Austalgia

Don’t you guys think they already have their guy? You don’t fire a successful coach with that kind of money owed if you don’t have someone ? Right? I guess they do keep losing to the big 3 in their conference with no end in sight. Now, add in the bottom feeder losses of late, and it was a matter of time. I just can’t see them not having talked to someone yet.

I know a donor myself that could have paid it. They have what Texas has. The will and the resources. It’s not even hurting some of these guys on the money. It’s money and fandom that few can understand. Michigan and Ohio State same if it came to it. I am actually surprised he is fired before Michigan coach. Michigan might have more resources.

Yeah, I worried about this back then. We’ve seen it before with the thud practices and we get soft. Different regime, I forget which one tried this and same thing happened. Ironically, this is the year we had the depths to get tough in practice and have a next man up mentality if we needed it. That was almost our strength cooking into that season.

Poor gameplay today on both sides of the ball. We had a light box in the first half and let them get ahead. We finally adjusted second half. And our offense once again doesn’t know how to attack defenses, we ran into their loaded box for most of 1st quarter. Stupid

Yeah, I don’t think Florida scores over 14. Dallas Wilson gives them 2 touchdowns. Arch throws for 3, runs for one, and we get a field goal. Unfortunately, Shipley misses a field goal, but he also makes one. Florida loses the crowd in the end and we overcome by a bit. We could score another one at the end, but Sark kneels it in their territory. I can’t get any more specific than that guys. Don’t want o give away the gameplan. Texas- 31 Florida- 14

Mateer’s thumb rehab and recovery exercise involves a tortilla press, more news to come as it breaks.

John Mateer’s doctor put out a statement that Texas Tech won the scrimmage.

Well done

As I said on another thread. Hire him now as an analyst to fix and innovate the run game. (QB and RB run game)

Urquhart Castle on the banks of Loch Ness is breathtaking on the way up to the Highlands. My wife got out and had to take some pictures with some highland coos and I got to have and interesting conversation with a Scottish farmer informing me of the history between the Catholics and Protestants in Scotland. Don’t forsake the highlands, Glen Coe, and just seeing the countryside, he rivers and mountains on the way up are breathtaking.

Can you imagine if they would have had a drone show for that first game? The people there would have thought we were being invaded by aliens .

Maybe he needs to go back to his roots and train with Apollo Creed. He’s lost “the eye of the tiger. “

I think you change the offense a little to include the QB run or more RPOs, but run the offense you got and wait for him to get better. As I said in another post, I think as a fan base (and surprisingly even some mods) we are forgetting how rough it was for Colt, Vince, and even Peyton in their first seasons as starters. Give Arch a chance, he has been patient with Texas and shown he works hard. This isn’t a slacker or someone who has low character, he deserves some time to grow. He has also shown he can play football, if he just makes the throws we’ve seen him make in the past and some easy throws to played in space, we get exponentially better with what we have on defense and special teams. Mix in the deep shots, wheel routes, and throws down the seam with the run. Arch almost plays better it seems when he can just “play ball” as he says it, and is not so scripted.

All I can keep thinking is if “Champ Monds” is an alternate universe “Chance Mock”.

Nice win

And A Shawn Robinson had an elephant deliver an Alabama hat and spurn Texas. You have to focus on what you get, not what you don’t. Dakorian Moore’s recruitment and subsequent commitment was a joke and spit in the face of Sark who rolled out the red carpet for him and his family. The attention to him probably cost us other recruits in the process. Let him be up there in the Oregon, hope he enjoys the winter.

“The Longhorn don’t care!!”

Ok, fair . He has a podcast with VY though. So he is a little involved in pumping up the brand.

I guess you weren’t around or don’t know your history. Joe Jamail’s contributions were because of Mack. I can come up with some more given time that are directly linked to Mack’s ability to raise money and generate excitement . You can maybe argue on the coaching or other pieces of the legacy (not beating OU enough), but Mack being a politician that brought in the donations and funding for us being on top is objective, not subjective .

Did any of those coaches have a decade of success and raise money to a level to make their university the highest revenue university in the nation? And he might have been soft and might could have won more, but let it go. Time has passed . He deserves to come back in and help.

9+ wins for 10 years , most years 10 and a national championship was left out. Could have played for 3 more national championships, it’s an oblong ball. Best testimony is from players that are legends, not you guys . Second best coach in UT history. He had his negatives. I think down talking the program on the way out is rumor. He did say he was working his tail off in Florida . Yeah, it was weird, but not worth all the hate . Get over it . And be appreciative. The hate is getting old

And he’s also the reason for a decade of winning. And the subsequent hires were the reason we went into mediocrity. The guys a Texas legend, other Texas legends acknowledge it, get over it. It’s old. His relationships also made us the most supported and richest university in the nation. That’s a fact

And let me just say, when I say Arch was too scripted, it was in the context of a Matt Patricia defense that thoroughly confused him in the first half. In a script you want to see what you are told you will see, IMO he was confused and petrified a little (maybe a lot) when he didn’t see what he expected. All credit to Patricia. This is just a hunch of course, but seems plausible. His mechanics and football play haven’t ever been this bad. There is no pattern or trend for what happened in that first half.

I don’t think we will know anything with success until Florida. He will probably play great and rah, rah, but will we really know how he will handle the swamp against a competent Florida defense? No. (Sorry to the teams we play next, no disrespect). I guess if he plays bad against inferior competition that will be a red flag though. I hope not, Arch is great. Hope he succeeds for sure.

I think the first half was too scripted and Arch had to think too much. He needed to play looser and free like in the 4th quarter. We’ve had 2 other QBs like this, VY and Ehlinger. That had to be felt out. His talents were a little mismanaged. That’s ok, Safk has to feel this new QB out as well. And we are talking about a 1st start on the road in the biggest college football opener in modern history. We expect Manning’s to be perfect . They don’t have to be, they just have to get better. Peyton did. He has the pedigree and work ethic to do just that. We will see.