We'll see. Aranda's a good coach but he must understand, there's a new sheriff in town and they tell me he's got a Hawaiian southpaw who's pretty nasty spinning that football.
The main thing is we have to learn to close games. We lost 4 games by 6 points or less last year and had the lead in the second half of all 4 of those games. If our defense shows any kind of improvement there's no reason we shouldn't win 8 or 9 games.
In my opinion if Texas was wanting to mold themselves after the good TCU defenses they should have hired Dick Bumpas, he was the brains behind that defense and you could tell after he retired TCU became just a run of the mill team for the most part. Personally I think they underachieved in the Big 12. Gary Patterson will do ok as an analyst I suppose but I wouldn't be expecting great things, if he was that good he wouldn't have got run off. Gary seems to be putting most of his time into playing the guitar these days.
Bumpas was a great defensive mind but you're underselling how much of an impact GP had on those defenses. I agree though in the fact that I don't see him having much of an impact on our defense this year. He's nothing more than an analyst.
As always, Texas football wins the Big 12 in the spring with recruiting and optimism. Let’s see if we can win this fall when we have to play other teams
Now when you say sleeper team what exactly are you meaning? They won’t be competing for the conference probably middl of the pack if I had to guess/ Baylor about to get reminded of the pecking order this year; soft Riley is gone.
Right now Dave Arranda is the best coach in the Big XII. To go from 2/7 to 12/2 and finish #5 proves my point.
Tech as a sleeper team is a really bold prediction. I don’t see them winning more than 4 to 5 games this year. Wells left that roster in shambles.
"Gary Patterson is out at TCU after over 20 years as coach of the Horned Frogs, the school announced on Sunday night". I hear you on Bumpas, but Gary had a hell of a run, a 20-year run, at a school with fraction of the resources that Texas has. Bumpass is solid but Gary lasted a long time and had some very nice results.
They've hit the transfer portal harder than most teams. More than half of their starters are from the transfer portal Baylor Cupp a te transfer from a&m is probably the best one. And it seems like McGuire is really tight with all the hs coaches in TX.
I still think it's going to take them a year or 2 to get that roster back in line. They are in a pretty bad spot at QB. The 3 guys fighting for the job are just not very good.
If we go 11-1 we are a playoff team. I just don’t see it at all. You could talk me into 9 wins but no way in hell do I see 11 wins.
The obvious loss would be Alabama but that means we go undefeated through conf play. Ain't gonna happen. My guess is 8-9 wins if our anointed QB doesn't impload.
