk chalk. Examples: Phil Jackson, Bill Belichick, Steve Kerr, Barry Switzer, Dabo, Jim Harbaugh The Bad News Bears / Mighty Ducks Coaches Masters of the rebuild. They’ll take a bunch of misfits and turn them into a legit contender. But they usually stall out before reaching the mountaintop. Great at culture, systems, planning, grit, and overachieving, but they’re missing that final gear — the one that turns contenders into champions. Examples: Don Nelson, Gary Patterson, Mike Gundy, Charlie Strong, Lincoln Riley, Chris Petersen, Brian Kelly, Frank Beamer, Mike Leach, Bryan Kelly, Lane Kiffin, Sark? Where do you think Sark belongs?

Man after talking to my brother last night, that entire game just felt off. Rod even talked about it. That didnt feel like a normal sark called game. It looked amd felt different

Well said @Gerry Hamilton

Wanted to get some opinions. I thought we were pretty vanilla with the pass rush. Yes we got pressure with the NASCAR package but you don’t get a whole lot of 3rd and longs against a team like Ohio State. Simmons didn’t seem like he was a factor as a 3 down edge. Maybe the osu OL is a lot better than we thought but just shocked how few one on one edge wins there were. Didn’t even notice Spence in the game. 1 tackle? the question is how much of that is scheme? I felt that ultimately that was the plan from PK not to get gouged by the run game and keep everyone back after bracketing Smith. You can only do so much when you have to account for 1 guy. How many times will we need to do the same this year? Spy for Lagway and Reed maybe? I am cautiously optimistic we’ll see good sack numbers this year, but the break the record Simmons sack totals are as crazy as arch for Heisman second question is about the OL. Same can be said about the osu gameplan. Like the lack of sacks on arch… he was certainly pressured but I think some teams will throw blitzes that he hasn’t seen and it may still be a big problem. Just look at how Baker played the last snap of the game. It was ugly. I don’t want to be overly optimistic about the OL at this point. Also still need to prove that we can run inside consistently. Will be interesting to see the Neto versus Stroy grades out of this game.

Sark’s redzone play calling is a head scratcher sometimes. Not just yesterday, but if you even go back to the last couple of years and in the playoffs games when he needs to step up and make a high percentage play. Alot of times he calls something and it is such a low percentage call. I mean everything would have to go perfect for it to work and it doesn’t happen…..as we have seen. You can flog me if you want, but I am not as high in Sark as a play caller as alot of people are. He good but to me he is not an elite play caller. Doing both jobs may not let him prepare as much as you have to to call plays. I don’t know. Arch didn’t play as good as we thought he would but Sark has got to figure out a dozen or so plays that are high percentage that he can run in a very hostile environment to settle him down and start to take the crowd out of the game. I don’t think anything will change and if it doesn’t we won’t have a very good record against the elite teams and we’ll be the second tier of teams behind the elite ones. Just my opinion

This is the same story for sark. 1-6 vs top 5 teams just isn’t going to cut it idc what angle you try to spin on it. It’s truly amazing that the defense has carried us for at least 2 years while sarks play calling has been absolutely mid the game plans have been mid. The QB play under sark has been mid. Don’t get me wrong I think sark is the guy for the job it’s just so obvious that he needs a play caller so he can be a head coach and not a coordinator. Very few coaches get away with that in this day game of football. Does anyone remember last year when Day had to give play calling up? What ended up happening? That game plan today was embarrassing considering you had 8 months to draw up inside traps under center and a couple drag routes that the QB couldn’t hit. And for the love of god sark needs help in the red zone Jesus Christ my nephew could draw up better plays down there. If this offense doesn’t make considerable strides this will be a disappointing season when it’s all said and done. Day clearly had his younger QB ready to play and sark didn’t

I think sark was cocky in the off season and decided not to pay the money for top WR talent in the portal and now it will come back on him. The one WR you got hasn’t played since the start of fall camp apparently.

