Practice Report From The Asset (Updated W/ Thursday Tidbit)

FIRST!

First!

Arrrggghhh! Son of a …..

Honestly, use all the damn trickery and motion you want HarsinWhite! Get past this game with a win and we will have a few weeks to heal. Just get the win any way possible!

I have faith in this defense. Now that they have really picked up what Diaz is preaching, they have become nasty as hell and should only get better. I like RG3 BUT I wanna see him pounded into the ground a few times.

“We have something for him.”

Sounds… Sinister.

One last time, thanks, JS. Great stuff all season.

These reports are SO FAR beyond what any other blog or, uh, respected, news entity is providing.

Any hint that the staff had a hard time getting players’ attention after 27-25? (Love that the score had a goofy number it in; don’t have to ask “which game” when we say 27-25. Like 41-38. Or, if you’re old like I am, 15-14.)

Gracias Jesus! When can we expect the humidor? All this Topeka, Kansas talk is crazy

Eighth!

David Ash running Peter Gardere option. Hey, it worked against Oklahoma way back in the day.

Hales must be another one who does not practice well. He sure could play some ball in high school. Would be great to see a breakout game from him. Maybe a little zone read running with Ash , now that would be cool.

Working on the Humidor now.

I love sex more than I love reading your posts.

I won’t pay for sex (again).

But I’d pay for this.

Weird.

9!

Going heavy on zone concerns me. Gideon and Scott both tend to be liabilities in zone. Couple that with Baylor having more than one true deep threat and it could be a long day watching our safties arrive 3 steps too late.

Man, JB must have really pulled that thing.

“These reports are SO FAR beyond what any other blog or, uh, respected, news entity is providing.”

Sometimes it’s TMI. Other times it’s not enough TMI, but it’s always MI than other sites.

I can’t wait to watch our defense versus RG3. There’s not a better test of a defense than a mobile quarterback. This game has the potential to end RG3’s Heisman bid. If it does, the Diaz rumors will be at a loud decibel.

Thanks JS!

edsp, good question. i hope the team is refocused again after 27-25.

ropeburn, good point, they must play disciplined back there!

Thanks JS!!! Cant wait for ur next post!! But as much as i want to know what the F is going, please do what you feel is best for the program, in terms of what info gets posted.

I won’t pay for sex (again).

False.

Ropeburn,

Baylor’s wideouts and RGIII are too good and plentiful to go man all day. We have to switch looks to make RGIII think.

Baylor’s wideouts and RGIII are too good and plentiful to go man all day. We have to switch looks to make RGIII think.

True.

Mobile quarterbacks create time, the more time a WR has to get open the more likely he is to do so.

Thanks for the 2 Practice Reports this week. I enjoy every word.

It sounds like the O has recalibrated with the injuries and a new starting QB. I hope it works. All the wrinkles seem fun and logical.

The thing I am most curious about is Paden Kelley. Is he in for Hopkins or Cochran? Cochran looked like he got a little beat up. And Hopkins doesn’t move his feet well in Pass Pro.

Thanks, as always. Any word on where percentage-healthy-wise Jeffcoat is for this game?

Ah shit, sorry. Jeffcoat is banged up, but he’ll play.

Mona, Paden will play some right tackle for Hopkins.

I hope the Bergeron thing is deliberate misinformation, but Earl limped through 1976 on one leg due to a bad hamstring I think. They just don’t get better . . .

Desean Hales found his hands in Game 12? Here’s to him if it’s true. I hope anything involving Ash allows him to make a read, rather than being preordained from the booth. The option look with no read is not an option.

Damn!!! Wilson and Ced Reed step up!!!

Thanks JS. Makes sense. Hopkins has been struggling lately.

Sounds like a feast for the eyes on Saturday. If our D holds these guys down they can handle anyone. I’ve always liked Hales. It would be good to see him break out some this week.

Wow on Hales! I figured we wouldn’t even see him make the trip since he was going to transfer. I assumed with our recent offers to Sanders and Marcus Johnson that we were losing at least 2 more receivers to attrition. I am guessing White is gone at this point, but maybe we are making room by losing some of our TEs?

JS, thanks for the weekly nuggets.

Re the humidor, I know others won’t agree but if it breaks any news about Mack’s timeframe for retirement, I would rather you didn’t post it. He’s earned the right to keep that shit private and for it to be announced by the man himself.

I know that this is going to be taken the wrong way before I ask the question. That said, here we go…

What is it about this week that is going to get our kids up for this game. In my estimation, there is nothing at stake here other than being 8-4 instead of 7-5, individual efforts for pecking order, and OK, I’ll bite… pride. We had a huge emotional win last week, the earlier loses in the season assured that we would have mediocre results at best, and we have already secured an extended season with a bowl appearance.

