Burnt Orange Nation

Same here

More importantly, Mack appears on board

40AS - September 19, 2009 reply

I think it's fair to say

this is not the 2009 edition we were anticipating. There’s a lot of football left to be played, but this team has been far from dominant. Still, kudos on the win. On to the next one. Beats being USC right now.

Yea, but look around the country

NOBODY has been dominant this season. Could be worse, we could be USC :-)

40AS - September 19, 2009 reply

s'truth

Where was DJ Monroe?

SwimTexas - September 19, 2009 reply

The Sack

JohnsonUT - September 19, 2009 reply

That's a beautiful thing!

spinmonkey - September 19, 2009 reply

Mike Leach comment on this

“I didn’t really think Kindle was going to get to him anyway. I can think of ten different plays that could have gone the other way and makes the outcome different.”

That would be awesome!

kirk1005 - September 19, 2009 reply

The NCAA

should never have banned that stuff anyway.

antiswarm - September 19, 2009 reply

That was amazing

Aside from the helmet hit, Potts may actually be lucky Kindle hit him so flat — I kind of shudder to think what could have happened if Kindle had plowed into Potts’ midsection; #2 is big enough that he doesn’t need to lead w/ his helmet to do some serious damage

Potts is lucky to be alive

Kindle took it easy on him. He could of been out for the season with a free blind side hit like that.

I guess I can say this now

but letting a guy like Kindle take that sort of shot at your QB gives me the LT-heebie-jeebies. That blocker deserves an earful

If there was ever a time to get a holding penalty

That would of definitely been understandable there.

girlslikefootball2 - September 19, 2009 reply

Which is what every single QB left on our schedule

is telling his OL right now

godelmetric - September 20, 2009 reply

we got lucky on this hit.

we did?

Looks like the form tackle my coach taught me growing up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo21UmZL9pg

I agree

When I looked at it again, his facemask knocked the ball loose which means his face was in potts chest. Right where it was supposed to be.

Players wear their helmets too loose the days.

kirk1005 - September 19, 2009 reply

Uh

did he just Kelson that dude?

SuperBentley - September 19, 2009 reply

No...He Kindle'd Him

Lit him up.

orangetower - September 21, 2009 reply

Absolutely the biggest hit I've seen since Kelson

Potts is a Man. He took that and came back and led another scoring drive. What a play.

the1austin - September 20, 2009 reply

Is this the Kelson hit your talking about?

Congratulations to the horns on a hard fought 4 qtr game.

Glad to get this one out of the way.

TXStampede - September 19, 2009 reply

I don't know

that you can call the defense stellar. Potts had over 400 passing yards and they scored 24 points, but then, for Tech, that is sub-par.

SwimTexas - September 19, 2009 reply

well if we had some kind of offense in the first half along with our stellar defense

this game would have been over in first half…our DLs definitely got tired of bullrushing on every single down in 3rd and 4th quarter. I think Muschamp wasnt going for the style points and was willing to take 2-3 min off the clock in the 4th quarter in exchange of a TD

hookemkp - September 19, 2009 reply

Holding Tech to 24 will get the win

damn near every time. If the offense was worth a damn in the first half this game wouldn’t have been close.

ctex80 - September 19, 2009 reply

The lack of DT and DB depth was exposed

Houston and Randall started slowing down and the pass rush began to suffer quite a bit. The secondary became tired enough Nolan Brewster looked quick by comparison.

Beasley will help as a warm body, and Scott could make a helluva difference if the D has to play so much in the future. Maybe one of the freshmen will grow up quick at DT

learned hand - September 19, 2009 reply

Yeah, this will be key against OU

They will run their up tempo offensive to try and wear us out.

He also threw a ton of times

I think he finished with a respectable yards per attempt, but at one point in the game Potts was averaging less than 6 yards per pass. Unfortunately, our secondary wasn’t very sharp in the second half.

Should have been a masacre

I mean our defense did it for us the 1st half. If our O did what they had to do, it would have been a better win. Well, at least the #1 team didn’t do so hot either.

Hook’em

Javi - September 19, 2009 via mobile reply

Couldn't the same thing be said about Tech though?

Our D was also great in the first half, if our O plays how they normally do, we probably get the win. Especially if we could have stopped the punt return.

techtom4 - September 19, 2009 reply

By your D...

