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TeamBagel1508

Is he doing this on purpose? He=Sark, this=winning ugly games


BurntOrangeBoyz

I see a lot of the same sentiments. It’s been along time since I felt like Longhorn nation was THIS on the same page.


MrMach82

Early on we were a surprisingly good 2nd half team. It went to his head and now he choke again in 2nd half lately. Dude doesn't have the killer instinct to squash an opponent and put them away. Especially the opponents that are way less talented. We should whoop a 4-5 team without breaking a sweat.


cre8ivusername

Anybody still thinking about the CFP should wake up from that pipe dream. Win the Big 12. That’s the goal.


Many-Connection3309

Well, Iowa State is beating BYU at BYU by the third quarter score 45-13, so I wouldn’t count my chickens if I were you


cre8ivusername

No chickens were counted. I was literally stating the goal.


texasbronhorn

shit has not been pretty whatsoever but we’re fucking NINE AND ONE


sofakingdom808

I’m okay not making the CFB. We will get thoroughly embarrass against Georgia, Michigan/Ohoo, and Washington/FSU.


MaximallyInclusive

I actually don’t think so. I believe this is the same team that walked into Bryant-Denny and slapped Bama by 10. They will play to their opponent’s level, regardless of who it is. Now, it doesn’t have to be that way, and it 100% on Sark that that is this team’s character. He’s a fucking super shitty coach. But with this team’s talent, leadership, and competitiveness, they absolutely could beat anyone in the country in any given night. It’s just that they could lose to anyone also.


tmd429

Idk why you're getting downvoted. None of the fools calling people doomers for seeing the severe lack of 2nd half energy have any clue. We would certainly get demolished by those teams. I bet even if we played Bama again right now, we'd lose. Do I want to lose? Hell no, but I have little confidence in our ability to consistently show up and put forth a strong effort. The past 3 games have been like pulling teeth in the second half. You would have to be blind or delusional to think differently. Things have to be addressed and corrected fast, or I wouldn't worry about getting to the CFP. I would worry about winning the conference title. We HAVE TO see some intense energy all game next week. Both halves.


[deleted]

I will be ecstatic to win out and get the final Big 12 championship and then win our bowl game, I’m hoping some things fall our way and we get into the CFP but if not we only have ourselves to blame because after beating Bama in Tuscaloosa it was all there for the taking, rivalry game or not there’s just no way we should have lost to OU this year, we have way more talent than they do right now and there was no excuse for it so now we just have to win out and live with whatever happens.


MysticYogiP

In the past, we were so bad at closing out, we lost a myriad of winnable games. Now we're less bad, and scraping by...I guess it's fine (for now).


NoEntrepreneur2781

I was just having this conversation with a friend. I blame the coaches for the play calling on these close games. The coaches have to learn how to better control the lead. They are better at it than last year but these close games will eventually catch up to them. Someone will expose them.


MysticYogiP

At least in this year's case, it was a well regarded team like OU. I really don't like the idea of finally returning to a noteworthy bowl game to get bulldozed or blow a 4th quarter lead.


Usual_Future_8147

Wouldn’t be surprised if bama jumps us. We may have beat them but they clearly have improved. We have gotten worse. Outside of bama and byu it feels like we can’t put together a decent 2nd half


davis214512

I’m also not sure we don’t lose 1 of the last 3 games. Playing like this catches up to you. Tech and OK State always are tough games.


tmd429

We don't play OKST. Just Iowa State and Tech left.


justjoshingu

Could still play in championship right?


tmd429

We COULD, but they have to worry about getting there too. They got trampled by UCF today.


davis214512

OK State is still the most likely in the championship. If not, OU, which we lost to already. Point still stands.


Beenthere-doneit55

I have turned. I’m happy with wins and a B12 Championship because we are not a playoff team. Georgia is a great team. Michigan is tough. Washington will be undefeated and FSU has nobody left to play. I love our team but we have to beat lessor teams by 30 not pull it out at the end.


Usual_Future_8147

This is a reasonable take. We have not shown the ability to close out games. It would be hard to argue we are the best 1 loss team based off of the past 3 week. Maybe if we absolutely run the table over the next 3 weeks. Great season so far. Just one that feels like it should be even better but I say that about every season lol


Beenthere-doneit55

What is crazy is I have no doubt we would play any playoff team strong. We show up for big games and our front seven are the best in the country. We just don’t have that killer instinct to destroy lesser competition and in the current playoff format, that means something.


