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The products of an entertaining form of corruption
Inasmuch as the corrupt sponsorship of big-time football and basketball by academic institutions is a common topic on this blog, the following articles caught my eye: The Chronicle's Richard Justice surveys several of the ugly recent incidents in big-time college...
The return of Coach Slocum on a Mobile
New Texas A&M football coach Mike Sherman was an assistant coach in the A&M program under R.C. Slocum, the folksy former head coach who was somewhat unceremoniously dumped when the A&M reached to hire Dennis Franchione five years ago. As...
The Sherman hiring
Well, Texas A&M Athletic Director Bill Byrne's "nationwide search" for a new head coach to replace Dennis Franchione took a couple of days and extended all of about 100 miles southeast of College Station as A&M hired Houston Texans assistant...
2007 Weekly local football review
(Jay Janner/Austin American photo; previous weekly reviews here) Texas Aggies 38 Texas Longhorns 30 For the second straight year, the Aggies (7-5/4-4) upset the Longhorns (9-3/5-3), this time as a resignation present for Aggie head coach Dennis Franchione. I trust...
The 2007 UT-A&M Game
Although the 113 year-old rivalry game between the Texas Longhorns and the Texas A&M Aggies is always interesting, this year's edition at 2:30 p.m., CST today in College Station (ABC) has an added element of intrigue over the typical UT-AM...
2007 Weekly local football review
(Eric Gray/AP photo; previous weekly reviews here) Texas Longhorns 59 Texas Tech 43 The Texas Longhorns (9-2/5-2) had been left for dead after losing to Oklahoma six weeks ago, but the resurgent Horns are in solid contention for a BCS...
Coach Fran's nightmare worsens?
Just when it seemed as if Texas A&M head coach Dennis Franchione's season couldn't get much worse, it looks as if it just might. As noted in previous posts over the past two years here, here, here, here, here, here,...
The Futility Bowls
Oh, how far the mighty have fallen! In Lincoln, Nebraska tomorrow, the Texas A&M Aggies take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers in what has been dubbed "the Buyout Bowl," because of the tenuous hold that Aggie coach Dennis Franchione and NU...
2007 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/Phil Coale)(previous weekly reviews here) Jaguars 37 Texans 17 The conventional mainstream media wisdom coming into the Texans' (3-3) game this weekend at Jacksonville (4-1) was that the Texans' lagging rushing attack would be revived by the return of...
As the Aggie Football World Turns
What is it about Texas A&M University that the institution cannot fire a football coach correctly? The slowly disintegrating status of A&M head football coach Dennis Franchione has been a frequent topic on this blog for almost two years now...
$1,200 for that?
As noted in the weekly football report, the water cooler conversation in these psrts over the past several days has inevitably turned to what on earth was embattled Texas A&M head coach Dennis Franchione thinking when he sold a secret...
2007 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/Dave Einsel) Colts 30 Texans 24 Amidst the wide-eyed wonderment that a few wins by the Texans (2-1) evokes from Houston Chronicle sportswriters, the Colts (3-0) systematically build a 27-10 lead after three quarters and then cruised to the...
The hottest seat in Texas
After Texas A&M's narrow escape last weekend over Fresno State, Brett Zwerneman of the San Antonio Express-News continues to lead the chorus (see earlier posts here and here) that doubts A&M football coach Dennis Franchione is going to produce a...
College football must be right around the corner
You know it's about time for the college football season to begin when the first story appears proclaiming that Texas A&M football coach Dennis Franchione remains on the hot seat (Brett Zwerneman of the San Antonio Express-News): . . .Anyway,...
2006 Weekly local football review
Texans 14 Browns 6 Despite having no effective passing game, the Texans (6-10) rode a strong second half rushing performance from rookie RB Chris Taylor and another spunky defensive effort to beat the Browns and fulfill my pre-season prediction that...
2006 Weekly local football review
Texas Aggies 12 Texas Longhorns 7 In the signature moment of Dennis Franchione's mostly rocky tenure at A&M, the Aggies (9-3, 5-3) rode a magnificent defensive performance and an already legendary 16-play, almost 9 minute, 88-yard fourth quarter TD drive...
Rumblings from Aggieland
It's not been a pleasant week in Aggieland. As noted in Monday's weekly local football report, Aggie head coach Dennis Franchione made several dubious decisions late in last Saturday night's 17-16 loss to the Oklahoma Sooners. In particular, Aggies everywhere...
2006 Weekly local football review
Giants 14 Texans 10 In a game that set offense back to the days prior to development of the T formation, the Giants (6-2) hung on to beat the Texans (2-6) as neither team could muster 300 yards total offense....
2006 Weekly local football review
Texas Longhorns 28 Oklahoma 10 As noted in last week's review, my recent up-close exposure to this Texas team led me to conclude that the Sooners would have their hands full with the Longhorns (5-1, 2-0), and that was certainly...
2006 Weekly local football review
Texans 17 Dolphins 15 Well now, that's a relief! In an entertaining but not particularly well-played game, the Texans (1-3) won for only the third time in the past 21 games as the Dolphins (1-3) could not convert a questionable...
2006 Weekly local football review
Colts 43 Texans 24 It was not as "close" as the score indicates. Behind 17-0 before they appeared to look up, the Texans (0-2) could not force the Colts (2-0) to punt until it was 30-10 midway through the fourth...
Aggies and Seahawks settle the 12th Man dispute
Withering under the logic of Texas A&M's complaint (picture on the left) in the university's copyright infringement lawsuit over its revered 12th Man slogan, the Seattle Seahawks gave in and entered into a settlement with the Aggies under which the...
What does "Franchione" mean?
It's no secret in these parts that Texas A&M head football coach Dennis Franchione had a bad season, not something to take lightly in terms of job security in the football-dominated culture of College Station, Texas. So, after Franchione fired...
Strained relations?
Does anyone else get the impression that negotiations regarding Rice University head football coach Ken Hatfield's future with the program don't seem to be going all that well? First, this ESPN.com article reports on the rather defiant press conference that...
2005 Weekly local football review
Texas Longhorns 40 Texas A&M Aggies 29 The 5-6 Ags came up with an unexpectedly spirited performance for me behind redshirt freshman QB Stephen McGee (pictured) and true freshman RB Jovorskie Lane before the 11-0 Horns put the clamps on...
Getting up for the OU-A&M game
As we hope that the next installment of Texas A&M football coach Dennis Franchione's Friday with Fran will be as entertaining as last week's installment, the following are ways in which more than a few Aggie fans are getting up...
Coach Queeg at A&M?
Some people simply should not blog. Let me put this in context. Two weekends ago, Iowa State hammered Texas A&M 42-14 in front of the fifth largest crowd in the history of Kyle Field. Then, last Saturday night, Texas Tech...
An afternoon on the sidelines at Kyle Field
On Saturday, I spent a beautiful Texas fall afternoon on the sidelines of Kyle Field in College Station to watch the Texas A&M Aggies host the Iowa State Cyclones in a Big 12 Conference football game. Iowa State head football...
2005 Weekly local football review
Amidst the chaos resulting from Hurricane Katrina, at least a small amount of normalcy returned this past weekend as the local college football season kicked off. As with last season, I will pass along a brief summary of the local...
2004 Weekly local football review
Lions 28 Texans 16. "Uh-oh" is the barely audible sound that you will hear emanating from Reliant Park this week. Not only did the Texans lose their second straight, but they once again showed the inconsistency that could really make...
Houston Texans, Year Three
Lest you think that the only baseball and the Stros are the only sports subjects addressed on this blog, we bring you a review of the first weekend of college football. I generally ignore football until the National Football League...
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