Texas just lost to Kansas
November 13th, 2021 at 11:42 PM ^
Love it!!
November 13th, 2021 at 11:45 PM ^
I like the call to win it in the 1st OT by Kansas. That 2xp looked like a busted play when the DE almost got to the Kansas QB. He made a nice throw to the front of the end zone just over the Texas LB.
November 14th, 2021 at 2:04 AM ^
There was 100% a hold on one of the Texas DEs on that play (I believe #18). We would be gathering the torches and pitchforks if it had happened to M. I don't give a shit about Texas so whatever, but the trend of officials basically ignoring holding is, uh, some might say, problematic.
November 14th, 2021 at 5:08 AM ^
Yep and it us extra bad for us considering how good our defensive pressure has been.
November 14th, 2021 at 6:21 AM ^
I've been waiting with pitchfork in hand. Thank goodness our DE's never get held and our Big Ten officals instill great confidence.
November 14th, 2021 at 8:07 AM ^
November 14th, 2021 at 8:24 AM ^
The called hold yesterday was a great sell job by Hutchison. I've seen much worse this year.
November 14th, 2021 at 8:57 AM ^
Nice conspiracy, but JFC... How are the on-field refs calling holding based on where the TV cameras are looking? You think they TV vision wired into their eyeballs? Are they watching live TV feed shown on the stadium scoreboard? Do they have hidden headphones in their ears so some guy in the booth can tell them to throw a flag based on the TV angle? Are they working with the TV producer to determine camera angles based on wherever they are on the field? Time and distance situations only showing specific camera views?
Got damn, some of this stuff is just so much bull shit!
November 14th, 2021 at 9:01 AM ^
How would the refs know in real time what is shown on TV to determine what to call?
November 14th, 2021 at 8:56 AM ^
We would be gathering the torches and pitchforks if it had happened to M.
If we were 4-6 and went to overtime against Kansas, I think we'd be too embarrassed by the whole season/game to care about one call.
November 13th, 2021 at 11:46 PM ^
S-E-C! S-E-C!
Texas also down 17 to Gonzaga in basketball. Not a good day for Texas.
November 14th, 2021 at 2:29 AM ^
That is always a good day for everyone else!
F’ Texass!!!
November 14th, 2021 at 7:36 AM ^
Chris Beard and his fabulous transfer-heavy team are a popular Final Four pick. It will be interesting to see if they get anywhere close to that.
November 14th, 2021 at 10:49 AM ^
Is Chris Beard ironically the only one without a beard?
#ZZTopReference
November 14th, 2021 at 8:58 AM ^
Best part was hearing the KU fans chant this at the end of the game!
November 13th, 2021 at 11:46 PM ^
That’s awesome! How Texas can’t field a top 15 team at minimum every year being the biggest name in a state filled with talent is why I like to see them lose.
November 14th, 2021 at 8:26 AM ^
Texas is very similar to us...if we also were in a football crazy state with multiple other fertile recruiting states nearby. No excuse for them to not be ~top 15ish almost every year. Giving up 49 to Kansas in regulation is BAD
November 13th, 2021 at 11:47 PM ^
Harbaugh isn’t going anywhere. But Texas losing to Kansas, that is bad. You have to get rid of Sark
November 13th, 2021 at 11:51 PM ^
They just hired Sark last offseason.
November 14th, 2021 at 12:20 AM ^
TEXAS NAMES DENTAL STUDENT AS HEAD FOOTBALL COACH AFTER 57-56 LOSS TO KANSAS
AUSTIN, Texas — University of Texas Athletic Director Chris Del Conte announced today that UT School of Dentistry student Manuel Mackay would serve as head football coach for this week's game at West Virginia.
Mackay defeated 255 other UT students in an elimination tournament of CT Football Manager to win the job.
Former coach Steve Sarkisian was fired early Sunday morning with immediate effect, and Del Conte put out a call to the student body announcing the tryout.
"We plan to do this every week until we win a game," said Del Conte.
"It's a dream come true" said Mackay, who agreed to take the job without a salary. "I know the school's still on the hook for $20 million to Coach Sarkisian, and it didn't seem right to ask for anything."
November 14th, 2021 at 2:31 AM ^
That is Texass in a nutshell.
November 14th, 2021 at 8:12 AM ^
So know we know what Overtaking texASS really was about.
November 14th, 2021 at 10:43 AM ^
That’s funny especially since UT doesn’t have a dental school in Austin
November 14th, 2021 at 12:08 AM ^
If he had JJ as QB things would be great for him.
November 14th, 2021 at 7:38 AM ^
Not sure if serious, but definitely funny ...
November 14th, 2021 at 1:01 AM ^
Fired Herman -- with $24m buyout -- so they didn't miss out on Sark
Meanwhile, in Leipold, Kansas got the better coach 
November 14th, 2021 at 1:23 AM ^
"Leipold!...Leipold!....Leipold!" One of my favorite Looney Tunes cartoons.
November 13th, 2021 at 11:48 PM ^
Texas has now lost 5 straight games and the media gives Sark a pass.....unreal
I enjoy watching Texas remain a pile of cow dung relative to college football
November 14th, 2021 at 12:06 AM ^
Texas has been a bad team for a while. It will take 3 or 4 years to make them a good team. With how great their offense is quickly becoming it looks like Sarkasain is already off to a very good start.
