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Longhorns on Top of Money List Again!

#1 Sportsfan — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:14:46 +0000

That’s right, out of the Top 200 Colleges and Universities, The University of Texas at Austin tops them all in amount of merchandise sold. The Longhorns made over $10 million in the last fiscal year (July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010). That’s almost $1.5 million more than they made last year. This top 10 looks almost identical to a lot of the college sports top 10 teams. I think its interesting how those two go hand in hand. A lot of professors curse at collegiate sports like they serve no purpose in this educational system. I say they go side by side more than you could think. Colleges need to make money in order to update their facilities, pay their staff, and keep everything like business as usual. Sports bring in far more money(Football in particular) than the professors do. That’s impressive if you consider the amount of grants that professors can get from companies and individuals who support whatever research and development is going on in that field. The point is that I am tired of hearing about how UT puts too much emphasis on sports and not enough on the education. To me, The University of Texas at Austin is the best place in the world to go to school because not only is it one of the best public universities in the nation for education, but its also one of the best University systems for sports having teams ranked in the Top 25 in nearly all sports. The Collegiate system out there to me also falls under the “iron law of oligarchy” in the sense that eventually the best teams are just gonna get better making all the other schools out there suffer ever more than they already are.

Top Selling Universities

Rank	College/University
1	The University of Texas at Austin
2	The University of Alabama
3	University of Florida
4	Louisiana State University
5	The University of North Carolina
6	University of Georgia
7	The University of Michigan
8	University of Kentucky
9	The Pennsylvania State University
10	The University of Oklahoma
11	University of Notre Dame
12	University of Tennessee
13	West Virginia University
14	University of Nebraska
15	Auburn University
16	University of Wisconsin
17	The University of Kansas
18	University of Missouri
19	Florida State University
20	University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
21	Texas A&M University
22	University of Illinois
23	University of South Carolina
24	Texas Tech University
25	Clemson University
26	Oklahoma State University

The Collegiate Licensing Company Names Top Selling Universities and Manufacturers

Mack Brown Rap

#1 Sportsfan — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:55:40 +0000

The title says it all. I am a fan of music but more importantly Chopped and Screwed music. You know, the slowed down style normally involving a deep voice. For sure, it sounds a lot like Mike Jones more than likely and it could be for all I know. What I do know is that its a baller song that Mack Brown should play right before he goes and gives his big speech before the game. In fact they should just go ahead and make a rap song for all the players and they should just listen to the song before the game starts and there wouldn’t even need to be a big speech. Anyways, check the video out because it was originally showcased on 1300 The Zone (AM Radio Station out of Austin) which is my favorite station when I am in Austin because its the official Longhorn station.

Move over Minnesota, Notre Dame is here.

#1 Sportsfan — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:45:53 +0000

The all but sealed deal between the Minnesota Gophers and the Texas Longhorns is anything but at this point. The deal was that Texas and Minnesota would play each other in 2015 and 2016. I imagine that Minnesota had thought Christmas had come early when they thought they had this deal in the bag back in September 2009 because anyone who plays the Longhorns gets rich. While this would have been the first time the two teams had gotten together was just a few years after the Great Depression back in 1936. While this may come as a disappointment to Longhorn fans, I have heard rumors of the Minnesota series being replaced by playing Notre Dame in the same seasons. We have all heard about how Notre Dame has been wanting to ramp up their schedule in order to boost rankings and viewership. It looks like they have taken a swipe at Minnesota while trying to increase their ratings. Good thing I am not a Gopher fan or I might be mad. Maybe they will get their shot in the Alamo Bowl if Texas craters this season behind Garrett Gilbert. As a Lohghorn fan, I look forward to whooping up on Notre Dame in the future. Especially if Will Muschamp is at the helm.

Will Muschamp to Tennessee??? God I hope not.

