2010 5-7 Pending Coach Mack Brown
Fozzy Whitaker and Dustin Earnest were chosen as the first flag bearers for home games. On the road, the Horns will also carry a Texas flag, and its inaugural carrier was Eddie Jones.
Mack Brown moves away from the spread offense to balance the pass-to-run ratio. The formation eliminates the quarterback from the shotgun position and moves him under center. The coaches hope this change will kick-start a running attack that was anemic in 2009. "We just kept getting further away from balance," says Brown. "We threw the ball so much that we lost our play-action pass. And that's your best way to get explosive plays downfield."
Texas finishes the season 5- 7. The team has a losing season for the first time in Brown’s years as the Longhorn head coach.
Gilbert struggled and left the team after the season was over. The new offense that tried to balance the run-and-pass ratio failed. The Shotgun formation was eliminated, and the quarterback was moved under center. This was a season of turnovers on offense, stopping drives for touchdowns.
Whittiker tears his ACL in the Missouri game, and his season is over.
Texas Finish's last in the Big 12 South.
The 2010 team holds the Texas record for most field goals made (23) and the season home game attendance record of 704,580 fans
Garrett Gilbert holds the record for most passing attempts in a game (59); and most total plays in a game.
2011 8-5 -Brick by brick- Coach Mack Brown
According to Pete Davis's book I Love Texas, I Hate Oklahoma, in 2011, out of the 115 players on the Texas roster, only nine were from states other than Texas, and none were from Oklahoma. This suggests that most high school football players in Oklahoma are not good enough to play for Texas.
Justin Tucker
After seeing sparse play in his freshman season, Case McCoy competed with Garrett Gilbert and David Ash for the starting role at quarterback during the 2011 season. After Gilbert struggled against BYU, McCoy and Ash replaced him and McCoy led the team to victory on a game-winning drive. For the next three weeks, McCoy split starting duties with Ash, but after struggling against Oklahoma, he lost the starting job to Ash. He was brought in late to the Missouri and the Kansas State games when coach Mack Brown was looking for a spark, and almost led a comeback against Kansas State. As a result, he was named starter for the Texas A&M game. This would be the last scheduled meeting between the two in-state rivals before Texas A&M left the Big 12 for the SEC and A&M's last Big 12 game ever. Texas A&M was favored by 8 points, and led by 9 at halftime, but after Texas took the lead in the 3rd quarter and lost it in the 4th, McCoy did just enough – including a 25-yard run – to set up a game-winning field goal. Nonetheless, a poor performance the following week in a loss to Baylor, as well as strong practices by Ash, led to Ash starting the 2011 Holiday Bowl game and McCoy not playing in it at all. In 2011
McCoy managed to set the school record for most consecutive passes to start a career without an interception with 124.
The 2011 team holds the Texas single game record for kick-off return yards of 262 yards against Oklahoma State; most kick off returns in a season (53); and most yards on returns in a season (1,276) .
D.J. Grant is tied with two other Longhorns for the single Game Record for touchdown receptions (3) as a tight end.
Like the Longhorn basketball team, the Longhorn football team sent the Aggies to the SEC with a loss 27-25. With 1:18 remaining in the game the Aggies were leading by one point. Case McCoy drove the Horns on their best drive of the day, setting up Tucker's field goal to win the game. The final record for the series was Texas 76 wins and A & M 37 wins.
David Ash threw a career-high 326 years against Mississippi . Mike Davis and Marquise Godwin ran for over 100 yards.
Mack Brown decides to give second team David Ash and Case McCoy, a chance to wake a moribund offense. It was the right decision for the team.
Though Texas escaped with a win, there is still uncertainty under center. Ash (2 of 3, 35 yards and 36 yards rushing) and McCoy (7 of 8, 57 yards) replaced each other on virtually every play.
Texas was not going to win the Big 12 this year, but they were good enough to act as a spoiler to a team that could win the championship.
Fozzy Whitaker sets the Longhorn game record for kick-off return average of 42 yards and the season record of 42.4 yards. He holds the record with two 100 yard kick-off returns in back to back games. The run against Oklahoma State is to the left.
A Lot of Coaching changes this season
2012 9-4 Coach Mack Brown
With Ash having emerged as the starter, McCoy started only one game all season, a losing effort against Kansas State. But earlier in the year, he came in during the 4th quarter of the Kansas game to replace an ineffective Ash and led a game-winning 68 yard drive, capped by a 1-yard touchdown pass to D.J. Grant with 12 seconds left. He also came off the bench against TCU.
Fozzy Whitaker is injured in the Missouri game. Fozzy was the team leader with 2 – 100 yard kick-off returns. The WildFozz formation was a snap directly to Fozz instead of the quarterback.
Kenny Vaccaro and Alex Okafor
This is the youngest team in the Mack Brown era. Mack Brown has said many times that you can coach a team a lot harder after a win than you can after a loss. Mistakes are correctable. Losses are irreversible.
Texas pulls an upset on BCS-ranked Nebraska before they left the Big 12.
10.26.2012 | Football
Bill Little commentary: Follow the yellow brick road
Bill Little, Texas Media Relations
Dorothy and her friends at first believed that they needed to find strength from an outside source. What they learned is, the secret to success is within you, not outside you.
