Let's Remember One Thing About Coach Strong and the Louisville Staff

[Goldenheart]

As we all condescend re bringing "inferior" Louisville coaches or recruiting "inferior" Louisville commits to Texas (before we even know what will happen), let's remember this fact: Louisville's football team this year with its inferior conference, coaching and talent would have destroyed us if we had played them -- despite our superior conference affiliation, all-star coaching staff and our bevy of 4 and 5 star recruits. With all due respect, can you even imagine Case McCoy up against that defense? Not a transitive property guy when it comes to college football, but we scored 7 against Baylor. In Strong We Trust.

 

[Lord Vader]

I'd have placed the line at Louisville -12

 

[Bevo11]

As we all condescend re bringing "inferior" Louisville coaches or recruiting "inferior" Louisville commits to Texas (before we even know what will happen), let's remember this fact: Louisville's football team this year with its inferior conference, coaching and talent would have destroyed us if we had played them -- despite our superior conference affiliation, all-star coaching staff and our bevy of 4 and 5 star recruits. With all due respect, can you even imagine Case McCoy up against that defense? Not a transitive property guy when it comes to college football, but we scored 7 against Baylor. In Strong We Trust.

I think the anxiousness is more that we have this great opportunity to get this right with home run hires and none of us want that opportunity to slip by.

 

[badboy783]

The problem is that we aren't arguing the MB staff at Texas vs the Strong staff at L'ville. We are arguing that there are better options and specifically on the offensive side of the ball than Watson. Truly, all of this would calm way they hell down if Watson would sign somewhere else quickly. Texas can and should do better than him. I trust Strong but it also seems that he's an inner circle type guy. He trusts his former staff and who can blame him? It helped land him the Texas job. But the Watson experiment in the Big 12 has already flopped. No need to try it again. The majority of the state runs a no huddle spread offense. Kids grow up playing that and want to continue playing that style in college. Again, I trust Strong but I think Patterson should encourage him to do better than Watson.

 

[Goldenheart]

Agree, but let's remember the Louisville status quo is not the little sisters of the poor as many have suggested. Those coaches recruited less heralded kids to a commuter school a la U of H with little to no football tradition and turned them into a team that would have unquestionably destroyed our football team on the gridiron this year. So...if we end up with some key cogs from that coaching staff, I'm sure of one thing: we will be better off than we were before and that's a positive. Could we be even better off still with an American Idol-like contest for the coordinator positions? Perhaps, but I for one will not let that color my impression of Strong's staff at Louisville if that is the direction he decides to go. So I'm good either way.