How's Bowl Season Treating the Team?
by RMHorn on Dec 30, 2010 3:39 PM CST
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Watching college football bowl season pass by without a Longhorn squad playing somewhere for the first time in forever is beginning to sink in. With 70 teams getting extra time to play and excitement from the fans that follow them it's hard to believe Texas sunk as low as it did in 2010. While the coaching change carousal has consumed most of the attention of fans with recruiting news taking up the remainder I had another thought: What are the players who are returning thinking about and doing this longggg bowl season while they're at home?
My first hopeful thought is that some player, some leader is emerging behind the scenes who is going to use the loss, misery and uncertainty as a motivator for himself and his teammates to get through this unexpectedly difficult part of the year. Wouldn't it be nice to find out that someone has Vince Young-like leadership and inspiration to challenge and rally (Wanna win it all? I'll be practicing, who wants to join me?) his teammates to something better next year. Without knowing who will be coaching them at their positions it would be appropriate for the players to rally to each other, become closer, adopt a "it's on us now to pull ourselves together if we want to have good college careers and wash this taste out of our mouth's next year" attitude.
After the kind of season we had with the player personalities we were introduced to in 2010 I'm honestly at a loss as to if that kind of camaraderie exists in the locker room we currently have. Where would it come from?
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Definitely the last choice
after all, we’re a basketball school.
by goingforthecorner on Dec 31, 2010 1:07 AM CST reply actions
is it possible to have un-organized practices, meetings etc?
not disorganized but put together by players themselves to work on fundamentals, weight room workouts, pass and catch type of stuff. Doing something that is not associated or organized by the Athletic Department or coaching staff. If sold b then that would be a great confidence and team building exercise for the Longhorns. A leader could emerge from exercises like that. Is that possible?
For me,
watching these average teams playing in a bowl game makes me reflect on just how horrible the Horns were…..
….I think “wow, these teams aren’t very good – and Texas was worse?!?!” Ouch.
Two different questions.
If you ask “Will there be players who will be so motivated by not even being one of the 70 teams that makes a bowl game that they will work that much harder next year?” I think that they will be. However, if the question is whether a leader will now appear, probably not. Stepping up and becoming a leader of the UT football team requires more than the motivation of sitting at home eating turkey, drinking beer, and watching TV during the holidays. Being a leader requires not only motivation, but skills (that can be taught), personality (that is inherited or at least formed by college), ability on the field (It would be hard for a third-string lineman to be the team leader.), and confidence. If this horrible season did not produce a leader, it is not likely that the holidays will.
"Only angry people win football games." --DKR
Gilbert
It doesn’t matter how much GG wants to be a leader. In football, I believe it requires a player to first have confidence in himself and then be able to convince his teammates that he will do whatever is needed to win. I believe that the team will not have confidence in GG until he “puts the team on his shoulders” and brings them from behind in a major game, something he has not yet done. Yes, being a leader means inspiring the other players to work harder, but more importantly it means exuding confidence in a way that is contagious. McCoy and Young had that. James Street had it. We have yet to see it from Gilbert.
"Only angry people win football games." --DKR
The 2010 Season
Now let me think… the Texas team playing in a major bowl game today is Texas Christian University not the Texas team with a cow for a mascot. That team finished with only FIVE wins and was awarded with the opportunity to stay home at the farm during the bowl season. Then the Head Coach in waiting bailed out for a better job in Florida, interesting, what does Will think the future holds for the long( or is it short? ) horns? Guess he’d just rather be a Gator. As for the head coach you still have… you know, the one who led you to a 5 win 7 LOSS season, well he now has to realize that he can’t sit at the same table with Tom Osborne, T. O., the Head coach at Nebraska won at least NINE games every year for 25 years and won the National Championship in THREE of his last 4 seasons. Enjoy the winter Mack.
T_O_B
Really...
…is that thebest you can do?
T_O_B
Blake GIdeon
Gideon and Acho will yank this team together for next year. Right now we need to get the coaching situation solved. But I know Mack is gonna do a great job putting it together
No. That's not "the best we can do".
Nothing this year has been “the best we can do”. If you’ would care to stick around, play nice and be intellectually engaging then we will be more than happy to show you how The Best do what we do.
As for a team leader emerging from the pile of rubble that was this season? Yep. There are several in the ranks. I’ve watched Gilbert lead before. My guess is he will again. The McCoy gene pool is strong. We have new blood coming in from all sides-coaches, players, coordinators. We’ll be back Absodamnlutely we’ll be back.
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