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Afternoon Brewsky Finally Finds Some Material
It's Friday and it's over 100 degrees again in Austin. So before you head out to the pool to have a couple cold ones, indulge in some actual news during the horrible, terrible, very bad offseason. Texas 7-on-7 news is a crack-like substance. Scipio Tex has some second-hand information about a...
Freshman Contributors: Garrett Gilbert
Setting the stage In 2009, freshman quarterback Garrett Gilbert won't contribute in the same way that Barrett Matthews could contribute in helping the first-team offense win games -- for Gilbert, it's more about laying a foundation for taking over in 2010. Mack Brown has made it abundantly clear...
Monday With Mack
With the dearth of information during the off season, any press conference from Mack Brown gets me about as excited as a little kid in a candy store. Not exactly a svelte little kid, either, if you get my drift. Anyway, on to the bullets from Mack's Monday presser ($) (here is the MB-TF...
Morning Coffee Asks Wood to Go to Work
Wood at work for the Horns. It doesn't take long for certain types of story lines with delicious appeal to spread. Remember a month ago? The '09 class just signed? No offers were out to anyone for 2010? One of the stories then was about the close-knit nature of the recruiting class, grown from...
Morning Coffee Goes Macro, Returns To Micro
State of the nation. Or, state or the nation? SI's Andy Staples takes a look at the state of national recruiting in his excellent article, sparking a series of posts by Scipio Tex over at BC about the ramifications for Texas. Basically, Staples' idea is that the key to recruiting is luring players...
Recruiting Spotlight: Paden Kelly
With Signing Day rapidly approaching and the great majority of the Longhorns' 2009 class already committed, it's time to look at each individual prospect. Vitals Name: Paden Kelley Position: Offensive tackle Height: 6-7 Weight: 285 Speed: 5.1 forty-yard dash High School: Lake Travis Rating...
Morning Coffee Survives Trip To the Llano Estacado
There and back again, a hobbit's tale of Lubbock. I think she meant it as some type of compliment. At the least, a simple observation unworthy of deep analysis. "You look like a hobbit," said the fellow partygoer, celebrating the graduation from Texas Tech of my girlfriend's godbrother. Perhaps...
Morning Coffee Talks Football Recruits
Gilbert and Cavaliers stay alive in playoffs. Fans at DKR got their first look at Garrett Gilbert on the Horns' home field on Saturday (just read Alan Trubow's article for all the Longhorn connections), watching the Cavaliers trample Killeen 71-9 as Lake Travis rides toward a second consecutive...
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