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Shawn Watson's one duty when he arrived at Texas in January was exceedingly simple in concept: Get the quarterback room right.
As he likes to put it: "When that room is right, the whole team is right."
But nothing is ever simple at a behemoth like Texas. What Watson inherited when he agreed to join Charlie Strong in Austin was easily the most mismanaged position group in college football.
That problem dates all the way back to Jan. 7, 2010, back to the moment Colt McCoy got popped by Alabama's Marcell Dareus and was knocked out of the biggest game of his life. The Longhorns have been tumbling down a perilous path ever since.
They went into their BCS title game showdown with Alabama having won 36 of their previous 40 games. Mack Brown, poised to win his second national title that night, knows the game wouldn't have been close had McCoy played four quarters.
And from the moment McCoy went down to today, Texas is 36-29 and 23-21 in Big 12 games. Of all the potential outcomes after that heartbreak in the Rose Bowl, the Horns have lived out perhaps the darkest timeline. (Meanwhile, down in Tuscaloosa, the Tide have rolled to a 59-9 record since.)
So how can the Horns fix their QB issues? Check out the rest of the ESPN article and see what Charlie Strong had to say.
(h/t ESPN)
