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Pre-season Thoughts

Posted by CallKevin on September 2nd, 2009 under Basketball, Football

  1. I can’t quite justify spending $40 to watch Texas pay ULM on Saturday. $20, sure, but somehow $40 for a game whose outcome better not be in doubt seems unreasonable. Living here in Indiana forces one to make those kinds of decisions. Is it a no-brainer for the rest of you not able to attend the game live?
  2. I’m watching last night’s Craig Ferguson, typing a Barking Carnival Post, and “working.” Home offices can be dangerous for pure commission salespeople.
  3. The 6 starting Big 12 North QB’s have combined for 32 career wins. Colt McCoy has 32 career wins. No other active QB has more than 26 (I think).
  4. Colt has more college wins (32) than NFL Hall of Fame QB’s Bart Starr (10), George Blanda (8), and Johnny Unitas (11) combined.
  5. Colt is 25th in career wins (based on my very informal research). 1 win puts him in the top 20. 3 wins put him in the top 10. 5 wins put him in the top 5. 10 wins puts him in a tie for #1.
  6. Mack Brown has 195 victories at an FBS school, which puts him 3rd among active coaches—14 wins ahead of the next-closest coach, Dick Tomey. It also puts him 16th all-time, 8 wins from the top 12.
  7. Mack’s 115 wins at Texas are the 5th-most of any active FBS coach at his current FBS school (Paterno, Bowden, Beamer, Snyder).
  8. From 1987-97, Texas was 36th among FBS teams in winning %, with a record of 72-54-2 (57.03%). From 1998-2008, Texas was 2nd among FBS teams, with a record of 115-26 (81.56%). Boise State is 115-25.
  9. I was surprised to learn the team with the highest win % away from home since 1999.
  10. In his first six years at Texas, Mack’s teams had 3 2nd-half and 3 4th-quarter comebacks. In the past five years, they’ve had 19 2nd-half comebacks and 9 4th-quarter comebacks. First thought might be that we’ve become slow-starters, but a quick check of the overall record shows we went from 59-18 to 56-8, suggesting that we just got better.
  11. Since 2000, Texas has blocked more kicks (54) than Virginia Tech (46) or for that matter than any other team. But how many more times do you think that blocked kicks will be referred to during VT games than during Texas games this season?
  12. There were 40 QB’s in 2005 ranked as high as Colt by Rivals (5.6). Scanning through the list, the only ones who made significant contributions were Kerry Meier (as a TE at KU), Casey Dick (because his name led to some great headlines at Arkansas), Zac Robinson (OK State), Chase Daniel (Missouri), and Mark Sanchez (USC). I believe 30 of the other 40 didn’t start more than one season of FBS college football.
  13. If you’d watched the 2000 Texas 5A state championship football game, and you’d had to bet on which kid was destined to have the best pro career, I doubt it would have taken much thought. Looking back, however, the Longhorn with the best career so far, and having a career year this year, isn’t the kid from Midland.
  14. Basketball—Barnes has been our coach since 1998, like Mack. No national championship so far, but some very nice finishes. This year is the first since 2005 that we didn’t lose talent to the NBA early (DJ-2008; KD-2007; LaMarcus & Daniel & PJ 2006). Prepare for a great year.

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  1. uthookem said:

    September 2nd, 2009 at 10:28 am

    Nice reference to Huston Street – he is having a damn good year…too bad it’s in Colorado where no one gets to notice.

  2. willytheweevil said:

    September 2nd, 2009 at 10:34 am

    lasp

    just saw fozzy, guy has a bandaged knee. my calves are bigger than his and i weigh 160

  3. CallKevin said:

    September 2nd, 2009 at 10:50 am

    Thanks for fixing the formatting, Huck. Now if you can teach me how to add images, gold. :-)

  4. hobbs said:

    September 2nd, 2009 at 10:50 am

    I’m gonna pony up the $40, but it does seem awfully high.

  5. bateshorn said:

    September 2nd, 2009 at 11:17 am

    Eh. I’ll catch them playing Wyoming on Versus next week.

    Good stuff CallKevin.

  6. Donny Boudreaux said:

    September 2nd, 2009 at 11:34 am

    Just watch with 3 friends… Only $10.00 then.

