All I want for Christmas Mack Brown's inspiration. Well, current Texas coach Mack Brown, who invokes Royal's name at most every opportunity, should be reaching back on a daily basis because the Longhorns have fallen into a giant mud hole.
The upheaval in Austin hasn't impacted recruiting. So far. It's not often that even the slightest bit of uncertainty creeps its way under the hood of the well-oiled machine that is Texas Longhorns recruiting. But that's exactly what's happened with so much overhaul on their coaching staff after the school's first losing season since So far, Texas has managed to keep its No.
But there's no certainty that will remain the case by the time National Signing Day rolls around on Feb. Saturday has a list of the most underrated players of Sam Acho, DE, Texas.
Under normal circumstances, a senior Longhorn pass rusher who turns in eight sacks, Acho's numbers, in fact, were right on par with predecessors Brian Orakpo and Sergio Kindle, who were not only first-team All-Americans in their senior seasons, but finalists for a slew of postseason awards. The difference: Orakpo and Kindle played for teams with high-powered offenses that lifted the 'Horns to a record and a pair of BCS games in Acho's turn in the spotlight was obscured almost entirely by a woebegone offense that killed a solid-as-usual D with a nonstop barrage of turnovers that left UT languishing in last place in the Big 12 South.
He was still good enough for the rest of the conference to take notice, but was shut out completely on the national level. We concur. According to Gary Parrish, the Horns had the best game this weekend. Best game of the weekend: There is nothing I hate more in this world -- besides rental car shuttles -- than Christmas shopping. I hate looking for and looking at stuff I don't care about, and I hate going from one store to the next and just bouncing around in general. But when you have a rare weekend at home, you do what the wife asks.