… you must mean “Colt’s perception of the height of players not named Shipley” and by great you mean “just awful”, right?

Horn Brain - September 20, 2009 reply

No, actually

I don’t mean either one of those. Potts had several missed passes, too. Those things happen. I’m pretty sure something caused him to throw high… maybe the pressure he was under? Or did he just feel like being inaccurate last night? If you truly believe Tech’s defensive performance last night was “just awful” than the game of college football must be nothing more than a confusing, disorganized, rambled mess of movement whenever you watch it.

I think...

that in this particular sentence, “just awful” is used to qualify “Colt’s perception…” and not Tech’s defense.

BrooklynHorn - September 20, 2009 reply

Either way

that statement is ludicrous. Again, Potts was inaccurate at times too. McCoy was pressured regularly. Not as often as Potts was, but still a good amount. Until about the middle of the 4th, UT couldn’t run the ball either. I can claim that the reason Potts was pressured so much was because the Tech O-line’s “perception of where UT’s blitzing defenders were coming from” was “off” or “just awful” all I want to, or I can just give them credit for playing well and not whine.

sorry Tech only wins every 7 yrs or so...

I wouldnt count on beating Texas for awhile

Are we expecting too much from Colt?

I understand that those two interceptions were tipped by our receivers, but I think he is losing his Heisman votes right now. Was Quan Cosby that important to this offense?

girlslikefootball2 - September 19, 2009 reply

He is most definitely losing some votes. I agree

Heisman, Schmeisman

Is there such thing as a moral defeat?

How many times do we have to play poorly before people admit that we don’t have a very good team this year? If this is how we come out and play for big games, OU’s defense is going to have a great time with odd-yeared Colt.

No one will admit it

until we lose. If we squeak it out each and every week, we wil be crowned Champions at the end of the year. Of course, a large chunk of the fanbase will die off from heart-failure or cirrhosis in the process.

goingforthecorner - September 19, 2009 reply

And we'll have a great time against OU's O-line

Its been released

Colt had the flu this week

jcbates - September 20, 2009 reply

Great game...

And a hell of a game by Newton.

EYESOFTEJAS - September 19, 2009 reply

Yes, he has absolutely emerged as a gamebreaker

the1austin - September 20, 2009 reply

turns out

colt had the flu & did not practice much this week

burntorange81 - September 19, 2009 reply

how come the media didn't know about this?

These things are surpringly easy to keep under wraps

See the whole Deon Beasley eligibility fiasco

learned hand - September 19, 2009 reply

They are talking about it on the postgame radio (G Davis, et al).

please tell me this isn't some kind of spin

girlslikefootball2 - September 19, 2009 reply

how did you find this out?

Post game interviews

Caradoc - September 20, 2009 reply

I dont buy it. Its like when McNabb had flu when Eagles lost

I buy it.

Reason being, during the game, his skin-tone looked odd to me… flushed a bit… almost sickly. I kept wondering what that was about. The flu makes sense now that it’s been said.

Beleafit - September 20, 2009 reply

If it is true than yeah I buy. The flu can make you weak.

Also I think I said he looked sick as well.

Colt looked physically bad in the first half...sallow, pale skin, weepy eyes

(and not from the INTs), no smiles or really any expression at all early, which was odd.

The good thing is that he won’t have the flu the rest of the season. Considering the situation nationwide, that is a damn good thing.

whills - September 20, 2009 reply

are you doing a freaking physical examination through TV??

all those could have been caused by anxiety, stress and overwhelming sense of responsibility. He didn’t seem that ill-appearing to me

Yet, none of the markers indicating that that was the issue were present during the game like they were in the previous two. Whills is right. His face was instead eerily expressionless. I picked up on that too.You didn’t? They were entirely different from the ones resulting from the “anxiety, stress and overwhelming sense of responsibility” that he displayed in the last two games. And his skin was so not right that I literally went, “ew” during the after-game on-field interview. I’m glad that it turned out that he actually was sick so it could be explained cause I really did start feeling sorry for the guy there :p!!

Yes, we can see things on our television sets. Yes, even those things that are visible markers of the flu. Yes, we can also read people’s facial expressions through the tv (obviously some people are better at this than others). Yes, what we notice lined up 100% with Colt’s claim. No, that’s not called coincidence, it’s called validation. Yes your perception (or non-perception) of it could be totally wrong. No it doesn’t make us crazy people doing physicals through our tv-sets or Colt a liar. Both of those are huge leaps trying to bypass the evidences that you are wrong (one because it’s exaggerating a perfectly believable notion into an unbelievable one, and the other because it goes against everything we know about Colt’s great character) . Just accept it gracefully and move on.

