After looking like an improved team during a late season stretch of four wins in five games Texas disappeared in its final two games a pair of humiliating losses to TCU and Arkansas. UT s 31 7 loss Monday night in the AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl at the hands of the Razorbacks sends the program into the offseason searching for hope.
Here are three thoughts on the Longhorns' Texas Bowl loss
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1. Rough day for Red River Rivals. It s amazing to take a step back and look at the state of the programs at Texas and Oklahoma. It s Dec. 30 and both programs seasons are over with neither team sniffing a New Year s Day bowl both getting blown out after not showing up for their respective bowl games and combining for 12 losses in 2014. The days of that duo which won every Big 12 title from 2004 through 2010 dominating the conference have been over for a while and Monday s results reiterated that reality.2. Nothing else matters until Texas quarterback problem is solved. Tyrone Swoopes had his moments but he s done nothing to show Charlie Strong he s the answer at quarterback. The Longhorns finished with 59 total yards against the Razorbacks and never looked like a competent offense with Swoopes at the helm. Is Jerrod Heard the answer Well if he was he should have taken over at some point in 2014. Current quarterback commit Zach Gentry may be the guy but that s asking a lot for a true freshman to step in and change the destiny of an offense. It doesn t really matter who rises to the occasion but unless UT solves its quarterback problem Strong and the Longhorns could find themselves right back in this position at the end of next season.
3. Strong truths in the postgame presser. That should never ever happen in this program. You have to have an edge to you we don t have that right now. There are no playmakers. And those words are just a snippet of Strong s opening statement after the Texas Bowl debacle. Strong was angry about the way his team stumbled to the finish line and rightly so. UT looked like an improving team in Strong s first season until a 48 10 hammering by TCU to close the regular season followed by Monday s embarrassment. Strong's words during his postgame press conference had a lot of truth to them as he spread the blame around to pretty much everyone involved. He has a lot of work to do heading into his second year in Austin and it starts today.
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