Texas Longhorns Heisman Notes

Great stuff. I always enjoy these.

Reading through that brought a great sense of depression over the current state of our running game.

Yes, I wish we had “Football’s Fanciest Runner” once again.

Even though Akins was dating the girl who lived across from the street from me, Roosevelt Leaks was my first Longhorn hero. It was an easy transition to Earl.

The argument for Colt last year is the same as the argument against him this year. Last year, he came up big in the biggest games of the year. The 4 game stretch was amazing – even the game we lost, he put us in a position to win at the end, and he was the instigator in all 4 games. This year he played like crap in the biggest games of the year, against the only legit defenses we faced. We won in spite of him.

Thanks, srr.

Fiesole: Despite all the legitimate breakdowns of Colt’s poor play, particularly on this board, IMO it’s a long way from “He didn’t play like a Heisman winner” to “We won in spite of him.”

Particularly in the OU game, if he’s not looking for the last yard he can get, or the receiver runs the right route, a 16-13 win turns into a pretty easy scoreboard victory. Those things didn’t happen.

As to last week, it’s a lot easier to keep your head together when you don’t have Ndamakong Suh’s number implanted on your back.

Fie: I agree with Bob. Colt is a finalist this year despite having one of the worst offensive lines in Texas history, no running game to take pressure off of him, only one legitimate and reliable receiver, and an absolutely brain-dead offensive philosophy. Despite all these handicaps, he has had a tremendous season, a great career, and I predict he will win the award.

Colt will finish 4th, if www.stiffarmtrophy.com is to be believed.

Maybe its just me, but how the hell is chris hall up for the center of the year award?

The entire offensive line should pitch in and buy Colt a replica heisman since its THEIR fault he isn’t going to win…

If they had shared just one set of balls against Nebraska, We would have never had to make that field goal at the end of the game to win and Suh wouldn’t even be in the heisman discussion. The damn thing was Colt’s to lose and they left him out to dry, to me if anyone on that O-line was to win any type of award it would be laughable.

The best, most dominant player in CFB this year is Mr. Suh.
Colt shall forever live in fear of the House of Spear. S.

Great read – thanks.

I hope either Suh or McCoy takes it this year, but it would not be any sort of injustice if it went to Toby Gerhart.

It will be a travesty if Mark Ingram wins.

Not only are Ingram’s stats not up to the level of Gerhart… They are absolutely pedestrian compared to lots of other running backs who haven’t come close to winning this decade.

2009 – Mark Ingram: 13 games, 1542 yards, 15 TDs

Two Texas notables…

2004 – Cedric Benson: 12 games, 1834 yards, 19 TDs
2007 – Jamaal Charles: 13 games, 1619 yards, 18 TDs

Others…

2007 – Darren McFadden: 13 games, 1830 yards, 16 TDs

It would be hard to come up with a less-deserving Heisman winner than Mark Ingram during the past 10 years.

Those holy men (Sunshine Boys) of the the Offensive line turned Judas on Colt offering him up for crucifixion in his moment of truth.

This line was suspect from the beginning, you can watch any game film from our non conference cake walks, and see the problems these apathetic linemen were letting happen.

They don’t have any fire, they don’t have any tattoos, they don’t have any mohawks or shaved heads, and they pray before they eat. They don’t care to use weights either judging by the lack of upper arm definition and bulk. They just seem to be a bunch of fat white pussies that are easily confused by instinctive D-lines with moderate motors.

It wouldn’t be so bad that they are so shitty, individually and as a unit, but we don’t have a tight end either.

Check out this TD against Wyoming, watch the line, look familiar?

Simple stunts from mediocre linemen screw up seniors Tanner and Ulatoski. It’s no surprise that guys like Gerald McCoy, and Suh have big days. What are we to expect from Terrence Cody of Alabama? Last I saw, he was up for the Lombardi.

Why oh why…..have they forsaken Colt?

Mark Ingram will back his way into the Heisman due to Colt’s performance against Nebraska. He’s come so close to winning this award: had Gideon caught that pick, had Kirkendoll made that catch. I guess some things are just not in the cards for him.

