I think the Horns stick it to Maryland this time. Guess we'll see.
I thought so before current events, but situations like the one Maryland is in can be tricky, and what I see a lot of is when a team in UT's position can land that first punch in the mouth, no matter how much a team in Maryland's position is in "rally mode," their resolve does not tend to be so great. UT may be flat out better, or they may not be but if they keep fighting I think the ball will eventually bounce their way and Maryland may not be up to responding. If UT jumps out to an early lead, it could get ugly.
I was reading on another thread in ELA's countdown of teams where 847Badger and some others seem to think we really messed up letting Canada go, and referred to him as "one of the top OC's in the country." I would love to know what any of that is based on. We got rid of him because just like the last 3 coaches he worked for, he couldn't get along with the HC. He did pull off the miracle of making Pitt's Nathan Peterman look like an actual QB, so that's something. His offense was not really anything different than what we've been doing forever, other than a lot more pre-snap motion. It was good for freezing some LBs when you could catch them right, but it didn't fool any of the good defenses we played. He was a "meh" playcaller and he was horrendous at red-zone concepts. I mean, he wasn't bad by any stretch, but neither was he a clear improvement nor was he worth what we were paying him, especially considering he couldn't get along with half the staff, including his boss.
I guess we'll see what he's got as the HC, but I'm hard pressed to find too much for Texas to worry about here.
Other than the fact that Texas has kinda sucked during certain of the last 8 seasons.