Attended Texas scrimmage this morning - comparison to VOLS...

[General Jack]

I'm not a Texas fan, but I attended out of curiosity as to what I would see related to their QBs... given the heartburn a lot of us had surrounding Ainge's performance last week.

Their situation at QB is having a redshirt FR (Colt McCoy) and true FR (Jevon Sneed) battle for the starting spot. Both are generally drop back passers with some, but limited mobility. Similar to Ainge and Crompton.

I don't have a stat sheet but I would say the redshirt FR (McCoy) was about 5-8 for 80 yards including a perfectly thrown 40 yard ball on a fly pattern. No fumbled snaps, no timeouts, no int's, but no TDs.

The true FR (Sneed) played more, was probably about 6-12 for 70 yards with one INT, a couple of low balls and one timeout b/c of the play clock running low.

The KEY difference in their scrimmage was all first team offense work was against the second team defense (but keep in mind Texas second team D is still pretty good). But my takeaway was that comparing this scrimmage to ours last Saturday, their redshirt FR QB (McCoy) who has not taken a snap in a D1 game might be playing better than our experienced junior. :realmad:

That being said I'm really pulling for Ainge and looking forward to our scrimmage tonight. I hope we see significant improvement.

 

[OrangeSquare]

VERY interesting.

Thanks alot for taking the time to share that.

 

[rexvol]

thanks for the info

 

[texas_vol]

living in austin i hear about the longhorns all the time. here are some tidbits I received from a friend who attended the game as well. interesting read:

First-Team Offense, Defense Show Great Speed Before Appreciative Fans
It's always hard to make firm judgements after watching the Texas Longhorns
scrimmage the Texas Longhorns, but one encouraging obvious conclusion
Saturday
was that both first-team units have so much speed they might be the fastest
units in school history.
About 15,000 fans got up early to see the third and final public practice.
It
started right after 7 a.m. and concluded just before 9 a.m. and head coach
Mack Brown said the scrimmage included about 70 snaps. The fans cheered a
lot
and then were serenaded by the players and coaches with "The Eyes of Texas."
Then many of them stuck around in the heat to get in line for players' and
coaches' autographs.
Redshirt freshman QB Colt McCoy clearly is the starter, for the present
anyway, because he led the first team to TDs in his first two drives against
the
second-team defense while his only competitor, true freshman Jevan Snead,
took
nmost of his snaps with the second team. He did get two series with most of
the first team, but one ended in a sack and another ended in an
interception.
The coaches never had the first offense and first defense oppose each other
in the scrimmage, and Brown said that was because "they go against each
other
every day in practice, and we wanted to see how some of the younger guys did
against the first team because we're looking for backups at several
positions."
But this Longhorn team is deeper in true talent than any other UT football
team in recent years, and there are quality backups at every positions.
The most outstanding play of the scrimmage, for example was by true freshman
safety Robert Joseph, who reached over starting WR Billy Pittman to make a
spectacular interception of a Snead pass. Another fine play was by true
freshman
DT Ben Alexander, who showed great explosiveness in breaking into the
backfield and tackling true freshman RB Vondrell McGee for a loss.
Brown praised both QBs, saying "there is a tremendous amount of talent with
both of them" and predicting "both will be fine football players."
The third QB, true freshman Sherrod Harris, also showed he will be a force
to
be reckoned with down the line by hitting receivers on long and short routes
consistently.
McCoy completed 5 of 6 passes against a mixture of second-and-third team
players for 68 yards. Senior RB Selvin Young, minus 16 pounds he carried
last
year, showed great quickness at 190 and scored the first TD on a 10-yard
run.He
had four carries for 56 yards to lead all rushers.
A pass from McCoy to WR Limas Sweed for 43 yards set up the first TD. It
came
on a third-and-12 play and kept the scoring drive alive.
Snead and sophomore RB Jamaal Charles, working with the second unit
primarily
against the first-team defense, had a tougher outing. Snead completed 4 of 8
passes for 24 yards and Charles had three carries for 31 yards, including a
17-yard TD run when he was working with the starting offense.
DE Tim Crowder and backup MLB Rod Muckelroy had sacks. Brown said Muckelroy,
a redshirt freshmanm, can play all three LB spots, adding "right now, Rod
Muckelroy would (be the first) backup at all three linebacker positions."
True
freshman LB Sergio Kindle is a great prospect, but he is out with a high
ankle
sprain.
Brown said the team will be off Saturday afternoon and Sunday before
returning to work Monday.

 

[tmodaniel]

Great info keep posting Thanks