Kyle Flood has got to go

[Burt Reynolds Jr]

I’ve seen enough. He had three years to work towards replacing the 2024 starters… and this is what we got.

We didn’t pick up anyone in the portal. That’s an abject failure in the evaluation of his own room over the past two seasons. 

We’ve had multiple huge whiffs in recruiting.

For the past four years, our offensive line has showed little in the way of power run blocking and short yardage, with poor aggression and bad technique. Even the 2024 crew was bad in the red zone.

The guy has OC in his title and gets paid like one, but he doesn’t even call plays or take primary responsibility for game planning. All he has to do is get his room to be able to block for the schemes Sark wants to run. So he’s really just a mediocre to poor OL coach getting paid like one of the most expensive OCs in the country and has shown no track record of being able to recruit or develop.

The above in aggregate is cause enough for dismissal at the University of Texas, a place where he has had essentially limitless resources as his disposal.

It’s malpractice for the OTF mods to not be having a more serious discussion about this topic.

@CJ Vogel has the chance to start asking the tough questions at Sark’s press conferences.

[MBHORNSFAN]

I don’t see that ever happening. Flood and Sark are tied at the hip and boys. I suspect a lot of Texas fans will be calling for Sark to be fired soon. 

[Joe Zura]

@Hashtag

[LonghornFan4Ever]

Not happening, but I understand the frustration.

[Alex Butler]

[Casey67]

4 starters from last year made NFL rosters.

If that doesn't buy a coach a little more grace than this, I don't know what does.

[drag worm]

But he got another commit from a “Big Human” that doesn’t grade out well and can’t play offensive line. 

[Quinncent McManning, Jr.]

12 minutes ago, Casey67 said:

4 starters from last year made NFL rosters.

If that doesn't buy a coach a little more grace than this, I don't know what does.

This. I get the frustration but a lot of the complaints is on sark too. How soon we forget that we hardly had any OL draft picks for a freaking decade. Hell the current Georgia OL coach was a part of that futility. 

[FootLaw]

[AceHorn23]

2 hours ago, Burt Reynolds Jr said:

I’ve seen enough. He had three years to work towards replacing the 2024 starters… and this is what we got.

We didn’t pick up anyone in the portal. That’s an abject failure in the evaluation of his own room over the past two seasons. 

We’ve had multiple huge whiffs in recruiting.

For the past four years, our offensive line has showed little in the way of power run blocking and short yardage, with poor aggression and bad technique. Even the 2024 crew was bad in the red zone.

The guy has OC in his title and gets paid like one, but he doesn’t even call plays or take primary responsibility for game planning. All he has to do is get his room to be able to block for the schemes Sark wants to run. So he’s really just a mediocre to poor OL coach getting paid like one of the most expensive OCs in the country and has shown no track record of being able to recruit or develop.

The above in aggregate is cause enough for dismissal at the University of Texas, a place where he has had essentially limitless resources as his disposal.

It’s malpractice for the OTF mods to not be having a more serious discussion about this topic.

@CJ Vogel has the chance to start asking the tough questions at Sark’s press conferences.

Cry more.

[harveycmd]

Guy told me in the mid 90s that the hyperbole of Seinfeld would be tame within twenty years. I told him people would never be that dumb. 

 

[Bdub12]

1 hour ago, Casey67 said:

4 starters from last year made NFL rosters.

If that doesn't buy a coach a little more grace than this, I don't know what does.

But that OL wasn’t very good last year against good teams…so..

[Assistant Regional Manager]

Yes, CJ, please use your press conference question in week 4 of the season to ask Sark if he plans on firing his OL coach. I’m sure that will get a great response full of valuable information to share with the board.

[AusMOJO]

As much as I might agree with you, a lot of the fan base doesn't take well to criticism of Flood. That and Sark has blind faith in Flood, he's been with him at 3 different stops now, I believe. Atlanta, Bama and now Texas. While he says the right things and came in sound great, I've been less than impressed with his product on the field for the past 5 years. 

For some reason our big humans can't get in and push teams around on the LOS, even lowly UTEP and SJSU. 

[dentonhorn]

I don’t know but I personally set too high of expectations for our OL it seems. I really wished/expected/hoped that we would be year in and out a top 10 to top 4 OL.  Not individually as being drafted but as a cohesive effective unit.

Edited 1 hour ago by dentonhorn

[horns96]

9 minutes ago, dentonhorn said:

I don’t know but I personally set too high of expectations for our OL it seems. I really wished/expected/hoped that we would be year in and out a top 10 to top 4 OL.  Not individually as being drafted but as a cohesive effective unit.

You really did. Most people were concerned about the OL going into the season. I think pretty much everyone at OTF expressed that in August.  OL play has been inconsistent.  They played pretty well against Ohio State.  Tre Wisner was out for San Jose State.  Tre Wisner and CJ Baxter were out for UTEP. We ran for 200+ yards against UTEP.   

The OL has actually played a bit better than I expected.  

 

[AusMOJO]

Also, I get what people are saying about the OL getting guys into the NFL but the product on the field wasn't good last year and it isn't this year either. The lack of push in the run game has been evident for a while, even when Bijan was here. Dude was dodging guys in the backfield to pick up yards. When you can't even get a push up front against UTEP or SJSU, that is a problem.

I understand people might see this as "crying" or whatever, but the product on the field doesn't lie. Penalties have been an issue for years, no change there. Mental mistakes on the Ol, no change there. Yes some of this is on the players but at some point you gotta point to the coaches. 

Criticism is allowed guys, whether you think it's warranted or not. It seems like this offense is completely disjointed. 

[LonghornFan4Ever]

7 minutes ago, AusMOJO said:

Also, I get what people are saying about the OL getting guys into the NFL but the product on the field wasn't good last year and it isn't this year either. The lack of push in the run game has been evident for a while, even when Bijan was here. Dude was dodging guys in the backfield to pick up yards. When you can't even get a push up front against UTEP or SJSU, that is a problem.

I understand people might see this as "crying" or whatever, but the product on the field doesn't lie. Penalties have been an issue for years, no change there. Mental mistakes on the Ol, no change there. Yes some of this is on the players but at some point you gotta point to the coaches. 

Criticism is allowed guys, whether you think it's warranted or not. It seems like this offense is completely disjointed. 

No one's job on the offensive staff should be safe if this is the product that they put on the field for the rest of the season besides maybe Chad Scott since he just got here.  No reason Texas shouldn't be top 10 in almost every major offensive category from Sark's third year on.  The offensive product has been the same every year of Sark's Texas tenure.  Better players from the portal would help a little bit, but I think a four and a fourth season sample size tells me it's systemic.

Edited 36 minutes ago by LonghornFan4Ever