Because they’ve taken such a deserved beating… I think it’s also important to acknowledge the O-Line when they perform up to task.

On Texas’ only TD of the game, Colt took a QB draw and ran right at Suh’s gap in the line.

And DAVID SNOW executed a PERFECT one-on-one block on Suh, totally taking Suh out of the play, so that by the end of the play, Suh was on his ass about 8 yards away from the ball.

Colt, like Vince before him, will be better off without the distraction.

Snow had a couple of good blocks on Suh during the game. I think he’s a pretty physical player compared to his teammates. I think a lot of our problems stem from bad feet and bad communication between the linemen, which is pretty unacceptable since they’ve been playing together for so long now.

srr50, great stuff, man, particularily after a very beery lunch.

NYHorn-Had not considered that two easy drops cost Colt two separate Heismans. Depressing.

Scip, BIH, Bates et al thanks for the kind words. Just imagine what kind of numbers Saxton would have had if Darrell hadn’t called off the dogs in so many games.

Ernie Davis won the Heisman that year, and he rushed for 877 yards on 150 carries with 15 touchdowns. He did lead his team in receiving with 16 catches with another two scores.

When we offered Hall and Tanner full rides i thought the coaches must know something. not the kind of calaber we are used to. Another product of how lazy our recruiting staff has become with regards to OL, im sure we offered charlie because all it took was a 5 minute car ride from campus. No attitude, just nice guys who would rather open the door for old laddies than look Colt in the eye and tell him sorry for the past 4 years. How it even came to this is just a mind numbing

It’s easy to see the difference in offense and defense just from walking off the bus, because our D is a group of mean ass motha’s and then you see our o-line and they seem like a group of guys making plans for after church to go down to the bowling alley for pizza and soda pop.

First off, outstanding work srr50. It’s interesting stuff but a lot of it pisses me off to no end.

Here’s an interesting excercise…

Who would you choose for Heisman?

Heisman Candidate 1 RB
AT YDs YPC LG TD
249 1542 6.2 70 15

Heisman Candidate 2 RB
 AT Yards YPC LG TD
200 1740 8.7 76 16

Heisman Candidate 3 RB
 AT Yards YPC LG TD
155 1050 6.8 80 12

Heisman Candidate 4 QB
Comp AT YDs % YP/A LG TD INT Rating
212 325 3036 65.2 9.34 75 26 10 163.95

ransom:

“Colt is a finalist this year despite having one of the worst offensive lines in Texas history, no running game to take pressure off of him, only one legitimate and reliable receiver, and an absolutely brain-dead offensive philosophy. "

Besides having TWO receivers rather than one, how was last year any different from this year?

Yeah, I’m gonna stick with Suh:

The stats below compare season totals for Alabama’s starting 4 defensive linemen, Florida’s starting 4 defensive linemen, Texas’ starting 4 defensive linemen, and Suh:

Alabama Season Totals
98tkl – 23.5tfl – 9.5sk – 20qbh – 5pbu – 0int – 1ff – 3bk

Florida Season Totals
112tkl – 33tfl – 14sk – 48qbh – 5pbu – 0int – 1ff – 0bk

Texas Season Totals
116tkl – 25.5tfl – 15.5sk – 10qbh – 7pbu – 0int – 2ff – 0bk

Suh Season Totals
82tkl – 23tfl – 12sk – 24qbh – 10pbu – 1int – 1ff – 3bk

I would love for this to be a repeat of 2005 when a completely undeserving RB receives the award only to be shown up by a more deserving QB from Texas. Afterward all media retards espouse how the voting should be held til after the bowl games yada, yada yada

SeeingRed:

I’m pretty sure there’s a DL playing for Wisconsin whose stats on everything but Pass break-ups are better than Suh’s…. At least they were about 8 or 9 games into the season when I last checked.

But like I said… there would be no crime in Suh’s winning it.

Mark Ingram and Tim Tebow are the players who have no business even being invited to the show. If either of them wins, then the Heisman will be as big a joke as the Nobel Peace Prize.

Maybe I’m reading this wrong, but our four starting d-linemen have combined for 10 qbh this season?

