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So name a coach who we could actually hire who is better than Saek?

Sure Line blows, but so does Manning. I'm sorry, he does big time. We need some leaders. I don't see any this year. Must have had a few leave with the last bunch.

Saving this for sure and making the result my new avatar

I will do the same I have less hair than you😀

Think we can make it to Georgia without another loss.

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Our head coach is an offensive genius!

I’m sorry the expectations are playoffs. If you don’t make those you have no championship goals, period. So yes playoffs are at minimum the expectations we should have for this program.

Arch wasn’t the issue yesterday; in fact, he was one of the few standout performers. He played well with a terrible offensive line and poor offensive coaching.

I will shave my head on stream if this team wins out the remainder of the season.

That's not what the schedule says. Everybody acting like it's playoffs or bust haven't followed Texas football in the lean years.

Hashtag, you're doing it again. These threads are not solely about your thoughts. This is a community. Arguing with each other is NOT the point of this community. Sharing ideas is. I happen to disagree with your thoughts that Arch hasn't improved, etc. He and the receivers were a bright spot for me yesterday.

He’s a Georgia fan first and foremost. He’s gonna dance on our grave every opportunity he gets because it helps shape a negative perception about Texas which can benefit Georgia recruiting. He isn’t wrong about the inexplicable state of the OL though. You would think we were starting a bunch of walkons out there.

There is no doubt that Sark built something special that was on the verge of being a machine like Ohio State and Georgia. But it’s also extremely clear that Sark got complacent amid all his success, and he took it for granted that it could just keep rolling on auto-pilot. His complacency led to hubris and arrogance, which led him to not self-evaluate, particular on the offensive side of the ball. He implicitly trusts guys like Flood and Banks, and he let them coast, which led to dramatically underperforming on offense and special teams. He thought his roster was set, ignoring the red lights in the offseason and the incredible team youth, and did not adequately address needs in the portal. I also wonder if becoming a dad has affected his drive and obsession that shaped his first 4 years at Texas. That’s not a knock against him—my productivity nosedived when I became a dad. But if so, it really shows how bad he was at delegating control. Regardless of the answer, he’s going to need to do a lot of soul searching and self-evaluation after the season.

Arch needs to play in rhythm, and Sark needs to find a way to play in rhythm. He can make those off-script plays but he's also gonna make some dumb decisions when off schedule. After re-watching it I think he kinda had a worse game than what it looked like yesterday while still showing some good signs. Again I do want to emphasize that running for your life almost every snap definitely didn't help him in looking the part. We need to start seeing some big jumps in development for Arch or it's gonna be a long year. I think the ceiling is still as high as it's been for him, it's just that the floor is so much lower than what people expected.

It would be in the sense that all of our preseason goals will be toast, six games into the season. We would have new goals, like becoming bowl eligible, and doing some potentially funny things to the aggies the day after Thanksgiving. And keeping our recruiting class intact.

Texas’ 2002 Gut-Punch in Fayetteville: Razorbacks 52, Longhorns 12 Ah, the one that still stings like a bad breakup—October 12, 2002, when the No. 5 Texas Longhorns rolled into Razorback Stadium thinking they’d feast on a 3-2 Arkansas squad. Instead, the Hogs (under Houston Nutt) turned it into a 52-12 slaughter, with freshman phenom Matt Jones slinging daggers and the home crowd howling like possessed hillbillies. Texas got out-physicaled, out-schemed, and out-everything-ed in a game that exposed our soft underbelly before a 10-game win streak salvaged the season. Chris Simms? Sacked 5 times, looking like a piñata at a frat party. Here’s the raw, ugly stats breakdown from that swamp-*** nightmare:

So I've actually come around from saying that Arch played a good game but wasn't helped enough to the opinion that Arch didn't play good enough early enough. He said it in his press conference, about needing to start faster. Arch needs to start faster. He really got in his element only in the third quarter and that's way too late. I get it, the OL didn't help and I'm 100% sure that with a little bit more help Arch would've looked totally different both early on and overall. Also, after he got going in the third quarter he also started to play hero ball too. That can't happen. Just needs to play his game, take what's there and move on. But it wasn't good enough, simply. It can't take 3 quarters to move in the pocket well enough to make some plays, even if the OL play was abysmal. OU is gonna be a big test for him, again. Is he gonna take 3/4 quarters to get used to the speed of everything or is he gonna be able to start faster? Is a bad performance like Florida gonna linger or is he gonna have gold fish memory? Is he gonna look more confident and poised in the pocket overall? I think from the third quarter he was really comfortable and had he not started to play hero ball we might've even won the game. I hope Sark also helps him that way by starting with very simple one read kind of throws where you don't have to think and you just rip it, slowly progressing to the more advanced stuff. Again, I REALLY THINK that his performance would've looked totally different had he had a little bit more time on some throws, but that doesn't excuse some of his inability to make plays when he could've. I would rate his performance a C honestly. It wasn't good enough but he seemed to get the hang of it more and more as the game went on and the OL/RBs didn't help him at all very early on. Could've had some big plays had the OL given him 0.5s more.

Playoff chances yes but I don’t consider it over cus you still have to finish strong to have something to build off going into the offseason

If we don’t win next week our season is over.

His name is irrelevant to me, I want whoever it is taking snaps at Texas to be good. Arch had some plays I liked and some I didn’t like, that will be the case most of the time. Unlike most fans I’m more focused how we look at the end of the season before call for people being fired or having yellow stained pants

It’s been so long since this program has had a Dan Neil / Casey Studdard type at interior OL we don’t even know what a mean nasty player at those positions looks like anymore. Flood’s big humans approach or whatever he and sark call it has been abysmal.