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Whether it's true or not, I'm still a little surprised so many of you think this is really an open competition. Gilbert has gotten the most snaps since day 1 and that won't change no matter how bad he plays. We've witnessed 13 years of Mack's tendencies and some of you think he's all of the sudden changed because he was forced to fire all those coaches after last season.

I'm expecting GG to start against Rice and it's going to take multiple k-state games until Mack feels enough pressure to bench him for good.

You guys really believe Harsin would leave his home and come to Texas to install his offense and let Mack tell him who to play? I find that very hard to believe. Bohls likes to stir the pot and you guys make it very easy for him.

he has gone from offensive coordinater at Boise State to co-offensive coordinater with Applewhite at TEXAS. just my opinion, but i think Mack's calling the shots. it has always been that way, agree with him or not.

We need depth at QB. No guy should come thinking they will start as a Fresh or Soph. It is too big a risk. It paid off for us with Colt (kind of), but really hurt this last year.

No. I know that sounds fun to the fans, but it's not how it works on this one.

Mack is not in the same position he was in a couple of years ago. He does not have the same leverage with the administration and far less rope to hang himself with. That being said I believe that GG will start the season as the #1 guy. I have said this numerous times. However I have also said that he has very little rope to work with this year. Mack is not concerned with getting fired. Mack is truly concerned with his legacy. He knows, and rightfully so, that GG will get pulled quicker than you can yell fire on a repeat of last year in any similar form. I believe by the OU game we will see another guy take the reins if GG looks weak in the least. I have always been a Wood fan and I believe two things will bear true this year. We will confirm GG is not the guy and he does not have the "it" factor and Wood will either be the next guy or we are in for a bumpy year. As much as I love the McCoy name he just does not have the same intangibles as Wood. We will see.

You're either blindly optimistic or you haven't been paying close enough attention to how this program works.

Mack is a fantastic coach and I don't want anyone else right now, but he can be very stubborn and tends to be set in his ways in a lot of areas. He's made several bone headed decisions over the past decade, so it's naive to think this situation can't end up the same way.

Very few QBs could have done a good job in the offense last season, everything was just horrible. That said, a drunken idiot, i.e. me at kick-off, could tell more than a quarter of the time where Gilbert was going with the ball as soon as a passing play was imminant. Often he would spend a split second longer on his presnap reads on the WR he wanted to go to, especially with quick hitches and slants. Hell for the K State game I called an inside slant interception at my local dive bar before the snap, guess what happened. I won't even go into the fact that he stares down WRs then takes forever in his wind up (why Byrant Jackson had an interception in the spring).

People will talk about leadership and often want to see a player being vocal. It doesn't really matter what a QB does on the sideline when he doesn't produce between the whistles.

We'll find out who the starter is going to be probably just past midway through summer. Mack won't say anything. It'll be the QB that is "enforcing" summer passing sessions. Players will rally behind the QB telling them to show up if they believe he is the guy. I pray to God/Buddha/Alah/Shiva/Oden that he learns to read a defense this summer if in fact this rumor is true.

The all time leader in wins and namesake of my precious 2 year old baby boy could have done what he did with whatever WR you put 5-10 yards away from him. No one is bashing Gilbert. This is objective criticism. We had a heartfelt conversation about bashing last week. Mods and all. This is not bashing.

(He had a salt shaker picture saying take what Kirk said with a grain of salt)

"Mack won't say anything. It'll be the QB that is "enforcing" summer passing sessions. Players will rally behind the QB telling them to show up if they believe he is the guy."

I hope that what you wrote here is true that the summer passing sessions and leadership skills of one qb guides Mack into the best decision for our team. Both Vince Young and Colt McCoy were leaders of the team. So far Gilbert is not- stress on so far.