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Texas Basketball Fans Are Over Rick Barnes

6,349 fans showed up for a conference home game. What the fuck?
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Texas Basketball: 3 Down (and Out), 3 To Go

Looking at Iowa State, Baylor & Mizzou.
In Football

Report: Mack Brown to Get Contract Extension

Would run through 2020 and include a buyout clause.
In Basketball

Kansas 69, Texas 66: Good, Bad & Ugly

Coffee is for closers and Kansas regular season basketball.
In Football

Is Harsin Really An Improvement?

The easiest way to get the right answer is to ask an easy question.
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Texas-Texas A&M Is Over: Please Shut The Fuck Up, Forever

This won't hurt a bit. Just a little nip and a Tuck.
In Football

The Penn State Scandal: Ceding Personal Responsibility To Institutional Bureaucracy

It's time for Penn State to clean house for ignoring our most basic law: Our shared social contract.
In Football

“…and then, Profit!”

A look into the Aggie balance sheet. It's about what you'd expect.
In Football

Obscenes from Oklahoma

Last week I said that we shouldn't have been in the conversation with a top 5 team and I probably should have left it at that.
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Texas-Oklahoma State Preview: Scouting The Cowboy Offense

Who got Blackmon? Not dis White Mon.
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Texas-Oklahoma State Preview: Scouting The Cowboy Defense

Oklahoma State has a bad defense? Rein that in, pardna.
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Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going

“It ain’t where I’ve been, fat boy – it’s where I’m going.” - Tommie Frazier, Nebraska QB, to Warren Sapp (Orange Bowl,...
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Byrned Again

Bill Byrne's latest Wednesday Weekly started out pretty slow with a boring recap of the Aggies' unimpressive win over Utah State. But, true to form, Bill's post took a few...
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Fun With GameDay Texting

The AgAssist text system is one of Bill Byrne's brilliant brainstorms developed to deal with Kyle Field's Old Testament critter plagues (crickets, bats, ear mites, otters,...
In Football

Football Around the Big 12

A few thoughts on our past/future opponents: Texas Tech is in revolt after Leach blew the smart play to kick a field on 4th and 1 with a five point 4th quarter lead against UH. ...
In Basketball

Want to Stop the Longhorn Hoops Juggernaut? Zone ‘Em.

Or so says Seth Davis, esteemed CBS Basketball Analyst and helpless apologist for Duke Basketball. Not so fast, Dukie. If it were that simple,...
In Football

Sunday Statistician

Texas fields the #1 scoring offense and #2 overall defense in the country. Not our standard until we take over the top ranking from Florida's defense. Colt McCoy is now tied with...
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Part I of the Obese Hoops Preview: Phoenix My Ass

Below you will find Part I of IV of my Obese Hoops Preview. Les Disfrutan! Vegas note: Odds on all four parts being written and published...
In Football

GameWatch Week 10

One of the coolest things about living in California, aside from paying taxes that makes Belgians wince, is the fact that college football is in full swing as I breakfast: usually a...
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Mike Leach suspended for Alamo Bowl

Tech received a complaint from a player and his parents about his treatment by Leach after he was injured. Insert plank walking joke...
In Football

Two Texas Technical Items (Tuberville News)

1) dedfischer has some interesting thoughts on Colt McCoy, the Big 12/SEC match ups, our O-Line, our O-Line coach, etc. Big 12 Drops Another...
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The View from the Drum: Texas v. Texas A&M

That was one of the most physical basketball games I have seen in a long time. It made the Michigan State game look like a Swedish massage. I am...
In Football

Tebow’s dad helps Florida recruit?

Last week GamecockCentral.com, Rivals' South Carolina site, put up an article on their blog saying that Urban Meyer used religion to gain the...
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Mack Brown Signing Day Presser: Post-Mortem

I didn’t get to watch Mack Brown’s press conference yesterday, but they do have the transcript up at TexasSports. It’s really good....
In Baseball

The Byrne Ultimatum

It's basketball season, and Dollar Bill's blogging with newfound vitality. That's good news for you, gentle readers. Bill's a verbose son of a gun, so I'll just stick to the...
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Dexter Pittman Guilty of Foul Play

Watching Dexter Pittman’s draft status plummet is like watching my portfolio the last two years, depressing. Here is a guy with all the physical...
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Hoop Dreams vs. Hoop Reality

If you're a fan of Big 10 basketball or college basketball in general you know about Evan Turner, the stud wing and bellcow for a top 10 Ohio State Buckeye club. Additionally, if...
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Texas vs. Texas A&M Post-Mortem

There are certain things I can take and some things I can't. For instance, when my kids don't eat their dinner because it's meatloaf, I get that. I understand. Meatloaf, for...
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Texas baseball sweeps Stanford

The rumours of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. We pistol-whipped Stanford this weekend, and looked pretty dominant in doing so. Giving up five runs and not committing any...
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Texas Bracketology and Gottlieb on Texas

