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Texas/Arkansas Football Post-Mortem

Posted by Scipio Tex on September 28th, 2008 under Football


DKR Varmint Eradication Program

Mack Brown has a gift for attracting celebrity. This weekend was no different. Steve Zissou graced our sideline. I dig Bill Murray and I am a big fan of his work. Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Rushmore, Lost in Translation. I even liked The Razor’s Edge. Speaking of razors, can someone send Jack Arute a Schick Quattro? Bathing your mouth in super-glue and having a hirsute Syrian stripper shed her sporran on you is not a grooming best practice. There is no such thing as a good goatee and this was a particularly bad one. It’s unforgivable that Gameplan made me watch Arute mouth-gina so I could find out that Chris Mortensen’s son is a 3rd team scrub on the worst team we’ll play this year. And Matt Jones is a better player than Vince Young. Uh, thanks Mort.

Arkansas Football is the goatee of college football. Like the goatee, it had a brief moment of public interest, but that subsided when the once in a century scratch off lottery ticket of McFadden and Jones fled to the NFL. Bobby Petrino continues to learn the hard way that character is destiny. He’ll be building quite a bit of it this year along with the Arkansas fanbase. The same day that Arkansas gets mercy slain by Texas, Houston Nutt beats Florida in the Swamp with a Texan at QB and Ed Orgeron’s recruits. Pick banjo, pick six, always pick the Razorback’s opponent against the spread. This is a bad weekend to be a Hawg. Which makes it, by my reasoning, a pretty solid weekend to be a Longhorn. If I was feeling particularly cruel, I’d organize a Snake Farm boycott, but I don’t want to destabilize a regional economy.

The 52-10 score was outrageous and I’m not even sure that fully reflected how one-sided the game was. 66-3 was attainable, but we were inserting 2nd and 3rd teamers liberally in the mid 3rd quarter. We hurt their QB. We pissed on their opportunist coach. We played hard. We had fun. We grew again as a team. I learned that we have a walk-on cornerback named Ford who played 7 minutes in the 4th quarter. Who knew? Let’s break it down…

Defense:

Man-to-man nickel under with two deep. This is who we are. Coach Boom has accepted that a secondary of teens can’t zone to save our lives, so let’s man up and get it on. I wrote in my Rice Post-Game that Muschamp now realizes our front is athletic and deep enough to let the dogs out rushing the QB and that prediction is holding true. We’ll challenge the short passing game more each week and we’ll try to create turnovers with our pass rush by making QBs hold onto the ball. I wouldn’t call our secondary rock solid, but it’s getting better. We held Arkansas to 191 total yards, 3 offensive points, forced two turnovers, scored a defensive touchdown, had seven sacks, and knocked their QB out of the game. Works for me. Arkansas ran the ball pretty effectively in all three of their previous games. We played the run with an honest front and held up well.

Brian Orakpo played his best game as a Longhorn. 3 TFL, 2 sacks, drew a key penalty. Should have drawn four of them. He changed the game. He also played a reverse like a seasoned pro and destroyed any semblance of an outside running game to his side of the field. When I saw Rak grab two guys and throw them into a third while stringing a sweep to the sideline, I knew the Nigerian Nightmare was dialed in. Keep pouring it on, Rak. The other DEs (and Kindle, a de facto DE) were great: Sergio had a sack and led us in tackles (he made a ton of hustle plays – I credited him with more tackles than the official box score), Melton had a sack and strip, Acho continues to dominate in his snaps, and Jones had a sack in mop up time. DE/Rush LB is a very productive position for us.

Arkansas wanted no part of Miller and Houston. We’ll see a lot of them over our next five games though.

Norton started over Bobino. I’m not sure Bobino played twenty snaps. I know I’ve mentioned it before, but it’s amazing how Norton’s athleticism has declined the longer he has been in the program. Muckelroy continues to be our best LB and one of the best players on the team. Keenan Robinson reminds me of Derrick Johnson, dare I write it. He needs to start next year.

Earl Thomas has reached Awareness. He’s not thinking, he’s reacting. The timing couldn’t be better. Is there anything more fulfilling than watching a young player grow? I know a lot of fans prefer the dominant finished product – VY as a junior, Huff and Hampton as seniors. That’s understandable. Personally, I love watching the development process. Which leads me to…

Aaron Williams. The true freshman is now our dime back and pushing to be our full time nickel. I was impressed with what he did on the interception return for a TD. I was more impressed by his coverage on an island on the Hawg’s first possession. Arkansas isolated him on a fly route and he ran stride-for-stride with the receiver and PLAYED THE BALL. I’m looking at you, Ryan Palmer. When everyone on the sideline starts screaming, “Ball! Ball! Ball!” I want you to glance back. They’re not trying to trick you. Hang in there, brotha.

