Well it's a problem when he gets suspended and can't play.
Bowl game prediction thread
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Well it's a problem when he gets suspended and can't play.
Missouri in a cake walk . . . 38 - 9. UT's offense will look so bad against a bad Mizzou team that Tim Beck will get sent packing.
Doubt this team will mail it in. Most if not all the players have never been to a bowl game and most if not all have not had a winning season at UT. What I'm concerned with is the ability to actually be game ready! Some of the players probably haven't played much in some of the positions left open by players not participating. Good thing is we have a few weeks to get some reps in during practice.... bad thing is it's practice.
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Regardless of which team shows up, you won't score 70, lol. If there's one thing Texas can do is limit the damage with good defense even with the missing starters. The offense is going to be the biggest question. I'm taking Mizzou 38-20 and that is counting all of the missing starters.
That starting corner is a shutdown corner, he is suspended.
We could limit the damage on defense if our defense was playing. Holten Hill suspended, Elliot sitting out, Malik not playing. Not sure we know whst to expect outbof the defense.
Malik has not been announced as unavailable .
Davis and Boyd will be fine at corner. Brandon Jones, Bonney and Hall can handle the safety position. Elliott is a good player with several PBU's in his last couple games not much more late in the season, but all in all the defense has a month to prep without Elliott and Hill has been gone. Should Malik miss, I like Gary Johnson!!!
We know what we have on defense, it's whether they can pressure the QB...that will be key.
We should have PJ back as well.
Then it should be a good game. UT never lacks for talent and I'm sure all the reps didn't go to one guy iin any of those positions. Wanting to play seems to be the biggest factor in the bowl season unless it is the playoff or a major bowl.
He may not be declared out officially, but seems as though that’s the expectation
https://www.burntorangenation.com/2...-turf-toe-texas-bowl-longhorns-2018-nfl-draft
Yeah I hope we come out and win it out right but I have a feeling it will be a close one.
That was only if they don't show up mentally ready to play. Pinkel always took his foot off the gas after 50 points if the other team wasn't very close. Barry kept the starters in against Southwest Missouri. That was against the guy who used to be MU's DC when Barry coached linebackers. Granted, our defense didn't seem to know the season had started yet, but he had Lock in for half the 4th Q against a FCS team.
It will be.
When Lock has time, he can find the open guy and put the ball on the mark. (Whether or not they catch the pass that hits them in the hands is another thing entirely.) When Lock has been rushed, he has thrown some really bad "intercept me, please" passes. He has definitely cut down on the questionable passes a lot this year, but he hasn't eliminated them and most of the teams we beat got little pressure on him, so I'm not sure if he is a lot better or just the line play is. Probably a little of both.
All the teams y'all beat struggled this year so I'd say y'all have a great shot at win 8 versus this inept offense.
I guess Vandy was the best team y'all beat this year based on record at 5-7.
This Orlando D, kept the No. 1, 2, 15, 16 and 17th ranked offenses in check this season. Bad part, they only managed to beat 1 and take 2 to overtime.
Hell, they lead to conference champs late in the 4th quarter. I just don't have any faith in Beck.
Texas offense is all that's holding them back.
Hell, they lead to conference champs late in the 4th quarter. I just don't have any faith in Beck.
Texas offense is all that's holding them back.
And there doesn’t appear to be any major changes com8ngbto the offense or offensive staff based on what we’ve heard so far. Sad.
I hear ya. We are also down to one TE because Warren got butthurt about being an Hback and decided to pack up his toys and leave.
It sucks but, that's part of change.
Yeah there is still time certainly, but each day that goes by you are losing potential candidates. I mean new coaches already have or are in the process of putting staffs in place. These days you kind of have to get moving on things right away.
Those discussions are already happening if they are going to make a change, it won't be public knowledge.
Interesting. At least in the initial wave of coaches that Scott Frost has announced fro Nebraska UCF OC Troy Walters is not going with him. If that remains the case and he doesn’t get the head job Herman would be smart to bring him on.
Right and I gotta assume that with Beck making in home visits last week the odds are in his favor to stay.
Honestly if we got blown out in the bowl game maybe long term it wouldn’t be a bad thing. Someone would go to Herman and say you gotta shake some things up.
Herman's demise may very well be his faith in Beck, that's on him. The whole alignment thing, might just sink his ship.
I doubt it. But, it could happen.
I agree. He’s headed down the same road Strong did with Watson. It didn’t work out very well for Strong and I seriously doubt it works out for Herman. Beck has pretty well failed everywhere he’s been with the exception of being a HS coach.
Herman wil probsbly be working for a new AD either next year or the year after. That always puts some pressure on all coaches in a department
Ah shit time... What was he thinking time! That is why Herman doesn't call plays, he's a CEO, AppleWhite saved him at Houston...
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Not with a normal Tennessee, Florida and Georgia.
They have no shot moving forward. When Mizzou left for SEC with tamu I actually expected them to compete quicker, which they did.
Their pipeline for recruiting is near death and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
That's my point
You guys will win 7-9 games a year with the occasional losing season and 10 win season because you have a good program and solid fan base. However, there are 3 teams that just have more to offer. Mizzou entered at the right time when all 3 were just abysmal and Mizzou took full advantage. I don't see that happening again anytime soon unfortunately.
They are still recruiting Texas pretty heavily, and their recruiting class rank over the last 10 years is pretty steady between 33-47 nationally, and they are 47 for the 2018 class. So not sure your point is accurate.
Sure with a normal Georgia or Flordia they may not win it, but that could be said in every conference when the powers of that conference are at their peak. UT is just as responsible for TCU and Ok states success as Patterson and Gundy are. We’ve allowed them to be good in part because of our mediocrity.
The playing field is more level than it ever has been. When I was a kid OU had something like 150 scholarship players on roster. How do you compete with that when you can't afford as many players and they can stockpile all of the best? When I was in college they had limited scholarships but we still had the Nebraskas of the world accepting partial qualifiers, pushing roids and giving "community scholarships" that just happened to feed their "walk on" program. Some of that changed with better NCAA enforcement and the PQ changed with the start of the Big XII (mostly because UT didn't want NU having one up on them in the new conference by lowering admission standards).
Despite all of that progress, there was still inequity. ND had a major NBC contract. The Big XII shared TV revenue based on appearances creating a cycle of haves and have nots. Then the SEC started getting crazy money from ESPN/CBS. Then there were Big 10 network and LHN. We were making $12M in TV revenue when Texas had LHN.
Now revenue may not be equal in the SEC, but it's only donations and ticket sales that are different. Mizzou makes less than a lot of the blue bloods, but we are talkign about AD revenues of $130M for many of them and $100M for Mizzou. (Obviously there are a couple that still put up sick numbers). I think Aggie is the only AD making twice what we do and we all know what happens with a fool and his money. They start a coaching search.
There will still be advantages in depth of local recruiting. There will still be advantages in depth and experience of football staff. But what used to be a mountain to climb is now just a 3 degree incline. In fact, blue bloods today are actually burdened by their past. They have too many meddlesome fans who want to fire coaches too quickly and they all think they are going to get Saban or Gruden or Bear Bryant to come coach for them. Nebraska is paying somethign like $13M right now for coaches no longer coaching there. If you have a money advantage and piss it away, you have no advantage.
