[NCAA FOOTBALL] Colt McCoy back peddles on not going Pro

Or maybe he actually wanted to stay regardless of his draft grade, he never sounded like he want to leave in the first place.

And I'm not actually sure he wouldn't have gotten a high draft grade to begin with. Outside of Stafford and Bradford (assuming they declare), this is a pretty weak QB class and I think Colt might have gotten a higher grade than most expected.

But you're right, it's a good choice for both sides.

 

Good. This pretty much places UT in the Rose Bowl next year. Only question now is can McCoy win 2 Heismans?

 

Places UT in the Rose Bowl? It ain't that easy to make it man.

if you'd have asked me that there was any possible way that Texas could go 11-1 in the toughest division in the country playing an incredibly difficult schedule with only one razor thin midseason loss to a highly ranked team on the road, dominating most of its opponents, put up a Heisman candidate, a Nagurski award winner, and notched a decisive victory over No. 1 Oklahoma in the RRS - and NOT made the national title game - I'd have thought you were insanely dumb or dumbly insane.

 

The only games UT has to worry about next season are the two games with Oklahoma teams. I think OU will be much worse next year than this year because of the players they will lose. @ OK State worries me more. Those games are always crazy and they have pretty much everyone back that is significant.

Other than that, we play another terrible non-conference schedule. It's going to be win out or bust. Our schedule of strength could kills us in the computers next year, so we can't afford to lose a single game. I don't think we will, and that's why we're going to the Rose Bowl. The sympathy voters from the humans due to this year's tragedy will carry us over the computers next year.

 

You can check UT's future schedules here:

http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/fb-future-schedules.html

Gotta love that non-conference schedule! Next three years include UCLA (pray they are actually decent in the future), Central Florida, Florida Atlantic, Rice, and Wyoming. Next two years after that include Ole Miss. That could actually be a decent team.

 

I believe we had a home and away series scheduled with Utah before they backed out. That would have been a nice boost to our OOC SOS.

 

That's exactly why Texas's OOC suffers. Nobody wants to play us.

 

This is silly. We just had a home-and-home with Ohio State. We scheduled a home-and-home with Arkansas (who was decent, though not this year). As far as not wanting to play us, it was Texas that cancelled our game vs. Hawaii, the year after they got really good.

Our problem is that we need to stop playing so many crappy teams and play more mediocre teams, and instead of playing one mediocre team (Arkansas, UCLA), play a true national power. USC certainly has no problem scheduling good opponents year-in and year-out.

 

What's the UT O-line and D-line look like for next year? Anyone close to replacing Miller and Orakpo?

 

Sometimes I wonder if reading comprehension is even taught anymore....I mean honestly.

Comparing ARM strength is not the same as comparing overall ability.

The point is that a weak armed QB can still be great......and also that Colt's arm is strong enough.

And for the record Yao Ming compared V-Span to Steve Nash, not me, but you would have to be able to comprehend while you read...capiche?

DD

 

Thats because the PAC-10 has been horrible for quite a while.

 

Exactly the Big 12 has enough good teams to sustain a SOS argument on it's own.

DD

 

Maybe my memory is faulty, but I believe you and 2-3 others guys quoted Yao's statement countless times to give cred to V-Span's ability. If you weren't one of them, my bad.

Being "weak armed" means that nearly everything else has to go right for McCoy to make it in the NFL. Most NFL QB's with less than strong arms barely have a job. This is likely McCoy's fate IF he somehow makes a roster. He just isn't cut out for the next level. College football is his peak, like Major Applewhite. Colt's NFL upside would be Doug Flutie, who found true success in the CFL and floundered most of his NFL days.

I wish him the best. It's good he's returning next year and we'll see after that.

 

What does that have to do with Ohio State deciding whether to go play USC or not? The Pac10 may suck, but USC doesn't. And they have no problem scheduling tough non-conference games every year. This whole "no one wants to play us" thing is silly. It makes sense for a Utah type - if you lose to them, it looks bad for you; if you beat them, big deal, you beat Utah. It makes no sense for the Texas's and USC's of the world. They can schedule any level of teams they want to.

 

The entire O-Line (minues OG Dockery) will be returning, I believe 3 of 4 will be seniors so I expect the O-Line to be ridiculous next season.

The D-Line will lose Miller, Rak, and Melton. Houston and Lewis will return at DT and look for Acho and Jones to replace the DEs. Kindle will also see a TON of time at DE should he return (which I doubt he will).

Like who? Other than the series with Ohio St. USC has not been scheduling good OOC opponents, the best team they've scheduled lately has been Nebraska.

 

USC also played a series vs. Arkansas, which was a pretty good team but got thoroughly embarrassed both times by USC. Also, Virginia probably wasn't expected to be as crappy as they were when they were scheduled. That's often the problem, too. When teams are scheduled years in advance, you never know how good they will or won't be once you actually play them.

 

Todd McShay of ESPN actually had McCoy as a 2nd or 3rd round pick. Kinda surprised me. Guess I didn't see him going that high, but it's certainly more likely if McCoy builds off of this year to have another great year in 2009.

 

Twenty or so years playing pro football - making millions of dollars isn't a bad career choice.

 

It really depends on what you considered being "weak armed." I don't consider guys like Warner, Romo, Pennington, Delhomme, Schaub, etc...to have strong arms but they are doing just fine. Just because you have a weak arm, that doesn't mean everything else has to go right. There are ton of QBs with cannons that can't do anything else, literally.

Kiper actually had made a good comparison to Romo and Delhomme. I think Romo is especially a good comparison, both aren't that big of guys and don't have exceptional arms. But both have good mobility and can buy time in the pocket, both have pretty good accuracy as well. Both really excel in making plays if the play drawn up doesn't work.

 

Naaaaaaaaah. Not even close DD.

This is what man-love looks like:

I don't mind the comparisons....the guy has Nash like vision, but it took Nash about 3 -4 years to really come into his own.

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?p=2550389&highlight="v-span"+"nash"#post2550389

I think that V-Span is a combination of Nash & Parker....Steve is a good passer....Parker is a good driver....

But the Nash comparison to his rookie year is a bit much as V-Span has been a pro player for years, and Nash was coming from a VERY small college.

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?p=2628319&highlight="v-span"+"nash"#post2628319

The bit about V-Span being like Nash or Ginobli is his court vision, creativity and playmaking.

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?p=2631651&highlight="v-span"+"nash"#post2631651

Personally I think V-Span has Nash like potential at least as a passer (as confirmed by Yao)

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?p=2682855&highlight="v-span"+"nash"#post2682855

LOL - I said that I think V-Span COULD DEVELOP into a Nash like player with his passing....

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?p=2683469&highlight="v-span"+"nash"#post2683469