Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (Sark has a lot to do)
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PK’s defensive alignment will never work. Just last week, Alex wrote about a return to 2021 with the ends lining up too wide and rushing downfield past the passer. This reminds me so much of Diaz.Just last week people were yelling at me for even suggesting the defense could still improve.
Seven days later, fire the guy after the first game he doesn't hold a team under 20 points!
Kinda feels like panic.
I wish they would have never made the movie Groundhog Day because then I wouldn’t see Ned in my head every year. Phil? Phil Connors?
Just sick of having to have players that are so good that they overcome the coaches lack of ability.
I suspect you’re trolling. I’m coming after the lead recruiter for rivals who bases players entire profile on one camp/game. Then ignores the camps for other guys like Arch. I like your rankings, but lost all respect when he recently double downed on his decision.
This is really, really well said.
A high four star is a super blue chip.
A regular run of the mill four star is not.
Banks was the former.
Ketch, coaching deficiencies aside, would you say this is possibly the least talented defense we have fielded since the early Mackovic days, at least in terms of top end talent?
The freshmen remain to be seen, but I’m struggling to find a single guy on this defense who is anything more than a fringe NFL pick.
The freshmen remain to be seen, but I’m struggling to find a single guy on this defense who is anything more than a fringe NFL pick.
Unfortunately, there probably isn't one. But you have to know doing nothing and allowing the same things to continue will be the death nail.
Why is it that the outside viewers can see these type of details clear as day but the internal staffers don’t or do and refuse to adapt???
Exactly. Just edit it to Phil being a fan and Ned being any coach for the past decade plus.
maybe. but this year's top 5 class will be sophomores and next year's class if we hold them will be true freshmen including Arch. so how much do we expect them to contribute? it might take by year 3 of the Sark era for that to happen.
Sark running on the field Saturday
Sark collecting his trophy for leading us to that big "toilet bowl" win.
any talk about Ewers going pro at all is on hold until he actually does something.
firing PK now isn't a good look. on the program for hiring Sark or Sark for picking him. his body of work at Boise St. and UW under Petersen is solid. what the issue is, isn't easily known. it could be his schemes just aren't working. there seems to be enough talent at this point, not world class but talent nonetheless.
most in this forum won't like it but the best thing for Texas is to stay the course for this season on PK and see what happens.
yeah. he is. i've always been a big fan of Patty and what he did at little private TCU but his best days as a coach are behind him. one of the selling points for Strong, Herman and Sark was they were young enough to coach Texas long term.
now maybe if we'd gone after Patty instead of Strong .... i was in favor of it.
and at least part of the reason TCU jetted him after all he's certainly done for TCU (and spurned offers from bigger schools to stay at TCU) is i think they thought Patty was getting "long in the tooth" and wanted a younger more offensive minded coach. we'll see how that works out with Sonny Dykes.
and if he can recruit "Alabama talent" then maybe he'll work out. he's managed to pull one top 5 class with potentially another coming in.
no. and in year two you'd expect a good scheme to show better results than we've seen to date.
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Thank you! This team will be different when Quinn comes back, he’s that good. We will be able to open the playbook up so much more with Quinn. He’s the highest rated recruit in 20 years at the most important position in sports. Also, no other team has been snake bitten with injuries like we have, hell we lost one of our top transfers before the year even started. I understand the concerns we as fans have for this team, but for our fans to want Sark fired is asinine! Give him a chance to go out and the proper hire at DC because we all know PK won’t make it to next year. Back off the ledge.
You assume that things will be different when Quinn comes back because all of that confirmation bias inside of you demands that it be so. I'd suggest believing that everything changes because a guy that has played four quarters of college football returns is a dangerous assumption, one that is mostly built on uncontrolled hope.
We didn’t need a rebuild before Sark got here? Did you see Herman’s O line recruiting?
I did. Did you see the second best season in 12 years for the program literally as he was fired. The program needed tweaks to move forward, not setbacks taking it backwards.
Sure. Except entirely new staffs have entirely new schemes, and need different personnel to operate said scheme, regardless of what a previous staffs record was with said personnel. I’m not happy with Sark for the record, but I’m not ready to declare him done by 2024.
Part of being a good coach is being able to adapt to what you have, and find a way to win or put your team in a place to win. “If only we had better players and more 5 stars” can’t be a coach’s excuse. Scheme around the players you have, or teach them your scheme Especially when programs like Baylor, Oklahoma state, TCU, Oklahoma , have been able to produce better teams than Texas over a decade. Texas (and honestly Texas A&M) are the only programs that blame losing on not having the right players…..because obviously it can’t be that they made a bad hire or don’t have the best coach. How could we, we are Texas. How many coaches in the big 12 would foam at the mouth to trade rosters with us?
You could almost say up to this point…Herman did more with less (talent) and Sark has done less with more (talent)…
He wasn't hired to go 7-9 in his first 16 games.
He was hired to make the program go from pretty good to great instantly.
Only incredible failure caused the complete reboot.
Well obviously. It doesn’t negate the point that it may take a little time. All the advanced metrics point to us being a good team. Very unlucky, and injured. But actually not that bad. Should we be 3-1? Of course. That is on Sark. But the world isn’t over. With Ewers, we are 4-0 and top 5 right now. Without Ewers, we are 2 plays from being 4-0 and top 5 right now.
It's not how I view it, but I am getting annoyed at how we aren't catching any breaks. Sure, one can say "create breaks".
I just feel since the OU game kicked, every toe for the opponent has been in bounds and every toe for us out. I think we're up to 5 forced fumbles, but zero recoveries.
We drop picks and key 3rd down plays, the opponent flails a trick play for a TD or underthrows a ball badly for a crushing PI penalty.
We get safeties taken off the board or sacks turned into phantom penalties.
I know I'm not seeing this completely right, but imagine for a second if Bamas kicker did what Arkansas' kicker did against aggy. When are we going to get something that bounces our way? It just feels pretty overdue.
And that's frustrating, especially when the losses are by a few points.
I 100% agree with you. I have zero doubt that if it was Texas in that exact same situation with Arkansas that kick hits the upright and bounces in. At this point I have concluded that this is the curse of the Longhorn Network and once in the SEC with that no longer a thing, our luck will start to change. Its all I've got now. Same thing with the Dallas Cowboys and Jerry Jones.
Ketch, it’s not only not getting any better, it’s getting worse. I believe that Sarkisian falls under the category that no one understands, and that is that he is afraid to win. Sounds crazy, but some people do not have the mental capacity to be a winner. It’s damn near impossible to figure this Texas football program of the last 12 years out. Their is not a single college institution with more to offer, and the money to pay for it than the University of Texas, yet they muck it up year after year so well. This last game was pretty much the last straw for me. Getting beat by a team full of 2&3 star players, run by a second string quarterback and a first year head coach is unforgivable from my point of view from down here in football hell. I’ve determined that it does not matter how I live the rest of my life here on earth, I will be going to heaven when I die because I’ve already spent enough time in hell by be virtue of being a diehard Longhorn fan for way too many years.
