A lot of people out there have been saying that Bama would not have won the game if McCoy hadn't gone down. I think those people are cheapening our championship when they say that. McCoy went down with an injury that can happen during a game. Thems the breaks. If it was a dirty hit, then you can complain. That hit wasn't even remotely dirty. To be honest, I was little disappointed that McCoy didn't return. I would have much rather have beaten Texas at full strength so I wouldn't have to listen to all of this.
It took the Texas backup QB a while to adjust to the speed of the game. And guess what? Our starting QB, Greg McElroy, went through the exact same adjustment period. In his first start against Virginia Tech, it took him a half to adjust. And then it took him an entire month to adjust to SEC play. But guess what again? Bama won all those games, because we were the better TEAM.
And if you want to talk about injuries, we were without our second best defensive player (Dante Hightower) since he went down with an ACL tear in September. It still was one of the best defenses in the country, but it definitely lost something too.
Also, some people, including Herbstriet, said that the Texas defense lost some of its steam when McCoy went down. That is not true. Texas was shutting down our passing game all night long. Other than the very first run of the game, they were having issues stopping our running game. For some reason, it took our coaches a couple drives to realize that.
Oh and you can only blame Mack Brown for calling the time out at the end of the half. During that timeout, My friend at the game with me and I were talking about the fact that he should have just let the clock run out.