  7. henley said:

    September 2nd, 2009 at 11:38 am

    I’ll pay the $40, because others are chipping in for dinner and such. Oh who am I kidding? I’d pay the $40 if I were watching by myself, because I haven’t watched a UT football game for 8 months.

  8. nordberg said:

    September 2nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    For you cheap bastards, Fox SW is showing a condensed version at, I think, 11 a.m. Central this upcoming Tuesday.

  9. PrimeTime said:

    September 2nd, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    Who are you refering to in number 13? I know Cedric Benson is one, but who is the other guy?

  10. bateshorn said:

    September 2nd, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    Nordberg-

    Looks like I might have a little stomach bug come Tuesday morning.

  11. CallKevin said:

    September 2nd, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    Huston Street, PrimeTime. As I recall, he was up against Cedric many times (21 tackles). Cedric managed 255 yards and 5 TD’s.

  12. The General said:

    September 2nd, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    You have been starving in a desert for 9 months. Someone offers you a lukewarm glass of ditch water for a double sawbuck. YOU BUY THE WATER! You don’t wait for a road trip to Wyoming.

  13. Dunstan Pearl said:

    September 2nd, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    I’d give my middle testicle to watch the game on Saturday. $40 is nothing.

  14. CloseToJumping said:

    September 2nd, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    I will be paying the $40 to record it, and at a sports bar with friends watching it. You cheap bastard.

    I enjoyed the post and learned some things. Hope you do it weekly with different news each time for the most part.

    Point 10 is important and should be picked at a little further. Daryl Drake and Carl Reese both left after the 2003 season. I personally do not think that is coincidental. Drake was an idiot and a lazy one at that. He was poison to the program that allowed prima donnas to get away with whatever they wanted, including underachieving. As you know. Carl Reese was a senile moron that couldn’t make adjustments to save his life. It is criminal that he is out there coaching again at Miami, OH. Couldn’t happen to a better head coach, though.

    Point 11 is an irritant to me as well. The ardent, willful refusal to consider data that runs counter to the commonly held “common sense” among the talking heads is hilariously sad. I firmly believe at this point that most of the guys commenting on sports for a living are less intelligent than most prison inmates.

  15. blackscholes said:

    September 3rd, 2009 at 1:47 am

    Bruce Chambers at least isn’t destructive in his ineffectiveness. The same couldn’t be said of Daryl Drake.

    Craig Ferguson, Kev? Seriously? Buy the game PPV and just rewatch it every time you’re tempted to watch any “talk” show. Except the View, of course.

    I have no idea why I put quotations around “talk” (did it again), but it felt good.

  16. CallKevin said:

    September 3rd, 2009 at 6:16 am

    I actually think Craig Ferguson’s really funny. Some people like Conan or Jay–neither makes me laugh. Ferguson does. Letterman was funny to me in the 1980’s, but then so was Saturday Night Live.

    I’ve come to the conclusion that not spending $40 to watch a UT football season opener was a chemical imbalance caused by drinking shiner while watching So You Think You Can Dance re-runs. Won’t happen again.

  17. blackscholes said:

    September 3rd, 2009 at 10:49 am

    Kev – your reading list(s) > your TIVO lists.

    I just can’t sit through any of the talk shows now. Carson and Letterman in their primes were great; any medium that could possibly greenlight Jimmy Fallon solo with a microphone is not one I can continue to support. I’ve only seen Ferguson a couple of times to be fair, but the humor did feel a little forced to me.

  18. CallKevin said:

    September 3rd, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    I watch the 1 hour Ferguson shows in about twenty minutes. I enjoy his interviews (never know where they’re going) and his monologues. I don’t enjoy his skits, usually. Fallon seems like a nice guy who is in the wrong environment. Not Chevy Chase uncomfortable, but not for me.

  19. CloseToJumping said:

    September 4th, 2009 at 7:56 am

    I watched Fallon one night, or rather, he was on tv while I was working nearby. He actually grabbed my attention because he felt so uncomfortable. I paused and watched for about 5 minutes and honestly felt a little tense from seeing it and turned it. It was right after he started. Did that show make it? Or has it been canceled?

  20. CallKevin said:

    September 4th, 2009 at 8:35 am

    6 months and counting, CTJ–it’s on nightly. You saw the same thing I saw (the discomfort), but he’s surviving.

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    September 7th, 2009 at 8:15 pm

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