The Acho brothers and Keenan Robinson continue to flash major ability. My thought for 2009? Muckelroy to MLB. Robinson to starting WLB. Big Acho? Never leave the field. Little Acho? First LB of the bench, two year starter thereafter. Further thought -don’t let Madden anywhere near any of them as he drains quickness, hip flexibility, and lateral movement like a ghoul.

Chykie Brown is our best corner and he gets better every game. Deon Beasley needs to watch some Nathan Vasher tape and learn that little guys with cover skills can enhance their value by embracing their inner mean bastard and getting more physical. Take a look at the depth chart, Deon. New management in town. Muschamp doesn’t believe in unconditional love.

Offense:

Our base running offense remains a cluster, but I love GD inserting the QB Lead and QB Draw for Colt. It allows us to account for every defender and it places the ball in the hands of our most dynamic runner. We’ll see those calls again in Dallas on some key downs. Our passing game is operating at a high level primarily because Colt is in tune with Shipley and Quan like he is holding their Wii controller. These guys aren’t just on the same page, they’re on the same sentence. The first TD pass to Shipley had some many fine adjustments that telepathy may have been at work.

McCoy is playing the game full speed while watching it develop in slow motion. Accurate passes, quality decisions, and his ability to run the ball with power, vision, and speed continues to shock me even though he has been doing it since late last year. 9 carries, 84 yards, 2 TDs. 17 of 19 passing for 185 yards and 3 TDs. He’s completing 80% of his passes on the year. Those are numbers Master P wouldn’t negotiate into a contract. Haven’t seen a four game stretch like this from a Longhorn QB since VY, competition be damned. The prevailing wisdom is/was that Colt is a good player that you need to surround with elite talent. I subscribed to that theory. Well, he’s not exactly surrounded by great talent. Maybe Colt is the elite talent.


Needs talent? He is the talent

I thought Vondrell ran hard and I have little issue with his play except for the fact that he doesn’t run the zone play particularly well. He thinks it’s about hitting it up in the hole quickly. That’s not the intent of the play. It’s about stringing it out, getting the defense to commit their momentum, then plant and go. It’s not a dive. The problem is that he has no trust for the OL to allow that continuation since we give up a free defender in the backfield on a 1/3 of our snaps. He had nine yards in losses on three carries. Cody Johnson had none. Primarily because he doesn’t have to run that shit. Oh well, we’ll continue to have a fan base that asks, “What’s wrong with Vondrell?” when he gets hit while receiving the handoff. I’ve accepted it.

Shipley and Cosby aren’t the most talented duo in Texas history, but they’re the most consistent. Fearless, nifty, hands of glue. Malcolm Williams’ disappearance has been disappointing. A&M is getting more production out of Jeff Fuller than we’re getting from Dan Buckner or Williams. Factor in Under Armour models Montre Webber and Phil Payne and I wonder what Bobby Kennedy is doing over there for player development. We throw bodies at the problem every year in recruiting. I’m wondering if talent is the issue.

Tanner is healthy and has his starting gig back over Huey, though Huey had a number of snaps. I can understand this move. Huey isn’t consistent and he’s not a zone blocking guy. He needs to maul. We could stand to get better at center. Hall is a great kid, but I’d prefer to make him a Swiss Army Knife depth guy than a starter at this point in his career. The Arkansas DL was actually not terrible, so it was good to get our guys acclimated to some legit D-1 athletes.

Random thoughts:

John Chiles has improved as a passer while becoming less elusive. I’d prefer the opposite. Am I insane to think that Sherrod Harris needs some of that mop up time?

Arkansas had exactly two players that interest me. LB Jerry Franklin and TE DJ Williams. Rice had three.

The rest of their schedule sets up thusly:

Florida
Auburn
Kentucky
Ole Miss
Tulsa
South Carolina
Mississippi St
LSU

How many wins do you see there? Mind you, Tulsa has a a great offense and Kentucky is 4-0.

