LIFE GOES ON
By Danny Reagan / Abilene, Texas
The Longhorns resumed practice, Colt McCoy is recuperating and Mack Brown feels like talking again.
In fact, he said a lot of stuff following Tuesday's practice. Here are a couple of them edited down from the press conference:
About Colt: "We learned in about week three or four that Colt was a great leader. Anytime you take a guy out of your team that has taken a lot of snaps, touched the ball every time he was on the field, and everybody was talking about for the Heisman, it’s going to affect you some. It’s going to affect you as a team. What we’ve got to do is do a better job when something like that happens. That’s part of the game; you have to step up and everybody has to play a little bit better." (Source: mackbrown-texasfootball.com)
About Jevan Snead: "I thought he did really, really well. If you look at where he was compared to where Colt [McCoy] was at Ohio State, they both played very similar games. They made some big plays, they kept us in the game, they gave us the chance to win, and we needed to help both of them more. We felt like for Jevan’s first game, he showed a lot of skill, ability and poise and that was like putting Colt in that first one against Ohio State. There was a tremendous amount of pressure on the road ..." (Source: mackbrown-texasfootball.com)
I think both those quotes reflect Brown's confidence in his young quarterbacks. Losing Colt was obviously a downer for everyone in burnt orange, but despite being snakebitten on defense and special teams, the Longhorns almost pulled it out. Snead definitely got better as the game wore on. It just didn't wear on long enough.
But that was then and this is now, and Texas A&M is next.
As Indiana Jones might say ... "Aggies, why'd it have to be Aggies!?"
But at least the game's not on the road. }:-P~