In short, what are the coaches using to get the kids up for this game?

Thanks.

crash: the site does fine w discretion. if you want more flowery stuff then don’t read it. there are plenty of other places for safer news and commentary.

zzizzy- that’s already in the post, mane

damn…not happy to hear JoeB is only at 50% given that he’s been out for 2-3 weeks already…

Agree with zizzy that it’s tough to get up for this game, and I think its going to be tough for us to win it. If our offense finds the Kansas magic again, then sure we have a fighting chance, but assuming the Texas O is still who we think they are, I just don’t see a W. RGIII is going to put up points, and if we give him 18 possessions like we gave the aggies I don’t think we have a shot.

The 8 wins has always been called out as a “high water mark” which I assumed meant the coaches knew it was a an optimistic goal. If you told the coaches they could win 7 with Fozz, Malc, Berg, and Ship hurt (and some regression in the QB slot), I think they’d be patting each other on the back. Honestly, I hope we win, but I will easily forgive a loss.

Besides, if we can win our bowl game, that still counts as 8!

This team has answered the bell every game but the OU game. The chemistry on this team is great, they’ll show up.

Cigars anyone?

“they’ll show up”

Thanks man. I hate leaving anything in the tank.

How ‘bout paybacks, huh? How about paying those baptists back for dancing on our field last year. And they’re not even supposed to DANCE! Did anyone report that to the Sothern Babptist commission on religious infractions?!

Damned spelling….

Gman,

I’m pretty sure they all left room for the holy spirit, no?

You’ve got no case!

So, who replaces Sherman?

Jesus,
Should I stay up for the Humidor post?

Kelly played the majority of the snaps in the 2nd half at RT against the ags too. Hopkins moved over to LT. It was Cochran’s snaps that were taken by Kelly. I figured it had something to do with the injury rumors.

Thanks for the report J.S.! Looking forward to smoking a nice Cuban later on!

Akina’s zone always scares me, luckily I trust Diaz to realize if it’s not working and switch it up. Hopefully that doesn’t happen too late for our anemic offense.

Just got a tidbit on today’s workout from The Asset. He also chimes in on the Mack stuff. I added it to the article but here it is.

“Offense did the best they have done all season in practice today. Both qbs did well and Case is starting to throw some spirals. Davis looks to have some confidence now and D White got mad today, made some wow plays, and had himself a day. Dude is the ultimate tease but I want to believe. Again, we’ll see. Overall, the team is practicing better than they have at any point since the 2009 season. I don’t think Mack is going anywhere soon, by the way.”

“I don’t think Mack is going anywhere soon, by the way.” — Asset

Hmmm.

“Man, JB must have really pulled that thing.”

The problem with hamstring pulls is that even if the initial pull wasn’t that bad, it flares up and gets aggravated whenever you try to go full speed again. I’ve been battling one myself for almost two months now. Just when you think it’s better and try to open it up, you re-pull it.

That said, if we need him he may still be somewhat effective powering through the hole, but wouldn’t be able to kick it into gear if he breaks free.

There couldn’t be a better game to finish the season off with. Glad to hear MB is good to go, would love to see him put up 100+.

Great stuff. I saw an earlier poster that was worried that if we stuff Baylor and its Heisman candidate, and steam roll a good offense in the Alamo or Holiday, could we lose Manny after one year? Say it aint so. This D has been poetry.

“"Offense did the best they have done all season in practice today. Both qbs did well and Case is starting to throw some spirals. Davis looks to have some confidence now and D White got mad today, made some wow plays, and had himself a day. Dude is the ultimate tease but I want to believe.”

I want to believe, too, but am having a hard time taking this too seriously. Reminds me of the WB cartoon with Michigan J. Frog, who could sing and dance up a storm behind closed doors for his owner but would revert to bump-on-a-log mode as soon as showtime started and the curtain came up…

One Froggy Evening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRnX4quv5W4

I feel the team showed up for the OU game but they just weren’t ready for that type of intensity and atmosphere.

They showed against aggy that they’re ready now.

“Case is starting to throw some spirals” ???

Uh awesome. So he’s not just a 25 yd rush and a last name?

Oh, actually, I think RGIII deserves the 2011 Heisman. I’d be happy if he looked fantastic en route to a huge Baylor loss.

But Vince Young absolutely frickin’ owns the 2005 trophy. Nothing and nobody can persuade me otherwise.

