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2011 College World Series: Texas vs. Florida
This is your open thread for the Texas Pitching Staff And Other Affiliates vs. Humid Jorts and your commentary thread for the weekend on all things College World Series. Know your enemy.
Omaha primer – Bracket 1
Four national seeds advanced to fill out Bracket 1. Huckleberry will be along shortly to tell us how many unique outcomes there are for the bracket. I'll just say that this bracket looks to be ridiculously competitive and well-balanced. Bracket 1 has two SEC teams, one ACC team and one Big 12 team....
Viewing Guide: Bowl Season
Titillated. Titillated is such a fantastic word. And not just because it brings to mind the glory that is rounded mammaries. Well, not in total. Additionally it's because it's a great word, with a nice flow, a decent amount of letters, and a very respectable number of syllables. It rolls off the...
Steve Addazio – New Texas OL Coach According to Orangebloods
Orangebloods is reporting that Steve Addazio is the new OL coach for Texas. Florida fans are generally very positive on Addazio as a position coach and recruiter, but considered him a major bust as a coordinator and play caller. Perhaps he is their Duane Akina? He has coached a lot of football,...
Podcast #30: The One Where Spencer Hall Goes Drinking With Dana Holgorsen
We had a great time on the podcast today with warrior-poet and all around man of letters Spencer Hall of famed weblog EDSBS, or Every Day Should Be Saturday if you're not into the whole brevity thing. Follow him on Twitter @edsbs. We talked Will Muschamp. We talked Dana Holgorsen. We talked about...
Cause and Effect
EFFECT The TV ratings for the regular season of college football were generally down across the board. CAUSE Texas Florida Michigan Penn State USC Notre Dame These collegiate "brand names" were all Missing In Action from the final regular season AP Top 25 Poll. Those teams were a combined 41-32...
Will Muschamp's Opening Remarks
At Florida. (Goddamfushi..) Muschamp introduced in Gainesville Look, I'm hoping Mack gets his shit together, hires some guys who do a great job and we win a bunch of stuff but I got to say, I am really bummed that I won't get a chance to watch Will lead the program. Guy strikes me as a...
The New Texas Defensive Coordinator Is Teryl Austin
When Bellmont writes the required job qualifications using the candidate's resume as a crib sheet, that's generally a tell, isn't it? I am ambivalent about this hire. Austin had exactly one year of defensive coordinator experience at Florida (which accounts for his entire career), where he...
Will Muschamp Gets A Nice Pay Raise
When Will Muschamp is officially introduced as the new Head Coach of the Florida Gators, his pay scale will jump to three times what he was making at Texas. Reports out of Florida indicate that Muschamp will make 2.7 million a year to replace Urban Meyer. That would put him in the middle of the...
jones Top Ten 2010 Bowl Preview Spectacular
My fellow Texas fans: Please set aside your animosity and neurosis for a brief moment and revel in all that is good about the holiday spirit and the bowl season to come. For there is still football to be played. If that is not enough, Andy Williams will join us for a song later, plus Shields and...
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