SB Nation User Blog: slimmy

Orakpo tweaks hamstring......

slimmy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:41:50 -0000

Per NFL.com

Texas defensive end Brian Orakpo limped off the field a few minutes ago and went under the bleachers with one of the trainers. He’s done for the day, but it’s just a tweaked hamstring. Orakpo said he was worried after he thought he heard it ‘pop’, but the trainer said he was ok. Before his workout session ended early, Orakpo was among the top 10 defensive linemen in the 40-yard dash and the vertical jump. He also posted a top-10 performance in the bench press on Sunday.

http://blogs.nfl.com/2009/02/23/orakpo-done-for-the-day-with-hamstring-injury/

New B-ball Commit

slimmy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:28:56 -0000

New B-ball Commit

Daniel Bejarano, 6-3 JR SF/SG Phoenix (Ariz.) North, has committed to Texas.

Bill Simmons at it again....

slimmy — Tue, 22 May 2007 19:15:15 -0000

Simmons and Paul Shirley on Podcast speak about the NBA and some mention of Rick Barnes and KD. For me, listening to Bill Simmons makes me dislike him even more because of his voice, plus the fact that he continues to bash Barnes. Though he's nerve-wrecking, the actual conversation between the two is pretty interesting. Go to ESPN and under the huge pic of Oden and KD there's a spotlight section and just go to the NBA tag. Check it out...

the power of VY

slimmy — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:56:04 -0000

the power of Vince Young........(from indmix.com about Texas Relays weekend)

Witnessed a lot of funny things that weekend but one of the funnier events happened right after this party. First off Vince Young is like the Mayor of Austin .. his popularity status out there exploded exponentially and he handled it pretty good. So to the story ... after the party Vince and his crew are walking out of Iron Cactus and this dude comes out of nowhere and taps Vince on his arm pretty hard.
Dude: sup my ni**a!
(raising his eyebrow insinuating that he has no real idea who this dude is)
Vince : uhmm What's up dawg .. what's going on with you?
Dude: (smoking a black & mild) "oh nothing just trying to get to where you at ..."
(without a flinch Vince Smacks the Black & Mild out the dude's hand and puts it out with a Michael jackson stomp and says to the dude)
Vince: Well you ain't going to get where am I at doing that!

LMAOOOOOOO!!!! That was some funny sh*t! You have to have witnessed it ... that dude just stood there with an expressionless look. That ol i-swear-if-this-wasn't-vince-young-I'll-box you look .... that boy Vince is a fool, I can't believe he did that.

They don't make 'em like this anymore......

slimmy — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:57:32 -0000

We give respect to a lot to players and coaches in every sport, but you will be hard pressed to find a pioneer as GREAT as Eddie Robinson.

Before I became such a obsessive Longhorn fan, I was raised in a small town 15 miles south of Grambling, La and I was taught at a young age about legendary Grambling State University. No school in Louisiana was larger in reputation and respectability than Grambling. The career of this great individual can be matched by very few and in today's game will never be remotely duplicated again.

Excuse my lenghthy tribute to Coach Rob, but he has a special place in my heart as a person and a coach, a icon!

I'm an African-American of course, and he may mean more to me than to others out there. But if you're a true,traditonal football fan than you can appreciate the greatness that I speak of.

When you mention Bear Bryant, Bobby Bowden, Joe Paterno, there is no doubt in my mind that Eddie Robinson is in that fraternity of elite college football greats!

Directly qouted from Foxsports.com
http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/6...

GRAMBLING, La. (AP) - Former Grambling coach Eddie Robinson, who created a football powerhouse at the small, black college in northern Louisiana that turned out hundreds of NFL players, has died. He was 88.

The soft-spoken coach spent nearly 60 years at Grambling State University, where he set a standard for victories with 408 and nearly every season saw his top players drafted by NFL teams.

Doug Williams, a Super Bowl MVP quarterback was one of them. Williams said Robinson died shortly before midnight Tuesday. Robinson had been admitted to Lincoln General Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

"For the Grambling family this is a very emotional time," Williams said Wednesday. "But I'm thinking about Eddie Robinson the man, not in today-time, but in the day and what he meant to me and to so many people."

Robinson's career spanned 11 presidents, several wars and the civil-rights movement. His older records are what people will remember: In 57 years, Robinson compiled a 408-165-15 record. Until John Gagliardi of St. John's, Minn., topped the victory mark four years ago, Robinson was known as the winningest coach in all of college football.

"The real record I have set for over 50 years is the fact that I have had one job and one wife," Robinson said.

Robinson had been suffering from Alzheimer's, which was diagnosed shortly after he was forced to retire following the 1997 season, in which he won only three games. His health had been declining for years and he had been in and out of a nursing home during the last year.

Robinson said he tried to coach each player as if he wanted him to marry his daughter.

He began coaching at Grambling State in 1941, when it was still the Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute, and single-handedly brought the school from obscurity to international popularity.

Grambling first gained national attention in 1949 when running back Paul "Tank" Younger signed with the Los Angeles Rams and became the first player from an all-black college to enter the NFL. Suddenly, pro scouts learned how to find the little school 65 miles east of Shreveport near the Arkansas border.

Robinson sent over 200 players to the NFL, including seven first-round draft choices and Williams, who succeeded Robinson as Grambling's coach in 1998. Others went to the Canadian Football League and the now-defunct USFL.

