http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/football/stories/MYSA072606.1C.FBCforward.pass.338f2a2.html
UT is to Texas, as Texas is to football; both define the game. From Winston to Royal to Young is what it's been about.
UT, SMU, TCU, UH, Baylor, Texas Tech, and Rice ( in that order ).
"Wait a minute! What is Baylor doing there?", you may retort.
- Grant Teaff, Baylor
- Royal and UT agrees
It's the Longhorns that are making it work since 1906. That's almost 100 years ago to date. Certainly a few years ahead of the Saint's Show.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/app...NDSports15/607280458/-1/SPORTS/CAT=NDSports15
Baugh's Horned Frogs and the SMU ( and later Baugh with the Redskins ) saved football from soccer and rugby. We could all be cheering for large flocks of men dressed in shorts, tied up in one big group hug. Or we could be watching a bunch of European's prance around in an open field, playing footsy with a ball on Sundays. But we don't. Thank you Winston. Thank you Sammy. Thank You Ray Morrison.
Detract you say, "You still have UH and Rice in a list. Obviously you do not know what you are talking about."
Desubfutercate I reply. Rice is home to one Jess Claiborne Neely. While U of H was the stage of Bill Yeomon's Veer Option. ( parts of the run'n'shoot also )
http://www.ricehistoricalsociety.org/cornerstone/issues/JessNeely.pdf
So what do we got here:
UT - passes, runs, options from the Wishbone.
TCU spread and SMU - throwing and using the shotgun from a spread formation a little sooner then Red Hickey and the 49ers.
UH and Rice - the option, and all out passing attacks
Baylor - Grant Teaff and the "Miracle on the Brazos"; where you win when everyone else thinks you are going to lose.
and then Vincent Young.
Vincent Young and 100 years of football in Texas, all packed into 4 evenly divided quarters.
Running, throwing, spread option shotgun, and winning.
( For the 2-points after, both Winston McMahon and Young pitched their TD passes with a sidearm delivery. )
That's the pinnacle of modern conversation about football in Texas. Always starts with UT and ends somewhere with Vince Young. Conversation about football without UT and Vince Young ends with how elongated nappes are fashionable accouterments.