Game Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sirhornsalot]

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That guy just kills me. lol

 

[Juan]

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[primal defense]

Texas Hits Reset With New Identity

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/190961584/texas-offense-charlie-strong-shane-buechele

 

[Monsieur ATX]

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That's what I like to hear

 

[ah-blong]

here's a pic making the rounds that is pretty informative.

some have noted the difference in size between colt and shane.  it's enough to dictate how we should use shane, i think.

first note that the eye levels are pretty similar.  colt is maybe an inch taller at the eye, so shane's passing game has every reason to be a good one from that standpoint.  but look at the shoulders.  colt is notably taller at the shoulder and is considerably broader and thicker as well.  colt is simply a larger man than shane.  if shane didn't have a longish neck, he would be a noticeably shorter man.

i'm sure we won't run shane anything like as much as colt was used that way.  that said, though, shane is athletic and quick enough that if a defense is otherwise stressed to the point that it is disrespecting that athleticism and quickness, shane can dart out of bounds 15 yards downfield a time or two and a defense will have to start mixing that possibility into its bowl of chili.  that's all we need from shane that way.  just make the defense have to maintain awareness.  thin that sucker out.

kliff whats-his-face has already gone on record saying shane has what it takes to be the very devil to deal with.  if we are clever about using him, he will stay upright and will worry defenses like a terrier on a rag.

 

[ah-blong]

i saw this a.m. a comment on another board that shane won't have the advantage colt got from vy mentoring.  i love vy like my brother and still consider him the finest college qb i ever saw, but his size and style of play was so different from that of colt mccoy that i question how valuable the association was from that standpoint.  i think what we got from colt was colt, not vy part twain.

so i got to thinking who we might expect shane to mirror, and i come up blank.  colt is burly enough that i don't think he's quite a match for shane.  when i look at highlights, i don't see colt.  i see major with wheels and much better athleticism and quickness.  and that cleverness that major showed.  maybe a quarter of major's highlight plays on that excellent recruits-in-review tape were plays that didn't work but major found a way to make it a highlight anyway.  i see some of that in shane's highlights.  colt had that in him, too.  and vy.  maybe my favorite vy play was him being tackled but he still fluttered the ball to someone who could advance it.  it wasn't elegant, but it, by-god, worked.

so who physically?  i wonder if kingsbury's heisman wunderkind might be a better match.  shane won't run the ball against big12 defenses like manziel did the sec.  kliff and jff caught some clumsy, over-built defenses flatfooted in a way that they wouldn't now.

there are other important differences with johnny-f's hot year.  johnny caught the tail-end of sherman's program building while shane is catching the front-end of charlie's.  but still johnny's quickness and cleverness might be the model for shane's play.  that and leaning on a growing o-line and a couple of meat cleavers at the running back spot.

 

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https://twitter.com/CBXiii_/status/756849260918738944

 

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[oldhorn2]

Here is what Colt could get from VY.....a hell of a leason in leadership......At the end of the spring semester (early 2005) when the summer break was about to start, VY wrote on the bulletin board.....meet me here every day at 7am.....if you want to beat Ohio State!

If Colt got nothing else from him that was quite enough.

 

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