News Article: Ex-Texas QB Colt McCoy 'knows he had them' before injury against Alabama

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Not trying to defend anyone, but if any one of us were Colt McCoy, we'd feel the same way. Especially if we'd gotten off to the start he was having. For perspective, go back to the Sugar Bowl versus Utah... don't you think Utah folks get tired of hearing us say "we were so let down from the Florida game."

Bottom line is the final score is the final score in both games... and whenever you lose, it makes you feel better if it wasn't solely your performance.

True, except for the fact that we weren't playing the Colt McCoy Longhorns. We were playing the Texas Longhorns. Injuries are a part of the game. The fact that they couldn't produce with Colt out (until the very end) tells you how little they had prepared for the possibility that he might go out.

We were without our QB, for the most part, and had made it through the entire season without Hightower. Auburn shut Ingram down, and we still won.

If your entire hopes of winning are pinned on one player, then your TEAM is not the best team. That's why they give rings to everyone on the TEAM. Since Colt seems to be of the opinion that he was the reason they won or lost any games, he can go and tell the rest of his TEAM that. I don't think he'd have the nerve.

 

[Chukker Veteran]

Read these paragraphs from the above linked story closely
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McCoy doesn't waffle.

"What most angers Colt ... is that he knows he had them. The Crimson Tide were lining up in the beatable formations he'd studied for weeks. Colt knows, with an athlete's self-assuredness, how his arm and his brain would have carved them up."

That's what Fort Worth native Bryan Curtis writes in the September issue of Texas Monthly in a cover story entitled, "Arms Race."
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I think this is more stirring the pot by the Huntsville writer & the original Texas writer too. Notice Colt DOES waffle...what I mean is there are no direct quotes in there from him. If he had been bold in saying this, there would have been.

He may think "he had us" to himself, even mention it in private to friends and people "off the record." But both writers suggest there's more than just heresay of Colt bragging like that. It wouldn't surprise me that Colt would not appreciate either writer making him sound like a cry baby.

He was all class right after the game. Unless he's willing to go on record with direct quotes saying he "had us" maybe it's not so simple. I'd like to see an Alabama journalist ask him directly if that's his point of view, for the record. I bet he'd say no.

He will just hint around at it to a Texas writer, and let him say it.

 

[Jessica4Bama]

honestly, when does this end???? shutup! you lost! get over it! did he not see the tape from the SEC championship game????? did he not see what we did the the most awesome, greatest ever QB, tebow? they ran almost mirror image offenses, so what exactly could he have done different than tebow??? and by the way, tebow is the better QB in my opinion....and you can dang sure bet that tebow would not have let a little shoulder injury take him out of a championship game. my god the dude played a week after getting knocked unconcsious!! go find a ginormous boob and suck on it colt!!! because that's what you are, A BIG TITTY BABY!!! had respect for you, especially the way you handled yourself after the game, until now! so once and for all........TEXAS....GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!!!!:eek2:

I'm sorry, but that cracked me up. :biggrin:

 

[Zorak]

Dear Colt,
:VIOLIN:
Warmest Regards,
Tide in Oxford

 

[TideEngineer08]

I wasn't alive at the time, but I've read a ton of books about it, saw replays, and heard endless commentary about it as well.

I believe, having taken in all that information, that Joe Namath crossed the goal line against Texas in the Orange Bowl, on New Year's night, 1965.

But the refs said he didn't, and that's all that matters.

Texas, karma can be downright cruel sometimes.

Get over it.

 

[Tide_At_Work]

I've posted this once, I'll post it again.

 

[TIDEnGA]

My calendar reads Aug. 31st not Jan. 8th. Good grief, it's August.

 

[kyallie]

Just get over it! Move on. Would've,could've,should've is no way to go through life!

 

[CSA4Ever]

It saddens me to hear Colt parroting Mack Brown's rubbish. Guess the poor kid spent too many hours with Old Yeller Tooth. :frown:

Colt always seemed like a good kid to me even tho he was a Whorn. How can you not like a kid who comes from a town with only one stop light?

Maybe with time he will be able to console himself with the fact that he only played offense and was not personally responsible for the team's inability to stop the Tide's running game. Had the Bama offense not slacked off in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, the score could have been really nasty.

Do yerself a favour, Colt. Grow up and move on. There is no shame in losing to a better team.

BOOMER SOONER......ROLL TIDE

 

[TideMan09]

I'm starting to hate texas as much as I do the Barners & Vols..Sooner Fans for years have been saying texas is the whiniest school in college..I believe then now..

 

[banjeaux]

Link to Current Texas Monthly magazine cover & article

Arms Race: Texas Monthly September 2010

On further review, appears writer with the Huntsville Times dug up an old comment by Colt McCoy. Plus, the magazine seems to have recycled an old photo of Colt w/Coach (aka Dad).

Actually, the Texas Monthly article ain't half bad. It seemed accurate and informative to me.

 

[REBELZED]

Re: Link to Current Texas Monthly magazine cover & article

I'm sure Colt thinks this kind of stuff to himself, but that writer is being very misleading. The quotes are NOT from Colt, they are from someone else saying what Colt was "thinking." I think this is more of a potstirring Texas fan writer than anything else.

Colt himself was very humble and gracious after the game giving all credit to God and Alabama. I think it's more the Texas FANS (ie: the author of that article) that won't let the whole thing go...

 

[Jack Bourbon]

what I mean is there are no direct quotes in there from him

That's what I was going to say: These are the words of some loser writer, not McCoy.

 

[davefrat]

well, of course, he saw the defense what, 7 times before bowing out. that proves he would have carved them up. what a wuss. at least he'll always have the memory of his homo-erotic filler scene with tebow during the heisman presentation.

 

[trenda]

I still say Namath scored on 4th down. And if he hadn't been playing basically on one leg, Bama would have blown 'em out!! :wink:

 

[BornCRIMSON]

Laces out, DAN!

LMAO !!!!


ROLL TIDE !! :BigA:

 

[IMALOYAL1]

For those that say the game would have been closer, but Bama still wins....You Are Wrong. The game would have been more of a blow out. Colt would have had that deer in the headlight look all game. We were ready to frustrate him 10 times what Nebraska did. The best thing that could happen for Texas did. They escaped getting blown out and now have an built in excuse.

:BigA:

 

[The Red Zone]

Think, Colt McBoy, Think! You were lucky to make the trip to the National Championship at all! Nebraska had your @$$! Maybe Bama should've played some other team with more class!

 

[The Red Zone]

That's what I was going to say: These are the words of some loser writer, not McCoy.

Oops! Then again-- maybe I spoke a little too soon.

 

[NBF_Bama_Cavalry]

Whether McCoy said it, thought it, or a writer made it up - it's just a bunch of hooey. I used to live in Texas and I never knew they were such crybabies. I know they have an ego as big as Texas itself, but man, what of bunch of whiners. If Colt had the defense so figured out and was ready to carve them up, wouldn't it follow that he'd have known Dareus was coming? Seems he made a tactical error by being right in the exact spot where he knew a man-beast was going to be. Not too bright, Colt, my boy.