Kevin C

Quinn’s first year starting had some pretty ugly games. He improved a lot year 2 then seemed to regress final year (likely due to injuries). Arch gonna be fine.

Actually your stats do lie. We ran for 155 yards and averaged 4.8 ypc. Not great but in most games, I’ll take 5 ypc.

Great perspectives Jeff. My questions / concerns are: 1) OL and DL through two games look extremely undisciplined with all the stupid penalties. Gotta clean up quickly. Collin Simmons, wtf with the stupid penalties through 2 weeks? 2) Arch appears to have regressed in past 12 months on fundamentals/ mechanics. What is AJ Milwee teaching our QBs? Concerningvtrend with the way Quinn seemed to regress his final year? Way too many examples through 2 games where Arch not seeing wide open receivers down field, poor mechanics, sloppy footwork. 3) Wide receivers dropping very catchable balls (Wingo drop inexcusable) and holding call on Livingstone was crushing in the moment. Those kill momentum. 4) DBs getting burned too often. With a better QB, several additional TDs get scored against us today. 5) Jerrick Gibson gonna be sitting a lot this year if he can’t hold the f’ing ball. Like Christian Clark A LOT. So good to see Baxter building momentum. Feels like our running game could be a real strength this season. 6) Punting seemed off today compared to last week. 7) I heard Sark talk this week about how much he loves blocked punts but good Lord, that is a nut crushing stupid penalty on 4th down to get roughing the punter. Same as a turnover but it’s self inflicted to give free 1st down. 8. We won by 30+ but for much of the game, it didn’t feel good. Very sloppy, erratic. We easily could lose upcoming games against OU, Georgia, A&M, staring at 8-4 if we don’t make big strides in lots of areas quickly. The good news is lots of good tape to highlight areas to improve. No part of the team should be overconfident. Long season. Lots of time to improve, just cannot afford to lose games we’re favored. Hook em! 🧡🤘🏼🐂

Good grief, some of these doom and gloom posts through first half of the season opener against defending national champions are ridiculous. This may be the best team we’ll play all season (on the road). Texas will improve throughout the season as they gain experience. We’re down by 1 TD and will be fun to watch adjustments in second half. Let’s go Arch!! 🧡🐂🤘🏼

great watch this week on LHN. Love J Charles! https://watch.longhornnetwork.com/video/849743 Hook em!! 🧡🤘🏼🐂

Agree. This was a nice post. Much needed moment of laughter. Too funny.

Agree

I hope we stick to home and home games against the top 4 programs in Big 10 (OSU, Mich, Oregon, PennSt) plus ND. Those matchups are epic.

I love how proactive CDC and Sark were to lock in a premier non-conf game annually for next 5 yrs, getting ahead of the awesome news from Sankey re: 9 conf game schedule starting next season. College football has never been better imo. 2025 - Ohio St @OSU 2026 - Ohio St. @ Texas 2027 - Michigan @ Texas 2028 - Notre Dame @ ND 2029 - Notre Dame @ Texas Need to drop the home and home with ASU 2032 / 2033 imho. No upside to that game. Keep it with top programs from Big 10. Would love to see home and home games against Penn State and Oregon starting 2030. Hook em!! 🧡🐂🤘🏼

Looks good tonight.,,scored TD, speed translating well. Showed a great block in backfield

It’s crazy to think about life before OTF. We’re spoiled now. 🧡🤘🏼🐂

Back in early February, I suggested it would have been fun to have a contest, guessing what the total OTF subscriber count would be on YouTube at the time of kickoff against Ohio State nearly 7 months later. OTF had just passed the 70k subscribers mark at that time. My guess was 135k subscribers by kickoff on August 30th (nearly doubling your total and declaring total Longhorn World Domination, lol). I may have been off by a bit but I'm guessing OTF hits the 135k very soon. Far and away the best video broadcasting coverage for Horns Nation!! Would have been fun to have a competition, especially if 4 Texas A&M tickets had been part of the prize for the winner, lol. Anything for free tickets!!! Excited for the season to get started. Grateful for OTF and the incredible team Bobby has assembled, the dream team including Gerry, CJ, Jeff, Blake, Rod and others. Keep up the great work!! Hook em!! 🧡🤘🏼🐂

@Immamac, I’d like to make similar change to my profile. Wil you update my display name to: Kevin C ? Thanks!

Great takes from a Buckeye @LovingBuckeye. Thoughtful. I disagree with your statement that Ryan Day is a better coach than Sark simply based on rationale that OSU won last year H2H 28-14. That’s as oversimplified as me stating Sark is a better coach than Saban because we went into their house and completely dominated the Tide in 2023. Saban hadn’t lost that bad at home in 15 years. Sark has built a sustaining elite program, improving YOY over the past 5 years, growing from an abysmal 5-7 in 2021 to 8-4 in 2022 to b2b semi-finals in 2023 and 2024. OSU didn’t even make the playoffs in 2023. On a separate note, i appreciate you clarifying the OL returning starters at OSU. New OL coach and OC but theyve got some strength and experience up front. Agree with you that our front-7 on Def will make OSU’s OL job tough all day and Sayin’ will be facing relentless pressure nonstop for 4 quarters. That should be a key factor. i also think the change in DC and OC at OSU is a bigger deal than is being highlighted. hook em!! 🧡🐂🤘🏼