Beleafit - September 20, 2009 reply

I must not have your HD tv set..sorry

I didnt call anyone a liar or crazy. I think it is a bit absurd to blindly believe that he has flu based on what he presented as “physical appearance” and what UT’s media guy casually said after the game. But, if that makes you go to sleep better at night, then no argument there.

1st game was the 1st game of the season, last wk was high altitude, this wk is flu, whats next? I must have not noticed his facial expression bc he did not perform well and was thinking way too much.

I thought I would give my 2 cent on this issue of physical examination/visual cues through TV bc I actually study medicine and it is very unlikely that one can differentiate flu-like symptoms from anxiety/stress related symptoms. I mean its absurd, but not crazy, I guess

BoddickerIsClutch - September 21, 2009 reply

I dont think anyone is diagnosing through the TV

But even my wife commented on how Colt’s color looked off. Add in the coaches saying that he was indeed sick, and it makes sense.

Not trying to be a doctor

but I do make comparison to what I consider “normal.” I didn’t know Colt had been sick when I first saw this…I just saw what I said I saw and you’re right, I could have been completely wrong. But I wasn’t. Colt is an expressive person, both when things are good and bad, and when he went flat, there must be something else at work. Is isn’t about medicine, its about acute perception and reading people, and in may case, involves decades of experience.

Having had kids and actually working with women a great deal (my board of directors has been all women several times), I have found it necessary to pick up on nuance and the “little” things. People get quiet when things are “not right.” If you’re in the leadership or responsible role, you need to find t hose things out immediately. Plus, on the journalistic side, dealing with coaches and knowing they don’t reveal many things, their expressions and eyes tell me when something is there and that helps in deciphering the sphinx. In most cases there is a limited number of things which could be hidden or unsaid, so you can sometimes flush that out enough to get in the ball park.

whills - September 22, 2009 reply

34-24 much better than 33-39

Guys, keep it in perspective – was it a blowout, was it dominant, – no, BUT, the alternative is much worse. We are not going to fire on all cylinders every game – but we found what we needed to do to WIN. The fans are putting too much pressure and have unrealistic expectations for each game. There is no team that is dominant every week. We just need to keep winning our next game and things will take care of themselves.

burntorange81 - September 19, 2009 reply

agreed

good point

people were big on the revenge factor

didn’t pan out…the sky is falling

BoddickerIsClutch - September 21, 2009 reply

This revenge plan was much better than the K-State one.

VY's team exceeded those unrealistic expectations in 2005...

This team is not as good as 2005

not a knock, just a fact

But the real question is

if anyone this year is as good as that team

i don't think so

There hasn't been a team that good since...

Well, since then. No champions since 2005 has been near as good as the 2005 Horns. In fact, none have been as good as that USC team either. People forget how rare that year and that game was.

and that team barely won a NC

That USC team would have won any of the last three MNCs

learned hand - September 19, 2009 reply

As would have the 05 Horns

Hopkins Horn - September 19, 2009 reply

True but a lot of young talent on Offense

Monroe, Goodwin, Newton, Hales, Buckner….Gilbert is gonna have some weapons.

Maybe that is why we had a McCaunahey (Sp) citing at practice this week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSsLkBG_64Y

100% Agree

I would like to see the overall stats on attempts and completions for Potts vs Harrell from last year. As much as I loved the hit from Sergio, Potts got some respect after that game. I think he had an overall greater impact individually than Harrell did last year. Harrell had a star studded support cast in O-line and Receiving corp and had more time to throw. Potts got hammered or hurried several times.

“The Serg” (That’s what I’m calling this hit) put the icing on the cake

Can’t get enough of this one. I think Kindle’s draft position improves 5 places after this highlight.

Point is I am glad TT is behind us with a “w”. If they play everyone else as hard as they played us, then they could run the table. Seriously

orangetower - September 21, 2009 reply

Did anyone else wince

seeing that Kindle hit coming?

I think my TV cracked.

i was aroused

Very Tank Abbott of you

i don't get it

"I’m starting to get sexually aroused right now. You better get that off." – Tank Abbott after watching a replay of his knockout of John Matua.

