Welcome to Barking Carnival Chalk Talk, a new-ish feature where we’ll try our hand each week at laying out a bare-bones game plan to attack our opponent on each side of the ball.
Since he hit the 40, Tom Herman has spent the bulk of each 90-hour work week* prepping his players’ hearts, minds and bodies to fulfill a very special brand promise:
Texas will kick the shit out of you.
It’s time to raise the curtain on that notion.
It’s also under-the-lights audition time for Garrett Gray and Cade Brewer - and, by extension, the Longhorns’ 2017 identity as an 11-personnel outfit on offense.