For one thing, I think there was way too much celebration after the senior homecoming game. It turned them soft

normally o-lines are at least able to do one or the other. However, Nebraska was a horrible matchup for us and we consistently did neither well. Predictably, GD went to a 5 wide formation to give Colt the ability to make a quick read at the line and get rid of the ball quickly. Unfortunately, Nebraska’s counter was better than ours - they stuck 6 or 7 DBs in and took away the short stuff.

Its easy to blame GD but honestly ask yourself what the heck else were we going to do? Nebraska dominated the line of scrimmage. Anything that takes more than 2 or 3 seconds to develop was going to get blown up at the risk of turnovers. Texas went conservative and relied on the defense. It worked. We won. Nuff said.

I had envisioned this thread as a “What’s Wrong With Texas (Besides GD)” type deal, but GD seems to be the consensus. Whatever, I still think that something weird is going down that we’re not hearing about from any media.

might be easier said than done. They use this very infrequently (goal line and occassionally in the jet tempo). In either case its typically a run play. You just can’t stick your QB under center mid game and expect his timing and footwork to be on. Not to mention, if its not practiced frequently you have to worry about the exchange from center. Additionally, if you are throwing a lot of quick passes you’ve got a greater chance of getting one picked off if you are throwing down the line of scrimmage or through narrower angles. The shot-gun formation gives the QB better angles to throw quick passes between linemen and defenders.

Last but not least, if Colt was under center he probably wouldn’t have stepped back quick enough to avoid Suh shoving Chris Hall into his grill.

And just what the family was going on with that running the I formation out of the 1/2 yard line…we saw that earlier this year and GD admitted afterwards it was a biiiiiig mistake, and then we went right back to it?

Uninspired offense saved by very good defense, almost a complete flip of the Aggie game leads me to think that perhaps GD was taking a peek at SEC film before the Big XII Championship whilst Coach Boom may have been guilty of looking at Cornhusker footage before Thanksgiving.

Final point, if we ‘have’ to run that freakin’ bubble screen I tend to think Chiles got to a point where he ran it as well as anyone and had the strength to take out a DB or run away from an LB, where has Chiles gone? Did he do something I haven’t heard of to get in the GD doghouse which necessitated us playing Kirkendohl so much that we had to see him drop all those great passes (the wide open for a TD one would have sealed that game in my humble opinion)

But the announcers kept talking about NU playing 6-7 DB’s at times during the game, with 4 down linemen… wouldn’t you think with NO linebackers in the game that we would try to run the ball? Maybe let Cody Johnson pound his way down the field? I understand we’d have to open up some kind of measurable hole against their great D-line, which is a questionable proposition with our O-line, but still…. They pick their poison, you give it to them.

The rock-paper-scissors aspect of football, particular CFB, can be overrated at times. However, if a team is playing dime or a crazy 4-0-7, then you have to hit them with the run. If Donkey Kong is eating up the middle all by himself, then run outside, who cares.

At the half, I played the “If I were Greg Davis” game with Padre, which contextually is one of my all time least favorite games. Our conclusion was to use a TE (effectively) and run sweeps until all of our receivers weren’t in double or triple coverage. Every play. That was however, not written on GD’s gameplan napkin.