I agree. David has a lot of work to do, but he doesn’t have the physical limitations that Case does. Harsin seems to have made a decision and he’s moving forward with Ash as his quarterback.

Jake Oliver was at the Texas game instead of the TAMU game. Both were very high profile games pitting ranked teams against one another, and Oliver went with Texas. Could be something, could be nothing. Conservatively, I’d say t’s a good sign, nothing more.

When I saw him on the sideline he had the head phones on and was helping with calls and signals. Tough deal for Case. We’ll see what happens.

As I said on Friday, the Texas coaches have reached out to the Houston Kinkaid staff about Ford Childress. They also requested film. Texas also requested film on 2012 Tatum QB / ATH Jalen Overstreet. Those are two most recent QB recruiting developments.

Nothing yet on Daje Johnson receiving a Texas offer yet. Honestly, I think Texas is waiting for him to decommit from TCU before they offer. In the past that’s how the Texas staff has preferred to deal with committed recruits.

I do think Case will transfer. I’ve heard Case transferring last season was close to happening.

I think Texas MUST take 2 QBs in 2012. Brewer is well aware of the situation, and understands.

Shipley has to have more passes thrown his way.

Ash seems to have better chemistry than Mike Davis. I’d also like to see Shipley get more touches.

I think Ash threw way too often yesterday. 40 passes in a game shouldn’t happen again this season. Malcolm Brown needs to average at least 20 carries from here on out. Fozzy also needs to get more touches, he’s Texas best playmaker right now.

Diaz’s defense is limited because it doesn’t have excellent pass rushers. His whole defensive philosophy is based on getting to the QB. Does Texas have a consistent pass rusher?

Harsin’s offense is limited because of the quarterback. Ash is better than Case, but the QB play isn’t anywhere close where it needs to be. Texas needs to run the ball even more, and not get cute in the red zone. If you’re in 4 down territory and inside the 10, run the ball on every down.

I am really happy he is doing so well. I rooted for him alot, like PB, and it always broke my heart to see him get hurt when he was such a talented and team oriented guy.

I think the OL will get better with Cochran starting at LT. Great development in Josh Cochran coming on as a starting LT. He’s way ahead of schedule. I also think Flowers needs to start and Snow needs to come off the bench. I know playing more freshman at OL sounds strange, but Texas has gotten better play from the youngsters.

At the end, it’s one Gilbert to improve. Sure Davis isn’t blameless, but Davis at the OC didn’t stop Colt and Vince from being Heisman finalists.

The offense will get even better next year with Johnathan Gray in the fold. I think Texas should run it close to 60 percent the remainder of this year and next year.

Texas even in losses, can sell some nice things to recruits. That’s why we had a top 5 recruiting class in 2011 despite a bad 2010 season. We see a loss, a recruit might see a chance to play. They’re funny like that.

I can’t figure out what’s going on with Daje and Texas. I will say he’s ours when we want him, and that won’t change.

I think the greyshirt offer to Vacarro is appropriate. There are better 2012 options at DB right now. 2013 would be a better year to take Kevin. 2013 isn’t deep at DB.

Agreed. Texas should pound the rock in the red zone.

I think Denico Autry needs to be given serious consideration by Texas. He could have an instant impact coming out of East Mississippi Junior College. The Texas pass rush must get better next year period.

Ash has had some growing pains, but we can’t see what the coaches see in practice. If you trust the new coaches, you have to trust their decision to go with Ash.

The sledding will get much easier against Kansas. I think David can have a big game.

I’d be surprised if Texas takes more than 2 QBs in the 2012 class. Personally, it scares the hell out of me with Brewer as a back up. I’d take a less talented, more polished QB with the hopes of redshirting Connor and using the other QB as a back up.

That being said, a college ready freshman QB won’t fall from the sky.

I haven’t seen anything on Phillips’ injury, might have to wait until the presser tomorrow until we know more. I pray that Adrian is alright. Would be a huge loss.

I was thinking about that very question last night and this morning. Honestly, I don’t know. From Harsin’s post game comments, he saw something in OSU’s defense that he thought he could attack. If so, OSU fooled him. Texas should have ran the ball more especially in the red zone.

Harsin is still learning how the Big 12 works.

Pass rush is or a push up front was nonexistent. Serious breakdowns in run defense. Hicks might need to sit on rushing downs.

Texas is through the most difficult part of their schedule. So there’s that.

Being admittedly unreasonable is the solution. Fans should be proud of themselves for understanding context of college football landscape. Last year was unacceptable. This year is a consequence of that.

Pointed out the lack of involvement.

Unfortunately, they mentioned it on offense, which made zero sense. I’m the first to point out how terrible UT fans are at any sporting event with regards to crowd noise, but you simply do not intentionally make a lot of noise during your OWN possession in football and two guys as old as McDonough and Millen should know that.

Would y’all rather have organized cheers led by milk men?

We are we are. When Texas is good, the crowd is good.

The announcers. Really guys, do we care what Matt Millen has to say?

