(01-08-2021 11:12 AM)Thiefery Wrote:  

(01-08-2021 11:03 AM)1845 Bear Wrote:  

(01-08-2021 10:49 AM)Thiefery Wrote:  

(01-07-2021 08:11 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-07-2021 01:36 PM)Thiefery Wrote:  Sark is walking into a MUCH better situation than any of his stops prior. For all the ridicule Texas gets, they do have a good roster of players, including a monster RB, Bijan Robinson. They also return an experienced secondary, LB core and DL. Only areas for concern are the DE position, OL depth, and the question marks at WR. But the reason for excitement is that Sark is an offensive guy so hopefully he knows how to adapt to the strength of this roster offensively.

This team is nowhere near the team Strong walked into (strong sr class, but terrible depth) much less Tom walked into (which had talent).

Tom had zero depth and very little talent. Strong destroyed the roster.
He had two top 10 classes, but one was based on 4 top players from Florida, 3 of whom never showed up for the first game and one was John Burt who was a deep reserve his last 2 years. And the last year his lazy recruiting left Tom with only 6 committs. He had to scramble to get a class that wasn't even top 30.

Strong turned Texas into a team with average Big 12 talent and below average skill position talent.

Bullet, are you serious? Tom's best season in 2018 was on the back of Strong's class. Malcolm Roach, Charles Omenihue, lil Jordan Humphrey, Duvernay, Bradon Jones, Kris Boyd, PJ Locke

Those are all solid players. And he had really good players his first season in Austin like Elliot, Hill, Ford, Jefferson, Connor Williams and a kid named Shane Buchele.

Chuck walked in with a salty defense but again nothing behind as far as depth.. and a concussed waiting to happen Ash at QB. He also had Swoopes then Heard at QB. Chuck made a lot of errors along the way but he would have killed to have the roster Tom inherited compared to what he had post Mack.

Strong did not destroy the roster.. MACK destroyed the roster

Strong ran off some guys on the OL and made some awful offensive staff hires when he first arrived. Mack's QB recruiting issues didn't do him any favors and he didn't get good depth on the OL.

The one OL that actually went to another P5 school (Auburn?) didn't do much there either. But you are correct, Chuck made some terrible staff hires..well actually one that really really cost him this job after just three years... and that was at OC.

I know he wanted Chad Morris and Morris was interested but Steve Patterson axed that idea because he was trying to save every nickle and dime. Did not want to pay Clemson for Morris buyout. Hell Patterson also denied money to tailor the team with suits for gamedays..which Chuck was going to pay out of his own pocket.. then a couple BMDs caught wind of this and straightened it out with Patterson immediately.

Chuck era was so bad, not just because of the product on the field, but the joke that was the Admin manned by Patterson. Perrin loved Chuck and had his back til Chuck couldn't win and lost to KU..Perrin couldn't save him at that point.

Tom came in on a white horse and got anything he wanted.. and he had the same, if not more miscues than Chuck had..

Well damn. We missed a chance to be a year ahead in our playoff run. Even with the injury to Watson against GT Elliott and Scott showed in the Russell Athletic Bowl they had much more of an idea how to adapt the offense to get the best out of Cole Stoudt than Morris ever did. Then Texas could have dealt with The Chad trying to force a square peg into a round hols and abandoning the running game at key points in the game.