Iowa State 28, Texas 21

It’s obvious we need to modify our logo too.

I’m a hardcore state of Texas football loyalist. That was instilled in me by my grandfather who played baseball at TCU. Root for the Texas team playing the OOS team every time or you’re a communist. I’m not sure you could combine the rosters and coaching staffs of UT, A&M and Tech to beat any program in Oklahoma. We’re getting our ass kicked by Colorado right now.

I’m not sure if you could combine any roster with the Texas coaching staff and expect to beat anyone right now.

Talk, talk, talk, talk. . .yap, yap, yap. Mack needs to STFU and quit talking. He should have been this way after the piss poor perfoamnce against Wyoming. He needs to stare at the mirror and decide if he has it and whether loyalty to Greg Davis is worth it. The whole offense staff needs to be cleaned out, but at the very least Davis, McWhorter, and Kenedy need to be gone year end. I would just as soon as take my chances with Muschamp than see Mack come back with Davis. They’ll probably beat Baylor next week and then turn around and get prison raped in Manhattan the following week. The most frustrating thing is this is a lost year. I’d bench every senior on the offensive line, get Case McCoy some SERIOUS playing time, put Darius White on the field full time with Mike Davis and DJ Monroe. If your going to suck and rebuild, at least find out what you’ve got for next year.

Couldn’t agree more, Holy Cow. This season is over. Let’s use the remaining games to see what kind of talent we’ve got, because we know we don’t have much among the starters.

good:
- Chiles
- Cody Johnson
- Hales actually playing and making an impact

bad:
everything else

That won’t happen because the “family man” style he uses in recruiting so well translates into babying guys that play with no passion or intensity. Mack doesn’t want to hurt any of his players feelings, but he doesn’t seem to mind ripping the hearts out of Texas fans.

Ooooh, Mack is pissed! Muschamp better look out! When Mack gets pissed the DC gets the hammer! All the while Greg Davis goes home and eats his vanilla pudding and wonders how to incorporate some more horizontal passing plays into his f’ing Houston telephone sized collection of hores sh** he calls an offensive scheme.

Bye Bye Mack & Muschamp. Hello Chris Peterson!

Hey, at least we finally have an answer to the question, “What is the worse loss in the Mack Brown era?” that caused so much consternation after the UCLA loss. At home to Iowa State trumps all.

we need this m*therf*cker on the sidelines, time to get the horns hyped back up —> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-R5GQ0V-Z4

Unacceptable.

I hope that there is enough shit in the bed for a thorough cleansing of the coaching staff and some demotions/benchings for half-ass effort by upperclassmen.

Is that Count Chocula under the tank tread? He would have hung at least 42 on the ’clones imho.

Contemporary college football excellence obviously has passed right by Mac and left him behind. He’s an albatross now. Take mercy on him and free him up to talk on the rubber-chicken circuit. Talking is what he does best anyway. It’s time for a full-scale overhaul. Buy out that contract and move onto somebody who knows how to coach in this era.

Okie State now has as many points on Nebraska half way through the second quarter as we scored on them the entire game. We Rule!

“Yammer yammer yammer yammer meaningless platitudes yammer yammer yammer…”- any Mack Brown presser

Holy Cow

You’re 2-0 in this section alone. You hit the nails on the head, I think I wish even more than you that you had a couple billion to throw around and make changes. Tell me you’re close or at least on your way…can’t hold on much longer…..aaaarrrrrgggghhh

Someone in Lincoln is doing the same thing with UT’s scores right now. Or they would be if Nebraska hadn’t just given up an 80 yard TD pass.

Make that 27 for OSU over Nebraska in less than one half. As if losing to Iowa State at home wasn’t confirmation enough that we suck.

There will be plenty more confirmation of suckage coming

What happens if Baylor, fucking Baylor, kicks our ass? Looks fairly likely.

Okie State is a given.

