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1. Vasherized said:

   October 23rd, 2008 at 7:07 am

   Not even room for Rick Barnes … now that’s depth.

2. ATXHornsFan said:

   October 23rd, 2008 at 7:42 am

   These really are amazing times. And to think how much shit people gave DeLoss for so many years.

3. bighornfan32 said:

   October 23rd, 2008 at 7:45 am

   look how long kd’s arms are. Jesus it’s almost to the floor

4. BRAGGonUT said:

   October 23rd, 2008 at 7:48 am

   Barnes was off recruiting, Vasherized.

5. ATXHornsFan said:

   October 23rd, 2008 at 7:51 am

   And since I’m not sure where else to post this, but in the all-sports department, the baseball schedule is out with 35 home games. And the weekend of February 20-22 we have a four game series (with Illinois-Chicago) including a double-header on Saturday with the basketball team playing OU Sucks that night in the drum. That will be a serious Longhorns day. Hook Em!

6. steven said:

   October 23rd, 2008 at 8:01 am

   Yea, Deloss shouldn’t be beotched at any more, at least not for a while, but what really has he really done aside from just sitting on his ass and not getting in the way.

7. ATXHornsFan said:

   October 23rd, 2008 at 8:03 am

   What has DeLoss done? Hmmmm. Hired Mack Brown, Rick Barnes, Augie Garrido….

8. steven said:

   October 23rd, 2008 at 8:08 am

   Like I said, just sitting on his ass, and he could have done better and sooner. Nobody could have screwed his gig up as long as they sat on their ass and didn’t get in the way.

9. steven said:

   October 23rd, 2008 at 8:13 am

   DeLoss is nothing more than a go’fer boy for the big butt donors, titles be damned. That’s why he can have a degree from God forsaken KSU and still be where he is and that’s why he never looks stressed. He never is and never has any reason to be. Go’fer boys never do.

10. Dirk Diggler said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 8:14 am

    Another piece – didn’t anyone watch the Colbert Report the other day? He had on a guyg who runs a home-schooling college academy in Virginia. Colber’s lead in:

    “Tonight, I sit down with Michael Ferris, Chancellor of a Christian college known as ‘ God’s Harvard,’ which makes Harvard ‘God’s Texas A&M”.

11. srr50 said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 8:27 am

    Deloss recognized very early (earlier than just about any other AD) the changing landscape of College Foottball and TV. He recognized that the SWC was dead long before the funeral (thanks in part to his understanding that even if the league didn’t implode due to cheating that the lack of a solid TV base would do it.)

    He has had a helluva lot to do with expanding our national brand, and with our success of all sports, and that takes more than just being a go’fer or just standing around.

12. Texasholdem said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 8:51 am

    Steven, if you want an example of an AD that is in the pocket of big donors, take a look at Bill Byrne. His hires have been a disaster. Deloss at least has the common sense to put the big boys in their place, quietly, when it is needed.

    Do you honestly think Mack would ever have a secret news letter that the AD didn’t know about?

13. steven said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 8:57 am

    At Texas, football is king and, while the other sports are nice, football is what matters and football is what everything else depends on. In our piss poor conference, all you have to do is beat OU and you are pretty much in the MNC contention. And for all OU’s hubub, it’s not like they are all that great or all that formidable. Their four straight BCS loses should confirm that, as well as their outrageous and incessant levels of cheating. That OU has to cheat to such levels just to compete should indicate that OU has some inherent weaknesses to their program, and, in the long term, they should not truly be able to compete on the same footing with Texas. OU has a certain degree of paper tiger to their program.

    And so, it is about f*cking time Texas is within the ballpark of where it should have been to begin with and long ago. As far as marketing goes, hey, winning seems to always solve that, just go ask Nike, and the fact is Texas should have been winning more. Nobody can touch us with regard to resources in every respect in this piss poor conference of ours and, yes, not even a cheating OU should be able to touch us on the football field, at least not with regularity, let alone be dominating us.

14. Bob C. said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 9:00 am

    Who is the guy in front of Garrido?

15. Phenomenal Smith said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 9:23 am

    BOMC? Bridges of Madison County? Book Of the Month Club? I really don’t know.

16. PatronSaint said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 9:28 am

    Sweet Jesus. I just want to get something out in the open. If anyone out there knows me and my handle, I am in fact “Steven.” But make no mistake, I am not “steven.” I don’t want the backs of peoples minds to wonder if I am this board’s Lennie Small.

