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Speaking of growing pains, I'm going to go a bit off character and ask a question for thought that I know could illicit some "stop over-reacting" comments. It's not a criticism of Sark, or Arch, or how the offense has looked the last couple of games, but rather something that I started pondering after thinking about how other teams have won or played for championships lately. Sarks QB strategy is clearly to recruit a HS QB he likes every year and develop them. Hopefully for a year or two before they have to start. Is this the smartest way to go? The Pros: Before a QB has to start a game, they have had a year or two to sit and learn Sark's complicated offense. It's also likely to be more sustainable and build more depth than relying on transfers. The Cons: Inevitably, even if a 5 star prospect has spent a couple of years learning the system, at some point you are going to be relying on a QB with little to no game experience to start. There are growing pains for at least the early part of the season. Also, you can project what a HS QB could develop into in college, but you don't really know until they are on the field. Some are just misses (Weigman, Arnold, Nelson, Uiagalelei are just a few of the 5 stars lately that didn't exactly flourish at their initial destination) Both teams that played in the national championship game last year did so with portal QBs. Oregon has been a top 5 team the last 3 years with Nix and then Gabriel, and looks to be very good again this year with Moore. OU is unfortunately looking better than I would like with Mateer. I have always liked Sark's recruit and develop the best HS QB strategy (Quinn wasn't a traditional experienced portal transfer), but I can see what some teams are preferring to take the route of bringing in a proven transfer each season and trying to avoid the inevitable growing pains of a first-year starter.

Question about Sark as a play caller: In games against top defenses, does he spend too much time early in the game trying to set them up later for a big play, instead of just doing what seems to be working? I know it’s one of his calling cards, but it seems like maybe it’s gotten us into too big a hole against OSU and the first time against GA?

The problem with this is what really elite OC is going to come to Texas knowing Sark isn’t really going to turn over the offense.

I agree. I guess at least the were close losses instead of blowouts we’ve watched under previous coaches, and probably should have been 3-4 if not for getting jobbed by the refs against bama ‘22 and Aubruns missed kicks in the SEC champ game. Still sucks though. Especially since we are 0-4 against really good opponents the last 2 years when we were a top 5 team too.

Why not throw in fall flips of Lee and Keys while we are at it🤷‍♂️

With Tackle being a huge need in this class, a few weeks ago getting 2 of Turntine, Ojo, Lee, Roseborough, or Utu seemed to be a given. Now there seems to be an NIL fueled path to getting none of those 5, but surely not 🤞

I certainly would say gadget back and OP may have gone a bit far, but to be fair, the talk for months has been that an ideal RB class would be Edwards as a speed/receiving back paired with a power back like Crowell, Lattimer, Cooper etc.

Add in Gbenda, Holmes, Norton, Bolden and Majors that have signed UDFA contracts that's just an amazing influx of horns into the league. I would have to think that if the legal case ends in his favor, Bond would be added to the UDFA list to make 18 total.

The Redcat wouldn't have hurt to have on a few short yardage situations. Understand why he wanted to go somewhere and be more featured than that though. And of course, no one knew Baxter was going out for season.

Gotcha, thanks. I thought maybe he might be struggling with the recovering and moving to a medical scholarship or something. If he never contributes anything other than being Arch's friend and helping get him here that's a scholarship well spent!, It's a shame he blew the knee out, he might not have the athletic profile of some other TE's, but I'm sure Arch had a lot of trust throwing him the ball.

Welcome Jeff? long time fan. Why did you single out "(including Will Randle)". Has something happened to him unusual?

No, don't you dare mention Casey. It would just like OU to roll him out in that game and have him go all Alamo Bowl on us 🤦‍♂️