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Bama fans, administrators, donors all LOVE Sark. I think he’s perfectly happy in Austin and feels like he is better equipped at UT to win big than anywhere else. But I could also see Bama framing it to him as “you could come save Alabama football” and bring in Saban to make the hard sell. They might offer him crazy money and make him say no. I still don’t think he’d leave, but it might be a 50/50 decision if Bama came at him hard.

We had two drives the whole game in which we had snaps in the redzone. Let me recap them: 3rd quarter: Driving in from the 28 yard line, 3rd&2. 8 yard run from Wisner sets us up in the redzone. After that highly successful run, we had 6 plays in the redzone. Only one of them was a run by a runningback- a 2 yard run by Baxter from the 3 yard line on 3rd down (that's a successful RZ run). Instead of dying on the hill of your RB running it in, or calling a imaginative play/bootleg, we choose to try to do QB sneak. Here, I'd say our true running game (even discounting some successful QB runs) was successful, we just didn't give our RBs a true chance to finish the job. 4th quarter: Driving in from the 35 yard line, 3rd&2. 5 yard run from Wisner sets us up in the high redzone. Again, after that highly successful run, we had 5 plays in the redzone with only one run from a RB (Successful 3 yds on 2nd and 6). This was followed by two incompletions (no bootlegs, either). We essentially abandoned RB run game in the redzone (mistake #1) and also refused to be imaginative (mistake #2). We need to give our RBs room to actually fail in the RZ before we say that they can't run in the RZ. True/crazy stat: every time we ran the ball in 3rd and short (non goal line) with RBs, we converted for 1st downs. The problems were #1- we had way too few 3rd and shorts, and #2- we had way too many instances of poor passing on 3rd and short.

There was no doubt the bama finebaum callers would be out in full force after that fiasco on sat. Question is who would even be a realistic hire? Would they go back to Dabo? Smart? Can’t see either one of those guys wanting to leave. Gruden?

The worse thing about losing in football on any level is having to wait a week to get back on the grass. I'd imagine practice this week will be chippy and extremely physical. The guys are ticked off and gotta take it out on each other until they don't.

Problem for Bama fans is they can't fire DeBoer unless they get about 200 million in donations. DeBoer's buyout is 67 million. Rest of the coaching staff a good 15 million. They have to pay the next guy at least 100 million guaranteed to come in if they want a proven, big time coach rather than an up-and-comer. The rest of the staff will probably need 20 million.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOHHXlGAZWT/?igsh=MXA4OGlrOTB2ejBxZg== woo boy. Legend was 38 hot

Florida looked much better at home against *checks notes* Long Island than we did on the road against Ohio State, you see. 😉

No doubt. It was a great gameplan and it helps to have defensive quarterbacks on the field like styles and downs.

How is 21 completely out?

Why all the hype with Florida this early?? I find it hard to believe they’ll have a defense remotely close to what we faced against Ohio State and I believe our defense just gets better as the season goes along. Florida doesn’t have the roster that OSU has or ours for that matter. Guess I’ll find out when I’m there for the game 🤷‍♂️.

To win this game, we needed better execution and effort from our offensive line and running backs. Ohio State wanted us to run the ball. They sat back in Cover 3 snap after snap, daring us to throw downfield. If future opponents take a similar approach to Patricia, we'll need to be able to make them pay on the ground and force them to commit more players to the box. That will open up the play-action shots downfield, which is a big strength of Arch's game. We've had trouble running the ball when we need to in the red zone for three years now. I'm starting to think this is a coaching problem and not a scheme problem. I'm looking at you, Coach Flood.

San Jose State allowed 12 sacks the entire season last year. I don't think they are going to allow Eget to sit back there and go through progressions. Their offense isn't built that way. He threw 7 passes last week 20+ yards down the field and most of them are just go balls. They are actually going to test our secondary a bit which is a good thing.

How was offsides not called based on those angles? Can’t see where Hutson has the ball possibly explains it, but the two NTs are clearly in the neutral zone or beyond it.

That play was the one that really bothered me too. We went so fast they were still pumping sound through the speakers and it seemed so unnecessary to rush there. Felt like we went way too fast on a few drives in the first half.

Patricia is not a defensive god, but the scheme was effective and he has the players to execute it.

Agree Ohio State starting field position dictated a lot of the conservative play calling as well. Texas pinned us deep in our own territory many times. This is being discussed on eleven warriors see below for starting field positions for each team.. Here's the breakdown - *OSU TD drive, ** Texas TD drive First Quarter: Ohio State (42, 8); Texas (25, 49, 25) Second Quarter: Ohio State (20*, 2, 3); Texas (25, 47) Third Quarter: Ohio State (25, 1); Texas (29, 50) Fourth Quarter: Ohio State (32*, 9, 25, 47-EOG); Texas (15; 40**; 15) Looking into those stats a little deeper, three of Ohio State's first five drives started inside their own 10 yard line, two being inside the 5! The second half was pretty much the same, with two of the first four drives starting inside the 10. It's difficult to get into any kind of rhythm when your backs are against your own goal line.

Agree the run blocking was not there. Not sure we will see another front 4 as stout as Texas but something OSU needs to work on. I was pleased with the pass pro they kept Sayin clean all day.

I don't think DeBoer has a scheme problem or inability to figure out the SEC. His problem is that Saban was a disciplinarian and he isn't. Now that the players on whom Saban used the wrath of God to keep in line don't have the structure, they're simply giving way to bad habits. DeBoer doesn't have the personality to cover that.

Have to agree. Patricia is not a defensive god. He played what nfl teams play. Disguised coverages and bend between the 20s and hold in the red zone. Sark knows this well.

Agree, very fair.

Watched the highlights of central michigan vs san jose state. SJS longest rush didn’t happen until early in the 3rd quarter for about 11 yards. The defensive backfield and pass rush should get a lot of work this game. They are or seemed VERY pass happy against central michigan.

7 isn’t bad for Texas. Just win.

Yeah deboer is finding out that coaching in the SEC and coaching Sioux Falls are two totally different animals.