Hard to Believe We Were 27-16 With Sam as a Starter

[horninchicago]

Are trying to tell me we had any "schemes" and/or "coaching"

Good point!

 

[WorsterMan]

I never quite understood the Sam is a great leader (sorry don´t mean to aggrevate everyone). I can never in a million years picture Vince Young (who I consider a great leader) being abandoned by all of his teammates if he chose to sing the Eyes of Texas in the same situation. I highly respect Sam for staying out there by himself and I consider him to have outstanding qualities such as personal strength, morals, etc..., but I have always thought that if he was a great leader, most of the team would have been standing next to him or at least his linemen. I am probably wrong.

Too many "woke" players left Sam, UT and the program on the field after that game vs. ou

 

[RainH2burntO]

Since some of you turned this in to a defend Sam thread and it has come up on another thread now.....I would like to raise the Alamo Bowl game and how quickly the offense came alive when Thompson entered as an exhibit in any argument for or against Sam's alleged, perceived, or potential weaknesses.
I am not even sure how I view it myself...Just raising it to stir the debate and for the sake of argument...

 

[Detective Shilala]

Yep Sam’s injuries are partly on coaching. TH clung to Sam’s strengths like a security blanket but those same strengths are the ones that got him beat up.

We’ll never know for sure if a better coach would have been able to develop Sam into a more complete player. It’s possible the guy guy is near his ceiling as a player. But my guess is Sam could have been more dynamic in a better system.
(And he would have been less prone to injury!)
one thing we do know is whenever Sam hit a wall, he hit a wall. There were games where the offense just seemed hopeless. (See Alamo bowl last year)