Story!

Basically some Austinite 'Braska fan made a fake Oklahoman page saying that Sam Bradford and Landry Jones (?) were involved in Matt Jones type activities.

The real newspaper with the fake sounding website (News?  Okay!  ...dot com) got to him first as he pulled it down, but the dad now wants legal action.

Im a little confused by the story I must admit.   I can understand the Oklahoman asking to cease and desist using their template, but if people can start suing for crap that people make up and post on the internet on informal forums, well that would be bad.

For one, Elisha and Tara would be after me... what can I say, sex sells!  But if anyone was fooled by dude's fake story, as they were too dumb to notice that the address bar did not read like an overenthusiastic periodical, is that really his fault?

Note:  Elisha never wore that shirt, and Tara is not really 12' tall and sitting on my half wall, waiting for you to play Golden Tee.  Please don't sue me ladies.

Yeah, Im bored at work, and thirsty for more football discussion.  Unfortunately my work place is a barren expanse with no football fans of any consequence in sight.

So I bring a fairly lame topic here to generate some more discussion to fuel my purely selfish needs.

Here is my UT all-star team, sprinkled with some players I respected as opponents.  I roughly kept it to the past 10 years, so sorry, no Tyler Rose.

Your charge:  Find specific positions you disagree with, and support an alternative candidate from within the past 10 years, with facts, pictures, video, or inane discourse.  Then subject your choices along with mine own to your peers for ridicule and rebuttal.

Offense:

QB - Vince

RB - Ricky, backed up by Quinten Griffin

FB - Jovarski Lane; Tell me he couldnt excel here.

WR1 - Roy Williams

WR2 - Rashaun Woods; push off specialist, hell of a college receiver

WR3 - Wes Welker; Running back in College I know, but anywhere else he would have made a hell of a receiver.

OL - Not much flash here, but as long as Kasey Studdard is there, Im happy

TE1 - David Thomas

TE2 - Martellus Bennett

Random Offensive Sub1 - Ramonce Taylor

Random Offensive Sub2 - Darren Sproles

Defense:

DT - Tommie Harris

DT - Shaun Rodgers

DE - Corey Redding

DE - Tim Crowder

LB1 - Derrick Johnson

LB2 - DD Lewis

LB3 - Dan Cody

SS - Roy Williams

FS - Josh Bullocks

CB1 - Terrance Newman

CB2 - Michael Huff

I had this conversation the other day with Meekrob, but thought it was a good enough conversation piece to bring up here for some more opinions.

The question is, which would have been our best what-if team of the Barnes era?

The choices include, but are not limited to:

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I'll admit it, I'm an engineer.

As such, I tend to lend more credence to statistics than probably most of the people out there.

That said, I found myself looking to compare the national championship Horns, to Colt's horns.  No one gets more credit (Vince) or more blame (Colt) for the performance of the team than the quarterback, but Football, perhaps more than any other sport, is a team sport.

Here is the data - absolute numbers are averages per instance or per game, depending on the stat, and in parenthesis is the national rank.

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Wow, Im not sure how Tressel pulled that one off, but now Rich really needs a QB.

http://media.www.michigandaily.com/m...

UM has no experience at QB now, and only one recruit who is the dual threat that Rich is so lauded for using.

If I were to tell you that our three most recent NBA stars all had a good night scoring, who would you think scored the most?

What about the most rebounds?

Most assists?

What about who played the fewest minutes?

Well the answer to all of these last night, was TJ Ford.  Coming off the bench to drop in 28 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, in 27 minutes of play.  Its good to see this kind of production, as I hope it is an indication he is fully recovered from his injury earlier in the year.

Lamarcus put in 20 points, and Durant had a 27 point outing.

Man, why couldn't Dallas have gone for Ford instead of Kidd?

I wanted to assemble some concrete numbers on the schools distance to the regional sites.  So using Google maps, this is what Ive got.  Note: These are technically "driving" distances, but it should still give a good idea.

UNC - Chapel Hill:
Houston - 1173 mi
Detroit - 695 mi
Phoenix - 2193 mi
Charlotte - 143 mi

Duke - Durham
(close enough to Chapel Hill, see above)

Memphis - Memphis:
Houston - 568 mi
Detroit - 742 mi
Phoenix - 1471 mi
Charlotte - 635 mi

Texas - Austin:
Houston - 165 mi
Detroit - 1388 mi
Phoenix - 1006 mi
Charlotte - 1213 mi

Tennessee - Knoxville:
Houston - 568 mi
Detroit - 512 mi
Phoenix - 1861 mi
Charlotte - 246 mi

UCLA - Los Angeles:
Houston - 1546 mi
Detroit - 2281 mi
Phoenix - 372 mi
Charlotte - 2427 mi

Kansas - Lawrence:
Houston - 758 mi
Detroit - 830 mi
Phoenix - 1321 mi
Charlotte - 1014 mi

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This is my first entry into BON as a diary contributer, but my vehemence was so strong I felt a public forum was necessary.

I submit to you, that which I saw presented last night:

http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/7...

West Virginia, Florida, and USC.

Yes, the team that couldn't score enough points to beat the 2rd string Stanford Quarterback at home, has been nominated by the purveyors of all things football, Fedex, as one of the elite offenses of this past year.

Lets take a look see.

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