Texas has really fallen off
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And some people here want Charlie Strong.... he can't compete and his roster is filled with 4 and 5 star recruits.
I'd still take him. Mack Broawn did a terrible job getting a QB after Colt McCoy. Their recruiting actually hasn't been anything special in 2013 and 2014. Strong has not been doing a good job, but the way they lost the last two games (missed PAT and fumbled punt) should not be on him.
I think they give him another year but it doesn't matter. He never played against so many spread before.
Do you guys have any idea what kind of beating we would be taking right now if we were playing TCU
Sure we'd be smacked around but we dont have Texas s tradition or money ... apples to orange s
You don't win in CFB because of tradition or money. Does that help? Sure, but that's not why teams win.
Teams win because of stud QBs. TCU has one. Texas does not.
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Texas player tweets about transferring during halftime of blowout: http://deadsp.in/XE4KslZ
Texas player tweets about transferring during halftime of blowout: http://deadsp.in/XE4KslZ
Texas fans must be getting very impatient at this point. They've been struggling for some time now.
I lived in the Dallas/ Ft, Worth area for 25 years and TCU was always one of the worst teams on the planet. I never thought I'd see the day when TCU had the swagger and Texas was cowering. A small private Christian college located in Cowtown consistently kicking the living shat out of one of the greatest state universities and football legacy programs in the country located in one of the coolest towns in America.
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The castrated steers are paying Charlie, Mack Brown, Steve Patterson that they just fired and the interim AD...they are also operating at a loss...that's right...they may lead in revenue, but their expenses are astronomical...firing Charlie would be a stupid overreaction...but then again anything they do that is stupid makes me happy...
4 to 5 star in Texas often means overhyped underclass men that hasn't been properly evaluated. Coaches can really can caught up lazy recruiting in Texas.
Congrats to TCU! They should've been in The Big East since 07. The state of Texas is anyone's ball game. Tradition is no match for ambition.
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I think texas is discovering what Miami and penn state have learned: just as blue chip teams no longer have a lock on all the best talent on the field like they used to, they no longer have a lock on all the coaching talent, either, and not just at the HC level. Opening up your checkbook and buying a hot shot "free agent" coach is no guarantee of success and you may in fact struggle for years to find the right coaches.
Huh? Sure every team has down years but the teams with Money and tradition usually have better facilities and the better recruits, so it does matter. Texas's last 3 recruiting classes had 31 4 star recruits.
Even without a stud QB, Texas should be winning no less than 9 games every year.
I don't know what is going on down there, but there team should be putting up a better fight than what they are doing. Strong has to take some responsibility.
TCU's stud QB was a a lightly recruited player that they had to beat out UTEP to get. He developed into a great college QB.
OR an average QB in a great system. Chas Dodd probably throws 30 TD's in that system.
The last game at QB for the TCU quarterback will be his last game EVER. Same for the QB's at Baylor, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and most the other fast spread systems QB's across the country.
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You act like these teams don't put QBs into the nfl in very recent years. Do the names Dalton, Griffin, Manziel, or Petty ring a bell? Additionally I am sure many here would love any system in which a QB of Dodds caliber could throw 30 TD's in a season.
Strong is going to be lucky to make it to the end of the season. It takes real effort to get blown out like this at Texas. He was a one hit wonder. He parlayed that into a lot of dough though. He should give Teddy half of it. Please don't ever mention him and the RU head coach job again. Not worthy. Texas blew it.
Excellent point.....the fast spread system or it's precursor, the run and shoot has resulted in one good starting QB in Andy Dalton over the last 25 years. :rolleyes:
TCU. BAYLOR and A&M play an exciting brand of football you can't compete with that if you do not put points on the board
Yeah, but he's better than Flood and Julie has him on speed dial because she had nothing to do with football at Louisville, so according to some, this should be a done deal.
I wasn't on the Strong bandwagon like others, right from he was getting those contract boosts at Louisville. Thought he was getting paid too soon. Still wanted to see how he'd do without Bridgewater, despite their Sugar Bowl win against Florida. However, I don't think he's some loser coach now either. Even if he fails at Texas I think he's a solid coach. Not one at the top of my lists but I don't think he's bad. Sometimes a situation isn't right.
