Barking Carnival

If you are a Longhorn fan, have the internet, and can read, you no doubt saw this article by CBS Sports columnperson Dennis Dodd. It is a shameless knob slobbering of an almost embarrassing degree, but goddamn if it doesn’t get the blood racing. I dare you to read that and not openly weep.

Up until the latter half of 2004, I was a pessimist. Our teams never showed direction, our players never developed, and any team with good coaching seems to negate our talent advantages with ease. It peaked with the Washington St. Holiday Bowl, a game that should’ve ended Greg Davis’ career. It remains, to this day, […]

Dear Will,
Congratulations on the new gig. You’ve gone from what may be one of the top five defensive coordinator positions in the SEC to one of the top five defensive coordinator positions in college football. If you do well and stay at least two years, you’ll be able to turn your performance into a head […]

The conventional wisdom on Duane Akina is that he is a damn fine defensive backs coach who has proven to be a horrid defensive coordinator. I don’t think the latter is debatable for most sentient beings. The former may be more debatable than most would think at first blush.
I’d contend that […]

It has never failed to amuse me that Mack Brown is characterized as a “CEO football coach.”

OMG! My staff and I are BFF
For critics, “CEO coach” - said with a roll of the eyes and quote signs in the air - is a nice way of saying he is a figurehead who hasn’t paid […]

Coach Akina is now faced with stopping the Aggie option and it should be interesting to see how he defends it. Most DC’s completely scrap their foundation schemes and revert to teaching assignment techniques with a revamping of alignments in order to give their group an even opportunity for success against an attack that has […]

OK, so maybe it was only the Houston Chronicle. Jerome Solomon explores what might have been if Texans management had found their senses in the boxes in Charlie Casserly’s office.
Charley Casserly, the general manager who made the choice for the Texans, isn’t in the mood to reflect on that question just yet. After saying […]

I have a work colleague whose husband is a manager at the Venetian in Las Vegas. It might surprise you then, classy joint that the Venetian is, to learn that it is the site of the prestigious Adult Video Awards. Aside from the enjoyment of seeing porn stars being led through the lobby […]

Our opening offensive play - a 58 yard broken play McCoy TD pass to Jordan Shipley - told us all we needed to know about the eventual outcome of the game, the quality of Iowa St, the bizarre consistency of a Gene Chizik defense, the current state of our offense, and the unyielding inanity of […]

This is purely scheme, so anyone who shouts out “Linebackers!” is technically correct, but this isn’t the place. We have a purely schematic issue that has arisen, and contributed in no small part to our loss on Saturday. I mentioned it last night (#7), but I thought I would deeper illustrate what I mean.