Coaching Rumors or Facts

Discussion in 'On The Field' started by SabreHorn, Dec 4, 2019.

  1. TEXnSEATTLE

    TEXnSEATTLE 1,000+ Posts

    I have to say, I thought it was caught and then, watching the replay I was as numb as I've ever been....
     
  2. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

    You know Blake will never forget it. To this day I can still remember a couple of plays I could have made in INTRAMURAL flag football from 1980.
     
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  3. rick mueller

    rick mueller Burnt Orange Bleeder

    All who have never made an inexplicable mistake, blunder, or misstep, please raise your hand.

    I'm waiting,
    Still waiting,

    Hmmm, that's what I thought.

    Fellas, Blake Gideon bled for this program. He filled a huge need at an important position with less than ideal athletic ability. He did more with less than many, many of our highly rated recruits. Like Moon said, get over it. I would love to see him as a coach here. He would likely approach that job with the same dedication and drive that he played the game with. We can't say THAT about every coach we've had either.
     
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  4. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    While Gideon wasn't even close to being the fastest guy or the best athlete, he had a knack for being in the right place and covering the right man. He must have watched a lot of film, and he really understood the opponents' offenses. After his departure, we saw the results of some really fast guys who often didn't seem to know who to cover. Blown coverages will kill you more often than physical/athletic mismatches.
     
  5. BurntOrangeLH

    BurntOrangeLH 2,500+ Posts

    Like Sterns?
     
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  6. BurntOrangeLH

    BurntOrangeLH 2,500+ Posts

    You know, if I were considering this guy for coaching position I would be looking at his coaching the statistics only.
     
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  7. zuckercanyon

    zuckercanyon 2,500+ Posts

    Agreed, he bled, good kid, Mack quote, ok...we all want to win badly and unfortunately for him, that non-interception was critical. He was a 2-star at Leander (yep, ready for it, cmon with it on the star rating thing), and when he was the QB in the defensive backfield he got some interceptions but also got burned a lot. The only reason he played because he was a reincarnation of Will Muschamp, who was the same player in his day at Georgia. Then he was "the qb of the defensive backfield" and recruiting was down, so that's who was out there giving it effort. This all goes back to the point of, if you want Blake Gideon on your team starting then you're going to get 8-9 wins maybe but you're not playing for anything significant (and we did not do well his Junior and Senior years when he was "the guy"). It's true, a lot of things went wrong in that 2008 TT game, but when he dropped that interception, nothing else mattered after that. Well within chip shot field goal range and up by 1, the TT kicker ain't going to miss. Jump up and down about the TD reception that followed but that play doesn't happen if we're kneeling it to run out the clock.
     
  8. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    Well, not quite.

    Gideon as a starter (4 years):

    2008 12-1
    2009 13-1
    2010 5-7
    2011 8-5
     
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  9. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    We played like dogshit for about 3/4 of that game. One play didn't cost us. Several dozen plays did.
     
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  10. zuckercanyon

    zuckercanyon 2,500+ Posts

    still had a chance to win despite all of that, but ok let's build an altar....
     
  11. zuckercanyon

    zuckercanyon 2,500+ Posts

    go ahead and check his surroundings the first two vs last two. Bet we were loaded on D the first two. When he became the "star" of the defense his Junior and Senior seasons, Texas was in real trouble.
     
  12. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts

    The majority of our struggles in 2010-2011 were on offense.
     
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  13. Handler

    Handler 1,000+ Posts

    TH doesn't want to call plays. I remember his first year before he took over play calling that he said a HC can't do it because he's managing so many other things and he's not able to see what D is doing on the field.
     
  14. Handler

    Handler 1,000+ Posts

    Or ET and the other DB could have tackled Crabtree...
     
  15. zuckercanyon

    zuckercanyon 2,500+ Posts

    out of bounds with a few seconds left so they could kick a shorter field goal?
     
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  16. RainH2burntO

    RainH2burntO 2,500+ Posts

    I felt this way 2010 through 2013 Alamo Bowl. That game wasnt nearly the lopsided matchup the final score indicated, and I think alot of people took wrong things away from that game.
    Case looked like a lost 1 star who got on the wrong riverboat. Defense couldnt hold up under the pressure.
    We had a home game around that same period against a good TCU team and it went the same way.
    I was reflecting on those days as I watched our games vs TCU, OU, Baylor and ISU this year.
     

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