guys, I like Charles just like any other Horn, but I think some of you are really overrating him. yall sound like you think he's Barry Sanders or something now correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm guessing yall think this way mainly because Charles has verifiable track speed and therefore is a 'home-run' threat. well guess what, just because a RB is a home-run threat type doesn't mean he's the best overall back around. in fact, a lot of the best RBs in the history of the NFL and college are *not* the small, super-speedy type. just look at the best backs of UT ourselves...Earl, Ricky, and Benson personally, I wouldn't want Charles to carry the ball literally 25+ times a game like some of you seem to suggest, certainly not this year or even the next. he has two main problems, one is that he's prone to fumbling and yall shouldn't have needed to see only this Tech game to know that (it's one of the main reasons he wasn't in the game much during the 4th quarter of the Nebraska game, which would be exacerbated by the conditions). second, he's prone to being nicked up a lot, and keep in mind this is even when he's *not* been carrying the ball 25+ times a game. he tries to do that over 13-14 games, I have a feeling he would get crushed at some point
do i spend too much time on this board if i thought there would be 100 replies to this thread when i first logged on and there were exactly 100 replies when i got here?
charles is suprisingly tough between the tackles to be so small. he always is going forward when he is being tackled, and for a track guy he has legitimate football explosiveness to get through holes. his problem is injuries. that's it. we'll see next season after selvin leaves how much they play him.
#4 in the Coache Poll and #4 in the AP. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/usatpoll.htm Just keep on winning aand more domino's will fall We need OU to win out, A&M to lose just 1 more (against OU) and Mizzou 2 win out. By the way GD did call a hellu'va game.
How in the blue hell can polls be released already when #16 Rutgers has yet to play this weekend (they play tonight)???? That is ridiculous (and frankly unfair).
You're the one who made the absurdly wrong claim that GD, like all OC's, just takes what the defense gives him. Don't make demonstrately false statements if you don't want to be called out on them. http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball....nnel_id=&url_article_id=2478&change_well_id=2 <I>On halftime adjustments: We also thought, offensively, we started trusting Colt more and allowing him to throw the ball down the field. We had great protection and some guys made some really big plays and that opened up the running game for Selvin and Jamaal. The only thing we talked about at halftime was that the OU team is way too good for us to not make some explosive plays in the passing game. We have to. We can't line up and throw underneath, we have to get the ball deep and, to their credit, they did. </I> It was made crystal clear in the postgame radio conferences that Mack Brown was the one that forced the change in the offense at halftime to take it to OU and let Colt make more plays in the 2nd half. This shows your statement that GD just takes what the defense gives him to be false - they changed the playcalling significantly on their own. He was forced by Mack to change and, as a result, we won a game we were losing at halftime. When "good Greg Davis" is around - as was the case yesterday - the playcalling is just fine. I'm sure you'll make up more things to attribute to me to rip into now. Enjoy.
The polls are always released on Sunday. Rutgers will have 2 games considered for next week's poll. How is this unfair? It's not as though this game won't count in the minds of voters.
They are the ones that scheduled the game after the polls come out. On Charles, the track speed doesn't matter to me. I don't expect him to be elusive like Barry Sanders, but for the type of back he is, it is imperative that he becomes a better target out of the backfield. Charles has excellent lower body strength that helps him break tackles between the tackles and, at very least, usually fall forward. He can find the tiniest of holes and dart through them for five yards. The home run threat is nice, but Charles's best attribute is his vision. I did not mean to suggest 25+ rushes. I mean to say next year he should be getting about 18-20 touches a game. If he can get 7 yards per touch, he would garner about 126-140 all purpose yards a game. He still needs to work on protecting the ball to ensure he gets all of those yards.
New BCS Polls http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/6116488 1. Ohio State 0.9864 1 2. Michigan 0.9697 2 3. West Virginia 0.7862 4 4. Florida 0.7791 6 5. Louisville 0.7621 8 6. Auburn 0.7589 5 7. Texas 0.7562 7 8. Southern Cal. 0.7152 3 9. Notre Dame 0.7151 9 10. California 0.7133 How USC can still be ranked in the top 10 after losing to some Beaver is beyond me.
They were at home eating cheeseburgers. Florida should get some beauty points deducted when they play 1-AA Western Carolina.
Making stuff up? Major, as you're the same gridiron genius who claimed that a 25 mph headwind didn't affect Nebraska at all and that throwing deep against a three deep zone was a capital idea, trust me dog, fabrication is unnecessary with the gems that you came up with last week. Your crow eating and fabrication of the "good/bad greg davis" dichotomy as a half arsed excuse is duly noted. Hopefully there will be more wins in the future for you to distort. Enjoy your evening/morning.
None of that refutes that the coaches admitted themselves they stopped "taking what the defense gives you" and attacked the defense instead. And then you have to consider how Texas lined up and committed to power running the ball last night, the very essence of which is not "taking what the defense gives you".
Good strategy, thanks for the advice, it is much appreciated Pued. From now on whenever I throw into double coverage or run into a blitz I will remember your name.
Sweetheart, the sarcasm is fun - but if you're going to argue about this you may want to actually address the issue at hand rather than chip about the edges with meaningless tangents and quips.
pOOty, The issue at hand is that you think that the smart thing to do is to throw into coverage or call play action against a blitz rather than to exploit holes or mismatches (i.e. taking what hte defense gives you) in between highly original rants about short passing. Quite frankly poots, if I may be frank, I don't know if there's a lot to discuss other than what has already been said, other than that Texas' record thus far this year indicates that you are wrong, which we already talked about anyway. That's the issue; I know you will scream "east west passing game" from now till the cows come home but forgive me if I opt out of deconstructing it, having already done so last week.
They lost to TTech so they already have 1 conference loss. They lose to OU and then they have 2. So if we win OKSU and KST then we clinch the south and a berth in the conference finals.
i think it may be better for the longhorns if a&m wins out. its good to have beaten the highest ranked teams as possible. but if a&m won out they would be ranked pretty highly and i think that would be the best scenario. and from what i know your exactly right about mizzou winning out and playing them in the big12 game. still not sure if all of that would put UT on top of all the one loss teams. it will be very very close.