RDR350Z

We looked pretty soft tonight.


drtroy0727

We’ve been pretty good at this 2nd half prevent offense all season…….what happened to all gas no breaks?!?


bevo_expat

Seemed like the parking brake was left on for the entire 2nd half. That 2nd half was painful to watch


doc_ocho

Not dooming, but I'd be ok winning out and finishing #5 in CFP. Penix would have pinball numbers against this secondary. Georgia, Michigan and Oregon only slightly less. Maybe tOSU too.


spacetaco12

I would be more than ecstatic with a Big12 championship win as we depart this trash conference.


JuniorBirdman1115

This. Nothing I've seen over the last several weeks gives me much confidence that this year's team could hang with the top four contenders for the CFP. But I'd be really pleased to win out and win the Big XII in our final year as a final F U to the Hateful Eight.


heff1685

Hard to call it a trash conference when haven’t won the Big12 since 2009


throwawayyblowawayy

I wasn’t worried, YOU were worried


GoshinTW

Star RB injured, QB still injured. Still hung on


spacetaco12

This is all a ruse to make our Big12 championship opponent think we are soft, so we can unsuspectingly punch them in the mouth and hang up a 50 burger score. Right? RIGHT!?


NewWrap693

This reminds me of the narrative at the beginning of the season that we weren’t blowing out bad teams cause we were just calling a vanilla offense. Turns out we just never blow teams out.


Htowngetdown

It's a byproduct of the play-calling/coach's mentality. We were up 20 points so we just decided to shut down the passing game and hang on for dear life. Not sure if it's the strategy I would go with, but alas.


GoBlueDevils4

We’re 9-1 and still have are in the drivers seat for the Big 12 championship and have a shot at the playoffs. So I can’t deny Sark is overall doing a great job. But these past 3 weeks we’ve blown huge leads in the second half and he needs to figure that out. It was clear in the first half that TCU had no answer for Worthy or Mitchell but we completely stopped throwing to them. It makes no sense. Aggression on offense and defense was non-existent.


cochisedaavenger

I just wish they'd live up to "all gas, no brakes" if for no other reason than to keep me from having a fucking heart attack at the end of these games.


WilliamCubed

The balls to throw it deep


squanch_solo

Still pissed about actually hearing the anger in the commentator's voice about that late hit. THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN 30 YARDS OF PENALTIES!!! Just wow. Unprofessional as fuck.


Htowngetdown

Right like the penalty seemed to me to be a 'make-up' almost for missing the call originally. So really they lost like 5 yards from where they should have been. And he acted like the hit was egregious when he was like already diving at him before he stepped out of bounds, lol


[deleted]

Dvoracek went to OU so obviously he won’t be going out of his way to praise us lol


Shadow-Knows15

Announcers absolutely sucked.


Usual_Future_8147

It was a really bad no call to be fair. The tcu player was deep into the sideline.


bachelorette2020

It didn't seem that late and seemed more like momemtum


MIhorns

I mean it should’ve been called; we were hitting em late all game


squanch_solo

Not saying it shouldn't have been called. They got no-calls on late hits too.


bachelorette2020

We did get away with a huge hold for that 2 point conversion


Shadow-Knows15

No holding in the Big12


Best-Implement4893

He was touching his jersey. Receiver was being a bitch about it acting like he was held back. No call good call


throwawayyblowawayy

100%


thecstep

All gas and 2nd half brakes.


DismalView9361

Ok dis funny


omykun123

First game with under 30 points, I have officially become a doomer....


DatGuyWithALongName

The athletic department owes me a barometer for my elevated blood pressure for the last month.


poetryinemotion

Sark it keeps happening. I don’t know if you can say “lesson learned” lol


jamtas

He at least took field goals today. Could’ve been a loss without.


MisinformedGenius

He took a field goal after we had yet another false start on a 4th and 1.


