Sure it would. It helps when he tells us how much better this years replacements are.NFBuck said:That wouldn't be very convenient for xray's arguments.
Ban the dumb shit.
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martinss01
blissfully stupid
nope. simply put, there are far more factors that affect onfield success than raw talent. until that changes, its a crap shoot at best.
some are better than others. but noone is anywhere near 100%. not even in the ballpark.
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and you don't think they get worse and worse at overhyping teenagers, being "first" to spot the next big QB/WR/etc, and shifting recruiting rankings to cater to undecided kids?
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'Horns in search of new vocal captain
By JIMMY BURCH
Star-Telegram STAFF WRITER
GETTY IMAGES/HARRY HOW
Running back Selvin Young, a fifth-year senior, will be counted on as one of the leaders on offense.
AUSTIN -- On a team loaded with talent and preparing to defend a national championship, one lingering question hangs over the Texas Longhorns.
"Last year, we knew who the king was. Vince [Young] was the guy...This year, we'll see," said Duane Akina, the team's co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach.
Ask a cross section of Texas coaches and players who they expect to be the vocal leader of these Longhorns and you'll get plenty of differing opinions. The primary candidates include tailback Selvin Young, safety Michael Griffin and defensive end Tim Crowder.
Eventually, said coach Mack Brown, "some of that will have to come from the quarterbacks." But with two unproven freshmen atop the depth chart at quarterback, the third-ranked Longhorns will head into Saturday's opener against North Texas (11 a.m., Austin) leaning on veterans to fill the leadership void left by Vince Young's departure.
"This year, it's pretty much going to be leadership by committee," said defensive end Brian Robison, a senior and third-year starter. "I plan on trying to step up as much as I can."
So does Crowder, a quiet player by nature who has begun to "come out of his shell" in huddles and meetings, said defensive tackle Frank Okam.
"Crowder really wasn't a talker the last two years," Okam said. "He is now."
Because Crowder always has displayed one of the team's top work ethics, offensive tackle Justin Blalock said the senior from Tyler projects as "one of the leaders of the entire team" this season, now that he's piping up in the locker room.
Defensively, players said each unit seems to be developing a natural leader: Crowder up front, Griffin in the secondary and Robert Killebrew at linebacker.
Selvin Young has become the primary voice in the offensive huddle. He also served as the driving force in arranging the team's voluntary summer workouts.
Brown said the fifth-year senior, who has overcome multiple injuries and academic struggles in his college career, has emerged as "one of the best leaders" on this year's team.
"He's the guy that they all look up to because they think, 'If he can do what he's done to hang in there and fight through all that adversity, then we can hang in there with him,'" Brown said.
But in terms of finding a confidence-boosting Pied Piper who lifts teammates' spirits on both sides of the ball, in the mode of Vince Young, it's safe to say the Longhorns are still looking. And hoping.
"I really believe leadership is created by making plays. By being a player, not just talking your way into it," Akina said. "Our leaders, I think, will emerge as the season goes through. Everybody understands that.
"And it's going to work as guys make plays early in the season and show they're a guy we've got to look to."
With 16 returning starters from last year's 13-0 team, there is no shortage of potential candidates. Because of the success these players experienced by winning the school's first national championship in 35 years, Okam said the need for a take-charge type who can be the focal point in times of trouble is not as significant this year as it was in 2005. The Longhorns began last season in quest of their first conference title -- let alone national honors -- in nine years and needed more of a push to realize their potential.
This time around, Okam said "the committee approach can work" because these Longhorns understand they're good enough to win it all. Again.
ONLINE: www.texassports.com
IN THE KNOW
Texas Longhorns
Coach: Mack Brown (83-19 at Texas, 169-93-1 overall)
Last season: 13-0, 8-0 in Big 12 (conference champions). Beat USC 41-38 in Rose Bowl to win national title.
The variables: Texas returns important pieces from last year's national championship team. But the primary playmaker and emotional leader, QB Vince Young, is now an NFL rookie. With the offense in the hands of freshman QB Colt McCoy, Texas' defense seeks to allow fewer points and collect more turnovers. The more pressure the defense takes off the offense, the better Texas' chances will be to repeat as league and national champions.
'Horns in search of new vocal captain
By JIMMY BURCH
Star-Telegram STAFF WRITER
GETTY IMAGES/HARRY HOW
Running back Selvin Young, a fifth-year senior, will be counted on as one of the leaders on offense.