First Gottlieb. If you listen to one basketball pundit on ESPN, listen to this guy. He gets it. Point guards are among the smartest human beings...
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One Game, Hundreds of Battles

Please check out ColoradoAg from Spence Park Soapbox (@SpenceParkSB) who is dishing hilarious and informative Aggie scoop. He also happens to be a huge puck head and has...
In Basketball

Texas Hoops vs. Oklahoma: Post-Mortem

For most of the season, Jordan Hamilton and Rick Barnes have had as much common ground when it comes to basketball as Julie Andrews and James...
In Football

First look at the 2010 Longhorns

Here are some scattershots on the first open practice. The day after Mack Brown's Mom died he went right back to work. The man is committed. He seemed a little subdued but former...
In Basketball

The Basketball Crossroads

Rick Barnes is at 'em. The most dangerous thing any coach can do is create heightened expectations in a fan base, deliver on them consistently and incrementally for a decade,...
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MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Better known as Dorkapalooza. The conference was held on March 6th, headlined by luminaries like Rockets GM (and '00 Sloan School grad) Daryl...
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Around the…thoughts by Nickel Rover on 2nd open practice

Football: So, I went to the 2nd open practice Tuesday night and collected a few thoughts on the team to this point. Mostly I just watched the...
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Colt McCoy: Smarter Than An Apostle, Dumber Than An Okie

The Wonderlic scores have been leaked and when something like this happens, I pretty much always blame the British and Germans. Yes, the Zimmerman...
In Basketball

Texas Hoops vs. Iowa State: Post-Mortem

For those of you that discount this Texas victory over Iowa State, you do so at your own peril. The Cyclones are a solid team that just knocked off...
In Basketball

Texas Hoops vs. Baylor: Post-Mortem, kinda

I really can't take it anymore. If you must know how or why Baylor continues to play Earl "the Goat" Manigault to our sports-goggled, weekend...
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Texas Basketball is Dangerous

Or that's what they're telling Andy Katz anyway. Well that's good to know. I'll sleep better at night knowing that for some poor 7 or 8 seed armageddon is imminent when the...
In Baseball

Texas finishes sweep of Iowa

This staff is money. The kind of money Trips leaves in g-strings. After this weekend’s four game sweep of Iowa, the team ERA is sitting at 1.89. Game 1 Pitching: Cole...
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Bracket Breakdown & Gambling Tips

So I'm listening to Bill Simmons' podcast and he has on Chad Millman, Vegas Insider. Basically, Chad's job is to interact with the guys who set the...
In Basketball

Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest: Post Mortem

Last post-mortem of the season, so we've got that going for us, which is nice. Just a few thoughts on the game. I'll do a season wrap up and...
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Texas Turns the Page

Well, WTF was that? A train wreck is what. That’s how the entire Texas basketball season can be described. A screaming, screeching, ugly train wreck. After ascending to #1 in...
In Basketball

Best Opening Round I Can Remember

At least it's shaping up that way if Sunday delivers. As disappointed as I was in last year's opening weekend of March Madness, this one is...
In Basketball

The fall of Rome

Oklahoma: We all remember the terrible period between 2000 and 2005 when Stoops' squads would murder Texas every year and make examples out of 2-3 Big 12 teams. Then their run of...
In Basketball

96 Teams is March Madness

It appears the NCAA intends to expand its annual basketball tournament to a ludicrous 96 teams. Nearly 100 teams, competing in a single-elimination tournament to crown a...
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Avery Bradley: One and Done?

Looks like it. NBAdraft.net learned (and tweeted) Monday that Bradley intends to enter his name into the NBA draft, having already planned to ship his car home to Washington and...
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The Future of MMA

Back in mid-2008, I wrote a post about the changing landscape of sport in America and remarked: My personal opinion is that if MMA were a stock, you should be backing up the truck...
In Football

Texas Spring Football: Greg Davis Synergizes, Synergistically, Utilizing Synergies

Davis and Muschamp were interviewed on Texas Sports. If you like, I could pretend that this publicly posted material is premium content...
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Texas Spring Football: Muschamp Drinks Mead From Viking Skull

Part Deux: In Which Muschamp Glowers At Effete Press Corps Kenny Vaccaro is a guy that's come along and done some nice things. By nice...
In Basketball

Butler & Boise State: Can Culture Be Duplicated?

