Morning Coffee Can't Bench Sh-t, Either
by Peter Bean on Jun 6, 2007 2:46 PM CDT
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Orangebloods.com's Geoff Ketchum lists five Longhorn football players flying under the radar ($) who you should know about: Buck Burnette, Billy Pittman, Peter Ullman, Erick Jackson, and Tweedle Dee Ryan Palmer.
The list is rather ad hoc, but I don't necessarily disagree with any of Geoff's assessments. Other players in my mind who haven't been talked about too much yet: Robert Joseph, Blaine Irby, Lamarr Houston, and Cedric Dockery. All could play big roles this year (with Irby supplanting Ullman as backup tight end).
Cedric Golden argues that it was a "bad year" for Longhorns athletics. You know what? He's right.
Alamo Bowl, Round of 32, no super regional? That's a subpar year for all three major sports. That's not to say I didn't enjoy each of this year's teams, but the final results weren't up to snuff.
Now that I look at this list, though, the bad year for Texas looks a lot like the good years for Texas A&M. So at least we got that.
Former Longhorn standout J.P. Howell had a dandy of an '07 debut against his former team, burying the Royals 5-1 with 8 dominant innings of work. Howell was acquired last year by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays from the Royals for outfielder Joey Gathright.
Speaking of former 'Horns, Taylor Teagarden was named the Rangers' Minor League Player of the Month for May, batting .388 with 8 home runs and 18 RBI.
I know this is being discussed in the diaries, but this Durant story is a non-event. This isn't the freaking NFL, where the combine results are reasonably predictive of a player's chances of succeeding at his position at the next level. If Durant somehow slipped out of the top two of this draft... well, it would be one more reason to tune out the NBA.
--PB--
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glad to be back. that's some pretty weak crap being said about Durant. Doesn't matter what you bench when you have a wingspan that rivals that of most aircraft.
by the12thManchild on Jun 6, 2007 6:44 PM CDT reply actions
re: Durant story...
yeah, it's pretty dumb. However, if I'm Atlanta (or, given how stupid the Hawks have been in the draft, if I were Memphis), I'm spamming the Seattle in-boxes with it, you know, just in case...
by agent orange on Jun 7, 2007 11:28 AM CDT reply actions
My hope
is that Seattle will trade the pick. I don't particularly want to see Durant with another loser franchise like Atlanta (Tree Rollins, where are you now?) but at least if he gets out of the northwest, we might see some media coverage of him.
i know this because i read the dc sports bog
and no other reason. tree rollins is the new head coach of the WNBA Washington Mystics.
and seattle isn't a loser franchise. does nobody remember the early-to-mid-90's? even as recently as 3 or 4 years ago, they were pretty good. they aren't the hawks or the grizzlies or the clippers. that being said, media coverage is definitely a concern.
I'd like you to find one Aggie fan
who would say losing a regional at home to a non-entity like Cal-Irvine is a 'good year'.
That's just stupid.
How bout baseball America?
their May 28th poll:
- Vanderbilt 46-10 3-0 1
- Rice 45-11 4-0 2
- Florida State 46-9 3-0 3
- North Carolina 45-11 4-0 4
- San Diego 41-15 0-0 5
- Texas 42-14 3-0 7
- Arizona State 41-12 4-0 8
- Virginia 41-13 2-1 6
- South Carolina 40-16 2-1 11
- UC Irvine 38-14 4-0 12
...
- Texas A&M 41-15 1-4 9
I know youre just throwing stones at the bee hive, but at least know your shit first.
by the other Andrew on Jun 8, 2007 9:03 AM CDT up reply actions
Remember who you're talking to
To an Ag, knowledge is an impediment to self-respect. Common sense gets in the way of all-important "tradition". Being an also-ran to Texas in everything you do is natural.
I know enough
to know that losing a regional at home is pathetic
that having the consensus best player in the nation on your basketball team and not even making the Sweet 16 is sad
that barely beating a 7-loss Iowa squad in a bowl game is laughable
A&M has had what I would classify as a decent year overall in athletics (football notwithstanding), and it might become a good year if our baseball team advances to the College World Series and makes some noise there.
What is pathetic is that you have to look rationalize the underachievement of your athletic department this year by claiming other schools would be happy with it.
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