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We need a front office that can play moneyball. we blew our NIL budget on retaining a bunch of guys that had proven nothing, and it turns out they aren't great.

The NIL Go crap is so dumb. They need to just allow long term contracts that include transfer fees, and then let players get paid whatever they get paid.

This play? He clearly leads with the crown of the helmet. For a ball carrier it's targeting if you lead with the crown of the helmet. Leading with the front of the helmet like the PSU player is only targeting if the player is defenseless. Front of the helmet on a ball carrier is not targeting. The rule in general is BS and we should go back to having "spearing" instead, but I don't think either of these calls is controversial. The rules are dumb but clear.

Player wasn't defenseless so it's only targeting if it is the crown of the helmet. Contact was with the front of the helmet which is legal.

I think that a QB being "protected" from hits is a luxury that the QB must earn by being invaluable in the passing game. What Arch has shown thus far is that his legs are his best attribute and the passing game is middling at best. Until that changes it's nonsensical to avoid QB runs for the sake of protecting him. He either needs to sit on the bench or do what the team needs to win games, and that is use his legs. If the passing game turns around then we can reevaluate this later.

Searles did a pretty good job here I think. He inherited a horrible situation and actually made the OL the strength of the team in 2013 (albeit a bad team). It's actually insane that OP is 100% right, but nonetheless Flood is either the best or at worst second best (behind Searles) OL coach that we have had in the last 25 years. How Texas is so mediocre on the OL year after year is mind boggling.

This argument made sense against Ohio State but does not explain this game against UTEP whatsoever

IMO 12 personnel is the opposite of what you want. Need to spread the field to get lighter boxes, then use Manning in the run game with high frequency. If he gets hurt then that is football.

Florida looked much better at home against *checks notes* Long Island than we did on the road against Ohio State, you see. 😉

well we were that bad last year and it may not really be considering our portal additions. You'd think it'd realize that the punting was much better after game 1 though. What I don't understand is why it didn't punish Ohio State's offense just as much as ours. It must have registered our 4th quarter yards and points as "garbage time", which is a little silly given we had a clear chance to tie the game at the end.

OSU had a good scheme for us and the lack of film did prove to be advantage for them. (We couldn't game plan for them the way they did for us). That's a difficult first game as a full time starter and he melted down. It is what it is, but IMO things look fixable. We'll see how good Arch's mental really is. If he can clean up his game there is a terrific team around him.

In the analytical power rankings (e.g FPI and SP+) we're going to move *up* after the game vs OSU. We significantly out gained them not only in total yards but also per-play. We lost because of a few 4th downs and penalties, which an analytics person would call bad luck. I do think Arch obviously has to play much better but the team around is pretty damn well positioned. And we have 3 weeks of patsies to tune up the passing game on. Personally I'd put us #2 of this group. Neither Clemson nor LSU was particularly great last year, so I'm not a believer on them yet. Remember how pathetic that Clemson defense was? Notre Dame lost a lot and doesn't recruit like OSU and Texas. Do we really believe Miami has a good defense now, or was ND just a bit limited themselves? We'll see how it plays out.

"Long Island" honestly might be the single funniest opponent I have ever seen for a P5 team.

Glass half full is that outside of Arch the team looked really good given the competition level and road environment. Arch just has to get better over the next few weeks.

I think they were both legit calls but ticky tack. SEC refs love to throw flags. Game was lost by the passing game taking so long to get going.