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Game Thread Game Two: #1 Ohio State 24, #2 Texas 7 (9/9/06)

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7/30/06

Texas is nowhere near ready to decide on QB

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Suzanne Halliburton
AUSTIN (TEXAS) AMERICAN-STATESMAN

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Who starts at quarterback is still the main question surrounding the Texas football team.
By design, it will remain an impassioned topic long into September, as the Longhorns coaching staff tries to effectively make the transition from dynamic, game-breaking Vince Young to a teenager who never has taken a college snap.
Coach Mack Brown offered few clues Tuesday, when he met with media covering the Big 12, as to who might be ahead in the competition. Colt McCoy, a redshirt freshman who will turn 20 four days before the big game against Ohio State on Sept. 9, seems to be interchangeble with freshman Jevan Sneed, who will celebrate his 19 th birthday Sept. 2, the day of the seasonopener.
All anyone knows for sure is that McCoy and Snead will divide the practice snaps equally at preseason camp, though Brown said Snead probably will spend more time with the first team.
The deciding factor, Brown said, will be how the two perform in actual games as opposed to grading the two strictly on the simulated conditions at practice.
"Both of these young guys exceeded our expectations in the spring," Brown said. "They’ve shown great leadership. In talking to the guys (Monday) night, they really had a great summer and they worked hard."
Brown said McCoy might have the edge in team charisma, only because he has been on campus the longest, 14 months. Snead didn’t get to Austin until January after graduating a semester early from high school.
"Those are the things we’ll have to find out about on the run," Brown said about "the biggest question mark on his team."
Young had dazzling talents and also was the conduit for last summer’s upscaled voluntary workouts. Twice a week, the offense scrimmaged the defense in full 11-on-11 workouts, rather than the skeleton passing drills most teams participate in during the summer. Without the coaches watching, Young was known to make a big hit on the unlucky defensive back who picked off a pass.
The full scrimmages were back this summer, and the same intensity was expected from McCoy and Snead. Senior tailback Selvin Young said he decided to tutor the two youngsters personally on how to be as tough as Vince Young, his best friend and former roommate. That’s why he frequently would pull them over in the backfield and offer tips.
If either McCoy or Snead threw an interception, Selvin Young would shout for them to make the tackle. A big hit wasn’t necessary, but Young said: "I’d get the point across. Those guys are listening."
The tailback said both remind him of former Longhorns quarterback Major Applewhite, the conference offensive player in the year in 1999 who was known as much for his toughness as his game skills. "They have so much potential," Young said.
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xrayrandy said:
I'm not sure where you get 60%. Texas returns players who score 31 of the 55 rushing TDs and 17 of 26 TDs receiving for a total of 48 of 81 for 59% returning on offense.

Those 48 TDs are still more than the 41 offensive TDs scored by tOSU last year, and alot more than the 27 TD production that tOSU returns. That is a 21 TD advantage over tOSU. Even if you want to pretend that teh UT QBs will not throw a single TD pass this year Texas still holds a 31 to 27 advantage in returning touchdown production. This is definitely a case where a percentage argument doesn't mean squat.
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unless i'm mistaken, receiving TDs directly correspond with passing TDs... in this case, the 17 returning TD receptions are nearly negated by the fact that the passer in those plays is now a Tennessee Titan...

and BTW, your rushing stats are incorrect... you forgot to subtract Ramonce Taylor...
 
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SanClementeBuck said:
Hey Horns: can you fill us in on your charismatic, "portly" assistant coach? He looks like an nfl guard, and seems to have a large part of Texas' football success.
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Well a lot of our older coaches have pretty good beer bellys going on (including Mack), but I would guess you are refering to our Strength and Conditioning coach Jeff 'Maddog' Madden. Very big guy, looks like a powerlifter (supposidly has a 600lb bench).
http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=32&url_subchannel_id=&url_article_id=599&change_well_id=2

Although he's won some awards, there are some, both in and out of the Texas family, that aren't impressed with some of his results. It is kind of strange to note that even though they are being taught by a powerlifter, Texas's players aren't particularly known for their superhuman strength but as far as conditioning goes, it would be hard to argue that Maddog didn't prepare the team as good as anyone in the country, especially given how effective our 'no-huddle' was against everyone we faced last year. By the 4th quarter, most opponents were near death, while our guys always seemed to have juice left in the tank.

He's got Mack's trust so he's here to stay as long as he wants.
 
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OSUBasketballJunkie said:
Young had dazzling talents and also was the conduit for last summer’s upscaled voluntary workouts. Twice a week, the offense scrimmaged the defense in full 11-on-11 workouts, rather than the skeleton passing drills most teams participate in during the summer. Without the coaches watching, Young was known to make a big hit on the unlucky defensive back who picked off a pass.
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A little off topic to the thread at hand but it seems that Vince is continuing this habit into the NFL as well.

CLARKSVILLE — Defensive tackle Randy Starks batted a pass into the air, hunted it down to collect an interception and took a big hit.
The thing that made the Saturday morning play especially memorable, unfortunately for Starks, was who delivered the hit: quarterback Vince Young.

A big round of hoots and hollers by the offense followed. For the record, Starks is listed at 312 pounds, Young at 233.
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Man, I'm gonna miss Vince.:(
 
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He is talking about TDs accounted for. When Vince throws a TD pass, he is accounted for that TD. Thus the whole TD pass column on a stat sheet you blowhard statistician.
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It is kinda silly to count a TD twice while computing the relative strength of two teams, but OK. Texas still returns more TDs accounted for.
 
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campies said:
Yada, yada, yada. We only needed two.
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Right. So if Hamby had caught the TD pass, Young would've driven for two scores in the final quarter. He was just lulling us asleep, purposely restricting his offense to two FGs in 40 minutes. :roll1:

And I'm sure you needed all 10 TDs against Colorado (and Vince Young playing until you were up by 60).
 
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