Let Me Remind You All...We've Had Worse Losses...

[Lukus Alderman]

For many years during the Mack Brown era we had worse losses, namely to OU. In those years we had better talent and higher expectations. We were not in the first year of a new HC with drastic losses on one side of the ball. We had our rosters littered with future NFL talent and still got plastered.

We recovered because there was another game to play. The same thing holds true today. Yes, we lost and lost badly. There are tons of questions and it looks like we've got a rough road ahead of us. The difference is that we're building. Strong is building it from the ground up.

BYU was the perfect storm. They were very well coached and their strengths matched our weaknesses. We were lucky to stay with them so long. But the game is over and we have a completely different opponent this week.

Give Strong and the team some time.

 

[HornEsch]

Honestly, while I thought that we would win this game, I am no where near ready to throw the towel in on Strong.

This year has always been more about the tearing down and building back up of the team. Unfortunately when you tear it down and take out the trash you lose skill that can not immediately be replaced. You add attrition due to injuries, etc. and then yeah you are kind of screwed. I think the game against NT gave us a little false hope because of the defense and in a way set us up for such a major dissapointment in this game.

It is going to be painful and at times not really pretty this season. I am hopeful that we do not have another embarrassament like this again.

There were some positives that came out of the fugliness, mostly around Swoopes.

People the road back is not freshly paved and there are going to be pot holes.

 

[Juan]

"Let Me Remind You All...We've Had Worse Losses..."

Sadly, I have seen many of those in person.

Many of which also involved expensive travel which is like an extra kick in the nuts.

 

[GBT]

I expected to lose 4 or 5 games this season, but thought we would be competitive in all of them. 41-7 is not competitive. I now see up to 4 non-competitive games for this season. I am afraid UCLA, OU, and Baylor will do the same thing to us as BYU did in some form or fashion, if Watson continues to be Greg Davis II. Even though Charlie doesn't say it, Mack left the cupboard pretty bare of true D-1 talent. Not ready to throw in the towel on the season, but I do not look forward to Saturday night and that big fast UCLA team which will be chomping at the bit to make a mark in the state of Texas. We better show up READY TO PLAY or it could get really ugly.

The reason the spread ( wide open offense ) has become popular is it helps less talented teams be competitive against the big dogs. Watson must open things up and put some dazzle in the offense to put defenses in a quandary  so they can't load up and whip our weak OL's butt. Curious to see what he does Saturday. If its plain vanilla again we are up _____ creek.

 

[streettopeschel]

Lukus..i've seen ugly losses before you hit puberty. My biggest issue with this one wasn't trailing 6-0 at the half. it was trailing 34-0 after 3. THEIR halftime adjustments beat the shit out of ours. 

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

Watson has to adjust the offense to personnel, not stubbornly try to be ground & pound ball control when we don't have the O-Line to do it.  It's just reality right now.  Swoopes skill-sets appear to lend themselves to a spread offense.  

Let him run the ball outside!  Let him throw deep!  Take more snaps in the shotgun if it buys us time.  

Last night was very frustrating.

 

[Matt Cotcher]

I was much more surprised at how this team lost than that they lost.

 

[LHornjack]

Lukus..i've seen ugly losses before you hit puberty. My biggest issue with this one wasn't trailing 6-0 at the half. it was trailing 34-0 after 3. THEIR halftime adjustments beat the shit out of ours. 

I agree on adjustments...

Also doesn't there have to be a call for something in between a 4-8 yard pass play and a hail mary 55 yarder? The one time we tried a 15-18 yarder, it was complete and on our touchdown drive.