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Texas Basketball: Spelunking in the Class of 2012
It's not only the Longhorn football program that's hitting the recruiting trail this winter on the lookout for immediate help. Rick Barnes and the Texas basketball staff have been diligently scouring the remaining options in the class of 2012. Despite already inking a four-man class, Texas is...
Who is Top Chef in College Station? Kevin Sumlin is about to find out.
The Aggies have perfected the art of bungling the simplest of tasks. These feats are legendary and well documented in Internet Halls of Fame. More difficult processes, such as hiring and firing head coaches, changing conferences, eradicating bat guano, etc. also befuddle the Aggies but in a much...
Texas Basketball 2012 Recruiting: What It Means, Where We’re Going
With the commitment of Ioannis Papapetrou, the Longhorns’ 2012 recruiting class has reached its denouement. While Texas could conceivably add one more recruit (more on that later), capping the class at five appears perfectly fine with Rick Barnes and the Longhorn coaching staff. Thoughts About Our...
Dreams Unfulfilled, Graduate Unskilled -- NCAA Athletics and Exploitation
Taylor Branch’s article in this month's Atlantic Monthly (it's more than Andrew Sullivan now!) about how the myths of amateurism and student-athletes allow the NCAA and its constituent schools to rake it in from the efforts and injuries of young revenue sport athletes is a must read if you love...
AM Officially Files For Divorce
According to multiple media sources, papers were served this morning to the Big 12. A&M President R. Bowen Loftin sent a letter to commissioner Dan Beebe notifying the league that the Aggies will be looking for a new home. "After much thought and consideration, and pursuant to the action of the...
Billion Dollar Bevo, Part I: Inside the UT/ESPN Longhorn Network Deal
The billion-dollar Longhorn Network goes live today. That's right. Billion. The big daddy with three commas. If you want to know where we got that number, stay tuned. This post is the first in a three part series analyzing the "License Agreement" between Texas, IMG Communications and ESPN that...
Thoughts On The Breakup
After revisiting these thoughts from eight months ago, which actually holds up pretty well (even the comments), here are some current ones on the Aggies' backdoor escape to the SEC. Is it a divorce or a dissolved business partnership? I think it’s more the latter, although people are...
The U Just Got Yahoo! Sportsed
Charles Robinson of Yahoo! Sports details the life of booster Nevin Shapiro and his quest to become the most rampant abuser of NCAA guidelines in college sports history. Barry Switzer is blushing. The Pony Express is in awe. Cecil Newton wished he had shopped around a bit more. The assumption...
A League Of Their Own
Sometimes siblings need to try and make it on their own. Especially the runt – the smaller, less talented, less desired, whinier of the two. Sometimes they’ve got to try something new, on their own, where their success, whatever it might be, is not earned on the...
Attrition Season is Here
Per the Texas SID, the following players will not play in 2011: Soph. TE Trey Graham Sr. special teamer Malcolm Williams Jr. WR Brock Fitzhenry Soph. LB Patrick Nkwopara In this case, attrition can be a good thing. The only loss here really is Malcolm's presence on special teams. He was getting...
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