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I wonder if Manny would benefit from talking to Leon Fuller about how to create great defensive players?

I think we will know early on whether this defense is going to improve. If we hear from Manny that players are still learning his scheme then Texas is screwed.

It blows my mind that someone as mind blowingly terrible at their job as Manny is, would be allowed to retain said job.

Slick, it can't get any worse. Can it?

I think Mack and Manny are both on a short leash this year.

If it goes sour early or gets out of hand against Blow U, I suspect the backlash to be deafening.

I remember a post before the 2012 season began by a 24/7 regular saying our D "could really be something special".

For the record, I agreed with him - I thought we would kick ass too.

Let the down-votes commence.

Spring training is exactly that.......SPRING TRAINING!! It will only tell us who is in the running to play where when the season starts. It won't tell us beans about whether this 2013 Longhorn team is really going to play like Texas Longhorns should, or will it be another year of misguided efforts by the highest paid coaches in college football with most of the best players in the state of Texas.

That question will not be answered until October 12 in Dallas against Oklahoma. Texas should come into that game 5-0 and with all the hype they get every year before Oklahoma.
There is nobody in the first 5 games that should even come close to playing football with the Longhorns. New Mexico St? Yeah, right. BYU? Really? Ole Miss....NOT! Kansas ST....not this year. Iowa St......Yawn!

Once again, we'll look like world beaters to start the season. But then comes that seasonal test that has been a complete failure by our $1000.00 an hour head coach the last 3 years. So drink the Spring training KoolAid Mack serves up, get ready for a special batch after two-a-days and those first 5 cup cakes we play. The season starts and this team will be defined by that October 12th Saturday in Dallas. End of story.

I have absolutely no confidence in Manny turning around this defense. Last year he was at a loss on how to fix anything. The fact that he was not fired after the season is inexpicable. He is in over his head in defending the wide open offenses of Big 12 teams.

The problem with the coaches is they believe their own BS. Because I believe it was poor coaching by the Oregon State staff to leave in a struggling QB, and finally an injury by the RB that helped the Horns. I don’t believe the defense played as good as he is saying.

My concern is that he does not know how to make real time adjustments in a game.

Agree. That was the single worst QB performance I've seen in a long time in Div 1.

And their only running threat went down early in the 3rd.

That W was a gift.

Any normal person who watched the UT defense last year, would realize that Manny has "no chance" to fix the defense. You had:
1. people playing out of position
Mychal Thompson.........................kr or wr
Steve Edmonds.............................de
2. people who can't tackle
Adrian Phillips
Mychal Thompson
3. people who can't figure out Manny's reverse ferris wheel defense
which is the whole defense
4. Malcolm Brown, dt, on the bench most of the year; ditto for Peter
Jinkins, Tevin...............................................
This talk of Manny fixing it is preposterous.

This cannot be emphasized enough. Everyone loved Manny at this time last year and many were worried about losing him to another team. I don't know whether he will turn it around or not, but he is surely capable of it based upon what I saw in 2011. I think a year of experience, plus the return of Hicks, will do a lot for our LB corps.