Texas won 10 of 11 with the only loss to #2 OU. I fail to see any reason for their dissatisfaction with Davis. UT will likely get left out of the BCS, primarily due to the powers that be wanting desperately to get a non-BCS conference school (read UTAH) into the mix. Texas has the most reasons of any team to cry foul. I love my Tigers but I don't want any part of Texas on January 1st. They are extremely talented and have a lot to prove.
I agree 100% with that, even though Davis may actually be out of favor with the nuttier longhorn fans, like Fisher is here.
According to my Gameday program from the Ole Miss game last week, it said it would increase seating by 3,200.....
I have a friend that lives in the Austin area (he's not an LSU fan--just so that disproves any "biased" info being passed on by my part), and he said that UT fans are arrogant.....EXTREMELY arrogant. He said that have this huge superiority complex--like OU shouldn't beat them--but rather lie down because they're Texas. One of my friends in Boston is a HUGE Longhorn fan--and I can see in his actions where my Austin buddy is coming from. My "Boston Longhorn Buddy" claims that EVERYTHING about Texas is the best thing since slice bread (and here's the kicker--he's NEVER even BEEN to a Longhorn game, he went to GA Tech and Boston U, NEVER EVEN WENT TO UT, his dad went there before he was even born....yet when we have a discussion about "gameday experiences" with other friends from Michigan, Miami and Wisconsin, he has the nerve to say Texas is the best.....pretty good considering he doesn't even know what the inside of that stadium looks like)....
You're definitely right about that. Even Dinardo did get some things done with the facilities, he actually did a better job of that than with his coaching.
I've seen Texas's facilities for their athletes, and believe me - they are top notch. From what I hear, LSU's are very nice but I haven't seen those. UT's pockets are incredibly deep and they will continue to have some of the best facilities in the country. Also, Texas fans are probably the most arrogant people on the planet. When they lost to OU all they had to say was that the OU fans would be working for them one day. They also said the only difference between OU & UT fans was that UT fans got accepted when they applied. The arrogance from those people is unbelievable... They're even arrogant enough to fire their most winningst coach ever. Maybe not right now, but I guarantee its on alot of their fans' minds.
The kid sounds like an egomaniac, so play to his ego, I say. One of the most athletically-gifted QB prospects to come out of Louisiana in recent memory (note I don't consider Peyton so much "athletically gifted" as just a damn good all-around QB, but I digress) gets to play for his home state team when it's at the height of it's powers? Dude, he'd be a legend in Louisiana second to none, if he plays his cards right. What egotistical player can resist that kind of notoriety? BTW, I spent the weekend in Austin and talked to a huge UT fan and booster. I kinda reeled him in by saying, "Hey, that Vince Young sure looks like the real deal. Guess he's a mortal lock to start the next two years, eh?" "Most definitely," he replied, to which I said, "That's just what I wanted to hear, but I doubt Ryan Perriloux feels the same way." He just told me to "F" off and walked away...LOL. :lol:
They (Texas) say that about all schools. The ego on most Texas-exes is unbelievably large. Come spend a week in Houston...you'll hate Texas before day 2.
I would agree with your post if it were 2002, but this talented Texas team (and it is) has yet to prove that it's as dominant as its 10-1 record suggests. Are their close escapes against an Arkansas team that LSU just crushed and a below-average Kansas team (that should have been a loss) really that much better than LSU's close calls against, say, Ole Miss and Troy? I think that, if LSU and Texas meet again and both are "on" the day that they play, it'll be a very close game. The 2004 Texas team is no better than the 2002 version, yet the 2004 LSU team is far better, IMO, than it's 2002 counterpart...as long as the QB play is decent (which, as the description of them being "on" implies, it would be).
