Yeah, Ohio State doesn't have nearly the schedule that Miami has, but the Buckeyes are 2nd in the BCS right now. If they win out, the worst they finish is third. If they lose, Iowa goes to the Rose Bowl, and Texas, assuming they don't get to the Fiesta Bowl, will fight with Ohio State to play Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. Given our proximity to New Orleans, and the fact that no other Texas team has a shot at a BCS bowl, meaning huge TV markets, I don't think the committee would give it to Ohio State. But I'm hoping that both OSU and Miami lose so that Texas can play OU for the national championship. How cool would that be?

I'll be rooting for UT in Austin that morning/early afternoon, and then attempting to get radio reception of the game while I'm en route to College Station... I can't decide who to root for either. Someone said, though, that Ohio State's strength of schedule may hurt them in the BCS rankings...

i'll be sitting at home, getting drunk, and rooting for the sooners. this season has lost all meaning to me.

I can't decide yet which team to root for. If OU wins, there's basically no way Texas can win the Big 12 title. On the other hand, if OU loses to A&M but wins the rest of their games, and Miami and Ohio State win out, that could knock Texas out of contention for a BCS bowl. Best case scenario, OU and Texas win out, while Miami and Ohio State each lose a game. That would put the Horns and the Sooners in Tempe for a rematch and the national title.

I won't be watching the A&M-OU game this weekend. There ain't enough Pepto-Bismal and Pepcid AC on the planet that could get me through another RC Slocum/Wrecking Crew train wreck.

yep. The biggest question is Augie's true involvement. Clearly, he knew more than the "nothing" he claimed, but I don't think that he's a criminal mastermind, either. I doubt we'll ever know the truth. I suspect our program will be squeeky clean for the next 24 months, and Augie will lay low the whole time.

Thanks for clearing it up. I saw the 'ticker' at the bottom of Fox Sports Channel this morning before I left and it didn't give much info. So it has little effect on the players (with the exception of the scholarship) or the team in general, more of a coaching mistake off the field?

I don't think the NCAA would have made a big deal about it, if not for Garrido pretending he had nothing to do with it. If he had just said before the investigation started that something was up, it probably would have been just a secondary violation. But he acted like he had no idea what was going on, when it was pretty obvious that this coach was spending way too much time with the team and going on recruiting trips to have an outside job. Stupid, stupid move.

The team received two years probation and the loss of one scholarship for next season, but post-season play will not be affected.

Apparently, a former assistant coach left the team to take a $40,000 per year job at a beer distributorship owned by a former member of the UT Board of Regents, and it was Augie Garrido who recommended the coach for the job. However, the coach continued to work for the team in a voluntary capacity and even made recruiting trips in place of Garrido, which is a no-no. As it turned out, the guy was doing very little work for the distributorship but was being paid anyway, so that he could spend more time with the baseball team, seemingly as a favor to Garrido. Hence, the cloud of suspicion. I don't see this a major violation, but whatever. The punishment is fair.

One of our assistant coaches was employed by a local beer brewer/distributor (I'm not sure which), which had ties to the baseball team - alumni, family or somesuch, again, not totally sure on the details. This coach apparently didn't actually show up for work when he was scheduled, instead using that time to recruit in Augie Garrido's place, since Augie's back was injured. Thus, he was being paid by a job while not there and at the same time benefitting the UT baseball team. It was a pretty stupid situation on the part of the coaches, not keeping tabs on him.

The report from the NCAA did make a special note that (paraphrase) "this is a special situation in that it does not involve any impropriety with recruiting, benefits or compenstation to present or past student-athletes." In other words, our administration processes suck, but our program is clean.

Punishment was the loss of one scholarship, one coach (augie) can't recruit off-campus until July of next year, and we're on a two-year probabtion for future offenses. I think the punishment fit the crime well. I hate that we cheated - and the coaches have admitted as much, but I don't think it taints the championship, since the cheating didn't involve players. Only one player on the team was recruited AT ALL by this coach, and that player didn't play much.

I know it's the off season (or at least I think it is) but what's up with Texas's baseball team? Probation? Something about a coach getting a job where he got paid but didn't work?

And on a different note, I won't predict that high of a point difference. OU by 7.

Boomer Sooner!!

Well, about time to head to College Station for the game, I guess I will make my prediction.

#1 Oklahoma 45, Texas A&M 17.

There. Have your damn right click back.

I'm only half mezzzcan ... I can't spizzel too gizzood.

Biznatch.

B real, what the hell is esse? you mean like a paper? haha - diss

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I done learned myself a new komputer skill!!

Ctrl-C also copies yo.

Anti-right clicking sucks. I'm too lazy to type that whole address in.
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are you tryin to get crazy with esse? don't'chu know I'm loco?

Goddamn, the Republicans just opened a can of whoop ass on the Nation. Sweeeeeeeeeeet.

Perry, fine. Cornyn, whatever. But Dewhurst? Come on! When every major newspaper, law enforcement agency and Chambers of Commerce endorse a democrat in a REPUBLICAN STATE, you know something is wrong with the guy.

The most powerful public official in the state... This next legislative session is going to be crap.

Matt, I like the new design of the message board. Looks good.

As a friend of mine put the Sanchez-Perry choice...

"College students all over the state are feeling dirty today because they voted for a Republican."