Okie lite wil get 69 on Muschamp’s horrible defense

This loss represents a typical effort for this team. Last week was clearly a huge anomaly. That the team played well last week and so poorly in every other game speaks volumes I think. This team has no pride in itself or in what they are trying to do. Last week vs Nebraska was different. The players had heard all year about how Nebraska pointed to that game, so the Longhorn players took it personally. Their pride was engaged. But that has not been true any other game. My god, if you don’t have the pride to defend your own house against f’ing Iowa State, then you won’t defend your pride or your honor at all. Iowa State was supposed to be an easy game. So the team coasted. No pride in accomplishment, IMO. Why pride at Nebraska? INTERNAL motivation. Every other game: NO internal motivation. This team has not been motivated except in one game all year. I don’t see any changes coming in that, either.
So what is wrong?
I think this is a team divided against itself. I don’t necessarily mean offense vs defense. I think it is more complicated than that. Something is going on under the surface that we are not seeing except in the resulting abysmal level of play. For players to have so little confidence in themselves or in what they are doing is partly the result of a lack of natural leaders, but that’s only a small factor. Clearly, the coaches bear by far the lion’s share of responsibility for the health of a team’s psyche. It’s not a matter of execution. If the players were motivated to play better, they would do so. Texas still has more talent than every opponent they face this year. No. The problem is that the players have no faith or expectation that harder effort will be rewarded with better results. The leaders are not in place to right this situation. And the coaches are helpless because the players have no faith in them anymore. It might be a different situation on the defense with Muschamp, but there is a general malaise affecting the whole team, including the defense.
This season is toast. Next year could be just as bad if systemic changes are not effected soon.
Coaches, approach, attitudes, the works. This is not just Mack Brown’s worst team. This is his worst job of coaching. In YEARS.
I’m not ready to jettison Mack, but it seems he has coasted, too, on recent success.
Any improvements will only come in the offseason.
Now. Go prove me wrong, Mack. Please.

ABORTion!

We need a new coach like Oregon’s, TCU’s, or Boise’s. Coaches who can maximize the talent we have. I’m not a Offensive Coordinator, but I know to get to the end zone you have to attack the field vertically. All I see is side ways catch the ball from a stand still position and get shit for yards. Greg Davis is a stupid fucking bubble screen lover. Does not know how to utilize the speed we have. Do we ever run slants to hit a speedster in full stride? I would not blame Muschamp if he left, and I wouldn’t blame Malcom Brown if he decomitted because Davis can’t orchestrate a running game. Why would Muschamp want to stay working at Texas with Greg Davis there too.

I re-read Batehorn’s discussion on cocktails. I think I’m going to try them all tonight!

There was some talk on postgame radio, comparing these losses to those of the Akers era circa 1985 or so. Fucking bullshit, because we didn’t recruit for shit back then. We were basically Baylor at that point, in that we were losing out to a&m, smu, houston, notre dame, and everyone else for anyone worth a shit.

We’re really bad right now, and we’re really bad with the cream of the crop of the best players that WE SELECT. We don’t really recruit anymore, we select.

Had to listen on XM since Dish and Fox are in a pissing match and I’m in Florida. I knew we were in trouble when I heard that it was 3rd and 3 and we completed a pass short of the first down. Only Greg Davis is capable of that level of asshattery.

Nordberg, agree but afraid that is precisely where we’re headed. First you have these types of games fairly regularly, then recruiting starts to slide and once it does it does so quickly and you end up with ths same scheme run by shittier players. Then it gets really bad. The time for wholesale change is right fucking now while we still have talent for a new staff to take advantage of.

Everything has a rational explanation: http://gawker.com/5671084/weather-penis-rams-through-southwest

Since the season is lost the only hope is for McCoy/Wood to assume the QB spot and every single talented young freshman gets playing time.

If we stick with our current roster just to go 7-5 I will vomit.

I’m not sold on a QB change or that Gilbert is the answer. He is consistently off, but will he improve? Is this his peak? Is he Chris Simms? Is he Chance Mock? Worse? Better?

