Our Coach Venable grades the Longhorns each week and after a close loss to Iowa State on Saturday, some players and coaches might be headed to summer school.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.