Longhorns Lose Even More Depth At Receiver!
by ccmachine on Aug 4, 2011 4:36 PM CDT
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PrintThe Texas Longhorns failed to reach six wins last season but apparently were impressive enough to make their way into the inaugural coaches poll at #24. Before the throngs of burnt orange clad fanatics could finish their we're number #24 celebration dances came the news that getting their passing game back to par just became even more difficult. As if Malcolm Brown needed anymore pressure on his shoulders.
James Kirkendoll was the team's leading receiver last season with 52 receptions for 707 yards and two touchdowns. He's off trying to get his NFL career started leaving Mike Davis as the leading receiver for the Longhorns. Davis is more than capable of being one of the top receivers in the Big 12 but its his supporting cast that has fallen apart.
He was supposed to be joined on the field by Marquise Goodwin and Malcolm Williams who would help spread the field and take some of the defensive pressure off. Goodwin is off chasing Olympic dreams and now comes the news that Williams has left the team to resolve some personal family issues.
So where does all this leave Texas? It leaves them with an unproven offensive line, a receiver with super star potential, a quarterback who throws more interceptions than touchdowns and...well that's pretty much it. Williams averaged 13.9 yards per reception last year while hauling in 24 passes for 334 yards and two touchdowns. Among the receiving corps he was the team's second leading returning receiver and Goodwin was third.
Now DeSean Hales takes over as the second leading receiver with 10 receptions for 75 yards.
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the Horns are in trouble.
Josh Hamilton: "I just show up, look at the lineup and play where I’m told. If they want me to catch, I’ll catch."
Jon Daniels on relationship with #Rangers Young: "I’d love to walk in and hug everybody every day, but that’s not critical to us winning." 2/19/11
Which is saying something.
Josh Hamilton: "I just show up, look at the lineup and play where I’m told. If they want me to catch, I’ll catch."
Jon Daniels on relationship with #Rangers Young: "I’d love to walk in and hug everybody every day, but that’s not critical to us winning." 2/19/11
Meh
To be honest, Williams had 1 good game against Tech in 2008, which we lost.
I loved him after that game and thought he was a superstar waiting to emerge; yet it never happened. I’m much more troubled by the loss of Marquise Goodwin.
I will say this about MW, as GoBR said on BON, he was a force in special teams. That’s where it probably hurts us the most.
For the receivers, I can’t wait to see Shipley 2.0 get out on the field.
Sad news about Malcolm. I really hope this kid can get his personal affairs in order and finish his degree. His absence will especially be missed on special teams where he really excelled. Kid is definitely a worker and really wish the best for him.
The WR corp has definitely taken a blow this summer with Malcolm leaving and Marquise taking the year off to work on bringing home Olympic gold. Davis is the #1 guy, but he is followed by a bunch of talented, inexperienced WR’s. Jaxson Shipley will more than likely be the #2 coming out of camp, but again he is a Freshman w/o any experience.John Harris is another Frosh with great hands and has by some reports moved into the #3 spot. Darius White is another guy that is long on talent, but short on catches. He had a pretty good spring game, but appears to battling Harris for the #3 spot. Patrick McNamara (walk-on) had a great spring game and could really contribute this year. He appears to have great hands and runs really clean routes.
If this keeps up, we will be running the option w/Wood, Bergeron, Shead & Brown.
I haven't read much about the ut Defense
how does the D look this year. Better than last year and how is the staff getting along? I feel that most of ut’s problems last year were self-inflicted due to the internal friction, although Gilbert’s dilbert like performances didn’t help.
Defense should be pretty solid
LB will definitely be a strength with about 6 guys who would start for just about every other team in the Big 12-2
We lost a couple of guys in the defensive backfield, but we have some talented freshmen who are making waves. Vaccaro is set for a break out year (and could possibly kill someone) at the safety position. Quandre Diggs (Jammer’s younger brother) has shown some flashes and he is not afraid to mix it up
Wilson, Okafor, Jeffcoat & Johnson make a pretty good group of DE’s. Chris Whaley has also made the switch to DE and the word is that he has bought in and is trying to learn to as much as he can. Our rotation here should be good.
Bible, Cotton, Daniels, Dorsey, Jackson & Randall will make up the DT rotation. How well this groups performs depends on a couple of the young guys stepping. Bible needs to lose some weight, but he has the potential.
New scheme will mean some growing pains, but I think we will be in pretty good shape.
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