If you read the football board, this was clearly the worst performance of Tom Herman's tenure at Texas (forgetting that we lost to FUCKING MARYLAND. TWICE!). On Monday it's expected that CDC will personally fire the OC, DC, WR, OL, LB, and Special Teams coach. Herman can stay, but he's basically Charlie Strong. Everyone knows that UT coaches should go undefeated.
Anyway, as is always the case around here, posts after a loss are filled with hyperbole. Tom did get outcoached today. The D was simultaneously the reason we were in the game, but also very disappointing, especially in tackling. Part of that is that CeeDee Lamb is as good of a WR as anyone in the country. Motherfucker is shifty as fuck and seemed like he had Vaseline on his jersey.
OL was surprisingly shitty. The huge number of sacks is partly attributed to some great blitz schemes by Grinch, part to our WRs seemingly not being able to get open, part to Sam playing as hesitant and unconfident as I've ever seen him play. But OL was routinely beaten. First half play calling and stubborn "can't abandon the run" when we kept running between the tackles for zero yards was fucking frustrating. The number of swing/WR screen passes was rage-inducing deja vu back to the Mack/Greg Davis blowouts.
Yet, we were in the game until the end and beat the spread. I don't think the sky is falling. I do think we're still in the middle of the transition. I do think losing half our starters on D to injury had a huge impact. And I do think the UT fan base underestimated losing so many starters from last year's team. Definitely not time to panic, but this does re-calibrate expectations a bit.
I said before the year I thought we would flip the series and lose today but win the conf championship game. We can still make that happen.