Barking Carnival

The San Antonio Warren DT committed to Texas today. Big get for Texas at a need position. Howell has offers from OU, LSU, Nebraska and Tennessee among others.
No game footage that we can steal (yet), but here is some grainy footage of “MY NIGGA CALVIN AKA “BIG C” BREAKS SCHOOL RECORD 405LBS WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY […]

So the NCAA says it has “new” information regarding over $30,000 in gifts that basketball star O.J. Mayo allegedly received before and during his minute and a half stay on the USC campus. They plan to get to the bottom of it — right after they clear up that little matter of Reggie Bush also […]

So Chip Brown of the Dallas Morning News said on his radio show yesterday something to the effect of ‘John Mackovic’s best players would be Mack Brown’s best players.’
Now I didn’t listen to the show because I think people who listen to sports radio are even more despicable than people who read blogs. Except the […]

Michael Avery is a 15 year old from Thousand Oaks, California. He’s also a pretty good basketball player. So good that Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie has offered him a scholarship.

‘Eighth graders, Dude.’
Now Gillispie can’t talk about Avery because of NCAA rules (and possibly the Mann Act), but Avery’s father, Michael Lohan Howard, told the LA […]

While Les Miles blames Mack Brown for the new recruiting restrictions, Nick Saban has figured a way around them.

The NCAA adopted a SEC-proposed rule that took head coaches off the road for the April/May evaluation period. This off-season, for the first time, head coaches will be staying on campus and away from the potential […]

…or perhaps not.
A new NCAA rule bars head football coaches from visiting high schools in May, a wrongheaded decision LSU Coach Les Miles said was prompted by widespread cheating and the probable wishes of Texas Coach Mack Brown.
“I can tell you this, there were head coaches who were violating the rules, tremendously so,” he said. […]

It looks that way. As a college basketball fan I’m all for it. I’d rather have two semi-image conscious entities make shady backroom deals.

So Buzz Williams is the next in line to try his hand at rekindling Al McGuire’s magic. Well, what does that and Texas High School basketball have to do with the price of beer in Milwaukee. Evidently a bunch. Williams was an assistant to Billy Clyde at TAMU before his stints as […]

You asked and he answered, well at least as candidly as he could for fear of reprisal. Here’s the email he replied to me with. I’m in the process of clarifying a couple of answers below, and I’ll submit follow up questions for the next part so if there is anything else you […]

A friend of mine, who’s coached some big time collegiate prospects and players on the AAU circuit the last few years, has agreed to answer some questions about the secret society of AAU basketball and how it relates to the college and NBA scene. All questions are welcome but undoubtedly some questions can’t or […]