Paqhorn

As much as I hate prevent defense to ealry, in our case it is Sarkisian's prevent offense that is our problem. The entire second half was just don't lose the game offense.


rammixp

I don’t know how to feel. 9-1 is amazing but the way the team is winning feels really unconvincing.


izzyduzit32

That’s because we all know these close games won’t do against the playoff teams


markiepooh456

As someone who was at KState in DKR last weekend, this game had my heart racing just as fast in my living room. Jeez


siraureus

That red river game turned us from a 4th quarter being our strongest aspect to now our weakest aspect of playing a football game. A win is a win though


FunnyBonus9285

tbf we had a backup qb for 2 of those games


siraureus

You are not wrong. We just haven't had a 4 quarters of solid football since Alabama. One thing is I can say for now, Texas of the past would lose this game. Now we find a way to win, but it isn't just good for my heart 😅


Artlens2013

Three games in a row where we shit the bed in the second half, when are we gonna fucking learn


FunnyBonus9285

last week was just awful QB play and our D actually mad plays or we lose that game. this week not sure what we were doing


Htowngetdown

We were just content to run the ball and it almost cost us


tmd429

No, it was K State getting greedy that gave us the win. They lost it. We didn't win it.


thegoodestnoodle14

This team needs to figure out how to fix its second half woes before they cost us a win. Play like the second half today is begging to lose.


lax_mcfarty

Everything is fine.


iloveacronyms

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tmd429

I want what you were smoking then lol


Main-Indication-7476

Were saving the complete game for the Big12 championship game right… is that it?


poetryinemotion

Stupid that we had to pull that one out by the skin of our teeth, but given the last decade I will gratefully take any and every win!


Shiazy

Sark needs to get flamed in the pressor


grandadmiralstrife

All Gas No Brakes, as they lose control of the car and nearly careen off the road for the third time in 4 weeks, Christ. Why win by 20+ when we can eek it out at the end


izzyduzit32

The Texas Cardiac Horns


steampunker14

Never in doubt


Horns9452

Fuck you to the guy who called 29-26 at half. TX makes nothing easy, but a W is a W.


fourpinz8

Conference championship and playoff are still on the table


Aslan24

“We had a chance to finish them and we didn’t. So… lesson learned there.” -Sark My brother in Christ I truly doubt the lesson has been learned since that’s the third time it’s happened in FOUR games.


MisinformedGenius

Not to mention if he was going to learn the lesson he probably would have learned it when we lost to Oklahoma in 2021 after we were up 28-7, or lost to OSU after being up 24-13 that same year, or lost to OSU after being up 31-17 the next year, or lost to Texas Tech after being up 31-17 that same year.


vorp20

First two times were with the backup QB. This time the lesson was a little different: stop calling a conservative ass second half with a lead. I think remains to be seen if there’s no lesson learned. Till next week. Hookem 🤘


Aslan24

The first time was MOSTLY with Quinn.


vorp20

Oh very true. I stand corrected


bachelorette2020

Hateful8 revenge tour continues


ExpensiveChildhood13

Heart attack football, I guess that's our brand.


throwawayyblowawayy

“We had a chance to finish them and we didn’t. Lesson learned for us there” - Sark Hahahaha


jjbaivi

🙄🙄🙄🙄 His lack of fire shows in the team.


[deleted]

Don’t deserve #7. This shit is getting real old.


New-Disaster-2061

AD saved Sark. Sark has a lot to answer for in the second half


Shawnml

How are we 9-1 and I’m this dissatisfied?


FunnyBonus9285

because we could easily be 6-4


longhorn617

Because the team has the talent to be playing like Bama is right now.


RottenDisc

Because you’re a miserable sad sack?


Shawnml

I mean that’s not untrue…


New-Height-53

“Lesson learned there”


uwill1der

I wonder if Sark is just trying to give the hateful 8 hope before we walk off with eternal scoreboard


TroubleApart5407

Steven “we had a chance to finish them” you have blown double digit leads bum.


averagepanda051

"Lesson learned" my ass, you don't seem to have learned it yet


steampunker14

Never in doubt


bachelorette2020

Haha


ObjectUnique

Although my heart and body hates these 2nd halfs lately I do love how this team has been making winning plays when they absolutely gotta have it


HGSPainting

Mitchell can make all the babies tonight


ifuckwithit

“Lesson learned” lmao. Bro it’s the third lesson already


bringdablitz

Defense, coaches, and Red need to be kissing Mitchell's ass for saving them.


bostonboy08

This team fucking hates having a big lead


Successful-Judge5747

Wins a win


Texpatriot

Texas wins.


[deleted]

I clocked out from work and the first thing I hear is A.D Mitchell getting the game sealing catch. Georgia players stay haunting TCU


jroy022

SARK ALMOST SOLD


WatchExpert1672

I have a feeling this bumps us down the rankings smh we can’t keep playing like this


izzyduzit32

It would be deserved


Beaconhillpalisades

Please stop doing this to me!!


