MINING ANOTHER 'W'
If they handed out report cards for games, I'd have to give Colt McCoy an "A-minus" for last night's nightcap against the Miners of UTEP.
Of course, he got an "A-plus" last week against FAU, so ... for this semester he is averaging an "A." Can't complain about that.
His only blemish in the 42-13 victory was that interception on a pass play that is a "sure thing" for Quan Cosby, but sometimes a little "iffy" with anyone else. Prior to that he came close a couple of times to throwing a pick. But not bad for someone playing past his bedtime. Seven TDs and one INT so far. Not a bad ratio.
The Horns play their first "Tier 1" team next weekend when Arkansas comes to town. Of course, the Razorbacks are a shell of the team they were in 2007, and they've had to rally late in their first two games this year to steal wins against "Tier 3" teams (Western Illionois and Louisiana-Monroe).
Texas returns to the "normal" time and place for a college ballgame - 2:30 p.m. Saturday on ABC. That's more like it.
Colt is hitting 75.8 percent of his passes for more than 500 yards, and he is scrambling better and wiser than anytime in his career.
He's making the grade just fine, and for the maturity level he's showing, I'm also giving him a big checkmark next to "citizenship."