Horns Need Improvement

The Longhorns season opener was not what I expected it to be. I had never even heard of Arkansas State, so I did not expect it to be much of a game. I figured that everyone on the 3-deep roster would get to play and that Colt McCoy would be on the bench after the first series of the second half. Wrong. The Longhorns finished with only 21 points, and I expected them to score that many in the first quarter.

A lackluster performance is nothing new for a Mack Brown coached team, and the Horns will need to buckle up their chinstraps and come out ready to play if they hope to beat TCU next Saturday. And improvement is needed on both sides of the ball if the Horns hope to be competitive. 172 yards in penalties, 4 yards per rush, and two interceptions are all stats that do not bode well against what may be the second best team that Texas plays this year.

The Horns difficulties stem from two problems that have plagued the program since Mack Brown took the helm. One is that the Horns never play as if they are angry. They need a little fire in the belly. The second is that Greg Davis sucks. The only reason Davis still has a job was that one of the greatest talents ever to play college football made us forget what an idiot Davis was for three years.

Of course Saturday's game could have been worse. We could have lost like Michigan. If the Indians had been able to score on any of their first four drives inside the Texas 20, then we may have witnessed the two worst college football upsets ever on the same Saturday.

Update - I spoke to my dad who was at the game, and he says it was even worse than I imagined. Especially the performance by the defense and the offensive line. He believes that it could be a long season.