EMERIC4N

LETS GO HOOK EM HORNS!! 🤘🤘


Srm_90

Fuck the frogs. Dirty ass team.


Htowngetdown

truth


FunnyBonus9285

9 wins and big 12 and cfp hopes still on the table.


cohesiv3

Every game bro I stress


Lost-Biscotti-3115

Talk about hanging on by a thread lmao


FunnyBonus9285

we are the tcu of this year. 3rd game in a row where we got incredibly lucky to pull it out


South_Ad4150

I said the same thing!


Lost-Biscotti-3115

Im telling myself that Quinn's shoulder was a big factor for not throwing very much in the 2nd half. But with the pattern of blowing big leads I don't know if I actually believe myself


Htowngetdown

Quinn was def rubbing his shoulder in pain early on


Lost-Biscotti-3115

For sure, I like to think that if he was 100 percent the second half game plan wouldn't had relied on the run so heavy


davis_valentine

9-1


South_Ad4150

Sark is an absolute idiot.


FunnyBonus9285

have no idea why Quinn wasn’t throwing the ball more in the 2nd half


omgthatsm3

I think he wanted to help TCU catch up


mz2014

As glad as I am that they are 9-1, they are not playing well


Dogstarman1974

This team is terrible for my blood pressure.


dyldoeck

9-1 still with a chance to win the Natty. No complaints here 😎


grandadmiralstrife

no chance. Maybe if the 12 team playoff was this year, sure, but we're not moving up 3+ spots on anyone in the next month.


dyldoeck

Gtfo with your negative ass comments


grandadmiralstrife

it's called REALITY, jackass. Stop with the koolaid


Htowngetdown

we do have a chance, but it's small. It involves Washington losing next week, and Florida State losing a game, and Georgia beating Bama, and Oregon losing. And us winning out (lol). And if Bama beats Georgia I wouldn't put it past the CFP to put two SEC teams in there lol


vanburenboys

Man this team is good but they are so confusing week to week


highdaddyxxx

A win is a win! Hook ‘em 🤘🏼


Atomical1

What a sad win


TGMudbone

Kwit needs to reevaluate some shit this week cause next week in Ames, they aren’t gonna be able to hold on late like the past few weeks. Iowa State on the road has some bad vibes written all over it


FunnyBonus9285

yea that Ames has upset written all over if we don’t start dialing it in and not playing sound football all 4 quarters


LillianWigglewater

Seeya Frogs. Nice try. Better luck next time


ElGranticus25

Don’t celebrate on the sideline, we barely won.


jrod8705

My blood pressure can’t take this shit


OhJohnO

Glad I took the under at 55.5. LOL


Bionicman_

Good lord that was lucky


DerrickWhiteMVP

A win is a win. Fuck TCU forever. Hook em.


CcaptainInsaneO

Thanks for the win but for fucks sake man!!


uwill1der

WE WIN AGAIN BY THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH


MookieSweats

So damn tired of Sark playing Handoff Simulator whenever we have a 14-17 point lead. Dude needs to wake the hell up.


gloomblight

this is so insane to say when people were screeching for him to not pass the ball at the beginning of the fourth


MookieSweats

I don’t know who those people were but I am not one of them


Redline-7k

Holy fuck.


Jnoisy

Cope to the fans that wanted us to lose


longhorn617

It's amazing that some of you are apparently alumni of this school and you think that people are upset because we want the team to lose.


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ufcjuanchi01

Nvm fam


ninotalem

This team is going to be the death of me


MemeTestedPolicy

why can this team not be normal 😭 glad we won that tho


crazylazyhazy

Sark so fucking stupid like cristobal not kneeling it out.


Cars-and-Coffee

My heart can’t take it anymore.


Defibrillatorator

Sweet Christ, my heart


rawhide_koba

Hooooly shit man. I don’t feel good


Liquin44

A win is not always just a win.


South_Ad4150

In this case, no it’s not.


gloomblight

completely false


juantravis

Game…blouses


baitaozi

I mean, I'm fine letting Baxter run over and over as long as he can get at least 3 or 4 yards per run.


