Officials announced the dedication ceremony today. The statue will be unveiled Friday afternoon at the Red McCombs Red Zone, located at the north end of Darrell K. Royal- Texas Memorial Stadium. School officials said Texas football coach Mack Brown will… Source: Dallas Morning News – Blogs
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Texas Longhorns’ officials to honor Moncrief, McCombs with statue at stadium
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“It’s therapy to come out and practice right now and I thought the intensity level was good,” he said. “It was another good day of practice and gets the game plan down.” The last time Christensen was in Texas ‘ Memorial Stadium, it wasn’t too pleasant. … Source: Dallas Morning News
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Wyoming looks for offensive balance against Texas Longhorns
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Are Boise State and TCU gaining respect from coaches around the country? Texas coach Mack Brown became the latest coach to say he would not have a problem with a non-AQ team making it into the national championship game if they deserved to be there at the end of the year. When asked earlier this week whether he would be OK with that scenario, Brown said this, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: “The way the [BCS] rules are, absolutely. If you don’t like it, change the rules.” Brown went on to add that he expects his team to be in the mix should it go undefeated, and believes it would finish higher than an undefeated Boise State or TCU. He is right there. But with the rules as they are currently configured, he seems to have a more inclusive approach should either or both of the non-AQ teams be the only ones to go undefeated. “I have not been a proponent of everything in the BCS,” Brown said. “I would think strength of schedule should be a bigger part of it than it is. And it’s not. And if that’s the case, then TCU and Boise have to be considered top teams. If somebody doesn’t like it, they need to go back and change the formula.” Last month, Florida coach Urban Meyer told The Sporting News, “If Boise State is the best team in America at the end of the season, you better believe I would vote them No. 1 . If they deserve to play in the BCS championship game, they should play in it.” Boise State and TCU inched up higher in the latest coaches’ poll this week, with the Broncos moving up two spots to No. 3 and TCU moving up two spots to No. 5. No non-AQ team has played for a national championship before, and it remains to be seen whether undefeated Boise State and/or TCU would be voted into the top two spots at the end of the season. That has been a big source of debate and contention in the past week, since both teams won their openers against schools from automatic qualifying conferences. It is easy for coaches to say today that Boise State and TCU would deserve a spot in the title game, but it is another thing to say it come December, with the actual championship on the line.
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Boise State, TCU gaining cred from coaches
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Carta-Samuels completed 26 of 32 passes with two touchdowns and one interception in last week’s 28-20 win over Southern Utah . The Cowboys have a potential pro prospect in David Samuels out wide at receiver as well. Prediction: The Longhorns will… Source: Dallas Morning News – Blogs
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Fifth ranked Texas Volleyball enters Dante’s Rings of Hell the Nike Big Four Volleyball Classic Friday in pursuit of its 1001th win. To earn it, the Horns will have to battle #1 Penn State, #2 Stanford, and #4 Florida. Whoever named it the “Big Four” tournament wasn’t messing around. In the first month of the season, #5 Texas will have played the top four national squads. The winner—really the survivor—of the tournament should emerge as the national favorite to start the regular season.
In a weekend of big matchups, the local story will be Texas’ shot to earn revenge against the Nittany Lions. You might remember that Texas was up two sets on Penn State in the NCAA Championship before losing three in a row. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Penn State, the first choice for any volleyball recruit, travels to Gainesville armed with Deja McClendon and Blair Brown. The two hitters have combined for 130 kills in only eighteen sets. Brown, a 6’5’’ Senior, spent her summer training with the US National Team. Setting for the Lions will be handled by Kristen Carpenter. Alyssa D’Errico will don the opposite jersey at libero. With fifteen service aces, D’Errico is no slouch behind the line either.
Stanford ‘s Alix Klineman was a second-team All American last season. This year, her senior season, she is averaging 4.77 kills per game. Texas’ front line will have to reduce her impact to stay competitive.
Florida may be 5-0, but they haven’t exactly been dominating their opposition. They only have 26 more kills, 19 more assists, and 17.5 more blocks than their sub-par opponents.Florida has operated a spike-by –committee approach led by Kelly Murphy, Callie Rivers, and Kristy Jaeckel.
There is good and bad news going into this weekend, I’ll try to lay out the important ones.
Good News: Texas has been ranked in the top ten for sixty-one straight weeks and the top five for thirty-four weeks.
Bad News: Texas dropped from #2 to #5 this week after being swept by Illinois on Friday.
Good News: Juliann Faucette has seventy kills in 20 sets.
Bad News: Illinois’ success resulted from dealing with her normally deadly spikes.
Good News: With 208 sets on the season, Hannah Allison is playing like a veteran. Based on this interview, she seems like a down-to-earth girl too.
Bad News: This weekend will be a remarkably tough challenge for any freshman. She is about to be Gilberted, for lack of a better term.
Good News: Unlike Stanford, Texas has already been challenged this season.
Bad News: Unlike Texas’ early opponents, Stanford has four players over 6’4’’ including 6’6’’ outside hitter Hayley Spelman.
Good News: Texas will have a height advantage over Florida, the weekend’s easiest opponent.
Bad News: Easiest is relative, as the tournament will be played in always-rowdy Gainesville.
Good News: Rachel Adams, Sha’Dare McNeal, and Jennifer Doris are racking up the blocks.
Bad News: The Gators, Lions, and Cardinal are significantly more athletic than the McNeese State….. whatever those girls called themselves.
Good News: Freshman Sarah Palmer performed well in her first sets in Gregory. She will likely replace fellow Hawaiian Sydney Yogi at Libero in two seasons.
Bad News: To play their tempo, the Longhorns will need stellar play off the bench. Even Yogi eventually gets warn-out from throwing herself at the floor.
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Texas Volleyball – Big Four Volleyball Classic Preview
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Just like in 2009. Brown said an undefeated Texas would “be in the mix at the end,” as the Longhorns were last season when they carried a 13-0 record into the BCS title game before falling to Alabama 37-21. But he also suggested that fans and coaches… Source: Dallas Morning News
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The Longhorns had a blocked punt, a trick play that didn’t work where John Gold faked a punt from Texas ‘ own 6-yard line and only ran it to the nine before he was tackled. Then Colt McCoy tried to make a run for a first down when he saw a player coming… Source: Dallas Morning News – Blogs
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Longhorns’ defense will be tested by a pass-happy Wyoming offense
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John Brantley was no Tim Tebow , though Auburn’s Cameron Newton , who was once a Gator, did a pretty good imitation of the former Florida star. Texas didn’t want Garrett Gilbert to have to carry the offense the way Colt McCoy used to, but the Longhorns’… Source: TheNewsTribune.com
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Tigers battle Bulldogs in SEC action
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The Owls were limited to 219 total yards, and one of their two touchdowns came in the final minute of the contest, long after the outcome had been decided. Texas permitted just 88 rushing yards on 42 attempts and were fairly solid against the pass with… Source: Fox 23 New York
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Grief-stricken Cowboys face tall task in clash with Longhorns
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“We think it will help the kids get their mind on something different at different points of time throughout the day,” Christensen said Tuesday during the Mountain West Conference ’s regular coach’s conference call. “And we’ll take it one day at a time. Source: Dallas Morning News – Blogs
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Texas Longhorns’ next opponent tries to move on from horrific car accident
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