Longhorn defense still looking for answers

Texas Defensive Tackle Moro Ojomo is a highly intelligent young man, both on and off the soccer field.

Ojomo is studying Management Information Systems at the prestigious McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. He dreams of becoming a corporate attorney by hanging up his football boots. He worked for a financial management firm in Austin this summer.

While the Longhorns’ defensive tackle could likely pass a finance or accounting test, it was unable to come up with the answers at the Texas football Monday press conference.

“I mean – fudge,” Ojomo said Monday when asked about Texas’ defensive weaknesses.

Katy’s product, Ojomo, wasn’t the only defensive linemen with no answers.

After Saturday’s Baylor game, Nose Tackle Keondre Coburn was asked to explain why Texas lost double-digit leads in back-to-back games.

“I wish I had the answer to that,” Coburn said after the game. “All I can say is – all we can do is watch movies.”

And check out the movie Coburn made. The senior defensive linemen said he watched films of the Baylor loss for the rest of the weekend. After tormenting himself over and over about the film, he was still unable to find the answers.

“I’ve probably seen the same movie since Saturday,” said Coburn, still baffled. “I hate doing that because I hate to see the same things, because I can’t change what happened. But as I said, I wish I had the answers. “

Texas is one of three teams in the Big 12 to give up more than 200 yards per game. One of these teams is 1-7 Kansas, the other team has just split from its 22-year-old head coach TCU. The Longhorns give up more than 60 meters per game than the next worst running defense in the Big 12, Texas Tech, which, by the way, has just fired its head coach.

After Texas surrendered 199 yards in their loss to Baylor, Coburn was asked why Texas couldn’t stop the run.

“It’s crazy because we give up so many meters in the second half where I think I mean I think I don’t know the answer to that,” Coburn said on Monday.

As Ojomo said after the Oklahoma defeat, there are Texas coaches who “get paid millions and billions of dollars to find out.” And the Texas coaching staff will have to “find out” sooner rather than later, as the Longhorns take on rush, yards and touchdowns against the leader of the Big 12, Breece Hall, Iowa.

After the Cyclones left Austin with a win last season, Hall famously said, “It’s a five-star culture against five-star players.”

His statement about the lack of a winning culture in Texas is true to this day, even after a year and a new coaching staff. Ojomo was asked why Texas has been less than the sum of its parts over the past decade and why mediocrity has become the standard of the program.

He said that dynasties do not come about overnight and that this new coaching staff will need time to implement their ideas.

“One hopes for a happy situation in which the new trainer does not have to uproot the existing workforce, but can build on it. I mean it’s a tough question. Is it complacency? Is the drive no longer there? Is it where your head is? ”He said. “I mean, I don’t know what it is.”

As the wise Ojomo said, it takes time to build a dynasty. Unfortunately for himself and for Coburn and many other seniors on the team, time is running out for their Texas careers.

With Texas seemingly running out of play, the senior defensive tackle said fairly openly that he wished things could have been different.

“I really love this university,” he said. “It sucks. I really, really hope that the people out there, my family, God and the fans, this alumni base, know we’re trying. I’ve always appreciated your support. I love this place bleeding burnt orange and I wish it could have been different. “

As time is running out for Ojomo, time is running out for Texas’ season. At least the Longhorns can play with pride as they try to avoid one straight loss on Saturday in Ames, Iowa.

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