“I was playing good and giving my team its best chance to win,” McCoy said, “but at the same time it was not fun. I was beating myself up. I kept digging myself deeper and deeper in a hole that I couldn’t get out of.” [...]

The people around McCoy say they didn’t notice a whole lot different about him. But McCoy felt it. He brooded. He didn’t reach out to his young receivers. He could feel his usually open personality closing up.  [...]

[But then] “The week after Oklahoma, I let myself go,” McCoy said. “Forget about everything. I walked up to Coach [Mack] Brown and Coach Davis and said, ‘As far as I’m concerned, we’re 0-0. This is going to be my first game. I’m starting over completely.’

Ivan Maisel, Colt McCoy overcomes worst critic to lift Texas Longhorns.