I initially thought

the play was blown dead.. I couldn’t believe Kindle was so free on that play

I saw it coming

I was bracing myself for a mean hit.

i'm just glad it was a win.

wouldn’t call it a stellar performance. I just hope we can put it all together for a Win against OU.

hookmhorns - September 19, 2009 reply

YES!!!

I for one was deathly afraid that Tech was going to win this game. I don’t care if they’re ranked or not. They always play us tough. And we had a decisive victory. Screw style points, I am a happy man! Defense looks pretty good!! Better than previous years!

Like I said on the game thread . . .

I’ll take it. But there are some real concerns:

Offensive line. I don’t think this can be fixed.

Pass defense. Yeah, it’s Tech. But that’s a zillion yards and way too many uncontested passes. The pass rush was decisive; it was also inconsistent.

Running game. Sorry; I love what Tre Newton has done, but if the coaches felt he was the answer, we wouldn’t have heard Vondrell and Fozzy and Cody all spring and summer. It’s not like Newton just showed up on Aug. 10.

OU (which still sucks, by the way). They’re better than Tech. And we don’t play them at DKR-Memorial.

Bad starts. This is not new. Like the O-line, I’m not sure it can be fixed.

edsp - September 19, 2009 reply

I respectfully disagree on the running game

Newton IS the answer.

What makes you say that?

Other than the big TD he broke, he had a very mediocre night. No running back can be the answer because our O-Line isn’t creating running lanes.

well, that's the OL problem

not RB problem. Newton is clearly the choice out of all RBs that we have this year.
Just because OL can’t create running lane should not penalize Newton for the performance tonight. In fact, OL problem makes Newton’s performance even better than perceived.

come on...

last year up until the OU game, nobody (including myself) thought Texas would be a national title contender. Each game is different. OU can’t do the same things on offense that Tech does, and vice versa. We can adjust our gameplan each week to defeat the opponnent du jour. Watch what happens.

O-line improved drastically in the 2nd half

but yeah….a big concern

I think TT dline just got tired....They had no depth whatsoever..

goingforthecorner - September 19, 2009 reply

You nailed this.

Same thing happened last week. Fair to good defensive lines kick our best O-line . . . when our size (and maybe our coaching adjustments) take effect, we look better. I’m guessing OU (sucks) will have more depth and be less susceptible to adjustments. Just guessing, mind you.

edsp - September 19, 2009 reply

OU's defense is scary

two consecutive shutouts. Shutting out Tulsa is pretty damn impressive. But with that said, we have enough weapons to win the game as long as we don’t turn it over. Our defense ain’t too shabby either.

What concerns me is that the offense is starting to look during Chris Simms Era

Start uber slow and pick it back up in second half…lets hope for a complete game against our next opponent

hookemkp - September 19, 2009 reply

NOOOOOOO!!!!!! You said the C.S. name!!

spinmonkey - September 19, 2009 reply

Are the defensive stats up anywhere? ESPN doesn’t have them yet.

I only got to see bits and pieces of the game, but it seemed like McCoy got hit or sacked too much. The Secondary also did not seem like the strenght I was expecting it to be.

I saw the amazing Kindle Krush. Did we get any others?

They had to fire up the Cray to tally Tech's stats

spinmonkey - September 19, 2009 reply

i don't recall CM getting hit an inordinate amount of times

certainly pressured a lot in the 1st half

I remember him getting sacked at leat twice in the first quarter (or maybe it was the 2nd time early in the 2nd).

The play by play says he was sacked once in the first and had a run for -6 yars… i thought that was a sack. Oh well.

Anyeone know where i can get a rewatch of the game? Is there anything online?

kudos!

to tennessee for not making our win tonight look bad…
to Washington…
to FSU…
to the Longhorns for taking care of business. Booyah!

Side note: LSU is going to beat Florida, mark it down dude.

I was barely whelmed nt

bfaut86 - September 19, 2009 reply

what does nt mean?

nt is code

It means “no text” following the subj. line

edsp - September 19, 2009 reply

Buffs blank Cowboys...

What does this mean for our strength of schedule?

2Bearnest - September 19, 2009 reply

Nothing...Still undefeated or bust!

just beat everybody

USC just lost.

If there ever was a possibility that we could go undefeated and not get in the MNC, it’s gone now. Not even an undefeated Penn or Miami will jump us.

