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“Physicality” Do we have it yet?

Unless they are big enough recruits to start day one like Banks and you have them for three years building player to player chemistry and better knowledge of the offense overall.

Elite national top 100 type offensive linemen recruited under Sark/Flood. 2022: Banks, Campbell 2023: 2024: Baker 2025: 2026: Turntine Thats the list.

Are we a more physical team? Why? Are we more disciplined on the OL? Why? Is this OL built to execute Sark’s wide zone running scheme better than last year’s line? Why? Can this OL move the pile inside the five the way the last two lines had trouble doing? Why? These are the areas that take us from good to great.

Feels like a weird spring overall with so many key players out. More like a rookie mini camp. There’s not a whole lot of time to have this team gel into a unit that’s firing on all cylinders by the time Ohio State comes to town but that’s the task at hand. OL chemistry. Arch chemistry with the skill players. And just Arch getting back into a game winning rhythm in general. I was there today and came away feeling like I saw a lot of good parts on the field. Now the clock starts on putting them all together.

I like him better as an underdog at a place like Ole Miss. He’s gonna be unlikable again at LSU.

Classic LSU move.

Yep lotta pressure on him in that game. Sark is playing with house money in that series.

Much needed depth if he can get back even by conference play this season.

Make this approval happen Texas.

Small excerpt from a much longer post: Offensive Line There is no avoiding this conversation. Sarkisian said it himself: “I think the offensive line is something that we’re going to address in the portal.” Everyone understood the offensive line was Texas’ weakest unit in 2025 and the position most in need of immediate upgrades. Texas needed to attack this spot with the same urgency it previously showed when pursuing defensive linemen. Interior players who represented clear, instant upgrades were the goal. So far, the inability to significantly upgrade the offensive line through the portal has been a major disappointment. Texas missed on every elite target it pursued. Bodies were added, but none who check the boxes the way Coleman, Brown, or Smoothers do. The only remaining hope is a last-second Hail Mary involving an offensive lineman from Indiana or Miami. Out of respect for the players Texas did sign, an F feels harsh. That said, it is hard to argue with anyone who lands there. Transfer portal grade: D

Anwar going in dry on Flood over at OB.

https://youtu.be/ErvgV4P6Fzc?si=2J9sPXY9agpiY-T4

- Top five in OL penalties in the country. - One of the ten worst pass protection OL in the country. - So bad at run blocking in Athens we just gave up. - Flushed five interior OL misevaluations to the portaL - And to fix the problem… we added Dylan Sikorski and are rolling the dice on a redshirt or true freshman to emerge as the answer. That math don’t math.

Everyone is entitled to their opinions but @Gerry Hamilton is making the podcast nearly unwatchable. Chastising the fans for questioning and complaining about not shoring up the inside of our disastrous oline last year when it was priority number one is just too much. Especially when week one of the portal window was all about the “2-3 OL acquisitions” that we needed at guard. Not that we were good at OL and the redshirt freshman could be the answer. Could a redshirt freshman like one of the Coleman twins be the answer? Of course. Do we know they will be? Absolutely not. And if anything was learning last season it was that all benefit of the doubt needs to be removed from the offensive line roster this coming season. The freshmen on this roster were assembled by the same staff who thought Stroh, Neto and Brooks were the solve at LG last season. They are the same staff that just flushed Cruz, Kibble, Neto, Stroh and Brooks from the program. So forgive us if we don’t think the projects along the redshirt freshman OL are the answer to start against Ohio State in 7 months.