July 4th, 2009 by EyesOfTX
Think how it must feel to be an Aggie today. Think how you would feel while reading ESPN.com’s ranking of today’s hottest college football rivalries that was published this week. Imagine reading that the “rivalry” you’ve been brainwashed into believing was the most important in your life - that of course being with the detested school you so cleverly refer to as “tu” - does not appear anywhere on that list. Imagine then reading that ESPN considers your main rivalry to be the one with Texas Tech - which you again very cleverly call “tick”, ha-hah.
July 3rd, 2009 by TaylorTRoom
Interesting topic.
CloseToJumping on Street Agents
I’ve written about the freakonomics of recruiting before,
Taylor T On Cheating in 10 Parts
…so this really caught my attention. The fascinating thing about it is how much information about the increasing role of street agents in college football is readily available via google, and how so little is reported. Look, I’m [...]
July 2nd, 2009 by Scipio Tex
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 [...]
July 2nd, 2009 by Scipio Tex
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 Like many of you, I will purchase several terrible college football magazines with outdated information (Jarvis Humphery’s development at DT will be key for [...]
July 2nd, 2009 by The General
It is a great time to be a Texas Argicultural and Mechanical University Aggie. In the most recent bitch slap dealt to our rural cousins from the breaks of the Brazos by the UT Journalism Bias Conspiracy Extravaganza Jamboree-off, subtly engineered by Deloss Dodds, Mizzou (obviously a puppet state) alum Pat Forde ranked the [...]
July 2nd, 2009 by CloseToJumping
BurntOrangeBeat is reporting to have confirmed through both the high school and college program sources that Monroe pulled off the miracle in the classroom and has had his scholarship renewed by the program. If this turns out to be correct, (and I trust those guys and their data above anyone else posting, including the likes [...]
June 30th, 2009 by Trips Right
Courtesy of the Golden Nugget.
Games I really like are Texas-3 vs. OU, tOSU +6.5 vs. USC, Notre Dame +1 at Pitt, Baylor +7 at Texas Tech.
A couple of interesting double digit home dogs. Miami +10 at home vs. OU. Notre Dame +10 vs. USC.
Another game of interest. Texas -21.5 at [...]
June 30th, 2009 by Sailor Ripley
Erstwhile Barker Bobby Bragg (Co-Publisher of Burnt Orange Beat ) emailed me today about this event:
“Tee It Up for Cole P” Golf Tournament
Texas Exes Chance Mock, BJ Johnson, Sloan Thomas, and the Pittman family are hosting the First Annual Tee It Up for Cole P Golf Tournament on July 11 in Austin, Texas. All Longhorn [...]
June 27th, 2009 by HenryJames
When we at Barking Carnival heard about Sergio Kindle’s accident, we immediately dispatched our staff photographer to the scene to get some pictures. In other words, I drove by this morning and took some pictures with my iphone before I got breakfast tacos.
The accident occurred at 2704 Rio Grande, and the apartment into which Kindle [...]
June 24th, 2009 by Huckleberry
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 [...]
June 21st, 2009 by CloseToJumping
Some folks that read this site probably aren’t even old enough at this point to remember a time in college basketball when it wasn’t dominated at a recruiting level by the AAU programs. Hell, I might be one of them. What I know and don’t need to have recollected to me is that AAU and [...]
June 18th, 2009 by srr50
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 [...]
June 17th, 2009 by Vasherized
Forgive the brief foray into Texas Football.
I know it’s anathema to the strict offseason diet we stick to here at Barking Carnival but I had a chance to attend the most recent Frank Denius lecture series at the UT Club this week where the guest was none other than our defensive coordinator, head coach [...]
June 16th, 2009 by TaylorTRoom
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 [...]
June 16th, 2009 by srr50
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 [...]
June 15th, 2009 by srr50
J.C. Watts, a former Sooner QB is a legislative shill for the BCS.
June 12th, 2009 by Trips Right
I was given a handsome budget to cover the NBA finals and this is all I could come up with.
Sorry Sailor, the shit’s unwatchable. So, with Damion James and Texas Basketball in limbo, and college football guru Scipio rehearsing a reenactment of the 2nd Punic War with other aspiring San Franciscan thespians, [...]
June 10th, 2009 by TaylorTRoom
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 [...]
June 9th, 2009 by Doperbo
AP- A late breaking story from Houston surfaced this earlier week that appears to confirm the rumors that the current Tennessee Titans backup quarterback, Vincent Young, is secretly African American. Allegations of suspected blackness have followed the troubled young quarterback throughout his career; his jocularity, frequent idiomatic usage of the word “dog”, the alleged [...]
June 2nd, 2009 by Sailor Ripley
Sigh.
First this, then this.
I’m still pulling or Vince to figure it out and have success. I think the guy can play. The surprising thing to me is that a guy who seemed so mentally tough in college is actually so much more fragile than it would have seemed. Definitely a function of [...]
