What's top of mind for you coming off of this game?

Turnovers.

Uh, we lost two to one...

Excuse me, two to zero.

Um, that's where, that's where it starts.

We talked about that last week.

The turnover ratio is always gonna be bullet point number one.

Yeah.

And where I'm going with this is the

theThe number one thing I learned that I carried with me throughout my entire coaching career is what I learned when I was a young guy, student assistant, graduate assistant.

University of Texas, when we played OU, and I don't remember which year it was, whether it was '89 or '90, it was one of those two, when Darrell Royal addressed the team.

And he gave the speech about momentum, and I, I hung on that, to that the rest of my career.

And that this game, these big games are all about momentum.

Getting momentum, then you lose momentum, and you get momentum, you lose ...

And whoever can wrangle it away and keep it and, and sustain it and not give it back, that's the team that's gonna win.

Texas loses-

11 for 115.

I stopped.

Uh, when it got to 10, I, I stopped listening.

So, uh, [laughs] just kidding, but not really.

Um, you know, let's start with the special teams penalties.

Uh, kinda ridiculous.

You know, five men in the backfield not lining up correctly on the punt team.

Coach, it just seems like when the offense, when it wasn't Jim Knowles scheming something up to get you behind the chains, you're just kinda shooting your foot off a lot of the times.

You don't do it

... you don't do that.

And that's, uh, a, a, a great just set of tools to have because, and we've gotta be patient.

I know, I know, I know Sark can do it.

I know, I know he can.

Um, he's just gotta be patient and, and, and be willing to play that game.

Uh, because when we can beat them into submission, and we beat 'em, like Bob said about the heat and the, you know, conditioning and everything, we beat their butts into submission in the fourth quarter, and we did it through running the football, play action pass, control passing game.

But how are you gonna respond to that?" And that's what you gotta preach 24/7.

Brad, what, what are you seeing from Arch, uh, as he's growing and, I mean, is, are we still have not seen the, the highest level of him yet in your opinion?

No, I don't think so.

He's, he's still baby faced, you know? He's, he's, he's still got room to grow, uh, but boy, he's gotten better.

And what I like is k- kind of what you just said is, um, it's, it's more of a process that I'm interested in.

Not, not all the gaudy numbers.

The gaudy numbers are great.

We need the yards, we need the touchdowns, we need the rushes, we need the receptions, we need the completion percentage, uh, we need a low, um, interception, you know, count and a, and a, and a higher ratio between touchdowns and interceptions.

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Did you see anything from an alignment standpoint?

I did not, and that, y- you know, on TV it's hard.

You don't get those, uh, types of things, uh, so much.

You know, maybe post-kick you do, but I, I did not see it.

B- but that, there's no doubt it was an alignment issue and/or combination of leaving a little bit too early.

The, the biggest issue you've got with g- those frontline guys is them trying to get outta there as the ball's kicked, and, and they can't do that.

They've gotta stay disciplined and they gotta keep their feet in concrete and stay in there until the ball's kicked.

I mean, 'cause that's the most glaring thing for this team to me.

And you're Steve Sarkisian and you hear that Kirby said that, what do you do?

I take it personal.

Um, I'm taking it personal right now as we speak.

Um, Sark's gotta take it personal.

This has to be posted all over the facility.

It's got to be posted permanently on, in the facility.

Uh, this needs to be a part of what's on this wall or that wall, and it's not a, a one week or a one year deal or, "Hey, we're gonna, we're gonna hang this up next year if we play Georgia," or, you know, "We'll hang it up the next year if we play..." This needs to be up all day every day.

Yeah

What, what are you thinking about this game coming up and, and what is Texas' path to win I guess?

Much like what Bob said, we, we, we've gotta be able to run the football.

Now does that mean we're, you know getting clips of, you know four to five yards a carry? No, w- that's probably not gonna happen.

But if we, if we can run the ball effectively, stay ahead of the chains, reduce the number of zero to negative yardage plays.

Uh, we've done much better with that, you know the last couple of weeks.

That's been a huge market improvement in our running game just avoiding the zero to negative yard plays.

So we've gotta be able to run the football effectively.

Uh, Brian, what, what are some of those qualities that you kinda think you would identify? I'm sure you've had assistants go on to be head job, uh, take head jobs elsewhere, et cetera.

Can they pin and pull? Can they counter? Can they do what, you know, figure out what they can do and call the game-

Well, and, and like you mentioned, Bob, it's scheme-wise, you know, the pin pull, which I'm not a proponent of because- You gotta be even better 'cause that, that means if you pin and pull, you are, you are in one-on-one blocks when you pin pull instead of, instead of having the ability to combo and zone schemes.

When you pin and pull like we did, you know, kinda late in the game, I think it was in overtime when we got called for the ...

It was.

W- in overtime we got called for the holding penalty on first down.

We're pin and pulling to the right-hand side trying to run a sweep action, and we've got Brandon Baker soloed up trying to reach a five technique by himself.

The five technique's got outside leverage on him.

Brian, what about you? What, what do you make of not kinda tapping into what they did on, against Oklahoma, where it was the first time they looked like all year they could move the ball against a good defense was Oklahoma, and then it seemed like they went away from that again, a- against Kentucky?

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some chaos.

You've gotta create, uh, a storyline.

You've gotta create some motivation.

And, um, you know, I think at the end of the day it's, again, going back to you challenge the guys with consistency.

That's what it takes to be a champion, and, and we've, we've gotta be consistent.

But were there signs of things that you think they can keep doing really well and even improve on? Like, what were the things you would hang your hat on right now a little bit on, in that regard?

Uh, what did y'all think of, uh, Wisner and that offensive line in this game? B- Bob, Brian?

Yeah, I'll, I'd say...

I'd first start with the offensive line.

They, they did a remarkable job, um, of, of holding the line of scrimmage, moving the line of scrimmage a little bit.

Arch still got some pressure in the passing game, but overall did a nice job.

But we showed some physicality.

We, we moved them around.

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