After they sign this year’s solid ‘09 class – if they don’t defect en masse – I’d expect Arkansas to start hitting the JUCOS. Petrino had no problem taking questionable types at Louisville and the dominance of Texas, LSU, OU has put the squeeze on top Texas recruits. Throw in a resurgent Ole Miss and raiding NorLA and Memphis is no cinch. If they go 3-9, program-building timelines may need to be accelerated a bit. Bring on the gangstas!

Cancel the game in Arkansas. There’s no upside for us and it would be amusing as hell. Replace them with someone interesting with a recrutiing payoff.

Watch how Applewhite reacts to Hills when he doesn’t put his nose in there to fight sufficiently for the ball on Chiles’ fumble.

One more thing:


S-E-C! S-E-C! S-E-C!

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  1. Musburger said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 10:55 am

    Great job. Your work puts Bohls to shame.

  2. Scipio Tex said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 11:01 am

    In Kirk’s defense, he is not able to make comparisons between Jack Arute’s mouth and an unshaven vagina in the Austin American Statesman.

    If he could, dude would be unstoppable. He may want to let me fill out his Heisman ballot though.

  3. Groundhog Day said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 11:22 am

    Three Questions, Scipio, 1) What are the reasons for the lack of Norton’s progress, 2) What is the upside for Curtis Brown or is he lost in the shuffle and 3) Are you as impressed as others seem to be with Blake Gideon?

  4. Ransom Stoddard said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 11:31 am

    Keeping Fatdog away from all our players would be nirvana.

  5. TyWebb said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 11:52 am

    “When everyone on the sideline starts screaming, “Ball! Ball! Ball!” I want you to glance back. They’re not trying to trick you.”

    That’s gold.

  6. ponderos said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 11:57 am

    Speaking of razors, can someone send Jack Arute a Schick Quattro? Bathing your mouth in super-glue and having a hirsute Syrian stripper shed her sporran on you is not a grooming best practice.

    First ‘hirsute’ reference on BC? Nicely played.

  7. burnt orange dog said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    I have been thinking the same thing about Keenan starting and Muck in the middle, but why not this season? I would for sure do it before the OU game, and glue Keenan to Gresham, especially since we are manning up.

  8. EyesOfTX said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    Totally agree on Earl Thomas. You could really see things clicking in for him yesterday. Also totally thrilled with the abandonment of the soft zone we saw the first three weeks. These guys just can’t execute that, and don’t need to to with our front guys pounding the QB all day.

    Greatness, as always.

  9. Scipio Tex said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 12:14 pm

    Groundhog:

    1) What are the reasons for the lack of Norton’s progress?

    I have two answers: Jeff Madden & position coaching. Norton didn’t have real position coaching until Will Muschamp’s arrival. If you’re not blessed with natural understanding like Muckelroy, you struggle.

    With respect to S&C, Norton has trouble breaking his hips, sinking down, and moving laterally. He also has mediocre speed. This can be addressed. See Todd Wright’s work with Atchley et al. Mad Dog has a one-size-fits-all mentality for S&C. There’s no individualization by need. That’s the antithesis of Todd Wright’s totally individualized regimens. Benching, squatting and eating isn’t what Jared needs.

    2) What is the upside for Curtis Brown or is he lost in the shuffle?

    2. Curtis Brown has a great upside still, IMO. He’s a guy we need involved in the game and that will spark his progress. I’m convinced he’s not a practice guy – he needs to touch kicks and make plays and that will inform his growth as a DB. He needs that confidence.

    3) Are you as impressed as others seem to be with Blake Gideon?

    3. I’m impressed with Gideon. We needed stability in our secondary and that’s what Blake provides. As he matures, he’ll increasingly become a force in the running game. He’s not afraid to stick his nose in there and he has the frame for 210. We don’t want him iso’d on any WR’s though. He’s not that guy. Could he be upgraded? Sure. But Will Muschamp believes everyone can be upgraded. I think he reminds Muschamp of himself, frankly.

  10. kriess said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

    Texas rolls the Hogs and rolls its way into the AP and USA polls as number 5! OU is number 1 and Mizzou number 3. Tech number 7. What a way to rep the big 12!

  11. Kafka said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    Greatness.

    Given that Muschamp is now playing a lot of man to man in the secondary, it is imperative that the DL get to the QB quickly. Necessity is the mother of invention. Works for me.

    What did you think of Gideon’s play yesterday?

    Vondrell not getting zone running is a big problem because that is what UT does. A lot of backs have that problem. One difference between cody and vondrell is that Cody is able to drag some tacklers and fall forward when he gets hit after two yards forward progress. Cody should get quicker as he gets rid of some of the fat that he is carrying.

