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Yeah, heard he was a major part of why the 2019 season was such a disappointment as he destroyed the morale in that WR room. Not sure how he got that job at Oregon other than the arrogance of Lanning thinking they were a machine regardless of who was operating the controls on that side of the ball.

Those skinny ankles on a near 300 pounder Gerry's always talking about.

I guess the problem before that was Quinn, and then it was Hudson Card, and then it was Casey Thompson. Sark is an offensive genius, its just these dumb college kids that won't let the world see just how brilliant he is.

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I honestly think Sark has predetermined that its the "starter's time" until it isn’t. He's given Arch as much grace as he did with Quinn. I don't think Sark wants to bench anyone at the QB position unless he feels he absolutely has to (i.e. Card at Arkansas & Quinn vs Georgia in Austin). Its crazy to think that Casey Thompson probably the QB that's run Sark's offense the smoothest and with the most consistency as any of the QBs during Sark's tenure at Texas.

There are but this was also the same guy that was carrying the offense the 2nd half last year. So what changed? How did he lose his confidence to this degree? Why did he go from playing with so much swagger his first two years to now? Why did he look way better starting vs Mississippi St with only 1 start under his belt two years ago than he does now after 20+?? What I see someone that's being overcoached to the point that they are overthinking every decision and no longer trust themselves. Imagine an elite streetballer from NYC being forced to play in a one dribble, cut and screen motion offense in basketball for the sake of his "development". You'd get a shell of that guy and wonder if he could even play at all when the reality is he's in the wrong system. What perplexes me is that Arch & Sark had real success the back half of last year. How did we not grow on that? How did we go backwards? Sark knows what Arch is capable so that's the part that I don't quite understand.

So, I guess we all just imagined the back half of last year in performances against Vanderbilt, Arkansas, 2nd half A&M, and Michigan? Hell, he was one of the only guys that really showed up to play vs Georgia.

I still have my doubts. Even in our championship season OU still came to Austin and took 2 of 3 and nearly swept us. It still feels like OU is the last mountain this program has yet to fully scale. We're sort of like Georgia football who had won back to back titles but still hadn't gotten over the Alabama hump.

Texas - 24 Ole Miss - 27

Yeah, I saw that.

I have a ton of respect for you as a poster as you & Gerry are basically the Godfathers of Texas sports forums especially when it comes to talking Texas hoops. For awhile I wasn't if this was the original SLX from back in the day but reading some of your recent posts has confirmed. Super glad to have you in this community. I respect your take on Terry and still feel he's not given enough credit by the fanbase for that great Elite 8 run especially considering we don't have a ton in our history and it had been 15 years since we had. Everyone keeps parroting the idea that the team Beard & co put together would've gone as far as they did with anyone coaching. That was a good team but there wasn't undeniable talent on that team and even then this fanbase saw Rick Barnes take an even more talented team to a 17-0 record and number #1 ranking and then immediately freefall to damn near a bubble team (and 1st rd exit) with the same coaching staff and no major injuries. I'm not sure that team makes it further with Beard for a couple of reasons. 1) I don't know that he would've been able to overcome all of the injuries that crept up at the end of that run to Disu, Carr & I think even Rice. 2) I'm not sure we ever get that version of Dylan Disu under Beard as he didn't start to look anything like the Vanderbilt version of himself until well after Terry took over. I also remember Disu making a comment about how much the change at the top was able to effect his game. Super excited about this season as I love the roster even though I might worry a little bit about PG depth. Mikey Lewis' injury has helped me temper expectations to some degree as well as knowing that teams with this many new faces don't usually make real runs like this in year 1. Either way, I'm looking forward to the growth and feel it'll be much better than football has been so far. Anyways, great to see you SLX posting here and I look forward to reading your posts. 🤘🏾

Kansas isn't supposed to be that good this year and I don't see TKR taking them from barely a top 25 team to a top 10 team.

So is Vanderbilt with Makayla Blakes and the PG Galvan.

I'd wait for them to play someone that can challenge them before crowning them. Tennessee lost their other exhibition game and didn't look good at all doing it. Barnes has a lot of work to do with this group.

We finally have TV/streaming news for Texas vs St John's. It'll be at 11am on Sunday on ESPN+. Can't wait to get our first look at them and against top competition too on the road.