Butler and Boise State both entered into the national college sport consciousness at the beginning of the decade, their first steps hesitant, with...
In Basketball

College Offenses Of A Different Kind

A cynic would contend that an athletics program grows a conscience a size inversely proportionate to its winning aspirations. Much is made of...
In Basketball

The Man from Iron Mountain

Six Final Fours in 12 years. One National Championship. Six Big 10 titles. Four national Coach of the Year awards. "Dickie V! It’s Tom Izzo’s world – you’re just living in...
In Basketball

Kevin Durant & The Future of The Thunder

The Thunder are thundering(!?) down the stretch, having just dispatched the execrable 76ers in Philly by 19. My favorite atmospheric...
In Football

Clipper Cooper: The Truth About Soup Kitchens

What's up, skanks? Last time I thought about Longhorn football, we were getting a game stolen by a bunch of floppy-banged NASCAR enthusiasts...
In Football

Quick Thoughts on the Spring Game

I'm working off the one live viewing so this will hardly be exhaustive. Or thorough. Or spellchecked. Hey if every post was good we'd have to...
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Spring

The big showpiece roll out yesterday was of the new run scheme, which as it turns out is not new at all. They didn't run anything that we hadn't seen before. The lead draw was a...
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The once and future king

As if you all weren't probably oversaturated with Spring game analysis after the great jobs done by Minnesotahorn and ChrisApplewhite I'm going to add a few of my thoughts gathered...
In Football

Pete Carroll Comes To Austin

Bellmont's ability to wrench public relations quotes from any luminary that passes through Austin is impressive: Bill Murray, Barack Obama, Kim Jong Il, and now, Pete Carroll. ...
In Football

First Principles

Art/Culture: Blah blah hilarious new Scipio piece blah blah. Is it time that Team America:World Police was recognized as one of the greatest comedies ever made? Nickel Rover says...
In Basketball

Corch Urban Meyer and Sooner Magic

So the Twitter turned up a few interesting headlines and stories today. First, Urban Meyer has stated emphatically he will simply not tolerate...
In Basketball

Some Thoughts on Horns Hoops

First, most of next season depends on Cory Joseph, the talented combo guard from Findlay Prep. He's not the NBA prospect that Bradley was coming out of high school, but he'll fill a...
In Football

Justin Blalock, Dan Neil & Offseason OL Musings

This Texassports feature on Justin Blalock's return to Austin kindled a few thoughts. By the way, the Texassports.com folks and the whole SID group...
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Jon Gruden Calls Colt McCoy 215 Pounds Of Tungsten Potassium Nitrate

I like extremely enthusiastic people, even when they're occasionally full of shit, which explains my fondness for Ted Nugent, Gus Johnson, a bulldog...
In Football

Mack Brown To Break It Down NFL Style

Mack Brown has been invited to New York to join the NFL Network in covering the 2010 NFL Draft. It gives the CEO of Texas football hours of...
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2011 Texas Football Recruiting: Spring Snapshot

Some recruiting opinions, ill-formed as they are. I'm interested in yours. Offense QB David Ash I like Ash fine and he was a...
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The NFL Draft: One Week Out

Some interesting things afoot. I somehow missed that the 1st round will happen on Thursday evening, April 22nd, 7:30 ET. Hello, Earl and Sergio. Earl is sneaking into the Top...
In Football

My Timely Spring Game Analysis: Offense

My Betamax DVR finally managed to track down the 2010 Texas Spring Game. Chris Applewhite and Minnesota Horn were kind enough to offer their...
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Spring Timeliness Part II: Defense

Muschamp showed less than a Mennonite show girl. Hang on 'til UCLA. DT Kheeston Randall is the next NFL manufacture on the Tolleson...
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Nick Saban Is an Evil Wizard

Nick Saban has multiple guys on his Alabama payroll currently serving in pseudo-coaching capacities who are not actually classified as coaches. Is it cheating? Or is it just being...
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NFL First Round LiveBlog

Feel the love, Jet style. Repartee will commence 15 minutes before the draft. Draft Foreplay: Dilfer, Carter, Jaws all piling on the notion of Tebow as a first...
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The Barking Carnival Complaint Box

As part of his zealous campaign for continued excellence, Sailor Ripley recently installed a comments and complaints box in the Barking Carnival...
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#20 Cedric Reed – What Do It Mean?

Yawn. Ho hum. Another elite recruit. The Texas Longhorns committed Cedric Reed, our 20th recruit. With 10 months to spare. I hate when...
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NFL Draft: Rounds 2 & 3

Still a lot of big value on the board today. Let's see if Josh McDaniels will overvalue some more H-backs. I'm off to start the weekend, but this thread is yours for play...
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NFL Draft: Evaluation – Rounds 1 & 2

NFL fans regard the NFL Draft the way seniors regard nursing home MegaBingo. Both sit mesmerized for days listening to announcements...
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NFL Draft: Evaluation Rounds 3 thru 7

This is the lightning round. No pans here. What's the point? Note how little the talent drops off from Round 2 to Round 3. Teams that...
In Football

Run Ricky Run

There are three Longhorns I hold above all others in the Sailor Ripley Texas Longhorns pantheon. TJ Ford, Vince Young and Ricky Williams. These are guys who I loved enough at...
In Baseball

Texas Baseball: 20 In A Row

We're now 38-7, have set the league record for consecutive conference wins (17 in a row, eclipsing previous holder Texas A&M @ 16), and are proving ourselves too stubborn to give in...
In Football

A Way Too Early Top 10

Mark Schlabach, SEC bootlick, and ESPN college football analyst, put up his revised preseason Top 25, presumably on the strength of breakout Spring game performances wherein...
In Football