    Do you think it is fair to say that our O line is more of a pass blocking line than a run blocking line?

    Shipley and Cosby are great but can either one of them draw a double team consistently against OU? Great question about Bobby Kennedy.

    When the UT coaches did their O big board exercise, Chiles was listed number 1, even ahead of Colt (according to Kirk Bohls). After the Arkansas game, Mack blamed the the second team O line for not giving Chiles a chance to succeed. I don’t sense any wavering in the support for Chiles by Mack.

    Given how athletic chiles is, you have to think he will get this running thing figured out eventually (remember that Colt did not run for diddly his first season and a half at UT). The big question is whether Major can coach up vondrell and chiles so that they can run the ball up to their potential.

  12. 8straight said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    Malcolm Williams problems have more to do with Colt and less with himself. I watched Malcolm a lot yesterday. On many plays he was open but he doesn’t get Colt’s first or second look. You can’t blame Colt for going to his main men but he threw to Quan and Jordan at times when Malcolm was more open.
    I was relatively happy with our play until I saw the real men of college football,’Bama, run right at the Dawgs and took no prisoners.

  13. Groundhog Day said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    Great as always, Scipio. We share the same frustration about our return game. Why Cu Brown is not at least returning kickoffs is amazing. I understand Quan on punts as you want the sure handed guy but the kickoff is a completely different thing.

  14. hobbs said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 4:43 pm

    Excellent as always.

    “Further thought -don’t let Madden anywhere near any of them as he drains quickness, hip flexibility, and lateral movement like a ghoul.”

    Much like how he drains the creamy white filling from the inside of a dozen Twinkies and/or Ding Dongs every half hour.

  15. horncasting said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    Scipio – John Chiles has improved as a passer while becoming less elusive. I’d prefer the opposite. Am I insane to think that Sherrod Harris needs some of that mop up time?

    No, you are not insane. While we may be actually putting more effort into it, we are not more effective at developing a backup QB this year than we have been in the last 5 years.

    I just can’t believe Harris would be any less adept at running the full offense than Chiles. Looking down the road, developing one of them will make a world of difference when the time comes to decide whether or not Gilbert has to play next year there is no other really option to starter in 2010.

  16. Trips Right said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 6:13 pm

    Great read. Syrian strippers turn me on.

    Play of the game for me is Kindle blitzing a screen, then redirecting when the back catches the ball and running 20 yards back down field to make a TD saving tackle. Ole Sergio doesn’t exert that kind of effort last year. There’s something in the water in Austin.

  17. steven said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    This game shows you how far the Texas program has come, since the days it left the SWC. When Mack first arrived, the B12 South was a much weaker league and I remember getting mauled by Arkie in a few games. Glad those days are over. Texas, in general, as a program has steadily improved over the years with Mack, even if this does not always play itself out on the field.

    Noticed that the tightend position seems to be effectively dead without Irby and this deficiency showed in the Arkie game -not nearly as much throwing in the middle of the field. One would imagine that GD will have to gameplan around this, somehow, for the OU game. If he is unable, then Irby’s loss was a serious blow to the Horn O.

  18. steven said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

    Know I will get grief for this, but Kindle has very good speed for a LB, but probably not blow your mind, great speed. Granted he is a superb athlete, but I just gotta a feeling that his best position or role with the team is going to be as a situational pass rusher or blitzer. He just does not seem to have the head or the instincts to be a reliable, every down backer.

  19. steven said:

    September 28th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    Oh, and as far as Chiles is concerned, yes, I have to agree, he does looked a little less than impressive out there, but, on the other hand, you can also see the sparks of that untapped and massive potential he has. As far as QB development is concerned, I would be happy to just deferred to GD. In his time at UT, he has seemed to have done a wonderful job with the QB’s and their development. Every single one of them have improved significantly, by leaps and bounds, over the course of their careers, and since you do not see this always with other programs, you just have to give credit where credit is due, I guess.

  20. beowulf said:

    September 29th, 2008 at 3:18 am

    Great read as always.

    I’m very much enjoying observing the process of our extremely talented young players, especially the DB’s, becoming a cohesive force.

    As for Norton, put me in the camp that he hasn’t fully grasped yet what Mus needs from him. I don’t think he has been physically handicapped from FatDog any moreso than Orakpo has, although that idea was considered by some here earlier in the year.

