The excuses started flying left and right for the Texas faithful on Saturday and on into Sunday.
Losing a hard-fought series on the road 2-1 in the meat-grinder that is SEC baseball is one thing. Getting blown away with a composite score of 28-9 in which you never really stood a chance in a single game is an entirely different thing altogether.
Still, the Longhorn mind is, if anything, a marvel in the art of self-rationalization. It proved that once again by conjuring a number of constructs to soothe itself in the wake of Arkansas’ utter demolition of the No.