It’s the annual Texas-OU Weekend in Dallas and with two straight Red River rivalry victories under their belt, one would think that the Texas Longhorns would be feeling reasonably confident coming into this year’s game.
Don’t count on it.
As noted in last week’s local football report, the Horns were manhandled by Kansas State at home after looking unimpressive through the first four games of the season. The loss hurled the Horns out of the Top 10 of the polls, although UT did retain a spot in at least this Top 10 poll.
Meanwhile, Longhorn fan Ida Mae Crimpton reports from her front porch in Elgin that all is not well in the Longhorn nation after the Kansas State debacle:

Well, things were so bad after last weekend’s loss to Kansas State that Mack didn’t even come out of his office to talk with the team after the game was over. So defensive coordinator Duane Akina took over for him. Coach Akina told the guys he was real proud of them except for “that first quarter Kansas State touchdown pass that Marcus (Griffin) should have stoppedÖand that 41 yard interception return for a touchdown that anybody on offense could have preventedÖand the 85 yard kick return that the punter should have stoppedÖand the 89 yard punt return that my grandmother could have stoppedÖand the 2 yard touchdown run in the fourth quarterÖand, oh yeah, those two field goals that nobody even tried to blockÖ” Then, I guess the lecture sort of snowballed because you could tell coach Akina was getting madder and madder because that knobby fat area on the back of his neck was swelling up and getting real red.
Then he asked Colt if he planned to play professional sports after graduation and when Colt said “yeah” coach Akina suggested that he might consider women’s professional soccer. Next, he turned to Jamaal who had been fiddling with his cell phone and asked him if he was having any personal problems or trouble with his studies (which brought a few snickers from the back of the teamÖ). Jamaal said “no sir” so coach Akina asked him why he was running like he was wearing flip-flops? At that point coach Akina asked if coach Davis had anything he’d like to say to the team, but he said he didn’t, or at least that’s what he might have said because it was hard to hear him over the sobbing coming from behind Mack’s office door.

Could all of this augur for a return to the days of Mack Brown’s Stoops Curse?
Tune in tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., CDT on ABC to find out.