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During the Quinn era they had NFL running backs including one of the best in the NFL right now in Bijan. During the Arch era they've had jags (Baxter's been hurt). Quinn also had a better oline as well. That's not to excuse Arch, he's got his share of issues, but certainly doesn't help.

Sad but true.

No one has the answer. What makes it even more baffling, he refused to play Melanie Parra because she wasn't tall enough, she transferred and was elite for TCU. Yet he'll play short setters all day long when he has a capable tall setter who's won. Kentucky won the championship abusing Jhenna Gabriel's block because she was short. This year, every other team has feasted on Binney being front row so much that they can't even get out of the rotation until they've given up a string of points.

Allegedly Elliot thinks he has the formula for the future and insists that he knows what he's doing (sound familiar?). He refuses to play Swindle (won a championship her freshman season) for whatever reason. The setter is the QB. Binney is no better at setting than Swindle, is significantly shorter so the the opposing teams just hit right over her when she's in the front row (where Swindle is a legitimate blocker) and the team lacks fire. Additionally, many fans have commented that Elliott looks like he's checked out on the sidelines, Spears looks like she's checked out as well. The last few years have seen highly recruited players surprisingly transferring out (Ames & Whit for example) who are doing well at their new schools. Like someone said earlier, it really seems like Elliot is like Mack Brown post 2009 where he seems to just be coasting on the laurels of his previous success and doesn't seem to have the same passion for his job.

Swept by ou, program is downward spiral right now. And he’s not playing his best players? Malpractice at this point.

Basically what Sark told me with that play choice is he didn't trust his oline against ou's defense to get the 2 yards. Of course that would have been better in hindsight than the missed field goal which gave ou another 7 yards free.

Which is completely the opposite of what happened vs. Ohio St. Also that's not "all gas no brakes" that's no gas all brakes.

I have not been watching matches, but volleyball is down compared to their standard. Dropping sets where in past Texas would have swept easily without much fanfare. It's not lack of talent so only thing I can point to is coaching, Eric Sullivan apparently was the cog in the machine. Team has not been as dominant since he left. And the middle blocker position has dropped off dramatically. Texas was pumping out Olympians left and right until he left.

I think at this stage in his life, Muschamp is content being a well paid DC and enjoying life with his family. Less headaches to deal with unlike the head coach. I agree with Gerry that top choice should be Marcus Freeman if not looking for a short term fix. He's been able to handle the Notre Dame brand and demands (which is similar to Texas); can recruit, and has built good teams. Would be similar to problem as Sark though in that NFL will come knocking.

34 - 3 Texas shuts OU down again and they get a late field goal to not be shut out.

This is where, while us fans want Arch to fire away and hit some spectacular plays, protecting the football and not turning the ball over will be huge.

That and he completely changed course on his offense because instead of accepting that he counted on an offense led by Colt McCoy and never bothered to get Garret Gilbert any worthwhile in game experience so when Colt got hurt in the championship game he had nobody ready to take the reins. Then instead of prepping Gilbert to take over the next year, he decided to change the offense completely away from what made Gilbert good (and what he was recruited for) to try to copy Saban's offensive approach (which made no sense because they had recruited different personnel). It was the complete opposite of build the scheme to fit your players, it was literally force these players into this scheme (square peg meet round hole). Additionally, it seemed like Mack's recruits evaluations started to really slip. He signed players way early in the cycle and considered it done and missed out on a bunch of good players later in the cycle while a bunch of his early high rated recruits tailed off and didn't really pan out in college.

I think Rod said that in Texas' history, there's never been a period where a coach won three in a row against all three primary rivals (OU, Arkansas, Aggie). I know you didn't include Arkansas, but Rod did since they are the three permanent rivals moving forward and historically were a rival.

Stoops owned Texas for the most part. Very frustrating, hopefully Sark will have a long tenure of returning the favor.

Considering they have probably the best back in college football right now, it works. It works really really well.