The football year in review by Journalism professor Larry Carlson.
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Commentary by Larry Carlson ( [email protected] )
The Longhorns won't be short on storylines, possibilities, or good players in 2023. That is always the case. But as the incomparable Darrell Royal famously dismissed underachievers, "“Potential means you ain't done it yet.”
It's daunting to stare at eight months of no college football. Talk about a dry January.
Especially tough when your Longhorns have lost at least five games for the eleventh time in thirteen years (the Horns went 10-4 in 2018 and 7-3 in Covid-infused 2020).
Sure, there were bright spots in 2022. Playing Bama down to the gun was encouraging, at least at the time.
Beating the hell out of OU was fun, even if the Sooners were missing their QB and went on to a losing season.
Knocking out eventual Big XII conference champ Kansas State on the road was satisfying. And Bijan won the Doak Walker Award as the nation's best running back, even if some UT fans were still puzzling over why the tempest from Tucson wasn't getting the ball for long stretches during losses to Oklahoma State and TCU.
But it was unsettling, upon further review, to hear Steve Sarkisian talk about "progress" after an Alamo Bowl loss that was just plain ugly. Post-game remarks revealed that a new season's spin cycle was underway, with leftover burnt orange kool-aid ready for peddling.
So the glass seems half empty, at least to some of us.
If you watched Georgia overwhelm TCU, consider the very real possibility that UT football is far from being well prepared for a regular season gauntlet of SEC warfare.
It is coming soon.
The link to the rest of Professor Carlson's article is at https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/2022-2023-reviewand...
If you disagree or agree with him, please reply to Larry's email at [email protected] . I will also forward your comments on his article to THE PROFESSOR.
Commentary by Larry Carlson ( [email protected] )
The Longhorns won't be short on storylines, possibilities, or good players in 2023. That is always the case. But as the incomparable Darrell Royal famously dismissed underachievers, "“Potential means you ain't done it yet.”
It's daunting to stare at eight months of no college football. Talk about a dry January.
Especially tough when your Longhorns have lost at least five games for the eleventh time in thirteen years (the Horns went 10-4 in 2018 and 7-3 in Covid-infused 2020).
Sure, there were bright spots in 2022. Playing Bama down to the gun was encouraging, at least at the time.
Beating the hell out of OU was fun, even if the Sooners were missing their QB and went on to a losing season.
Knocking out eventual Big XII conference champ Kansas State on the road was satisfying. And Bijan won the Doak Walker Award as the nation's best running back, even if some UT fans were still puzzling over why the tempest from Tucson wasn't getting the ball for long stretches during losses to Oklahoma State and TCU.
But it was unsettling, upon further review, to hear Steve Sarkisian talk about "progress" after an Alamo Bowl loss that was just plain ugly. Post-game remarks revealed that a new season's spin cycle was underway, with leftover burnt orange kool-aid ready for peddling.
So the glass seems half empty, at least to some of us.
If you watched Georgia overwhelm TCU, consider the very real possibility that UT football is far from being well prepared for a regular season gauntlet of SEC warfare.
It is coming soon.
The link to the rest of Professor Carlson's article is at https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/2022-2023-reviewand...