On the flip side, Florida has 48 qbh? They’ve just barely missed that many sacks?

Trips -

I would choose Candidates 3 and 4. You know, since they’re the same person.

When I was a kid I named my dog after Roosevelt Leaks. I suspect it was the highest compliment I was capable of at the time.

It would be cool if Suh won and NOT because I’m a Husker but because it would make the award what it would be in a perfect world.

Having said that b.s. I’ll say this- My vote is for McCoy- Should have got it last year – no disrespect here to Bradford – McCoy remains the most valuable player on a winning team (which is really what the award is if your a QB or RB) and his body of work is deserving.

Horn up!

“When I was a kid I named my dog after Roosevelt Leaks. I suspect it was the highest compliment I was capable of at the time”

My brother and I named ours Switzer just so we could say shit like, “lick your dick Switzer.”

I don’t know who SeeingRed is talking about. Here are the stats I found

http://www.cfbstats.com/2009/team/703/roster.html

Tckl; TFL; Sack; QBH; PBU; Blocked kicks

Lamar Houston – 50; 14.5; 5; 10; 4; 0

Sergio Kindle – 49; 12.5; 3.5; 9; 2; 0

Sam Acho – 53; 12; 6; 4; 3; 0

Kheeston Randall – 19; 4.5; 3; 2; 0; 0

Totals: – 171; 43.5; 17.5; 25; 9; 0

Is there a website dedicated to the ripping and reaming of our womanly offensive line? If not, there should be.

Even though it’s actually Greg and Mack’s fault.

Where I put it back on them is that, if they had any pride, they would find some way to do something about it. It isn’t Greg and Mack’s womanly blocking schemes that keep them from fighting back and showing attitude when they get Colt slung like an empty sandwich bag.

They’re just jotos.

What if we made every member of our OL wear a dress every day between now and January 7th? Maybe make them put on some make-up, carry a purse, that sort of thing. Think how pissed they’d be come January 7th.

Check the 1:30 mark. Was Hall paid to throw the game? He actually shoves Huey out of the way so Suh can get around them to McCoy.

Nah Nordberg, that would just hurt their feelings. They would probably not even make the trip out of protest.

“What if we made every member of our OL wear a dress every day between now and January 7th? Maybe make them put on some make-up, carry a purse, that sort of thing. Think how pissed they’d be come January 7th.”

As far as wearing dresses it would be business as usual as they’d still squat to pee. Though I do see how the pent up rage could play a factor January 7th. Perhaps Hall would stamp Cody’s foot with a four inch stiletto and go all Ruth Buzzi on his ass with the purse..

"What if we made every member of our OL wear a dress every day between now and January 7th? Maybe make them put on some make-up, carry a purse, that sort of thing. Think how pissed they’d be come January 7th."

Can’t be done- if they love it how do you comeback from that?

Anyone gonna do a write-up comparing UT ’05 underestimated and UT ’09 underestimated? Been thinking on it- biggest element missing is Vince; not sure I want to see Colt running for the goal on 4th, but maybe something there?

OH man, that’s the bets block Hall through all year — one of his only pancakes!

“threw” dammit

Are our offensive linewomen aware of their sterling reputation amongst their own fanbase?

They have to know on some level that we think they’re feminine. Post-op trannies at best.

I don’t think they’re feminine, per se. Just fat kids. Fat kids getting thrown around by athletes = bad line play or a&m campus bathrooms at night (see dedfishcer’s forum post)

Colt’s freshman year we ran a five yard QB sneak against OU. A five yard QB sneak. Against OU. Colt just got behind the line and kept walking, like the Red Sea parting. He kind of laid down after five yards, presumably to save OU from furthe humiliation. Or possibly because he tripped over one of his own guys or jockstrap dropped by an OU DL.

We have fallen a long way since then.

So what y’all are saying is that taking undersized kids that aren’t terribly athletic and turning them into fat kids that don’t move real well isn’t the best way to develop great o-linemen?

What pub did Earl do those commercials for? The ones where he’d hoist a drink up in the air and belt out a roarin’ “let the good times roll”