Theory: UW QB is so good because of the years of locker room taunting left him with something to prove.
As a resident of Northern Bexar County I am gruntled we are in the Alamo Bowl,where I have maintained 4 great Alamo Bowl tickets for 30 years, and not going to some other secondary bowl like the Cheeze It bowl. Texas in the Alamo bowl is a good time. We have a huge home field bowl advantage and make it loud as hell in the dome. It seems amusing that folks not from San Antonio probably go to tourist Mexican restaurants and say San Antonio has bad Mexican food. Ha! There will be plenty of tickets available as Pac12 fans don’t travel, just wait for the prices to drop or pick up Washington’s allotment that will be for sale. It is fun when the Dome has about 70 percent burnt orange fans. I can only hope I do not see a three man dline on the on the field for Texas. If we give their QB time, we will pay the price.
My wife's family is from Seattle and having been out to the UW campus a couple of times and walked around their football stadium it has one of the prettiest views you will ever see. In Washington, UW is the UT to Wazzou's aggy. My father in law was cheering Friday for USC because a Trojan win put UDub into the Rose Bowl and he was pretty down about not getting to Pasadena so I am interested to see if the downer of not getting into the Rose Bowl affects UW. Penix coming back is huge but their defense is pedestrian so Texas can score on them, expect a high scoring game.
19-0. Did Archie play in that game? It was after the 1966 season, Bradley and Gilbert's sophomore seasons. Remember 1967 was supposed to be "the Year of the Horns", but we fizzled. The slogan the next year was "Would you believe '68?? "
Archie never played against Texas. An old friend of mine, Lee Garner played linebacker in that game. He said Coach Vaught pulled him out because Texas kept running a trap play and he couldn’t stop it. I asked him if his sub did any better. He said no. Another friend of mine, Billy Brewer, played against us in the 1958 Sugar Bowl. Beat us up pretty bad.
Back to San Antonio… As a kid growing up in Austin I hated SAT. Then in 2009 both daughters moved to the Dominion and we visited frequently, 3-4 times every year. I have grown to really like the city although my familiarity is mostly at the west end, near Boerne. That area has exploded. Given a choice of where to move today (from CA), it would probably be Cordillera Ranch, near Boerne. “Great” development.
Back to the Alamo Bowl game itself, just a hunch that this might be the last non-CFP game we play in for a while. Or maybe at least our last non-New Year’s Day 6 game, but frankly, I’m thinking “CFP in 23” To me this team is very close to being elite. Looking at the losses, we should be able to correct the issues: Bama - We probably win if QE isn’t injured, and even after that, if a key holding call isn’t missed. Tech - I chalk the loss up primarily to our D, which came of age late in the year. OSU - Poor D, terrible QB play and disappointing play calling. All of that will be improved in 23. TCU - Amazing D play. Terrible play selection by Sark. He has to and I believe will fix that. 23 could be the start, finally, of our return to prominence.
We were elite. I'm not going to copy and paste from someone else, but this team had the 11th best power rating going back over 60 years. Yet this team had 4 losses. The other teams in the same range were undefeated or had 1 loss. Almost all the teams were Mack's or DKR's. Quite honestly, when you look at the numbers the coaching incompetence is glaring.
As many who frequent these boards know, I've been consistently building up Coach P. Kwiatkowski from his first day to the present. Many fans are just now coming around to thinking he's a good coach. That's ok. But I'm telling you, this game against UW and their QB Pennix, may be his toughest test thus far. QB Pennix shreds zone defenses. #2 ranked passing offense in the country. We'd better gameplan well, show up ready, and make good in-game and halftime adjustments. I think we will. Other than Georgia, this may be the toughest matchup we could get.
well, some how, the secondary needs to cover someone who enters their zone area. Immediately anticipate a throw when a receiver is coming into your zone. jump the route. Don't cover grass, cover a person. Ford seems to understand this to a degree. And also the dline needs to get their hands up against a dink and dunk offense if they aren't going to make it to the QB. knocking down passes leads to 4th downs.
Can't you just picture LC hard at work for TCU Sports, listening to Air Supply, and coming up with that gem?