His biggest problem IMO is he's done a bad job finding an OC (both at Louisville/Texas). He transitioned to a spread this year but put a guy in place that isn't an "expert" in it, had to remove him and now put a guy (Jay Norvell) in who does have some familiarity with it working at Oklahoma but hasn't called plays in a long time (8 years) since his days at UCLA. So transitioning to a spread is tough enough but then doing it with guys who aren't probably the best to implement it doesn't help. That's bad decision making on Strong's part.
His defense last year was respectable, ranked in the 20s 30s for scoring and total defense but this year they've fallen off a cliff like down to the 100s. He's got to get that fixed, could be a function of the spread and maybe time of possession, not sure. I think their true freshman qb Heard has potential. He looked good in the couple games I've seen. Didn't see much of yesterday's game though. They got their doors blown off yesterday but they did challenge Cal and Ok. St. right down to the end and both those teams seem to be having good years to date. Special teams gaffes killed them. Penalties were a problem too.
He's got a very young team and he needs to find a good OC. I'd pluck Cumbie/Meacham off TCU. Meacham calls the plays. Give one of them a Texas size raise or Cumbie playcalling duties and you might get one or the other. Or maybe take someone from Baylor. The guys he put in were bad choices. You know Patterson too had a tough couple years with the offense after Fuetne left to Memphis. That's what made him bring Meacham/Cumbie on board. I think that's what Strong needs to do. Will he get time at Texas? I don't know but I'm still also skeptical about them paying him 15M bucks despite all their money. Who knows.
So while I didn't think he was the next great thing at Louisville, I also don't think he's some loser coach at Texas even if he fails miserably there. He's a solid coach, that's it nothing more nothing less. I think the biggest thing for him is to find an OC, preferably from one of these other B12 titans and fix the defense to what it was last year. Young team and transitioning to the spread without "experts" has made this year terrible IMO but they still have a couple signs here and there of a team that COULD be good in the future.
His biggest problem IMO is he's done a bad job finding an OC (both at Louisville/Texas). He transitioned to a spread this year but put a guy in place that isn't an "expert" in it, had to remove him and now put a guy (Jay Norvell) in who does have some familiarity with it working at Oklahoma but hasn't called plays in a long time (8 years) since his days at UCLA. So transitioning to a spread is tough enough but then doing it with guys who aren't probably the best to implement it doesn't help. That's bad decision making on Strong's part.
His defense last year was respectable, ranked in the 20s 30s for scoring and total defense but this year they've fallen off a cliff like down to the 100s. He's got to get that fixed, could be a function of the spread and maybe time of possession, not sure. I think their true freshman qb Heard has potential. He looked good in the couple games I've seen. Didn't see much of yesterday's game though. They got their doors blown off yesterday but they did challenge Cal and Ok. St. right down to the end and both those teams seem to be having good years to date. Special teams gaffes killed them. Penalties were a problem too.
He's got a very young team and he needs to find a good OC. I'd pluck Cumbie/Meacham off TCU. Meacham calls the plays. Give one of them a Texas size raise or Cumbie playcalling duties and you might get one or the other. Or maybe take someone from Baylor. The guys he put in were bad choices. You know Patterson too had a tough couple years with the offense after Fuetne left to Memphis. That's what made him bring Meacham/Cumbie on board. I think that's what Strong needs to do. Will he get time at Texas? I don't know but I'm still also skeptical about them paying him 15M bucks despite all their money. Who knows.
So while I didn't think he was the next great thing at Louisville, I also don't think he's some loser coach at Texas even if he fails miserably there. He's a solid coach, that's it nothing more nothing less. I think the biggest thing for him is to find an OC, preferably from one of these other B12 titans and fix the defense to what it was last year. Young team and transitioning to the spread without "experts" has made this year terrible IMO but they still have a couple signs here and there of a team that COULD be good in the future.