They will if we keep playing like this

we will lose if we keep playing like this

can’t keep letting folks hang around.

Yep. Can't keep playing down to the level of your competition

Eventually there is gonna be a time when you step on that gas pedal and there is going to be nothing in the tank to get out of the mess you created.

i.e. Texas Tech 2008....

I think we were a tipped pass that got intercepted away from talking about how this was a great blow out.

or a fallen on fumbled ball at the twenty.

Beleafit - September 20, 2009 reply

remember last year

Texas played awesomely in the middle section of the schedule. I believe the middle section of the schedule this year contains OU, Missouri, and OSU. Texas is still warming up. The defense is coming around. The offense will peak when it needs to. I think we are gonna be OK. When our defense makes stops, and we have weapons like we do on the punt and kickoff return game, not to mention the sleeping giant that is our offense, I really believe we can crush any opponnent.

Was Gideon hurt?

Or did they just decide to give Brewster some playing time?

pleaseplaykindle - September 20, 2009 reply

Gideon played almost the whole game I thought?

Except the last 2 drives for some reason.

pleaseplaykindle - September 20, 2009 reply

McCoy's statline is deceptive.

It should read: 2 TDs, 1 INT. His toss to Dan Bucker was almost a TD if Mr. Bucker stretches for the endzone, and his INT was a ball that hit a WR in the hands.

Also note that Tebow threw zero TDs today and 1 INT, and one fumble lost in the red zone. Good work.

both interceptions were off of high, tipped passes. colt seems to be having trouble hitting his receivers in the chest.

Displaced Longhorn - September 20, 2009 reply

The second one should definitely have been caught

The first, however, was a very poor pass.

that throw to buckner was short

The Tebows were not very convincing today

colt may not have lost groung in the heisman, but he probably didn’t gain any ground either. Screw the heisman. Who here would rather Vince had won it, minus a national championship?

longhorn_dan - September 20, 2009 reply

Championship or bust...

future_longhorn_dad - September 20, 2009 reply

Been saying it all along

Heisman would be nice but I’d rather see Colt with a Championship ring from the Rose Bowl.

seth78 - September 20, 2009 reply

The National Championship Trophy is much bigger

Ask USC if they'd like this win

Like I always say, just win, baby.

iamjackburton - September 20, 2009 reply

You're Al Davis?

billyzane - September 20, 2009 reply

Unless

McCoy starts putting up last years stats, starting next weekend. I got money on Jahvid Best winning the heisman, or maybe after watching Tennessee, Eric Berry, its trendy but that guy had a stellar day against Mr. Tebow today. But most likely Jahvid

PhiTypist - September 20, 2009 reply

Miami QB is also in the running.

If he beats Oklahoma

he may be the frontrunner by early October.

DoubleB - September 20, 2009 reply

He looks pretty good from what I saw.

http://www.burntorangenation.com/2009/9/20/1044900/kindle-destroys-potts

Link to Kindle's sack

posted in the fanshots.

goingforthecorner - September 20, 2009 reply

Jackson Jeffcoat!

He watches our defense step up and USC loses. Yeah.

pleaseplaykindle - September 20, 2009 reply

potts and his receivers shredded our secondary, picking the perfect soft spots at all the right times. DLine played well though.

Displaced Longhorn - September 20, 2009 reply

This offensive scheme is built to shred defenses

The most important stat I see is that they were at 3 points at half time and 24 at the end of the game.

future_longhorn_dad - September 20, 2009 reply

Didn't someone say "stats are for losers"? .nt

Bevoboy94 - September 20, 2009 reply

Potts

I was very impressed. He was lofting side-armed passes 20 yards down field with a player hanging on him, right to where the receiver was running.

Weird to see Colt struggle with accuracy but it seems fixable to me.

Sleepy - September 20, 2009 reply

Potts looked much more comfortable in the pocket than McCoy... that was sad.

TXinDC - September 20, 2009 reply

We were......

……fortunate Tech’s AD agreed to move this game up 7 weeks. Potts almost certainly will be even more productive in November. When they announced it, I said to myself and friends they were silly to move that game up with a first year QB. I’ll take it!

HornChamps - September 20, 2009 reply

The Table Is Set!!!!