Mack’s too fat and happy. He needs to be skinny and angst ridden, that’s what makes for good coaching. You gotta have to fight for something.

7-5? where are these 3 wins? we’ll be lucky to play in a bowl. seriously.

I think Mack is ready to fight the bad fans.

I was worried about GG in the Rice game and he has regressed since then. Misses open WR’s, no touch, turnover factory…

Meanwhile: for the first time ever, I think you can safely and legitimately compare someone to Vince Young without risking the wrath of God.

Cam Newton is about as close as you can get to VY without being VY. The run he just ripped off on LSU looked similar to Vince’s gallop against OSU.

Lou Holtz said it best when asked how to motivate players. “RECRUIT SELF MOTIVATED PLAYERS”.

These guys clearly aren’t into playing football and I think the coaches are starting to get the feeling they don’t want to coach these guys. It is sad to think that alumni can even be thinking that right now with this program.

Vince could throw. Vince was a gazelle. Cam, who is a bad ass, is a Minotaur.

by the sound of it Mach may hate this team more then we do. He’s called them entitled on more than one ocassion…but he recruited them,

It also doesn’t matter who you play at QB with GD calling the same shit. That is unless someone else improvises. And then they would probably be subject to benching.

Yeah, SR, but he’s a hell of a minotaur. And he has that Vince Young flair that someone like, say, Terrelle Pryor has never shown.

In the Rice game we tried running the ball. That is why GG’s effect was minimized. The way it should be.

CJD – not disagreeing completely, just contrasting. Iron Bowl should be alsome.

The Iowa State offensive coordinator was a grad asst. here under GD in 1999-2000.

I imagine he didn’t have to spend all that much time the the Cyclone defensive coaches giving them a run down of our offensive tendancies.

Ahhhh, grasshopper.

I was at the game, didn’t see Jeffcoat play. Or Hicks. I assume Acho Uno Ocho was still hurt, but anyone know what was up with the other guys? Or did I just miss it when they were out there?

Important note — LSU’s offense is terrible; its defense has held Auburn to 17 points. That’s what a great defense will do. We do not have a great defense.

As for the rest of the team, it’s going to be hard to keep my give a shit level up. I’ll watch, because that’s what I do. But I’m so far beyond frustrated. Our tackles (including hopkins) were completely pantsed today. Our receivers were putrid, again. Our inside line play was OK, but our defense let us fall behind so quickly, and our play callling is so random, that we never really tried to run the ball. Our personnel packages make no fucking sense — putting Williams, Kirkendoll, and Chiles on the fiels at the same time is as dumb as EVER playing Smith or Matthews. We finally ran some two-back sets, but we didn’t do anything with them.

Our kickoff coverage is hilariously bad. As soon as we had a little bit of momentum we’d give it right back with a stupid special teams play.

Our defense cannot stop the run. Just can’t. And today, neither our linebackers nor our safeties could cover anyone. On top of that, we couldn’t sack Arnaud. Piss-poor from the defense, either because they are whiny bitches who lay down because the offense sucks or because they didn;t show up ready to play a motivated team and got worked.

The Iowa State offensive coordinator was a grad asst. here under GD in 1999-2000.

I imagine he didn’t have to spend all that much time the the Cyclone defensive coaches giving them a run down of our offensive tendancies.

And wasn’t Davis quoted in just the last couple of weeks saying that our offensive design/scheme/plays haven’t changed at all in the last decade?

GD is a moron as we know but the D plays with just as little passion as the O. Forgive them for the whole game and it’s still unexcusable that they couldn’t get a stop when they needed it with 3 minutes to go. ISU went down the field on them on the 2nd drive. That’s not being tired that’s just not caring.

ransomstoddard said:
October 23rd, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Okie lite wil get 69 on Muschamp’s horrible defense

Can’t tell if you’re serious

We obviously don’t have a horrible defense. That’s just Ransom being Ransom. But they do obviously have, um, motivational issues which I don’t know how we address. They seem to play when they want to play.

