By JOHN E. HOOVER Sports Columnist on Jul 24, 2012, at 11:00 AM Updated on 7/24 at 11:37 AM
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DALLAS — Texas coach Mack Brown took question after question about two topics: the Longhorns’ inability to run the football, and the Longhorns’ inescapably bad quarterback play.
Both will be better this season, Brown assured the press corps Tuesday on day two of Big 12 media days.
But on a day that Brown says he wants to “bring the toughness back” to the offense in Austin, he entered the main interview room at the Westin Galleria accompanied by an entourage of 10 Big 12 Conference cheerleaders, who stood by as he answered questions about Case McCoy, David Ash and the Texas tailbacks.
Occasionally, Brown even asked the cheer reps if he had given a good answer. Dutifully, they nodded.
But even though Brown said he expects Ash or McCoy to separate themselves sometime this season and step forward as the starting QB, it’s likely that at this point, the cheerleaders’ guess would be as good as Brown’s.
“I've got 37 years that says it'll probable happen one way or the other,” Brown said. “Usually the players choose for you, or somebody will tweak an ankle or have a sore shoulder. It may not be performance that separates them. Or it may be there isn't really separation. Then you choose one to start the season, and if he doesn't play well you put the other one in.”
Brown said usually in a quarterback competition, the players will decide. But over the course of 13 games last season, they didn’t.
“It may not always be performance based,” Brown said.
Strangely, as good as former All-American Colt McCoy was, Brown all but blamed him for the Longhorns’ continuing problems in the run game.
“Colt was so good, so accurate, we became a softer football team,” Brown said.
“We do not want to be a running football team. We want to be a team that can do both.”
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