Dance With the One Who Brung Ya

First heard the phrase from Mack Brown during an off-season clinic in 2005 right after Vince Young ran rampant all over the USC defense giving Texas the 2004 National Championship. The line was a favorite of legendary Texas coach Darrell Royal. It refers to finding a way to put your players in the best situation to make plays. And that’s what Coach Brown did – we all remember Young basically strapping the Longhorns on his back and carrying them to the title that year. Sure those plays were designed to be zone option schemes, but in Young’s mind there was no option – he was taking the rock. I always find the speculation the most interesting part of an approaching season. Not just the speculation that comes internally from a coach trying to piece together this giant jigsaw puzzle that will eventually become his team but outside speculation that so many of these pencil pusher