The biggest problem Texas has defending the run at times is quite simple. They have one defensive tackle on the roster capable of making a positive contribution on a regular basis.

Consider this list. A.Jones (dumbass), J. Humphrey (bad luck), D. Johnson (dumbass), Higgins ( too light) C Howell (not sure exactly what is the issue here).

None of the three freshmen were able to rekindle the first year magic we saw from Wright, Okam, or Miller. Okafor plays hard but is too light and the defense would be much more solid against the run if Alex was out at DE and the Horns had two decent defensive tackles.

The offensive problems are a bit more extensive.

If you’re Nebraska, how do you feel looking at our score today?

Ha Ha Ha Ha!

Davey, I keep coming back to the point that a lot of really smart people make: Muschamp has had 2 years to stock his defense with the kind of players he wants. In the meantime, he’s had to jury-rig to make up for areas where our recruiting has been deficient and/or we’ve had really tremendously shitty luck – as you observe, the DT spot is the primary area.

I’d argue the same applies to the safety spot.

Our CBs are OK, and our DEs are lights out. LBs are getting there, but we’re young (again, a function of shitty recruiting prior to his arrival).

Davis has had his run of the place as it applies to talent procurement, strategic and tactical approach, and input into S&C. He knows that when Mack gets mad at him, all he has to do is stall for a bit before Mack gets bored or distracted and lets Davis go back to doing whatever he was doing before. He knows now that he’s gotten into that glorious zone where no one expects shit out of you so anything you do that shows a pulse of innovation or competence gets you lavish praise, like a kid with Down’s discovering how to tie his own shoes. YOU WIN GREGGY HERE IS YOUR ICE CREAM AND TROPHY AND BASEBALL FRANKS AND BEANS.

And now you see that your D counterpart is getting blasted ever more frequently and vehemently for not running out a completely perfect unit, which just provides you even more cover.

Life is fucking good if you’re Greg Davis.

I bet Mack makes no changes in the offseason coachwise

The schizo performance this year is all some kind of crazy single wing conspiracy to downgrade Coach Boom’s HC draft status.

Crazy Joe,

That pretty much sums it up.

DT is definitely what keeps this defense from becoming elite. This year’s freshman class and next year’s recruits hopefully will solve that gap.

As bad as the QB, RBs and receivers have looked, a solid OL can minimize their mediocrity. While the sophomore class and next year’s recruits would appear to provide some bodies, I’m not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel there.

Oklahoma – 52 Iowa State – 0
Iowa State – 28 Texas – 21

We are either that bad, or Iowa St. is good enough to be guilty of looking ahead.

I was embarrassed for The University.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYqHeH_Pk8

When you think about how we recruit and our traditional recruiting cycle the 2011 class will really be Muschamp’s 2nd class.

ISU didn’t need to look ahead. Texas was clearly still looking behind.

I would say that I hate saying “I told you so,” but I actually love it. Yep, I’m that guy.

Anyhoo… I told you so! Everyone got all jizzed up about how allsome this offense was after the Husker game. “Oh, GD’s got it figured out! He’s got Garrett running the ball now!” Horseshit. Our victory in Lincoln was a sucker punch. You don’t get away with that shit when the other team sees it coming.

God damn, this is depressing.

Anybody else watching Missouri gash OU by going down the middle? They don’t have enough of a defense to pull away, but damn they are attacking both with the run and the pass using the middle of the field.

We currently are the 6th or 7th best team in the 4th best BCS league.

Oh joy.

srr50, are we really the 6th or 7th best team? How many teams can we actually claim to be better than if we can’t beat Iowa State at home? By the end of the season we could easily be 9th or 10th place in conference.

CJD,

I agree. Texas has had a few reaches on the defensive side of the ball, but I do believe the biggest overall threat to the defense recruiting wise is Mack’s insistence to make recruiting decisions based upon junior year and camp performances. I won’t bring up something I have beaten to death on Recuitoscom but there is a bit of that in the 2011 class at a critical position.