Should have something on DGB soon. I’ve stayed in contact with someone covering the situation locally in Missouri.

Haven’t heard anything on Edwards since last week. I anticipate some official visit news soon.

It takes longer to develop than seemingly everybody’s in the country. Stark contrast with OU and OSU.

Poor decision making, poor instincts from the LBs, namely Jordan Hicks. An adjustment needs to be made. I hope we see more Edmond.

I think there’s a limit on official visitors. I don’t believe there’s a limit on unofficial visitors. It’s good that Brewer is at so many home games.

Cody had some good blocks, but he needs to get out of the way. He had 2 “tackles” on offense. One of which was likely a touchdown by Fozzy.

He looked totally lost on two differnt blocking assignmemts, hitting Jaxon most notably. He needs to learn to drive his block until the whistle or get his head on a swivel not stand around with his thumb where it doesn’t belong.

Ash is practicing better, and has higher upside. It’s very difficult to tell what’s happening privately.

I could be more disappointed with the play of either. Both were supposed to be among the top units in the country. Neither are among the top units in the conference.

The LBs were supposed to be the best corps in 25 years at Texas. Acho18 and Edmond are very good, but who else has played well?

I have no idea what happened to Jeffcoat’s pass rushing ability. Okafor was also supposed to be a threat off the edge. I believe Wilson and Dr. Johnson should play more, Okafor and Jeffcoat seem to be a in funk for lack of a better explanation.

Surprisingly high for U of H. I’m not sure they’re OOC schedule to strong enough to get them into the BCS busting conversation.

We’re doomed. Haha.

He is a special, special football player.

Gray is solid to Texas. Off the top of my head, Gray had 14 carries for 242 and 6 TDs in his last game.

OU hasn’t been under consideration by the Grays since very early in the process.

That Gray is interested in anybody but UT. He’s a huge burnt orange guy.

Agreed 40 + passes is way too much. Need to run the ball more. Texas needs to keep defenses honest, but they can accomplish that with 15 -20 passes a game from Ash. David should be a game manager from here on out. I don’t think he can win a game by himself right now.

I’m not sure about that. I’d guess Ash is going to be a bit more mentally tough. I’ve heard some things from people who have connections to the Gilbert family and it sounds like Gilbert’s anxiety issues that affected his play may have some roots in his family environment.

If we’re building towards next year, I think more youngsters need to play. Flowers and Cochran should start.

I’d like to see Thompson and Evans play more at safety.

Edmond should play more at MLB. Benson and Tevin Jackson should also see more snaps.

We could have won the game on Saturday if we would have stayed with the running game

I don’t know that we had ANY chance to win the game, frankly. OSU played a cover 2 against us all night with pretty good success against the run with damned good succes against the pass.

They were a superior TEAM and deserved to win. We showed fight and promise and WILL win next year and the year after.
If you can’t see this then you’ve never played football.

One OT, one QB, one DL, two DB, and one WR/DB seem to be necessary right now, which would be 24. The other spot would likely be an APB like Daje Johnson.

Jeffcoat wasn’t a shocker. Hicks was surprising because it’s difficult to take recruits away from tOSU, or it was. Both had Texas in their top 2-3 the whole time, but made their decisions very late in the process.

Texas is really taking their time with the 2012 class. I thought new offers would already have gone out. There’s plenty of senior film on all the players being evaluated. They could be waiting out the OOS recruits. I just hope they’re staying in contact with the contingency plans.

I think 23 is plausible, 25 is within the realm of possibility. There seems to be a feeling that attrition is coming after the season.

Shouldn’t start, but Wilson should play in more passing downs. Have to generate more of a pass rush, period.

Saban sounds happy. I believe his daughter is still in school at Bama.

but I dont think he would leave except for an AD position perhaps. He is king in college football and apparently can do no wrong at this point, why leave?

Yes I do live in Dallas, and I was at the Lake Travis – Aledo game. Article and scouting report here: http://www.burntorangenation.com/2011/9/12/2421774/texas-high-school-football-the-real-state-championship-lake-travis

I think we’ll have a shot at competing for the conference title next year though mainly because of a very weak conference. Lot of players leaving after this season.

Where did you see that?

A collective one from all Texas fans on that news.

Most of Manny’s blitzes don’t bring that many people. Most of them only bring 5, or even 4, because we are generally dropping a DE from somewhere. The biggest problem is that if they run to the side we drop the DE on we are screwed because there’s nobody there. Or if they pass to the spot vacated by the blitzers and the DE can’t get there quickly enough. It’s generally (not always) less about not having numbers and more about putting our players in uncomfortable positions (DEs having to cover and read the QB; DBs trying to run over OL en route to a sack).

When I say I think our blitz isn’t working, I think it’s more that we seem to have more success playing a base set and just letting our guys try to do what they do. At least in those cases we were collapsing the pocket some, while the blitzers are either going to get direct pressure or none at all (DBs and LBs are generally not going to blow back OL).

Just my thoughts on the fire zone.