Coach Stephen Ambrose Sarkisian.......Staff

AAS with a good long article about Sark (one thing for sure, we will need improved play from our OL)

" ..... The Longhorns should watch Monday night's game if they don't have plans to already. Watch to see when quarterback Mac Jones signals to his receivers to change their routes if the safeties creep toward the line of scrimmage. Watch how the running backs wait for blocks to develop. Keep tabs on how the Crimson Tide use their tight ends and how they disguise things through formation wrinkles.

“Clearly, we’re playing in the national championship Monday night, that whole football team will get to watch my work, right?” Sarkisian said. “And they’re going to be able to know, hey, this guy knows what he’s doing. So I get a little instant validation that way. But the personal side, that’s going to take work. You can’t just come in and drop the hammer on these guys from day one.”

Just so there’s no confusion, Sarkisian will call the offensive plays at Texas, too.

“I definitely want to be the play caller. I will be the play caller,” he said. “I made that mistake one year of my career (in 2015 at USC). It won't happen again, not in the near future. But the reality of it is, part of the reason Chris and the people at Texas liked me is because of the job I was doing as a play-caller. All of a sudden, why would I relinquish one of the best traits that I have?

“Hopefully I got a few other ones up there once you get to know me.”
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“Well, I think we definitely believe in the physical brand of football. And our offense really starts with the running back,” Sarkisian said. “We are not a quarterback-driven run football team. We run the running back. And it’s about them understanding the concept of our runs, where runs should hit, understanding defense of where the ball should hit based on the defenses we’re getting.

“And then in the passing game, (the running backs) have the best matchup on the field,” he added. “You can create matchups with those guys to get them the ball in a variety of ways, whether it’s in the screen game, wheel routes, option routes, there’s a bunch of ways to get them the ball. So the touches for the running back are really important to me, because I do think it sets an identity for your team.”

The importance of power running ties back to Sarkisian as play-caller. When the entire team knows who’s calling the shots, the offense has confidence. When the running back runs hard, the offensive line will block even harder. Strong line play helps everything. The end result is winning football.

“When that guy has the mental and physical toughness to persevere, that the players know, there’s almost a sense of confidence the way we run the football, the way we line up behind next to the quarterback, that we’re in good shape,” Sarkisian said.​

Texas football: Coach Steve Sarkisian talks offense, addiction

 

So many open positions, so little time. I guess we sit around and wait or take a 3rd rate choice.

 

Never pegged you as Canadian.

 

On defense he says --

" .... Sarkisian said he’s not married to any specific alignment. In this day and age, he said, “You have to have the ability to do both.”

“I definitely think we should have an attacking-style defense, one that plays with tremendous effort,” Sarkisian said. “One that is disciplined. One that stops the run. If we’re preaching running the football, you have to be able to stop the run.

“Coach Saban talked about it the other day in his press conference. You’ve got to try to minimize your explosive plays that the other team gives you,” he continued. “You have to get stops in the red zone. And you have to create turnovers. So that’s where the attacking style for me comes into play.”
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But maximizing the talent, squeezing the most out of who’s in this locker room, has been the issue.

“Well, I think that’s the developmental piece, right?” Sarkisian said. “I mean, we pride ourselves in being a tremendous developmental program. And not only on the field, but off the field in the classroom.

“That starts in the weight room,” he said. “It starts in the classroom, and in the meeting room of really teaching football the way we want it to be taught. And then that’s on the football field in knowing what to do, how to do it, and why we’re doing it.”

Then, Sarkisian dovetails into coaching theory. Close your eyes while listening, and it could easily be Saban talking about his well-known philosophy, “The Process.”

“Everybody wants to win every Saturday at 3:30, right?” Sarkisian said. “I mean, we want to win Monday night at eight o’clock. Everybody wants to win. We have to minimize the focus of the end result and focus on the task at hand throughout the process to get ourselves to the end result.

“That’s a little bit of the shift that’s going to have to occur,” Sarkisian added. “Some things may seem minimal. Some things may seem mundane, but there’s a rhyme and a reason to why we’re doing what we’re doing on a daily basis, so that we can get the result we want down the road.”......"​

 

That would have been 'aboot'
Thanks for the catch

 

Bobby Burton echoing the line about all Texas fans need to be watching the Bama offense tonight

Texas fans will surely be watching the Alabama offense with careful attention tonight during the national championship game. Bama is loaded with skill talent, from running back to receiver and quarterback, and even to the tight end position. Then there's an offensive line that some are describing as the best ever in Alabama history. The Bama offensive play-caller, of course, is Steve Sarkisian, who is expected to land in Austin on Tuesday to begin his duties as Longhorns coach full-time. Just how prolific is this Alabama offense that Sarkisian led?

