I get that it's fun to compare the overall records of Jimbo and Sumlin at this stage and pretend that they're comparable, but to be fair to aggy if you look at the details they're really not that similar. Jimbo has accomplished much more impressive results at this point than Sumlin ever did before he was fired. For himself, I mean. Money. Lots and lots of money.
How it started: * Finished 1 spot out of the playoffs * Top 10 ranking * Only Texas team in the sec * Going to kick bama's ass * "Got Jimbo" How is going: * Grackle grackle grackle
On third and six with the game on the line, you hope you might catch them off guard by running instead of passing. Nope. To your point, everyone in the stadium knew where the ball was going. They sold out to stop him, got to him a full 4 yards from the first, and just couldn't stop him. It was as impressive an individual effort as I've seen in a long time.
If we beat TCU running away we might be higher, but that score against a team that just lost to smu isn't going to move you up much. Ranking this week means nothing. Beat ou and deservedly bump up, or lose and deservedly drop out. This week is what matters.
I feel like a lot of comments about beating TCU this year lack context. Patterson knows that beating Texas buys him a ton of good will. Beating us the year we announce the sec move, even moreso. TCU has not been great so far this year, but Patterson game plans for us like a bowl game. Make no mistake, he is a great defensive coach when he puts that amount of focus on an opponent. Add to that the players who have been out this season but somehow were ready to come back just for Texas...yeah, they threw everything they had at this game and still came up short. We didn't even play particularly well, and still managed to beat them giving us everything they had. I think this win is more meaningful than "barely surviving a mediocre tcu team" but time will tell.
I like the call. It's instilling a culture. We've actually been a pretty solid yard-to-go team this year. If we miss many more like this, we should obviously rethink that.
There's a notable difference in the quality of play over early Strong/Herman games. When I get frustrated, I keep reminding myself that for great coaches the first half of the first season is likely the worst their teams will ever look. If that's true for sark, bright times ahead.
https://www.espn.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/104286/no-answers-means-no-closure-for-texas-penalty-controversy Found this one quickly, but there were a bunch like this immediately after the game. Fair warning, reading that will likely trigger you. Easy to forget how egregious it was.
I'd have to dig them up, but recall that Walt Anderson started trending on Twitter for defending the calls in the game. That alone got coverage for how ridiculous it was that the big 12 tried to justify the calls (particularly the foul on strong for bumping the official).
Yep. It's the only game I've ever watched where it wasn't even questionable if a fix was on. The number of national media outlets that reported on it afterwards was pretty surprising, actually. They tend to leave your standard poorly called game alone.
When they picked up the holding flag early I knew we were fucked. And we were. I was surprised not to see it against tech, but I guess the big 12 has accepted tech isn't worth the effort this year. For isu, Baylor, OSU... Watch out. OU is a toss up given we're both pariahs now.
That is a huge difference between this defense and the "exotic" defenses of Diaz/Orlando. With those guys, it always felt like one missed tackle and we give up 20 yards before anyone catches up. Ideally we just tackle better, but at least if the first guy only slows the runner we seem to have help quickly.
I agree that it would've been nice to rest Bijan some before OU. Hopefully he's able to get fresh this week. That said, Roschon seemed to be struggling a bit with their run defense (he tends to wait for blocks to open up and tcu was on him quickly today) and Keilan has coughed up the ball a couple of times. In those circumstances, and with Casey's trend of hitting TCU defenders in the hands today, riding Bijan was the right choice to win this game.
So far, outside of Arkansas, I've learned two things about our defense: 1) it sucks to watch, but often is more effective than it feels like it should be 2) it is really, really terrible at prevent
A game on the road where we never really established any momentum, struggled in the red zone, turned the ball over, dropped probably 1/3 of our passes and overshot another 3rd, had ridiculously one sided officiating... And won. The fact that it's tcu makes it that much better. Really hard game to watch, but to play like shit and still win is saying something. It has been a long time since we've done that.