    Every remaining team on our schedule has major flaws, with the exception of OU, that we should be able to exploit now. We’re just going to have to play our best game of the year to beat OU. It can happen.

  21. Bornahorn said:

    September 29th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    Love this thread.

    It bothers me that we can’t open a hole for a back. Everyone bitches about Vondrell but, criminy, he can’t get back to the line or to the wing without confronting serious penetration. I guess if he knew about “zone running” that would help him to wait for holes to develop but Melton got criticized for being tentative about hitting the line.

    The wins so far are great but I worry about 3rd & 1 and 3rd & 2. I guess if Colt continues to complete 80% of his passes, we can throw on those downs and convert 80% of those 3rd downs.

  22. Gene Claude said:

    September 29th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    As a Mizzou fan, I’m absolutely petrified of man-to-man nickel under with two deep combined with an athletic front four. That is the skeleton key to stopping our offense. Throw in some zone blitzing both to keep Daniel out of his presnap comfort zone and you have a recipe for success against us.

    Over the past three weeks, I’ve gone from secretly thinking we were 2:1 favorites in that game to now thinking that we might be 2:1 dogs.

    Which is why I’m trying to figure out ways the Big 12 Champion can get in the NC game with one loss.

    http://www.atomicteeth.com/?p=19

  23. dedfischer said:

    September 29th, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    Personally, I feel the man-to-man nickel under with 2 deep is the perfect fit for your personnel. It will allow your young, athletic safeties to make some plays on the ball.

  24. dedfischer said:

    September 29th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    BTW, I think Muschamp read my assessment last week. This one’s on me, fellas.

  25. Doperbo said:

    September 29th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    “-don’t let Madden anywhere near any of them as he drains quickness, hip flexibility, and lateral movement like a ghoul.”

    Great read. And any pretense that you didn’t play D&D in high school has gone the way of the Bali Tiger.

  26. Scipio Tex said:

    September 29th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    Kafka:

    Always good thoughts from you. I thought Gideon was solid yesterday. He sticks his head in there and he doesn’t make mistakes. We’ll see some blooper moments from him as the competition increases, but so will they all.

    We have a pass blocking OL. No question. I also think they could be a very effective run blocking OL given the right system, but that takes practice reps from Davis’ passing O.

    It’s not so much Shipley and Cosby can’t draw a double team. It’s that when they do, can we trust Collins and Kirkendoll to punish someone for having done so? That’s why Irby’s injury is such a big deal.

  27. Scipio Tex said:

    September 29th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    Trips:

    Yeah, that play was amazing. Sergio doesn’t put forth that effort a year ago. I’m also really pleased to see that Muschamp named Orakpo and Kindle the co-defensive players of the game.

    I felt really good about Muschamp coming in and my confidence in him has only increased.

  28. Scipio Tex said:

    September 29th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    beowulf:

    A paint by the numbers S&C program works for a lot of guys. Their bodies will respond. It’s a good way to manage the middle 70%. However, when you have productive guys with a glaring weakness that can only be addressed with special attention (Jared Norton, Chris Hall, Cody Johnson) or the other side of the bell curve physical freak (Curtis Brown, Chykie Brown, DJ Monroe) that you want to augment without losing what makes them special, you need a S&C guy with a plan for them that extends to every rep, every meal, every drill.

    We’re not getting what we need out of our S&C, despite the best resources in America and some amazing raw material to work with. And you know better.

    Jared Norton is a great example of a willing and able contributor who could make a leap from OK to good with a little guidance and direction.

    As for Orakpo, my point was about opportunity cost. And, as predicted, he’s getting better as the year progresses because of his time out of the weight room since early August, not his time in it.

    Doperbo:

    Your post doesn’t hurt me because I have 63 hit points and it did only like 3 points of damage.

  29. Scipio Tex said:

    September 29th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    GC and ded:

    That’s what excites me about Muschamp. The guy’s intensity has great fan appeal, but he’s extremely cerebral and calculating in his approach. We adjust to everything. Within two series. If you’re accustomed to that, then God Bless You, but we haven’t seen that here in a while. I’m used to post-game press conferences with, “We weren’t expecting them to…”

    I think 2 deep man under is the best way to deal with Texas Tech as well. Tech wants to throw deep into single coverage when you overblitz and they want to punish you with 8-10 yard gains when you play off. What Tech doesn’t like is making their QB throw the traditional NFL mid-range passing tree. I like asking Graham Harrell to hold onto the ball for a bit and then trying to hit 15-20 yard posts and outs with a pass rush in his face and some traffic around his receivers.

