Four things you won't see

Marc Richt is easily among the top four things you won’t see this year. Damn your bias!

“not the lazy brand of country club intramural we’ve come to know and love.”

Actually, I think we’ve come to know it.

“Hell, Mike Leach would sell his dirty pirate soul for Malcolm Williams or Brandon Collins.”

Mike leach would have had Collins on the field contributing last year. Maybe Williams, too, after Limas went down. We’ll be lucky if either of them is ready to play by midseason in our program.

You haven’t lived until you’ve heard country music in a bar in Dubai. Take that Norman and Still water!

“A&M improved their defense by simply not giving up big plays and being tough on 3rd down, and they went from 5-6 to 9-4.”

Changing clock rules that year helped, too.

 Not arguing with you, just saying.

You’ve got some good points in there about Leach’s offense putting too much pressure on the QB position. I’m going to defend Hodges here a little bit. While he might have been the least physically talented QB of the Leach era, it’s arguable he might have been the best QB. He didn’t force throws, protected the football, knew when to get rid of the ball, when to take sacks, and knew when to run for a first down in short yardage situations. He was the only QB in the Leach era to end the season with positive rushing yards. Hodges also checked into runs and passes to the RB out of the backfield more than any other QB as evidenced by Henderson’s 22 TDs and 1400 tandem yards. He wasn’t flashy and couldn’t make all the throws, but he won and kept the game close (outside of Texas’ best team ever). They weren’t big things, but they were the difference between 4 losses and 2. Also, it was the only year Tech finished in the top 30 in total defense under Leach. Slay’s 8 forced fumbles didn’t hurt anything.

Lay off Ryan Palmer.

Four things you won’t see … Unfortunately, Greg Davis’ firing didn’t make the list.

I’m confused. Is this unfortunate because you’ve compiled a list of things that will happen, but won’t be witnessed firsthand? Is it unfortunate because you don’t want Greg Davis fired? Or was it a typo and you meant to say that the omission is fortunate, because there’s a possibility that Greg Davis will be fired (even though he’ll put together an offense that is good enough to compete for the Big 12)?

It’s too early on Friday for your word puzzles, ChrApplewhite!

Didn’t know it was possible to write a positive article by being so negative. Congratulations.

It is possible to write a positive article while being realistic – positive articles don’t have to written by cheerleaders.

pictures of cheerleaders in any article would make my impression of the the article more positive.

Naked lesbian cheerleaders with big double dildos would make my impression of this article even MORE positive than Coach Callahan’s.

Regarding Greg Davis: I am not sure why you Horns hate him so much. From out here in the hinterlands, he sure does appear to be one of the best OC’s in college football. Certainly one of the most consistently very good.

“Possibly the worst defense in school history”…uh, no. As bad as our ’07 D was, it was still better than anything Mackovic rolled out.

Heck, the ’97 team ended up around 110 in total defense!

Ghost of – I agree: at least since 2004, Greg HAS been one of the best OC’s in college football, and not just when VY was in the backfield.

We were painfully predictable in the Simms/Applewhite years though, and most Longhorn fans will never get over the opinion they formed of him then.

tummer,

 I believe the ’07 squad broke all the records set under Mackovic.

Beergut:

Texas scoring d for 2007: #45
Texas total d for 2007: #52

Nate,

 Damn that Chip Brown then!!!!

 I was basing my statement on what he reported during the season.

 I wonder if they set school records for worst pass defense ever?

dedfischer – I vehemently disagree about Hodges being possibly the best QB.

Just take the Cotton Bowl for example. Tech lost to Alabama because Hodges was too short and weak-armed to throw any pass over the middle of the field. Every other Tech QB, with the possible exception of Cumbie, would have carved Bama’s blitzes up with hot route slants, but Hodges could only throw bubble screens and that ridiculous fade pattern of his that was reminiscent of a middle schooler blinding chucking the ball.

• Blindly chucking the ball. Which btw, I am pretty sure that fade pattern constituted about 70% of Tech’s passes that season. Leach had to totally change his offense that year because Hodges was so limited, and it’s not like Leach needs John Elway to make his system work.

Hodges was by far the worst Tech QB under Leach. There isn’t a 2nd place. Symons was the best.

Harrell has a few years to catch up to where those guys were so we’ll see about him.

“Ghost of – I agree: at least since 2004”

Cooincidentally, this was when Mack switched from working with the defense to working with the offense.

CA,

 Even worse than Sonny Cumbie? I think Cumbie has been the worst QB of the Leach era, by far.

Actually, I was thinking of Sonny Cumbie. It’s getting hard to tell them all apart.

I should research more.

I know his talent sucked, but he never had one of those 3 or 4 interception-blowup-games that all our other QBs have each season. Kingsbury, Symons, Cumbie and Harrell have lost at least 2 games per year due to an “off” night. Like ChrisA was talking about, putting too much pressure on your QB. Hodges wasn’t flashy and couldn’t make all the throws, but he didn’t lose games for you and at the end of the game you always had a chance to win (except against Texas).

Forget Tech……will Sherman do a Callahan impression or a Carrol impresson? If it is the latter OU may finally have some comp in the South

FWIW, I think Sherman has two things going for him:

1) He’s been at A&M before, so he knows the landscape. There isn’t going to be a need to try to ‘change the culture’ like Callahan was doing at Nebraska.

2) He lacks Callahan’s arrogance. Callahan struck me as someone who thought he was ‘going to teach those cornfed bumpkins in Nebraska about football’. You have to remember, Callahan’s scheme was so difficult, his Raider team couldn’t understand it, leading to his “dumbest team in America” remark. I think Callahan was just too smart for his own good.

Callahan postured on the sideline more than that other Oakland coach…whathisname…you know the one that went to Tampa. That guy must have practiced in front of a mirror.
Callahan could hold it only so long before he slipped into a blank stare
He could, however, put together an offensive game plan. Now that he is gone Shawn Watson will be exposed for the ignoramus he is.

“Regarding Greg Davis: I am not sure why you Horns hate him so much. From out here in the hinterlands, he sure does appear to be one of the best OC’s in college football. Certainly one of the most consistently very good.”

Yeah, Davis is great against mediocre competition. Watch old game tapes against any outstanding D where VY isn’t our QB and get back to us. Davis sucks.

Upon further reflection after painfully remembering our last two games against aggy, I’d like to amend my remarks. Davis often sucks against mediocre competition, as well.