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*****GAME DAY THREAD: Orange-White Scrimmage*****


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Texas Longhorns quarterbacks Arch Manning and Quinn Ewers throw the football during Texas Longhorns football spring practice at the Frank Denius practice fields in Austin Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Photo: © Ricardo B. Brazziell/American-Statesman / USA TODAY NETWORK

The much anticipated Orange-White Spring Game, presented by Texas One Fund, will take place at 1:00 PM on Saturday at Darrell K. Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium.  The scrimmage will give fans an opportunity to see what the 2003 Longhorns will look like without standouts such as Bijan Robinson, Roschon Johnson and Demarvion Overshown, to name a few. 

The game is part of the "Made in Austin Weekend," which offers three days of events on and around the 40 Acres.

Parking for the Spring Game is complimentary and lots open at 7:00 AM.  Click here for a map of available Spring Game parking.

Bevo Boulevard opens at 9:00 AM and includes an autograph session with members of the football team.  At Gate 28 the Team Shop Fire Sale also begins at 9:00 AM.

Flora & Fawna take the stage at Longhorn City Limits (LCL) on the LBJ lawn at 10:00 AM.  

The Bevo Parade takes place at 10:30 and gates into DKR open at 11:00 AM.  

Kody West takes the stage at LCL at 11:30 and Briscoe will play following the conclusion of the Spring Game.

There are also four FREE additional events for fans:

  • Texas Women's Tennis vs. Baylor (Saturday - 11:00 AM)
  • Softball vs. Kansas (Saturday - 4:30 PM)
  • Men's Tennis vs. TCU (Saturday - 7:00 PM)
  • Soccer vs. Houston (Saturday - 7:00 PM)

WHAT:  Texas Longhorns Spring Game
WHEN:  Saturday, April 15, 2023
TIME:  1:00 PM
VENUE:  Darrell K. Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium
LOCATION:  Austin, TX
TELEVISION:  Longhorn Network

 

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14 hours ago, HornSports Staff said:

Regarding the OL, we expect true freshman Connor Stroh to get the start at RG for the Orange team because of the injuries on the line.  He will go up against T’Vondre Sweat. 

Wheeeeeh what a way to introduce a freshman to the college game. Sweat is a problem for anyone. 

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Worthy, Whittington, Mitchell and Sanders is going to be a potent bunch this season.  A combination of Speed (Worthy), size and ball skills (Mitchell), toughness and Hands (Whittington) and a mismatch nightmare (Sanders).  This group will be special if they can stay healthy.

I haven't even included the upside of Cook and Moore and come back of Neyor.

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1 hour ago, RunRickyRun said:

Quinn Ewers=Colt McCoy

Maalik Murphy=Vince Young

Arch Manning=Chris Simms

 

 

 

 

 

So, Quinn will lead us to the edge but come up short, Malik will attain Longhorn immortality and Arch will not live up to the hype and end up as an analyst in 5-10 years? Could be worse results. ?

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Just watched the game.  I think Murphy ought to be inserted into more of the "who's the next Longhorn QB" discussions. 

While I'm at it, if I had a complaint about Sark (which I really don't) it would be his handling of the quarterback position, of all things.  I have to say, for him to say Ewers is "clearly the starter" after the Spring Game, is baffling to me.  I guess my follow up question is "why?"  Should he automatically get the nod because of last year's stellar play?  Certainly not.... Was he head and shoulders above Murphy in the Spring / Spring Game?  Certainly not... 

Again, I am not trying to start anything against Sark here... I'm all about what he's doing at UT.... but this is a discussion forum, and his handling of the QBs - all three years, I don't get.   

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18 minutes ago, 83Dee said:

Just watched the game.  I think Murphy ought to be inserted into more of the "who's the next Longhorn QB" discussions. 

While I'm at it, if I had a complaint about Sark (which I really don't) it would be his handling of the quarterback position, of all things.  I have to say, for him to say Ewers is "clearly the starter" after the Spring Game, is baffling to me.  I guess my follow up question is "why?"  Should he automatically get the nod because of last year's stellar play?  Certainly not.... Was he head and shoulders above Murphy in the Spring / Spring Game?  Certainly not... 

Again, I am not trying to start anything against Sark here... I'm all about what he's doing at UT.... but this is a discussion forum, and his handling of the QBs - all three years, I don't get.   

Murphy certainly has a strong arm as Sark said, but there's much more to playing QB such as reading defenses, etc, which Sark would have evidence of.

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30 minutes ago, 83Dee said:

Just watched the game.  I think Murphy ought to be inserted into more of the "who's the next Longhorn QB" discussions. 

While I'm at it, if I had a complaint about Sark (which I really don't) it would be his handling of the quarterback position, of all things.  I have to say, for him to say Ewers is "clearly the starter" after the Spring Game, is baffling to me.  I guess my follow up question is "why?"  Should he automatically get the nod because of last year's stellar play?  Certainly not.... Was he head and shoulders above Murphy in the Spring / Spring Game?  Certainly not... 

Again, I am not trying to start anything against Sark here... I'm all about what he's doing at UT.... but this is a discussion forum, and his handling of the QBs - all three years, I don't get.   

Two of the QBs have never started a game in college (one was basically hurt his whole first year) while the other has played in 10 games and showed flashes of potentIal.   If there was an experienced QB behind Ewers that played like Murphy in the spring game then maybe the job would be open but Ewers is the guy.  The team needs to know it so we can get ready.

We have a lot of opportunity next season and can’t mess it up with a green QB. 
 

 

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1 hour ago, 83Dee said:

Just watched the game.  I think Murphy ought to be inserted into more of the "who's the next Longhorn QB" discussions. 

While I'm at it, if I had a complaint about Sark (which I really don't) it would be his handling of the quarterback position, of all things.  I have to say, for him to say Ewers is "clearly the starter" after the Spring Game, is baffling to me.  I guess my follow up question is "why?"  Should he automatically get the nod because of last year's stellar play?  Certainly not.... Was he head and shoulders above Murphy in the Spring / Spring Game?  Certainly not... 

Again, I am not trying to start anything against Sark here... I'm all about what he's doing at UT.... but this is a discussion forum, and his handling of the QBs - all three years, I don't get.   

Sark can be stubborn to say the least, but his handling of QB's isn't the question for me (other than the Okie St game). There needs to be a plan in place to manage players and their trajectories. For instance, the hope is for Ewers to dominate this next season and go pro. Leaving an open competition between MM and Manning which Malik wins. He then proceeds to tear it up continuing the "Sark is a QB guru" mantra and enters the NFL draft. Rinse and repeat (Manning and all future QB recruits). Anyway I just think there needs to be a cycle that hopefully levels out at two years for each starter after a redshirt. Otherwise I think the portal hurts us. Case in point, Gerry Hamilton mentioned that MM's performance garnered some attention and others said that Florida coaches had started following him. If Malik knows the plan is for him to start next year maybe he stays. JMO, rant ended.

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