In 3 short weeks -
1. The Horns own the biggest Big XII win.
2. All the scenarios that kept us out of the Big XII championship game have been destroyed.
3. The national scenarios of going undefeated and left out have virtually been destroyed

Still will be difficult to win out – but should be no royal screwing by the BCS this year.

realmccoy - September 20, 2009 reply

If we lose to OSU we could get left out.

Even the dirt burglars could screwed us if we lose to them.

In a 3 way (we are talking getting screwed), if you have to lose, 10/17 is better than 10/31. Problem is if we lose the RRS, I doubt the dirt burglars lose to Okie light in Norman and we are hosed. Remember this can happen even if OU loses to Miami. It would be a major screwing for them to have a worse record than us and win the BigXII.

Conclusion…Just win.

Bevoboy94 - September 20, 2009 reply

I am confused

Is it getting screwed for a team that wins more games in the conference to win the conference?

Wells - September 20, 2009 reply

You are right? If the horns are prepared for any game it is the RRS.

OSU freaks me out. Our one road game didn’t go that well. I still remember 2007 when Jamal saved us. I just hope we got out and give a dominant performance in both games.

What we learned from the Tech Torture Fest...

Wel…at least we aren’t USC…losing to a team that went 0-13 last year.

Yes, the C-Brown twins still suck on the corners and can’t cover themselves. Yes, Colt is struggling and does not look comfortable on the field in the first half. Yes, Sergio still knows how to sack. Yes, we know how to strip the ball from runners. Yes, Jordan Shipley has stepped up to lead this team. Yes, Chiles moving to wide receiver was a great move. Yes, we won…and Yes, we are still undefeated….and Yes, we still have a chance to win the National Championship.

Miami is going to whip OU!!!!! Not good for us, but damn will it be fun to watch!

Thoughts

1) It would appear that Texas Tech has reached a sustainable level of quality football. The 2009 team looks exactly like the 2008 team, which, undoubtably, resembles the 2010 and 2011 teams. Leach has fine-tuned his system to the point that he hardly depends on personnel, that is, he obviously needs talented players, but the particularities of those players, such as personality, attitude, experience, or leadership ability, seem not to matter as much to Tech as they do to other teams. One wonders if, under such a system, Tech will ever endure a “rebuilding year.” It used to be that occasionally we’d go up to Lubbock and lose a heartbreaker, but the following season, in Austin, we’d exact revenge to the tune of a 40-point massacre. Those days are over. Expect Tech to play us tough every year. And while I won’t say that yesterday’s win was unsatisfying, it was certainly as unsatisfying as a revenge win over a conference rival can be.

2) Put me in the camp that thinks McCoy has returned to 2007 form. That’s not to say I’m at all giving up on Colt, just that I don’t expect his struggles to end any time soon. With Colt, it doesn’t seem to be a game-to-game mindset, as much as a seasonal disposition. He never really got on track in 2007, just as he never really got off the tracks in 2008. I’ll be shocked if he snaps out of this by next week. Oddly, there was a point in the 4th quarter, on our final meaningful possession (which ended with a field goal) that the coaches seemed to be treating Colt in much the same manner that Lane Kiffin treats Jonathan Crompton, that is to say that they were mostly running the ball and calling short “confidence building” passes, which is low mark for a returning Heisman front-runner.

3) Oklahoma scares the hell out of me. Since their slip-up against BYU, they’ve been the only demonstrably dominant superpower in college football. As the rest of the top-10 has struggled, and as everyone writes them off, very quietly Landry Jones is developing into their next Heisman-contending QB, and the team seems to be growing cohesive.

BrooklynHorn - September 20, 2009 reply

Landry Jones

I remember seeing a High School game on TV that he was in, and the announcers said that he was committed to OU… I was thinking, “Oh Crap.” He sure looked like the real deal back then.

SelimSivad - September 20, 2009 reply

WOW

finally a UT who sees things for what they are! I never thought I would see the day.

meant to say

“UT fan” who sees…..

Nice win, Horns. Ugly first half, but good teams overcome their mistakes and y’all did. McCoy, while a great QB, doesn’t look like “the man” this season. That’s okay. You have a new hoss in Newton to help shoulder the load.

Kindle…good lord. I think if it was anyone besides Potts taking that hit, we’d be reading about a death on the field. What a hit.

Good luck the rest of the way.

