| 2006 Football Season Capsule The main threads for each of the 2006 season games. Looking ahead to the upcoming season, these threads will serve as a future timecapsule. |
04-17-2006, 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by scarletngrey77
I downloaded and watched the highlight film and this is what I saw:
Most of the highlights were against Rice and ULL. Secondly, Nate Salley went for the big hit instead of wrapping up, which lead to a huge gain. Thirdly, on most of his big runs you see that the defense is geared toward stopping Vince Young. On one play he steps up in the pocket avoiding 2 blitzers and lobs a ball to Charles, where he is wide open with no one within 10 yards.
Dont get me wrong, he has great vision and acceleration, but every defense Texas played last year was geared to stop Vince Young, which really helped Charles get some running room and not draw attention to himself.
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I don't think that anyone would dispute that Vince helped out our running game tremendously but if you can't watch that video and see why we think he has a great future then I will never be able to convince you with any amout of posts.
Clearly most of the highlights were vs. ulala and rice, for one those teams sucked, and two charles was injured the second half of the year. As for the plays vs. tOSU, that was a true freshman running back making plays with limited action against what could have been considered the best defense in the nation last year. When nate salley went for a kill shot last year he almost always hit it, this was the exception and i think that it is safe to say that jc had something to do with that.
I am not trying to say that he is a heisman candidate, but i do not think it is going too far out on a limb to say that he is a top 15 back, and that some would put him top 10. |
04-17-2006, 03:53 PM
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as UT has been a consistent running powerhouse for several years, be it through the zone read, through Cedric Benson, Hodges Mitchell, Ricky Williams, etc.
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poor Hodges....the forgotten one  <!-- / message --><!-- sig --> |
04-17-2006, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by High Lonesome
poor Hodges....the forgotten one <!-- / message --><!-- sig --> |
He's #5 on CFN's all-time UT running backs list. That's not bad. But yeah, with fans, he'll always be referred to as "that dude between Ricky and Cedric" |
04-17-2006, 04:37 PM
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this has nothing to do with either Texas or tOSU other than we all need a good laugh sometimes, but did anyone else notice that Tha U just signed a kid named Phelon?
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04-17-2006, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by footballfanatic
LOL, I know Pittman is good, but I have to point out that his great run was against Illinois.
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Just like a bunch of your points and yards came against Louisiana-Laffayette, Rice, Baylor, Texas Tech(Granted their defense improved but it still sucked), and other mediocre to bad Big-12 teams. The only good defenses I think Texas played were Ohio State and maybe Oklahoma. I know Kansas was like top 5 in rush defense but they didn't have the athletes to keep up with Tejas. Alright, I'm getting a little off topic. Yeah, that clip was against Illinois but you can see plenty more of the same stuff in the Michigan game and others.
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Can I get a translation?
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Yeah, that did sound a little odd. I was referring to someone saying something about Chris Wells coming into the game for a short yardage situation instead of keeping Pittman in and I just took that as he thought Pittman was only a finesse back and Wells was only a power back.
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Originally Posted by BuckTwenty
The reason he got those yards in our game last year was because our D was keying in on VY and his ability to run out of the pocket.
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While this is true the same could be said for us. No team keyed on TS nearly as much as VY but they still respected his running ability which had to help.
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04-17-2006, 05:42 PM
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789, could you try to limit you responses to one post vs. 3 seperate posts in a row. It's just a little cumbersome is all.
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04-17-2006, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by High Lonesome
this has nothing to do with either Texas or tOSU other than we all need a good laugh sometimes, but did anyone else notice that Tha U just signed a kid named Phelon?
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Yeah we were recruiting him. I believe his parents attend tOSU. |
04-17-2006, 07:42 PM
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Yeah, whatever...
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