OTF Premium Snap Judgments: Another showdown with Georgia, another humbling loss for Texas

[drag worm]

Scores on Georgia’s D this year:

Vols 41
Bama 24
Ole Miss 35
Florida 20
Miss St 21
Texas 10 

Edited 9 hours ago by drag worm

[MasTecate]

That matchup feels like Coach Klein vs Coach Red all over again….Sark needs his notebook back 

[DanielOnorato]

10 minutes ago, MasTecate said:

That matchup feels like Coach Klein vs Coach Red all over again….Sark needs his notebook back 

 

Sark at the hotel tonight

Edited 9 hours ago by DanielOnorato

[PaulieD]

@Jeff Howe, it just seems that the coaching staff at times is going through the motions.  I'm probably wrong - I hope I am - but the cohesiveness isn't there.  No fire in the belly.  This will always boil down to coaching, and I am not dwelling on the HC other than managing assistant coaches and coordinators in whatever way necessary to make Texas get over the hump. Something is broken, and quite frankly Sark needs to get his head out of the playbook and head coach.

[AusMOJO]

This wasn't humbling, it was downright embarrassing. 

We got out coached, out played, out hustled, out everything. 

[AusMOJO]

Also someone made a comment on the post game live stream. Texas A&M, OU and Tech are all going to be in the playoffs and Texas is not. That stings more than it should. 

[AusMOJO]

5 hours ago, GoHorns1 said:

Change in OL philosophy and blocking schemes? Flood has developed individual players but never an elite OL group. Flood inherited the great Bama OL from Brent Key the Georgia Tech HC

The problem isn't Flood or the OL. It's Sark's scheme, it's been said many times and none more so than Gerry. We could get rid of Flood and maybe that is the right move, who knows. The problem starts with Sark. 

His example of Elko building an identity in two years at A&M and Sark in year 5 still has no identity. They don't run the ball well, the passing game works...some of the time and your blocking is spotty. 

Until Sark figures that out, it won't matter who is coaching OL or even playing there. The buck stops and starts with him. 

[Alex Butler]

17 total rushing attempts ain’t gonna win the game. Tony Hills has been beat this drum loudly and rightfully so, run the damn ball. Lean on them all game. CJ Allen went down early.  Run right at his replacement. Target weaknesses/advantages. That’s all Georgia did, they threw away from Manny against soft coverages and made their 3rd downs manageable. Why weren’t we targeting the middle of the field where their LBs were vacating when blitzing? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. 

[AusMOJO]

2 minutes ago, Alex Butler said:

17 total rushing attempts ain’t gonna win the game. Tony Hills has been beat this drum loudly and rightfully so, run the damn ball. Lean on them all game. CJ Allen went down early.  Run right at his replacement. Target weaknesses/advantages. That’s all Georgia did, they threw away from Manny against soft coverages and made their 3rd downs manageable. Why weren’t we targeting the middle of the field where their LBs were vacating when blitzing? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. 

We were running the ball really well early, I was actually surprised and then we just went pass happy. I thought Sark needed to go more ground and pound while it was working. Was very weird to see, imo. 

[TTown]

3rd and 11 a qb draw? Sums it all up while Kirby goes for the kill. Whatever is going on with Sark needs to be addressed soon for the sake of the program I'll stop there. Truly embarrassing and no excuses needed anymore.

[Jay Bryan]

We are a national embarrassment!!! 
and we waited patiently all year for this crap. All around disaster. Arch deserved better.

[Jay Bryan]

Getting harder and harder to live here in Georgia especially walking around with a Texas cap on. 

[DanielOnorato]

When Sark gets scared and panics he neglects basic run game, relies on the pass then gets exotic with reverses, QB powers etc rather than lining up and taking the 2-4 yards on the ground to keep shorter down and distance and keep moving the chains.

[FootLaw]

Last night, I watched my son and his 10u football team go pull off an upset in the semis down in Houston. Several of them playing sick, including mine. They gave everything against a much bigger and dominant team. The coaches adjusted mid game and won.

This is my biggest complaint about Sark. He does not adjust well in games. There's zero consistency. It happens occasionally but rarely in big games and not often enough when losing. He already shot down a coordinator. Until proven otherwise, Sark will win a lot of games and run a clean program, but he won't get a Natty.

[Alex Butler]

2 hours ago, AusMOJO said:

We were running the ball really well early, I was actually surprised and then we just went pass happy. I thought Sark needed to go more ground and pound while it was working. Was very weird to see, imo. 

Agree 100%

[Alex Butler]

49 minutes ago, TTown said:

3rd and 11 a qb draw? Sums it all up while Kirby goes for the kill. Whatever is going on with Sark needs to be addressed soon for the sake of the program I'll stop there. Truly embarrassing and no excuses needed anymore.

So true!! WTF was that?! Terrible. 

[Texas fan in Georgia]

52 minutes ago, Jay Bryan said:

Getting harder and harder to live here in Georgia especially walking around with a Texas cap on. 

I know the feeling all too well 

[General Grant]

8 hours ago, Jeff Howe said:

That wasn't fun to watch, it was less fun to write about and it's going to be worse to discuss publicly.

We'll get through this together.

Glad I went.   Walking out amongst their mouth breathing fanbase wasn’t a picnic.  

[General Grant]

1 hour ago, TTown said:

3rd and 11 a qb draw? Sums it all up while Kirby goes for the kill. Whatever is going on with Sark needs to be addressed soon for the sake of the program I'll stop there. Truly embarrassing and no excuses needed anymore.

That was a very strange call. 

[watty7796]

The bottom line is every season since Sark has arrived the discipline on this team has deteriorated.  Evidence is penalties have gone up every season.  Sark is made out to be a quarterback whisperer and offensive guru.   Id argue he is neither.  QE development wasnt very good, and Arch has been behind where he should be IMO.  The offense itself is designed as finesse instead of physical.  That leads to thinking Texas will not be a physical unit that can run between the tackles (soft oline non physical rbs).  PK and secondary coaches are not on the same page.  PK runs a soft defense ( bend dont break nonsense).  This leaves his defense on the field for excessive amounts of time, which in turn means the Texas offense has less opportunity to make substantial drives. It also wears out the defensive players after a few games.  Dbs are playing beyond the line of gain allowing a ton of first downs.  These issues have been an issue for every game this season.  UGA just highlighted them.  I would also argue that the above has been an ongoing issue for multiple seasons.  Teams take on the coaches persona to a degree and by that i would say there is little heart, little fight, and little want to.  By no means advocating for wholesale change, however there does need to be some shakeup.  Continuity is great if its working, its insane if you continue to have the same issues without addressing them.