The View from the Cheap Seats-tOSU The Stage was Too Big Same story, different season for Sark and the Horns. When matched against similar talent and coaching staffs, Sark reverted to form and turtled up. The hype and the pressure was clearly too much for Sark, Arch, and the offense. The...

Years ago, Doritos reached out to some non-profits about a commercial to support an organization doing good work. I'm disappointed that this offering from the Adaptive Training Foundation did not win. Marketing execs thought it was too powerful. Watch till the very end, you will not be sorry...

View from the Cheap Seats-Semi-Finals Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory In so many ways, the Horns showed the Nation why they belong on the highest of stages. Sadly, with the opportunity to win and advance, the Horns found a way to lose. No spin, no excuses, the game was there...

View from the Cheap Seats-Zona State Playing with their food. An apropos comment from the color announcer, an ugly pattern re-emerged from the Horns on the 1st day of the year. TEXAS seems to “play with their food” as the Horns establish dominance in a game early, only to let their...

View from the Cheap Seats-Clemson 1st home CFB playoff game One word to describe this game was PHYSICAL. The Horns gave up a long touchdown drive to open the game, not unlike a boxer feeling out an opponent in Round 1, before they said enough of this and took the game over. The defense...

View from the Cheap Seats-Dawgs Part Deux Opportunity lost No way to sugarcoat it, TEXAS lost and it doesn’t feel good. Old demons once again reared their ugly head to eventually doom the Horns’ bid to win the SEC in year 1 in the conference. In any football game, especially one featuring 2...

View from the Cheap Seats-Old “Rivalry” Re-newed Déjà Vu, all over again To quote the late great Yogi Berra, it was déjà vu, all over again. When we last saw TEXAS play Texas A&M, the game ended with Justin Tucker kicking a dagger through the Aggie hearts on his way to a Hall of Fame career...

View from the Cheap Seats-Kentucky Wildcats skinned In last week’s Cheap Seats, we mentioned this game as a trap game sandwiched between games against two emotional rivals. We noticed that Sark referred to it as a trap game as well. And it played out much like the TEXAS season has gone, at...

View from the Cheap Seats-Razorbacks “They hate our guts” – Sark “I don’t know what Darrell Royal did to these guys back in the 60’s but they hate our guts”. Sark in the pre-game interview. Yep, these guys hate us more than they love themselves. Arkansas was sky high for the game and the...

View from the Cheap Seats-Florida Can you say “Explosives”? Sure, you can On a crystal clear Saturday afternoon at DKR, Sark put on an offensive play-calling clinic to take a wounded and completely outmatched Gator team and turned them into Gator Bait. Not to be outdone, Coach Pete K and...

View from the Cheap Seats-Vandy Winning Ugly far better than Losing Pretty So who had TEXAS/Vandy as a Top 25 match up in the pre-season? Would have been an amazing prop bet in Vegas but we certainly did not see this as such a tilt nor did we see this as a “bounce back” game for the Horns...

View from the Cheap Seats-Georgia Not ready for prime time Yep, you read that right. In the worst 1st half of football we have seen in the Sark era, TEXAS lost both lines of scrimmage and largely failed to execute in key situations. You can’t win if you can’t win the LOS. You seldom win if...

Sorry, had technical issues but we're back. View from the Cheap Seats-Thieves of Land Red River War Can you say “Defense makes a statement?” Sure you can. Coach K’s side of the ball allowed the dirt burglers only 3 points of the game, these 3 coming in the 1st quarter. What makes this...

View from the Cheap Seats-Jayhawks   Ugly early but Sark/TEXAS wins the 2nd half again Embrace the Hate.   The embrace the hate tour continues with another team TEXAS likely does not face again anytime soon. And former conference cellar dweller has improved greatly under Coach Lance...

View from the Cheap Seats-Bye Bye Bears   Blow Out at Baylor   TEXAS puts Baylor in their rear view mirror.   This is TEXAS’ 3rd longest series in our history dating back to 1901 and 113 games.   TEXAS’ says bye bye Baylor with a record of 81-28-4, so we will not refer to this as a...

View from the Cheap Seats-Wyoming   Sore backs     Sark quoted Mack from 2005 during his post game presser.   "We went into the game with sore backs from people slapping our backs and telling us how great we are".   On a weekend where it seemed most of the top teams started slow, TEXAS was...

View from the Cheap Seats-Roll Tide like they’re toilet paper   Signature win of the Sark Era HOW SWEET IT IS     Great Googly Moogly.    Sark records the landmark win of his short time so far at TEXAS.   Frankly, it might be his landmark win as a Head Coach.  Payback for last year.   This...

View From the Cheap Seats-Rice   Ugly win is still 1-0     Winning ugly is always better than losing pretty.   TEXAS showed some good things and some not so good things facing off against this year’s season opening tomato can in our last year in the BigXII.   We see that Sark is still...

View from the Cheap Seats-Pre-season Edition     Cash it in Year Embrace the Hate       We are getting close to the very best time of the year. Not long and the temps will start to fall, the leaves will begin to change and we enter the greatest time and season of the year, COLLEGE...

View from the Cheap Seats-Spring game Zero Sum affair As we say every year, the Spring game is a zero sum affair. If the O looks great, it means the D . . .not so much. And that’s pretty much what we were treated to this year. Which does not mean there are not things to be gleaned from the...