Here is my advice.....

I’ll officially be living behind enemy lines (think Berlin, circa 1939). I’ll have to carefully keep my emotions in check whenever I go to the:
Grocery Store
Post Office
Gas Station
Department Store
Office
Church!

Can’t avoid all that.

Bottom line is, I finally got what I’ve been wanting for 13-14 months, and wouldn’t want it any other way!

We can still love our Horns and be critical at the same time. For instance, compare Bama’s performance with UT’s. Your conclusions, if realistic, would not bode well for the Horns’ chances next month. However, four years ago UT was an underdog to the “greatest college team of all time” and pulled off an upset.
The main things that concern me is the offensive(NU) and defensive(aggies) game plans that have recently failed misserably. The running game can’t continue focus exclusively to running “latterly” trying to find a hole. You have to run quick openers against strong defenses like NU and Bama, which is why the most success we had was with the shovel passes (2? only?) last night. The defense mostly plays “re-actionary”, instead of attacking (see NU, Bama) which explains the lapses against aggies and NU’s final drive.
If Texas is to win in Pasedena, the biggest improvement has to come from the coaching.
The good news is: we have the talent, so it CAN be done!
GO HORNS GO!

Let’s keep dissecting our strengths and weaknesses while being honest with ourselves. But let us not become fans of entitlement, showing disgust and anger toward our own team when things don’t go our way. That’s not to say we shouldn’t have high expectations. Keep that bar high and continue to cheer your team on.

I heard from friends at the game and noticed it on TV: when we were down, it was a little too quiet for my taste and saw a lot of orange sitting on their asses. I don’t expect our fans (myself included) to wallow in our sorrows after mistakes and wait til something good happens to cheer again. We need more “Texas Fight!” and the old “Come early, be loud, stay late, wear orange”.

who think this post is ridiculous, unnecessary, and frankly just shallow.

Being overtly positive about everything you encounter doesn’t make you a better person, just inconsiderate and thoughtless. Many of us view this board as a place to discuss the politics and philosophy of UT athletics, which is impossible if we all agree to relegate all matters to an expression of Burnt-Orange sunshine and pixie dust. Without criticism, there’d be nothing to discuss. I don’t really want to read a site full of exclamations of how great it is to be a Longhorn (we all know how great it is to be a Longhorn) so I’d prefer we dispense with the self-congratulatory rhetoric and move on to critical analysis, which by definition is not all roses and happiness, and incidentally, is far more stimulating.

Its so ironic how superior the positivists on this site consider themselves, when, from a practical and societal standpoint, their outlook is perhaps the most superficial and most dangerous.

Your are officially in the “will always be critical of anything positive that is the result of a successful football campaign” column. Got it.

Just so you know, the many of us in the other column don’t give a rat’s ass about the “politics and philosophy of UT athletics”. We just care about winning and discussing how we are going to get more of that. If I read HR’s post correctly, this is where he is coming from.

We’ll just agree that this is an open board where we can often agree and equally often agree to disagree. Cool?

I was bleeding burnt orange before 99% of y’all were born. (Class of ‘69) When I die, I’ll decompose into burnt orange dust.

I don’t get too upset with the shallow, hyperbolic, critical vents I sometimes see here because there are always others that break down the games as well as I have seen outside a team meeting with the coaches.

In the game against Nebraska there was plenty to criticize in the offensive effort.

What I found unacceptable this year was the O Line getting phisically whipped. When guys who are supposed to be among the best in Texas, and who go about 6’5" and 310 pounds get their asses whipped, then I figure they have an attitude problem.

When I see recievers dropping passes or letting DB’s take the ball away from them, then I figure they are lacking in effort—that’s unacceptable by my way of thinking.

I hate to see Texas lose. But if they show an aggressive attitude and leave it all on the field, then I can live with a better opponent winning the game. That’s not what happened in the game with Nebraska.

Also, if the Heisman means anything, Colt should still get it. Without him, the offense might not have scored a touchdown against most Big 12 teams…and, he should have gotten it last year. (And Vince should have gotten it in ’05)