Coach V’s Grades: UT-Tech
The grades are in after UT's 41-34 thrilling win over Tech in Lubbock. Offense making strides and defense going another direction for the Longhorns in early November.
Coach V’s Grades: Texas-Baylor
It was a crazy Saturday in college football. The No. 9 Texas Longhorns held onto the win over I-35 rival Baylor. Coach Venable drops his game grades. Positive signs sprinkled with some guys that need progress reports. OFFENSE We knew it was coming. The good news is we hired coach Hand last spring. The bad …
Coach V’s Grades: Texas-Maryland
Here are Coach Venables' offensive and defensive grades after Maryland's 34-29 win over UT at FedEx Field on Saturday. Some good, some bad, and some optimism.
Coach V’s Grades: Texas 33, Mizzou 16
Our Coach Venable grades the Longhorns after UT's 33-16 win over Missouri in the Texas Bowl. Improvements across the board equal a great offseason and expectations in 2018.
Coach V’s Grades: Texas 28, WVU 14
Texas thumped No. 24 West Virginia in Morgantown on Saturday, notching bowl eligibility in Tom Herman's first season. Here are Coach Venable's grades following the 28-14 win.
Coach V’s Grades: Texas 40, KSU 34 (2OT)
The offense found a rhythm, the defense continued its solid play. Add those to a budding young QB, and Texas beat K-State and moved to 2-0 in the big 12 for the first time since 2013.
Coach V’s Grades: Texas 17, ISU 7
There are times when I strongly wish two platoon football was still in vogue. It would be nice if we could take the heart and desire of our defensive personnel into the offensive huddle but that's foolishness at best. I am going out on a limb and say our huddle actually knows their assignments and are being coached successfully. I'm not convinced either (players-staff) fully understand the desired effort it takes to fulfill those assignments.
Coach V’s Grades: Texas-WVU
We had a very uneven performance on offense against WVU. We couldn't finish the deal--it's that simple. We kept shooting ourselves in the forward progress aspect of the game with penalties, turnovers, missed assignments, and clock mismanagement from the sideline. They just don't reward yardage gained and we damn sure didn't get the most points out of a 550 yards gained effort.
Coach V’s Grades: Texas-KSU
We started the game with three off-sides penalties in the first five plays and set our tone to coast on until time to catch the plane. Poona Ford (95) played very well. Chris Nelson (97) is our best defensive player and he played well again. DeShon Elliott (4) had a good game in a brief appearance. Edwin Freeman (35) had two big plays but his linebacking lacks energy.
Coach V’s Grades: Texas-ISU
We had a very uneven offensive performance yesterday. We had one fumble. We had one late interception. We managed to supply Iowa State with four drive killing penalties in the first half. We lost our starting center early in the second quarter. We waited too late to throw deep balls and we vacated the pocket out the back door too often. We missed a few blocks and a couple of creases but the main problem was not being consistent with our play. We still need to dress up our 18 wheeler package. We will need to be better than we were yesterday.