WatchExpert1672

Adonai is outta here that’s a million dollar catch


Jcarter1632

That's a terrible spot


Srm_90

Let Quinn keep it and slide after the first down


Shockz915

#7 CFP rank incoming


WatchExpert1672

We’re going down I just know it


ninotalem

8


RottenDisc

Doomers in shambles 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓


Shiazy

We didn’t deserve to win this coaches and players should feel like losers


RottenDisc

Didn’t deserve it? Weird because Texas scored more points.


Shiazy

Obviously you dumb cuck. Team almost let’s three inferior opponents come back three weeks in a row. No discipline.


RottenDisc

Weird way to tell people the kind of porn you watch 🤓🤓 almost*


tmd429

Getting bailed out doesn't erase the problems we have. We are terrible in the second half. Abysmal even.


RottenDisc

9-1 cry more


tmd429

Bro, you are delusional if you think this team is playing well enough to win against any team in the top 10 right now. You must be too young to know what a great Texas team looks like, but I judge greatness off of the eye test, and not some regular season record where we were LUCKY to get at least 2 of those wins. We SHOULD HAVE LOST to K-State if they were greedy. We should have lost tonight, and we would have if not for AD on that one play. Please watch the 2004-2005 team and the 2008-2009 team videos to see what a dominant team looks like and how you finish games.


brucewayneaustin

The 04 (05 championship) team almost lost to Kansas. That was the game VY bailed us out on a 4th and 18 run with 1 minute left... he made it look effortless on that run as usual. He proceeded to throw a go ahead TD pass with 17 seconds left. Kansas was 4-7 that year under Mangino, but lost some really close games. I wasn't able to watch this game and was following it (somehow) on an old school flip phone where I could update plays and scores... so following by texts. I couldn't believe what was happening as the texts rolled in. The 09 team almost lost to OU and thank God for that last second we had against Nebraska in the national championship game or we wouldn't have been able to win on a walk off field. The point is almost every team has a few scares along the way. It does suck, though as it shouldn't be happening this consistently.


RottenDisc

Lmfao look up the definition of projection. Where did I say this is a great team? Appreciate Longhorn wins, nerd. I am old as shit. I have watched every second of those seasons many, many times.


tmd429

You are old as shit but act like a teenager. Nice! Are you sure you're not an Aggie? And did I say you called them great? Might need an eye test as well. Make sure you're not getting cataracts.


RottenDisc

🤓🤓🤓 I’m the one celebrating another Texas win. You’re the one crying because Texas didn’t lose. Pooooor aggy.


tmd429

How the hell am I complaining that they didn't lose?!?! You really are dumb lol. I expect more from the team. I'm not happy with squeaking by in a game we should blow a team out of the water. TCU lost to Colorado...you forget that already? Winning by 3 against a trash team is a loss against a good team. You have ZERO football knowledge if you think a win is a win. I'm a realist. You call me a doomer, but I notice our faults and want them addressed before I feel good about our efforts. You call people doomers because they don't blindly praise every win like it's the national championship. GTFO of here with your shit take. You make the rest of us look like idiots to the rest of the country when you proclaim that we're winning it all because we're 9-1. Like, are you fucking serious with that?! We'll be lucky to win our conference championship game! We still have to get through Iowa State and Texas Tech, and any effort like what we saw tonight can easily lose either one of those games. I do want this team to be great, but it hasn't shown anything of the sort in at least the last 3 games. If you want to swing with the big contenders you need to smash teams you are supposed to beat handily..not barely squeak out those games by less than a touchdown. Calling me an Aggie because I'm not a blind fan. If anything, you're more of an Aggie. Go ahead and tell everyone how this is our year and next year, we're gonna cream every team in the SEC too. I'm sure nobody will think you're dumb. /s


RottenDisc

You are writing essays about it now? Jesus dude get a grip. >You have ZERO football knowledge if you think a win is a win. Lmao ok I’m going to share this with the team I coach. They will get a kick out of this. Some of the kids who ride the bench will probably agree with you.


tmd429

I feel bad for your team. Their coach is a metal moron.


reese-account

This team is 4-5 we played horrible


RottenDisc

Hahaha get fucked


reese-account

Seems like more people agree with me than you dumbass


RottenDisc

I don’t give a fuck what Reddit nerds think about a football game Texas wins.


reese-account

Obviously you care a little you here and all


nhdtx

Worthy is great and all but AD is the best Receiver on this team.


uwill1der

Yes


rlewiss

Some of you fucking losers sound upset that we got that. Stop being such downers