17. HenryJames said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 9:30 am

    Burnt Orange Media Conspiracy

18. sooner tim said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 9:50 am

    Someone give Steven a hug. He’s having an outrageous and incessant piss poor day.

19. ATXHornsFan said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 10:06 am

    steven, here’s a quote from what is a very good and critical article. This speaks to “What has DeLoss done?”
    Since the inception of the Big 12, in 1996, UT’s men’s and women’s teams have each won 37 conference championships and 6 national titles. In 2005 and 2006, the nine men’s teams won 7 Big 12 titles and 2 national championships (in football and baseball). The football team is the only one in the NCAA to have won at least ten games for seven consecutive years. In the Directors’ Cup, which measures the overall success of a college’s athletics program, UT has finished in the top ten for seven consecutive seasons. In a 2002 cover story, Sports Illustrated named Texas as America’s number one sports university—before its phenomenal run of conference and national championships. Any way you look at it, the twenty men’s and women’s teams at the University of Texas are in the midst of a renaissance.

    I am not here to be an apologist for DeLoss Dodds, but I do think he deserves a lion’s share of the credit.

20. steven said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 10:17 am

    As far as I am concerned all that is not enough. I want more, especially more football hardware. Hey, gotta admit, I’m a football guy. That’s pretty much all I care about.

21. steven said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 10:23 am

    sooner tim, you cheating, lying, stealing, scum bucket Okies should say your prayers and bless the Lord that someone like me is not AD at UT, cause if that were the case, we would be kicking y’all’s butt so much on the field, a little weasel ass sooner like yourself would to be too scared and beaten down to represent himself on a Horn site. Word to your mother, brotha.

22. Petey Jay said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 10:34 am

    DeLo$$ ran the Athletic Dept. for almost 10 years and hired McWilliams, Mackovic, Bob Weltlich, Tom Penders, and fired Abe Lemmons, Coach Gus and Fred Akers.

    Now cases could be made that Akers, Lemmons and Gus had to go, and I can understand that.

    Any other executive with that track record in hiring would have been fired LONG before they had the chance to hire Brown, Augie and Barnes.

23. ATXHornsFan said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 10:34 am

    Interesting comment steven. I care about football a whole lot too, but I love basketball and baseball too. The Final Four in New Orleans was one of the best sporting weekends of my life, and I am hoping for a trip to Omaha soon. I want an AD who understands and supports football as much as possible, since we all know that is where the money is, but also want an AD who is committed to all of Longhorn Sports and to our student-athletes. Come to the Drum and the Disch for some games.

24. EyesOfTX said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 10:39 am

    I’m not sure Steven’s post even rise to the level of resident village idiot anymore. I mean, dude…

25. Mark Wahlberg said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 am

    I’m-a go talk to a Village Idiot.

    Hey, steven. You’re a village idiot. I like that. Say hi to your mutha for me, ok?

26. CrazyJoeDavola said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 11:18 am

    Guys, please stop trying to have discussions with Steven.

    He’s not listening to you. Or reading you.

27. Nordberg said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 11:26 am

    Is there any way to block someone from posting on a blog, like, say, oh I don’t know… BarkingCarnival.com?

28. Doperbo said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 11:31 am

    Phase 1: Chloroform

29. MIA said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 11:50 am

    Phase 2: Shallow ditch in Juarez.

30. Phenomenal Smith said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    Burnt Orange Media Conspiracy

    Better than Big On Man Campus.

31. Richard Hidalgo said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    For a little while, I was a BMOC

32. 8straight said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    “Now cases could be made that Akers, Lemmons and Gus had to go and I can understand that.”

    I would disagree when it came to Fred. Abe and Gus ran into personal situations. Fred had the misfortune of running into SMU and OU’s money train teams. He still held his own and sent a unbelievable number of players to the pros.

33. steven said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    “Is there any way to block someone from posting on a blog, like, say, oh I don’t know… BarkingCarnival.com?”

    Now why anyone wanna go and do something like that? Is it cause I sound like a f*ckin’ idiot? Is that it? Cause if that is the case my friend, then you need to go and just block yourself, Nerdbooger. You’re the freakin’ idiot that thinks Pryor can pass worth a damn. Just go watch him get his butt beat and passes int’d by PSU. You’re the one who thought Mizzou was worth a damn and would give us a game. My how we all have such short memories when we are Nerdboogers.

34. uthookem said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    Nothing like throwing a tantrum on a blog. Drop some f-bombs. Misspell someone’s handle. Epic.

35. Black Scholes said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    steven’s comments are dead-on. If this was 1987.

