What's up with UT-Austin football?

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Saturday's UT loss (28-0) to Iowa State was among the most embarrassing upsets I remember - and against a team reputed to have the worst defensive line in major college football. UT crossed the 50-yard line only once. Appears UT will likely be out of the running for any post-season games, as they must win 3 of the final 4 games still on their schedule. And I don't think that is possible.
 
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That is really a puzzling situation. At the time I viewed the Strong hire as GREAT. BUT I am looking from afar in Georgia where we have problems of our own with Richt. As with any coaching change it may take a few classes of Strong recruits to do it his way. I suspect there maybe a few disgruntled upper class-men that have not adapted. Their lack of on/off field leadership could be hurting the team.
 
BSME, class of '88. Best Homecoming in years.........

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I can only think of two things.

A. Mack wasn't as bad as everybody thought.
B. TCU and Baylor is recruiting the better players.

BTW, my Red Raiders aren't doing very well either.
 
The recent illness and death of their sacred cow has caused the team much distress. The official word is that Bevo died of a form of bovine cancer. Personally, I cannot help but believe the poor thing died of embarrassment, but I went to school in Houston and College Station. :p
 
The reason for the UT roller coaster in simple

When the UT football team shows up, they can beat just about anybody.

Saturday they stayed in the locker room.
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DWalt said:
Saturday's UT loss (28-0) to Iowa State was among the most embarrassing upsets I remember - and against a team reputed to have the worst defensive line in major college football. UT crossed the 50-yard line only once. Appears UT will likely be out of the running for any post-season games, as they must win 3 of the final 4 games still on their schedule. And I don't think that is possible.
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Dewalt, sir you have posed a conundrum.

I feel for UT fans, right now UT is not getting any top in state recruits, TAM, TCU, Baylor are.

When UT ruled the Big 12 universe all was well with them, sort of like the Star Wars death star, it was ok for them until the little guys bowed their back, NE, CO, MO and Tam left.

Now UT reaps the rewards for not working with and finding ways to make the B12 stronger.

And again yes, conundrum, Beat OK Sooners and get murdered by ISU, smells like coaching to me.

I played college football and I can assure you we knew our bad coach was going thru the motions without emotion. At this age young men need a strong leader(s).
 
The worst consequence to UT is that this season's performance greatly impairs future recruiting of top HS football talent. And so failure today easily begets more failure tomorrow. I agree that Strong doesn't appear to have the ability to get the same results in Austin as he did in Louisville. I can only imagine the intense pressure Strong is now under. I'm happy I am not him.
 
I can think of one win coming their way, WVU.
 
DWalt said:
The worst consequence to UT is that this season's performance greatly impairs future recruiting of top HS football talent. And so failure today easily begets more failure tomorrow. I agree that Strong doesn't appear to have the ability to get the same results in Austin as he did in Louisville. I can only imagine the intense pressure Strong is now under. I'm happy I am not him.
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He needs to take some lessons from the Louisville Basketball team-I understand they got this recruiting thing down to a science.
 
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He needs to take some lessons from the Louisville Basketball team-I understand they got this recruiting thing down to a science.
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Yeah, they sure do. They just were unlucky enough to get caught. I'm certain that Strong knew absolutely nothing about such goings on when he was at Louisville. Mother-daughter???
 
It seems like I remember a year when Pete Carroll got about a fourth of the top 100 best high school recruits in the nation. Not long after that USC competed for two national championships. Mack Brown had a year or two where he got a very large number of the top 100 best players and Texas played in a couple of national championship games. Nick Saban had several top recruiting classes and look how well Bama has done lately. I will be really surprised if Charlie Strong is even close to being THAT good of a recruiter even though he might be a decent coach.
 
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So how come the Big 12 has only 10 teams and the Big 10 has 14? I guess such questions are better left unasked.
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The Big 12 was destined to fail from the very beginning. The SEC and Big Ten and other conferences give equal money to all their teams, but in the Big 12 Texas got the most money and the other teams got less. The ironic thing is Texas doesn't need the money, they already have plenty and they easily have the biggest athletic budget in the entire country. They were so darn greedy they wanted more money than the other schools and that's a big reason why other schools left the Big 12 and why the conference has trouble replacing the teams who left.
 
DWalt said:
So how come the Big 12 has only 10 teams and the Big 10 has 14? I guess such questions are better left unasked.
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The B12 did not want to continue with a conference championship game, you don't have one if you have less than 12 teams. 4 left but they only added 2. :mad:

The B10 wanted a championship game, so they said, and added 3 teams by TV market size and then added Nebraska to feed them all. :rolleyes:


And the conundrum winner is the Pac 12. They have 12 teams. :)
 
model70hunter said:
Dewalt, sir you have posed a conundrum.

I feel for UT fans, right now UT is not getting any top in state recruits, TAM, TCU, Baylor are.

When UT ruled the Big 12 universe all was well with them, sort of like the Star Wars death star, it was ok for them until the little guys bowed their back, NE, CO, MO and Tam left.

Now UT reaps the rewards for not working with and finding ways to make the B12 stronger.

And again yes, conundrum, Beat OK Sooners and get murdered by ISU, smells like coaching to me.

I played college football and I can assure you we knew our bad coach was going thru the motions without emotion. At this age young men need a strong leader(s).
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Texas destroyed the Big 12 through their Longhorn Network greed, no doubt about that . . . As a Mizzou fan, within 6 hours of several SEC schools, I'm happy we're in the SEC
 
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