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I understand this and do agree with it to some extent. But Ewers struggled in the same offense. He had some great games and then would have some really bad ones. So can we really say it's 100% just on Arch? I mean I can see what the video is saying and hell even what the all 22 is showing with guys open and all that. But I still hesitate to just say it's all Arch. Because if it's 100% on him, then what have they been teaching him and what has he been doing in practice?

Is that Baker and Robertson having a mid game therapy session?

Well wherever he is, I miss talking to him. He was also fun to chat with in the DM's and he was right about what he said.

Okay to be fair, Florida didn't change QB's, the starter got hurt.

Ah damn, I thought I saw he got unbanned.

Well I put it on Sark, you recruited him, you've "developed" him and you put this offensive talent together, including the OL. So we can pass the buck all we want but he's the guy who has to take responsibility. Why is your 4th year QB in his 2nd year starting regressing every year? If he's no good, bench him. Just know it'll be a serious blow to your QB credentials though and everyone will talk about how you completely destroyed a Manning's development. It will look even worse if he goes elsewhere and balls out in his final year. Either way, he needs to make a decision because his future is riding on it. He also has some tough off-season decisions to make on his coaching staff and support staff. That's assuming the wheel's don't fall off and we're looking for a new head guy.

You're not doing any of this mid season. Who on the staff is good enough to call plays? Change the identity of the Offense to what? Because we can't even figure out what the current identity is. Changing the QB is plausible, but what happens when it looks like more of the same without the script?

The only one who did seems to be Kirby Smart, imo.

Hey where's Hashtag, it feels like he should be here talking his ish. Remember when everyone pretty much ran him off for saying this exact stuff last year?

I'm not giving him credit for developing Banks. That dude was going to be a stud no matter where he went. Williams was an okay development. He did okay with Christian Jones. I'll give some credit for Goosby but he has his issues and Siani has been getting worse each week. Baker on the inside doesn't seem like he's adjusted well, Sikorski is okay but has slow feet but he doesn't get pushed back a ton. Robertson is okayish, not strong enough, gets pushed back more than Majors did. Campbell was okay, too. Had a mean streak but never really seemed to hit his stride. Huston was okay but never really seemed to develop past his Fr year, for whatever reason. Umeozulu, I've no idea what happened with that dude. Stroh was a disaster but I don't think it was the young man's fault. Chapman, I think you mean Chatman? Haven't really seen dude outside of the spring stuff. Cruz was the supposed air apparent at C and he hasn't seen much playing time at NC State, I believe. Kibble is the starting LG for Baylor. Nick Brooks was disappointing but got put in a terrible situation. Had never played G and Flood just threw him in there and he looked terrible (understandably). I think he's second string RT at Bama? Merill and Karic were Herman hold overs.

Sark only gets like this when CJ asks him a question.

I like Traylor, but they're not going to spend all that money buying out Sark and his coaching staff to go hire a G6 HC. I like Matt Rhule but I'm not sure he would be on the list either. Chesney I actually like, I believe he came from JMU and is having a good amount of success at UCLA. It's hard to decide who to hire, I'm sure CDC and the people around him have a short list. Right now all we can do is hope by some miracle Sark figures it out and they go on some 6-0 run and make the playoffs and make a run there. Right now I'm struggling to see it.

Sark is sounding like Shaka 2.0 lol. Maybe that's an unfair comparison. But the fact that personnel has changed and the problems persist. From year to year, that should tell us who the problem is. All off-season what did we hear non-stop "we needed the change at DC to be more physical and aggressive"...."we're going to be a more physical team"..blah, blah, blah. Yet Will Stein first year HC with a team he put together from the portal, is way more physical at the LoS than we are. He plays to his players strengths and schemes things up well. Now this isn't a "hire Will Stein" post, just that if a first year HC has it more figured out than you after 3 years in the SEC and 6 years at the helm of a blue blood program. What the heck are you doing? You wanted all these "big human's" and they look like they couldn't push a 90 year old grandma out of the way.

I've noticed this. Sark's scripts look great and to Rod B's point, he doesn't seem to adjust very well. So it kind of explains why the team looks great to start a game and then in between they look completely lost. Like he's just throwing play calls out there. As for Arch, I thought he'd maybe go the LSU route, team up with Kiffin. He's a lot of things but he can develop QB's and has a QB friendly offense.