AUSTIN -- On a team loaded with talent and preparing to defend a national championship, one lingering question hangs over the Texas Longhorns.
"Last year, we knew who the king was. Vince [Young] was the guy...This year, we'll see," said Duane Akina, the team's co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach.
Ask a cross section of Texas coaches and players who they expect to be the vocal leader of these Longhorns and you'll get plenty of differing opinions. The primary candidates include tailback Selvin Young, safety Michael Griffin and defensive end Tim Crowder.
Eventually, said coach Mack Brown, "some of that will have to come from the quarterbacks." But with two unproven freshmen atop the depth chart at quarterback, the third-ranked Longhorns will head into Saturday's opener against North Texas (11 a.m., Austin) leaning on veterans to fill the leadership void left by Vince Young's departure.
"This year, it's pretty much going to be leadership by committee," said defensive end Brian Robison, a senior and third-year starter. "I plan on trying to step up as much as I can."
So does Crowder, a quiet player by nature who has begun to "come out of his shell" in huddles and meetings, said defensive tackle Frank Okam.
"Crowder really wasn't a talker the last two years," Okam said. "He is now."
Because Crowder always has displayed one of the team's top work ethics, offensive tackle Justin Blalock said the senior from Tyler projects as "one of the leaders of the entire team" this season, now that he's piping up in the locker room.
Defensively, players said each unit seems to be developing a natural leader: Crowder up front, Griffin in the secondary and Robert Killebrew at linebacker.
Selvin Young has become the primary voice in the offensive huddle. He also served as the driving force in arranging the team's voluntary summer workouts.
Brown said the fifth-year senior, who has overcome multiple injuries and academic struggles in his college career, has emerged as "one of the best leaders" on this year's team.
"He's the guy that they all look up to because they think, 'If he can do what he's done to hang in there and fight through all that adversity, then we can hang in there with him,'" Brown said.
But in terms of finding a confidence-boosting Pied Piper who lifts teammates' spirits on both sides of the ball, in the mode of Vince Young, it's safe to say the Longhorns are still looking. And hoping.
"I really believe leadership is created by making plays. By being a player, not just talking your way into it," Akina said. "Our leaders, I think, will emerge as the season goes through. Everybody understands that.
"And it's going to work as guys make plays early in the season and show they're a guy we've got to look to."
With 16 returning starters from last year's 13-0 team, there is no shortage of potential candidates. Because of the success these players experienced by winning the school's first national championship in 35 years, Okam said the need for a take-charge type who can be the focal point in times of trouble is not as significant this year as it was in 2005. The Longhorns began last season in quest of their first conference title -- let alone national honors -- in nine years and needed more of a push to realize their potential.
This time around, Okam said "the committee approach can work" because these Longhorns understand they're good enough to win it all. Again.
ONLINE: www.texassports.com
IN THE KNOW
Texas Longhorns
Coach: Mack Brown (83-19 at Texas, 169-93-1 overall)
Last season: 13-0, 8-0 in Big 12 (conference champions). Beat USC 41-38 in Rose Bowl to win national title.
The variables: Texas returns important pieces from last year's national championship team. But the primary playmaker and emotional leader, QB Vince Young, is now an NFL rookie. With the offense in the hands of freshman QB Colt McCoy, Texas' defense seeks to allow fewer points and collect more turnovers. The more pressure the defense takes off the offense, the better Texas' chances will be to repeat as league and national champions.
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High Lonesome
Hook 'Em
HAHAHAHA
Maybe i'm just too dumb to know when i'm being insulted but that was funny as hell.
edit: Why the hell did they make us a Blue state?
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bchorn
Longhorn fan
Columbus sports radio station?
Are there any good Columbus sports radio stations that stream online? My work just blocked the Texas sports radio station I listen to online here in Austin (www.am1300thezone.com) so would like to listen to a good buckeye's station leading up to the game.
Are there any good Columbus sports radio stations that stream online? My work just blocked the Texas sports radio station I listen to online here in Austin (www.am1300thezone.com) so would like to listen to a good buckeye's station leading up to the game.
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Brown inherits next great quarterback controversey
Posted On: Wednesday, August 30, 2006
By Jim Vertuno
The Associated Press
AUSTIN – OK, so Mack Brown has named Colt McCoy as the Texas Longhorns' starting quarterback for the season opener against North Texas.
