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I'm sure it wasn't much different last year too for the first 7 games. Yet, Kyle Flood somehow is still our OL coach.

Agree with all of it but the last one unfortunately will also likely lead to durability issues. He's got to be already feeling it not matter how tough he is. Arch gets hit sticked every game when he runs a lot. That soreness will affect your throws too.

Did he mean "stinker"? In seriousness, probably the deep post and seam routes. Don't know of anything else that would be considered effective against the defense so far.

I agree. KJ coming in an just handing the ball off is not useful at all. Mark my word, we will need KJ Lacey at some point this season. Arch looked like he barely survived that MSU game. He was bleeding and getting up slow a number of times after taking too many big hits. Sark's going to keep using him that way because he's most effective when his legs are a factor too but it'll be inevitable he gets knocked out of a game at some point.

We don't make the playoffs, he gets one mulligan at the expense of the OC before he's on the chopping block. So he'd have to get rid of Flood at the minimum which would open up the OL coaching position as well. I'd find a OC that he trust calling plays too. Unfortunately these decisions will coincide with the QB situation. We need an OC and a QB that fit. Arch an Sark do not fit well together and it's painful watching the offense so inconsistent.

Yea Arch is very different than the last 3 QBs they've had. I could see him at Indiana. It's a run first offense where the QB is more a manager and only has to make a limited amount of crucial plays.

I would have put Ole Miss WR vs Texas Cornerbacks. Mascoe hasn't had a good game since OSU. I have a feeling Ole Miss will be picking on him tomorrow down the field which could be costly if Mascoe keeps getting PIs.

As long as Kevan is on the mound come playoff time, I'll take our chances against anyone (in history for that matter). On top of that, we have 2 potential play of the year candidates in our lineup that's already stacked with speed and power. OU and Tech are good too but this lineup is better.

More gaming the system. The SEC and Big 10 should just make the power move.

Preseason rankings don't matter. I just want to see us find our identity and rotations earlier than last year. We have the shooting and athleticism. We just need to develop all of their toughness that will translate into stronger defense and rebounding. We'll be scary by midseason.

31 Ole Miss 27 Texas I predict we get 17 in the first half, fall behind in the second half 31-17 and then score quickly 2 times to make it close. It's hard for me to imagine our offense scoring more than 30 points when we haven't done it yet against a P4 team no matter what changes we make. And Chambliss will test our CBs who have been a bit shaky of late. I hope I'm wrong but this could be day 1 of the beginning of the end of this era of Texas football. If we lose this game, the fit will hit the shan.

I don't think we've had a team this stacked ever. I hope being such a favorite this year doesn't mess up the culture and mentality of the team but we're witnessing potentially a dynasty. If Kevan wins a 3rd, she will be the undisputed best collegiate pitcher of all time and if she pitches for USA next summer, we could be talking about her as the best ever period over Cat. The softball team is what Texas excellence looks like under Coach White. Elite coaching, recruiting, leadership and culture.

Fair ranking. We got to gel much more with the new players before we can truly compete.

Love watching so many of the players playing. There are so many right now.

After watching Todd McShay talking about Arch on his podcast, it made wonder a few things. Gerry/CJ, have these issues (inability to make reads, slow decisions) with Arch been prevalent this entire time (even last year), but we've been distracted by a few big runs? He's gotten a lot of credit for "NFL throws" but in reality were questionable decisions into double coverage a number of times this year and even late last year. The way McShay put is Sark has been hiding this (or lying in his words) from the public/media for a while now. Any validity to this?

I think one issue I see already this year will be Speights being our backup PG and so small and a liability on defense. Unless you play defense like Rory Harmon, teams are going to attack you at 5'6" every time down the court like UConn was doing. They weren't even taking full advantage by putting her in the pick and roll. So she either needs to figure out how to play extra on defense like Rory and Hildalgo do or Vic might not be playing her as much as the season continues.

Not a bad start of the season. We played Texas ball for 1 half but the 2nd half was a bit a mess. UConn's defense is legit but our young players were making a lot of defensive mistakes in the 2nd half. We also need to figure out who our playmakers are outside of Booker. Someone that can create good shots for others. Preston was a bit disappointing. I was hoping for more from her but she looked more like the same Preston from last year. Vic should push Clark to be a playmaker. She's got the fluidity to get by people and not just create her own shot. Vann also needs to create more. Cunningham looks in elite shape right now. We need her to play big minutes this year.

Good stuff. The film says it all. The first play is the one I've been saying is the most indicative of his failing and the guy does a great job of analyzing it. I think it's worth rewatching games and analyzing last year to see if we were giving Arch too much credit for some throws that might have been more lucky that anything else. This whole Arch thing makes me feel gaslit by Sark. I suspect this has been an issue for a long time but his legs and miraculous throws and catches have tempered the fire.

