Barking Carnival

I don’t know that I want to go in depth on this thing right now because I’m sick to my stomach. The first half played out exactly as expected. When Texas made the extra pass and got Arkansas a couple of help rotations deep into a shot clock, Texas got dunks and layups. […]

When it comes to watching the National Championship game this Thursday night, Longhorn DC Will Muschamp falls firmly in line the with our own CloseToJumping, who deeply believes that there is NEVER, NEVER, NEVER any reason for a Longhorn to root for a Sooner win.
Muschamp is quoted on the Dallas Morning News website

“I’m not rooting […]

The game is playing out exactly as discussed in the preview.
Offensively, if Texas moves the ball and makes the extra pass they’ll get dunks and layups. If they settle for jumpers early in the shot clock, it plays right into Arkansas’ hands with runouts and layups. Essentially the more passing and […]

Texas and Ohio State put on a show last night, and FOX Sports was a major beneficiary. The Longhorns last-minute win over the Buckeyes will probably turn out to be the third highest-rated BCS Bowl game since Fox took over the rights.

Quan’s dramatic finish helped produced an overnight rating over three ratings points higher than […]

First a little background on the the Razorbacks. They’re led by the inside/outside tandem of junior C/F Michael Washington and freshman point guard Courtney Fortson. Washington is a strong athletic man-child who has excelled finishing inside this year as evidenced by his 61% field goal percentage. He was 10-12 from the field […]

Sometimes in football, you play poorly and look bad because of it.  Sometimes, you play a real quality opponent that makes you look bad, even though you played well.  For the Texas Longhorns, Monday’s Fiesta Bowl game with the Ohio State Buckeyes was a combination game, a contest in which the Longhorns played fairly poorly […]

Ohio State is good at everything we are bad at. It sucks that it wasn’t a media seducing blowout, and that Colt is following Brett Farve’s career path (he’s in the lose-it-for-you-no-win-it-for-you phase), but as cynical as I normally am I don’t think I could be more pleased.

Orakpo drew a hold on the second play of the game. I wept a little. Maybe we should join the Pac-10.

Spread? Sprawl? Get it? Tell your friends.

Let me start this by saying that all star games or single games in general aren’t the end all be all. If you’ll pardon a crossover sports analogy, I’ll try to illustrate the point. If you watched Lamar Odom vs. Tracy McGrady in the McDonald’s All American Game, you might have come away […]

Coverage of the 2009 Fiesta Bowl from Scipio Tex featuring a look at:
1) Ohio State’s defense led by Laurinaitis
2) Ohio State’s offense led by media-shy newcomer and non-Vince Young replicant Terrelle Pryor
3) Some thoughts on who the restful layoff favors
4) A contest naming the nascent Ohio State dual QB package

Here’s to a good game!

This is the companion piece to my Ohio State Defensive Preview.
Ohio State Offense

Ohi-O on the hot seat
Ohio State’s offense is three yards and a cloud of musk. It’s a playful body spray that smells like 3rd and 4; a cologne called Bleak Industrial Town that offers a hint of freshly cut grass, […]

All-Star games can be fairly worthless given that the practices are probably more telling than the actual game. By their nature, after you spot the obvious slam dunks, they’re probably better at proving a negative: they can debunk some big prospects who thrived against mediocre competition and discredit mass hallucinations conjured by popular opinion […]

Seriously, someone really give me a good explanation why we didn’t see the national champs on the field last night, pummeling a very good Alabama team, a team which spent most of the regular season as the top-ranked team in the country?  Because I can’t think of a reason at this point to deny the […]

A little context for the first half, Barnes not too happy with Atchley, James, and Abrams. They rode pine for most of the first half. The trio combined for 9 points and six fouls. Good news is that Gary Johnson hasn’t missed a beat with 5 blocks and points. Pittman is […]

I’m late, sue me.
Ole Miss gets the ball. Tech’s front seven make two nice plays to put Ole Miss in a hole. Snead with an NFL caliber deep out for a first down. Colt beat this kid out, and quite handily.
Jeez, four plays into the game and there […]

Yesterday officially killed New Year’s Day as the best football-viewing day of the year.  Truth is, it’s been dead since the advent of the BCS - I just figured it out yesterday, probably because this was the least hungover I’ve been on New Year’s day in the last decade or so.  Best game of the […]

People bitch and moan about the plethora of bowl games and the lack of enough decent teams to fill them — but still tune in to watch.
So far during the prelims of the 2008-09 Bowl Season, ESPN has seen a sharp spike in ratings. Excluding the two new bowls that started this year (EagleBank–St. Petersburg), […]

The state of Texas has five bowl teams this year and has a pretty damned good shot at going 5-0 as of right now. I doubt I would have written that two weeks ago, but you’ll have to forgive me questioning the notion of Rice and UH both winning bowl games this year, since it […]