Kate Gosselin Evaluates The Rookie QB Class

I look to Dallas for a half dozen things: big city attitude paired with small town ignorance, Clipper Cooper Junior League raffle escapades, leading...
In Baseball

DeLoss Dodds: The Warren Buffett of Collegiate Athletics

Like a lot of folks over the past couple of years, several big-time collegiate athletic programs have seen their endowment portfolios drop faster...
In Baseball

10-20-40

Cual es la significa, jotos? Shelly Duvall's body measurements? A logic game where the next number is either 70 or 80? (Think about it) The respective percentage...
In Football

Mack Brown, Vince Young & Will Muschamp

Mack's twelve year record at Texas now stands at a stellar 128-27. That's a .826 winning percentage, the highest in Texas history. Brown has...
In Baseball

Big 10 Expansion: Feeding The Monster

Rumors swirled all about this week that the Big 10 was going to expand to 16 teams and raid the Big 12 for both Nebraska and Missouri. It made for...
In Football

Unequal Revenue Sharing in the Big 12

A lot of BS is being spewed about the Big 12’s disproportionate revenue sharing, and how greedy Texas is. A few things to remember: 1....
In Basketball

Varez Ward & Shawn Williams Get Redshirts; Avery and DJ Update

According to ESPN, the NCAA has granted Ward and Williams medical red shirts for the 2009-2010 season. The NCAA hasn't ruled on whether UT fans do...
In Football

The Big 12, Nebraska, and the Red Herrings

It’s pretty interesting to read the comments on Big 12 conference realignment articles. They are filled with Nebraska supporters explaining why...
In Football

Conference Realignment and the Texas Legislature

A lot of posters have predicted that the Texas state legislature will play a determining role in a future realignment involving UT and TAMU....
In Football

Game Changers: The Greatest Plays In Texas Longhorn Football History

Barking Carnival is beginning its foray into the literary world as we write the tale of a sassy peasant girl growing up in feudal Japan who uses her...
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National Recruiting Rankings

The Rivals Top 100 and the ESPN150 were recently released. I know recruiting season is all but done for us but it's "fun" to see where our guys and potential targets stack up. Here...
In Baseball

DeLoss Dodds walks into a bar…

...and apparently the bar is in Tempe. Consider this your open thread for latest news, nonsense, shits, giggles and shenanigans about Texas and some other guys joining up with the...
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Merger Tactics

Sorry baseball fans. News leak of pending invites means that PAC 10 is losing and desperate. “Combat tactics, Mr. Ryan. By turning into the torpedo, the captain closed the...
In Football

Revisiting Phil Steele

Remember the consternation a couple of weeks ago from Phil Steele ranking Texas #11? I just bought the magazine, and see where his ranking comes from. He has a logic behind it, and...
In Baseball

Bring On The Frogs

Texas reminded us what the Longhorns look like when they're playing for something. Hi! Over the course of the regional, the Horns surrendered three runs in three games,...
In Football

Wanted: A Beautiful Mind

Should Texas go for the blonde? Or should it make sure its friends also score? YouTube - Adam Smith was wrong... Somewhere on a college campus, in a remote corner far away...
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Tom Osborne: Tuck Fexas

“This is not a case of reacting to any one school," Osborne said, “particularly Texas." Great line, Tom. Or so says something called the Omaha World Herald. They are like a...
In Baseball

Is the Rebel Alliance alive?

Buried in Ted Miller's ESPN article on CU to the PAC 10 is this nugget. The new conference would be split into divisions with Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma,...
In Football

PAC-16 = More Championship Game Frustration

There's a palpable excitement circulating through the cyber-air of the sundry football internets. And it's more than just the usual...
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Tommy Tuberville Has Some Advice For The Aggies

The new Texas Tech coach was on Houston's KILT Radio 610 Thursday and talked about A&M's possible defection to the SEC. Tuberville, said that he...
In Baseball

Prodigal U

A certain Governor had two flagship universities. And the lesser of them said to his Governor, ‘Governor, give me the portion of the Permanent University Fund that falls to me,...
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Yes, Baseball Is A Cruel Game

The air of inevitability is consistently overplayed in sports and there is no sport which laughs at that notion more than baseball. Though this setback is being linked in the same...
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Texas Didn’t Start Conference Realignment Stuff, Texas Finished It

Awesome story about what went down behind the scenes from ESPN and Andy Katz. In an unprecedented move, a number of influential people inside and...
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Realignment Winners & Losers & The Texas Trinity

Big 12, love ya, babe! If Texas is college football God (just ask us), then it is a God of the Trinity. The athletic department, the fans,...
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Gameplans Moving Forward

While it appears that the big money boys and power brokers that want to keep the current system in place have managed to plug the hole in the dam for the time being, that certainly...
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Byrne-ing Desire?