    It will also challenge Leach’s patience to run the ball against our honest fronts. If he’ll feed Woods and Batch 30 carries, I think Leach loses some battles and wins the war.

  30. Bob in Houston said:

    September 29th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

    Scipio: I thought the Arkansas return already had been canceled. Hogs preferred A&M in Arlington.

  31. DBH said:

    September 29th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

    Awesome work, Scip. As usual.

  32. dedfischer said:

    September 29th, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    I actually thought Earl Thomas might have been the biggest beneficiary of the schematic change from what I saw versus the Rice game.

  33. Scipio Tex said:

    September 29th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

    Scipio: I thought the Arkansas return already had been canceled. Hogs preferred A&M in Arlington.

    Bob, that’s not my current understanding. Henry James is sleeping with Cleve Bryant so I’ll find out.

    I actually thought Earl Thomas might have been the biggest beneficiary of the schematic change from what I saw versus the Rice game.

    I totally agree, ded. He’s been doing good stuff in practice for quite a while. It was just a matter of him calming down in games and trusting himself. Putting him back in 2 deep and letting him see stuff develop was a good catalyst for that.

  34. EyesOfTX said:

    September 30th, 2008 at 3:41 am

    I’m under the same impression as Bob in Houston. A check of the UT football website indicates they are as well. :)

  35. Scipio Tex said:

    September 30th, 2008 at 7:19 am

    Well, sweet.

  36. dedfischer said:

    September 30th, 2008 at 9:30 am

    Cover 2 zone seems like more of a timing based defense to me. If someone asked me to describe it in a sentence, I would say it’s more of a non-preventative, prevent defense.

  37. HenryJames said:

    September 30th, 2008 at 9:46 am

    What if I asked you to describe it in a haiku?

  38. dedfischer said:

    September 30th, 2008 at 9:53 am

    Cover 2 switches
    Make safety look like bitches
    Touchdown Missouri

  39. dedfischer said:

    September 30th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    Another thought on the game was that Muschamp was familiar with Casey Dick from his time at Auburn and not scared of him being able to make tough throws. This could have been a one game adjustment as the Clement/Dillard combo is much more frightening than anything Arkansas is fielding these days.

  40. dick said:

    September 30th, 2008 at 10:23 am

    I think we are all familiar with how much Dick sucks…dick.

  41. dedfischer said:

    September 30th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    What’s always baffled me is that before Tampa Bay won a Super Bowl with Warren Sapp, Simeon Rice, Derrick Brooks and John Lynch in their primes, Cover 2 was called The Prevent. Funny thing about it, is that Monte Kiffin started Dwight Smith as a nickel back in lieu of a LB against Oakland’s West Coast offense. One in which, Jon Gruden had installed the year before.

  42. srr50 said:

    September 30th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    Scipio: I thought the Arkansas return already had been canceled. Hogs preferred A&M in Arlington.

    Arkansas has been telling their fans that we are coming up there in 2014 — no doubt assuming that it will be a distant memory by then.

  43. Bob in Houston said:

    September 30th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    http://www.arkansasrazorbacks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=6100&ATCLID=1433032&SPID=2419&SPSID=30726

    Not canceled, but I might be dead.

    FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas has postponed its 2009 game against the University of Texas to accommodate its new long-term non-conference series with Texas A&M University, it was announced by Arkansas Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Jeff Long on Friday.

    Arkansas… will play the second game in the non-conference series at a date to be determined in 2015. Long said that the University of Arkansas would explore resuming the series earlier if other scheduling opportunities arise prior to 2015.

  44. blon said:

    September 30th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    Was this in the works before last Saturday’s game?

  45. Bob in Houston said:

    October 1st, 2008 at 7:11 am

    The link is from April.

