Morning Coffee Preps For Evening Hoops

by Peter Bean on Jan 30, 2008 7:45 AM CST in Quick Hits

Huge game tonight. Get your obligations out of the way by 8:00 p.m. tonight to watch what could prove to be one of Texas' most important games of the season. Rick Barnes and Texas travel to Texas A&M - the game will be televised by ESPN2. If you're sitting around watching tonight, join us here for the open thread.

This looks to me like as good a road test as the 'Horns will get for the remainder of the season. Trips to Waco and Manhattan will be important, but A&M provides the size, strength, and defense that this Texas team will need to be able to overcome if it's going to make any kind of NCAA Tournament run this March.

Dex in effect? That's the headline of this Dexter Pittman article from the Austin-American Statesman. I'm fine with cheesy headlines in general, but you've gotta be able to do better than that with a guy like Pittman. Regardless, it's a nice featurette from Mark Rosner, in which we learn that AJ Abrams teases Pittman about his size. Can you believe that? Taking crap from AJ Abrams? Dexter should just eat him.

Confusing quote of the day. On the flu bug that's sidelined a host of New York Giants this week, including former Texas standout Aaron Ross, Tom Coughlin said:

"We have taken precautions. The medical people have done the best they can to distribute some medicine, if you will, in advance of the plane trip out there. Hopefully the guys are rested enough that this will not be an issue."

If you will? Typically, we use 'if you will' almost apologetically, as though what we said immediately before may not have been the proper characterization. As in, "Against Kansas State, the offensive game plan - if you will - was garbage."

'If you will' is often just a verbal tic, so it may mean nothing, but I can't help but laugh imagining Coughlin trying to indicate that medicine is a euphemism, as though he couldn't come out and say forthrightly, "The amount of drugs we're using to get our players through this would embarrass Brett Favre, even."

Quick Hits. Joseph Duarte on the Darrell Scott sweeps and a DJ Augustin featurette... Big 12 South recruiting overview from ESPN.com... The RBR community tributes Bear Bryant on the 25th anniversary of his passing.

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dex COULD eat AJ

or instead he could take a page out of the good old Damion James playbook:

by billyzane on Jan 30, 2008 9:13 AM CST reply actions

Couple of things

Aggie games are always big, but the Agros should be highly motivated for this one. We need to give them plenty of chances to foul themselves into a loss, like they have in recent games. Cry-baby coaches are a tradition at the farm college, so let's give them something to cry about.

DJ Augustin is far from being a "pure" point guard. With his driving and shooting abilities, he is so much more. And this year he is showing he can also be a floor leader. But his passing still needs work and he can be pressed when bringing the ball up the floor, and these are two of the main qualities of the "pure" point guard.

As to starting Scott as a freshman, hell, I'd PROMISE him the starting job if that's what it takes. Besides, I'd like to see how McGee could do as fullback.

Finally, please remember that at the newspaper the writer of the article does not also write the headline. Don't blame Rosner.

by Caradoc on Jan 30, 2008 1:08 PM CST reply actions

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Picked this link up from Bill Simmons a while back, and always meant to share it with BON. Truly a heart-wrenching story, and a must-read.

http://www.sportsline.com/collegebas...

My adopted kid is pure genius at the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model.

by jc25 on Jan 30, 2008 2:07 PM CST reply actions

Damn

That is just the saddest thing I've read. Ever. I can't even imagine...

by Shake on Jan 30, 2008 2:58 PM CST up reply actions

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Holy hell.

That article makes me so very thankful for the relationship I have with my wife.

I cant even imagine going through what he did. I think I would shut down for years.

by BoddickerIsClutch on Jan 30, 2008 3:32 PM CST up reply actions

Basketball game

Here is an interesting column written over at ESPN about the rivalry between the aggies and the longhorns in honor of student spirit week.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?id=3220036

by UTman on Jan 30, 2008 2:30 PM CST reply actions

i just finished reading this

it's quite hilarious actually. well i learned what "gig" means anyway. "gig em" doesn't even make sense when referring to animals that aren't frogs. silly aggies.

TEXAS LONGHORNS #16 Jermichael Finley 36 rec 500 yards 2 td

by clra2 on Jan 30, 2008 4:28 PM CST up reply actions