Suckers.  That's a pretty solid 2011 OOC schedule, especially for Mack (assuming he hasnt retired yet).  Rice, BYU, @ UCLA and UCF.

The Provo paper got a little snarky about the deal though saying:

Texas will come to Laramie, but not Provo?

BYU announced on Tuesday it will play the University of Texas in Austin on Sept. 10, 2011, but nothing about a possible return date. BYU Associate Athletic Director Duff Tittle confirmed that the 2011 game is a one-and-done scenario.

In 2009, BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall said his program would try to only schedule home-and-home arrangements, adding that it was "insulting" for schools to offer only one game on the road.

Texas played the University of Wyoming in Laramie in 2009, winning 41-10. The two teams play in Austin in 2010.

But hey, it is Texas, which played for the national championship earlier this month.

http://heraldextra.com/sports/college/byu/football/article_1083de04-0ad5-11df-bc7b-001cc4c002e0.html

Anyway, it's up on the Future Schedules page at MBTF.... along with a change in the Tech date, which I never believed would happen.

[grumpy] Mack would never schedule like this [/grump]

Not a big fan of giving our awesome games to Houston or Arlington, but oh well...  I guess that gets them ready to play in Football stadiums a la the Final Four...

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and yes, it is in football.  Granted it probably wont be for another seven or eight years, but what the hell.

Please be true....

Gophers football coach Tim Brewster wasn't kidding when he said he wanted to play Texas. So Gophers athletic director Joel Maturi has scheduled Texas on a home-and-home series with the dates to be set.

The Gophers and Texas have met only once in football. In 1936, under coach Bernie Bierman, the Gophers defeated the Longhorns 47-19 in Minneapolis.

This is exactly what we wanted. Payback time.  I still have trouble sleeping over that 1936 loss.

The state's most intense rivalry, baylor vs a&m, is in it'd 4th OT right now.

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Hank and everyone else went to the Big 12 Championship in Houston at "Alamo Field" to watch Texas play Nebrasky.

Hank was in an Earl jersey (he's over 14, so he shouldnt wear one) and Peggy was in a Nobis jersey (at home).

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Looks like you'll be able to watch the game on texassports.tv.

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Remember this time last year when a little company called "NetSpend" hired Vince as their spokesperson?

Everyone outside of Austin called this another reason why his agent sucks.

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Opened the paper this morning and started reading about all the unlucky things that have happened to the LA Area teams.  Apparently, Vince wasnt unstoppable in the Rose Bowl, he just got lucky.

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They weigh in on how it affected programs such as ours and Ohio States.  They mention it because of UCLA and USC's incoming freshman, OJ mayo and Kevin Love, are most like one year guys.

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In their annual big 12 board meeting, the suits decided to move the championship game to Saturday, instead of hours before Selection gets set.  THis is fantastic news since it's been pretty obvious in the past couple of years that the winner of championship game hasnt benefitted much.

It won't start until the 08-09 season though.

The basketball tourney will be in Kansas City next year and OKC the following.

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Oh my.  Heath out at Arkie.  They're eyeing Gillespie... big time.

According to the same sources, Heath will likely be replaced by Texas A&M coach Billy Gillispie. One source even maintained that Gillispie has agreed in principle and could be introduced as soon as Monday.

Road Trip Guy, I'm looking in your direction.

Seems like that's probably why we get so gassed in the 2nd half of games.  If someone could just slip them a baggie of orange slices (on ice, of course) and maybe a few Capri Suns on their way to the locker room, we're a Final Four team for sure.

Otherwise, we're going to have to watch KD with his hands on his knees more than we'd like.

Then we'll read a Bill Simmons article claiming Barnes can't coach.

It's either orange slices or methamphetaimes, and I'm pretty sure the latter would get us in trouble.

Went down to the LGB for game 2 of the series.

We blew a 7-0 lead to lose the game, but hey, it's early in the season and hopefully we can find our pitching (besides Boone) and clutch hitting.

Anyways, here are some pics.  We had a good crowd and even better weather.  Too bad it's the only game I'll see this year.

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Remember last year watching it on your computer at work and being 50,000th in line?  

Remember the VIP section had 20 people or so and you said "I wish I was VIP"

Well, now you can sign up for VIP status right now until they're all gone at:

http://www.ncaasports.com/mmod

and you too, Frito Pie with cheese.

Bert's on MLK burns down

Shouldnt this be front page material?  I'm even more pissed I didnt stop in while I was in town for Christmas.

Think of all that cool, but yellowed Texas memorabilia in there.  That, and the Geronimo and John Wayne pictures.

All I know is, they better rebuild because I dont want to have to drive to Far West for my Frito Pie fix when I'm in town.

Glory!

I would be pissed that so many teams have stolen my hand sign.

I would also only have one toofus that I would use sparingly.  But that's for a different diary.

"Source: Texas QB Snead to transfer

08:20 PM CST on Wednesday, November 29, 2006

By CHIP BROWN / The Dallas Morning News

AUSTIN -- Texas freshman quarterback Jevan Snead has asked for a release from his scholarship in order to transfer, a source close to Snead said Wednesday.

Snead's availability for Texas' bowl game could be in question because Snead wants to enroll at a new school in January, the source said. "

read the rest at the DMN

Man, a Saturday without a Texas game?  I was at a loss at what to do.  Fortunately there were some other good games to fill the void.  Now, I know there is no such thing as too much football, except when everyone on defense has been hurt at some point this season.

I'm nearing the conclusion that 12 games is too many, given the way our season is set up:

 - All Big 12 teams have to finish their season by next Saturday because we have that championship game the next week.

