pinkman_90

Welcome!! excited for some OnTexasBaseball chats with you and @Blake Munroe for the upcoming season.

I think the team has no offensive identity, no defensive identity, no cultural identity, and poor roster construction. There is some talent but it doesn’t fit. Out of those, maybe one you can blame on NIL (roster construction). And that’s still primarily on RT. You seem to use this “Texas is poor” narrative. Do we spend like the blue bloods or a some new money schools? No but we’re in that next tier. “Finding a coach that can do more with less was doable pre NIL and pre portal. Can that work now?” I also have no idea what you mean here. So coaches that overachieve will no longer be a thing because of NIL? I think you’ve tried so hard to defend RT that you’ve completely lost the plot.

“Projected by many to go 0-5” Texas’ odds to lose all 5 games would have been about +375.

You seem to always excuse RT’s poor performance and blame nil/fan support. There are so many teams In the country that are better than us with worse a worse NIL situation.

And those same people act like our basketball NIL is on par with Vermont or Fairleigh Dickinson.

The “tell me who will be coach” crowd is comical. As if there aren’t 75+ coaches better than RT. That number might be low also.

He might be a veteran but he’s actually still very raw and can’t run routes. Don’t see that working for Sark.

I don’t have the fight in me after last night. Hoping to be pleasantly surprised.

Nobody blocked well because the players were put in a terrible position to be successful. They were asked to block when the defense had them outnumbered and out leveraged to the left side. Worst play call in Texas football history given the importance.

Spot on. The answer Sark gave in the press conference is almost more worrisome than the play call itself. Put it on the players’ execution. I hope that was just a heat of the moment mistake and not arrogance.

Blocking was poor because 5 players had to execute a near impossible block perfectly. They were out leveraged and outnumbered to the left side. Worst play call maybe in college football history (when factoring in the moment) and Sark doubles down. Nothing wrong with holding players accountable as long as he holds himself to the same standards.

My main issue is him blaming the players. “If we blocked it right it’s a TD”. Such a lame answer. And not even true. We were outnumbered on the edge. Even if every block was perfectly executed, Downs would’ve been untouched.

Cmon man that’s a terrible answer. In fact, him factoring in maybe getting the ball back makes the toss play call even worse. Would you rather Ohio st take over on their own 1 or at their own 10?

So sounds like he still liked the play call and is blaming it on the “leaky” blocking. should’ve just said “bad call by me and I let the players down”.

The entire world could’ve predicted that play call would end horribly before it happened. Not hindsight.