Thoughts on the Texas offense tonight

[Neil Leininger]

Just now, Danimal said:

That answer doesn't cut it. Because when the game was in doubt, pitch counts go out the window. 

Your anger needs to be directed to the $10M man that is likely getting fired in two years, unless he changes almost everything with his side of the ball in the offseason.

[LonghornFan4Ever]

Ryan Niblett is how you win a game while only getting 8 first downs.  Niblett is the MVP of tonight's game.

[f1revo]

Sark needs to move on to the NFL if there's anybody willing to take him so that both parties can save face before things get too bad. He is clearly unable to juggle the demands of being a father with a newborn, a P5 head coach, and a P5 OC. It seemed like he was locked in, focused, and hungry with the divorce announcement and his weight loss only to make a 180 last year. It's simply not working. Absolutely had to be asleep at the wheel this spring seeing this OL and QB in practice. It's really completely broken.

[Tuco Ramirez]

13 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

For me 

Sark, OL play and QB play have all been woeful at times this season

Sark is the HC, OC, play caller and ultimate decisions maker. Starts at the top, and trickles down IMO 

Sark needs some open and honest introspection to determine what is and is not working. Then he has to be willing to make uncomfortable decisions. 

[Texas fan in Georgia]

3 minutes ago, f1revo said:

Sark needs to move on to the NFL if there's anybody willing to take him so that both parties can save face before things get too bad. He is clearly unable to juggle the demands of being a father with a newborn, a P5 head coach, and a P5 OC. It seemed like he was locked in, focused, and hungry with the divorce announcement and his weight loss only to make a 180 last year. It's simply not working. Absolutely had to be asleep at the wheel this spring seeing this OL and QB in practice. It's really completely broken.

He will never be a head coach in the NFL. Look at his last stint with the falcons as an OC

[Thanos72]

Too many still don’t get that we are closer to bad than good. Any win is gravy. The only thing for this season is to see if we can turn the corner to good, not great.

Not sure why so many are up in arms at this point. Flood and sark badly mismanaged the oline and we are reaping that. It’s not getting fixed until the offseason. We can only smoke and mirrors so much.

[FatherofMinky]

Poor performance overall by all involved. Start to wonder if this is how it’s gonna unravel for Sark… he’s done a great job building up the program, recruiting, but has clearly slipped as a playcaller /coordinator. Is stubbornness and refusal to get help with the offense gonna be the downfall? He needs to do some soul searching.

[Robbin Antono]

Oline is bad bad bad, why? I am not sure, you have to ask K. Ford.

This is going back to the end of Mack’s Oline era … Soft Soft ..

[Neil Leininger]

Just now, Robbin Antono said:

Oline is bad bad bad, why? I am not sure, you have to ask K. Ford.

This is going back to the end of Mack’s Oline era … Soft Soft ..

Go look at their recruiting rankings. Flood's desire to have big humans doesn't mean they are good. Alabama recruited big humans that were also good OL prospects.

[Danimal]

7 minutes ago, Neil Leininger said:

Your anger needs to be directed to the $10M man that is likely getting fired in two years, unless he changes almost everything with his side of the ball in the offseason.

I know who's accountable. 

[Aaron Hawn]

With all this whining sounds like we would rather go back to the Tom Herman era. I much rather win with defense than have a team score 45 on me. This team also had two weeks to prepare for us after a physical rivalry game. 

[NothinButDaHorns34]

[NothinButDaHorns34]

1 minute ago, Aaron Hawn said:

With all this whining sounds like we would rather go back to the Tom Herman era. I much rather win with defense than have a team score 45 on me. This team also had two weeks to prepare for us after a physical rivalry game. 

Sunshine pumping is a nice change up from all of the sky is falling post on here so i give you that credit at least. 

Edited 7 hours ago by NothinButDaHorns34

[LonghornFan4Ever]

26 minutes ago, Texas fan in Georgia said:

I’m still waiting on a reason why Caldwell isn’t starting over arch. I mean come on. To hell with his ceiling. He’s been in the system 3 years and we are in week 7. Sark. Milwee. Flood. They all need to be answering some tough questions 

Because of the OL

[texcoyote15]

I have said for a long time that the head coach at Texas has too many demands on his time to be a head coach and a player caller. Especially offensive coordinator. Offensive coordinator has to really spend alot of time in the film room to develop a proper game plan. Sark has a young wife at home that he nearly got divorced from and then had a new baby.  He doesn’t have time to prepare to call plays. He counts on Milwee, that other QB coach and analyst to break the tape down and it doesn’t work at a place like Texas. 
I don’t really know who out there could take Texas to the top…..if anyone. For some reason it is a hard place to win. We’ve been mostly bad since 2010. We’ll see what happens. We can’t keep playing like we have mostly this year or CDC needs to clean house and find someone better.

[Gerry Hamilton]

2 minutes ago, Neil Leininger said:

Go look at their recruiting rankings. Flood's desire to have big humans doesn't mean they are good. Alabama recruited big humans that were also good OL prospects.

Problem is literally zero player evals are takes without the HC approval. Even if that is the direction someone wants to go, it doesn't just fall on a position coach. 

[Waxahorn]

Our offense is painful to watch on TV, painful to listen to on the radio. And after so looking forward to the season all summer long.

[Tornado Alley]

Caldwell should AT LEAST get some snaps next week. This team, playing like this, will not beat Mississippi State.

[HudGar1922]

what offense 

[HudGar1922]

1 minute ago, Waxahorn said:

Our offense is painful to watch on TV, painful to listen to on the radio. And after so looking forward to the season all summer long.

live it was worse today 

[4thandFive]

32 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Keep in mind … rushing yards given up by Kentucky in SEC play 

220 at home vs Ole Miss

178 at South Carolina 

180 at Georgia

All those teams had over 40 rushing attempts 

Did we event try? Doesn’t feel like it.

[Robbin Antono]

Sark needs to hire OC to call plays, I think he is a good head coach, but he needs someone to call Offensive plays

[Neil Leininger]

3 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Problem is literally zero player evals are takes without the HC approval. Even if that is the direction someone wants to go, it doesn't just fall on a position coach. 

Which is why he needs to give up control of the offense and fire Milwee and Flood. Bring in someone with fresh ideas on how to run modern spread offenses with his personnel OL coach. His version of the west coast/BYU offense just isn't a thing anymore unless you have elite talent all over the field.

Sarkisian's clock management is also abysmal, and has been since he became the coach. I can't think of a head coach that has won a championship while also serving as the primary playcaller for offense.

[Beast Texas]

My question is this - is it going to take a 6 win season (assuming we manage another one) for there to be enough pressure for CDC to say, alright, enough is enough Steve, you have to hire a playcaller - or do we just have to ride this to the bitter end?

[Neil Leininger]

1 minute ago, Robbin Antono said:

Sark needs to hire OC to call plays, I think he is a good head coach, but he needs someone to call Offensive plays

and not just plays but their own offense. Sarkisian's offense needs to go. He doesn't attack the enitre field and it takes consistently excellent execution to make it run successfully.