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Ooh, mixed emotions for me watching this one. I was born in Charlotte and grew up on the Carolina coast not far from Michael Jordan's hometown. ACC basketball was about the only thing area teams were good at and I always pulled for UNC or Duke or NC State BB when they were good (I think 13 national titles between them since I was first watching). Attended Texas during the Abe Lemons years and really liked how his teams played. I even cheered for them when they beat NC State for the NIT championship one year (when fewer teams made the NCAA tourney and the NIT had good matchups). Probably gonna be pulling for Duke in this one though. Haven't really liked a Texas BB coach since Abe was fired. Sorry fellow Longhorns.

Central Michigan will receive a "show-cause" reprimand for Michigan's sins, if Jerry Tarkanian is right ...

Someone please tell CDC that here at OnTexasFootball we have multiple posters who would have won THREE national championships by now if they were coaching the team. Easily.

Today is June 7, shorthand 6/7. What was OU's record last season? Wild ass guess - we'll hear from John F. again on the 5th of August. Yeah, pretty subtle (and I might have gotten it wrong)

Thanks for posting Blake! Any insights on whether Title IX will be invoked by those questioning why > 90% of the settlement money will go to men? Especially if women's basketball becomes a source of revenue with bigger TV contracts? I get it, football and men's basketball generate most all the athletic department revenue, but Title IX law may not look at it that way. Are existing NIL deals grandfathered in (say USC for example) or will they be subject to review by the NIL Go team? Any fears that schools without football teams but strong basketball teams might dominate since they can spend much more on BB than those funneling 75% to football? I'm looking forward to seeing how they enforce the outside NIL deals too. It seems anyone with a large social media presence can generate a lot of $$ from sponsoring companies in their posts - Livvy Dunne for example, or Texas track and field guy Sam Hurley, who was earning around a million/year on social media even though few Texas sports fans ever heard of him.

Lanning hitting pool over this one?

Check with CJ

I remember watching the inning and thinking both runs should be unearned, so was surprised when the announcers said one was earned. Anyway I guess the disconnect in the chart was showing 0.00 ERA with one ER - not a big deal. You're doing a great job CJ, thanks.

Nerd alert, sorry - just curious about the chart where Teagan has an ERA of 0.00 on line 3 but three lines down she's shown with 1 ER. (I remember the inning, against OU when our SS made an error which lead to an unearned run and one more scored later that inning on a fielder's choice - that was the earned run). Edit: just saw this on ESPN - "Kavan has been the best pitcher in the WCWS (17 innings, 0.41 ERA, no extra-base hits allowed)"

Us Older Horns might also remember watching him play in the most astounding Super Bowl of all time, the Namath led Jets beating the heavily favored Colts to win Super Bowl III

A recruit has committed but isn't ready to announce it yet.

Thanks for the link. Key quotes (to me) from the article - "The going rate for a star pitcher in the portal was believed to be in the $100,000-$150,000 range. ... (the) Matador Club announced it had signed Canady to an NIL agreement ... The contract is for one year and $1,050,024 ... The $24 is for Canady’s jersey number. The $50,000 is for living expenses. And the $1 million is for Canady." Now THAT'S the way a less than successful program can use NIL to full effect to lure stars, big bucks sure, but personalized like $24 for the jersey number. No to and fro, no 'get back to me with a counter offer', no 'what would it take?' foreplay. Just blow them away by going all in from the jump. I admire their chutzpah, those Tech oilmen aren't fooling around.

Holy Bevo, those computer nerds generating the FPI at ESPN surely do love themselves some Texas football (and SEC in general). The 2025 FPI projections dropped today and it's a Longhorn fan's wet dream. Texas Longhorns are ranked # 1 with a 22.2% chance of winning the championship. Georgia # 2, Bama # 4. Whatever happened to Clemson and Penn State, one might ask? It gets better, believe it or not. Best offense? Texas, followed by Georgia and Bama. Best defense? You know by now - Texas, followed by Georgia and Bama. Somehow I think this might be skewed just slightly towards the SEC. Finally, "Most anticipated games of 2025 based on projected FPI ratings" Texas plays in the top 2 (@Georgia and @Ohio State), 3 of the top 6 (@Florida), 4 of the top 9 (A&M), 5 of the top 13 (Oklahoma), 6 of the top 24 (@Kentucky). This seems just a little crazy to me. But I'm hoping they are right, especially about the championship. Link to article on ESPN Top teams by 2025 FPI National Championship odds Rank Team Conf. FPI Proj. Wins Playoff % Championship % 1. Texas Longhorns SEC 28.5 10.4 83.9% 22.2% 2. Georgia Bulldogs SEC 26.6 10.1 78.6% 17.5% 3. Ohio State Buckeyes Big Ten 23.8 10.4 70.6% 11.6% 4. Alabama Crimson Tide SEC 24.2 9.6 66.2% 10.4%

