NCAA 2009

[dps]

Yeah, but it's getting embarrassing for the Vols now.  I mean, when somebody would rather coach at Duke than at your school, you better be talking about coaching basketball, not football.

They could use a Peyton Manning pep talk.

They could use a Dick Butkus pep talk.

Dick Butkus didn't go to school at Tennesee, so it would be less meaningful.

Probably lots of Tennessee football players didn't actually go to school there. 

[grumbler]

Yeah, but it's getting embarrassing for the Vols now.  I mean, when somebody would rather coach at Duke than at your school, you better be talking about coaching basketball, not football.

They could use a Peyton Manning pep talk.

They could use a Dick Butkus pep talk.

Dick Butkus didn't go to school at Tennesee, so it would be less meaningful.

Probably lots of Tennessee football players didn't actually go to school there. 

Well-played!

[MadBurgerMaker]

UTSA football got their first $1,000,000 donation today.   

For comparison, last I heard (several months ago), the current UTSA athletic budget is $10,000,000.  They have, of course, raised a bunch of money already, but nothing that "big" all at once.

Edit:  It's going to be used to help fund scholarships for the first batch of recruits (this year).  Practice starts this coming fall, the first loss is in fall 2011.

[sbr]

U of Texas-San Antonio?

[MadBurgerMaker]

U of Texas-San Antonio?

Yeah.  1AA Independent (Southland Conference, where the rest of their teams are, in 2013).  They're wanting to eventually move to 1A football, but I doubt that's happening any time soon.

[Valmy]

U of Texas-San Antonio?

The school that is known as 'Texas' in football is actually University of Texas-Austin and since it was the first UT we (as I work there) get to be called UT.

The others are as follows:

The University of Texas at Arlington
The University of Texas at Brownsville
The University of Texas at Dallas
The University of Texas at El Paso
The University of Texas at Tyler
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
The University of Texas–Pan American

UT El Paso already plays Division I-A football and I expect a few of the others to come along as time goes on.

[MadImmortalMan]

Great. They can join the B12 when the Longhorns join the B10.

[FunkMonk]

Go Roadrunners. 

[dps]

Supposedly, he's going to at least be considered for the job on a permanent basis.

Yeah, they were talking about that during the game.  I wonder how well he recruits.

Guess we'll find out.  He didn't get it, but did get the East Carolina job.

[katmai]

Supposedly, he's going to at least be considered for the job on a permanent basis.

Yeah, they were talking about that during the game.  I wonder how well he recruits.

Guess we'll find out.  He didn't get it, but did get the East Carolina job.

Good for him on getting chance at some school.

But what is up with the serious alliteration at Tech now?

[dps]

Supposedly, he's going to at least be considered for the job on a permanent basis.

Yeah, they were talking about that during the game.  I wonder how well he recruits.

Guess we'll find out.  He didn't get it, but did get the East Carolina job.

Good for him on getting chance at some school.

Yeah.  I didn't realize, but not only is he an ECU graduate, he was born in this area, too.  So if he's successful, they may actually have a chance to keep him long-term. 

[Berkut]

The Pac-10 has a real shot at breaking the record for the number of teams from a single conference making it to the NIT.

[katmai]

The Pac-10 has a real shot at breaking the record for the number of teams from a single conference making it to the NIT.

Uh...

[grumbler]

The Pac-10 has a real shot at breaking the record for the number of teams from a single conference making it to the NIT.

Uh...

I'm assuming he is being intentionally ironic.

[katmai]

The Pac-10 has a real shot at breaking the record for the number of teams from a single conference making it to the NIT.

Uh...

I'm assuming he is being intentionally ironic.

I can never tell with Berkie