#1 Sportsfan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:33:20 +0000

With Lane Kiffin leaving the University of Tennessee just a little over a year after getting there, Tennessee is going to be looking for a non-controversial coach who can just step in and take over where Lane Kiffin left the program. The Tennessee program really isnt that bad but they were embarrassed by Virginia Tech in the Chick-fil-A Bowl 37-14. The main reason they lost this game was a lack of production from the offense. While the defense was quite lame towards the end, they played a good game most of the first half. I mean, who wouldn’t do well with Monte Kiffin coaching your defense, but with his son Lame Kiffin going to USC, part of the package included Monte also. This does wonders for USC but this cripples Tennessee. So with all of this, you can only wonder why they want Will Muschamp. Here are the candidates that SidelineBlog has found to be in the front of the pack that Tennessee has written down as who they would love to have:

Will Muschamp (Defensive Coordinator and Coach in Waiting for the Texas Longhorns) – Will Muschamp would undoubtedly look good in that Tennessee Orange managing the defense while using Mack Brown and Greg Davis’ expertise (which he has been around for a few years now) to command the offense. While this would be great for Tennessee, I dont think its the best spot for Muschamp. He is set to take over a Longhorn program that brings in over $80,000,000 dollars per season. Thats a lot of zero’s. But you know never, in his heart of hearts…he is still just a boy from Georgia.

Jon Gruden – He has had his issues with Monte Kiffin in the past, and from what I can tell, he was supposed to get the job at Tennessee until Lane Kiffin strolled into town. What a sweet deal it would be to take over the program the Kiffin’s tore apart and win a BCS championship. Lets just say that Tennessee fans would love to see Lane Kiffin face down in the dirt. I doubt it will happen in the end because Gruden is saying he loves being an announcer. Mike Hamilton (Tennessee Athletic Director) has already spoken with Gruden and it sounds like he is turning it down. But then again, from what I hear, Hamilton wont be there much longer.

David Cutcliffe (Head Coach of Duke University) – Has had ties to Tennessee in the past (1982 – Part Time, 1983-1993 – Tight Ends Coach, 1990-1993 – Quarterbacks Coach, 1993-1998 – Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks Coach, 2006-2007 – Offensive Coordinator) and when he wasnt with the Volunteers, he was coaching around the SEC. To me this is the smartest choice because of the large rift that is Tennessee right now. He spent two tours underneath long time Head Coach Philip Fulmer which is interesting considering all the rumors that Fulmer could be the next Athletic Director.

Other coaching possibilities at this point include:

Randy Edsell
Houston Nutt
Troy Calhoun
Derek Dooley

Is the Big 12 overrated this season?

#1 Sportsfan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:58:24 +0000

With Texas being the only team that is undefeated left in the Big 12, people are starting to talk about how the Big 12 is overrated this season. Oklahoma has dropped out of the Top 25 for the first time since 2005. They barely stayed in the AP poll only because they only lost my three points to Texas this past weekend. The real question here is whether or not the Big 12 is overrated. I say its not for a lot of reasons. First reason is that Oklahoma has three losses. If you disect those losses Bradford got hurt in the BYU game, did not play at all in the Miami game, and got hurt 8 plays into the Texas game. So you tell me that Oklahoma is horrible having shut out two other teams without Bradford. They might not be able to step up against the likes of Miami and Texas, but they are still no pushover, they will be in a highly anticipated bowl game (more than likely either the Cotton Bowl, Alamo Bowl or Holiday Bowl). Yes sir, when it comes down to it, I dont think I would like to face any of the top 6 teams in the Big 12. I don’t think any team could call it an automatic win.

Secondly, even though the Big 12 only has 3 teams in the top 25, they have three teams just outside the top 25 and next week, if all those teams win, they will more than likely be right back up in the top 25. There are two teams with one loss and 3 teams with two losses. In fact, there is only one team in the Big 12 that has a losing record at this point and thats Colorado. They are coming off a huge win against a top 25 opponent and long time rival Kansas handing them their first loss. My point is that even Texas A&M (which in the past few years has kind of been a joke in the Big 12) is putting up huge numbers against teams. They started out great with three huge wins against some decent teams, but has hit a rough patch going 0-3 in the past three games and being outscored 145-64 in those games. Thats a crazy stat considering they outscored their opponents 135-54 for the first three games of the season. Wake up boys, thats all I have to say. You need to step it up and make the Big 12 proud. I look forward to the Texas-Texas A&M game at the end o the season because both teams have the potential to put up some crazy numbers. All in all I would have to say that the SEC wont look as pretty as they do at the end of the season either because they are all going to have to beat up on each other. We might have lost one of our giants in Oklahoma, but to be honest with you, I am pretty sure most of the Big 12 teams could hold their own against SEC opponents. I look forward to the Cotton Bowl this season as I plan to attend and watch the Big 12 battle the SEC in a high profile bowl game. The Big 12 is not going away people. They are here to stay.

