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Any GM who prefers Drake Maye over Caleb Williams is a moronThe distinction between NFL fans, and football fans, is never more apparent than with draft hype. Each year, experts laud some schmuck quarterback whose archetype fits their formula as a franchise savior, and NFL fans inhale the assessment so often, so blindly that they really believe Drake Maye is ...

Big bank take little bank — and their coach and QB, tooSeeing as college football bowl season now doubles as open season on potential transfers due to the NCAA’s new transfer windows, part of the buildup to the bowl games is addressing rumors. North Carolina’s Drake Maye has been the subject of speculation, and even his own head coach helped fuel them....

Mike Leach, renaissance man [Updated]Former Texas Tech head football coach Mike Leach will be posthumously inducted into the school’s Hall of Honor, along with his former QB Kliff Kingsbury. Leach won 84 games during his tenure, which lasted from 2000-09....

Who had TCU as the first Texas program to (possibly) make the College Football Playoff?

I hate to give Texas credit for anything because the state already takes credit for everything. However, of all the supposed football-obsessed hubs, the Lone Star State tops them all. Mostly because of how unhealthy the population’s dedication to the sport is — I’m sure there are Texans who got wher...

Hey, Steve Sarkisian, admitting Texas has a problem is the first step to recovery

As a journalist, I’m always skeptical when someone isn’t allowed to talk. So when I read that Texas senior defensive lineman Moro Ojomo is taking a Steve Sarkisian-enforced break from talking to reporters “for a while” after criticizing the Longhorn’s culture, my immediate reaction was to question w...

Let there be mayonnaise

Well, there it was in all its glory. The much-anticipated mess of viscous white goop rained down upon the cap of South Carolina’s head coach, Shane Beamer, following his victory over North Carolina in what commentators called “the highest stakes bowl game outside of the college football playoff.” Th...

It’s almost time for college football’s most vacuous tradition: Bowl season! We tell you which bowl games are worth watching and why

Christmas approaches quickly, but college football fans are acutely aware that the real late December holiday is bowl season. Just when visions of the CFB content stream finally slowing to a crawl is dancing in your head, the NCAA presents the most meaningless postseason tradition in American sports...

Nobody does less with more than Texas

Oh, wow, look another Texas Longhorns football coach is underwhelming....

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The Refs Might Have Mishandled The Game Clock, But Mack Brown And UNC Mishandled The Game

After struggling to get anything going offensively for a majority of the game, UNC scored 18 unanswered points in the second half to cut a 21-point Wake Forest lead down to three on Friday. The Tar Heels then forced the Demon Deacons to settle for a field goal, which capped off a drive that left jus...

by Gabe Fernandez|Clock management

|09/14/2019

Screencap Classix: The Tressel Stinkeye

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by Timothy Burke|screencap classix

|01/16/2015

It's halftime in Mack Brown's final game as the head coach of the Longhorns. Do the break right by reading Bryan Curtis's fine summary of why Brown was too kind for his own good. [Grantland]...

by Sam Eifling|Mack Brown

|12/30/2013

"College football coaching is a crackpot profession. It rewards moral treachery if not outright cruelty. If Mack Brown has a boast, it's that he did the job with insufficient gusto. He coached the game but never bent to its demands on his soul." Bryan Curtis elegizes Mr. Football. [Grantland]...

by Tommy Craggs|mack brown

|12/16/2013

Report: Mack Brown To Resign As Texas Head Coach

ESPN just came back to commercial in Kentucky-North Carolina to report that Mack Brown will resign as head coach of Texas. According the Longhorn Network (operated by ESPN) is reporting that Brown has informed his team and recruits that he will resign following the Alamo Bowl against Oregon....

by Sean Newell|mack brown

|12/14/2013

Nick Saban Will Not Be Replacing Mack Brown At Texas

Nick Saban and Alabama have agreed on a contract extension and Kirk Herbstreit broke the news. All that's known at this point is that it is a long-term extension and his base salary will be somewhere between $7 and $7.5 million per year. None of this means anything. ...

by Sean Newell|nick saban

|12/14/2013

You Guys Hear Something?

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by Sean Newell|mack brown

|10/12/2013

Texas Assistant Coach Major Applewhite Was Disciplined For "Inappropriate, Consensual Behavior With An Adult Student" Four Years Ago

Former University of Texas quarterback and current UT co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Major Applewhite (that's his first name, not his rank) was disciplined in 2009 by the University of Texas for an infraction now being described as, if we're accurately connecting the very clear dot...

by Isaac Rauch|major applewhite

|02/02/2013

College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Texas)?

Our weekly college football shame index. ...

by Tommy Craggs|College shameday

|10/15/2012

Texas, A 63-21 Loser To Oklahoma, Still Has Mack Brown Signed Through 2020

The Texas-Oklahoma game today was as lopsided as a wink. The Sooners tripled up the Longhorns, 63-21, a score that almost looks like a mercy killing after a 36-2 halftime advantage....

by Sam Eifling|Texas Longhorns

|10/13/2012

Colt McCoy's Wife Says Texas Boosters Are Too Generous With Their "Fishing Trips And Hunts, Here Or There"

Here's Mrs. McCoy on ESPN's The Herd, doing some NCAA detective work: "You cannot expect 19, 20 year-old kids to say no to free stuff when they're in college." She says a bunch of McCoy's Texas teammates couldn't resist free stuff from agents or boosters....

by Jack Dickey|Mrs. McCoy

|06/07/2011

How Low Can Joe Paterno Go? What Coaches Do When They Hang Out

Former Texas A&M Coach R.C. Slocum seems like a stand-up guy. That's why we think he won't mind us highlighting some of his favorite photos through the years, as posted on his Facebook page....

by Barry Petchesky|College Football

|12/15/2010

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