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  • Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   52 minutes ago

    Egg, that’s fine, but at what point do you blame Barnes? Seriously, man. You’ve thrown players under the bus left and right, but at a certain point, doesn’t the buck stop somewhere. I know you’re more of an NBA guy so it begins and ends with players there, but we need fucking

  • Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   54 minutes ago

    Trips,

    I hear ya. I’m frustrated as well. I guess I just don’t prescribe to such a black and white characterization of the situation. I do know that no matter what happened in the huddle, JCB made a dumb play. If Rick didn’t explain or remind him of the situation, then I

  • Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 1 minute ago

    Pat, know I don’t, but I’ve had coaches draw up plays to free up the best foul shooter and then tell that guy they’d put their foot up his ass if they passed the ball. It’s funny, but as a fans of football we nitpick blitz pickup and shit like that. Shit that’s

  • Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 1 minute ago

    Pat, you know I don’t, but I’ve had coaches draw up plays to free up the best foul shooter and then tell that guy they’d put their foot up his ass if they passed the ball. It’s funny, but as a fans of football we nitpick blitz pickup and shit like that. Shit

  • Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 1 minute ago

    Pat, you know I don’t, but I’ve had coaches draw up plays to free up the best foul shooter and then tell that guy they’d put their foot up his ass if they passed the ball. It’s funny, but as fans of football we nitpick blitz pickup and shit like that. Shit that’s

  • Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 4 minutes ago

    Shitty season…..Rick needs to hire some offensive help and someone needs to say it to him. Deloss?

  • Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 6 minutes ago

    Trips,

    Do you know that he didn’t? JCB has made bad decision all season, why would this be any different. Barnes coached a shitastic game, but on the teams I was the best FT shooter, I never game up the ball unless it was an uncontested layup…..It’s not hard and it doesn’t take a

  • Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 6 minutes ago

    mcpayne, yes, you don’t leave that shit to chance. You don’t let your guys break the huddle or dead ball not knowing precisely what’s expected from them. Barnes doesn’t get 2 mil for coaching PE where he’s hoping the right guy gets fouled.

  • uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 8 minutes ago

    mpayne, I’d agree with you if J’Covan had been playing all season and had been in situations to make that decision. Like, you know, against Baylor, when he played all of 3 fucking minutes thanks to rick.

    So yes, it is rick’s fault.

  • Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 9 minutes ago

    With 15 seconds left, out of a dead ball, most coaches would make it perfectly clear who they wanted to be fouled.

  • uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 11 minutes ago

    Stupid decisions by Brown are one of the reasons he sat on the bench for most of the season…lack of coaching maybe, or just a lack of basketball IQ?

    Oh well, if Brown doesn’t go off in the 2nd half, we aren’t even playing in OT. Too bad he didn’t get much of a chance

  • Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 12 minutes ago

    Pat, if you were making 2 million a year, would you leave that up to chance?

  • Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 12 minutes ago

    Actually, if your a PG and the best FT shooter on the team and played basketball your entire life, you’d pretty much know not to give up the ball if you had any brains…..Such a dumb play…..

  • D W commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 14 minutes ago

    Oh, and a stupid decision by Brown in giving up the ball to Johnson.

  • Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 14 minutes ago

    Be nice if we’d coached our 90 percent foul shooter not to give the ball up.

  • Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 14 minutes ago

    Ransom,

    1 for 2, that was not shitty defense……

  • Mister Mike commented on the blog post State of the Union – NU Basketball, Part 1 (or Why We Are Where We Are)   1 hour, 14 minutes ago

    Well if you had read it all the way, you would’ve noticed this little tidbit:

    In the second part I’ll do my best to give an outline of what exactly is wrong with the program, what we can do to fix it, and then what will probably happen TO fix it.

    So to answer your question:

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  • uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 14 minutes ago

    The line kills us, as it should have.

    Fuck Rick Barnes, as this was the worst coaching I have seen in all my years of watching UT sports.

    This saved us from Kentucky, but I feel bad for Damo, he was a hell of a Longhorn.

    Hook ‘em!

    And FUCK RICK BARNES!

  • Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 14 minutes ago

    Feel bad for Damion…..Dexter and Mason, not so much….

  • D W commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 15 minutes ago

    So the season ends with missed free throws and shitty defense by Bradley. Pretty fitting.

  • Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 15 minutes ago

    Yup……We knew that FTs would get us….

  • Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 16 minutes ago

    F’n Gary’s been awful tonight….

  • uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 16 minutes ago

    GJ at the line…big heart needed!

  • Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 17 minutes ago

    Why does Brown give it up there?

  • Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 17 minutes ago

    Bilas explaining why we’re not a smart team…Oh good, I want Gary at the line…

  • Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 17 minutes ago

    The good news is that now I know to fill out the census, so i’m not going to jail…not for that anyway.

  • Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 19 minutes ago

    Holy shit

  • Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread   1 hour, 19 minutes ago

    F’n A…..WTF….