My bonus prediction is that Texas v Ohio State rematch happens again in semifinals this year as both teams ascend during back half of season. Texas beats Ohio State in semifinals rematch this year, double OT, 38-35. Texas goes on to play Penn State for national championship. Hook em!! 🧡🐂🤘🏼

Both teams have young unproven OLs and QBs. Ohio State is stronger at WR. Push at TE. Texas has edge at RB. Downs may be a great single player in the secondary but Texas has the superior overall defense. All that said, i keep coming back to the most obvious difference between the two teams is coaching staff continuity. Ohio State has highly unproven new play caller (and scheme designer), new OL coach, new def coordinator and several other new coaches on defense. With the exception of our secondary and RB coach (plus addition of new coach for the DEs) we have a MASSIVE advantage rage in coaching continuity. While our players should play loose and fast, knowing the system inside and out, Ohio State may take 4-6 games into the season before players and coaches feel confident in system. Predicting Texas goes down early then makes adjustments and wins by 10 points 34-24, despite the Buckeyes home field advantage. Coaching continuity by OC and DC are the biggest reasons for game 1 win. what do others think / predict. Ready to start talking in more specifics about the game with only 15 days to go!!! Hook em!! 🧡🐂🤘🏼

https://www.reuters.com/sports/rule-changes-approved-2025-college-football-season-2025-08-13/ Most of these, I like. Good tweaks to rules. Will be interesting to see actual enforcement and interpretation of late game theatrics wity players faking injuries to stop click. One rule that surprised me if I read it correctly, I didn’t realize the coach to player helmet communications weren’t in full use during the playoffs last season. Maybe there’s some nuance to that rule change that needs clarity. Ready for Aug 30 to get here. Hook em!! 🧡🤘🏼🐂

Agree with this take.

https://apple.news/Azsq1HKHERIuTZuIfL9_Low Seen lots of speculation over past 48 hours. Is there any meat on this bone? Next couple weeks could be telling? If it’s at all suspicious, OU may suspend to avoid retroactive penalties against the team later. if OU doesn’t have Mateer this season due to his own stupidity, BV may as well get his home on the market cuz OU will be on their way to 3 out of season’s below .500.

Loving the fact that neither QB has separated himself. Could we have a repeat of 2005 Ohio State v Texas when Jim Tressel platooned his top 2 QBs back and forth all game. They had the elder statesman Justin Zwick and the young but talented Troy Smith (who won the Heisman a year later after undefeated regular season). I remember watching the game, grateful every time Tressel chose to put Zwick in the game. Safe bet but far less talented, less likely to explode on us. Ohio State lost their momentum in the 4th qtr as a result of Vince and team stepping up and lack of rhythm by their QB. Could Ryan Day end up pulling a Tressel and try playing both QB? I think it’s a mistake to play 2 QBs. I’m sure he’ll pick single starter but would be dejavu if he chose to play both.

Five clear takeaways: 1) Damn, Tre Wisner showed up bigtime. 33 for 186 yards plus 21 yards in the air. Lots of runs where he was barreling downhill, not expected given his size. 2) Quinn’s pick six when we should have scored from redzone combined with strip fumble in redzone made this game way closer than it should have been on scoreboard. 3) Special Teams Disaster (missed FG, blocked punt, etc). This seems to be the area we may improve the most and that could equal + 1.5 games. 4) Isaiah Bond was an absolute liability the entire second half of season but his performance against ATM was abysmal. He just gave up on repeated plays. What a waist. Yes, Golden took his game to next level as regular season wrapped up then into playoffs but it’s exciting to think how much our overall starting Top4 will be this year. 5) On 4th and goal from 1yd line up by 10 points with mins left in game, that rush around the end by Ethan Burke for 3yd loss was AWESOME. Looking forward to more of that this season. Hook em!! 🧡🤘🏼🐂

What am I missing with all the “hope he gets fully healed before our game”???? I loved that Lagway was out for last years game and we blew them out at home. Wasn’t even close. We have a tough, really tough schedule. I don’t wish for anyone to be injured but I certainly wouldn’t mind if Lagway missed the game against the Horns again. Playing at the swamp will be intense and I’d love to see another.blowout. OSU, OU, Georgia, A&M will all be tough games….im ok if one or two extra tailwinds blow our way with lopsided wins. hook em!! 🐂🤘🏼🧡

Agree. Bizarre post: Think this is code for… other teams weren’t pursuing him hard either and this is his way of trying to generate some buzz on others’ radar as a Texas ‘commit’ who’s decided to ‘soft decommit’…..Is that a thing if Sark never accepted your commitment? lol. 😳😂

Hope Quinn kills it at Miami. He was all class (despite getting hate at times and hearing how the fans preferred QB2) and killed himself to be on the field for the Horns, bringing us from 5-7 (year before he arrived) and got us right on the edge of playing in the national championship two consecutive years. Sark rightfully feels indebted to Quinn and these idiots who bash him are clueless. He wasnt perfect (no QB is) but Quinn put us on the map of Top 10 teams the past 2 years and he deserves a ton of respect / appreciation from Longhorn Nation imho. Hook em!! 🤘🏼🐂🧡

https://www.si.com/college/texas/football/texas-longhorns-quinn-ewers-shines-miami-dolphins-training-camp