Week 1 College Football Rankings Top 50

#1 Sportsfan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:01:33 +0000

So the first week of college football has already seen its plethora of upsets. I am so excited for this college football season because Sam Bradford is already out of the Heisman watch and it looks like after Week 1 we already have it down to two candidates. Tim Tebow and Colt Mccoy are both front runners for the Heisman Trophy this year with Tim Tebow leading slightly. Jahvid Best is a somewhat close 3rd with Max Hall of BYU getting a huge boost after dismantling the Oklahoma Sooner defense. Dez Bryant made the cover of the next Sports Illustrated but has not see much boost in the Heisman Watch. Oklahoma State put a beat down on Georgia this past weekend which was personally my favorite game even though Oklahoma did lose to BYU. With week 2 having some more important games I am excited to see what the rankings will be after this weekend.

Florida
Texas
Oklahoma State
USC
Alabama
Ole Miss
Penn State
Ohio State
LSU
BYU
Cal
Boise State
Oklahoma
Virginia Tech
Georgia Tech
TCU
Utah
North Carolina
Miami (FL)
Notre Dame
Nebraska
Cincinnati
Kansas
Missouri
Texas Tech
Oregon State
Georgia
Michigan State
Pittsburgh
Oregon
Clemson
Florida State
West Virginia
Tennessee
Iowa
Michigan
UCLA
Baylor
Boston College
Arizona
East Carolina
Air Force
Auburn
Colorado State
Arkansas
South Carolina
South Florida
Southern Miss
Tulsa
Houston

Preseason College Football Rankings

#1 Sportsfan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:29:56 +0000

Thank you god! College Football season is just around the corner now. I was seriously going crazy having to watch Baseball 24/7 in order to fill my sports time in my life. I am pretty much through with baseball because of all the steroids issues. I feel like the time I found out that wrestling wasnt real. Thank you oh football gods for making this time go faster than I thought though, because I am so ready for this season to start. There are so many awesome teams out there to choose from. Personally I am hoping for a Longhorn national championship again (but I am not holding my breathe). The only thing I truly care about is that they do not hype the SEC up more than they are worth this season. The Big 12 is where its at and the ACC, SEC, Big Ten and PAC-10 are pretty weak this season. I will also be interested in finding out where Utah, Boise State, and TCU will be ending up as well as how June Jones does at SMU. Anyways, I know what you guys are looking for so here it is. This past week USA Today did their annual preseason rankings for this next season.

Florida
Texas
Oklahoma
USC
Alabama
Ohio State
Virginia Tech
Penn State
LSU
Mississippi
Oklahoma State
California
Georgia
Oregon
Georgia Tech
Boise State
TCU
Utah
Florida State
North Carolina
Iowa
Nebraska
Notre Dame
Brigham Young
Oregon State
Kansas
Michigan State
Texas Tech
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Rutgers
Miami (FL)
Missouri
Illinois
Clemson
South Carolina
UCLA
Auburn
South Florida
Nevada
Kentucky
North Carolina State
Wisconsin
Arkansas
Northwestern
Southern Miss
Wake Forest
Arizona
Boston College
Central Michigan
East Carolina
Colorado
Maryland
Navy
Tennessee
Troy
Minnesota
Michigan
Houston

I personally cannot believe how Notre Dame was ranked so high. The Big 12 has 8 teams ranked in the top 60 which theorectically means that the Big 12 could have 8 + teams in college bowl games by the end of the season. I can only hope that they take care of business before the conference games start. Anyways, this is exciting for me because I just watched an NFL game on TV for the first time this season. The Hall of Fame Game was on and it has made my life a lot better and hope it will yours too!