My new personal hero, the alliteratively-named disgruntled Aggie Roger Rogge, recently sent the following e-mail to Texas A&M Athletic Director "Dollar" Bill Byrne: Hey...
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The New Big 12-2: How Does It Stack Up?

Big 12-2 Weakness I took the last five years of performance (final AP rankings), threw out Nebraska and Colorado, and...
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Powers Talks Conference Realignment

An interesting piece from the Austin American Statesman on Texas' realignment decision, which rejects some of the buffoonery being promulgated in...
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So, What Happened?

I’ve posted on realignment several times over the past few months. I’m no insider, but I am a student of the program’s history, and try to keep up with current trends and...
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Podcasting My Pants Off With Black Heart Gold Pants

I've been podcasting with our friends at Black Heart Gold Pants: Iowa fan site, one of the funniest blogs I've ever read, and they profess to hate...
In Basketball

Texas Hoops Non-con Out: Some Good Matchups

From Texassports.com. So I hear you out there. "Trips, you still give a shit about Longhorn basketball after last season?" Does HenryJames...
In Football

Is Football As We Know It About To End?

Possibly. And the culprit will be chronic traumatic encephalopathy (or CTE). I first learned about CTE after reading a Malcolm Gladwell...
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Farewell To The Huskers, Part 2

I hope you enjoyed Part 1. And I enjoyed Better Off Red's reply to Part 1. On to Part 2. So, how has Nebraska fared in the Big 12? Here’s a timeline, noting key...
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Texas Offense: Impact Freshmen in 2010

If we want to have a Top 5 football team and win the league, it will be because some teenagers step up in a big way. This analysis includes...
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Texas Defense: Impact Freshmen in 2010

Now for the defense. Along with special teams, our best hope for a good year. Remember, this encompasses both true and redshirt...
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Farewell To The Huskers, Part 3

So, what are reasonable expectations for Nebraska in the Big 10 (plus 2), and what are Nebraska’s actual expectations? I think we can all answer the latter question. NU misses...
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A New Recruiting Network To Challenge Rivals, ESPN, Scout

Ben Koo, who, I can personally attest after lunching with him is the world's greatest Chinese Jew, offers an outstanding preview and analysis of the...
In Football

Dealing with pests

Football: I found a scorpion in my house the other day returning from work. Every summer they resiliently appear and this one approached with me claws out and tiny stinger raised...
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Keeping The Edge: How The Big 12′s Edge Mismatch Will Dictate The Season

If you want to understand one of the primary reasons that the league will take a on a decidedly defensive slant in 2010 compared to years previous,...
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Actually, Some Men Are An Island: The Big 12 Cornerback Inequity

I've already written about the peculiar imbalance between the Big 12's defensive ends and offensive tackles and how that will dramatically impact...
In Basketball

Three Questions Loom For Texas Longhorns Basketball

Or at least these are the questions that loom for me. Feel free to post yours and provide answers. Considering the topic, we'll be grading on a...
In Football

The North Carolina Agent Fiasco & The John Blake Stain

A man is known by the company he keeps, but also by the company from which he is kept out. - Grover Cleveland Butch Davis and the North Carolina...
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Clipper Cooper Assesses The World Cup And Africa

What's up, skanks? It's me, Clipper Cooper. Your natural master. How have you been? I'm actually not interested. That's...
In Football

The 2010 Class Is Officially Here

Arguably the best class top to bottom in the Mack Brown era (yeah, Vince Young's presence in any class negates effective comparison) is here and...
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We Are Witnessing History

What is a “Great Coaching Rivalry”, in your opinion? Is it a rivalry between great coaches, like the one between Darrell Royal and Frank Broyles? Or is it a great rivalry with...
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Lane Kiffin Continues Teaching Dale Carnegie Course

May I, kick a little something for the G's and, make a few friends as I breeze, through. ------ Snoop...
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Mondays With Mack

Mack Brown's ESPN charm offensive started early and it never relented. Similar to the Mike Sherman guest host spot during the Lawrence Welk marathon on College Station Public...
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Big 12 Media Day: Mike Sherman

When will that Mike Sherman picture get played out? When it stops making me laugh. And that means never. Unfortunately, Mike Sherman is a pretty good guy. It's more fun...
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Big 12 Media Day: Bill Snyder

Hey, look everyone. Bill Snyder is alive. I poked him with a stick and he's stirring. What? I'm not even on your lawn, Coach Snyder. Snyder begins the Big 12...
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Big 12 Media Day: Mack Brown

Browns owns these environments. He worked the room like a polished public relations expert, called every reporter from the most obscure Midwestern periodical by their first name, and...
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Pac 10 Commish: “Blame Texas Politics”

There is no Pac 16 thanks to "Texas politics," and UT playing both sides by leaking the story before it was a done deal. That's what Pac 10...
In Football

Tiding You Over

Five weeks. Images of the Decade: Texas Version from Matt Adkins on Vimeo.
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Competitive Balance