- Bama finished No. 6 in total offense averaging 535 yards per game.
- Bama scored the most touchdowns of any offense in college football, with 72.
- Bama ranked No. 1 in the country in third-down conversion percentage at 59.3%.
- Alabama led the nation in passing efficiency.
- Alabama led the nation in first downs.

Here are a few deeper stats with what I think are interesting comparisons.

- Mac Jones had the highest completion percentage in the country at 77% and finished second in passing yardage (4,036). By comparison, OU's Spencer Rattler threw for 1,000 yards less than Jones this season (3,031).

- Tide running back Najee Harris finished the year No. 1 in the country in rushing yards with 1,572 on 229 attempts. Harris' 229 attempts is more than all three Texas running backs of Bijan Robinson, Roschon Johnson and Keaontay Ingram (the group combined for 219 carries).

- Heisman winner Devonta Smith led the nation in receptions (105), receiving touchdowns (20), and receiving yardage (1644). But Bama is far from a one-man receiving show. Three Alabama receivers had more catches than the highest Longhorn (Josh Moore had 30 receptions to lead the Longhorns), including Smith (105), John Metchie (47), and Harris (36).

- Alabama's red zone offense No. 9 in the country. But the numbers are actually more impressive than that. Bama scored a TD 77% of the time they entered an opponents red zone. For comparison, OU scored a TD 67% of the time and Texas scored a TD 66% of the time. ​

 

Well looks like Sark believes in power running as the starting point in a good offense. I think most of us would agree with that. And if our running game is going well that sets up play action pass.
I think our offensive line is decent with decent depth. If I had to guess a ranking for our offensive line I would say somewhere between 15 and 25 probably some of you would have a different ranking. But going forward certainly we are going to have to get the top offensive lineman recruits if we want to have a power running program. Of course thats not a new revelation and I'm sure Sark will be focused on that. So if we add LJ Johnson and Brooks to our backfield, wow, we may have, arguably, the best backfield in the nation. Of course I'm getting a little head of myself but it's fun to speculate. I think our backfield has the potential to win awards so maybe that will help with recruiting o-linemen.

 

Ewers is gonna thrive in Sark’s offense.

 

Bijan is going to be in the Heisman race next year.

 

So The OSU staff, at halftime of the Clemson game, didn't give Justin Fields any kind of diagnosis about his rib injury. When asked about the QB, Ryan Day ignored the injury and said he just needs to tough it out for 30 more minutes.

And this is the staff Ewers parents want him to play for?

 

Football be a tough game. Playing with injuries is sometimes part of the deal. Remember James Brown playing the whole game at A&M on a torn up ankle. He toughed out 60 minutes and won if I remember correctly.

 

I'm not naive. Hell, we had a few guys on my high school team who had the needle. But I'm pretty sure they made an informed decision, along with their parents. I'm not saying the OSU coaches should have contacted Fields' parents, but the medical staff sure as hell should have given the kid a diagnosis. Borderline criminal, IMO. Considering his future is worth millions. Day's attitude was one of no concern for anything but winning the game, not the kid at all.

 

Sark's offense is much like what Carthage runs, and the offense that Ingram thrived in. I wish Keontay and his brother would sit down and talk to Sark about if and how they would fit in.

Watch Ingram in the Carthage offense, waiting for block to develop and then taking off. Of course, under the Herman offense, getting the ball seven yards deep with no blocking meant he was met on his second step by a DT or LB.

 

I guess no more winning Sunday's practice. If we win Saturdays, I can live with that.

 

Have you ever pegged him, period?

 

Please don't ban me

 

Hey now!

 

Can we change the thread title to Sark's Staff?

 

Am I wrong to snicker like a 7th grader every time I get on Hornfans and click on 'Sarkisian's Staff'?

 

As both a Longhorn and Cowboy fan I am so confused how to rate this^^^^ post..

 

It all sounds good BUT... I recall how the Cowboys offense took a major leap forward when the egomaniac was talked into drafting O-linemen at #1 instead of some off the wall high ceiling, high risk injured player in the first round. Once they had Frederickson, Martin, Smith et al, they could do what they wanted.

 

Peter piper picked/pegged a pickled pepper....

 

Quinn to Cowboys.

NFL.com: Dan Quinn agrees on deal to become Cowboys defensive coordinator. https://www.nfl.com/news/dan-quinn-agrees-on-deal-to-become-cowboys-defensive-coordinator

 

SH, I’m scratching my head with this assessment. Even someone who hadn’t been a RB since he was a child, RJ, ran with more power, speed and vision than Ingram. I just can’t see it, unless he is running behind an OL so dominant that most of us on HF could be productive.

 

Please don't answer that. I don't want to know!

 

I think Nick could handle that situation.

 

This thread is tainted. / end thread.

 

But what do we do with all the gas?

 

621 yards which includes using the brakes in the 4Q