Top Reasons Bowl Games Suck

#1 Sportsfan — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:30:03 +0000

So I have pretty much watched every single bowl game so far. In fact I even took the effort to go to the Alamo Bowl which will probably go down as one of the best bowl games of this season. The problem I have is the number of bowl games is rediculous. More than half the teams in Division 1 make a bowl game. As of this season, there are only 119 schools that are in the Division 1 FBS league. There are 34 bowl games with 68 schools participating. This does not make sense to me only because I thought bowl games we supposed to mean something. If you make it to a bowl game these days, it just meant that you had above a .500 record. I mean seriously? Is that what this world has come to? Do we really have to deal with this? I want to know how many of these bowl games were sold out because the Alamo Bowl (which is supposed to be a second tier bowl to the actual BCS games) was most definately sold out and I paid 19 dollars for a ticket 34 rows up…not a bad deal eh?

Too bad I was wearing a yellow shirt in a sea of purple. I was given pretty dirty looks the whole time. I just couldnt believe the game was not sold out. Especially since it went into overtime (even though people couldnt possibly know that) it was probably the best game so far in the Bowl series. I thought Utah and Alabama would be a better game but Utah took care of that. The problem I have is now they are asking the question whether or not Utah deserves a share of the national championship. Thats not the worst part though. The worst part is that 65 percent of the United States belives that they should. Come on people, they dont play near the schedule any other team does. Yes, they went undefeated and I congradulate them on that great accomplishment, and maybe they deserve to be in the top 5, but they most certainly do not deserve the number 1 spot. To even be considered is rediculous. The sad part is that the AP poll will more than likely give them a share if Florida loses to Oklahoma. The point is that the Texas Longhorns got screwed out of a national championship. Oklahoma has a chance to redeem that for the Big 12. The problem is that I doubt Oklahoma is going to be able to play with Florida and if they can, then great I am excited for them, but if they cant…the Big 12 loses all respect because Texas Tech just lost to Ole Miss. Good luck to all those still in this thing.

Texas Tech Red Raiders offically suck!

#1 Sportsfan — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:43:23 +0000

I am tired of watching the Big 12 lose. I am tired of watching the SEC win. Ole Miss is a great team, they have a great quarterback in Jevan Snead (last years Texas Longhorn backup) but I still do not think they compare to half the Big 12 teams. What I watched today was so pathetic I stopped enjoying football for about 3 hours today. I feel like its 3 hours of my life that I will never get back. Graham Harrell played like complete dog doodoo. I cannot believe I seriously went 0-3 today for bowl games. Today was a low day for me. Alabama is going to lose to Utah 31-17 ??? What is this world coming to? I dont know whether to stop watching college football all together or start pushing for a playoff. Obviously Texas Tech is not effective enough to even participate in the Cotton Bowl. I have stood up to the SEC A-holes long enough and listened to them whine about how the BIg 12 is so overrated and they have no defense.

On top of everything else that has happened today, now I have to ask the question, “Is Utah the best team in the nation?” Why am I asking this question? Because Utah not only beat Alabama tonight, they walloped them. Which just goes to show you that the SEC is not as strong as one would have you believe. OOOO, low blow right? Well the Big 12 isnt looking so hot either. To be honest with you I think that Texas Tech and Alabama were both heavily disappointed in where they ended up. I think that the total lack of preperation proves that point. Neither team won and Alabama started the game down 21-3. Texas Tech went up 14-0 and still lost. Graham Harrell was most definately to blame for most of the Texas Tech woes today with 2 interceptions. He had just thrown 7 all season coming into the game. The moral of this story is don’t put all your trust into a team soley based on a passing offense.

Sam Bradford looks hungover in ESPN Interview

#1 Sportsfan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:29:58 +0000

Sam Bradford looking hung over in ESPN First Take interview.

Sam Bradford looking even more hung over.

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This looks great for the Big 12 as far as National Champions go. Sam Bradford, coming off his big Heisman Trophy win, goes into ESPN First Take for an interview where he has obviously not gone to sleep yet, looks like he has been hammering beers and shots all night, and it looks like at any moment he could hurl all over the camera dude and the note cards. Colt would probably just have had some strippers over or something, I dont think he is a big drinker. Anyways, I hope that everything works out in the end, but I have a feeling that Florida is going to make Oklahoma look stupid. Sam Bradford could pretty much make the Big 12 look worthless if Florida is able to go out and slaughter them. He seriously looks like I look when I get up in the morning after a long night of partying. Its how I feel right before I walk into my bathroom and hurl into the toilet.