I counted 17 redshirt or true freshmen listed on the depth chart. Wow!

I’m all drunk and excited just looking at the depth chart and thinking about game week, and then you wake up the next morning, look over and see Colt. Talk about blueballing.

Frustrating as it is to us, I can understand Mack Brown’s heavy use of the “OR” in his depth chart of the moment. Coaches fear that naming an unproven player as the starter might impact the preparation of both that player and his competitors; can’t argue holding back on announcing those kinds of decisions.

In any case, Brown’s right when he says it doesn’t matter who goes out there first — it’s who plays. Anybody remember the Celtics of about 20 years ago, where Ed Pinckney would start at power forward but Kevin McHale would get all the minutes? It’d end up with Pinckney getting 5-7 minutes a game, McHale around 40.

I wonder, too, if there’s a bit of the Old Mack at work here. That Mack might have started Lewis and Palmer and Bobino and Melton and Beasley, but the new Secretary of Defense supposedly has full control on who plays — and he might be more willing to let the young guns fire away.

I don’t see this as a young team particularly. I count three sophomores on offense (TE, Hix at RT, McGee) and two freshman safeties (there not being a senior, junior or soph at the position). Several of the best-known true freshmen — Humphrey, Monroe, Hales, Drav. Johnson — are not on the depth chart, which I infer means they’ll be Fr-RS a year from now.

I can see Purdue doing that.

Someone went cute and failed.

Having never played football, I am not too familiar with the technicalities of the WR position. What type of athletes do you want at the various positions (Flanker, Split end, slot)?

……..in the entire history of UT football! Bar none.

All over the Longhorn nation, all you heard or read was ……….Y – M – C – A. ……….(sigh)