Tech92 - September 20, 2009 reply

Tech is really good

They had some penalties that cost them, but drove the ball really well. It’s amazing how their receivers catch everything… and they spread it around:

RECEIVING
REC YDS TD LG
Britton 8 69 0 24
Torres 7 59 0 16
Leong 6 80 2 18
Zouzalik 5 73 0 33
Swindall 5 67 1 22
Franks 4 35 0 11
Lewis 4 22 0 11
Batch 3 1 0 9
James 2 15 0 10
Stephens 2 -1 0 0

Crazy.

SelimSivad - September 20, 2009 reply

Good game.

You guys played tough. Certainly one of the better road performances that Leach has had in a big game.

Colt...

I think Colt will bounce back. The 2007 slump was all based on experience. He’s been the starter for a long time…he knows what to do. The pressure, media and fans have built up a level of unattainable ability. No way he will ever play like he did in 2008. New team, new year, no Quan Cosby to play toss with. He needs to have a beer(s) for the first time in his life…sit back and enjoy being a senior with a chance to win it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ay7YirF9_M

A Tribute to Mike the Pirate

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=292620251

Colt's Condition

Just FYI, ESPN is reporting that Colt was suffering from flu-like symptoms all week and missed Tuesday’s practice.

So for his subpar performance, I think it’s probably more him not feeling healthy than anything else.

Let’s see how they bounce back. I think it’s a good win. They can’t all be blowouts and TT is not a bad team.

zboy101 - September 20, 2009 reply

This game kind of embodied everything I feared about last year

What was our answer last year if Colt had a bad game? And by bad, I mean sub Robo Colt performance.

I think we saw that last night, and it speaks well for our team that a lot of people stepped up to the plate. The special teams, defense, and running game were all real players in last night’s game. I’m not sure we would have won that game in 2008.

Key Stats:

Tre Newton came out and averaged 4.4 yds per carry. That’s enough to get the job done and take a little pressure off the passing game. Especially important in closing out a team in the fourth quarter.

Hunter Lawrence was 2 for 2. Credit where credit is due, our kicker is good and puts points on the board. Shipley runs back a TD from a TT punt out of the endzone.

Tech was 3 of 13 on 3rd down according to espn. That’s 23%. Combined with 3 forced turnovers and holding Tech to 23, our D put our team in a position to win.

Colt was 70% on his passes, but 1 TD and 2 INTs. We probably could spot him another TD for Buckner’s catch that took him to the 1 yd line. If Colt has a better game and goes for 3 TDs and 1 INT ( like Potts did ), that game isn’t really that close and we win by two or more TD’s.

If we keep playing like this, we’re going to drop a game somewhere along the line. However, if Colt finds his spirit animal and starts making a case for the Heisman, we’re going to start looking dominant against good or even great teams. Tech caught our offense stalling, and we still came out with the ‘W’. That didn’t happen last year.

Hook ’em

notsofst - September 20, 2009 reply

anyone notice how badass our field position was every drive? our return team did get pinned back deep all that often. i saw one shipley fair catch on like the 20, and one punt that should have been down at the 1 yd line but was muffed into the endzone by TTech. our actual returns from williams, monroe, shipley were all excellent.

Displaced Longhorn - September 20, 2009 reply

Cody Johnson?

On two key 4th down possessions in the Red Zone I would have expected to see him.

1st and Goal at TTU 4 Tre’ Newton rush for no gain to the TexTc 4.
2nd and Goal at TTU 4 Tre’ Newton rush for 1 yard to the TexTc 3.
3rd and Goal at TTU 3 Timeout TEXAS, clock 09:16.
3rd and Goal at TTU 3 Colt McCoy pass complete to Dan Buckner for 3 yards for a TOUCHDOWN.

1st and 10 at TTU 24 Tre’ Newton rush for 9 yards to the TexTc 15.
2nd and 1 at TTU 15 Tre’ Newton rush for a loss of 1 yard to the TexTc 16.
3rd and 2 at TTU 16 Tre’ Newton rush for no gain to the TexTc 16.
4th and 2 at TTU 16 Hunter Lawrence 33 yard field goal GOOD.

Was Mack just checking to see how Tre’ worked out as the every-down back?

patienthornsfan - September 20, 2009 reply

Wake up Greg!

Still is not giving Tre the credit her deserves…Davis didn’t even know he carried the ball 20 times. Who the hell did he think he had playing running back all game? Wake up Davis!