Texas Vs. Texas Tech: Longhorns Still Chasing That Run

SB Nation’s Texas and Texas Tech communities swap interviews in anticipation of Saturday’s rivalry match in Lubbock. Next up: Double-T Nation asks after Texas’ elusive ground game:
By most accounts the Texas offense has been okay thus far and the meme for the offseason was that the Longhorns wanted to emphasize the run more. Two games into the season, what’s your assessment of the running backs and more importantly, how’s the offensive line shaping up?
PB: I’ll get to the backs and linemen in a moment, but there’s a third element to the equation: the scheme and approach. I mean, if “emphasizing the run more” turned out to mean running the same offense as last year, only with more runs, it wouldn’t much matter whether the backs and linemen were all great.
Texas is indeed interested in running the ball more this season, but it’s encouragingly clear that the interest is, above all else, in getting something meaningful out of it. As most of us expected, it hasn’t been a totally smooth transition, but the approach is improved, and that’s a good, much welcomed, start.