Good. Exactly what I’d have asked for.

ATTN: Mike Davis. Your manhood is being questioned in public, and you should rise to the challenge of this blatant motivational trash-talk with an incredible game Saturday.

This cracks me up… given it describes a second-year, starting QB at a top-tier FBS program.

Great Stuff JS… keep it coming!

Louis L’am Jones said:
December 1st, 2011 at 10:47 pm

“ATTN: Mike Davis. Your manhood is being questioned in public, and you should rise to the challenge of this blatant motivational trash-talk with an incredible game Saturday.”

Manhood… being questioned??? Easy there King Louis… those are some pretty strong words there for running pass routes! Geez dude, you act like he just got punched in the mouth and back down… no comparison.

“This cracks me up… given it describes a second-year, starting QB at a top-tier FBS program.”

My high school QB threw spirals as a sophomore. He played college ball in the intramurals brother.

Humidor is in drafts and has been sent to the editor. If it’s not posted by morning I promise we’ll do a Q and A manana.

Jesus has an editor?

Blasphemer!

Great news that Brown will get a lot of carries. If Brown carries it 25 times that still leaves maybe 45 snaps that somebody else runs the ball (or the horns are forced to pass the ball). Maybe Cody can get more carries to take up some of the slack for the injured Joe Bergeron.

Presumably the horns will run as much as possible vs Baylor. Case does not add anything to the horns’ running game. It is like playing 10 vs 11. What Case can do is get Texas out of bad play calls and get Texas into the right play. Calling an audible should be much easier at Baylor than at ag.

Hearing that Case is starting to throw some spirals is such faint praise. If Baylor can force Texas to pass a lot, Texas is probably in trouble.

Case is starting to throw some spirals?!?!?!

For a guy to be playing at the University of Texas as a sophomore in college, I would hope that he new how to throw a spiral in his sophomore year of high school!

kafka, i realize that as a coaches son and colt’s brother, we all kinda assume that case is great at things like getting the team into the right play but i haven’t really seen any evidence of that this season. i don’t think the stereotype he gets as a heady player fits at all.

not that ash offers anything better in that regard, i just don’t see any reason to assume that case is going to do a decent job checking out of bad plays and into good ones.

I think JS is baiting us with these juicy posts to announce in the near future that he’s breaking off to start his own pay site. Please tell me it ain’t so, JS…

We’ll have to run and run and run some more with attitude to win this game.
The offense will have to win it. You read that right. The offense.
The defense will do their best and do well, but I predict a series of calls against our defense which will make those we’ve seen thus far this year look absolutely reasonable by comparison—calls designed to change the game. This is Waco. RGIII has a Heisman on the line. Things will happen. I’m not saying the Big 12 refs are paid off or are in collusion with one another, but shit happens in Waco.
Therefore, the offense must erase any possibility that the calls have significant impact.
That’s my gut talking.
Without a healthy Bergeron and no Fozcat, we need a new cat: the AshCat, or the CodyCat, or the WhoDatCat. Some timely play action when we are ahead of the chains; draws and screens when we are in long yardage. We need our mad scientist OC to make a monster out of scraps of body parts.

Baylor is not a big threat on punt returns so Tucker can safely rugby punt again for distance.

Bold prediction: This is the game Monroe takes one to the house from long range out of the (your name here)-Cat.

Ok, so….I know 0 about recruiting except what I’ve read here. However…I was wondering if anyone knew anything about Karam (Tech’s Backup)? His HS stats look decent, and he was 9/17 for 2 TDs in his backup role last week. Then he said this:

"I had to follow my heart and felt like I wasn’t living up to my full potential by not playing," Karam said. "My hope is to go somewhere where I can contribute and help a team win a championship.

Is there any chance this is a “Hey Texas….over here….raises hand in air and shakes it pick me!” kind of move?

Just seemed odd. Who else in Texas needs a QB and is set up for a NC run if they get a decent one?

Perhaps I’m delusional…

I guess he said A championship and not specifically a NC. But still, dude is in our back yard.

“Case is starting to throw some spirals.” My grandson is, too—he’s five.

I’m going out on a limb here, but can we not tease the fact that Ash is going to have this or that trick play every week? It just seems silly. Tell me what you can tell me and don’t tell me what you can’t. I get enough teasing from my girlfriend, thank you very much. If I wanted that kind of vague information I would only watch the commercials for the six o’ clock news.

Other than that I always like to hear the scuttlebutt, you scalawag. It’s not that I hate it, I just like it better when we pull those plays out of thin air. I’m more satisfied and interested, as opposed to: “Oh, there was Jesus’s play for the week, I was wondering when that would happen.” Keep up the good work!

