BOMC is in full effect

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

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Burnt Orange Media Conspiracy

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

Phase 2: Shallow ditch in Juarez.

For a little while, I was a BMOC

“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.

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

Dodds has long since outpaced his detractors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.