It’s going to be a quirky year in college football. The key words in 2010 are (air quotes) “competitive balance.” Free BC tote bag to the Barker or Carnival-goer that...
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Oklahoma State’s Jamie Blatnick Offers Former Teammate Steve Denning A Beer…

To the orbital socket. Steve Denning also managed to get himself tazed by Stilwater's finest as he sought to continue the fight with Blatnick...
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Les Miles Reminds LSU Recruit Elliott Porter That He Still Can’t Count

"There was never a bottom line that my eventual full circle would be back to Michigan." - Les Miles When Miles runs out of fingers and toes to...
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Texas Debuts at #4 in the Coaches Poll

Rank Team / (first-place votes) / 2009 record / Points / Final 2009 rank 1. Alabama (55) 14-0 1,469 1 2. Ohio State (4) 11-2 1,392 5 3. Florida...
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Future Texas Football Scheduling

Some interesting information from the AAS today regarding future Texas football scheduling: With Texas working on its future football schedules in light of the trimmed-down Big...
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John Blake North Carolina Agent Scandal, Part II: Meet Agent Gary Wichard

Remember the article I wrote three weeks ago pointing out that John Blake was going be at the center of the Marvin Austin scandal despite the fact...
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Chris Whaley is officially not a tailback.

Per Greg Davis he's working exclusively at H back and there are no plans for a move back. Say whaaaaaaat?
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TheeOSU: A Look Into The Two Year Terrelle Pryor Window

Much has been made about tOSU and their chances of making it back to the BCS championship game after a brief hiatus. The talk centers around two...
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MEN WITHOUT WOMEN

THE MACK ADAMS STORIES, VOLUME 2: MEN WITHOUT WOMEN Mack went through the trees and down the bank. Will was next to the water already. That afternoon they would fish. Later...
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Texas Football Open Practice Report Day 1

I spent most of my time watching the DTs, DEs, and LBs in position drills before the live portion where there was glorified scrimmaging (although...
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Texas Longhorns – Open Practice 1

Coming into practice we already knew the secondary was money, the bigger concern was OL play, running scheme, receiver quality, basically everything...
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Texas Football Practice Report Day One: What Scipio Missed While Scoping Out Sweaty Babes

Nice rundown on Wednesday's open practice here already by Scipio. And now that I've pointed out to him who all the players are and what...
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Longhorn Football Practice Report #2: Full Pads

It's on. Full pads popping. 3 on 3 Oklahoma drills. Bevo placidly observing his minions through a Ambien-addled haze. Texas talent on...
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Investigative Report: Bob Stoops is the Product of a Top Secret Government Research Program

The Barking Carnival news team has recently uncovered a disturbing story tying University of Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops to a covert...
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Open Practice Binge

Open practices are like workroom donuts for the football soul. You have to indulge even if they leave you feeling a little ashamed. But hey, they don't really count... right? Two...
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Five Years In The Desert: Texas Longhorn Running Back Recruiting

For some of our backs, that title could be Five Years In The Dessert. Some running backs will play on Sundays. Some play on...
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The Longhorn Opinion Array & The Preseason Top 25

I'm submitting Barking Carnival's Preseason BlogPoll wild ass guess entry soon and the final step in my mailing it in research was to consult three...
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Guest Column: Jim Rome Previews the Big XII

The Barking Carnival is pleased to welcome award-winning syndicated sports radio host Jim Rome as a guest columnist. In this installment, Mr. Rome...
In Football

Why the Offense Fails/Succeeds

Texas fans have normally taken to Greg Davis' West Coast offense like Spartans confronted with the choice of using the English Longbow. "Whats with these pussy short passes? Bubble...
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Texas Football Mid-Camp Report: RB, WR, QB

Rice is two weeks away and I thought I'd share some thoughts on where we are based on my observations, what I'm reading from Mack and Greg and Will,...
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Texas Football Mid-Camp Report: OL, TE/H-Back

Let's move on to OL, which has the depth of a Louis L'amour novel, and to TE/H-Back, a position we've decided to feature on offense because it's our...
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Rally For Raylee

As faithful Carnival-goers know, Kevin Berger's baby Raylee has been going through the ringer. Whenever I end a day feeling stressed out, I head over to that blog and my concerns...
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Predicting Garrett Gilbert’s First Year At QB: A Historical Perspective

Let's take a look at previous Longhorn QB starters under Mack Brown and see if we can make a few educated guesses about what this season holds for...
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Carrying The Mail: Why Cody Johnson Is The Answer At RB

By now, all of you know that I'm not a running back fetishist. But we all agree that we want a stud carrying the mail. Sans elite talent, I look...
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The Kids Are All Right

I'm really very busy these days but some of the (over)reaction to last night's Steele/Madison game is going to force me to take a break from organizing my Pez dispensers and penning...
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The 2010 Texas Football Opening Depth Chart

Here is our Texas Football 2010 opening depth chart. OFFENSE Position No. Player | No. Player | No. Player Flanker (Z) 5 John...
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Help Wanted: BCS Guru

