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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.

Pretty cool team building with a message. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19JjECrdHc/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Would be interesting to add a third point of view to compare with - viewing parties, whether at a bar or with a group of friends as opposed to watching it by yourself at home.

So watching the Gators a lot. And looking at the offenses this year, of his top 3, Florida has the most explosive offense and is putting up points. They are the most attractive option at the moment.

Interesting photos, Texas is the only one without the head coach in the picture. It's annoying, but Staley has made S.Carolina a strong destination for women bball players.

I think part of the issue is Sark is trying to make his QBs play like NFL QBs and doesn't build his system to their strengths, they have to learn his system the way he built it. Which is fine and dandy when you have a QB with those skills sets. Deboer, Kiffin, etc. utilize QB friendly systems with easy quick reads. Additionally, I think it was Bobby or someone who mentioned this morning that it doesn't seem like Arch can audible when he sees something the defense is showing. So basically if the defense called the right D, he's handcuffed. Sark does motions to see what the defense is going to be and then makes his play call; well today's defenses are advanced enough to show one thing and actually be something else. In essence, they could be baiting Sark into doing what they wanted him to do. My data points would be - when he runs out of choices and has to let Arch play backyard football with no huddle and quick reads. Arch seems to perform significantly better.

That's fair. Where I would point to as a data point (as we don't know for sure since we're not behind the curtain) would be in Vic's rant after the embarrassing loss to Vandy last year when he was frustrated and said some things out loud. One of which was - the players not following the game plan and what was drilled in practice in the game. I can't remember his exact words, but it was something to the effect of - "many hours of work and they just ignored it It can be argued that part of coaching is getting the players to execute and do what you want them to do. I do feel like in today's NIL world that seems to be a lot harder than it used to be and many coaches are experiencing that.

Disagree with you on this one. Does Coach Vic frustrate me at times? You bet. But facts are that since Coach Conradt, Texas hasn’t been relevant in women’s bball until Coach Vic came. And Texas had some elite recruits before his time as well - but part of recruiting is on the coach. Coach Vic has recruited more elite players than Texas has seen in prior years. Karen Aston would pull maybe 1 or 2 in (Ariel Atkins) and got lucky that Brooke McCarty was good, but she wasn’t elite. Part of the reason UConn and the other schools win is because they have way more talent than the rest of the league. I argue it’s a lot easier to win when your starting team is composed of the top 50 players in the country. During their Dynasty UConn had the top ranked recruit almost every year. Now Texas is in the conversation to get those types of players where in previous years they wouldn’t even have a chance.