Robinson's pro stars included Willie Davis, James Harris, Ernie Ladd, Buck Buchanan, Sammy White, Cliff McNeil, Willie Brown, Roosevelt Taylor, Charlie Joiner and Willie Williams.

Robinson said he was inspired to become a football coach when a high school team visited the elementary school he attended.

"The other kids wanted to be players, but I wanted to be like that coach," Robinson said. "I liked the way he talked to the team, the way he could make us laugh. I liked the way they all respected him."

Eddie Robinson spent 57 years coaching at Grambling State, sending more than 200 players to the NFL along the way. (Eric Gay. / Associated Press)

Robinson was forced to retire after the 1997 season, after the program fell on tough times. His final three years on the sidelines brought consecutive losing seasons for the first time, an NCAA investigation of recruiting violations and four players charged with rape.

As pressure mounted for him to step aside, even the governor campaigned to give him one last season so he could try to go out a winner.

But that final season produced only three wins for the second straight year.

Robinson's teams had only eight losing seasons and won 17 Southwestern Athletic Conference titles and nine national black college championships. His den is packed with trophies, representing virtually every award a coach can win. He was inducted into every hall of fame for which he was eligible, and received honorary degrees from several universities, including Yale.

In 1968, because of a tiny home stadium on a hard-to-reach campus, Robinson put Grambling's football show on the road, playing in all the nation's biggest stadiums.

That same year, Howard Cosell and Jerry Izenberg produced the documentary, "Grambling College: 100 Yards to Glory," Robinson became vice president of the NAIA and all three major television networks carried special programming on Grambling football.

A year later, Grambling played before 277,209 paying customers in 11 games, despite the home field that seated just 13,000.

Robinson had an autographed portrait of Paul "Bear" Bryant, the late Alabama coach, hanging in the conference room where the coaches worked out game plans. Robinson's record eclipsed his old friend's mark of 323-85-17.

"If the Bear were alive, I'd still be chasing him," Robinson said as he entered his last season. "I'm no better than any other coach. But I've heard the best coaches in America and learned from them for close to 60 years."

When he began his career, Robinson had no paid assistants, no groundskeepers, no trainers and little in the way of equipment. He had to line the field himself and fix lunchmeat sandwiches for road trips because the players could not eat in the "white only" restaurants of the South.

He was not bitter, however. "The best way to enjoy life in America is to first be an American, and I don't think you have to be white to do so," Robinson said. "Blacks have had a hard time, but not many Americans haven't."

Robinson said he tried to teach his players about opportunity.

"The framers of this Constitution, now they did some things," Robinson would say. "If you aren't lazy, they fixed it for you. You've got to understand the system. It's just like in football, if you don't understand the system, you haven't got a chance."

Neither of Robinson's parents graduated from high school - he was the son of a cotton sharecropper and a domestic worker - and they encouraged him to stay in school and get a college degree. Robinson was a star quarterback at Leland College under Reuben S. Turner, a Baptist preacher who introduced Robinson to the playbook and took him to his first coaching clinic.

After college, Robinson took a job at a feed mill in Baton Rouge, earning 25 cents an hour. He learned through a relative that there was an opening at Grambling.

His first season, Robinson's team went 3-5. His second year Grambling was 9-0 and did not allow a single point.

In 1943 and 1944 there was no football at Grambling because of the war. Robinson coached at Grambling High School those years and won a high school championship.

"A daddy pulled my best running backs off our team and said they couldn't play anymore because they had to pick cotton," Robinson said. "So I got all the boys on the team, we packed up and went out there to pick the cotton, then went on to win the championship."

The same year Robinson started coaching at Grambling, he married his high school sweetheart, Doris, whom he courted for eight years.

Robinson is survived by his wife, son Eddie Robinson Jr., daughter Lillian Rose Robinson, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/6...

More Barnes Bashing......

slimmy — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:02:37 -0000

All I can say is please read this thread, I would try to outline it but I'm still a pissed off the the highest of pistivity! Check out the message board too, it reminds you how ignorant some people can be when they know nothing about the team as a whole. http://www.sportsline.com/columns/story/10071626

I FEEL SICK.....

slimmy — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:33:09 -0000

I forgot how miserable it makes me when we lose to Aggies in anything! And losing by 20 is definitely a diarrheic feeling. Is throwing up in my mouth a viable comparison? If not, will someone please tell me the equivalent of losing to this cult-imposing JUCO?

Lousiville Cheerleader

slimmy — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:39:07 -0000

Since we had the USC cheerleader(song girl)it would only be appropriate to stay along those lines. This is not "work friendly". Also, it's not the first thing that pops up, it's a blog w/ the link in it. Hopefully it doesn't offend anyone, if so, please accept my apology.

http://boards.espn.go.com/boards/mb/mb?sport=nfl&id=general&tid=376292&lid=4

Sooner....I cheat and I don't care

slimmy — Thu, 25 May 2006 19:57:53 -0000

The NCAA penalized new Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson and Oklahoma, his former team, on Thursday for impermissible phone calls to recruits. Jeff Goodman says Oklahoma got two years' probation and two scholarships taken away. Sampson, meanwhile, won't be allowed to call IU recruits -- or recruit off campus -- for a year.

http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/5640006