Biggest problem I have with this season so far... is that we've got so much going right for us, it's hard to find what to talk about. Queue another GD bashing session in 3... 2... 1...

Well, we're not the only team with woes. Our counterparts over in the SEC have troubles of their own, and they're not too far removed from ours.

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Now we're across the hump of our season, and have had a good look at our guys for the season, let's go over some numbers.

Let's look at what we're good at, and what we're not so good at...

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I barely was able to attend the RRS due to a barely functional DART transit system. Thanks, DART, for sending me one and a half hours in the wrong direction before bringing me back around to the fair ground..

A few things that I observed from the stands that I'm sure PB and and GoBR will cover along with others after the jump.

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We'll all be frothing at the mouth from a mixture of football frenzy, revenge, and jagermeister come 7:00 PM this Saturday when the Texas Tech Red Raiders and their moustached captain come to town. In a world where people are judged on their merits, we could concentrate solely on this game and continue to pick apart our longhorn's performance in position by position and play by play.

However, in this imperfect world of college football that we live in, it's not enough to analyze your own team and its games, it matters who you play and who they play and who played them the week before.

This travesty that makes college football a sport AND an election, turned Lonhorn fans into Colorado fans for a nail biting kick at the end of last season.


So what's in store for us this week? Where should we be proxy fans?

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What stood out to me during the NC game last season is Florida's secondary doing a heck of a job disrupting OU's pass game. To give Florida credit, I hadn't seen any defence like that at all during the season, especially not one that was able to keep pace with OU's receiving corps.

To bring this around back to Texas, we've got a lot of sophmores in our secondary, just like Florida did last year, and they're under possibly one of the best defensive coordinators out there right now, what's the likelyhood that our secondary is not just good, but *great*?

With the Big 12 being so pass happy, I think having an elite secondary / linebacker setup could be even more useful to us in pulling in wins than having the monster pass rushers on the line we had last season.

Florida held OU to 14 points... So here's hoping for a Texas 45 - OU 14 score for this years RRS game. I think our secondary holds the key to the NC this year.

"After listening to defensive coordinator Will Muschamp spend the spring preaching the importance of forcing turnovers, a young secondary picked off two passes on the first five possessions.

Earl Thomas returned an interception 35 yards for a touchdown after stepping in front of a Colt McCoy pass. Nolan Brewster also had a pick on a deflection. The Longhorns had just six interceptions in 13 games last season.

"We've got to make more big plays," Muschamp said. "We've got to make more turnovers and cash in our opportunities. Anytime you have an opportunity to pick off Colt McCoy, you've done something right because he's very accurate and he goes with the ball in the right places.""

http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/04/secondary-stars-at-texas-spring-game.html