Texas Till I Die

I don't believe in moral victories. Congrats to Alabama you are the better team and the scoreboard proves it. This morning a lot of folks are apologizing for Texas because McCoy got hurt, but injuries are part of football and no one ever stops the game and reschedules because someone gets hurt so we can what both teams are like at full strength.

However, I am still very impressed by what Texas did. To have lost their unquestioned leader and one of their top offensive stars one series into the game and then to fall behind 24-6 at halftime were two terrible blows. In the past the knock on the Horns was that they were soft as warm butter and would roll over as soon as anything went wrong (see the five game losing streak to OU as proof). But last night in the face of terrible opposition Texas hung tough with a team that was just better than they were and managed to make a game of it, and that is not something they would always have done in the past. There are many things to criticize about last nights loss from very little playing time for the backup through out the year to a really questionable time out and pass right before halftime to a bad drop in the end zone in the second quarter, but in the end what happened last night was Alabama took advantage of their opportunities and Texas did not. And that is why Alabama is better.

But I am proud of the way that Texas hung in out manned and out gunned and made a game of what should have been a blow out. Next year will be tough with the graduation of Shipley and McCoy but I am very hopeful given the performance of Gilbert against very long odds and I think next year holds great promise.

BTW for those of you who don't know this one is about my true mental illness... college football.

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