<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Ricky Williams averaged 6.2 yards every time he ran the ball. Pretty incredible. This season, <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23UT">#UT</a> is allowing opponents 6.4 yards per play.</p>— Mike Finger (@mikefinger) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikefinger/status/257525451755515905" data-datetime="2012-10-14T16:57:06+00:00">October 14, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>TDs of 20 yards or longer in Manny Diaz's first 11 <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23UT">#UT</a> games: Zero. In Diaz's last eight games: 12.</p>— Mike Finger (@mikefinger) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikefinger/status/257530175049306112" data-datetime="2012-10-14T17:15:53+00:00">October 14, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23UT">#UT</a> rushing yardage allowed in ALL of 2006 season: 795. <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23UT">#UT</a> rushing yardage allowed during the last 15 days: 810.</p>— Mike Finger (@mikefinger) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikefinger/status/257531673376333824" data-datetime="2012-10-14T17:21:50+00:00">October 14, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Texas falls to 99th in total defense (449.67 yds a game) after 63-21 loss to Oklahoma. Horns 103rd in FBS and last in Big 12 in rushing D.</p>— Chuck Carlton (@ChuckCarltonDMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckCarltonDMN/status/257508404862533632" data-datetime="2012-10-14T15:49:22+00:00">October 14, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
it's also a fact that their QB play the last few years has been terrible. Ash has looked ok this year, but looks like he's hurt now
Yea. Gilbert was just bad. Any team in the country would have been ecstatic to have him. Ash was a freshman last year and has said that he had no idea what was going on. He had a real offseason to work with the team as the 1st teamer. It's crazy the defense is that bad. Jordan Hicks and Jaxon Jeffcoat were big pickups. No good LBs or backs though. It sucks but the team is making important strides. Hoping we have a good rest of the year.
Nothing left to play for. Coaches have quit on this team and the players are quitting, too. Now we look forward to the future and another long season + off season.
We should have gone after Urban Meyer or kept Muschamp. I still don't understand why we picked two unproven coordinators when we could have had anyone. I don't blame Jerry Gray for leaving after a month. He probably realized he was reporting to a clueless DC that had no real experience.
Do we even have any linebackers? Seriously? Manny, go away. Special teams coach, you get the axe too. Mack, I just don't know what to say. Maybe it's time to become a desk jockey for UT. Your hires are an embarrassment to Texas football. We are no longer a relevant team in CF. Thanks for the memories though.
This is a well written article about Mack Brown. It's a must read and it's 100% accurate and has been for the past 4-5 years. http://www.barkingcarnival.com/2012...is-Mack-Brown-resignation-fire-Texas-football
He was a first round talent too. Sucks. lol... as if the Horns defense couldn't get any worse, it may just have. Idk when Hicks is coming back, but this is a huge loss.
It'll be interesting to see what happens this offseason if the team wins 6-8 games or so. It seems the regular fan base is tired of Mack Brown; the powerbrokers still have his back. Last time this happened (2010), he was able to jettison coordinators, but I don't know that you can do that again. This team is 100% Mack - he just brought in the coordinators of his choice, he designed how practices will run, redid the whole structure of the program, etc. It seems you either commit to the current staff for another year, or you start over with a new head coach.
I have to say I was very surprised by how widespread the anti-Mack sentiment was in Austin this weekend. I don't think I talked to one Horn fan who didn't at least question whether or not he should still be the coach.
From being at the game, the sentiment doesn't seem to be about wins and losses. It's about the general softness of the team and how we seem to need overwhelming talent to beat other good teams - we don't seem to get the most out of the talent we have. And how this seems to be a long-term pattern. From the rumors (and they are only rumors), Mack has put shackles on the team in terms of the way they practice compared to what the coordinators want to do (no live tackling, no 1vs1's, etc). I don't know of anyone that's really defending Mack at this point. That said, the boosters definitely have his back - at least for now. He's a brilliant politician, and he schmoozes well, so those guys get to feel important as long as Mack is there (exact opposite of Mackovic). I think a lot depends on if they go 6-6 or 10-2, as far as how much leeway that buys him. Personally, I think it might be time for change just for change's sake - the program seems to be growing stale, and no one seems to know how to fix it. I don't think the Texas job is as easy as people make it to be (UT recruits itself, etc) - but I think when what you have is no longer working, you have to try something new, even if it doesn't work.
obviously the last 3 years have sucked and i don't have a problem with people wondering if mack needs to go at this point because it does feel as if a change just might be needed at this point, but sometimes i wonder if we just overrate the talent and then wonder why it's not doing well. i certainly don't see many guys on the current team that stack up with some of our better teams. our 2008 and 2009 teams seemed to maximize their wins, especially the 2009 team, which probably didn't have much business going undefeated in the regular season given that we only had about 2 guys on offense worth anything. even though it would take nothing short of a miracle for us to go 10-2, it's funny how many people seem to think that 10-2 is still a reason for mack to go even though it would have been considered an overachievement based on all but the most optimistic predictions for this season. but i guess the 3rd 63 point game at the hands of your biggest rival does tend to sour people on a coach. i can definitely see the change for change's sake argument. and the Texas job isn't as easy as people make it out to be (really, it isn't easy anywhere). the fact that we had to wait more than 20 years after royal, and 15 after our last real contending season to find another coach that could make us a contender shows that it isn't. but if nothing else, mack at least turned UT back into a program where it will be as easy as it will be anywhere else to get things going again and the money-making machine he turned the program into means that we should be able to throw as much money at the problem as need be until we get it right. the mere fact that UT is viewed as a place where it's "easy" should make any top coach want to come here.