That is the message the Longhorns football players have been working on during a week of intense practice. They have worked hard at getting better, and have avoided the fear of failure that we learned so much about in The Wizard of Oz.
Victory is attainable if you are prepared, if you execute, and if you do not take your opponent lightly. The wicked witch expired because Dorothy and her crowd believed, and the characters in the movie succeeded because they learned something about themselves that was there all along.
Games can teach that. There is no substitute for pride. Confidence comes from believing that you can, and victory is achieved when all of those things work together. The "Yellow Brick Road" doesn't lead to a real wizard at all. It leads, instead, to an understanding of yourself, and what it is that you really can do. The critics, and the cynics, may miss that. But the message of the movie, and the story of the chance to play a game, has been around for a long, long time.
Final ranking 19th nationally
Case McCory replaced David Ash in the TCU game. It was TCU's first victory against Texas in 45 years.
David Ash Is The Fastest Longhorn To Reach 1,000 Yards In Passing (4 Games). (Surpassing Major Applewhites record.
The 2012 single home game attendance record is set against West Virginia (101,851)
This Longhorn team sets a one game Longhorn record that may never be surpassed. Four team members combine to set a record.
David Ash passes for 326 yards
Malcolm Brown rushes for 128 yards
Marquise Goodwin catches passes for (102 yards) and
Mike Davis catches passes for (124 yards)
Okafor is named defensive MVP for the Valero Alamo Bowl and Marquise Goodwin is offensive MVP. David Ash had a good game completing 21 of 33 passes. Texas beat Oregon State in the second half. It was the 9th bowl win of its last 11 games. TCU beat Texas in their first Big 12 meeting.
2013 8-5 still Coach Mack Brown
Case McCoy again entered the season as the backup to David Ash, but because of a pair of concussions that Ash suffered in two of the first four games, McCoy ended up starting all but three. After Ash's second injury, McCoy helped lead Texas to 6 straight wins, including an improbable upset of #12 Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry. In that game, Case McCoy completed 13 of 21 passes for 190 yards with an interception and two touchdowns. Despite early non-conference losses and a one-sided loss to Oklahoma State, McCoy led Texas to a #24 ranking and a season-ending game that was a de facto conference championship game against Baylor. Texas lost to Baylor after McCoy struggled to complete 12 of 34 passes for 54 yards, threw two interceptions, and only one touchdown.
McCoy's final game was the 2013 Alamo Bowl game against Oregon. He threw two interceptions for touchdowns, scored on a 1-yard rush in the first quarter for Texas' only touchdown, finished 8 of 17 for 48 yards, and was pulled at times in the second half for freshman Tyrone Swoopes. Oregon won 30–7.
He finished his career ranked 10th in school history in career passing yards (3,689) and 10th in touchdown passes (24) and led five career fourth-quarter comebacks.
A defensive coordinator change occurs in the 3rd game of the season. A backup quarterback gets a new life and a chance to play. Even with injuries to the kicker, a defensive leader, and two running backs, the Horns remained in the hunt for the Big 12 championship.
The 2013 team holds the single-game Texas record for a total offense of 716 yards against New Mexico State.
Anthony Fera holds the Longhorn record for most consecutive field goals (15).
Jackson Jeffcoat is an All-American and won the Ted Hendricks Award
Coach Brown's contributions to Longhorn traditions remains a portal to the past that reminds Longhorn fans that heritage shapes the present and empowers the future.
Reflection Point Mack Brown
In the book, "One Heartbeat," Brown put down on paper his thoughts about coaching:
"Your challenge as a coach is to make a difference for people…. That's part of the joy of coaching, but the hard times teach lessons. There are times when your faith in yourself will be tested. That's when you need to remember to take pride in what you do and have the courage not to give up. Will Rogers once said, 'Never let yesterday take up too much of today.'"
And then he said this:
"When it's all over, your career will not be judged by the money you made or the championships you won. It will be measured by the lives you touched.
"And that is why we coach."
10.14.2013 | Football
Bill Little commentary: For love of the game
In the end, this stop on the road in the middle of the 2013 season was, plain and simple, about “team.”
Bill Little, Texas Media Relations
Coaches, in the purest sense and at every level, are never in this business for money. Those who are do not last long. Coaching is like being a farmer. You work hard every day of the year dealing with elements which you ultimately cannot control. You teach, nurture and hope. Ultimately, growth and maturity are the things that you cannot make happen.
But when it does -- when that crop comes in on a West Texas farm and when players rise to, and beyond your expectations -- there is the reward for a coach. You take pride, not in what you did (although that is certainly justified), but in what they did.
You celebrate the victory because half of the 90,000-plus people in the stadium are screaming and crying for joy. You deserve to take a moment to appreciate what you accomplished with a brilliant game plan and long hours in the office and on the practice field. Most of all, you gain your strength because, right before your very eyes, when the critics critiqued and the fans doubted, your players learned, and they -- even if nobody else seemed to -- believed.
When the celebration was over, Case McCoy trotted toward the sideline where the Texas bench had been. There, he shared a private moment and a long father-son hug with his dad, Brad, who had made his way to the field after everyone had left. Major Applewhite, whose game plan Case had executed to near perfection, soon joined them.
Assistant Coaches
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