That was the easy part.
Much more difficult is figuring out how much he plays and what to do with freshman backup Jevan Snead.
Even if the Mean Green doesn't give the defending national champions much of a scare Saturday, Brown's quarterback juggling skills will be severely tested.
Here's the conundrum: With top-ranked Ohio State coming to town next week, McCoy is a redshirt freshman who needs as much game experience as he can get. His first snap against North Texas will be the first of his career. But Brown and offensive coordinator Greg Davis have also said throughout the preseason they want Snead to play.
On Monday, Brown said he'd like Snead to play but backed off any guarantees for the first game.
"We will tell Jevan to be prepared to play. We'd love to get him in the game, but we'd rather not back ourselves in a corner," Brown said.
"Winning the game will be the most important thing, and we'll decide what we need to do as we go through."
Brown doesn't want to script a scenario for Snead to avoid hurting the players' feelings if the game doesn't allow it. The coach remembers when he was a player and a coach promised to get him in a game.
It didn't happen and Brown was upset.
"Being a 19-year-old, I thought I was lied to," Brown said. "We're really cautious about telling young guys you will play at a specific point, because if it doesn't happen, then you become a liar and sometimes it's just out of your control. So we've tried to back away from that like we used to."
Brown has to consider McCoy's feelings, too.
If the youngster has first-game jitters and struggles early for the No. 3 Longhorns, it puts the coach in a difficult spot.
He can't afford to keep the game close, but he must also avoid crushing McCoy's confidence by pulling him early.
With McCoy starting, Snead has no pressure this week and can practice and play fast and loose.
If McCoy moves the offense in fits and starts and Snead comes in and leads a touchdown drive, the next great Texas quarterback controversy will have started before the first game finishes.
Brown has said he's learned lessons on how to handle all this from seasons past.
In 2000, when Chris Simms started the season opener, he threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown and Texas was sitting in a 10-0 hole in the first quarter against Louisiana-Lafayette.
Brown pulled Simms for Major Applewhite, who led the Longhorns to 31 straight points.
The battle to be the starter raged for two seasons.
Of course, there are a couple of major differences between then and now.
For starters, Applewhite was a seasoned junior in 2000 and had started the previous two seasons. Snead won't bring that kind of experience off the bench Saturday.
Second, Brown waited until game day six years ago to announce his starter. He got that out of the way early this time, preferring not to drag it out any longer than necessary.
That may be a sign that Snead just isn't ready.
Snead was the Longhorns' top offensive recruit and pushed McCoy in the spring when he enrolled in school early. Although Brown and Davis said McCoy had the edge in reading defenses and mastering the playbook, they gave the impression that Snead had a chance to earn the start.
Brown's reluctance to promise Snead any snaps suggests McCoy separated himself from the true freshman.
It wouldn't be a surprise if Snead's inexperience finally caught up with him as the offense got more complicated. He won't turn 19 until Saturday.
In a best-case scenario for Brown, Texas blows out North Texas, allowing him to play McCoy for three quarters and to let Snead handle the fourth.
The worst case would be that neither is really ready and Texas staggers into the Ohio State game re-evaluating who starts.
Texas fans, and the Ohio State Buckeyes, will be watching closely to see what happens.
Brown inherits next great quarterback controversey
Posted On: Wednesday, August 30, 2006
By Jim Vertuno
The Associated Press
AUSTIN – OK, so Mack Brown has named Colt McCoy as the Texas Longhorns' starting quarterback for the season opener against North Texas.
That was the easy part.
Much more difficult is figuring out how much he plays and what to do with freshman backup Jevan Snead.
Even if the Mean Green doesn't give the defending national champions much of a scare Saturday, Brown's quarterback juggling skills will be severely tested.
Here's the conundrum: With top-ranked Ohio State coming to town next week, McCoy is a redshirt freshman who needs as much game experience as he can get. His first snap against North Texas will be the first of his career. But Brown and offensive coordinator Greg Davis have also said throughout the preseason they want Snead to play.
On Monday, Brown said he'd like Snead to play but backed off any guarantees for the first game.
"We will tell Jevan to be prepared to play. We'd love to get him in the game, but we'd rather not back ourselves in a corner," Brown said.
"Winning the game will be the most important thing, and we'll decide what we need to do as we go through."
