Barking Carnival

Good Morning, You’re on Tradio.
My great grandfather, my grandfather and now my father were/are farmers in the Texas Panhandle. Needless to say, I grew up spending 70% of my summers on the tractor, while my peers worked on their tan as lifeguards at the pool or sacked groceries at the local store, and further […]

And so we have officially entered the “Dead Zone” of the sports year.  Spring football ended a couple of weeks back for the only program we care about.  College basketball ended for our guys on the same day, after one of the most successful seasons a Longhorn roundball team has experienced.  The baseball team is […]

This junior day will be interesting on three levels:
1. In its immediate wake, we’ll have effectively filled at least half of our 2008 class. We’ll have 10-12 commitments by March 1st.
2. We’ll learn how inoculated we are against camp fever. Steady, Mack. Steady.
3. We’ll see the degree of influence from Muschamp […]

Overall:
A B+ kind of class. Overall, I think the top 10 guys are an extremely stout group, there are some good role players/projects after that and then I see some drop-off in the late teens to twenty. This class also lacks the singular star power of a Darrell Scott, Julio Jones or Lizza […]

Link to the UT Release
The Draddy Award is known as the “Academic Heisman” and was awarded in New York last night to Texas Center Dallas Griffin. Griffin is the first Longhorn to win the award, which recognizes an individual as the best in the country for combined academic success, football performance and exemplary community […]

AD: It’s a pleasure to meet you, Coach Davis. I’m excited to find out if you and the Southern Methodist family are a mutual fit.
GD: (nods briskly) That’s why we’re here.
AD: Shall we get down to brass tacks then?
GD: I’m ready.
AD: Well, obviously, I’m familiar with your background. You’ve […]

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 […]

EyesOfTexas’s post regarding the relative lack of upsets in the Texas/Texas A&M series got me to thinking about the line, “You can throw out the records when these two teams play.” Any truth to that axiom for other in-state rivalries? Clearly, it is not true for T+1. See the comments I made […]

Ugly. Brutal. Putrid. Goat-fucking bad. All would be apt descriptions of the abortion that was week 7. There were no excuses and no bad beats. Well except South Carolina failing to score in the 2nd half and doinking a would-be covering 46 yard field goal. No excuses.

My […]