Sark Did Not Learn

[McTexas7]

The last two that Sark has lost to OU it has been because of him playing to not lose. In ‘24 we had a 3rd and 9 in plus territory with less than two minutes to go. Quinn was 23 of his last 24. We ran the ball and kicked a field goal.

This year we have a 4th and 2 or a 52 yard field goal. Trust your unit and play to win.

You can’t win this game playing passive. You have to play to win or you get punished

[HookemTexas]

4 minutes ago, McTexas7 said:

The last two that Sark has lost to OU it has been because of him playing to not lose. In ‘24 we had a 3rd and 9 in plus territory with less than two minutes to go. Quinn was 23 of his last 24. We ran the ball and kicked a field goal.

This year we have a 4th and 2 or a 52 yard field goal. Trust your unit and play to win.

You can’t win this game playing passive. You have to play to win or you get punished

Which is completely the opposite of what happened vs. Ohio St.  Also that's not "all gas no brakes" that's no gas all brakes.

[hookem1014]

I see the 4th and 2 call two different ways. 
1) You don’t get the 1st down, then you question why you didn’t let your kicker who historically has a big leg give you the lead 

2) You miss the FG, and wonder why you didn’t just go for it and make sure you have the last possession after a 1st down

I personally wanted to go for it, but I get the call either way. Hindsight is 20/20. 

[Neil Leininger]

It’s not 20/20. You go get two yards and run out the clock. If you don’t get the two yards you lose nothing in field position.

[LonghornFan4Ever]

3 minutes ago, Neil Leininger said:

It’s not 20/20. You go get two yards and run out the clock. If you don’t get the two yards you lose nothing in field position.

He was in this exact same scenario in 2023 Red River and instead of going for the first down and having Bert Auburn kick a walk off field goal, he kicks the field goal and leaves a minute plus for Dillion Gabriel to march down the field and score the game winning touchdown.  Can’t believe he made that same mistake again three years later.

Edited 16 hours ago by LonghornFan4Ever

[hookem1014]

30 minutes ago, Neil Leininger said:

It’s not 20/20. You go get two yards and run out the clock. If you don’t get the two yards you lose nothing in field position.

Ideally yes, it would have been huge. But if Spetic makes the FG you can trust the only good unit on the field (the defense) to make a stop which they did on the following drive. Offense was terrible on converting short yardage today and Spetic is very capable of making that kick. There’s an argument for either option 

Edited 15 hours ago by hookem1014

[McTexas7]

12 hours ago, LonghornFan4Ever said:

He was in this exact same scenario in 2023 Red River and instead of going for the first down and having Bert Auburn kick a walk off field goal, he kicks the field goal and leaves a minute plus for Dillion Gabriel to march down the field and score the game winning touchdown.  Can’t believe he made that same mistake again three years later.

Yep, this is what I was referencing. That one was a longer 4th down though, the problem there was the 3rd down call. 

[Neil Leininger]

15 hours ago, hookem1014 said:

Ideally yes, it would have been huge. But if Spetic makes the FG you can trust the only good unit on the field (the defense) to make a stop which they did on the following drive. Offense was terrible on converting short yardage today and Spetic is very capable of making that kick. There’s an argument for either option 

See, I don't trust college kickers at any distance, especially not a 50+ yarder.

[HookemTexas]

Basically what Sark told me with that play choice is he didn't trust his oline against ou's defense to get the 2 yards.  Of course that would have been better in hindsight than the missed field goal which gave ou another 7 yards free.