re: Longhorn fans already smack talking

That big Alamo Bowl victory over a 5A west coast team has them brimming with confidence.

Shallow assessment by Horn fans? Nah.

They have no idea

Well, you can't blame 'em for wishing. They smell blood in the water and they fee they're ready to reel in a BIG one!
Remember though, they gonna be sitting really high in the nosebleed section, all of the fans. And the locker room should be warm & toasty for the team. It's called PAYBACK

We’ll beat their arse, then our former D Coordinator will beat them. At least I hope anyway.

Pretty sure we just won the “we’re back “ title this year. They probably jealous

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does anyone know how many starters they are losing?

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Not too many on defense. Off the top of my head, Brandon Jones at safety, Jeff McCullough at LB, and Malcolm Roach at DE. They were young on defense this season and will be returning a lot of starters and key rotation guys. Their new DC Chris Ash will have them back in a 4-2-5 base, which I think plays better to their DL and LB personnel.

On O, they lose Duvernay and Collin Johnson at WR and a couple of OL, including Zach Shackleford. But they return Sam, will be pretty solid and deep at RB (Ingram and Johnson return, plus Whittington should be healthy and 5-star Bijan Robinson will be in the mix, too). Question mark at WR - Eagles, Moore, and Jake Smith look to be the starters. Talented and flashed this year, but losing Duvernay is big. They also have a new OC, Mike Yurcich. Will be interesting to see how his philosophy blends with Herman's.

As objective as I can be, I think Texas will be better next year and will be a tough out. They had a ton of injuries on D this year, and I think that forced their now fired DC Todd Orlando to have to try some things to compensate, which got them out of sorts. And then their O started pressing to compensate for their D's struggles. Both sides of the ball got out of whack.

All that said, their fans are doing the same thing they did last season leading into our game with them - underestimating us. They know what we're losing. They don't know what we're returning, outside of the known guys like Chase and Stingley. I happen to think Brennan is going to impress. If he does, and a couple young LBs step up, I think we will be really good. All other positions look solid to strong to me.

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Texas fans make it so easy to dislike them.

Arrogance with absolutely zero results the last decade or so.

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Isn’t that exactly what people would have said about LSU last year?

Fortunately, the coaches and staff do not take a team with a top flight coach and that has back to back top 5 recruiting classes returning lightly. I get a kick out of people perusing an opponents board and poking fun at fans acting almost exactly like rangers do.

That being said, Coach O and LSU once again surprise the college world and comes out looking like the 2019 team but with better defense early on and leave a wake of disbelief and destruction in their path. Myles Brennan garners comparisons to Joe Burrow (doesn’t quite match his numbers) and the three headed monster of Curry, Davis-Price, and Emery call up memories of the 97 backfield of Faulk, Mealy and Collins for the long time Tiger faithful. That’s my hope, anyway.

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Texas fans make it so easy to dislike them. Their message board is pretty sad as well. Arrogance with absolutely zero results the last decade or so.

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No doubt, man. It’s a Texas thing. Aggies are the same. Dallas Cowboys, too. They’ve been raised on that Texas State history, which is a lot of very remarkable rugged individualism that the last couple of generations had nothing to do with.