Step Away from the Ledge

[J.B. TexasEx]

The concern for many is Strong our Shula, Fran or Dubose? 

Well, aggy does call him "Tan Fran" so there's that...

 

[java]

I don't believe that, JB. Why do they insist on cute names for people?

 

[primal defense]

2 years from now ???? After this 4-8 or 3-9 season, he better have 8 or 9 wins next year with the losses very close and competitive, or he shouldn't be here two years from now.

I'd be a lot more optimistic if the lots of mistakes made were mostly the young players, and not the Jrs and Srs and COACHES making them.

You wouldn't be optimistic about UT football if we won the NC.

 

[utparothed]

2 years from now ???? After this 4-8 or 3-9 season, he better have 8 or 9 wins next year with the losses very close and competitive, or he shouldn't be here two years from now.

I'd be a lot more optimistic if the lots of mistakes made were mostly the young players, and not the Jrs and Srs and COACHES making them.

I'm not big on blaming officials for a loss, I figure you win or lose on your own, but there's no way that you can watch that game believing that their mistakes didn't affect the outcome of the game.  There were a number of mistakes made, sure, but the players/coaches didn't make all of them and some of the most egregious were made by the officiating crew; Poona Ford's holding call, Boyette's roughing the passer call, the Walsh "fumble recovery" and the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Coach Strong because the ref went out of his way to bump into him, among others. Did you watch the game?  If you did and can lay the blame for Saturday's loss squarely on the Jrs, Srs and coaching staff then you don't know football.  You should check out Football for Dummies by Howie Long.

The Jrs and Srs that are on the field are not Coach Strong's recruits, they're MB's.  They were recruited during the last few years of MB's tenure as coach and we all know that those classes were not his best, to put it tactfully.  When the Jrs and Srs that Coach Strong's recruited are the players making most of the mistakes you can bitch and moan all you want.

 

[North Texas Golfer]

I'm not big on blaming officials for a loss, I figure you win or lose on your own, but there's no way that you can watch that game believing that their mistakes didn't affect the outcome of the game.  There were a number of mistakes made, sure, but the players/coaches didn't make all of them and some of the most egregious were made by the officiating crew; Poona Ford's holding call, Boyette's roughing the passer call, the Walsh "fumble recovery" and the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Coach Strong because the ref went out of his way to bump into him, among others. Did you watch the game?  If you did and can lay the blame for Saturday's loss squarely on the Jrs, Srs and coaching staff then you don't know football.  You should check out Football for Dummies by Howie Long.

The Jrs and Srs that are on the field are not Coach Strong's recruits, they're MB's.  They were recruited during the last few years of MB's tenure as coach and we all know that those classes were not his best, to put it tactfully.  When the Jrs and Srs that Coach Strong's recruited are the players making most of the mistakes you can bitch and moan all you want.

The incompetent officiating definitely factored into the outcome of this game but it was not the biggest factor. 

As I posted in echeese's cheap seats thread, the biggest factor in the outcome of the game was our putrid second half offense. 

In the 2nd half, Texas had the ball 7 times, ran a total of 25 plays, and had a whopping 33 yards of total offense!

Their best drive in the 2nd half consisted of 6 plays gaining 34 yards.

The other six drives totaled 19 plays that netted a grand total of -1 yard! 

This is what lost the game for Texas, not the refs. But because the officiating is such a convenient excuse, this is being largely overlooked and not talked about all that much.