Barking Carnival

Recently, Damion James withdrew his name from the NBA Draft in what could be considered a very wise decision and a boost for Texas basketball in 2009/10 season. The NBA is no place to find confidence in your jump shot. After last season, although painful at times, Texas fans saw Damion willing and [...]

And the beat goes on for Rick Barnes and company. Daniels is a 6-7 ultra long wing from Woodland Hills, CA. Scout has him ranked #38 in the nation, and he joins an already stellar 2011 class with the likes of PG Myck Kabongo, SG Sheldon McClellan, and Combo Guard Julien Lewis. [...]

Ole Carl saying CJ Henry is better than Sherron Collins ranks right up there with Shawn Williams being better than Jordan Hamilton. Ease up there, bra. Anywho…
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Look, I hate the NBA. But because of its ties to the college game, the draft is arm’s length enough for me to post on it. Kinda like the Rockets I suppose but that’s more local interest than anything else. Also I’d be remiss if I didn’t give credit to my true [...]

Rumors are swirling that Texas is going to get some scholarship relief in the form of a transfer. The information I got was that Harrison Smith would be transferring to a local mid major for immediate playing time, which would get Texas to the allowable scholarship limit with J’Covan Brown still tied up in [...]

The NCAA, the defenders of all that is pure and clean about collegiate athletics has decided to get into the ticket-scalping business.
The NCAA has entered into a deal with Ticketmaster to create TicketExchange which competes with online resale sites such as StubHub, Craigslist, eBay and others. Sellers set their own prices on the Ticketmaster-run Web [...]

Good read from Texassports.com
Here’s the transcript and my thoughts on each subject/answer.

On how this incoming class of perimeter players (Avery Bradley, Jordan Hamilton, Jai Lucas and Shawn Williams) ranks among past classes: Well, (Kevin) Durant and (D.J.) Augustin were pretty good now, but we will wait and see. Jai has been here and we have [...]

I really wanted to call this “Scattershooting”, but that just wouldn’t be right.
First item…Aggie Journalist John Lopez is working without an editor now, and it shows.
LOPEZ: Inside the Fourth Estate — UT Media Bias
He blows the lid on the BOMC.  He gives four examples of the bias in action…
A writer at a major newspaper in [...]

Texas Burnt Orange continues to have a green tint to it as the Longhorns generated the most football revenue and total athletics revenue in 2007-08.
Texas took in almost $73 million in football revenue during the 2007-08 school year, as well as a total of $120.3 million in total dollars.

Texas was one of only three [...]

First of all, I’m pleasantly surprised with James’ return. I had heard some things early in the process that led me to believe Damion would come back to school especially if he didn’t get a first round grade. In recent days, however, it sounded more and more like the junior would settle for [...]

whether to stay or go.

Evidently, there is some controversy in B/CS about the Chancellor’s annual review of the main campus’ president…

Quite a professional operation they’re running there…
However, when the story first broke, there was an interesting tidbit of information.  In the university president’s rebuttal of the poor review, she mentions that the TAMU Athletic Department had borrowed $16 million [...]

@BryanBennett brought up a point on this thread that I wanted to expand on.
Dogus will be be a perimeter threat with or without a credible jumper. This is why.
Imagine Balbay turning the corner on a pick and pop with Jordan Hamilton. Let’s think about it. Hedging forward (Hamilton’s man) slides out to allow [...]

A couple of interesting points made by the former UCLA head man.
First and foremost, and I agree with his assessment here, but he laments the new NBA combine format that focuses on individual drills and workouts instead of scrimmaging which places an emphasis on team skills and basketball IQ. I agree, and [...]

It looks like Brown is going to play this fall pending any surprise j’clearinghouse issues as he’s reportedly starting classes at Texas on June 9th according to a report

According to ESPN’s Andy Katz:
James remains on the bubble as to whether he will stay in the draft. He’s considered a borderline first-round pick. He said if he can’t get a guarantee in the first round, he’ll “probably go back to school.”
“We can have a great team with Avery Bradley coming in, Dexter Pittman, Justin [...]

kevwun asked for a thread on the Coach Cal Memphis situation.
I’ll just put this up as a placeholder until Trips has a chance to opine, though I suspect he’s just going to say don’t go inside the abattoir.
We’ve talked before about the NCAA. Spencer has a great post up here. Coroners [...]

Or at least manipulated and massaged by officiating, watch the last 4 seconds of the Orlando vs. Cleveland game. Keep in mind, an Orlando win basically ensures the Magic will advance to the finals after taking a commanding 3 games to 1 lead.
The drawn foul by Lebron is asshattery at its best. The [...]

One of my two favorite Longhorns (@TJ_Ford) is on the radio with Gerry Hamilton.
Courtesy of @BurntOrangeBeat.
Will post podcast details once available.

Banality strikes back.
Gary Cartwright lanced the boil of modern sports journalism a few days ago and given Cartwright’s unapologetic criticism, I was not surprised to see some of his former peers take offense.
Richard Justice offers a retort written in powerfully annoying folksy prose, suggesting that Cartwright’s generation were unethical, easily manipulated, semi-racist, lazy [...]