Offensively though I am not sure how Mack can’t see what a cluster fuck has taken place on the offensive side of the ball. I won’t beat the staff up for opting not to offer Luck because they had set their sites on Gilbert the next year. They can’t be held accountable for some of the bad luck, they can be held accountable for the collection of mismanaged parts on offense, and the inability to be honest in what this team can and can’t do on offense and build from that point.

Wait, we were supposed to win this game?

I thought for sure it was part of a macro mind fuck for Bo Pelini, and the rest of the living Cornhuskers holding onto hope in their waning moments as part of the Big 12.

I sat through the whole thing in awe of the diabolical execution of the plan by Mack Brown to induce a French Guayana jungle juice party in Lincoln.

Stop messing around, come on, it was Iowa State!

Well, on the one hand, shit happens.

On the other hand, fuck that shit.

In games like this, you have to choose to find amusement somewhere in the abyss to keep from becoming self-destructive. My personal game highlight:

Dave Lapham commenting on an injured Cyclone:
“He’s getting his neck checked for cervical problems.”

Get used to this amusement. We won’t be on a real network for a long time. Maybe we could start a Dave Lapham fan page to get us through rest of the season.

What hurt the most is that we were so stuck in the mud that we didnt even get the “jackhammer feet” going.

Man, thats when its bad.

To sum it up as quickly and painlessly as I can:

Offense: When they were on the ISU 3, third and goal, and down 14-3, I realized that in the seventh game of the season, they have no play that they can run and be sure they will gain three yards. The most reliable running play is a QB scramble.

Defense: After that field goal, you need to get a stop, but you give up a 104-yard touchdown drive (89 + 15 in penalties).

ISU was motivated and made plays. Texas didn’t.

“ransomstoddard said:
October 23rd, 2010 at 4:52 pm

I bet Mack makes no changes in the offseason coachwise"

History doesn’t suuport that. That’s just you revelling in imsery as is your custom.

A look at how our Offensive positions are coached:

QB – Scary bad. GG has no pocket awareness or touch. It’s like when he sees an open receiver, he gets so excited he shoots his load when throwing the ball to them. Someone needs to coach GG to use “touch” and “feel” when playing QB. Feel sorry for his girlfriend.
WR – Bad. I’m torn because we obviously don’t run good routes and that is coaching. But, our hands suck and I don’t blame coaching for that. The thing that makes this a bad coaching job also lies with ZERO downfield blocking. For those that understand this term, all you need to know when we run routes is that we’re still “milking the cow”. Pathetic.
OL – Scary bad. You have to coach your unit to its strength. This unit has no strengths and THAT is on coaching. Find out what your guys can do well. Even if it’s holding. Then use that to build from. Power, Zone Read… who cares? Just put a hat on someone!!!
RB – OK. These guys don’t miss assignments and generally can be counted on. Problem is they have NO talent. They can catch better than our receivers so obviously they work on something at practice.

Why wouldn’t you beat them up for passing on Luck in favor of Goober?

Luck is 1000 times better than Gilbert.

But at least we promised Chris Whaley he’d be the only “running back” we’d recruit.

If Mack doesn’t want an entitled team, he should not entitle his recruits to a lack of competition.

Luck and Gilbert weren’t in the same class.

Pocket presence isn’t something you can teach. You either have it or you don’t much like touch on throwing a pass or the speed at which you recognize holes in a defense. GD might be a bad co-ordinator, but I think a case can be made that both Vince and Colt did improve over time in terms of the mechanics of the position.

Anyone see Bama – Tennessee last night? Watching Simms trying to force that pass in the redzone cause flashbacks and is a perfect example of what I am referring to in regards to the intrinsic things about the position that can’t be taught.

I know they weren’t in the same class, but in one of Davey’s posts, he commented that he won’t beat up the staff for not recruiting Luck since they had their eye on Gilbert.