Interesting Comments From Sark

[AusMOJO]

8 hours ago, JMarquette said:

Did anyone see Emanuel Pregnon was highest rated guard this week? And to think that we needed a guard - HA! 

They also have a kid from Texas State on their OL, too. Seems like we either didn't evaluate that hard or look much at all. Even the kid from Rice who's now riding the bench at Ohio State would've been an upgrade at T.

Seems like this off-season that might be something to watch with only one portal window. 

[AusMOJO]

I don't understand the change from his perspective? Ass you said, these are college kids not NFL pro's. They still need you to stay on top of them and make sure they're doing what they need. To stay motivated, etc. I know everyone likes to rag on you for keeping it real but this does seem to be true. This team seems to just be casually strolling through the season and it worked against G5 teams. not so much against P4 teams.

If this is indeed how he's approaching things, that is concerning and I've no idea why he decided this is the way to do things. Is this also the reason he kept guys out for so long, that could've played?

[AusMOJO]

8 hours ago, Longhornlove said:

After reading that, I think the season is lost. I haven't seen both lines get dominated that bad in over a decade. Georgia was close in the first half last year. Florida ain't Georgia, not even close and our Dline didn't get dominated either. That was embarrassing and I hope the players are embarrassed.

To be fair to Florida, they played some tough teams and played them pretty close. So I'm not sure they're as terrible as we all seemed to think. But to your point, they're not a top tier program with Napier  and the domination was a surprise. I know their OL was supposed to be one of the best in the SEC, if not the country but their DL was missing 3 guys, including their best one. Their Edge group was missing a guy and the group overall hadn't performed very well. Even missing a starter in the secondary. 

Not sure what we did for 2 weeks, but it certainly wasn't get ready to play Florida in The Swamp. 

[Thanos72]

16 hours ago, Hashtag said:

Nick Saban and all his former players say their practices were harder and tougher physically than the games they played. 
 

you seriously think not hitting and not practicing as physical doesn’t affect you in games? 
 

S&C hasn’t been an issue until this year and it points more toward Sarks philosophical change to go not as physical or hard in practice than it does our S&C program somehow falling off a cliff. 

Saban’s players were maxed and often bounced soon from the nfl because of wear and tear. They were 3 deep because of paying players when others weren’t so not remotely an apples comparison. Just because you think it’s the first year about S&C doesn’t mean it’s true, lol. Good lord. Our oline has struggle for years to push and drive folks. 

I never learn to keep you on ignore. Back you go. 

[Hashtag]

5 hours ago, Thanos72 said:

Saban’s players were maxed and often bounced soon from the nfl because of wear and tear. They were 3 deep because of paying players when others weren’t so not remotely an apples comparison. Just because you think it’s the first year about S&C doesn’t mean it’s true, lol. Good lord. Our oline has struggle for years to push and drive folks. 

I never learn to keep you on ignore. Back you go. 

Who cares about if they’re maxed out before nfl? They were drafted high and results in college were championships. 
 

I’ve said repeatedly that it’s not a s&C issue because you haven’t seen it on defense until the Florida game. Which further points to this change. And I’ve also said repeatedly that it’s specific to one side of the ball over the years being less physical. 
 

But to think that this philosophical change to practice has no effect is hilarious. 

Edited 9 hours ago by Hashtag

[Inspired73]

As difficult as this is to say, "I agree with Hashtag".   

Our inability to control the lines of scrimmage go directly to practice.

The Varsity scrimmages the JV not for the Varsity's benefit, but rather for the JV guys to see what it takes.  

The fact that we could not control the line of scrimmage against 3 very poor teams should have turned the light on.

[Trojan Horn]

On 10/7/2025 at 5:33 AM, Hashtag said:

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.

What if the physicality level of practices last year contributed to CJ Baxter's injury? What if it contributed to Jonathan Brooks' injury the year before?

What if there was a philosophical shift sooner to reduce the wear and tear on the players and both of those guys were available for the CFP runs? What if having them healthy gave us the pieces we needed to make it to and possibly win a championship?

Two sides to every coin. Had their been more injuries in spring camp I have a feeling you'd be making the counterargument now. Long season ahead and there have been highs and lows the last two seasons, both of which were a success.

Edited 1 hour ago by Trojan Horn

[Hashtag]

37 minutes ago, Trojan Horn said:

What if the physicality level of practices last year contributed to CJ Baxter's injury? What if it contributed to Jonathan Brooks' injury the year before?

Cj Baxters injury occurred after a whistle and had nothing to do with physicality. Brooks injury occurred during a game and was a freak injury

[Trojan Horn]

6 minutes ago, Hashtag said:

Cj Baxters injury occurred after a whistle and had nothing to do with physicality. Brooks injury occurred during a game and was a freak injury

Wear and tear brotha. And to be clear I don't think you're wrong in your assessment, I just think an argument could be made both ways and we don't have a large enough sample size with the expanded CFP to know what the right approach is.