Texas might not be the team to beat in the Big 12 South . . .

[junior4949]

I was watching ESPN the other night, and they had Gilbert listed as a top 10 QB for the 2010 season. While I think he might be good and/or very good, do they really think he's going to perform that well in his first year starting? I don't get the love for A&M either. As far as I'm concerned, Sherman is just another BC experiment down there. There were a lot of people thinking we were a contender before the 2007 season. I think OU takes the South this year. Last year may prove to have been a blessing in disguise for OU.

[GMoose]

I was watching ESPN the other night, and they had Gilbert listed as a top 10 QB for the 2010 season. While I think he might be good and/or very good, do they really think he's going to perform that well in his first year starting? I don't get the love for A&M either. As far as I'm concerned, Sherman is just another BC experiment down there. There were a lot of people thinking we were a contender before the 2007 season. I think OU takes the South this year. Last year may prove to have been a blessing in disguise for OU.

I saw that QB rank thing too. I think it was a fan vote. If it was an analyst vote it would probably be more like

Luck

Locker

Mallet

Ponder

Keenum

Moore

[huskerscott]

I was watching ESPN the other night, and they had Gilbert listed as a top 10 QB for the 2010 season. While I think he might be good and/or very good, do they really think he's going to perform that well in his first year starting? I don't get the love for A&M either. As far as I'm concerned, Sherman is just another BC experiment down there. There were a lot of people thinking we were a contender before the 2007 season. I think OU takes the South this year. Last year may prove to have been a blessing in disguise for OU.

I saw that QB rank thing too. I think it was a fan vote. If it was an analyst vote it would probably be more like

Luck

Locker

Mallet

Ponder

Keenum

Moore

I personally think Moore and Keenum are the two best QBs in the country right now. Then maybe Locker and Mallet. But it really a toss up, their isnt one guy that just sticks out as the best QB right now. I do know this Gilbert hasnt even started a game yet, no way should he be considered one of the 10 best right now.

[husker B-rent]

I was watching ESPN the other night, and they had Gilbert listed as a top 10 QB for the 2010 season. While I think he might be good and/or very good, do they really think he's going to perform that well in his first year starting? I don't get the love for A&M either. As far as I'm concerned, Sherman is just another BC experiment down there. There were a lot of people thinking we were a contender before the 2007 season. I think OU takes the South this year. Last year may prove to have been a blessing in disguise for OU.

I saw that QB rank thing too. I think it was a fan vote. If it was an analyst vote it would probably be more like

Luck

Locker

Mallet

Ponder

Keenum

Moore

I personally think Moore and Keenum are the two best QBs in the country right now. Then maybe Locker and Mallet. But it really a toss up, their isnt one guy that just sticks out as the best QB right now. I do know this Gilbert hasnt even started a game yet, no way should he be considered one of the 10 best right now.

 

i honestly think gabbert ends up as one of the top 2 or 3 qbs this season and if he declares for the draft i wouldnt be too surprised if he is a 1st round pick due to his upside and how good he already is.

[bshirt]

i dont get the A&M love, the same hype was there for them before last season and imo they failed. they will be lucky to get 7-8 wins.

I'm thinking the A&M love is due to the fact they have arguably the best QB in the conference with dual-threat Jerrod Johnson. And now the Aggies D is led by one of the best coordinators in the country - Tim DeRuyter. Check out these accolades highlighted on the Aggie site...

 

DeRuyter served the previous three years as the defensive coordinator and safeties coach at the Air Force Academy. DeRuyter added the title of associate coach in 2008 and 2009 at the Colorado Springs campus. This past season, the Falcon defense finished 11th in the NCAA in total defense allowing 288.31 yards per game. The Air Force pass defense was ranked 5th in the country allowing only 154.31 yards per game while the scoring defense was 10th in the land. The air defense intercepted 20 passes to rank 7th in the country and the overall defense caused 34 total turnovers to ranked 5th in the country. The stingy defense also allowed only 14.62 first downs per game to rank 4th in the NCAA statistics. The Falcon defense was 13th in the NCAA in third-down efficiency allowing teams to convert only 30.86 percent of the time.

 

Sure, it might take a little while before the Aggie D puts up numbers like AF did last year. But at the same time, it only took 3 years for DeRuyter to do that at AF, and now he's with the Aggies, whose talent & recruiting is far better.

 

 

Well the BigXII is a vastly higher test than the high schools teams Air Force plays (Nicholls St, New Mexico, San Diego St, Wyoming, Army, UNLV, etc). CU's Hawkins did well playing those guys too. Look what happened when he upgraded to the BigXII......

[husker98]

they were young and hurt alot last year.

 

That usually translates too good next year. This article holds some ground.

[carlfense]

This thread made it over to a UT forum. Naturally they are outraged that anyone thinks that they might not win the South. It's an interesting combination of arrogance and insecurity over there.

