Texas will probably beat OU. OU is not great upfront. You are going to need a good front 4 to beat Texas. SB looked good unless he was pressured, Foreman is the real deal.
Notre Dame at TEXAS * Game Thread *
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Great offensive game by both teams. But, terrible defensive game by both teams. We were lucky to sneak out with the win after blowing a 17 point lead, but I will take it.
4MN, you and Madcow and a couple of others are the only few that call it like it is. For 2 years a lot on this board like BLH, Scholz etc. claimed that your defense was good but your offense not being productive caused your D to be on the field too much. I think tonight reiterated what you and I and a couple others have claimed all along and that is that Bedford is very mediocre and protected by Strong. He even makes him off limits to reporters? The offense tonight bailed out Bedford no doubt.
Again good win for the horns.
Hardest game of the year is finished. 1-2 more challenging games. Good win by Texas
Based on what I saw in the OU vs UH game I tend to agree. Foreman looked great tonight. He's quick for as big as he is.
How is anyone bitching about anything? Who cares if the players are hoisting up their coach. It's their coach and we just won a game we needed to win. Good for them and any OU fan on here should go reflect on what happened here in Houston.
Great job by our Horns. The 3 down lineman needs to change to 4. That's was the problem last year with the D. No pressure on the QB results to TD's (5 of um).
I don't see it as b!tching. It is criticizing and analyzing our weaknesses. I acknowledge my own weaknesses before I can improve them. I also acknowledge my limits. We are doing and expecting the same from this coaching staff. Is that too much to ask?
Good point. It just seems our defensive guys are out of position....a lot...so aggravating.
I was thinking the same thing. Saban plays with 4 down linemen in a cover 2 defense. I like that defense.
Bell you don't listen we tried to tell you about our backs and probably having the best triplets back there.
Go back and read half your posts. You all bitched and called for coaches heads. I do believe there is improvement and this game was it. Gave the young kids confidence. So $crew you nay Sayers. We won't win a natty this year but we never gave up and beat a good team. Be proud horn fans. Be proud.
A 10 win season atop 5 recruiting class and an improving group of guys.
And yes we are young. Freshman and sophomores all over the field.
Still a log of games to be played but that's what it's looking like
Enjoy it,its been 46 years since Texas has beat ND with hero James Street in the Cotton bowl with Freddie Steinmark on the sideline and I cannot help think maybe Texas had some help from above tonight.
I'm talking about the hoisting up of our coach as bitching. Who cares? We're not playing for Strong they are. I see it as respect and they're excited about who they play for. Why we criticize kids that are emotional about what just happened I'll never understand. It was a great team win! Hook Em!
I see, you are assigning a 10 win season & a top 5 recruiting class to him already. We have a lot of juniors playing this year.
Play a real #10 rated team in the nation with some awfully tough and talented Babies... plus "old man" Tyrone Swoops. What were you expecting?
They have a True Freshman Center "spray snapping" the ball occasionally to a True Freshman QB... and the team had over 100 yds in some very silly penalties on a 500+ Yd night.
Like Clubber Lang once said in Rockie Two, " I predict pain..." for any that don't appreciate UT Football for a while.
Nice win but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Special teams is still terrible, we can;t get pressure with 4 guys and the DTs are getting pushed back into the backers. We are going to lose some winnable games this year if those things don't change.
Well he roped in a top 5 class after a 5-7 year. Seems like after a winning year a top 5 is likely. And yes a 9-10 win year seems fairly likely after getting past this gsme. Yes we gave some jr's playing but fresh and Sophs at key spots. Sounds like there is very little strong will ever do to convince you do this debate is rather pointless
12 Seniors
14 Juniors
30 Sophomores/RS Freshmen
28 True Freshmen
http://insidetexas.com/football/football.php?pg=fb_roster
Hook 'em
Well that will probably happen. Hell if he had a decent QB in year one he's probably 2-0 vs OU already.
Last year, the story was that Texas had more sophomores playing than any other team, right? I will have to look it up, because we are always young.
Dude, EVERYBODY knew Bell was a TE or FB from day 1. He had no business trying to throw the ball but hey, who are we to squash a kids dream.
http://texas.247sports.com/Article/...-class-is-legit-the-numbers-prove-it-41210546 Here is one from 2015. 6 True freshmen starters and 17 with playing time. 4 sophomore starters and 4 junior starters.
To me if you are playing a lot of freshman and sophomores it means your two prior recruiting classes haven't really panned out. I don't think anyone would argue that had been the case at UT the last few years.
I'm proud as hell of the upper-classmen especially Oliver, Warrick, Boyette, and Bluiette. We had great contribution from a lot of guys tonight, and I'm getting the feeling this team could be special. Real special.
I'm thinking they're trying to protect the secondary but the secondary doesn't need any protection. Put 2 DE's and 2 DT's in. 2 LB's in a nickel or 3 LB's. Bring a constant rush with 1 of the outside LB's. It's really simple. If that doesn't change, the DC will be let go at the end of the season. As of right now, we don't have the DL to run a 3 down set. Maybe next year but not this year
Saban played a fair amount of nickel against USC, right? Most of the time, I remember seeing 4 down linemen, 1linebacker in the middle (the others in pass protection or on the edge), and 2 safeties.
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