Brown doesn't want to script a scenario for Snead to avoid hurting the players' feelings if the game doesn't allow it. The coach remembers when he was a player and a coach promised to get him in a game.
It didn't happen and Brown was upset.
"Being a 19-year-old, I thought I was lied to," Brown said. "We're really cautious about telling young guys you will play at a specific point, because if it doesn't happen, then you become a liar and sometimes it's just out of your control. So we've tried to back away from that like we used to."
Brown has to consider McCoy's feelings, too.
If the youngster has first-game jitters and struggles early for the No. 3 Longhorns, it puts the coach in a difficult spot.
He can't afford to keep the game close, but he must also avoid crushing McCoy's confidence by pulling him early.
With McCoy starting, Snead has no pressure this week and can practice and play fast and loose.
If McCoy moves the offense in fits and starts and Snead comes in and leads a touchdown drive, the next great Texas quarterback controversy will have started before the first game finishes.
Brown has said he's learned lessons on how to handle all this from seasons past.
In 2000, when Chris Simms started the season opener, he threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown and Texas was sitting in a 10-0 hole in the first quarter against Louisiana-Lafayette.
Brown pulled Simms for Major Applewhite, who led the Longhorns to 31 straight points.
The battle to be the starter raged for two seasons.
Of course, there are a couple of major differences between then and now.
For starters, Applewhite was a seasoned junior in 2000 and had started the previous two seasons. Snead won't bring that kind of experience off the bench Saturday.
Second, Brown waited until game day six years ago to announce his starter. He got that out of the way early this time, preferring not to drag it out any longer than necessary.
That may be a sign that Snead just isn't ready.
Snead was the Longhorns' top offensive recruit and pushed McCoy in the spring when he enrolled in school early. Although Brown and Davis said McCoy had the edge in reading defenses and mastering the playbook, they gave the impression that Snead had a chance to earn the start.
Brown's reluctance to promise Snead any snaps suggests McCoy separated himself from the true freshman.
It wouldn't be a surprise if Snead's inexperience finally caught up with him as the offense got more complicated. He won't turn 19 until Saturday.
In a best-case scenario for Brown, Texas blows out North Texas, allowing him to play McCoy for three quarters and to let Snead handle the fourth.
The worst case would be that neither is really ready and Texas staggers into the Ohio State game re-evaluating who starts.
Texas fans, and the Ohio State Buckeyes, will be watching closely to see what happens.
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1460thefan.com is the main one from columbus... warning: Chris Spielman is a gigantic homer and has to be listened to solely for comedic value as an outsider.
Pre-noon is national ESPN (Mike & Mike, Colin). 12-3 is Spielman, and 3-7 is the Big Show (w/ Hooley & Herbstreit (who is sometimes in the studio) ).
Both shows can be a bit homeristic (and I often dislike Hooley)... but its at least an option. Paul Keels does a phenomenal job calling the games, but I guess that portion will cost $5 a month now.
Pre-noon is national ESPN (Mike & Mike, Colin). 12-3 is Spielman, and 3-7 is the Big Show (w/ Hooley & Herbstreit (who is sometimes in the studio) ).
Both shows can be a bit homeristic (and I often dislike Hooley)... but its at least an option. Paul Keels does a phenomenal job calling the games, but I guess that portion will cost $5 a month now.
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You're telling me I have to pay $5 to listen to the game on 1460thefan.com when the dumbass ABC channels give me games like Rutgers vs UNC?
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texasfight06
All-American
I totally see what you are saying with respect to the star ratings, as I have not doubt that tOSU has as much or more talent on their squad as any team in the nation.
But I think that stating that your OL contained our DL last year, is on par with stating that there was no pressure on Vince Young last year. UT's defensive line played a heck of a game against tOSU, and wasn't exactly contained. They placed a lot of pressures, broke through on several plays, and all of this, while Chizik constantly had the DTs and DEs drop back and cover the under stuff (Rod Wright breaking up a pass, and the Robison deflection that was grabbed by Pittman come to mind). I think that the line was the main reason that UT was able to hold tOSU to FG attempts (that and Hamby's drop). But I still haven't had a chance to rewatch the entire game yet, so most of this is off memory. I do not think that the DL dominated every play, but I don't necessarily think that they were contained either. Just off of stats: 3 pass break ups, 3 hurries, five tackles for losses, and 3 sacks.
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