Dude Simms blows. Major is so much better than he is. Major should get to play in the NFL, he would show everybody whats up.
Umm... Simms earned it with his dominant performance against Texas A&M. Major may have lost it to injury, but it doesn't mean Simms didn't earn it. It was Simms' great performance againat A&M that forced Mack to make the change. Also, I don't really think Mack lost the conference championship by not starting Major. Had we started Major, we probably would've just lost to Texas Tech or something. Remember, with Major, every year we lost to a team we shouldn't have lost to... NC State, Stanford, etc. Unless you can consistently beat the teams you should beat, you won't be in the Big 12 championship game. I'd rather a 10 win season and top 5 finish, and losing to OU, than a 9 win season, top 15 finish, and beating OU. Please. Don't give me that BS. There are two things wrong with that theory. First, OU's defense is substantially better than Colorado or Washington's. Second, Texas used Ivan Williams in both of those games on several draw plays. The threat of the run existed. The defense didn't know Major was throwing every down. Of course, your last statement is all opinion, not fact. Maybe if Simms starts the Holiday Bowl, we don't have 3 interceptions in the first half and we don't get in the 19 point hole. The problem with this comparison, of course, is that Simms has only lost three games against ranked competition. (and one of those games was the Oregon Holiday Bowl where three receivers dropped wide open touchdowns) 2-3 is not a terrible record against ranked teams for a college quarterback, and it's way, way too small of a sample size to judge a player's career on. As I described earlier in this thread, there are many, many circumstances that negatively affected that ratio. Three hail mary's... one off the missed block in the OU game... three dropped touchdowns against Oregon. My guess is that objective observers can see that those numbers are skewed, and also that three games is far too small of a sample size. Probably because he led us to 10 wins and a top 5 finish, which is something no one has done (no, not Major either) at Texas in decades. If anyone wants to have a sig bet (I already have a subtitle bet with mduke) on Chris Simms, I am definitely up for it. I bet that Simms will be one of the finalists for the Heisman. I won't bet on him to win it, though, since there's so much bias against him, and how Grossman was robbed a year ago. Grossman was an absolutely clearcut winner... no question about it. If he's not a lock after his season a year ago, no one is.
It looks to me like we have a bunch of non-alumni bandwagoners applying the Jim Rome attitude towards UT football, interspersed with Okies and Aggies telling us what we should be doing differently. Stupid, and a waste of bandwidth.
