It all started with the Alabama game. He was put into as difficult of a situation as a young QB can be put into him, and his coaches basically got out a megaphone and announced to Alabama that we didn't trust Gilbert right off the bat.
Totally agree with Friday. Although I share the frustration and anguish I just can't feel good about anyone booing a player - unless maybe the player spit on someone or committed a flagrant abusive action that is, but not for poor play. It appeared to me that afterwards GG was no longer in command. He had lost it. Before that he had made errors but still looked in it. The booing ended him. Glad to see the young ones in there finally but do feel badly for Gilbert. McCoy to Shiply are my favorite Texas words. Hookem
Friday, You are correct. I have been stating since the third game last year, GG needed some time on the bench. Who knows, it might have changed him completely. I doubt it, but I hate to see how things have worked out for him. Being one of the posters on this site, plenty vocal about him needing to sit, I am disgusted that our fans are so entitled that they would boo a kid trying, in our stadium. He is still a Longhorn, and surely wants to be good, he deserves more respect for his efforts. BYU folks were shocked at us booing our own team.
Yeah, Heaps really should have thrown 4 picks that game since but their fans manged to avoid booing and cussing out their own player somehow.
Stat, I think their point is GG was thrown in the deep end last year and it destroyed his confidence. Harsin/Applewhite are not doing that to Case and Ash.
As for the booing... I would say that when 50,000 people all go, "Ughhhhh!" or "Noooooo! or "come onnnnnn!" or "not again!" or "what is the deal!?" at the exact same time (which is a very natural reaction) it sounds like a large boo. I think that's more what I heard than: "Boooo Garrett Gilbert."
Geezerhorn, totally hated to hear booing in our stadium. Shouldn't ever happen and I was embarrassed. The BYU fans sitting next to me couldn't believe it.
Whatever Garrett's qualities and deficiences, I object to UT fans booing our own team, coaches, players - whoever it was they were booing. Fans are there to support their team. The coaches don't (or shouldn't) take a fan poll to decide who plays when and what plays are called. This is college football, not professional.
Mack Brown and his staff are certainly compensated like professionals......He certainly should be questioned for allowing a shaken QB with two pics another series. That was moronic.
Well, I'm not too "nieve" to recognize that you can't act like it's all about the young men on one hand and behave like it's all about the money on the other. There is most certainly a balance, but there is a definite impetus for hypocrisy and Mack has a decided inclination against throwing people under a bus. Gilbert and Simms and most especially Greg Davis needed to be thrown under a bus and Mack refused to do it. If he were MY son's coach, I would be appreciative, but as a distancing fan I am not a big fan of waiting until the kid gets booed off the field before taking action. That doesn't work for either the kid or the money.
Never confuse effort with results. As Bear Bryant one said, to an offensive linemen getting ready to go into the game, "I'll try my best coach" "Sit your *** down son, I gotta bunch of boys who'll try...I need someone to get the job done"
How can some of you be so callous as to state that you don't feel sorry for Gilbert? Have you no empahthy or understanding of how his dream of winning for Texas has not only not worked out for him but he also is not deaf and especially in his situation the booing has to be brutal to his young pysche. I feel very sorryf or him and I respect his efforts and dedication to OUR university.
I heard the booing, hopefully it was aimed at the coaches for the decision and not directly at Gilbert. Coming into this season, GG has had 13 games to prove himself. There have been some sparks, but unfortunately for him, no fires. Last night wasn't his night just as so many in the past haven't been. He has talent, but it isn't developing as it should. If he can look at himself in the mirror and say "I did all that I could do" then all right. He can live with it. But our program can't live with poor performance after poor performance until he graduates. Insanity would be keeping him in and expecting a different result. So, I thank him for his service, but for now let the younger guys have a shot, and if the rest of the season turns out like the 2nd half of last night's game, we are back on the right road again.
Mack Brown addressed the boo's post game. He said the fans paid big money for tickets and had the right to express themsesves. OK I booed. When there is a quaterback doing what he does best which is throwing interceptions and the game is being handed to the other team on a silver platter, well I think I should express my displeasure. Last weekit was pretty much the same. When Ash and Brown came on the field in the first half there was a huge cheer. Yesterday there was nothing to cheer about and after the second interception boo's were appropriate.
Fans shouldn't boo players especially when there are recruits being brought in for these games to see if they'd like to play at the University of Texas. Can make a bad impression really fast.
Fans shouldn't boo because its inappropriate. It's also classless. I was embarrassed sitting next to BYU fans that were shocked.
Macks quote: Brown wouldn't say after the game if he was disappointed in the loud boos directed at Gilbert or if he'll stick with the McCoy-Ash rotation next week when the Longhorns travel to UCLA. "I want them (fans) coming and they expressed their opinion," Brown said.
Booing at a college game in my opinion is low class. Buying a ticket or contributing to the Foundation should not be used as an excuse for poor adult public behavior. Longhorns and their fans get enough public ridicule without gift-wrapping another excuse for those outside the program, Nobody was more disappointed in GG's performance last night than me, but that is no excuse to contribute to bad behavior in YOUR home stadium. As to Ash & McCoy being "treated" or "judged" equally as GG is at this point, when they have made the same mistakes over a 10 to 12 game stretch as he has, then maybe they should be compared equally. But for now, they get the same forgiveness for youth as GG enjoyed at the beginning of last season. Those upset about negative remarks or unequal criticizing also never seem to address the comments of how differently the team responds to GG versus Ash or Case.
You would think, after all this time, and TV exposure, someone would have insisted he wear contact lenses. I strongly suspect he can't see very clearly.
