3 would could have beens at Texas

[Rocky P]

4 minutes ago, JimR6 said:

What if McCoy runs the option correctly instead of tip-toeing down the line. No way a backside LB should have touched him let alone hit him hard. Poor play call, perhaps, but abysmal execution. The injury was the result and should not have happened.

Marcell darius definitely was not a backside linebacker.  He was the dt and blew up the play.

[Here for the Wins]

35 minutes ago, JimR6 said:

What if McCoy runs the option correctly instead of tip-toeing down the line. No way a backside LB should have touched him let alone hit him hard. Poor play call, perhaps, but abysmal execution. The injury was the result and should not have happened.

That’s part of the problem with the play call.  We weren’t great at running the play in the first place.  If you ranked our plays in order of execution, that one was well down the list.

[Oldest Horn]

More than two years of Ramonce Taylor. He was special. 

[Tres Comas]

Healthy Jackson Jeffcoat

[drag worm]

2 hours ago, JimR6 said:

What if McCoy runs the option correctly instead of tip-toeing down the line. No way a backside LB should have touched him let alone hit him hard. Poor play call, perhaps, but abysmal execution. The injury was the result and should not have happened.

The biggest travesty was that it further exposed the issue that Colt and Shipley had bailed out the lack of a running game all season and that play was the pinnacle of that issue coming to life in the worst possible way. Much like the last two games against Ohio State you shouldn’t have to risk your QBs life to score inside the ten. 

[CoachBobbyFinstock]

I think of seasons…

2008 if we have a playoff or the right thing was done. Texas should have played for a title.

2009 If Colt doesn’t get hurt

2023 If AD can somehow come up with the ball in the waning moments we again play for a title.

[Bobby Burton]

My top three:

Edwin Simmons

Edorian McCullough

J'Marcus Webb

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Next:

Robert Timmons

Robert Joseph

Marco Martin

Paul Broussard

Jerrell Wilkerson

[Waxahorn]

For the older folks: Roosevelt Leaks would have been a favorite for the Heisman in 1974 if not for the knee injury in the spring of 74. Edwin Simmons looked like a superstar until the knee injury at Arkansas 1983. And that year we were a muffed punt away from a national championship. I could go on but if if's and but's were candy and nuts...

Edited 1 hour ago by Waxahorn

[BornOrange]

What if Doak Walker had joined Bobby Layne at UT.

An early case of SMU recruiting shenanigans.