RG3 is not going to win the Heisman Trophy. Andrew Luck has that wrapped up and has had it since day one.

So much to play for in this game: BU beat Texas last year, RGIII is a special player who will make good things happen for da Bears, getting the opp to untrack the running game again in order to dominate TOP, and thwarting one of the fastest and longest distance scoring offenses in the history of CFB. hope it’s a hella game.

Guys, let’s not take the “Case is throwing some spirals” thing too literally. Not to put words in the Asset’s mouth, but I suspect he meant Case was stepping into throws and getting a bit more zip on them.

Carry on.

Lurker, whodatcat. perfect.

We might have a young RGIII but he plays defense, Y2K. I think Akina should be recruiting quarterbacks along with his Db’s.

“"I don’t think Mack is going anywhere soon, by the way." — Asset”

Thank you God. Texas with a great coach scares the hell out of me.

Yes, I would hate to see Texas with a great coach like Les Miles.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see Luck win the Heisman followed by Barkley, then Griffin.
It’s not even about the best player. It’s about media and Baylor is nowhere’s ville.

Younger fans don’t know what Baylor is really like and don’t hate them like some older fans do. They only have 8 or 9 fans but all of them are obnoxious and annoying as hell.
Grant Teaff used to recruit negatively against Texas like almost nobody else. His last game before he retired was against Texas and was one of the biggest jokes I have ever seen as far as officiating. There was no way the refs were going to let Baylor and Teaff lose that game.
I hate Baylor right up there with any of them. I’ll never forgive that negative recruiting and accusations of racism by them.

F em.

I think Hey-zoos’ editor is probably The Cigar himself.
He gets final sign off on what is shared with the world.

The team will be up for this game for many reasons…
They are loving life right now, really feeling it and are looking forward to each game.
They want to have defeated all in-state opponants.
They don’t want to feel that poisonous feeling of losing again.
They want to carry a positive energy into the bowl game.
They are a proud group of young warriors who have been through everything this season.
They have come together as a family and they know they are moving toward greatness.

I think the Texas D is going to smother RGIII. Team’s on a high, apparently highly focused, and Diaz did a number on Cam last year – about the only guy to pull that off. He knows what to do, and he’s got better athletes on his side of the ball this time around. RG might pop some broken plays, but if he doesn’t, this could be a 2 or 3 score game.

I mean 2 or 3 score margin

Nobody,

Agree 100% on the cancer to the SWC that was Grant Teaff and the smug attitude of the Baylor fans/alums during his tenure in Waco.

Man has a trail of slime and lies that follows him all the way back to Abilene.

Without a healthy Bergeron and no Fozcat, we need a new cat: the AshCat, or the CodyCat, or the WhoDatCat.

I’m looking for the WTF-is-THAT-Cat. I think it features six TE in the game, with the ball being snapped to Pöhlmann lined up 7 yards deep; as soon as he gets the ball, he begins striding purposefully forward and the other ten form a two-deep ring of five and five around him; they begin chanting HUT-hut-hut-HUT and double-timing. With any real effort, they reach Belton before being stopped.

There was a Mack interview around the time the RBs started dropping like flies, in which it appeared the the preferred nomenclature is simply “Wild”, dude.

I kind of like that, really, because it does one of the most important things in branding, which is ownership of common terms… it asserts ownership of “Wild”, so anyone who calls their thing the WildWhatever is just copycatting The University.

“Manhood… being questioned??? Easy there King Louis… those are some pretty strong words there for running pass routes! Geez dude, you act like he just got punched in the mouth and back down… no comparison.”

He didn’t go hard after at least one big catch towards the end of the A&M game because he was going to get hit. The comparison is perfect.

He didn’t go hard after at least one big catch

Absolutely, this. I had in mind to make this point, but kept reading the thread and posted the WildCatShit instead.

What has irked me about Davis this season is his apparent lack of motivation. Like White, and like Mal Williams, and others, Davis looks to have all the tools – well, all the physical tools.

What he lacks is the attitude, the fuck-you-this-is-MY-football attitude that makes a receiver go after the ball whether that means getting nailed an instant after the ball touches your hands or you have to lay out and slam yourself chest-first into someone’s rock hard turf or you have to slow down or even come back and literally hand-fight that dback or a linebacker for the ball… other than Shipley Minor and occasional glimpses of some of the other guys, I haven’t seen a hell of a lot of that from our receivers. With the Harsin O emphasis on blocking by receivers, I would think the attitude would include “yeah, you’re gonna hit me THIS play, but a few plays from now, it’s gonna by MY shoulder and YOUR ribs, and you’re gonna be lucky if you can breathe after that…”

Come on, guys: fucking BRING it.