Arch is a capable scrambler, and not a power rusher. He doesn’t have a feel for designed QB runs and looks timid in the hole. Something for our coaches to remember moving forward. Thats young QB stuff, and probably not a little bit of Sark joysticking his QB with helmet communications. Probably a little bit of what Sark meant when he said he needs to let Arch go play more.

I’m definitely in wait and see mode. I was never one of the ones that publicly called for arch over Quinn and yesterday showed why. I am convinced that sark is overrated and living on past glory as a play caller .

Wingo is our only player that would scare a DC. Double him and who else do we have that is explosive? Last year we had Golden, Wingo, Bond (until his injury) and Blue. We had Worthy and Bijan year one. Worthy, Bijan and Blue year two. Worthy, Mitchell and Blue year 3.

Who else noticed how effortless Meester looked punting yesterday?

I mean, I HOPE they look like the best team in the country over the next three weeks. No doubt the defense will be great, but Arch has some things to work through and until he does, not sure how great they will look. Nothing I saw yesterday worries me about winning the next three home games, but I'm not sure how convincing we will look on offense until Arch works things through. My expectations around Arch - which means around the offense - have been reset. He's been the one saying it: he hasn't done anything yet. Until he does, he needs to prove he can (not get the benefit of the doubt). Not giving up on him in the slightest - this was a painful growing lesson. Let's see him grow from it (I think he will, but I'm not going to assume he'll be ready for Florida until he shows he is),

The best thing about this game is it highlighted where Texas needs more work. All problems are fixable. Littleton and Bouwmeister are strengths. Even Stroh was an upgrade. He just needs to release from his primary target to go block at the next level. This game was an excellent tutorial on how bad decisions and errors can keep them from winning against a very good team they otherwise dominated. It is all correctable. The next few games will allow Texas to play deeper into the roster. There may be a couple of gems discovered there.

OhSt was playing pretty disciplined defense. While they didn’t get a lot of sacks, they had a lot of pressures and did not over-pursue.

I’d tap the brakes on the defense. OSU barely attempted to play offense yesterday and were content to not beat themselves while our offense generally fornicated with the football. We have the pieces to be special on defense, but I’ll wait to anoint them as great until I see them contend with an offense actually interested in being offensive with similar talent.

Hopefully this is a fluke not a trend. The running game was one of the bright spots yesterday. With Baxter ahead of schedule and the OL looking solid this could be a great running team. A good PA attack would really complement that. Would be unfortunate if Arch isn’t good at it

Of the 3 big games yesterday, the defenses generally looked better than the offenses (Alabama looks like the exception). They made QBs look mortal (or worse). Not a surprise. Clemson was missing a key weapon on offense for most of the game. That, plus no running game, hurt them badly against what looks like a good LSU team. But, in all the other two games, the losing team had worse stats across the board. Texas didn't. They just had worst QB play generally and more mistakes.

Seems we went broke not taking a profit yesterday

That’s just clueless speech…

Football is hard when a team of equal talent refuses to use the playground you’ve built for them. It took us about 2.5 quarters to figure that out, and adjust. Maybe with an extra quarter to work with we could have done something. I suspect several other teams will accept that we don’t have the developed running backs to make them pay for shrugging their shoulders at our rushing attack. In some defense of Sark he had to go in blind against the Patricia defense, but you have to see pretty early on that they weren’t going to let Sayin beat them and take the FGs. The general inaccuracy displayed yesterday was a revelation.

So this is where I’m at week one. This is going to be an interesting year in college football. Yes arch struggled but he is a manning and will get better over the season. But after watching the games yesterday the QB’s across the country struggled not just arch. The Ohio state QB eh, Alabama QB was not good, Clemson QB played worse than arch in my opinion and he is a 4 year stater right? Penn state QB is a fraud I will die on that hill, Michigan QB eh, basically college football is going to be wild this year and I’m here for it 🤘