Interesting Comments From Sark

[Hashtag]

And it could explain why we look less physical than we do. It seems his philosophical change and approach to practice may be the reason we look the way we do physically and most likely mentally. CFB ain’t the NFL brother you don’t have 17 games and make it as a wild card with a 10-7 record(this would be like 9-4 in college).

 

Also the mentality and maturity of a CFB isn’t that of a pro player

 

From a March interview:

As a result, the Longhorns will have fewer contact periods and more teach periods with more controlled scrimmages instead of going for 140 plays.

“Just a little bit of a shift philosophically, as I touched on even back in December, actually, when I first brought this up. The NFL model is such that I think that they teach really well, and it’s something as I’ve studied those guys and I’ve gotten around them here the past few years — you guys know I like to do that in the springtime is go see NFL teams — is making sure we’re teaching really well, making sure that we’re developing and growing as a program, and not just our young players, but really developing our older players to be really dialed into the details of what we’re trying to do. And so again, I feel like you have to in this day and age, be adaptable and not be afraid of change and I think this is an area where we can grow as a program to be better suited for the challenges of the schedule as we know what it was here last season,” Sarkisian said.

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[Austalgia]

Yeah, I worried about this back then.  We’ve seen it before with the thud practices and we get soft.  Different regime, I forget which one tried this and same thing happened.  Ironically, this is the year we had the depths to get tough in practice and have a next man up mentality if we needed it.  That was almost our strength cooking into that season.