Doesn't feel quite as bad coming in behind these athletic factories with easy academic standards who will let in ANYBODY who can row a boat.

These two have been mentioned a lot and have OVs set to Texas in June Hezek Kent, TE, Brunswick (Ga.) High OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ Note: OTF believes Texas leads Also # 2 or 3 TE on 247 - Jun 20, 2025: O. Visit Kaiden Prothro officially visits Texas Longhorns

Kirby Smart was complaining that certain programs (USC obviously, Oregon, Tennessee, Miami) are getting recruits to commit quickly by offering $$ during their high school senior year. The number tossed around was $20K/month with stipulations that if you didn't stick to the commitment you had to pay the money back. Guessing a player as good as Bowman might warrant even more, right? Especially before the House settlement goes into effect. Just guessing, no insider knowledge ... but makes more sense than "I just want to grow the game of golf" oops, wrong sport - "We are taking over the city! All of the talent that’s here, we gotta bring it to USC". Yeah, OK.

Poona grew up on the South Carolina coast, like I did, and he has the coolest name by far so gotta go with Mr. Ford.

Excellent post Lam. Good ideas with convincing examples - the comparison of Micah Hudson to Emmett Mosley especially. Post more please!

Nope. But we have away games at Ohio State, Florida and Georgia so we need a few easy ones in there too.

True, but there were at least three other teams not named Notre Dame in last year's 12 team playoff who didn't play in a conference championship game. I can understand the loser of a conference championship game getting in, but if you're letting in teams ranked 3rd or lower in conference there's no reason to exclude ND. They already are barred from getting a top seed and a home game. (And I really detest ND, just pointing this out ... if you want to limit it to just teams who won or played in a CCG then OK, leave ND out, but otherwise I'd say let them scramble for an at large bid if their record and SOS is good enough.) The "No conference championship game involved" made more sense in a 4 team playoff, I feel.

6'5" and 260 lbs before the 9th grade. Jeez

Not sure it's so much "trying to get out of it" as "trying to renegotiate the scheduling of it", moving off home-and-home in mid-October, which is the middle of USC's conference scheduling. Apparently all the travel east is weighing on the Trojans so they asked to either schedule the Notre Dame game earlier in the year or, on a four year rotation, play 2 in LA, one game in South Bend and one game at a neutral site closer to LA (Vegas maybe?). Something like that. A bit of a dick move since they can afford to give up the game more than Notre Dame can, but you can sorta see their point. Hard to feel sorry for USC since they joined a conference with teams in Maryland and New Jersey, so knew the travel would be brutal. Best guess - still play it but early in the season? Edit: good article on this topic in Sports Illustrated (where I got my ideas) - USC vs. Notre Dame Football Rivalry Must Continue

Article in The Athletic "Ranking the 25 best college football games of the 2000s: Where do Texas-USC, Kick Six rank?" by David Ubben. Probably behind a paywall (link here) but sometimes you get a couple free ones each month. Looking at our two main SEC rivals Oklahoma played in two of those games (both in the Top Five). Shed a tear for our friends on the other side of the Red River because they lost both games, but still they made the list. Texas A&M played in one of those games - as usual, just outside the Top Twenty. Inexplicably they won it. Your Texas Longhorns played in four of the top 16 games, winning 3 of them. I'll admit that one of them was a bit of a surprise to me - recency bias? I won't spoil the ending as to which game was ranked # 1 but it's safe to mention that Vince Young was pretty damn good.

I agree with you on this. He seems pretty even handed about Texas even though I think he was the Colorado QB in the 70-0 beat down, right? The other guy I like is Josh Pate even though I think there are a lot of guys who don't like him. The list of guys I wouldn't listen to is lengthy but these two, to use your term, offer 'value added'.