i'd take the losses, for sure. i, too, have been calling for his head since the first OU rout. mack is terrible; davis is worse. as far as recruiting goes, Texas will remain above average regardless of coaching staff. winning wins recruiting as much as anything. this state is loaded with highschool football talent and (fortunately) there's a lot of Texas Pride here too. as far as a replacement? i'm not too down with spurrier. i've heard the Butch Davis rumors as well. they'd both be able to recruit based on their collegiate histories (and Butch with his Callous Taoboys experience.) personally, i love to dream. i'm goin' with the one man who can resurrect the program immediately: Jimmy Johnson.
SamFisher hit this one square on the head, a good defense and solid runnung game is the way to beat Tech. Tech won't be able to stop Benson, Texas will control the clock and keep the Tech offense off the field. Not to mention Cumbie will throw a minimum of 2 ints, probably more. Texas 31 Tech 21
UT Over Tech...no question. Im surprised we're having this conversation. Last year was another story as I had doubts going in. This year everyone forgets Texas' strenght is its defense. Remember we held the "great OU offense" to 12 points. Texas problem isnt its passing defense, its our rushing defense. Luckily for us, Adrian Peterson plays in OU and we've already faced him. Tech is a passing team, Texas is a pass defense team. Texas by at least 10
I think you're right on this one. I haven't seen many Tech games this year, but in years past they've been Oklahoma's offense matched with Baylor's defense. I think Robinson will have the defense ready for Tech, no problem. I think we'll be able to score against them too, even though I have zero confindence in Davis as our playcaller. I, for one, would welcome Butch Davis as our next coach. We'd finally have the toughness to compete with Stoops and the Sooners.
we definitely won't with GD (what appropriate initials) still here and maybe not with mack which is why i'm not even sure his recruiting is worth it. although i will say that just saying UT recruits itself isn't a good reason to get rid of mack b/c it's obviously gone to another level with him here. that's very debatable. we sold out to stop ou from passing all over us like last year. it resulted in us making one heisman winner look terrible but possibly elevating another guy into heisman contention. i feel we could've held peterson quite in check if we had wanted to. problem is the passing game would've gone off on us and we most likely give up more that 12. thus, i think it was a good call. we didn't look great against mizzou on the run but looked good on the pass b/c brad smith couldn't pass for crap after the beginning of the game but that team can still run a little. baylor made our pass D look bad. jones didn't make it look too great against ark. if anything, it's our lack of a pass rush that kills the pass D. the run D is fine if our two DT's are healthy. basically, i think it's a solid defense on both sides (but not spectacular) that is strong in what the coaches want it to be strong in during a given week with the other facet getting weaker. presumably, we will go all out to make tech dink and dunk and eventually get int's befofe td's and hopefully it works. i still think we'll lose by about 14 because i just can't see the offense in the condition it's in now keeping up with tech. 34-20 sounds about right.
you couldn't possibly have been calling for his head after 63-14. we had beaten ou twice in a row and were just getting back to top 10 status for the first time in forever and things were looking up (as 2001 would prove when we came a simms meltdown from the nat'l title game). now after 65-13, definitely. mack's lucky i didn't have a gun with me in the cotton bowl that day because from row 2 i would've had a clean shot and might have taken it. actually, i take back my other post, fire mack too, but only if a proven badass coach is waiting. his recruiting is still worth keeping him (WITHOUT DAVIS) if we just bring in some randon guy. edit: speaking of perilloux, my roommate just showed me something on espn that perilloux scored 9 touchdowns this week... in the first half!!!! 7 throwing, 1 rushing, 1 punt return. how do you even get the ball 9 times, much less score every time, much less be the only guy scoring every time. incredible.
Texas is going to pound it between the tackles and Tech's passing game plays to Texas's stregnth, the linebackers. They will keep Tech's offense off the field and win in a close one.
mack brown recruiting credibility went down the drain when adrian peterson chose to go across the border instead of playing for his childhood dream of playing for the longhorns. and even if mack wasn't here recruiting isn't that hard anyways. Austin sells itself and the facilities and the fans and the money are all there. adn what good does recruiting do anyways if your coaching sucks. case in point: vince young. The supposed #1 recruit in the nation looks terrible after 2 years of "coaching". He even redshirted his freshman year and to this day he looks like a 6-5 running back. Coaching is supposed to fix bad mechanics and to make #1 high school recruits into great college/pro players; just ask larry coker. I just think that all that mack can bring to us now is 10 win seasons. He's done all he can and in a way has peaked. i'm glad he has brought this program back to national prominence but we're not gonna take the next step unless he's fired. oh yea, by the way, brown didn't get perrilloux, supposedly he got committed because of GD. God knows how that happened.
Just giving this a boost before the game. I don't think I've seen so many UT fans pick against the team in a game not against Oklahoma. Not to fear, UT's gonna win this one.
Mack's interview was probably spot-on. Vince had some good games before the OU game and last week, he just tried too hard to show the fans that everything was gonna be OK. He looks great so far tonight. Gotta love the idiot announcers, though.
You're not a true Horns fan if you root against them, bottom line. And this fire Brown stuff is just greedy - he's not Stoops, but he's turned this program from an also-ran under Macovic to a perennial top-10 program. If the school sold itself the way people claim, we wouldn't have been in such a poor shape before Mack Brown took over. There are very few coaches out there who would have done better in the same circumstances.
No matter what, there HAS to be a statute of limitations on how long people can use the "Mack Brown has turned this program around, remember the shambles we were in under Mackovic" defense? So what's the number? 8 years? 10 years? LIfetime passes do not exist without championships.
How long did it take Bobby Bowden to win his first national title? Tom Osborn? Or are those overrated coaches?
Those guys consistently won conference championships before they won their first national title. In 21 years of coaching, Mack has yet to win his first conference title.