Carnival-goers, please put your hands together and make welcome to the center stage, SynTex. We'll be adding his BCS-focused blog to the FanTake network later this week. In the...
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Depth Chart Part II: Personnel Is Destiny

Our declaration of starters tells me a little more about what we'll be on both sides of the ball. Declaring definitive starters with no soccer...
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Texas-Rice Football Preview 2010

I don't know a ton about the Owls, but I'll try my best. Here are a few interesting facts: - Educated owls say WHOOOOOM! - A group of owls is known as a parliament. ...
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The Boise State – Virginia Tech Football Game: The False Kingmaker

The game between #3 Boise State and #10 Virginia Tech on September 6th, 2010 is being billed as the first true early season clash of titans...
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Texas-Rice Football Post-Mortem 2010: Defense & Special Teams

The game wasn't as close as the final score suggested and it should have been a 41-6 type of win, but we demonstrated a facility for shooting...
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Witnessing Game One

We all tuned in to the same game but what each of us witnessed and what it means to us are probably pretty different animals. Here's what I saw in the first game and what it meant to...
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Texas-Rice Football Post-Mortem 2010: Offense

The offensive game plan was to protect Garrett Gilbert - mentally and physically - work the running game, even if meant being stubborn, and prep our...
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Initial thoughts on the Rice win

I didn't watch the game live because I'm a bad fan and I refuse to go to Houston on general principle, and then my dvr failed to record the game so I didn't get to break it down any....
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Texas-Wyoming Football Preview 2010

Wyoming is 1-0 after a sloppy 28-20 win over Southern Utah on Saturday. The Cowboys led 28-10 in the 3rd quarter and game accounts suggest that...
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A Defense of Situational Packages: Down With Depth Charts

As much talk as there is about depth charts, for our defense, they are an incoherent way of expressing situational packages. We have no base...
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Tales from New York

No one moves to New York for the football. You might move here for the culture. You might move here for the cuisine. You might move here for our world famous mosques. You might...
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So You Want a Playoff?

Questions and answers- What does a team need to do to win a college football national championship currently? It must win so many games during the regular season (no more...
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Simplifying The Thesis

Growing unrest. That's the general trend I see on various message boards after the first two games. Usually I am chief among skeptics... especially as it applies to our offense. I...
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Assessing the BCS Landscape — Week 2

Musings on Boise pretty much being toast for the national title courtesy of "Beamer Ball" (whatever that means anymore), the fact that 2010 at this...
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Week 3 BCS Update – Buckeyes Beware

BUCKEYES BEWARE After a rather uneventful weekend of college football (Iowa’s loss to Arizona is probably the only notable upset, effectively...
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Texas-Wyoming 2010 Post Mortem- Offense

We started the game aggressively, trying to set tempo, attempting to get Garrett Gilbert into a rhythm, but we stalled in Wyoming territory with a...
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Texas-Wyoming 2010 Post Mortem – Defense/Special Teams

I was happy with our overall performance, particularly given that Wyoming's QB could create with his feet like Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot and...
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Want to Win in Lubbock? Recipe Inside.

We have two games in the books for the 2010 season and have brought you coverage from all angles: A Utility Belt of Winnebagos & Bears, a Derridian...
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2010 Texas Tech Football Preview

I had some thoughts on beating our sand-crotched brethren from the Outback, fresh off of a 2-0 start with wins over SMU and New Mexico. Although we're 44-15 against Tech all...
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Muschampions Of Muleshoe

Things are quiet here at Barking Carnival headquarters this Friday afternoon. Most of the guys are in a Tote Bag-subcommittee design meeting. Two words: Ball Hawk Or is it one...
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College Football Open Thread

If we can stop Florida from texting, we've got a chance. Go Georgia! Go LSU!
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Week 3: Perceptions and Predictions

As they always say, “Strange things happen in Lubbock”. Tipped passes? Questionable calls? A given. A few mental errors? You...
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Thoughts on the offense against Texas Tech

Let's fast forward a few years into the future. Mack Brown has retired, and Will Muschamp is the new head coach at Texas. Muschamp calls Greg...
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“Leading The Nation In Effort”–Mack Brown

After reading Scipio's detailed analysis of both sides of the ball, I was inspired to rewatch the Tech game and view it through the prism of his...
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Memories of Rout 66: Texas vs. UCLA 1997

It was my first year as a season ticket holder. I remember the surge of pride when I received my season tickets and how I would take them out...
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Texas-UCLA 2010 Post Mortem- Offense

They showed Greg Davis in the press box during the game - as the announcer solemnly intoned that he was "our outstanding offensive coordinator"...
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When things go wrong?

