Tuesday Sundry: A salute to Roy Miller, Goodwin takes flight, Sooners scout the 2011 Longhorns

If Texas is behind OU, OSU, A&M & MIzzou would that make them 5th? Can we get Huck to weigh in on this one?

More talented and smarter? Unpossible.

This is like a bad sequel to Like Father, Like Son where the Aggies are now Dudley Moore and we’re Kirk Cameron.

That still beats last season’s Bobcat Goldthwait in “Shakes the Clown.”

I like where this is headed. What shitty movie best resembled 5-7? Bobcat certainly conjures the bi-polar, twitchy, spontaneous, and ultimately NOT FUNNY nature of what went down.

Well played nordberg. >fighting off the urge to make reference to Johnny Depp going half-retard so as not to openly feed trolls<

1. I don’t understand why so many are so high on Mike Davis. Yes, he made an early splash, but largely disappeared for the rest of the season.

2. Marquis Goodwin is obviously a kick ass T&F athlete, but took several steps back as a receiver. Hopefully, with Kennedy gone, he can at least return to his frosh yr form.

3. Byrne has done a tremendous job @ A&M. He’s hired exceptional coaches (outside of Sherm?) & they’ve raised A&M athletics to a whole new level.

Meanwhile, Dumb & Dumber, Dodds & Plonsky, overpay for coaches & give them unearned bonuses.

Hot to Trot (another Bobcat vehicle)

Roy was one of the best leaders in the locker room we’ve had in the last decade and you can see where it comes from. He was raised in Killeen by a military family and held his fellow teammates accountable when he arrived on the 40 acres, both on and off the field.

Put me down for having Mack seek out a few more “soldiers’ kids” to mix in with the “good kids that graduate.”

4. I’d rank Giles over Akina. The DEs have become monsters under Giles’s watch. And I can’t get over seeing the Browns getting repeatedly burned & Gideon being, well Gideon, w/o thinking the Akina may be a bit overrated.

Shakes the Clown was the Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies – it said so on the cover. Ryan Tannehill is talented and smart, though he was a lowly 3 star from Big Spring. Not seeing that Bynes hire of Sherman was bad considering our recent progress. If we’d laid an egg last season yes, but we can clearly see things are turning around. I think last season for you was more like Caddyshack II.

Mike Davis was hurt for a large portion of the year. When he was healthy his talent was evident and jibed with his expectations coming out of high school. Along with being a big time talent, he’s also a maximizer. He watches film between classes even if he has less time to watch than it took him to get there.

I love that guy.

“This is like a bad sequel to Like Father, Like Son where the Aggies are now Dudley Moore and we’re Kirk Cameron.”

I’m trying to conceive of how a good sequel to Like Father Like Son would look like. Maybe if it involved a gender switch and involved Diane Lane and Alison Brie? But that wouldn’t technically be a sequel as much as it would be THE BEST MOVIE EVER even if all they did was just stand there for 90 minutes.

In underwear, of course.

Mike Davis also set a freshman record for # of catches at Texas. That was missing the better part of two games IIRC.

Did Goodwin officially announce that he is going to compete in Korea? I understood that there was still a decision to be made. A WR can’t learn a brand new offense and do an adequate job of preparing to long jump at World Championships.

If MG decides to compete, and he should IMO, then I’d be happy to see him take a redshirt year.

Why wouldn’t he?

It might be wrong to assume Goodwin will be right back in the Longhorn fold after the World Track and Field Championship.This is a pretty big deal, and if he does well in Korea, he becomes the front runner for a spot on our Olympic team. That’s a big if, but who expected him to get a personal pest of 27-4 in the biggest meet of his life?

Olympic front runners spend their time mostly training with pro level coaches. He would probably have to get his personal best closer to 28 feet for all of this to happen, but I think we can assume he’ll being trying to do just that for the next two months.

Harsin is probably devising a play right now where they give the ball to Goodwin at the 9 yd line and he flies untouched into the end zone.

If he competes in the Worlds, then he absolutely has to redshirt, imo. It’s not like he’s going to be working out with the team in August.

As I mentioned on BC a couple of years ago Marquis should concentrate 100% on Track & Field. He is that good. Odds are that he will have a longer, healthier and more financially rewarding career as a world class track athlete then being (at best) a special teams contributor and 4th-5th WR on an NFL team. Not to disrespect his football abilities (I think he is pound for pound the toughest kid on the team), but to maximize his talent it’s a no brainer for him to go all in on track.

Manzano is an incredible competitor. Check out the video below. Leo is the guy in lane 1 who is a foot shorter than most of the competitors. At the end of the race he swings wide into lane 3 and guts it out to finish third and make the World Championship team for the U.S.

http://www.flotrack.org/speaker/86-leo-manzano/video/

I agree that Goodwin should focus on track even if it costs us a WR.

I’d like to add to the sundry. Our man Matt Nordgren is going full Clipper Cooper on us in the Big D.

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2011/06/your_sneak_peek_at_most_eligib.php#more

BOW, for the Sundry win.

“Matt definitely plays the field, but isn’t a player.” The legacy lives on!

All I want to know is did we beat Texas St at 7 on 7 this year. If not, wake me up in 2012.

“Matt signed to play football professionally, until an injury shifted his path”

hmmmmmm

Everything about that show sounds awesome. I hope Marty Cherry makes a cameo at some point to discuss modeling.

It’s going to be a jock version of Zoolander. I hereby nominate Shirtless Kasey Studdard as Mugatu.

Does that mean several of them are going to die in a gasoline fight accident?

What about Lyles fighting back?

Throwing donuts doesn’t count as fighting back.

Twitter reporting that Goodwin will redshirt this Fall.

I have the feeling we won’t see Goodwin play for wide receiver for Texas again any sooner than 2013 and possibly again.

As utexex and Art have said before his event is a highly technical that really requires a great deal of repetition and practice to become world class on a consistent basis. His winning the senior nationals has to give him the confidence that he will only get better in this event with more practice and that he has a very legitimate shot for the 2012 Olympic team.

The US team trials will be June 22 – July 1, 2012 and the games in London are mid July to early August. If doesn’t make much sense to go through Spring football and run the risk of injury with the trials and mid June and if he is focusing on getting ready for the trials I don’t see him spending much time running routes and going through a football players conditioning program.

Obviously it is his choice, but as pointed out before if he is truly world class in the event he can make a very nice living and not get the crap beat out of him whereas he really has shown to be much more than an average college receiver at this point.