Flying Monkeys

It's over. The recent run of excellence for Texas football is over. It had to happen someday and that day was today down in Austin. The fall from grace was sudden and swift like an accident nobody saw coming. The entire program imploded right before our eyes. This team could not hold up to the weight of expectation and greatness any longer. They quite simply cracked. They came apart at the seams like the scarecrow in the wizard of oz, the invincibility aura torn to pieces by the flying monkeys of UCLA. It was an ugly sight.

In this media era of untruths fabricated to look like reality, the team showed it's hand and there was nothing behind those pair of deuces showing. There was no miracle comeback in the works for this one, no all-time NCAA wins leader to rescue the sinking ship. And it sunk like the Titanic.

Head Coach Mack Brown looked as white as a ghost. Defensive Coordinator Will Muschamp looked like he was watching a horror movie, he was. In a game where the Texas players bodies had no heads or hands on them, they were easily beaten. Nothing fancy, just a straight up whipping like we haven't seen since I can't remember when.

The run is over. The dominance enjoyed by Texas fans for so many years is over, for now. This season will be painful to watch. Gone are the days of Vince Young and Colt McCoy, long gone.

It was a very weird feeling watching the ineptness and one that Texas fans haven't had to endure for years. But there it was, that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach as your team beat nobody but themselves. There were fumbles, interceptions, missed tackles, and a general disinterest in preserving the tradition at The University of Texas. Yes, I am questioning the effort here folks as well. Oh the horror, I can't believe I just wrote that!

We Texas fans have become so complacent with winning that none of us saw this coming, or we just kept telling ourselves that somebody would step up, that superman was in the building, he wasn't, but over 100,000 fans were and they witnessed the beating in person. Ouch! 13 years ago was the worst loss ever in Austin at the hands of these very same Bruins. Double Ouch! This revenge that never came is unheard of in Texas football lore.

There will be no spin for me on this one. It quite simply was the end. The end of an image of a top caliber college football team, of a top 5, top 10, or even top 25 team...it is bad folks, really bad.

The last time something like this happened, Mack Brown quite literally said that every position on the team was up for grabs and that nobodies job was safe. I expect the same line of thought any second now coming out of Austin. How could this happen?

A team with no running backs, no tight ends, no offensive line, no sure handed receivers, no proven winners, how could they stink up the field so badly at home on national tv? I guess our Jimmy's and Joe's aren't as good as their x's and o's.

Reality was a hard thing to watch today...and next week we get to play Oklahoma in Dallas...oh my gosh...