Robert Gilbert

My following statements are based on Sark’s offensive players playing up to their previous standard or living up to potential. I think the best aspect of the 2024 offense will be its versatility. Sark can basically do anything he wants. He can go 10, 11, 12, 13 personal. Or he can go 20, 21, 22, 23 personal. He can anywhere between 0-5 WRs on the field (depending on how many RBs or WRs he wants on the field). Of course any coach can do that…but can they do so with the talent level that Sark will have at his disposal? I cannot think of any grouping that is potentially “bad”. I will not mention players names to go with each and every possible grouping, I will leave that to individual reader’s imagination. However, one example is a 23 group. Not used often except in goal line or short yardage plays. With our talent two RBs and three TEs could be used very effectively. CB and Blue as the backs. Helm, Niblack, and Agbo at TE. Can we run out it? Definitely. Can we pass out of it? Yes, maybe not as an every down formation but in a third or fourth and one situation…it will work. For example, play action to Helm in the flat. Bootleg with Niblack dragging across the middle. JMO, any thoughts.

It will be difficult to replace anyone with Joe D’s experience. Does anyone know if there have been conversations to replace him with another ST guru?

Looks like a great hire. With UT’s resources, there is no excuse for not hiring as many analysts as needed.

I think this is what separates a good staff from a great staff. Anyone can see the great players (like Earl, VY, or Quinn) and recruit them. However, a great staff will turn over every rock to find that diamond in the rough. To find that low 3 star, who has the measurables but has yet to put it all together, and bring them on campus and coach them up.

Someone posted, on another site, that Sark may have caught lightening in a bottle. A young enthusiastic coach from the hotbed of recruiting that no one has heard of. If he works out, it will be several years before someone tries to poach him to be a DC or whatever. So we have a bright, motivated, personable young man (with a religious school background which moms seem to love) locked in for upwards of five years. Recruiting is want to and personality. Baker seems to have both.

It definitely cannot hurt that Baker, who is from the Atlanta area, is now on staff.

It is great to see Texas as the more ‘experienced’ team each week. We have a stable HC and staff, a two year starter as QB, and as much or more depth across the board as any team Texas has ever fielded.

He is young, energetic, comes across as knowledgeable and passionate on film about his craft. He has college and pro experience. Plus, he has a wealth of experience coaching Power 5 around him football to help him adjust. I like him and trust Sark.

While it is probably feasible, it would put a great deal of strain on the player and would require the two coaches to be very accommodating. I believe baseball does a great deal of work in the fall and of course playing baseball would make spring practices almost impossible. In addition, if he were to agree to play both sports at UT it would count as a football scholarship.

While I enjoyed watching Michigan play this season, I will enjoy watching even more them fall apart, like Alabama.

Disappointing we didn’t get him on campus but it was expected he would go elsewhere. We will see how Milroe and the QB that Deboer took with him stack up against Quinn and Arch.

Bobby, might Sark move Nansen to DL coach and go find another LB coach? Which is move difficult to find, a great DL coach or a great LB coach?

While not ideal, our current players should be able to stand up to the SEC. Plus, the second portal window may yield another CB.

I agree. Texas has the deepest and most stable QB room of the three suitors for Williams. Add to that his HS teammate will soon be joining that QB room and I hope that will be the recipe for landing his commitment.

One of the best aspects of OTF is the commitment videos that your team does for each new Longhorn player. They are timely, informative, and show a willingness to go the extra mile for your viewers (and now readers). Thanks and Hook Em.

Fantastic pickup.

I signed up as soon as I heard about the site on one of the OTF videos Saturday afternoon. I am looking forward to watching this site grow. Hook Em

Krempin looks like he is gonna grow into the ‘large human’ that Sark and Flood crave.

I love the content. OTF only had about 400 or so followers on YouTube when I first saw the channel and began to follow. I signed up for this site the moment I heard about it. I am looking forward to watching it grow, as OTF did on YouTube. Here is to the future of the OTF website, I am sure it is as bright as the future of Longhorn football. Hook Em!

Great info. I will definitely make this site a daily ritual as I do the OTF YouTube page.

Fantastic news. In addition, I think this site is a fantastic idea. I have been hoping for OTF to do this.