UT Football Thread

ash broke his feet bro

 

I read that some longhorn linebacker called Baylor "Trash". Is it true?

 

Swopes looks really good. He has a huge arm.

 

Yes, I know. He'll be back in the summer and I think Swoopes will win the job.

 

He looked brutally bad and ocmpletely incapable of throwing over the middle, even a half speed Ash is way better than Swoopes currently

 

A half-speed Ash (or a full speed one) is one bad hit away from potential serious long term damage. Regardless of if he might be better for a game or two, odds are not good that he lasts too long - the team is probably better off just focusing on trying to get Swoopes as functional as possible and build an offense around minimizing his weaknesses.

Or you hope the USC guy transfers and is capable of taking over.

 

Those highlights showed how inaccurate Swoopes is. I think it'll take a year under Strong's system to really develop this team.

 

Swoopes has looked absurdly awful from what I've seen

I think UT-Austin branch fans will look at him and expect another Vince Young, and will be tremendously disappointed.

 

And in next week's edition of "universal opinions from 2012", bigtexxx will offer his insight on Daryl Morey's inability to land a superstar... Will Houston ever get one? Stay tuned.

 

I agree. It's between Ash and the USC transfer.

 

let me tell you something -- Tyrone Swoopes is no James Harden or Dwight Howard. When I saw him he didn't look particularly fast and threw like Uncle Rico (maybe that's the Vince comparison)

 

His weaknesses are pretty much everything at this point - he's big and strong and hard to tackle, but not particularly elusive, terrible accuracy, a slow, low tebowish release/wind-up. About the only thing he has is velocity, of course without accuracy it's not a big help.

 

Does anybody else question why bigtexxx keeps up with other schools' sports and watches their Spring training?

 

I'm not expecting anything from Wittek. I am guessing Ash and Heard.

 

I'm not calling him a Harden or Howard. I'm referring to the fact that you thinking UT fans will see Vince in Tyrone is a popular take from two years ago, and is nothing new or worth pointing out.

Anyone worth talking to knows Swoopes struggled mightily his senior year of high school at a tiny school and did not expect much out of him. The only ones who could "see" Vince in him are those that know nothing about him.

 

I think Swoopes is best suited to be a strongside defensive end. He's a great athlete, but, as stated by several posters above, he isn't an explosive, elusive runner. He is very strong and fast for his size, though. Doesn't hurt that Strong turned Marcus Smith from a quarterback into a first-day defensive end prospect while at Louisville.

 

I would be shocked if they don't redshirt Heard especially since Ash got a redshirt from this past season. They have to find a solution between Ash, Swoops and Wittek.

 

Damn Garret Gilbert got drafted before a UT player

 

http://espn.go.com/nfl/draft2014/st...fl-draft-texas-longhorns-zero-players-drafted

 

Surprised Jeffcoat didn't get drafted.