A New Era | The Texas Longhorns

[R1zzo23]

Everyone always dreams about being able to recruit in the state of Texas when they are deciding where to play for their dynasty. Your recruiting situation shows that, while there is an embarrassment of riches in the state, it is mighty difficult to land the guys you want. It's tough to see some top in-state prospects snuff your program and go to a rival like the Aggies. Unfortunately, the loss to OU may not help much either.

Tyrone Swoopes struggled mightily throwing the ball against the Sooners' defense. If OU's defense is as good as advertised, they did an amazing job of making your offense very one-dimensional.

[TearzBoiKilla]

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Quote: Originally Posted by LopaKa

phenomenal work here Tearz, bravo sir. I know i'm late to the party, but i'll definitely be following from here on out. The effort you put into this is tremendous, and the quality is top notch. Keep it up! Also nice start to the season, but what a tough loss to Oklahoma...hopefully you guys can bounce back!

Thanks LopaKa, I have always enjoyed your work as you know so glad to have you following along here.

Quote: Originally Posted by rhs_rizzo

Everyone always dreams about being able to recruit in the state of Texas when they are deciding where to play for their dynasty. Your recruiting situation shows that, while there is an embarrassment of riches in the state, it is mighty difficult to land the guys you want. It's tough to see some top in-state prospects snuff your program and go to a rival like the Aggies. Unfortunately, the loss to OU may not help much either. Tyrone Swoopes struggled mightily throwing the ball against the Sooners' defense. If OU's defense is as good as advertised, they did an amazing job of making your offense very one-dimensional.

Texas is such a good place to recruit in but sadly this season the Longhorns are finding it tough with a new head coach. Morris recruiting tree looks a little bleak as he builds through his levels and that is hurting the team when it comes to getting top recruits to come to Austin and hurting us even more when they commit to rival schools who face next year or even every year.

[TearzBoiKilla]

TEXAS STRUGGLES RECRUITING CONTINUE

By William Groves, texassports.com

Austin, Texas --. The Longhorns loss to Oklahoma didn't just damage morale but it added more grief for Chad Morris with four more recruits from the Longhorns board handed their letters of intent to other schools.

Two of those recruits were actually in Dallas to witness the Longhorns humiliating loss to Oklahoma, cornerbacks Keith Young and Ulysses Coleman both four star players choose to attend other schools; Coleman will head to Michigan the school he had ranked #1 since week three and Young who had Texas as his top school just two weeks ago will now attend Iowa.

Heavily recruited five-star inside linebacker Joe Hicks is another player who never really looked likely to give his commitment to the Longhorns program but Chad Morris and his recruting staff invested a lot of time in a position and player they felt will upgrade the team however this wasn't enough for Hicks to change his mind and his commitment to his boyhood team the BYU Cougars came this weekend also.

Then yet another player on the Longhorns board has handed a commitment to a rival school with four-star offensive tackle Scott Jefferson jumping Oklahoma above Texas just off the back of the Red River win for the Sooners and the 6-foot-6 and 304lbs #10th best offensive tackle gave his letter of intent to the Sooners damaging once again the hopes in Austin that they may sign a recruit soon.

As we head into week seven and the next game against UCLA two more recruits take their offical visits to Texas, here are those two recruits.

FS Josh Walter has Texas ranked #1 above Baylor and Nebraska heading into the visit with Athlete Chad Britton ranking the Longhorns slightly behind the Sooners but in front of Texas A&M, Chad Morris has to sign a recruit soon or his first class as Texas head coach could be a poor one.

ATH Chad Britton [ATH #33]: 6-2, 216lbs | San Angelo, TX



FS Josh Walter [FS #30]: 6-1, 186lbs | Balch Springs, TX (JUCO)

[Matt10]

Look it's, Tearz!! What's up, man. Keep the updates rolling man. I'm catching up !

[TearzBoiKilla]

Quote: Originally Posted by Matt10

Look it's, Tearz!! What's up, man. Keep the updates rolling man. I'm catching up !

I wasn't sure anyone would recognise me under a different username over here Glad to see you Matt, still running any PES reports?

