Shane for OC

[cdain3 3454]

BobbyBurton

69 minutes agovia MobileVIP

"Not everyone has the time to watch Tom Herman’s weekly coach’s show.

But I tuned in this week and wanted to relay this story Herman told because I think it’s an important one.

Herman explained parts of the team’s key time-killing fourth quarter drive against Kansas State.

First, on third-and-six, when Keaontay Ingram false-started, the play was actually checked to a pass to Ingram off of an expected K-State blitz.

Ingram was anxious because, in part, he was getting ready to get the ball.

But that made it third-and-11.

The staff was upset that their playcall, the check they had worked all week on for just that occasion, had been derailed.

So as the coaches are talking on the headset, trying to figure out the next play to call, someone pipes up and makes a suggestion.

Herman decides to go with that very play call.

The play, a pass over the middle to Collin Johnson, worked and Texas kept the ball the rest of the way and salted away the game.

Thinking it was receivers coach Drew Mehringer who suggested the playcall on the headset, Herman congratulated him on the plane on the way home.

There was only one problem.

Mehringer said it wasn’t him who made the suggestion.

Instead, it was Shane Buechele.

That’s a terrific story in so many ways, but it particularly says a lot about Buechele.

Not to name names, but I remember several former Texas back up QBs who weren’t engaged on the sidelines during games.

Thankfully, Buechele was. Hats off to you, Shane."

 

Good job Shane.

[Magus Ossis 2883]

Hookem Shane

[RabidM 2681]

That also exposes the complete dysfunction of our offensive play calling.  We need to hire ONE FUCKING BAD ASS this off season.

[52-80 19277]

mensa couldnt tell his positions coach from his #2 qb?

[SomeoneYouKnow 72]

Burton's paragraphs have gotten even worse. Unless it's a formatting error.

[ClubWhatever 12159]

1 minute ago, SomeoneYouKnow said:

Burton's paragraphs have gotten even worse. Unless it's a formatting error.

I'm told they're bad.  In fact, I'm told they are investigating whether the degree listed on his resume is authentic so that they can begin revocation proceedings.  They're that bad.

[UTEX_ME 4783]

Shane's a bad ass Longhorn who has accepted his role with class and seems to be helping out quite a bit. Hope he gets to go home to his traitor Gooner family after the season as a winner this weekend. 

[FloridaHorn 4811]

When Herman said that play calling was by committee, I didn't realize that included the players, coaches and last week a student assistant who was allowed to coach because beck was out.

[CastHorn 823]

That’s kind of scary

[SomeoneYouKnow 72]

2 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

I'm told they're bad. 

In fact, I'm told they are investigating whether the degree listed on his resume is authentic so that they can begin revocation proceedings. 

They're that bad.

FIFY

[ClubWhatever 12159]

2 minutes ago, FloridaHorn said:

When Herman said that play calling was by committee, I didn't realize that included the players, coaches and last week a student assistant who was allowed to coach because beck was out.

I didn't want to reveal this here because it's so embarrassing, but I actually called the 4th and 1 sweep to Danny Young against TCU.

[FloridaHorn 4811]

1 minute ago, ClubWhatever said:

I didn't want to reveal this here because it's so embarrassing, but I actually called the 4th and 1 sweep to Danny Young against TCU.

It's no big deal, Herman thought you were Beck.

[UTEX_ME 4783]

I want to know who called the 4th down option in the TCU game. 

 

[MonkeyDoughnut 10439]

Little concerning he was calling a play and didn't know who called it.  Will just give Mike Leach something else to try...

[ShowmeyourTDs 1156]

Run table, coach.

[Longboard Horn 40844]

Way to go Shane!

[GreenspointTexas 9866]

6 minutes ago, CastHorn said:

That’s kind of scary

This

 

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[Longboard Horn 40844]

17 minutes ago, RabidM said:

That also exposes the complete dysfunction of our offensive play calling.  We need to hire ONE FUCKING BAD ASS this off season.

Beck fired, Buechele hired?

[dad 557]

I wonder if that's how it is when Beck is there. Freaking 5 guys talking into the same channel and someone just grab ass choosing one.

[Rockethorn1978 6153]

That story is an embarrassment on how bad our playcalling is. Cool for Shane but weird they would take a backups suggestion when we’ve been told they “collectively” make calls. Which we all know is bullshit.

[OU Sucks 9081]

7 minutes ago, dad said:

I wonder if that's how it is when Beck is there. Freaking 5 guys talking into the same channel and someone just grab ass choosing one.

That's how it sounded when he described the playcalling after MD:

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It was awesome. We kind of do that anyway. It’s always been that way. You get Drew (Mehringer) and Derek (Warehime). Herb (Hand) is going to say, ‘Run the power here.’ Okay, we’re going to run power. We’re kind of all in that together.”

He just forgot to mention Buechele and the random Indian kid who figured out how to transmit on our frequency.

[Not a Sock 2342]

What the fuck? Like I get that that is good on Boosh but what the hell is our offensive staff even doing?

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2741]

So which player is the bottle cap and which is the stick?  

[Bill Lumbergh 7202]

Honestly it might worry me most that Herman originally thought it was Mehringer and didn't automatically dismiss the recommendation. 

