MarkInAustin

It's my 82d birthday and I will be in Los Angeles Union Station earing breakfast, drinking Starbucks most likely, and watching on my Samsung cell phone while my wife patiently awaits my return to the moment.

These teams appear stacked with enough talent to play each other twice this season. There are perhaps 5-7 other stacked college teams in America. The loser in Columbus can only afford one more loss and be assured of a playoff spot, I think. Vegas apparently has the home team favored by the standard home team betting margin. I won't bet this game. I will be watching on TV, enjoying a Texas victory or having the next week to recover from the anguish. Hook 'em.

Inspirational guys: RoJo, J Whitt guys who way outperformed expectations with desire and tenacity: Helm, Murphy, Taaffe, Barron, Sorrell, Wisner guys who lived up to expectations in every way - many, notably Bijan, Worthy, Banks, Sanders, Simmons, Hill, 3 DTs, 2 more WRs, Brooks, Mukuba... A leader not mentioned above: Major.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kne6z4yhxHI&pp=ygUMY2xheWJvcm4gMTAx

Clayborn was All American, Pro Bowler, SWC quarter mile track champ. One of our greatest DBs, and stellar KO returner. As an NFL rookie he returned 3 KOs for TDs. One was on national TV and now on YouTube. I'll post it later. Or just reference "Clayborn 101" at YouTube. Watching Jonah play baseball his loose limbed style reminded me of Raymond Clayborn.

I watch all Texas sports. I played baseball and some hoops. I don't like football in general but love Texas football. I have no clue about pro football. So I watch the women play volleyball and basketball. As someone above noted, they do play a legit brand of hoops. The women have had the best true PG on campus. No, i am not saying she could have played on the men's team. I am saying the men could have learned to play better watching her.

Elliot, Ukwuachu, Oakman...the Briles crew that were prosecuted. Carlton Dotson, the Baylor basketball murderer. Then there was our own Arterio Morris. You get my drift.

Big Foreman won the Doak Walker behind a very young OL. He was fast, shifty, strong, and big.

Great story. Thanks for your service.

OTOH, Texas has manged to miss on 3/4 of Westlake's run of QBs.

Upgraded easy games are available. Princeton would be a lot more fun to watch than Fairleigh Dickinson. St. Joseph's would be a better schedule fit than Lafayette. These are more competitive mid majors, teams that have made the NCAA tournament more than once in mylifetime. How about a real challenge here and there, say, Seton Hall over Rider? Running up wins against teams ranked lower than 150 cannot be that worthy of a recommendation come tournament time, but more importantly, those games provide no actual sharpening of the team for conference play. And paying to see them is painful.

Am I alone in remembering B Rob as even better than TC, despite Crowder having been an All American?

Giving us "Moore/Endries" as an entry? Or are they each at +1300? As an entry that would be difficult to turn down.

While many of these rivalries are historic, some are so new as to be unworthy of mention. Not a strange list on the whole, of course. What is being weighed by the reviewer is inconsistent, however. Tradition, or competitiveness, or recency? The top 5 all fill the bill, but putting OU vs. Nebraska at 6 when they don't play each other more than once a decade makes no sense to me. I am sure there is method to the madness if not madness in the method.

I thought the topic headline was Texas Hoops Recruiting Gays. Well, nothing wrong with that but it is probably the smaller group of Division 1 ready players, and how do we know who they are, anyway? So I read the article. Glad Texas is fishing in a bigger pond and I will get my eyes checked.

Nobis was also the best offensive guard in the SWC by far. A few years earlier I had seen the only other SWC lineman who was the best at his position on defense and offense. Like Nobis, Holub was a unanimous All American LB. And he was an astonishingly good offensive Center. I believe that if Nobis had played OG in the NFL he would have been as good as Fuzzy Thurston of the Packers. Holub did get to play OLB at an all AFC level with KC until his knees got banged up and then he became an All AFC Center. Three linemen/LBs I saw live 1960-1965 were outstanding [when I was at Rice and then UT Law].. Nobis, Holub, and Lilly - in that order. Lilly was only best on D, at least against a good Rice team that went to the Sugar Bowl in 1960.

That was one nail biter of a football game. I believe that Texas, USC, and tOSU were simply better than everyone else that year and Texas claimed the Natty by beating the other two by a total of one TD split between the two games. That OL had a fine moment I like to rewatch as much as I love 4th and 5. On the play after VY's TD they went for two, and the Texas OL stormed USC so remarkably that VY ran straight in for two points.

Hawaiian in Ann Arbor winter? See ya in the portal.

Some talk at the Spurs SBN blog [Pounding the Rock] that Harper would be redundant, because he is much like Castle and Fox. To me, Indy's run featured depth, especially at Guard and Wing, that says Castle, Fox, and Harper would be a feature, not a glitch. San Antonio at 14 could take a BIG if they can get someone who spaces the floor well or who alternatively is a banger underneath, since Wemby can play in space.

At least in 2020, based on US News survey of faculties, Stanford had the single strongest faculty. Eleven of the 67 schools on the list below have all academic departments ranked 30th or better in the nation. The private elites in this group are Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell; the public universities in the group are UC Berkeley, Michigan, Wisconsin, UCLA, and UT Austin. Texas was #14 overall, while being one of the eleven with every one of the 15 departments surveyed in the top thirty. Faculty may not be the best and certainly is not the only measure of a university, but it would be difficult to ever say Stanford has "slipped" if it has the strongest overall faculty in America.

There is a typical mix of undergraduate courses that med schools require, rather than a major. The STEM load required is less than for any science or engineering degree and could be managed by a history major. The trick is to have a near 4 point average in those required courses. Most American med schools, for admission, do not require undergraduates to have taken any calculus or calculus based introductory physics, for example, among the 10-11 required STEM courses. As a practical matter there is no barrier to med school raised by an Aggie undergrad education. I suggest that the undergraduate environment for a football player who must maintain a high grade point average and schedule his labs to not interfere with football practice requires a strong commitment from the school and the athletic program to provide individual attention to scheduling, mentoring and tutoring. Typically private elites do this well as a matter of course, but I suspect that Texas and Michigan, public elites, and Aggie, a strong near elite, will do this well upon demand.

This looks like a team that might compete in AA if it did not have to play every day. That is what SEC ball is all about, however.

The East's best NBA teams each lost their best player to bad injuries during the playoffs. Hope both those guys heal well.

USC is the national men's track and field champion. Oregon is a perennial contender in T&F. Texas currently is neither.

Hope there is no recount