    Dodds has long since outpaced his detractors.

36. steven said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    Yea, and he did it, like it said, by sitting on his ass and getting outta the way. And this was never an effort to detract from the boss man. Just thought I was stating a fact. A fact is a fact after all.

    Anyway, look at Da’ Boys, sometimes just sitting on your ass and getting out the way is a damn hard thing to do and something to be applauded. I’d be the first one to praise DeLoss for what little he has done. Remember the principle: Do No Harm. This ought to be the first principle in any human endeavor. DeLoss has certainly followed it by sitting on his ass and getting out the way and good for him and more power to him.

37. steven said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    Hey, Nerdbooger is the one who started this by calling me a crazy dumbshat for saying that Mizzou stunk like skunk and that the game would be a laugher. My posts might be somewhat looney, but I believe they are constructive and informative, once you can get past the crazy part.

38. South '06 said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    “take a look at Bill Byrne. His hires have been a disaster”

    Listen, I’m not trying to be the resident Aggie apologist. I promise, I’m not.

    But I don’t think you can say that Billy Gillispie, Gary Blair, Pat Forde, etc. have been disasters by any stretch of the imagination. Turgeon looked like a pretty damn good decision down the stretch last season as well.

    I know, I know. Byrne’s fate is irreversibly tied to Sherman. As that hire goes, so goes the Byrne regime. That’s just how much emphasis is placed on football over other NCAA sports.

    But I have to strongly disagree with your assertion. If Byrne gets the boot, it will be 100% based on the Sherman hire.

39. Aggie Lurking said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    South meant Pat Henry. Y’all shouldn’t get him riled up. I think Rob Childress was a pretty darn good hire while we are at it. We have to give Sherm a little slack or at least a chance. He inherited almost as big a rebuilding project as Billy and Gary did.

40. Steve Pederson said:

    October 23rd, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    Don’t forget my hire of Bill Callahan.

    It transformed Nebraska football.

41. steven said:

    October 24th, 2008 at 6:33 am

    You give Byrnes as much time to sit on his fat ass and just get outta the way as DeLoss has had, then, eventually, the same level of success would run Byrnes’ way too.

    Look, until someone can tell me how someone who graduated from a po’dunk school like KSU attains DeLoss’s position and why he never looks stressed, I am just not going to be buying into any and all of this DeLoss bla, bla, bla. As far as I am concerned, until someone can legitimately answer those questions (and I don’t think anyone can), he is just another one of them high-falutin go’fer boys. And this should be the same for everyone else who ponders this matter just for a sec.

    Sure, he looks all authoritarian and substantial in the photo up there, but what does that mean? Looks like an elderly go’fer boy, to me, attempting to appear authoritarian and substantial on the cover of a mag. Photos, my friends, mean absolutely nothing. Haven’t you all learn that principle just yet? You know, the one that goes: the appearances, in general, are inherently deceitful and deceiving. Haven’t you all found this same principle to be alomst always true in your own lives and experiences. I can only imagine that you all have, assuming, of course, that you all aren’t just plain dumbasses.

42. Orange90 said:

    October 24th, 2008 at 8:16 am

    I must say, I’m not quite sure which is more hilarious…the nonsensical content of steven’s posts, or, his utterly lame and disjointed style of writing. Either way, I say keep posting my boy! This is entertaining stuff.

43. Black Scholes said:

    October 24th, 2008 at 9:18 am

    If anyone had ever told me I’d be a Dodds apologist I’d have laughed.

    Very early in his term Dodds cobbled together the various sports support groups into an entity known as the Longhorn Foundation. If Dodds never did much of anything else, that was still a bold stroke at the time and set the table for the next 25 years for what is now one of the elite athletic departments in the country. Dodds has had some fails, but to be fair even most of those had a (debatable) reason behind the moves at the time.

    What isn’t defensible is aggie following Franchione with Mike Sherman. That football program is going to dogpaddle at best for at least a few years under the weight of those decisions.

    I realize steven is probably a poser and is most likely looking for a reaction. Then I remember that I often underestimate the stupidity of people, and I want to give steven the benefit of the doubt.

44. srr50 said:

    October 24th, 2008 at 11:21 am

    To back up Scholes, Texas, under Deloss pioneered bundling all media packages together and taking them out of the department.

    Until then the individual coaches oversaw their own radio -tv deals and it was rife with mismangement and skimming. By outsourcing the media contract Deloss cut off potential conflict of interest among the coaches and made the media rights more profitable for the University.

