The Texas Longhorns: Running Game Home Edition

You did that by memory, Rain Man? I’m impressed.

Ralphie really took it to Scot Farkus on the initial TD, but I don’t know if you should consider a run a success by design when it relies on an unblocked DL to miss a tackle.

Oh, and I’m kind of curious to see what the run game looks like next year, with the same RB’s, and minus a mobile QB.

Yeah, but we have the #1 scoring offense, we’ve won 9 games forever, we’ve won 10 games in the last forever minus one years, did you see Colt to Shipley – good god if they give us that why would you want to run, we’re holding back for the National Title game, Malcolm Williams gets tired and can only go every other series, flea-flickers are AWESOME, if we only played Whaley we’d be running over folks…again, fuck me.

I’m convinced that Mack has hired Huckleberry to comb through the statistics late into the night, searching frantically for any coherent subset that will make Greg Davis appear not to be a drooling buffoon. This latest metric just reeks of desperation. And Coach Davis’s failure to satisfy even the ridiculously low bar Mack has set for his best friend is mind-boggling. It feels like watching the class idiot fail an acronym spelling test.

But, never fear. Next week, there will be a new measure of success by which we are suggested to judge our offensive coordinator. I’ll save Mack and his Huckleberrian stat monkey some time, and suggest the following:

1. Percentage of carries beyond the line of scrimmage. Goal: 55%+.

2. Yards after initial contact with the ball. Goal: 2.5 yards.

3. Replacement value over horizontal pass. Goal: 0.5 yards.

4. Own fumbles successfully recovered. Goal: 40%+.

5. “Complacent Runs,” defined as any run that leads to unjustifiable self-satisfaction on the part of Greg Davis or Mack Brown. Goal: 60%+.

I suggest that Mack start with #5. The Horns have been killing in that category for the past 10 years.

I wonder how our rushing stats would change if we counted every pass less than, say, 2 yards forward of the LOS as a rush. Or, for that matter, every pass that’s “forward” but still not ahead of the LOS. Because, let’s face it, THAT is how we really run the football.

Just win baby.

Greg Davis. Running the foosball.
Does not compute.

UT ground game motto: Two yards and a cloud of rubber field turf pellets.

Remember those days long ago when we all got a little excited about seeing a blocking sled on the practice field.

Yeah. Good times.

we’re down to #3 in scoring

I’ll take a crack at this one, and save Huckleberry the trouble:

C.J runs for 4.4 / carry and takes the two TD’s in the first half for himself. Not on 1 yard power plays, but on 15-20 yard power plays.

This is against a top 10 rush defense:
http://www.cfbstats.com/2009/leader/national/team/defense/split01/category01/sort01.html

We then went and set the single game passing record for the regular season. Sure, we all hate GD, but it wasn’t his worst day. Hell, the offense even scored all the points for once!

I just can’t imagine Coach Boom keeps his mouth shut when he’s around that fat fuck. I’m sure the defensive meeting are separate but you’d think he’d slide in a “Greg, can you help me out a little? You call the worst fucking games sometimes and my D has to save your ass”

@ballrific: On the contrary, I think Boom is much more subtle here at Mack’s request. He’s probably put a Deathwatch clock on his wall to remind him that there is hope. 680 days, 13 hours, 17 minutes, and 41 seconds until Greg Davis’ career dies.