When I played for UT, there was only a single time that we did not review the game film of our performance for learning experience. That fateful game? The 50-7 debacle in...
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BlogPoll – #5 – 2010

This week's poll. Comments below. Barking Carnival Ballot - Week 5 Rank Team Delta 1 Alabama...
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Questions and Answers

I like to say that the truth isn’t always your friend, but you should never let it be your enemy. By that, I mean that there will always be tough times, and it’s not productive...
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One More Time: Why This Game is Special

"The University of Texas football season begins with the Oklahoma game. All before that is so much throat-clearing." Dan Jenkins, Sports...
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Future Big 12 Football Schedules Are In

Here's how it will play out next year and going forward with respect to conference play. Those changes have NOT YET been reflected (see...
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A Mysterious Package

No, I'm not talking about the new alternative lifestyle bar by the Mosque at Ground Zero where HenryJames is a silent investor. I received something in the mail on Tuesday. I...
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BCS Week 5 — For Those Who Care

I'm not going to lie. This post is a blatant attempt to maintain readership in the midst of chaos and disarray, and there is very little in it for you, loyal Texas supporter. ...
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It’s The Year 2000…

Gasoline is $1.26 a gallon. Oil is $30 a barrel. The St Louis Rams are your Super Bowl champions. Gladiator wins Best Picture at the Oscars. The World Trade...
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Texas-OU 2010 Post Mortem- Defense & Special Teams

The defense was trapped in a never-ending Groundhog's Day of fresh downs gifted to Oklahoma with dumb penalties, mental letdowns, and an initial...
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Texas-OU 2010 Post Mortem- Offense

Oklahoma's weakest unit is their defense. They're ranked 95th in the FBS. They were pushed around by Utah St, Air Force, and Cincinnati. And...
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Texas Longhorns / Oklahoma Sooners Animated Drive Chart

Though I'd say some our drives might better be described as inanimate, this makes me laugh in a gallows humor sort of way. Our first drive is...
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Will or Mack?

We've received a lot of email on this and had lots of side conversations asking the question. If you were forced for whatever reason to pick Will or Mack to lead the Horns starting...
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Nebraska- 48 KSU- 13: How Dual Threat QBs Change Everything & What That Means For Texas

I thought Nebraska would win comfortably. Because of the favorable match-up between the NU running game and KSU's willing run defense and my...
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A Tale of Two Offenses

Note: I'm sure many of y'all are weary of the negativity that naturally resulted from two consecutive ugly losses. I am too, and strongly considered withholding this piece. But I...
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Nebraska Preview – Nebraska O vs. Texas D

The Huskers have been the most impressive team in our pillow fight of a league, featuring an offense invigorated by Taylor Martinez's feet and a...
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Nebraska Preview: Texas Offense vs. Nebraska Defense

With respect to our offense, either you get it at this point, or you don't. Still, let's see if we can find a few match-ups that might get us some...
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Death To The BCS

As a college football fan who isn't a fucking tosser from Missouri, I wish we had a playoff. Bad. So bad. I tend to sit my ass on a couch during the first weekend of March...
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The Texas Defense: Or How To Create A Statistical Outlier

I've documented the weird disconnect between our defense's raw performance in yards allowed and yards per play vs. points allowed since 2009, but...
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Podcast #27: The Hog Call Where Blake Tells Joe Theismann To Keep His Head On A Swivel

Seriously, this one is not to be missed. Blake regales us with tales of fines he paid for what the NFL erroneously deemed as infractions. He also...
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Stoops- 7, Mack- 2

That's the bottom line. Everything else is sophistry and window dressing. We play to win championships. That's why changes are needed. That's why this program is getting...
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A MACK ADAMS CHRISTMAS

THE MACK ADAMS STORIES, VOLUME 5: A MACK ADAMS CHRISTMAS The streets were quiet for the holiday as Mack left Bellmont. East Seventh Street was far. So when he passed under the...
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CEO

We always hear about Mack Brown and how he is the CEO of the Longhorn Football team. We've heard it ad nauseum and debated whether the moniker was aptly or inaccurately applied. It...
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Gary Patterson – Innovator or Sideshow?

As we watch from afar at the new direction Texas decides to go at DC, it's brought up a subject I've pondered for a while. What is the best...
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Jeff Fisher > Vince Young

As far as Bud Adams is concerned. The Titans are letting Vince Young go. The team put out a statement this afternoon saying that Young will not be on their roster next season. They...
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Your Official Thursday Coaching Changes And Hires Open Thread and Omnibus

The craziness around hiring the Texas Longhorns staff continues...
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How The Thunder Built A Title Team In Five Years

With Carmelo and Deron Williams now playing in the NY metropolitan area, a new narrative about the NBA has steadily gained steam: How can small...
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Billion Dollar Bevo, Part I: Inside the UT/ESPN Longhorn Network Deal

What's really driving the Texas-ESPN deal? How does it predict the future of Texas & college athletics? If you want to know UT's future conference...
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Realignmentality

I got your conference realignment fatigue right here. 4,500 words worth.
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Coaches Are PE Majors: The Aggie Edition

In a world where the word “genius” is thrown around often to describe men who wrote their college thesis on Dodgeball Strategy instead of Game...
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Texas-Oklahoma Post Mortem: Offense

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