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Texas Is The Best Coaching Job In The Country
I think we all know this intuitively. Go 4-7, launch a cable network with ESPN. POW. That just happened. It's the football off-season. This means it's time for people to start ranking things. Best stadiums. Best stadium fries. Hottest cheerleaders. Hottest cheerleaders in chaps. POW. That keeps...
DeLoss Dodds Is The Athletic Director Of The Year
The award was presented at the fourth annual Sports Business Awards, presented by the Sports Business Journal and SportsBusiness Daily. DeLoss beat out finalists Bob Bowlsby of Stanford, Penn State's Tim Curley, Chris Del Conte from TCU and Utah's Chris Hill. Curley was eliminated for wearing black...
Why ESPN Is Willing To Pay UT $300 Million
It’s amazing the amount of dust that can be kicked up when a simple business deal is announced. Sailor wants to know just exactly what will this new UT channel be called. I kinda like BEVO-D on steroids, but I suppose that isn’t politically correct enough. Our soon-to-be-gone neighbor to the...
Bevo TV
As we've all heard, Texas is pretty much totally awesome. The rich get richer. And people wonder why we're so arrogant. This even got Cooper Industrique's attention. The Sooners are also apparently interested in getting their network up and running this year. Will this be a cable access type...
Bevo Gets Into the Energy Business
Whenever the Longhorn Sports Network is up and running, UT would appreciate it if you would use Texas Longhorns Energy to power up your HDTV. UT has entered into a 6-year agreement with Dallas-based Branded Retail Energy to use the Longhorn brand to sell consumers electricity and natural gas in...
DeLoss Dodds: The Warren Buffett of Collegiate Athletics
Like a lot of folks over the past couple of years, several big-time collegiate athletic programs have seen their endowment portfolios drop faster and deeper than a Cole Green curveball. According to the Bloomberg News, however, UT is one of the few programs who actually saw its operating revenues...
Texas, Tennessee Top Pay List for Assistants
USA Today is running series on coaches salaries in D-1 football this week, and according to the national daily, Texas and Tennessee have the biggest budgets for football assistants. Tennessee's nine assistants earn an average of more than $369,000; Texas' better than $327,000. The paper used...
J'Covan Brown Has Been Cleared to Play
According to Burnt Orange Beat, a site that continues to provide top of the line coverage on basketball and recruiting. This is my take on how Brown's arrival could affect playing time and personnel. Guys, it's going to be a special fucking year. We're cutting the nets down or we're perma-banning...
J'Covan Brown. Where He Fits In
We've discussed at length what to expect from the 2009-2010 Longhorn Basketball team. We've projected personnel combinations and schemes. We've hit on minute distributions. And we've made some great friends along the way... Many of the threads felt like the following. Awe. The memories. What we...
Kevin Durant's Nike Commercial
Sweet appearance by KD with an old school rap feel. This kid's a walking recruiting billboard for the University. This ranks right up with these on my favorites list. First, gotta love the old school rivalry. Then, any commercial with Kevin McHale rapping has to be good. Much better than...
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