OTFBrandon

@Gerry Hamilton I found Gerry’s favorite Elvis impersonator haha. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLS9nwGW/

If I’m coach Sark this Saturday I’m running at least 65-70 percent of my plays out of ten personnel. The recipe to beat Floridas defense is to spread them out. Just ask SC how they blew them out. I can only begin to imagine this is the breakout game for the offensive side of the ball. I also think Texas needs to find its footing tempo wise this game. They had it running pretty smooth in the last quarter against OSU and the first two against UTSA. Having the ability to play at your pace and will, will certainly give this offense the consistency and confidence it needs.

The offense individually isn’t the issue. It’s the decision making, and discipline that’s killing this team. The offense doesn’t need a magic pill to be what they need to be, they need to find consistency in what works for them! Not what Sark thinks will work, but what works for that unit! The special teams on the other hand has a way to go, but honestly inconsistent offense leads to bad situational decisions for the special teams to make and play. If the offense had just plays three good quarters of football, it takes all the pressure off of the special teams to somehow give us a chance to stay in the game. A blocked punt and punt return don’t happen when your offense doesn’t put you in situations for it to happen. Sure punting and kicking haven’t been great, but pressure to be the reason you win games shouldn’t come down on their shoulders unless absolutely necessary.

Good morning fellas. I was thinking about just how hard it is to win football games in the SEC, let alone against your arch rival who’s playing desperate and without anything to lose. I’m reading people’s comments about just how bad this loss was, don’t get me wrong it’s probably the worst loss in the Sark era, but everyone’s due a loss. I honestly am glad our first loss of the season came to OU. How much harder would it be to bounce back after losing the way Texas lost if it was to an Ole Miss, or LSU? I guess what I’m saying is if there was a game to play an absolute stinker of a game I’m glad it was this one.

Also if it’s what I’m anticipating, short quick throws and downhill runs, could yall try to ask coach Sark why they don’t stick to that successful strategy.

Can any of the mods break down Texas’s scoring drives this season, particularly the final couple against OSU, and compare it to what Texas has been doing in all the three and outs. It feels like night and day between the two. Kinda feels like just completely different schemes.

No you’re completely right, I guess I’m just tired of everyone hating our own Qb year after year.

@Bobby Burton @CJ Vogel @Gerry Hamilton Is the missing link for the offense these past few seasons including this year, a ready to die QB? I feel like I haven’t seen any QB since Sam Ehlinger play so proud to be a longhorn. Nothing rattled that guy, just like VY and Colt. Just some ride or die guys.

Maybe time to change your name?

Yup because Arch desides to wait to run the ball until they’re 5-6 yards behind the LOS. It’s the PLAYCALLER! You just want to see Arch play hero ball. There’s no need for that when you have the talent you have and can’t scheme anything for them.

Nothing will change until everything about this program does. Texas is in a position to compete for a national championship every season but ultimately just doesn’t get the job done. I’m not saying this season is done, but if changes aren’t made immediately it's just about done. Anyway, It's not a lack of talent, or athletes, or the ability to have good coaching. It’s lack of competence. Complacency brings sloppiness, mediocrity, and satisfaction. I’m not trying to take away the success Texas has had in the past couple of seasons because it’s been nothing short of impressive for how bad Texas was in the 2010’s. But allowing for your team to lose games the same way year after year and be okay with it because you make the playoffs, or win ten games in one season is just unacceptable and plainly insane. I’m not asking for perfection because that’s just almost impossible to do now in this state of college football, shoutout IU. Indiana is the perfect example of how a program needs to be run. You don’t need a 50 million dollar roster to compete. You need discipline and consistency, and it all starts with the coaching. How are you going to challenge your players to not do the things they want to do but instead what they need to? How can you coach your players to keep your emotions in check? The answer is discipline. Discipline is the answer to success. If coach sark had discipline he would understand that the way he’s running things isn’t working and would take accountability. He has to have accountability to see that sometimes you can’t have it the way you want it. It's time to give over offensive play calling duties to someone else. If he’s unwilling to do so it exudes to his players that accountability is held to everyone except himself. That is a recipe for disaster. It doesn’t need to be a rework of what Sark wants offensively, but he needs to be the HEAD COACH and no more. At some point as a fan it feels selfish to see him answer questions regarding the problems his team has and simply ignores issues the reporters ask him. At some point, we have to stop looking at every loss as an isolated incident and start asking ourselves why the same problems continue to show up. A penalty here, a questionable decision there, a lack of execution when the game is on the line. Any team can have a bad game. But when the same issues keep appearing, eventually you have to look beyond the players on the field and examine the culture that is being established behind them. An elite program doesn’t just recruit elite talent. It demands elite standards. It demands accountability from the players, the assistant coaches, and especially the head coach. Nobody should be above criticism, and nobody should be satisfied simply because the program has made progress. Sorry for the rant, I’m just a frustrated fan.