True .. definitely an odd guy. It wasn't that long ago people called McDaniel a wonder kid offensive analyst. Crazy how fast things change.

The biggest head coaching malpractice is Sark allowing an Oline coach to think Cole Hutson was a good enough center last spring to start last season. That was a disaster. Outside of some of the OSU game, at no point last year with Hutson at center were we any good. So to avoid calamity, we swapped our backup center (Robertson) to salvage what we could from the second half of the season as a band aid. I have to question a coach that would even think that was even close to the level we needed to be a contender. That's the first fireable offense in my opinion since we wasted a great defense last year too because of that lapse in judgement. The second offense is thinking this backup caliber center was good enough to run it back again this year and go against a full season of SEC DTs. Surely a good coach would have spent the money and gotten a top tier center knowing we barely got out of last year without disaster with a backup level center. I don't know what Flood expects from Robertson who is a bit undersized and not strong enough. He's done an admirable job but everyone could have told you that he would get ragdolled as a starter the whole season. Where is the "standard" Sark talks about all the time? The "standard" surely isn't having a backup caliber center as your starting center and just getting by right? And the funny thing on top of that is we still run mostly inside zone even with Robertson getting pushed back 2-3 yards on many plays.

He didn't develop Sykorski. I didn't include any people we grabbed out of the portal that was developed elsewhere for the most part.

Even though we lost, it was the best we've looked in a several games. The young players are getting more experience and starting to improve some. Florida is a tough team and if a couple points go different we would have beaten them. Biggest thing is Andersen needs to work on her passing. Teams are targeting her on serves, but Gugina and Andersen are starting to get more comfortable hitting. Spears is still just a cannon. She's still needs to improve her ability to hit off hands and hit a cut. She pretty much just hits straight and hard which doesn't work against the good blocking teams.

I don't think Mike McDaniel will be employed for much longer for the Chargers. I wouldn't mind him calling plays for us and he's from the same tree as Sark so he might be down for McDaniel taking over playcalling and being off coordinator.

Outside of the tackle position, Kyle Flood has been awful in developing and recruiting interior OL since he's been at Texas. Here are the list notable OL he's recruited: DJ Campbell Cole Hutson Connor Robertson Hayden Connor Neto Umeozulu Connor Stroh Daniel Cruz Nate Kibble Jayden Chapman Jordan/Devin Coleman Max Merrill Andrej Karic Nick Brooks Brandon Baker None of these guys have been standouts (JAGs mostly) and some have even transferred which is crazy given how poor the starters have been. That's a lot of misses for 5-6 years. You'd think at least 1 player would have been all conference material from a reputable OL coach. He's put 2 OT in the NFL and soon to be 3 which he should get full credit for but the interior line has been an issue almost every year. He's lucky Jake Majors (Herb Hand/Herman recruit) carried that role for him so long but since he's been gone, it's been a disaster. It's clear as day that high school recruiting for interior offensive line has been a huge failure for us. So either we need to put more money into getting top talent at every position on the Oline (ie Ohio State) or Kyle Flood needs to go. We're all tired of the same Oline narrative every year.

I definitely feel this could be the beginning of the end of the Sark era for us. It might be in a couple years that he moves on but his ego, stubbornness, and loyalties keeps him from ever being an elite coach. He's a good head coach when it comes to recruiting/branding side of the job but when it comes to the football itself, he's been failing for awhile now because there is no accountability for the core of the offensive coaches. Flood, Milwee, and Sark as the playcaller would have been let go by now by the top coaches purely on performance. Outside of the the tackle position (1 first rounder, 1 second rounder), Flood has been terrible developing and recruiting the center and guard position. Jake Majors was our only decent center and he was from the Herman/Hand era. Cruz was a disaster and we've yet to see Christian. Connor, Campbell, Hutson, Robertson, Kibble, and Stroh have all been bad at protection and just average at run blocking. Nick Brooks transferred. That's a horrible track record for 6 years. Only 2 of those years our OL has not been on of the biggest weaknesses of the team. Milwee's biggest strength is recruiting but Quinn and Arch have had flaws from the get go that never improved. Quinn had bad footwork from day 1 to the day he left. Arch's decision making is arguably worse now than he was as a freshman. It's crazy how limited Sark's playbook is right now with Arch. At least with Quinn, he was very good at running Sark's pre-snap eye candy. Arch can't even do that right now. So you have to question, did they recruit the right QBs for their system? Or are they just inept at building up and developing QBs? Whichever way, it's been a failure as a coach. So the question is why is someone like PK that for the most part produced quality defenses fired before guys like this. My guess is they are "yes" men Sark likes to have around or they are his buddies (include Jeff Banks in that). At some point every head coach has to protect himself by scapegoating his assistants. I think we're getting close to that when it comes to these guys, but ultimately it will be Sark's demise as long as he is the playcaller too. Chesney and Stein are showing you what you can do with even limited talent when you're team has an identity and are discipline.