Going into the season, the week off after OU looked helpful. But after the poor start to the year, with both on and off the field failures, it’s only accentuated the issues, as one week drags into two.
Despite the coacher’s claims otherwise, nothing is going to get “fixed”, even if they have the two bestus practices in the history of college football. If things like poor tackling, WR’s giving up on routes, OL’s having feet set in concrete, and 30 yards of rushing by the RB’s were fixable by this staff, they would have been already.
The season so far could scarcely have gone worse realistically. Off the field issues have been horrid. Players make demands of the school with regards to naming of buildings and the school song, with a 0% chance that they researched any history of this on their own, and instead are merely mouthpieces for professors and outsiders.
After putting the team on his shoulders and almost dragging them to a victory, the team then abandons their leader and team captain, leaving him to sing the school song alone.
The coach makes out-of-nowhere insults about the fans, claiming they discriminate against football players for dating family members and hiring (meanwhile he goes out and hires a couple of dudes he used to work with, neither of which is a UT football player).
A risk weighted prediction was 2-2 at this point, and that’s where the team is, showing that despite having a senior QB, and a very down OU team, the Texas football program is tracking the same win / loss history as the past three years that has produced 6, 4, and 5 loss seasons.
Texas has a 1-2 record in the conference, good for 8th place in a 10 team conference. Texas’ only win has come against a winless in conference T Tech.
Texas is the only conference win by TCU and OU. Texas fans often excuse loses by saying that everyone else has the calendar circled or the Texas game. I think that’s right – they look upon the Texas game as an easy win that can help a struggling program.
Dreams of going to the playoffs are packed in grease and put in the back of the garage, awaiting another year. Even a conference championship spot seems an unlikely event at this point. An early top ten ranking, and national attention, has turned into the standard un-ranked status for Texas, the program being considered an underachieving joke by the rest of college football.
Rumors swirl about big money donors funding hiring a new coach, while an elite coach in Urban Meyer seems to want the job.
And now we wait. The program seemingly on a knife edge.
Will Texas turn things around, ending the year strong and with a spot in the B12 game, which would continue Herman’s tenure here.
Or will both the flaws on and off the field, as well as in the locker room, doom the remainder of the season, and also lead to Herman’s demotion as Texas football coach? Who would the next coach be – if Meyer then there’s a good chance of success based on his track record. But if some up and coming coach, well Strong and Herman himself were also considered up and coming.
6 games remain, with only perhaps the KU game being considered easy.
Baylor has a good QB that has the same running ability and toughness as the TCU QB that gave Texas fits.
OSU holds a 2-1 record against Herman, and the game is on the road this year. Combined with decent looking WV, ISU, and KSU teams, realistically, a 3-3 split seems a good result, leading to a 5-5 season in a very weak B12 year. 2-4 is not a hard stretch to think either, with wins only against KU, and one of Baylor/WV/ISU/ or KSU.
The results of the next 7 weeks will determine the future of the Texas program for years to come.
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