Tex Long,
 
Just because Texas has 13 tight ends on their roster does not mean they can scrape together 6 tight ends healthy enough to make your formation a reality.

good article right now over on bon about the stellar play of young mr diggs who they refer to as quandre the giant. so far he’s knocking everything out of the park. we may even be looking to him for some wildcat work.

that name for him got me interested in andre the giant, so i read up on him. seems his size was the result of a disorder involving the pituitary gland, and he died in his forties from heart failure while in paris to attend his father’s funeral. andre was cremated and his ashes spread across most of north and south carolina and nearby parts of virginia, tennessee, and georgia.

Watched Karam in HS, he would definitely start at Texas, better passer and runner than CaseAsh combined. Would be great to get him.

Hales was very good in HS at running the wildcat, Diggs did that well at Angleton too.

Could Karam play immediately? He is transferring somewhere in January, why not Texas? He is a smart kid who graduated in 2.5 years from Tech. IIRC, the NCAA lets you play immediately when you transfer to another school that has a program available that is not available in the school from which you transferred. The Tech guys are high on Karam and I believe that he would be a big upgrade from Ash and Case.

Tex Long es en fuego.

Jesus-

Please reconcile:

“At running back Malcolm Brown is close to being back to 100%. He’ll log 25 plus carries as sure as you’re reading this.”

With:

mikefinger Mike Finger
Joe Bergeron (hamstring) won’t play against Baylor, UT says. Malcolm Brown (knee) is questionable.

mikefinger Mike Finger
Brown’s injury is different than the turf toe that limited him before. He wore a knee brace Tuesday and told me it was “precautionary.”

Much appreciated.

Terrence Robinson who went to Kansas was the quarterback for Klein Oak the year DeSean Hales was a senior. Hales might have had the highlight reel moments, but Terrence is the guy who did the heavy lifting for them that year in the spread.

Just talked to my guy again after the new injury news. He says Bergeron just can’t open it up after the initial burst so they’re going to hold him out and try to get him healthy for the bowl game. Brown’s still a go according to my source, eventhough he’s listed as questionable. (Hope he’s right.)

Hey JS,

You made it into an Orangebloods Q&A this week. Aren’t you so proud? :-)

http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1301975&PT=4&PR=2

terence robinson went 2 michigan

Grateful, just talked to my friend AGAIN, and he swears Brown looks fine in practice. I know he was wearing a brace on Tuesday, but he’s running well according to my guy. I’m not sure why Brown is questionable or what the University is releasing. The Bergeron stuff makes sense because he looked like a coin flip on Wednesday, and evidently it didn’t get better on Thursday.

J.S., I’m a believer. Thanks for the update man. Let’s hope #28 can pound the rock 15-18x, at least. Still not comfortable placing to much of the game on McCoy and his “popsicle stick calfs.”

@Sasha: You (Jesus) made it into an Orangebloods Q&A this week. Aren’t you so proud? :-)

http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1301975&PT=4&PR=2

Funniest thing I’ve read all week was Ketch’s naming of the first three All-Texas grads teams in this thread.

First team linebacker was (no shit)

LB: Emmanuel Lewis (Sr.-Texas)

All I can think of is WEBSTER! Playing linebacker for your Texas Longhorns!

Anyone else think he got his Emmanuels mixed up and just maybe meant ACHO?

Royce,

My mistake and thanks for the correction. Pretty amazing he was the bigger of the two guys in the Oak backfield that year.

Royce,

My mistake and thanks for the correction. Pretty amazing he was the bigger of the two guys in the Oak backfield that year.

Karam is a very interesting thought. Kid supposedly was pre-law at Tech and he was the trigger man for some very, very good Friendswood teams. They played in a very competitive district and 7,000+ yards throwing the ball in that District and Region is no joke.

desert fox,

Ketch naming Cuba at safety and excluding Boyce reconfirms it was stupidity and not an honest mistake with Emmanuel Lewis at linebacker.

everyone who doubted the Asset can suck-it.

TD pass to Luke seals the deal.

agree, bhero. jesus’ info is good stuff. anybody who doubts him at this point is showing his posterior orifice.

sorry. this is ot, but i just read about a big pile-up on a japanese freeway that involved 14 cars, including eight ferraris and one lamborghini. they were all moving so slowly that no one was injured.

struck me as pretty amazing.