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All-in every year! With the new world order (NIL and the portal) you have the potential to hit the jackpot in any given year. Roster cycles are not what they once were. Be aggressive and play to win.

Yup!

The next day or two is going to tell us a lot about what type of leader Arch is. The administration has gone “all-in” making financial resources available this portal season and we’ve got the right prospects on campus. Everything is in place, now we have to close the sale. Is Arch the type of leader that attracts other high caliber players that feed off the opportunity to be part of something extraordinary or is he just a talented player with a famous name, arm talent, and some good wheels?

Let’s make the playoff first and then worry about whether our seeding/bracket is optimal. Sark spent so much time on the long game (holding dinged players out, lighter practices, etc) that the team never actually really came together for the “now.” He needs to practice what he preaches and recognize that not maximizing now leaves the team less prepared later.

Legend

The guy is a true Longhorn, he will be missed

Merry Christmas fellow Longhorns! May your lives be full of cheer and your plates bountiful.

This is probably my biggest problem with Sark. His job is to be the HEAD COACH of the University of Texas and be responsible for ALL aspects of the team. During a game he should be thinking about O, D, and ST, not focusing on which play he should be starting the next offensive series with. I don’t know that bringing in another DC, no matter how good, solves that fundamental issue If Sark is really ALL IN for ‘26 he needs to do himself and the team a favor and get an OC / Play Caller that he can work with and shift his focus to being the best Head Coach that he can be. That doesn’t mean he can’t have input on play design and play calling, it just transfers the primary responsibility of that to someone else so that he can manage the game as a whole.

I was pretty critical of Wingo through most of the season, but he did improve as the season went along. Excluding the first play WR screen bonanza, he still needs to improve his skills as a down the field WR. I’m not sure if he’s going to end up a WR1 or WR2 next season. If I was Sark I would get a WR1 out of the portal and see if Wingo makes it an elite WR room ala Ohio State. Texas could barely field a functional 5-wide this past season. There is PLENTY of room to add more proven talent in that room.

The change in order wasn’t the problem, it was the overall level of play that was a disappointment. If you had graded on a 100 point scale the entire offense would have been a disappointment versus preseason expectations. Yes, a better OL would have helped but the QB spent the first part of the season throwing the ball into the ground, the WR were wildly inconsistent all season, and we couldn’t keep a starting level RB healthy for the life of us.

Didn’t A&M do something to this effect after last season? They didn’t call it resigning, it was something else, but the same idea.

Why stop at athletics? Maybe we could convince the State of Texas to sell The University to private equity so that we wouldn’t have to deal with the legislature’s antics.