 - Because it's a "short week" and a rivalry game, both Texas and A&M have bye weeks before our games.

Therefore we have to have 11 straight games before a bye week.  That means no healing injuries in late September or using an off week to fix glaring errors.  

Twelve games isnt too many for other teams, like USC because they still have two more weeks to play regular season games.

We usually have a bye week sometime in late September and that kind of helps separate the out of conference season from the Big 12 meat of the schedule.  I realize Sammy St is basically a bye week, but it's not.  Players still have to get themselves in that mental position to play the game, which might lead to some sort of burnout down the line.  Plus, no one really wants to play Sammy.  We'd rather play better opponents.

Thoughts? Or maybe a better question is, Where would you rather our bye week have been?

So I'm guessing we go down by 42 in the first quarter before rallying and winning the game 70 - 35.

They actually lose a touchdown somewheres.  So it is written.

By the way, somebody get that announcer a lozenge.  How is this the second time in three weeks his voice cracks during every explanation?

Wait, is he 13?  Maybe that's it.

Damn you University of Nebraska.  In 1981, your scientists took something so holy, so pure and corrupted it.  You twisted perfection into something perverted, unrecognizable.  This?  This is not barbecue.  This is wretched.  This is a McRib.

What the hell is this?  I toil in my backyard for half a day to produce smoky brisket, tender pork ribs, and succulent chicken.  Your UN-L scientists, on the other hand, took some meaty parts into your lab, put it into a Play Doh mold and voila, you spawned the McRib.  Barbecue wasn't meant to be sped up.  The barbecue equation goes like this:

Meat + 225° + smoke + time = Heaven

Your version goes like this:

"Meat" + 400° = Hell

At least you got the onion and pickle part right.

Why did you do it?  You scientists at UN-L weren't happy fiddling with just corn?  C'mon, you can do a lot with corn.  You can roast it... pop it....  I'm sure there's a third thing you can do with it.  That's why God put you in Nebraska, to do things with corn.  Leave the barbecuing to us Texans.  Is that fair?  I think it is.  When I need a bowl of popcorn and some chilly wind swept plains, that's when I'll give you call.

Fortunately, your days are numbered, McRib.  Thank God we can soon rid the world of this madness.  Is it a coincidence that Texas meets you on the field the same week as the McRib Farewell Tour begins?  No.  It's by design.  

You should know by now that The University of Texas controls so much more than just the Big 12.  Partial Qualifiers?  Tip of the iceberg.  Eliminating the McRib?  That's the other tip, on the other side of the iceberg.  

Tulsa World digs through Boren's trash.

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you that the University of Outstanding Morals and Dignity might be suspected of cheating.

Stoops will swear on a stack of visors that he had absolutely no knowledge of this.

Miles Brand just checked his watch and realized it's 4:07 and OU still sucks.

Just finished "Runnin With the Big Dogs" by Mike Shropshire.  It's "the true, unvarnished story of the Texas-Oklahoma football wars"

It's a quick read that gets you almost as pumped for this weekend as a twelver of Oklahoma Suks beer.

Here's an excerpt from the glorious introduction:

"Thousands upon thousands of football fans from two states, their brains united into a single altered state, arrive annually at the Cotton Bowl stadium, bellowing exhortations for the spillage of blood. ... You'll find audiences more genteel and reserved at cocfights.  This game encourages the forces of overindulgence and leaves behind an eventual trail of not only tears but shattered cocktail glasses and memories of fornication gone awry."

Shropshire starts the book at the MNC game last year.  So of course, any Texas fan is immediately hooked.  He then reflects on how out of control Dallas got on Friday night before the game.  He's got great stories of theft and vandalism.

The rest of the book follows the swings in the series from one side to the other.

It's a good book to read this week.  It's 11:38 and OU still sucks.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/Ohio_St_Campus.html

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Besides Tarell Brown and Tyrell Gatewood?

We still have yet to discuss the biggest celebrity EVER to walk the Texas sideline.

I'm not talking Lance Armstrong or Matthew McConaughey... I'm talking about THE Chuck Norris.  In the flesh.  At our game.

If Chuck Norris had not been at the game, it would've been 68 degrees, overcast and breezy.  He sends his apologies to everyone who almost died of heat exhaustion.  (Not really.  Chuck Norris doesn't apologize)

My "Mack recruits good kids" theory is out the window.

Tarell Brown and former Horn Aaron Harris got picked up last night with guns n butter.  Or, in non-economics terms, guns and weed.

For every "Colt McCoy saves a dying man" story there are two "Ramonce Taylor picks fights and pecans" stories.

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/longhorns/index.html

some guys on Hornfans have been taking pictures of the giganotron, here are some samplins

The construction workers must go home and shame their television because of how small it is.

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yup, you guessed it, it's a seahorse. yay

This is a weird diary as it really has nothing to do with Texas, except for the fact that Harold Reynolds was the one person that made the College World Series watchable.  

He actually seemed to want to be in Omaha whereas Jeff Brantley et al seemed to wonder how quickly he was gonna leave.

There are very few people at ESPN I liked to watch, and Harold was one of em.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AoRfZtl0t_eAHS6RKdi9RkcRvLYF?slug=ap-espn-reynolds&prov=ap &type=lgns

He's got a pictorial on smuggling beer into a game using "the beer belly"

Heres a shot of him filling the thing.  Note his beer of choice...

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... and bring championships back to this town?"

http://video.nbc.com/player.html?dlid=23278

wait for it...... waaaaait for it....

THERE!  About a minute in!

Discuss.

It's offseason.  Hooray offseason!

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