LETS FACE IT

by JRBTX on Sep 15, 2007 10:10 PM CDT Comment 15 comments

This longhorn team isn't a championship caliber team this year. To be a true championship team you must be strong in all areas of play. The simple truth is we aren't and it is only a matter of time before we are really exploited by a superior team and coaching staff. The one positive about this team (and I am being 100% truthful) is that by watching them play I am brought back down to reality . Before, I devoted so much emotion and time to Texas Football for some unknown reason( recently, I think bc of Vince) but through this season I have come to realize that I shouldn't become so involved in something as trivial as a kids game. Sure, I still love the longhorns, from birth to the grave, but in knowing that they will lose this year has allowed me to prioritize longhorn football in my life. I don't want to be too philosophical or cynical, but just the opposite that there is a sense of relief knowing we really aren't competing for a national championship and I can be happy with any amount of success.

P.S and if we do win the NC it will be all the much better....

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bandwagon fan...

what year did you start following UT? 2005?

i agree this isn't a championship team, but that shit doesn't matter to me, because I'll follow UT no matter what, I don't have any choice, it's my alma mater.

by cortexas on Sep 15, 2007 10:22 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I'm different

I live and die with this team. We saw what we're capable of in the second half of the TCU game. We know the talent (and sometimes the coaching too) is up with the best of em. As far as I'm concerned, we've got a shot at the MNC since we're still undefeated, and my opinion won't change until we actually lose.

Sure, it brings me intense stress during games like today's, but its just much more fun for me to be so emotionally invested. I can't be a passive fan.

...til Gabriel blows his horn

by BigTexBD on Sep 15, 2007 10:25 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

No

Look Man, I have been going to Longhorn Football games since I was shitting in my diapers. I remember the mackovic years and My grandfather has had the same seats at dkr since the 70's. I am no bandwagon fan, but I realize that to get too wrapped up in a team that obviously isn't in the top echelon of teams this year is stupid and we should accept whatever success comes. I will still route for them and hate OU just bc it is the right thing to do, but we need to be realistic about this team.

by JRBTX on Sep 15, 2007 10:28 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

"Too wrapped up"?

Come on man, youre just talking crazy. If you only get wrapped up in the Horns when they are constant double digit favorites over the teams they play in a season, then you need to find something else.

When does football start again?

by bendj on Sep 16, 2007 2:17 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You're on the wrong message board

if that's how you're gonna talk.

by Sweed4Heisman on Sep 15, 2007 10:30 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

2004 revisted

I don't mind the reality check, we're not playing on the level we're accostomed to. Colt is definitely experiencing some Sophomore woes and probably hasn't quite overcome the end of last season.

Still, this Texas team is resilient, they have a lot of heart and that can't be dismissed. Regardless of the outcome of the RRS, we can beat the rest of the teams in the Big XII and still find our way into the BCS.

I don't know that OU has faced a really good team yet and anyting can happen. Case and point, Iowa State. They were left for dead and showed up today against Iowa.

It's a long season and we just have to keep putting our best foot forward and win the games we're capable of winning.

It's a long season. Let's be thankful for the win today over a spirited UCF team that returned 17 starters and played like they were led by a coach who should probably be coaching an elite squad.

And let's also remember, Louisville, Arkansas, and UCLA would gladly trade places with us at 3-0.

We need to forget the things we can't controle, and worry about the things we can, like winning the next game.

Be nobody but yourself in a world that desperately wants you to be like everybody else.

by 54b on Sep 15, 2007 10:41 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

You are right

we are still 3-0 and still have a chance at something. I am just thinking pragmatically if we were to go up against the likes of Florida, LSU or USC.

by JRBTX on Sep 15, 2007 10:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

well said

Go Horns, Go Vince, Go Mavs

by Cyrus on Sep 16, 2007 12:48 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I know I am pissing some people off

but the anger should be directed towards mack brown and his coaching staff. Why mack and his staff keep the same personnel in the same position when they continually get burned or screw up is baffling. Any Boner that knows anything about football knows what I am talking about. Also, why would anyone keep the same scheme if it continually doesn't work. I don't make the big bucks that these people do but I sure as hell can see some problems that need to be fixed and would at least try something different if what you usually do doesn't work. That is the real question that needs to be asked.

by JRBTX on Sep 15, 2007 10:49 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

FL, USC, & LSU...

would have smoked us today. No question. Probably one other team too, but I won't admit that.

