Texas-Iowa State: Post-Game Celebration Thread

Unfair advantage!

Fozzy was impressive tonight. I was happy for him.

The offense never really got into rhythm – relied on big plays and great field position to manufacture points. I’ll take it.

Case made a pretty demonstrative flailing arm gesture up towards the Offensive Coordinator booth when he was pulled for Ash in the 2nd QTR. Mack chewed him out on the sidelines. Case needs to get those emotions in check and accept his role.

Shipley had another great game. Some of the little things he does to fool DBs are amazing- esp when the ball is in the air – he waits to til the absolute last second to react to the football and that’s why db’s never have their eyes on the ball when Ship is targeted. This kid is amazing.

I hope Hicks is OK. Looks like he tweaked a hamstring.

If we run a CoJo dive on any more important 4th and 1s this year I’m going to break my TV. As impressive as Harsin has been, he’s been predictable and fairly unsuccessful with his 4th down calls. We’ve been stuffed on 4th and short multiple times. Malcolm Brown should get carries on 4th and 1 and we start running Ash on bootleg options on 4th down so teams aren’t stuffing the box with 9 players crashing down.

Blake Gideon had one of his best games as a horn. Zone coverage is his forte. Congrats Blake.

The kickoffs and punts are mediocre to below average. This probably aint changing this year or next. That sucks.

Steve Edmond is bad ass. Dude is huge and can move. I hope we keep his as an LB and don’t spin him down to the D line.

Looking forward to playing OU.

I am wondering what BONers think of Mike this year.

Some reports out of spring camp and fall practice had Mike Davis performing at an elite level and there were mentions he might be a “3 and done” type player.

While I like Mike as a deep threat and he catches the ball when he’s WIDE open, he’s really fell way short of my expectations as an all around WR. He irks me because he never wins a 50/50 ball for his QB and he lacks physicality in the run game. I make it my hobby to watch Mike on most plays and he’s constantly shying away from contact and not blocking. He was actually the lead blocker in a reverse tonight and he didn’t even get his hat on one defender. That pissed me off.

Just wondering if I’m overreacting because I had high expectations or if anyone else notices.

I would have thought that given that Ash had already thrown two touch downs that he would understand his place on the offense. I hope both HarsinWhite and Mack have a long talk with him after the game…

And by the way…
OU still sucks

Luv watching the Aggies replay. Meltdown II has begun they are in 3rd quarter and switching back to Standford and then ASU/OSU. TX 4-0 Aggies 2-2 great way to start October

News report on Aggies “On the defensive side, we definitely have to shore up some things,” Sherman said. “We have to look at personnel really hard. We have a bunch of youngsters that are waiting to play that I’m always pushing the envelope with our (position) coaches. They like the experience. I like the talent. So we’ll have some heart-to-hearts this week, particularly on Monday, about which direction we’re going to go and make sure that what happened today doesn’t happen again.”

Really, he is always pushing the coaches? Aggies are delusional and 0 and 7 against SEC

Great win against a confident Iowa State heading into this game on the road.

However, I know the coaches and team probably took the gas off the pedal in the 2nd half but I was a bit disappointed in our play in the 2nd half. Offense and Defense seemed messy and not crisp.

Hopefully its because we started to play our second string and freshmen but still it’d been nice to get a shutout.

Listen, I know that this is the “celebration” thread, but I’m extremely worried about next week.

There is no question that this team is performing at a much higher level than last year. That said, our three, non-Rice victories have been over teams that essentially self-destructed. When BYU, UCLA and Iowa State weren’t committing dumb penalties and turnovers, they’ve more than held their own against us. Our offense has looked pretty average. We can’t miss on red zone opportunities going forward like we have the past two games. There have only been a few sustained drives starting inside Texas territory. The defense has certainly “earned” a lot of those turnovers, but the rushing defense is shaky, at best.

I feel very excited about this team, and they’re probably ahead of where we should have expected them to be, but I think that Oklahoma (and maybe OKST) might expose us in a lot of the areas where we are still developing. I worry about our defense’s ability to stop a good team consistently, and our offense’s ability to go touchdown for touchdown against them.

Some one please tell me why I shouldn’t worry.

ISU has some good players and I really like the job Rhoads has done coaching. You pretty well summed up our issues last season.

Good luck the rest of the season.

But for the longer term goal of rebuilding sustainable excellence in our program, I’m extremely satisfied (and a little surprised) with where we’re at already.

possibly two kick off returns for touchdowns. If we lose, I bet we give up a touchdown there.

1. We beat a team on the road that (A) whipped us at home last year and (B) definitely came into that game expecting to beat us again.
2. We did not play great football and showed a lot of things on film that will require focus this week to get fixed. I think the team will understand that OU won’t give as many gifts as we got yesterday from ISU. Practice will be intense this week.
3. That said, I think this young Texas team goes into RRS expecting to win next weekend. It may not happen but the confidence has to be building. It won’t be overconfidence. It will be just the right amount of confidence.
4. Our depth chart on defense got a major workout in live snaps yesterday. I swear that we started putting in 2012 commits late in the fourth quarter. Did they get gashed a bit? Yes, but injuries always happen in the RRS and those snaps for the backups are like gold. We actually have film on those guys (and identified plenty of areas for improvement). Plus we got to see who is “ready” (Steve Edmond, anyone?) I don’t consider those garbage time minutes either because their first team was still in and still playing to win. The other major benefit is that everybody shows up at practice this week paying attention because you now know that your number can/will be called.

Any worries? On the one hand, not really. I never expected this game to be competitive this year. I’m not expecting a win but I now expect it to be competitive and I think a win is definitely possible. That’s amazing. That’s fun… The only major heartburn that I have is our kickoff team.

We seem to be getting progressively worse in this department as the year goes on. I expect by the A&M game that every kick will just be onside because that’s as far as Tucker can kick it anyway, so why not? Seriously, we must be close to last in the nation in whatever kickoff statistic there is that measures net yard of kick divided by yard of return multiplied by number of open run lanes… or something like that.

The big question is, why no improvement? Why no change? Can’t Mykkele Thompson boot a kick into the end zone? What about David Ash? Sedrick Flowers? Seriously—and I’m assuming that we score enough to warrant multiple kickoffs next weekend—we are putting our D in a hole if we kick line drives to the 18 yard line and OU catches them on a full sprint. They will start every drive at the 50. I see improvement everywhere I look in this team except for this one area. That’s a bummer.

Other than that, I’m very excited to see our boys compete next week. Hook ’em.

When’s the last time we saw a pair of freshman look so dominant on the field from day 1? It’s truly a pleasure watching these Malcolm Brown and Jaxon Shipley play football.

I remember at the signing day presser, Mack said he wanted to give him a go at QB but Duane Akina begged for him to be a DB. I have a feeling we will see him at QB for at least 1 play against OU this Saturday. He looked solid playing db too last week. Kinda the same way Byndom was thrown in there last season. I didn’t notice Sheroid Evans was out there, but I saw in the stat box he was credited with a couple of tackles. I think Evans will do just fine at safety just because of his speed. Overall, I’m petty excited about our team moving forward. The young guys are getting playing time and they are playing very, very well. Hopefully we can knock off OU this Saturday and roll right on to an undefeated season.