Morning Coffee Isn't Impressing Scouts
by Peter Bean on Jun 8, 2007 10:16 AM CDT
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Longhorn baseball players Kyle Russell and Bradley Suttle were drafted in the fourth round of yesterday's MLB Draft. Russell was selected by the Cardinals, Suttle by the Yankees.
Surprisingly low draft position for both players, as compared with what analysts were projecting before the draft. Sometime in the next couple of weeks, I'll get an interview with someone who can explain their fall. For now, we have to wonder: do they come back?
On the one hand, both probably hoped to be drafted significantly higher; on the other, both had tremendous seasons which would be hard to improve upon. They might be better off getting into the pros and starting to climb the ladder. We'll see.
Orangebloods notes that Chancey Aghayere is scheduled to visit Austin this weekend ($), though he's only a few weeks removed from knee surgery. If he comes, he'll just be visiting with coaches and will not work out.
Texas remains in his top three, along with LSU and Florida. The '08 prospect has made it known he intends to announce on or around his September 17th birthday. Interestingly, he's headed to Gainesville on the 14th of that month. That makes me nervous - Aghayere is perhaps the last "must have" of this class.
Daniel Gibson played well in Cleveland's 85-76 loss to the Spurs last night, but Cleveland looked more or less overwhelmed by the Spurs. Boobie finished with 16 points, 4 assists and 4 steals in just over 27 minutes of action, while Larry Hughes managed a meager 2 points in 23 minutes. Mike Brown may have been schooled by Gary Kubiak and the Texans: don't go with the best available.
Kyle's wondering if TCU is primed for an upset of our Longhorns. More on this later, but I think I'm in 54b's camp on this game: it's a lose-lose proposition, much like the scenario we were discussing last season when we thought we were headed to the Fiesta Bowl to play Boise State. If you win by a lot, you were supposed to. If you eek out a win, people quesiton if you're a dominant, title-caliber team. If you lose... God, let's not even talk about that.
--PB--
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Boobie
A quick search of BON reveals this article as the only one using the world "Boobie". Did we not know about this nickname before the playoffs? I can't imagine the BON is too mature to have used the nickname to good effect. What's the story there?
boobie
Well, I knew he's nickname was boobie when he was a horn. But I don't even remember where did I hear that. He was "Daniel Gibson" when a horn.
But now after his playoff performance, in interviews LeBron and Brown are calling him Boobie. So, he is "boobie" for Cavs fans.
For us, longhorn fans, who are used to calling him "Daniel Gibson", "Boobie" doesn't sound right. So, yes! it's the first time I hear/read a longhorn basketball fan who knew Gibson as a horn calling him Boobie.
PB!!
How can you post Morning Coffee without a reference to this gem?
Ok, I hope you don't think it's too creepy, but of course I voted for you. Come on, BON'ers, show our dear moderator some love, he's only leading 51% to 49%!!
by patienthornsfan on Jun 8, 2007 12:48 PM CDT reply actions
I need votes
I've been trailing this freaking Aggie more or less the entire time.
All I want is a win over this dude, then I'll gracefully bow out in round two.
Second that
BTW, can you explain to me why Kyle refers to the aTm blog in his list of Big 12 Blogs as "Texas Aggies"? That's just.... wrong!
by patienthornsfan on Jun 8, 2007 1:13 PM CDT up reply actions
It's not Kyle
It's SBN-wide. Just how it's listed.
I'd bring it up, but our tech dudes are so, so, so over-burdened with crap that I'd likely get spit on.
And we don't want that.
I don't know, PB
Some people are into that.
by patienthornsfan on Jun 8, 2007 1:36 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm not worried about Florida
with Aghayere. Who is the last player to be heavily recruited by UT that left the Big 12?
by Old Tex29 on Jun 8, 2007 12:58 PM CDT reply actions
Hope you're right
Just hope that the "most recent visit" factor doesn't get him too giddy about Gainesville.
I know this isn't exactly what you meant
but I don't think it's possible to be giddy about the town of Gainseville, unless you really like jean shorts.
On the other hand, you know Urban Liar is telling Chancey all sorts of wild stories, like
"You'll start as a true freshman at Florida" (I think he tells everyone this)
"We're going to win at least 3 MNCs while you're on campus" (Sure you are Urb)
and "SEC boosters pay the highest player salaries" (Well this at least is true).