November 14th, 2021 at 12:24 AM ^
They haven't been a bad team, just not a good team. Coupled with recent top 10 recruiting classes they shouldn't be losing to Kansas at home. And after a hot start, with people already saying Texas is back, the 5 straight losses feels even worse.
Not saying Sark should be fired this year, but I would not want to be Texas' AD right now. It was a questionable hire from the start and it sounds like this could snowball quickly as they may have a mass exodus of transfers.
November 14th, 2021 at 4:36 AM ^
Losing to 1-8 Kansas is a very good start, eh? Guess nobody told Sark that there are two sides to a football team. How was he supposed to know that allowing 57 points was a bad idea?!
November 14th, 2021 at 5:52 AM ^
Who were you replying to?
November 14th, 2021 at 7:51 AM ^
I was replying to you. Texas was already a good offensive team under Herman. The defense was the issue and that clearly hasn't changed under Sarkisian. Saying he's off to a very good start because Texas scored a bunch of points against a few shitty B12 defenses is disingenuous.
November 14th, 2021 at 6:49 AM ^
Their offense was already really good.
It isn’t a great offense. They scored 7 pts vs Iowa State.
November 14th, 2021 at 11:01 AM ^
I thought I was going to have to bring out the receipts from the Texas Tech game, when you were talking up Sark a bunch. But here you are still doing that which is hysterical. Texas offensive rank this season is 39.
Texas is 2018 was 26, 2019 was 22, 2020 was 14. Offense wasn’t Texas problem, but it certainly hasn’t gotten better under Sark.
November 13th, 2021 at 11:49 PM ^
Ok cool hook em
November 14th, 2021 at 12:03 AM ^
This really isn't that big of a deal. Texas has been a mess for years. It's going to take a few years for Sarkasian to straighten it all out. Kansas is getting better. That's all. It's not like Texas is a power house getting knocked off by a really bad team.
Both these Texas loss threads should be deleted. Nothing to see here.
November 14th, 2021 at 12:07 AM ^
Counterpoint: this was KU's first road conference win since 2008. This is Texas' first five game losing streak since 1956. This is an unusual occurrence.
November 14th, 2021 at 2:33 AM ^
And this is a good thing.
November 14th, 2021 at 9:17 AM ^
Also this reply is par for the course for a creature. Just look up it’s history. Some thoughts are not like the other. This Texas loss was nothing, says the guy who couldn’t imagine how burnt Orange is actually feeling singed!
November 14th, 2021 at 12:20 AM ^
Texas did manage 10 wins in 2018.
November 14th, 2021 at 10:32 AM ^
But they only scored 24 against Kansas that year. How about that dynamic, improved offense yesterday?
November 14th, 2021 at 12:31 AM ^
Kansas was a 31 point dog. It was the largest point spread upset in Big12 history.
They had a 13-year, 56 game Big 12 road losing streak snapped.
It was Kansas' first EVER win at Texas.
It really was that big of a deal.
November 14th, 2021 at 10:10 AM ^
Not to the imposter prophet Ezekiel!
November 14th, 2021 at 12:33 AM ^
Kansas is getting better?
Kansas beat FCS South Dakota by 3.
Lost to Coastal Carolina by 27.
Lost to Baylor by 38.
Lost to Duke by 19.
Lost to Iowa State by 52.
Lost to Texas Tech by 27.
Lost to Oklahoma by 12.
Lost to Oklahoma State by 52.
Lost to Kansas State by 25.
Before tonight, the only game where they’ve looked good was against Oklahoma.
November 14th, 2021 at 1:07 AM ^
Kansas is 2-3 vs Texas since 2016.
Kansas is 2-43 against the rest of the Big 12 combined in that span.
November 14th, 2021 at 12:51 AM ^
Reality is this was worse than the App State loss, but because Kansas is technically a power 5 team it won’t go down in the history books that way
November 14th, 2021 at 12:52 AM ^
What?? They chased Charlie out of town and Herman couldn’t win the Big12. That doesn’t equate to losing to Kansas at home. The Sark days aren’t looking good. Just goes to show that things can get worse.
November 14th, 2021 at 10:29 AM ^
"Things Can Get Worse" should be Texas's version of "Returning to Glory."
Seriously. They're still fighting over shit that happened over 50 years ago (Darrell Royal made a commercial for a local bank, the head of the Regents was chairman of the board at a competitor, for example...). They've been at it so long they don't even remember what they're fighting about. What their parents and grandparents were fighting about. You get occasional history-lesson posts at shaggybevo so the young-uns can orient themselves, sort of like the Dave Brandon retrospective we'll have on mgoblog in 2060.
A couple of wealthy alums force Royal out and hire Akers over the objections of the AD (who happened to be Royal). Royal's alumni buddies allegedly sabotage Akers's recruiting and eventually get him fired in retaliation for what happened to Royal. And on and on...it's like the succession of emperors in Rome. They fire a coach because he can't win a bowl game and the next guy can't even get to a bowl. They fire a coach because he hasn't won a national championship in a decade and the next guy posts three losing seasons. They fire a coach because they can't beat Oklahoma and the next guy loses to Kansas. The only thing that's ever worked for them was hiring John Mackovic, a man so utterly despised by absolutely everyone involved that the various factions were able to put aside their differences and unite in their hatred long enough to hire Mack Brown and let him run the program unimpeded for a while.
I can't recommend this thread enough, it deserves very careful reading: