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[madootra]

Man, is Oklahoma puttin' an asswhipping on Texas today.....

[Jeff Buchanan]

Unquestionably.

Time for that fuddy-daddy Mack Brown to hang it up like the rest of his contemporaries have.

[madootra]

What I can't believe, is the complete and utter physical dominance by Oklahoma.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Texas gave up after going down early. A sign of a poorly coached team with rotten senior leadership. Good coaches ferret this out, kick some ass and don't let it happen. Brown is past his prime and his team's performances of late show it.

At least that's one explanation. Frankly I could give a rats ass about Texas and the B12. Ratings plummet along with the dirt bags who were behind the destruction of a once great conference.

Chickens coming home to roost.

[madootra]

I'm pleased because the arrogance of Texas was so blatant, and bad for that conference, I'm always happy to see them lose. And I just saw that fuck Clemens on the sideline with his Longhorn hat on.......Win-Win.

[entropy]

Since stealing the championship from UNL, Texas is 10-15 against BCS conference foes

[WM Wolverine]

Mack Brown's teams were never overly impressive outside of when he had Vince Young. Tons of talent but usually lost their 'big' games.

[entropy]

Colt was a good college QB

[entropy]

Posted: 6:45 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012
Bohls: Texas needs to define what ‘unacceptable’ really means

By Kirk Bohls
American-Statesman Staff

Dallas — Where have we seen this before?
More to the point, are we going to see it again?
Mack Brown’s got it down pat by now. Lose by a lopsided margin to Oklahoma, this time by 63-21. Grovel in front of fans and media. Claim such a disgraceful performance is unacceptable.
But what does that mean?

Smaller pay raises.
Another coaching staff shakeup.
Boot-camp mentality.
Depth chart shakeup.
More than all that, Texas needs a makeover. Or a Mack-over, because too many have to be wondering if the Texas coach who remade Longhorns football and brought it the first national championship in 35 years is the same coach who has to rebuild it back into the powerhouse he so desperately yearns for it to be.

For now, Texas is nothing more than Nebraska in better uniforms. Neither great program seems nationally relevant at the moment.
Brown’s program faces a serious crossroads after yet another humiliating loss to Oklahoma.
Saturday’s beatdown administered by a really solid — but hardly spectacular, given only a competent quarterback — Sooners team represented another, not unfamiliar low for Brown’s team.

By the time Texas got its initial first down of the game, OU had built a 27-2 lead and had uncorked a 95-yard touchdown run and a 73-yard catch-and-run play by Sooners fullback Trey Millard. The Sooners got four touchdown runs from backup quarterback Blake Bell, who moonlights as a wrecking ball. Texas safety Kenny Vaccaro accurately said OU “ran the ball down our throats.”

OU had piled up an impressive 407 of its 677 yards by halftime, leaving nothing but the score to the imagination. Texas’ offense matched its defense’s futility by failing to score until Case McCoy — the lone bright spot — directed two touchdowns in the last five minutes against an OU defense of more backups than starters. On nine of Texas’ first 12 possessions, the Longhorns punted eight times after three-and-out series and gave up a safety once in just a pathetic display.
Texas is no closer to being a strong, physical team than it was before Mack’s proclamation he wanted to out-SEC his Big 12 opponents. OU owned both lines of scrimmage and, well, everything else. Texas remains a finesse team. Where’s the toughness?

What’s odd is Brown quotes his hero, Darrell Royal, so often that he does it in his sleep. But DKR would call out his team and demand accountability. Brown soft-pedals his grievances out of fear of offending mommas and high school coaches. It filters down to the players.
“We’ve just got to man up,” Horns wideout Mike Davis said.

Brown finds himself in the throes of yet another ugly losing streak to Bob Stoops, one that now’s reached three straight. OU has outscored Texas 126-58 in that span. Four of Texas’ worst five defeats in this series have come under Brown’s watch, all by 38 points or more.

Mack finds himself at risk of losing his hardcore base, the Longhorn faithful that sees the national championship even if it’s way back in the rear view mirror seven years ago. Texas has been at its very best under Mack when he’s had two record-setting quarterbacks. While David Ash was hardly the sole reason for Saturday’s meltdown, he’s not close to the level of a Vince Young or Colt McCoy.

Mack’s program has spiraled out of regular Top 10 contention as Bobby Bowden’s did during his final, sad years at Florida State. Could Mack face the same fate? Has he lost the ability to motivate, coach, develop four- and five-star players or hire a staff that can?

Texas (4-2 overall, 1-2 in the Big 12) gave a false read after winning its first four games against nobodies and pressing an outstanding West Virginia team that was exposed Saturday by Texas Tech.

What are the reasons?
Poor attention to fundamentals of tackling and blocking.
Weak non-conference scheduling.
A lack of accountability from everyone at Texas, none of whom even see smoke in Rome.
Something’s broken. Big-time broken. And if Texas is content with going to Holiday Bowls and winning eight and hoping for nine, then that may become the new acceptable.

Through the last 2 ? seasons, Texas is an unimpressive 17-14, and has now lost nine straight games to teams ranked in the AP’s Top 25. That’s not just a problem; it’s a pattern. The Longhorns could well slip out of all the polls.

Certainly, Texas has the meat-grinder portion of its schedule out of the way, although Baylor has beaten the Longhorns two straight years and won’t be intimidated this week. Not sure anybody is any more.

[entropy]

Even when things go bad at Texas, they still have to come up with a positive vs Nebraska. They are obsessed...

[THE_WIZARD_]

Fuck Texas. Nobody does less with more that good old Mack...which makes his dominance over Nebraska look pathetic from our side...

[lineygoblue]

I think Mack may finally be on his way out.

[whodean]

This certainly didn't belong in the Big 10 thread.

First BCS standings:

1. Alabama
2. Florida
3. Oregon
4. Kansas State
5. Notre Dame
6. LSU
7. South Carolina
8. Oregon State
9. Oklahoma
10. USC
11. Georgia
12. Mississippi State
13. West Virginia
14. Florida State
15. Rutgers
16. Louisville
17. Texas Tech
18. Texas A&M
19. Clemson
20. Stanford
21. Cincinnati
22. Boise State
23. TCU
24. Iowa State
25. Texas

[entropy]

Sec and big12 dominate..

[Wild Hoss]

Don?t leave out the PAC...they have four teams on that list, two in the Top 10.

I am really at a loss to explain how the Big Ten is so bad. You cannot blame
demographics or geographics when K-State, Notre Dame and Oregon State are in the Top 10, West Virginny and Rutgers and in the Top 15, and Iowa State is ranked.