Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (Time for Sark to earn some damn respect)
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That's what I have been expecting. Once he said he wasn't visiting Texas the last weekend in July and was going to announce in early August, it was pretty easy to see it won't be Texas.
AMEN!!! PREACH!!!
Nebraska is a program I've followed my whole life. After four years of Adrian Martinez, I think those guys are going to be thrilled with a healthy Casey Thompson.
Martinez is a guy who looks great on paper, and makes some really pretty plays when there's not much on the line. For folks who watch his highlight reels, you'd think he was a legitimate pro prospect. But historically he turns into something different - in a bad way - in crunch time. In my opinion he's been a big piece of Nebraska's "snakebit" string of close losses, and I expect more of the same from him at KSU.
That's completely fair on Martinez. This is a big "prove it" year for him.
I agree that he wasn’t hired for a longer term rebuild, yet here we are. Had Tom stayed our head coach, I think most would agree we’d be worse off talent-wise than we are now and what is setting up as part of that rebuild.
I understand that 5 wins last year was a failure, but the horrendous nature of our OL was a HUGE player in that, along with an ineffective front 7 on defense. Sark is addressing those weaknesses very well. He could have done a better job addressing the OL through the portal last year, and I think his biggest mistake was thinking the DL was elite in how they manhandled an average OL, when reality it was a below average DLdominating an absolute crap OL.
I feel he has done an excellent job addressing the weaknesses since then, and to place unrealistic expectations of a conference championship game, on a team that still has a crap OL, in front of a qb that hasn’t started a game since his junior year of high school, just because he was hired to be better than Tom, is foolish. We have to look at the big picture of long term relevance rather than a myopic view of this season, in my opinion.
Great point. Sarkisian has a lot of critics. Last season didn't help. However, this season is a great opportunity for him to shed that 7-win label. There's enough talent on offense to make it happen.
I don’t disagree. That said, Worthy would not have been on the team, we wouldn’t have Quinn Ewers, we wouldn’t have the influx of OL talent that we’ve desperately needed since 2006, and we wouldn’t have Arch along with the solid ‘23 class we are building.
Again, focusing on last and this years results is too myopic, IMO.
It is not possible that the Phantom Menace can be in the top 10 list of Star War's Movies/TV Shows.
I'm not saying that because the Phantom Menace is bad. I'm saying that because there are (at least) 10 things better.
What's not myopic is that Steve needs to be as good on the field as he is off of it.
We had a handful of players who looked like they quit about halfway through last season. I think if Tom had stayed it might have been more than a handful. And we still would have had no OL talent. I'm not sure the season wouldn't have imploded under Herman just like it did for Sark.
I also think Tom would have had a better record, but not to the point of playing in the conference championship game. I think Joshua Moore would have stayed and been very good.
How do you think he would have handled the qb situation?
Card would have started all 12 games, barring injury.
7-5 means they have lost to at LEAST 2 teams they should not of. There is nothing good about that.God help us if they go 7-5.
Just because they were terrible last year at 5-7 doesn't mean 7 or 8 wins is a huge improvement. Now 9 wins is something to talk about.
Look at the schedule. Alabama and then what? Which Big 12 team is improved from last year? OK st defense will not be near as good. Baylor? OU? Neither are as good as last year are they?
It is all set up for TX to have a good year. They play one team this year with better talent. Just 1. What more can they ask for? Hell, The defense just has to be average or close to average. The O-line just needs to be average and not a open gate to the QB this year.
Who in the Big 12 has improved this year? OK st, Baylor or OU? Any of them better than last year?
Texas probably doesn't have better defensive talent than all but one team on the schedule.
I thought he did great with the emotions. He's a teenager who's been raised by monks
On the O-line did they not see just how bad they were in the spring? I mean Flood is getting paid $1.1 million a year right? Maybe they could have gotten someone that wasn't a swinging gate to the QB. Just 1 guy.
There are no excuses this year. 8 wins should be the bare minimum. 7 wins means they lost to at least 2 teams they shouldn't have. There aren't 4 teams on their schedule who are better than them this year talent wise.
I would argue there is 1 team in Alabama no one else.
So.. How many teams will have a better defense that they play besides Bama? Can they not play close to average? Just anything better than last year? MAYBE?
On offense who besides Alabama has more talent? Can the O-line just give the QB 3 seconds. ( Well besides the Bama game
) My biggest worry is the kicking game.
And who starts at LB, DE & Safety, because those positions killed us, too. What would your hypothetical O/U on wins on 2021 have been if Herman had stayed? Because I'm pretty sure our offense would have stalled with Mensa calling plays behind that OL, and our defense was clearly going to be bad, too. Maybe we catch a break or two (hell, Sark seems to have caught zero breaks) but we'd have still been a bad team.
ps, forgot to mention above, but great 10TFTW this week.
Tom probably would have done better that the 5-7 of last year. But given the trend of his recruiting & development, he probably would have experienced that 5-7 record this year.
Just keep repeating this so that those in the back can keep hearing you.
I agree that was his biggest mistake.
We definitely have better skill position talent than anyone we play that isn’t Alabama. That said, how many teams do we play where you think our OL is better than their DL? How many teams do we play where you think our DL is better than their OL?
I would argue there are many teams having the advantage in the trenches because they have for many years. Add in the mistakes that a freshman qb running for his life will make, and 8 wins will prove to be solid improvement.
I thought Duece Vaughn would have graduated by now.
Seems like he’s been at K St forever.
Seems like he’s been at K St forever.