Still, it's early in the season. Like other posters pointed it, we ARE 3-0. We've had two games much closer than they should have been, but we also showed a lot of poise when the game was on the line against a good team.

It's nice to think that seeing games like today helps me prepare myself for the possibility of a loss in the future...but honestly it will sting just as bad IF it happens. True fans NEVER believe they'll lose until they're down at 00:00...and even then there is still some denial.

Certain areas of our team have shown a lot of promise in these three games. If we can actually pull it all together, we might actually be pretty damn good.

by sterling on Sep 15, 2007 11:09 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

i agree

we are not playing big boy ball right now, BUT I will go down in a hail of bullets with this Texas football--always have and always will. I think everyone else here would too. This is it. We have been spoiled rotten the last couple of years and we need to realize that flat play and underestimation are huge failing points, no matter who the opponent is. Give UCF some credit. They are a good football team. They played hard, classy, resilient football, and I admire that. All that matters is what happens on Oct. 6. I am worried, but I am confident this team will show up.
3-0, baby. 3-0.

One order of Beasley and Brown, please. Saturday delivery

by kicker on Sep 15, 2007 11:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

remember ohio state 2002

they played down to every single opponent and never had an easy game. but they just had something special about them that they were always able to win those games.

the point is not that this Texas team is like that ohio state team. but rather, let's hold off on the doomsday pronouncements until we actually lose a game. i thought that ohio state team was terrible and won all their games by luck. but at some point you have to realize that those games aren't winning themselves. it may not have been pretty, but we're 3-0.

if we play like this, i don't think we're going to beat ou. but i didn't think OSU was going to beat michigan or miami either since they needed a miracle 4th down conversion to beat Purdue. we are who we are. maybe we're terrible. to be honest, i'm leaning towards that at this point. but maybe we're ohio state circa 2002. i have no idea. and neither do you. yet.

by billyzane on Sep 16, 2007 12:48 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Nice.

It does a team good to win close games, to have to make tough fights all the way. Really, in the sense of preparation, it is the best experience you can have, especially with college kids. You can push a lot of buttons with each and every game. With this bunch, the coaches could have callouses on their fingers.

OU will think they're the hottest shit in the land; it's natural as rain for their success to go to their heads. And Stoops likes them with the confident swagger and the arrogance of winning. Hope that no one brings them down to earth before Oct. 6.

This may not be the sleek machine you bought in the summer, all shiny with plenty of extras and horsepower to smoke those tires. Well, in the real world, not everything is so sleek and refined, but that doesn't mean they don't have the power. Like OSU 2002, teams can be ugly and have lots of warts. Or just be a young ugly duckling going through an awkward phase on the road to maturity.

I break the season into quarters. These three games have been the first quarter, very consistent unto itself. I suspect the next quarter will be different, more varied, tougher. This team will need to be road warriors in the last two quarters; we don't have a kind schedule.

by whills on Sep 16, 2007 3:06 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

great perspective: we haven't lost yet

And ou has only played three games. No, I wouldn't want to play LSU or USC right now, but no one is asking us to. We play Rice, then Kansas State, then ou ... one game at a time.

It bugs the hell out of me how the national media is ready to anoint USC one week, LSU the week. But it bugs me even more to see BONers anointing ou, of all teams, when the thieves have yet to face any real competition. We may not be the team that takes down ou, but who knows -- if not us, maybe okie state (again) or even the ags.

And who knows how this UT team might surprise us -- even the Mackovic era had its moments. Remember the Big XII title game in '96? We've had Nebraska by the balls ever since.

I'm with all you guys who don't throw in the towel until the season's done.

by NYCHorn on Sep 16, 2007 10:56 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Realistically

We probably don't have the kind of team that can win the NC this year, but you never know. The main issue in my mind seems to be one of inconsistency. This week's game could have very easily been over by halftime, but our inconsistency in the red zone prevented that, then UCF made some good offensive adjustments at halftime and we had to hold on.

As for OU, I'll agree that I'm not exactly confident right now, but I'm not giving up yet. We've beaten them before when they came rolling in as huge favorites. Colt just needs to play an inspired game, which he can easily do.

by SaintBevo on Sep 16, 2007 6:18 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs