Barking Carnival

So our hitters went 4-29 with 13 strikeouts. Against a fucking airline?! Are you kidding me?! Meh. We still won 3-2. This is who we are. Now there will be much gnashing of teeth all season long from our fans who want us to win, uh, differently. Not going to happen. Repeat after me, ‘pitching and defense.’ Really, really good pitching and defense. Freshman Hoby Milner got his first collegiate start, and he looked like a

The Texas Staff Takes the Plunge into Statistical Analysis

Will Muschamp famously declared that stats are for losers. Greg Davis? It turns out that he wants to know which stats are for winners. It has come to Barking Carnival's attention that the Texas staff, and Davis in particular, ran some numbers to determine which stats correlate best to wins. My excitement that the Texas staff was willing

Chris Applewhite's excellent Regression to the Mean piece got me off of my ass to type a half dozen words in the google search box. After wiping off my brow and the pool of sweat on my keyboard I pulled up the 2008 Collegiate Football Turnover Margin rankings. Most of you probably knew this already, but Texas ended up tied for 47th. (Keep in mind I've had a busy summer consisting

In case you missed it, the Astros and the Cubs went at it last night in a rather important NL Central tilt. Budding pitching star Wandy Rodriguez matched perennial all star and uber-douchebag Carlos Zambrano pitch for pitch through 7th. In the eighth, home plate umpire Mike Winter's quick hook on Latroy Hawkins forced Manager Cecil Cooper to bring in stud closer Jose Valverde an inning early. A couple innings prior to

Who is slated for their comeuppance in 2009? Some really good coaches, actually. And one or two that are perceived to be. I will eschew the legalistic prick picks like Utah (the Utes went 10-3 in 2009, crashing down from their 13-0 record in '08!!!!) and give you a few of the teams that will be picnicking on shit sandwiches and will be qualitatively much worse in 2009. Cincinnati Like Jim

Now that the July Rubicon has been forded and my mourning for Michael Jackson has ended, our attentions can turn in earnest to college football preview magazines and preseason prognostication. Like many of you, I will purchase several terrible college football magazines with outdated information (Jarvis Humphery's development at DT will be key for the 'Horns!), poor analysis (2008 Preview Headline: Can West Virginia prevent the inevitable Ohio State/Georgia national title game?), and uninspired

This one's for all the marbles. It all comes down to this. Winner takes all. To help tide us over until gametime and get through the workday, here are some videos of the runups and the final games of our athletic department's last three chances to take home a national championship with one more win (I get to ignore the 2004 Fullerton series because we never got into that position):

Before pitching the deciding game against TCU in the super regional, Taylor Jungmann was asked about his nerves. “Nerves? I don't get nervous, man,” he said. Apparently not. He’s been fantastic the whole series (6 pitches last night excluded), and he was brilliant last night. He stayed down and away against LSU’s lefthanders with his two seam fastball. The Tigers are not a team that’s going to walk their way to a win, and Jungmann frustrated

Texas 3 Pan American 2

Which Statistics Correlate Best to Winning?

Some Quick Thoughts on Turnover Margin

F’ the Chicago Cubs

College Football 2009: And They All Fell Down

College Football: Breakout Teams in 2009

The National Championship on the Line Right Here

Texas evens series

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