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Losing the Point of Attack
Texas has won the battle in the trenches against the Sooners for the last several years. Generally, the defensive line on each side tends to have the advantage and I'm suspicious that both schools are/were prioritizing pass protection both in recruiting and in player development. This year OU...
Ground and Pound: How Texas Can Beat OU
The Sooners under Bob Stoops have made their hay with an aggressive, quick strike offense and physical defense that exploits known tendencies -- a combo that has led to some humiliating final scores. The offense has gone further in this direction since Kevin Wilson and Josh Heupel installed the...
Excellent Play-by-Play Analysis of the Texas O and D
The concisely-named shaggybevo.com poster "P" recently published a damning analyses of our offense against OU. His conclusion: our offensive woes result from a combination of jaw-droppingly poor play design, inscrutable play selection and frustrating failed execution. In other words, Greg Davis...
Measuring up to the Rival
One of my favorite preseason rituals is to match up the good guys with the land thieves across all the positions and note which squad is stronger where. As a general rule OU rules RB and LB while Texas typically has the advantage at DB and QB. Where they often go back and forth is in the...
Piling On
Okay, it's Friday and the Longhorns have a game tomorrow against Missouri. So I feel a little behind the times posting yet another piece on our offense's struggles against Oklahoma. I spent the last few days following our depressing win preparing for and defending a soul-crushing deposition. So...
2008 Season Send-Off
Texas fans would be celebrating Sooner misery no matter the circumstance, but tonight's rerun of Choke was especially sweet for 'Horns fans who feel like the wrong Big 12 South team got to play for it all. 45-35 aside, I objected to the pro-Sooner voters because... well, because I watched an...
Big 12 Cob Of the Week - The Worst of the Big 12
For this past week's worst of the Big 12 performance, we have the following nominees: Husker Mike: Todd Reesing gets my vote for turning into Beau Davis in the second half. Davis at least had an excuse; true freshman, first game, on the road in a hostile environment. Reesing had none of those,...
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