 

link (note: some NSFW language on that site)

 

I particularly like how Suh was our entire defense . . . somehow he managed to lock down the receivers, shadow the running back, and pressure the quarterback all at the same time.

 

I wonder if NU fans look this delusional to outsiders? I hope not.

[Danimal]

Being that the CCG has been taken-over by Jerryland hope like hell OU can make a comeback in the south. Otherwise we'll be playing yet again in what amounts to a horn homegame. BOOMER

[husker B-rent]

hahaha look at them whine over there!!!! whaaaaaaa whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa they arent bowing down to us!!!! oh no what do we do? isnt everyone supposed to think that texas will steamroll them?? what is the world coming to?

 

where is dan beebe? he needs to fix this?!?!

[clone]

this isnt some kind of revolution, i had picked OU to win the south this season half way through last season! sports writers have been saying texas because the are the defending #2 in the country and they havent paid much attention outside of texas.

 

 

revolution?

 

anyway...

 

The south-

texas

ou

the rest- who cares

 

the north-

neb

missou

the rest- who cares

 

b12 champ- texas

 

same-0, same-0

 

2009 all over again.

[husker B-rent]

this isnt some kind of revolution, i had picked OU to win the south this season half way through last season! sports writers have been saying texas because the are the defending #2 in the country and they havent paid much attention outside of texas.

 

 

revolution?

 

anyway...

 

The south-

texas

ou

the rest- who cares

 

the north-

neb

missou

the rest- who cares

 

b12 champ- texas

 

same-0, same-0

 

2009 all over again.

 

 

Grammer Police??? must be my ISU education at work!!!

[huskalova]

Come, come now. Don't yawll know you're supposed to cower down to UT.... Now everybody get in line and keep quiet. No more talk of leaving the conference. No, no, we won't have any talk of Big Twelve Television. Don't you know that we are gonna have a UT Network and keep all the money. Yep kinda like we do now, that thar conference split is a gooood deal for yawll.... Oh yeah by the way the CCG is gonna be in our back yard and yawll better like that too. Because if ya don't tough bowel movement... Besides just ask the Big Twelve big dummy and he'll tell ya how it's gonna go, get on the plane or deboard.

 

As for the last CCG. Do you know how lucky yawll were to be in that game. If poor ole Colt wasn't harassed all day by that thar N dam knog Suh feller, you know he woulda found his Broke Back Mountain buddy, errr, I mean his fishin' friend. Now yawll get back up thar north where ya belong and stay in line...

 

And don't ya like how they call the new qb GG. Ain't that special. And maybe somewhat limp wristed.

[Igetbored216]

How quickly Texas fans forget it took the refs bailing them out of the CCG by illegally adding a second onto the clock.

 

Whatever. The game will speak for itself. Unfortunately it's way too far away...

[huskalova]

Come, come now. Don't yawll know you're supposed to cower down to UT.... Now everybody get in line and keep quiet. No more talk of leaving the conference. No, no, we won't have any talk of Big Twelve Television. Don't you know that we are gonna have a UT Network and keep all the money. Yep kinda like we do now, that thar conference split is a gooood deal for yawll.... Oh yeah by the way the CCG is gonna be in our back yard and yawll better like that too. Because if ya don't tough bowel movement... Besides just ask the Big Twelve big dummy and he'll tell ya how it's gonna go, get on the plane or deboard.

 

As for the last CCG. Do you know how lucky yawll were to be in that game. If poor ole Colt wasn't harassed all day by that thar N dam knog Suh feller, you know he woulda found his Broke Back Mountain buddy, errr, I mean his fishin' friend. Now yawll get back up thar north where ya belong and stay in line...

 

And don't ya like how they call the new qb GG. Ain't that special. And maybe somewhat limp wristed.

 

 

I didn't think I'd have to do this but

[carlfense]

Come, come now. Don't yawll know you're supposed to cower down to UT.... Now everybody get in line and keep quiet. No more talk of leaving the conference. No, no, we won't have any talk of Big Twelve Television. Don't you know that we are gonna have a UT Network and keep all the money. Yep kinda like we do now, that thar conference split is a gooood deal for yawll.... Oh yeah by the way the CCG is gonna be in our back yard and yawll better like that too. Because if ya don't tough bowel movement... Besides just ask the Big Twelve big dummy and he'll tell ya how it's gonna go, get on the plane or deboard.

 

As for the last CCG. Do you know how lucky yawll were to be in that game. If poor ole Colt wasn't harassed all day by that thar N dam knog Suh feller, you know he woulda found his Broke Back Mountain buddy, errr, I mean his fishin' friend. Now yawll get back up thar north where ya belong and stay in line...

 

And don't ya like how they call the new qb GG. Ain't that special. And maybe somewhat limp wristed.

 

 

I didn't think I'd have to do this but

I already +1'ed your post. I've seen a LOT of UT fans that say the things you said . . . but they are serious.