OL comes back to scheme and ultimately Sark. Everything wrong circles back to Sark. It's that simple really. Arch's regression from 2024 to 2026 is crazy. How he has kept the same offensive coaches outside of RB for several years now and still the same results. But good thing we got rid of PK so he can focus on the O now....

Just last year he would've easily pulled this and ran for the TD. This year apparently he can't do a basic RPO. I really do wonder what Sark is saying to him before each play or doing with him in practice. Because none of this makes sense to me. He looked different in 2024 compared to 2025 and now he looks worse in 2026 than he did in 2025.

Freeman is never leaving Notre Dame unless he has NFL ambitions. They have a clear path the CFB every year. Although they look like they might lose this BYU game. Cignetti doesn't seem like he wants to leave Indiana. He's got a ton of support, got a cushy new deal and is doing really well there despite the loss to Ohio State today. Saban and Meyer are never going back to coaching. Anyone else you want to go after is a risk. Now they'll have a great financial support system behind them to go and get whatever they want. But Sark already has that and has in a lot of aspects under performed. You'd also have to convince the boosters to spend well over 50 million and convince them that this next guy will get Texas over the top. I mean we have 1 national title in how many years now? That just isn't good enough for a blue blood. I fear Sark missed his window in 23 and 24.

Honestly? I have no idea. I'm not really sure what to expect with this team. It seems like the wheels have been unbolted and might come off at any moment or they'll get bolted back on and they'll keep this thing cruising. Who knows. It's definitely not an easy task and I don't get paid enough money to figure out. These are just my opinions on what I witnessed.

My useless judgements are this: Texas defense seemed to take a step back. Too many 3rd downs given up. Still no turnovers after 3 games. Got beaten by a first time starting QB. Texas offense is in a death spiral. Not sure Sark can get a handle on it. He doesn't know what he's doing when he has to go off his script. Arch is continuing to regress under his and Milwee's tutelage. Special teams wasn't a negative this week, which is great. The run game is never go to work, if you bring in backs like Smothers and Brown. The kind of physical run game Sark wants requires bigger guys like Cooper. I'm not ready to throw in the towel yet (I might be a masochist) but this team was also 4-2 last year at a similar point. Just with 4 non-con games and only 2 conference games. There is some sliver of hope to turn it around. Thought playoffs might be done but there was some SEC chaos today that might've kept our hopes alive if you can pull it off.

This is going to sound weird but I don't think he's on the hot seat. They were 4-2 last year before going 5-1 the rest of the way. Now I'm not saying that will happen again but I think he's got a bit of rope left the question is will he hang himself with it or pull himself back up? We just saw Bama get their tails whooped against Tenn, Georgia lost the game against unranked Auburn with a Stockon fumble (he also had 2 int's) and Mateer has almost 200 yards passing against Kentucky already. Now are there issues for Texas, yes. Especially on the offensive side. Because let's be honest every QB Florida has played has lit them up and Arch had 77 yards going into the 4th quarter. If not for a big pass to Mosley he would barely have 100 yards for an entire game. Sark will evaluate nothing, it's just to get people off his back. It shouldn't take back to back losses to realize that your offense is hot garbage. That things needed be changed. You brought in two RB's that don't fit what you want out of the running game, you have an OL that is geared towards pass protection and not the run game. Yet you don't lean into the pass game more. When it was working early in the game you went away from it to run the ball. Arch literally had the hot hand. I'm just baffled by his decisions at times. He won't hire an OC so you guys can forget that and no one is getting fired on that side of the ball. Unless the wheels really fall off. Personally, I'm just going to see how things play out and go from there. But if he can't fix the offense and find a way to get this talent to work, then I don't know after that. I also thought defensively the team was not as good as I thought. Still no turnovers and they gave up a lot of 3rd down conversions. Some of it was bad field position by the O or just being on the field too much but they are legit concerns. At least special teams wasn't a negative this week?

There's actually some really good lacrosse players in Texas. Ethan Burke was one before he went the football route.

Sark would've run a toss play.

@Jeff Howe Love the little explanations with the video showing what you're talking about. Would love to see more of that, if it's not too much work for you. Great stuff.

The thing I love about Cooper is he doesn't dance around, he makes a cut and explodes. I think Brown dances too much and Smothers doesn't have as much explosiveness as Cooper. Seems like they might need to give Cooper more of a run with Smothers. Use Brown sparingly.