[Longboard Horn 40844]

Mensa my ass

[Gene Parmesan 4022]

When you employ top minds like Mehringer and Warehime you'd be a fool not to get their suggestions.

[Augustus 3061]

So Burton wrote that story thinking it was a good look for all involved.  

 

[dingleberryswitzer 2724]

Thought this was going thro be a story about beuchele playing madden.

[UTEX_ME 4783]

2 minutes ago, Augustus said:

So Burton wrote that story thinking it was a good look for all involved.  

 

I swear all the media that covers the team wants it to fail. 

[Pato del Muerto 52855]

Aside from the other stuff, anyone else wonder why herman was congratulating mehringer for a successful 3rd down play call?  And on the plane back instead of a quick nice call after the play?

[Pato del Muerto 52855]

3 minutes ago, UTEX_ME said:

I swear all the media that covers the team wants it to fail. 

Lot of swimming upstream for this football program that other programs don’t have to fight through. 

[texifornia 57224]

1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Aside from the other stuff, anyone else wonder why herman was congratulating mehringer for a successful 3rd down play call?  And on the plane back instead of a quick nice call after the play?

I mean, being a good boss means you give some positive feedback and show you were paying attention to who did the good thing on a critical play. Of course, he misidentified who actually did the good thing so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[ztejas 43741]

1 hour ago, RabidM said:

That also exposes the complete dysfunction of our offensive play calling.  We need to hire ONE FUCKING BAD ASS this off season.

I don't think this shows "complete dysfunction" I think it shows that everyone on the sideline is engaged in the game and that good ideas can come from anywhere. 

Why isn't Shane allowed to suggest a play? He stands on the sidelines with a headset on the entire game. 

Do you think Shane doesn't know anything about football because he's younger than the other coaches? Sometimes you need someone to look at something with a different perspective. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. 

Quarterbacks are trusted to call audibles - why can't they suggest plays to run after our back has a boneheaded false start?

 

I mean for fuck's sake we were missing our offensive coordinator last week. 

Edited October 5, 2018 by ztejas

[Augustus 3061]

If I were Buechele I'd test the limits of my newfound power.

Maybe call timeout on 4th down in my own territory, pull the punt team off and send myself in.

[Augustus 3061]

2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

I don't think this shows "complete dysfunction" I think it shows that everyone on the sideline is engaged in the game and that good ideas can come from anywhere. 

Why isn't Shane allowed to suggest a play? He stands on the sidelines with a headset on the entire game. 

Do you think Shane doesn't know anything about football because he's younger than the other coaches? Sometimes you need someone to look at something with a different perspective. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. 

Quarterbacks are trusted to call audibles - why can't they suggest plays to run after our back has a boneheaded false start?

You've become my favorite Surly poster.

[dingleberryswitzer 2724]

3 minutes ago, Augustus said:

If I were Buechele I'd test the limits of my newfound power.

Maybe call timeout on 4th down in my own territory, pull the punt team off and send myself in.

Run flea flicker 5 times in a row.

[ztejas 43741]

If Saban came out and said that in a close game Jalen Hurts brought something to the attention of the coaching staff on the sidelines and it resulted in calling a different play that went for a touchdown everyone would be slobbing Bama's knob for their chemistry and engagement on the sidelines.  

[FloridaHorn 4811]

Well, it is no wonder that we get 500 delay of game penalties every week. 25 seconds is not enough time to read all the little papers in the suggestion box.

[Hiphopopotamos 20894]

Jesus Christ -Shane didn’t call the play - he made a suggestion while the coaches were discussing what they liked for the 3rd and long. This isn’t dysfunction - it’s what teams do.

[Hiphopopotamos 20894]

Uh, if what you described is what happened in this situation we would be complimenting our own chemistry and engagement on the sidelines.  But instead of what you described, the article said we just call plays based on any of the dozen guys on the headset saying something without even knowing who it is.

If the play is a good play - why does it matter who suggested it?

[Bevo14 8432]

1 hour ago, ClubWhatever said:

I didn't want to reveal this here because it's so embarrassing, but I actually called the 4th and 1 sweep to Danny Young against TCU.

ClubWhatever is not our standard

[po elvis 2089]

"hey lets like throw the ball to our stud receiver a couple yards past the 1st down marker on third down."

it was such a basic play that everyone does, but so surprising to see us do.

[HuskiesHorns 28]

cool story.

Wish we had an OC instead of this idiotic play-calling by committee.

 

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

was that supposed to give me the warm and fuzzies?

[Coelenterate Fuccboi 13153]

Who would have thought there’d be so much bitchassedness in a Surly football thread?

[El Squared 1827]

1 hour ago, CastHorn said:

That’s kind of scary

Only if we lose, o/w its brilliant.

[El Squared 1827]

12 minutes ago, Casual Encounter said:

Who would have thought there’d be so much bitchassedness in a Surly football thread?

Bitchassedness is the bread of life for message boards.

[MonkeyDoughnut 10439]

My takeaway was we finally had a RB screen pass called on a likely blitz play, something that has been missing from our offense for years and we go and screw it up with a false start, We might have to wait another few years to see it...

[Foosters 17918]

Not sure any of you can criticize Shane or the coaches for allowing his input until you know what kind of a Madden player he is.

[brojangles2 786]

Disturbing