I'm still banking on the Texas connections holding sway though.
by Old Tex29 on Jun 9, 2007 4:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Straight Amazonian
The photographer blew that picture. She looks scary and menacing, but there's a beauty queen in there. I'm sure 54b can put it into words.
She evidently has the stare-down down
... like Cat used to do. Just glare until the batter's knees are knockin'.
by patienthornsfan on Jun 8, 2007 2:01 PM CDT up reply actions
Aghayere is a horn
Book it.
As if his parent's college ties aren't rnough, Fran visited him recently to seal the deal.
The MLB draft thing is kinda weird; wasn't there some top texas signee a few years back who was expected to go top 10 in the draft out of HS, basically said the only way he wouldn't go pro is if he wasn't drafted in the first round? He ended up being drafted high in the 2nd round, and went pro anyway.
He was a natural powerhitter, just killed the ball.
I think the MLB draft is more of a crapshoot than any other, simply b/c you're dealing with thousands oh HS prospects, and trying to project where they'll be at 5 years down the road.
I wouldn't worry about the TCU game. Unlike OU & Baylor, you aren't playing them for your season opener.
Yo!
For #1 (bb), at least both were taken by good clubs. May not make it or may get traded ... but not a bad start. Good luck to them.
For #2 (fb), I'd put Chancey at 50/50 which isn't bad when there are three schools in the running. My question is, just how much of a factor is (was!) Melton supposed to be at end? How that turns out could play a part in this.
For #3 (boobie), it's just great to see Gibson doing so well on a grand stage. As a Rockets fan, I with the Rockets had gotten him but I'm also extremely biased!
Regarding TCU, there seems to be so much written about TCU winning or keeping it close. Think those will make for some serious wallpaper clippings in the Longhorns lockeroom? My take - TCU winning is not in the realm of impossibility. But I'm putting faith in an on-paper shaky O-Line (esp. if any injury) and a "who knows" defense and believe if we can get the run going (which I think will be by committee), Colt will be picking them apart halfway through the 2nd quarter, the 3rd will be a semi-stalemate and then we pull away in the 4th.
Hook 'Em.
by CyHorn770 on Jun 8, 2007 5:27 PM CDT reply actions
This should make Aggie Fan happy
Underachieving Tubby Smith has left Kentucky, bequeathing one of the top jobs in basketball to Billy Gillispie -- who is going to win huge at Kentucky. He won't just win there, or win big there. Huge.
I expect Gillispie to be very successful at UK
He brought our program back from the dead, and I harbor him no ill will.
Kentucky is THE program in college basketball, so I don't blame him for leaving A&M for UK; ultimately, A&M will always be a football school (despite Fran's attempts to make it otherwise).
I dont know about that
this year (and some of last) it looked like A&M was firmly latching onto basketball as their sport. There was enthusiasm, sell outs, and most importantly, wins. I think Gillespie was the key to that so itll be interesting to see what the new guy can do to continue the excitement.
And Fran did his thing to keep people uninterested in football. He did beat us, but if that kept him his job, then it's a pyrrhic victory.
by the other Andrew on Jun 10, 2007 12:58 AM CDT up reply actions
The rest of the Horns in the draft:
Boone improved from the 38th round to the 7th round
Alaniz improved from 36th round to the 8th
Krebs improved from the 38th round to the 14th
Clark moved from the 39th round to the 33rd
Big Bird was taken in the 34th round, James Russell went in the 14th.
Wheeless was taken in the 17th, Peoples in the 19th, and Van Hook in the 45th.
Simms back to the bench?
Another little interesting nugget from the morning's reading...
Although he stopped short of declaring the competition decided, and allowed that the battle will continue into training camp, Tampa Bay Bucs coach Jon Gruden acknowledged Friday that veteran Jeff Garcia will go into the summer with a "big lead" over Chris Simms in the race for the team's starting job at quarterback.
Pasquarelli also goes on to say "One advantage Garcia has over the five other quarterbacks on the roster is a familiarity with the shotgun offense, which Gruden has never used before, but is installing this spring."
Didn't Simms run the shotgun at Texas? Or did that not get installed until VY came along?
by patienthornsfan on Jun 10, 2007 6:46 AM CDT reply actions
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