Granted. I watched every play of every Bama game that season. I watched a lot of Texas and Colt as well. Colt was a very special cfb player and he and Shipley were like Pat Haden and J.K. McKay and Lynn Swann.
I would rather Colt had not been injured and hear all the bitching lo these many yesrs. Marcel Dareus, Rolando McClain, Erik Anders and the Bama defense put several dual threat qbs out of games that year. Was Texas’s qb corch not aware of that? Made me wonder how much video Colt watched. That play happened right in front of me. My first thought when Colt walked off the field with a limp arm was, “Dumbass! Don’t you know better than to run a qb keeper on us?! Especially to Dareus’s side?”
As far as McElroy being nothing but a game manager, I challenge you to watch the full game you tube of the 2009 SEC championship. He led not one but two 7:30 minute drives in the second half. Timmah Tebow never had a chance to pull of a miraculous comeback because his ass was crying on sideline with Urban watching the game tick away while our game manager nailed down the win, making Texas vs Bama happen.
Football is a rough and dangerous sport played by fast, powerful men. Injuries happen, both game changing and career ending. We will never know what would have happened if Colt had zigged instead of zagged on that play.
I believe it would have been a tight game. Pre-Colt injury, we appeared tight and Mack had a great plan, pooching kickoffs away from Arenas. Our offense took a while to get limbered up but Colt didn’t play defense. Ingram and Richardson had some good running lanes and made the most of it.
Texas has superior personnel now and we’re sailing into the unknown with DeBoer. Good luck, Horns. I hope you deflower the Big House in a more debauched way than you did Bryant-Denny. Welcome to the “SEC.”