[TearzBoiKilla]

WEEK ONE PREVIEW

WEEK SEVEN GAME PREVIEW
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UCLA Bruins (1-4, 1-2)		#13 Texas Longhorns (5-1, 5-1)
Offensive Stats Comparison 11.6 (#125) Points Per Game 35.3 (#10) 273.8 (#120) Total Offense 455.7 (#9) 165.6 (#70) Rush Offense 231.3 (#13) 108.2 (#124) Pass Offense 224.3 (#41) Defensive Stats Comparison 379.4 (#82) Total Defense 400.8 (#95) 164.2 (#59) Rush Defense 113.2 (#4) 215.2 (#91) Pass Defense 287.7 (#124) 107 (#56) Points Allowed 169 (#118) -2 (#90) Turnover Margin 1 (#47)
Injury Report FB Josh Fuglsang (Strained Shoulder) Questionable N/A OC Jake Brendel (Broken Fibula) Out for Season

[TearzBoiKilla]

2014 SEASON OUTLOOK.....2014 ROSTER.....2014 SCHEDULE.....2014 RECRUITING



WEEK SEVEN

37-40


UCLA BRUINS (1-4, 1-2)
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#13 TEXAS LONGHORNS (5-1, 5-1)

TYRONE SWOOPES CELEBRATES HIS GAME WINNING TOUCHDOWN

THE HARRY HOUDINI
Swoopes overtime touchdown run helps Texas pass UCLA in Arlington.

Arlington, TX -- If there was an award for the greatest Harry Houdini act in college football then redshirt freshman Tyrone Swoopes and the Texas Longhorns would be taking it home with them after this weekends escape act in a 40-37 overtime victory over Jim Mora and the UCLA Bruins.

Through the first half the Texas offense was just horrible, although opening the game with a 16-yard touchdown run from Joe Bergeron the Longhorns faltered on their next three possessions and by this point were trailing the Bruins 13-7 thanks to some stellar defense once again from this much improved defensive unit at Texas.

UCLA may have scored 37 points, but the Longhorns defense held the Bruins to just 206-yards of total offense with fourteen of the Bruins points coming from elsewhere and on top of the small yardage allowance the Longhorns allowed just 12 first downs in the game.

The Bruins were allowed a chance to win the game through the fact that the Texas offense was mediocre all day mainly Tyrone Swoopes once again but Ka'Mi Fairburn who had hit all three of his field goals shanked the game winning field goal wide right and gave the Longhorns the chance to win in overtime.

Tyrone Swoopes maybe credited with the Texas win thanks to his 1-yard quarterback sneak in overtime but the redshirt freshman had plenty of struggles which just seemed to roll over into this one from last weeks loss to Oklahoma. Swoopes had four personal turnovers again, three interceptions thrown and one near costly fourth quarter fumble. Swoopes finished the game 26 of 49 for 262-yards with three touchdown all thrown to Kendall Sanders. On the ground Swoopes rushed for 86-yards whilst Johnathan Gray managed 70-yards on 21 carries.

For UCLA it was the curse of what could have been, their defense pulled the ball from Swoopes with 1:41 left but watched as Jerry Neuheisel threw the ball straight back to the Longhorns two plays later. Neuheisel wouldn't have even been playing in this game today had Asiantii Woulard not transfferd to USF during the off-season but for UCLA Neuheisel was in the game and he just didn't seem to have that wow factor that could push the Bruins to an upset over Texas.

Neuheisel went 15 of 33 for 113-yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. On the ground Neuheisel carried the ball for the most yards for the Bruins as the Longhorns shutdown yet another talented runningback in Paul Perkins, Neuheisel rushed for 40-yards on 12 carries with Perkins adding 17-yards on 14 carries, Jordan James was the only Bruin to carry the ball into the endzone today.

Looking again at how the Longhorns managed to win this game you could only point to stamina, going into overtime the Bruins looked worn down and maybe that is why they could only make a 34-yard field goal which proved not enough. Looking at the Bruins defense throughout the game they seemed to have the measure of this Texas offense, they had no less than nineteen tackles for losses, five sacks, three interceptions and a forced fumble so maybe Jim Mora has to look at why his offense couldn't win this game when his defense simply played lights out.

"Again not good enough," said Chad Morris after the game. "We really need to look at ourselves over these last two games and wonder what has gone wrong with the offense, no one seems to want to step up and make the big plays anymore. We made one pass over 26-yards and that isn't good enough to win games but thankfully we did and we can work again next week with still only one loss."

Next week, the Longhorns finally return to Austin to host the Baylor Bears (3-1, 1-0). The Longhorns have failed to beat the Bears in their last two attempts and Chad Morris but shake this monkey for Texas should the Longhorns really want to win the Big XII this year. Baylor come into the game a little banged up on offense, quarterback Bryce Petty went down in last weeks win over West Virginia and he will miss two weeks out with a strained back and sophomore runningback Shock Linwood is out for another four weeks with a foot fracture.

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