Is there a disconnect in Austin?

[beevomav]

Stolen from various places:

The reality...

The football program has struggled since the first quarter of the 2010 BCS national championship game when Heisman Trophy finalist Colt McCoy was injured on the first drive and Texas went on to lose to Alabama.

Texas is just 22-16 overall and 11-15 in the Big 12 the last three seasons. Consecutive blowout losses to rival Oklahoma fanned the flames of discontent. Brown, who won the 2005 national championship and was chasing two more in 2008-2009, now faces an irritable fan base.

The disconnect...

"Football is fine," Dodds said, calling last season's 9-4 finish "the end of the world to some folks but it's not the end of the world. You've got to go through some downs to enjoy the ups. Now, we don't want to have a lot of them. But 9-4 is pretty good, about where I thought we'd be. I think next year looks a lot better ... back to our standards."

The reality...

The men are just 10-12 in coach Rick Barnes 15th season and are floundering near the bottom of the Big 12. Unless the Longhorns stage a huge turnaround over the final month of the season, they appear likely to miss the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1998. The same goes for the women, who are 9-12 in a rough first season for coach Karen Aston.

The disconnect...

"In a program this big, you're going to have some bad news. You just are," Dodds said. "It's going to happen, so you need to handle it right. That's what we do. Get it out and you've got to live with it. People will react to it and you can't control how they react."

The final reality...

"I'm sure they would like to have some choices to make over again," Billionaire donor Red McCombs said. "We've got good players, they just weren't good enough."

The final disconnect...

"It may be disappointing on the day it happens, but you want people that will look you in the eye and tell you the truth and you want people that want to be at your school," Brown said.

 

[bbdude]

Nice presentation BM. You forgot one more though:

The reality:

OU sucks.

The disconnect:

None.

Also, Karen Aston should be given a pass this year only because it is her first year in the saddle.

 

[Lord Vader]

Aston gets three more seasons minimum. Will take time to undo the damage from the last coach.

 

[bbdude]

Agreed..