'Horns and Trojans in Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series
Tim Floyd and the USC Trojans will make an appearance next season at the Erwin Center on December 3 for the third installment of the Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series, a rematch of the second round NCAA Tournament game from 2007.
That game, of course, was the last time that Kevin Durant donned the Burnt Orange and will forever be remembered by Rick Barnes haters as the game that he refused to call a timeout to stem early USC momentum.
This time around, the storyline will be the match up of blue-chip freshman, as doughy Renardo Sidney, a one-time Longhorn talent, goes against Avery Bradley and Jordan Hamilton.
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Wescott Eberts (GoBR)
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This is cool I guess.
Agree about UCLA though. That was a fun series, and always a test for us that we could look back on when conference play and tourney play came around.
"A lot of people look for the easy way to do anything, in swimming there is no easy way." - Eddie Reese
P.S. 45-35
2007 Tournament
It’s nit-picky, I know, but UT lost to USC in the 2007 NCAA’s, not the 2006 Tourney. In 2006, we lost to LSU in the Elite Eight.
by heeltuckitandrun on Apr 28, 2009 2:28 PM CDT reply actions
am i missing something...did he fix it already?
by vy til i die on Apr 28, 2009 2:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Miss the UCLA series
The USC game should be cool.
Heeltuckitandrun: Thank you for reminding me of at least two occasions (v. LSU and v. USC) when Rick Barnes’ refusal to make an in-game adjustment cost the ’Horns the game.
oops
Ugh, I know.
Just the other day, I watched the replay of the game-losing drive in Lubbock. I must sub-conciously enjoy bringing up painful sports memories. I apologize.
To be (sorta) fair to Barnes, if we had made one more free-throw down the stretch (I think it was tucker who went 1 for 2 with only a few seconds left), we would have won in regulation and made the FF.
by heeltuckitandrun on Apr 30, 2009 9:46 AM CDT up reply actions
What might have been
Remember that when the SWC broke up, UT first attempted to join the PAC-10. How sweet would that have been?
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. If they get mad, you're a mile away AND you have their shoes.
Ronardo Sidney = doughy
haahha…i laughed at that.
He’s a CHUNK!
"Football's so important in Texas. On the West Coast, it's a social. On the East Coast, it's a culture. Here, it's a religion."
-- Major Applewhite
I wouldn't go so far as to call him a sloth-like tub of goo,
as Trips called Keith Gallon.
by Wescott Eberts (GoBR) on Apr 28, 2009 11:39 PM CDT up reply actions
It is phrases like the one you mention that make Barking Carnival a must read
sorry to burst that bubble...
..but GoBR know BC, and he was referencing them (see: Trips=Trips Right)
by vy til i die on Apr 29, 2009 10:38 AM CDT up reply actions
Yea, I understood that GoBR was referencing the work of BC and Trips Right in particular. I was just saying that writing such as the quote he referenced is why Barking Carnival is on my “daily read list”. I believe that BON and BC are like two halves that make up one helluva whole. You can’t have the good child (BON) w/o having the child that your not so sure you want to take into public because you are afraid what they might say and who they might say it to (BC).
that story is rife with holes
However, the source close to the Sidney family said school officials expressed concern about signing the player while an NCAA investigation into former USC stars Reggie Bush, a Heisman Trophy winner in football, and O.J. Mayo, a first-round NBA pick last year, was still open.
Sidney’s father, Renardo Sr., “didn’t want his son to be the scapegoat for those allegations,” the source said without elaborating why that could happen. “Neither side wanted an impending investigation hanging over them.”
Why? What’s there to be investigating about?
A source familiar with the USC athletic program not permitted to publicly discuss recruiting details confirmed that the university is no longer interested in signing Sidney but did not say why.
Why, part deux? It sounds like both sides didn’t want to sign. Then why stay committed so long?
Earlier this year, days before Sidney committed to USC at a Fairfax reception in which he opened a gift box to reveal a USC cap, UCLA stopped recruiting the player — also for undisclosed reasons.
What undisclosed reasons? Is this supposed to be pertinent to the USC recruiting allegations?
Asked if Mississippi State is the front-runner to sign Sidney, the source close to the family said the Bulldogs were “the only runner.” Attempts to reach the Sidney family were unsuccessful.
Are we making up terms here? Only runner? Does that mean Sidney’s signing with MSU or bust?
Longtime shoe company figure Sonny Vaccaro, who coordinated Southland player Brandon Jennings’ move to bypass a year of college in favor of a season as a professional in Europe and is helping San Diego high school player Jeremy Tyler explore a European season, said that option wasn’t open to Sidney.
“I already told him he couldn’t do it,” Vaccaro said.
We’re talking to Sonny Vaccaro now? Why can’t he play? Just because Sonny says so?
Reading that article made my brain hurt.
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