OTF Premium Thoughts on the ugly loss

[Beldar]

3 minutes ago, TheRoJoShow said:

Bama lost to the #1 team by a FG

They still lost at home. Way we played today , both would have blown us out . 

 

[harveycmd]

6 minutes ago, Beldar said:

Hell , let's give up and clean house and start over. Has not worked well in the past for us. Oregon, LSU, Florida, Aggie, Bama , lost today also. We flat gave one away today no question . Myself, I am hoping the team don't give up like their fan base. 

All true. Our problems are much less pressing than all but about half a dozen teams. 

Special teams, penalties and Arch's mistakes are definitely frustrating. All of these can be fixed. Play calling is not a problem. 

[AusMOJO]

I just realized that Sark is now 3-3 in this game and 2-2 with Venables. 

[harveycmd]

Just now, AusMOJO said:

I just realized that Sark is now 3-3 in this game and 2-2 with Venables. 

It's 3-2 against Venables, but the two losses are mind numbing.

[Guts]

Well this loss might actually end up being good for my mental health. I was getting WAY too invested and tripping out every Saturday. 

[UT Longhorn]

8 minutes ago, Guts said:

Well this loss might actually end up being good for my mental health. I was getting WAY too invested and tripping out every Saturday. 

This loss may do a lot of things, but it won't improve our mental health 😆 🤘🏼

[whereiend]

Its wild that Sark actually thinks him being his own OC is in the best interest of the program. The dude is completely delusional. How many years of mediocre offense with elite talent until he realizes he can't do both of these jobs?

[harveycmd]

2 minutes ago, whereiend said:

Its wild that Sark actually thinks him being his own OC is in the best interest of the program. The dude is completely delusional. How many years of mediocre offense with elite talent until he realizes he can't do both of these jobs?

This is the thing I just can't understand. The best NFL head coaches have called their own plays since the league began. Why do college fan bases think their head coach can't call plays? In fact, the best play callers in the NFL are head coaches (Shanahan, McVay, Reid, Johnson). This doesn't mean Sark is the best play caller now, but it certainly doesn't mean it can't be done. 

[whereiend]

Just now, harveycmd said:

This is the thing I just can't understand. The best NFL head coaches have called their own plays since the league began. Why do college fan bases think their head coach can't call plays? In fact, the best play callers in the NFL are head coaches (Shanahan, McVay, Reid, Johnson). This doesn't mean Sark is the best play caller now, but it certainly doesn't mean it can't be done. 

For me it's not even about "calling plays", it is coordinating the offense. This system sucks and is poorly coordinated, independent of the play calling on Saturday.

[harveycmd]

1 minute ago, whereiend said:

For me it's not even about "calling plays", it is coordinating the offense. This system sucks and is poorly coordinated, independent of the play calling on Saturday.

Saying the system sucks and is poorly coordinated is a bit strong. Special teams and Arch lost the game, not offensive coordination. You can certainly argue that many of Arch's mistakes ultimately land at Sark's feet, but that doesn't mean the "system" sucks.

[UT Longhorn]

3 minutes ago, harveycmd said:

This is the thing I just can't understand. The best NFL head coaches have called their own plays since the league began. Why do college fan bases think their head coach can't call plays? In fact, the best play callers in the NFL are head coaches (Shanahan, McVay, Reid, Johnson). This doesn't mean Sark is the best play caller now, but it certainly doesn't mean it can't be done. 

I can't say for certain why it works or doesn't work in the NFL, but there's plenty of evidence that it hasn't typically worked in college. Is it possible a college head coach has more day to day responsibilities than an NFL coach? Like recruiting for instance. 

[HawkDriver]

Sark calls an offense his team cannot support.  The o-line can’t support deep route concepts and arch can’t throw shorter routes.  We could run the ball, but that’s hard out of 2nd and 10.  It looks, to me anyway, the team should be a 60/40 run team with passes built off of that, but sark isn’t willing to do it.  So what you get is a clunky poorly timed offense with no rhythm.