    It was the template that just about everyone else followed afterward to set up local media packages.

45. steven said:

    October 24th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    None of you guys have still answered my questions? And as far as being a poser, you seem more like one than me and you seem to be looking to tame down reaction and protect the status quo with your rational sounding but nothing more than fluff rant. I know a thing or two about fluffing. Putting together a group in 25 years, is that all you can come up with to show what I said about him was wrong? That doesn’t signify a lot of sitting on the ass to you?

    Look, if you have a sense for how AD departments work and how business operates at the top levels, then you have a pretty good sense for what going on over there. You trying to tell me that Dodds really has any true say in any meaningful matter? Get outta here. Like I said, he is no more than a go’fer boy. The big butt donors, known and unknown, run things around there and Dodds has no say in the matter, since he is just their go’fer.

    Why is this so hard to understand? Has it ever occurred to you and the real mover and shakers don’t particular care to be known or to receive publicity and so they just put up lame ass Dodds as a meangingless figurehead? Duh, you dimwit. Either that or you are purposely playing dumb for your own purposes. Who knows with all the crazy mo’fo around these days?

46. srr50 said:

    October 24th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    I know a thing or two about fluffing.

    Having worked in the UT athletics department, I can only say steven that that is the truest statement you have ever written on barking carnival.

47. sooner tim said:

    October 24th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    I come on this post because I think it’s writers are really good, and really funny. This is the best cfb blog going, so to you regulars, I’m gonna keep checking in if it’s ok with you. (Now, I don’t have all day to sit on the site which is why the late post)

    I’ve got no horse in the DeLoss argument, but, Jesus, all you guys do is finish in the top 10 every year in football, go to a Final Four every other year and continue to dominate in baseball. To say he isn’t good is as non-sensical as some of the nuts-o’s in my camp bitching about Stoops (though I wish he’d hire a special teams coach). But, y’all fight over Dodds, but 117 other D-1 programs would love him. I’ll keep Joe C., though.

    One bitch, though. I won’t and can’t deny, especially in the 70’s and 80’s there were countless $100 handshakes and the odd mink coat flying around Norman. It was REALLY common place around CFB in those days and we were guilty as charged. That was then.

    But you guys need to tap the brakes on the “incessant culture of cheating, etc…” bs. One violation in the last 20 years, and we expelled the little fucker from the university. Was there more? Easy for one to think so, but you’d think in this day of 24 hr. “news” sources that don’t have to have much backup, so wannabe reporter would’ve dug up more if there was more to be dug. In any event, and even if you don’t believe there wasn’t more, how many coaches of pre-season #1 teams, with a WR as a backup, would kick his starting QB off the team? The guy did put his money where his mouth was.

    Last thing, as I’ve been accused of being a

    “cheating, lying, stealing, scum bucket Okie” and a “little weasel ass sooner like yourself would to be too scared and beaten down to represent himself on a Horn site.”

    I’m from Texas. Raised in Dallas and lived here all my life except for going to school in Norman. Being an OU grad doesn’t require me to hate UT. I have a pretty fucking healthy respect for you guys, at least most of you. I don’t do the “Horns down” bullshit, but that doesn’t make me want to beat your teams. Hell, I even married a UT grad. She’s from Oklahoma, by the way.

    Beaten down, no. Lying, cheating, no. Scumbucket, negative. Well, yeah, whatever.

    Scip, Nord, Scholes, Huckleberry and the people who actually run this site, I’ve noticed a lot of fans of other B12 schools on your site this year. I’m betting you kind of like it. And I’m sure they and I will keep coming back. Beat OSU tomorrow.

48. ChrisApplewhite said:

    October 24th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    Outside of the Big Red Auto thing — and various people will tell you how culpable Stoops was to varying degrees — I’ve seen zero evidence that Stoops is or was cheating.

    I’ve always thought this. You never hear about OU involved in rumors like that, or pursuing those weird kids that have 4 schools drop off at once then end up at LSU. That’s why the BRA thing was, to me anyway, a big surprise.

49. Scipio Tex said:

    October 24th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    sooner tim:

    You’re welcome here any time. I love fans from other schools hanging on BC. Hell, if you’re good enough we’ll give you a blog. Pure meritocracy.

50. Uwe the Foreign Exchange Student said:

    October 24th, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    I come on this post because I think it’s writers are really good, and really funny.

    I come too on this posting have because I thinking also it’s writers are being very good and very funny-making! Hallo! I am being Uwe from Deutschland.

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