Feel like he wouldn’t make a decision yet until Florida rolls into Austin

Imagine the flip is DJ Jacob’s to miami

Well it’s been a ride lol

Texas has shown all of these key areas to the game and has shown them well, but it needs to become a routine for them if they want to win it all. I want to put discipline in its own category though. Execution and consistency can be achieved quicker and easier for this team as it has shown when Texas has needed too (Clutch offensive drives and defensive stands). But discipline on penalties will make or break this team. They’ve shown they can be disciplined. Take the Ohio State game for example, the Longhorns wouldn’t have even had the opportunity to make the comeback they did if they played as sloppy and undisciplined as they did in Neyland this past Saturday. I believe discipline will take this team the whole nine yards.

Thanks for the response Jeff! I was thinking about how efficient the offense was when they made the defense pay for not covering our explosive guys well enough. Sometimes I think Sark needs to realize how talented his team actually is and simple slants and meshes and non long developing plays that ruin momentum makes this team look unstoppable. It’s what they did to OSU in the 4th. This team is really capable of winning it all.

@Jeff Howe I’m going to ask you these quick questions because of how quick you got your thoughts out in the live thread during the game. What is this offense’s main issue? And how does it differ from years past with Sark? Why does it feel like we’re just consistent QB play away from winning it all?

Prayers man!! Had a similar situation not too long ago with my Father-in-law. This groups prayers were certainly needed and very helpful. She’ll be in my prayers tonight!!

Am I the only one not panicking at all after last night? Of course it was an awful showing of the number one team’s offense in America, but it was bound to happen. Bad games are apart of Football and bad days and weeks are apart of human nature. This game wasn’t as bad as i honestly thought it was going to be following what happened this week leading to it. Sure Arch didn’t play to his standards and obviously he knows it, but neither did his pass catchers or his linemen. Did UTSA blitz almost every play? Just about. Did that mess up timing and gave less time for our receivers to get space? Yes of course. Should Texas had made adjustments to combat those problems? Of course but they didn’t till the fourth quarter. Long story short is that Texas faced adversity all week and it showed up Saturday night in a way that’s not pleasant to the fan base. But IMO you have to give this team grace for what they’ve accomplished already in this young season. Sure they haven’t had as many flashy explosive plays as they probably should have right now, but they’ve managed to knock off probably the second best team in the nation regardless of ranking. They don’t have the luxury of having those explosive plays and ran up scores for that reason. Thus making me not panic. I don’t care about explosive plays. I care about wins, and that’s what they’ve done so far, and against a team that would almost certainly beat anyone else in the top 10. So, don’t panic yet. Arch is a human being. Not a perfect machine. The offense will be fine. The defense will continue to dominate. All you can do it learn from this week and move on to Tennessee.

Sloppy game after a sloppy week for Texas football. IMO teams of years past would’ve won by 7 at most no matter the ranking.

How close this game is in the second half, will determine how much grit this team has.

You could tell the game is much slower for Arch, the interception was just greedy and won’t happen again from him.

52-10 Texas

What’s a cup of Kool-Aid you guys are willing to drink this year about this Texas team. Mine is believing that the overall discipline of the team penalty wise has improved dramatically.

What’s the confidence look like that Attalah chooses Texas today?