I'm hanging on no matter what...

Heck, my alma mater too! I’ll watch Texas football (and basketball, and baseball) until the day I die.

I don’t have the means to get up and travel to every road/neutral site game but I’ll continue to support them as loud as ever every home game.

However high or low, Hook ’em for life.

Can not turn away now. This is the time that we need to be the loudest.

to this team. Hook’em…in good times and in bad.

Unless you stick with the team in times like these too. I’m with you, OP.

Tough love is legitimate, so long as you don’t lose site that it’s love.

Well said, and I’m with you.

Hook ’em

Hook ’em!

Some of us ‘old timers’ remember it being worse… but we’re still here and still bleeding burnt orange. No where to go but up!!

But I am with you 100% I love this team, through the good and bad.

My generation is making me sick right now, especially fellow alumnus. I expect t-shirt fans to start jumping off the ship (no offence to non alumni that have stayed loyal; you are most appreciated), but I’m even seeing it from alumni in my age bracket. There are far too many in their 20s that never followed Texas until they set foot on the 40 Acres and are completely spoiled. They don’t remember the 90s or how bad it used to be. Yes, I was young, so I probably couldn’t fully appreciate the severity of those days, but I’ve followed Texas religiously since I was old enough to know what was going on, and I remember how bad it hurt to see the team constantly lose. Like you said, you don’t turn your back on family, and I just wish my generation knew better and would realize that this is when the team needs us the most.

…I agree. Even though “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore,” I care and I love Longhorn football. Like my dad always said, “Ya throw enough shit against the wall, something’s bound to stick”. Exactly what relevance that has here, I’m not entirely sure, but it applies better than my dad shouting at me, “Turn that goddam Wurlitzer down!” He just didn’t understand rock and roll, but he and I shared a love for Texas Longhorn football…Hook ’em always

But loyalty doesn’t mean “be a moron and just cheer when they’re driving the car into the ditch”. At the end of the day, that speaks more to loyalty than blindly saying “Yay!” for everything. I will never turn my back on UT (my still-unpaid government student loans won’t allow me, alas) but I won’t sit quietly by and watch us SUCK when so much can be done to change that fate. Like, gosh, I don’t know, ACCEPTING that you suck and CHANGING.

Texas forever….

Embellished…

Hook’em forever.

This is what we need to see more of. Not only us, but the players need to see it.

I was in Acapulco (tough life) and coudln’t only get the game play-by-play reading it online. Seemed like we wiffed on a long run by Baylor, then threw and int. to give them 14 quick points when] we had been playing fairly well. I was angry/annoyed/frustarted to read that many of the passes that simply show up on play by play as “incomplete pass” were actually dropped balls. I know GG is our guy—he has a rifle of an arm and is a smart kid ready to abide as told. We need an OL and Receivers, and a TE woudl be nice, that play ball. And, a freadking OC that is putting it together. It all comes down on the offense. We need better OL play—-which we have known. From the scroring on long playes, I find it ridiculous for A. Williams to think he will be a 1st ir even a 2nd rounder if he was to jump to the NFL. So, I think we are set to have a great team next year. Shiplley will come in ad the kid knows how to get open. D. White will be ready step in. David will be health and Goodwin will be a silent leader of elte talent. Our OL will be stacked with redshiirt talent, plus the few guys hurt and hopefully even a fresh. stud. WE are fine. This year is sucking, but really, we are only losing games by 1 score and we have so much more talent to hit the field.This is nothing like the Akers/Mackevich erea. NOTHING.

I’m getting a little tired of reading all the negatives about the team. I have accepted the fact that this isn’t the team of years past. I still believe Texas will be back next year and will be a beast of a team with a lot to prove.

I also thought it was great how fans stuck around for the most part during the Baylor game. It was great seeing the crowd react when Colt came out as well. There was a lot more energy in the crowd.

I have to admit I was in shock during the Iowa State game. I was sure we would win by 3 TD’s easily. Still, I stuck around. Just hoping they would be able to pull some magic out.

Hook ’em!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who the hell else would I root for, blow-u?

and this is the way any fan should be. Being critical/getting upset is part of it when the team does not do well and I curse and shout as much as anyone else although I don’t think booing is the right thing to do at any time (you did not bring this up but we have had to deal with some of this this year). All teams will have off years and this is when they need your support the most. I was baptized through the tough years of Archer/Hallman/Dinardo—there were six straight losing seasons in that span and my college years were the last Archer year and all of Hallmans’ although I still remember the improbable win over Bama in 93 in T-town as a bright spot—not to mention being a kid through the up and down years of the 80’s and will always look forward to the next game with part of the little kid still there and will never take any win for granted. UT has a ton of talent and will get it together in time. Hang in there

I don’t plan to change now. We need to help this team all we can. Come early, Be loud, Stay Late.

Crowd noise should be causing at least a timeout, and a false start or two. We need to do more, just like our players need to make more big plays.

Truth is, we have been in all the games, we just need to make the big plays happen and stop giving games away.

Thanks for making a good post to keep us focused on getting these guys bowl eligible and finishing strong.

I am not quitting on this team.

Times like this is going to happen every now and then. I don’t car who the program is, off years are inevidable. Furst one in like 20 years isn’t bad I’d say. We can’t get spoiled to have qb after qb come in and be better then the last. It was a matter of time when a qb didn’t get the job done and doesn’t translate from practice to gameday. I’m se we got spoiled to have Young follow Simms/Applewhite, and McCoy to follow Young.

…that’s it, join hands, my Burnt Orange brothers and sisters….Kum-ba-yah, my Lord, Kum-ba-yah…c’mon people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love one another right now…