So much is happening or has happened in the football world of the Lone Star State over the past few days that I think it deserves its own special blog post. I'll roll with the theme of the graphic to the left and break it down by the good, the bad, and the ugly.An amazing renewal of the Red River Shootout, saw the Texas Longhorns take control of the AP Poll (and I would assume the computer rankings) and place themselves in a position to control their own destiny regarding the BCS Championship. Hat tip to Cesar Rodriguez, a phenomenal attorney in the Austin area and someone who has seen too much Longhorn bloodletting at the hands of the hated Sooners. Personally I have been a closet fan of the 'Horns since they allowed me to make about $400 on the Rose Bowl a couple years back, and it is always fun to see Bob Stoops lose.
The win also solidified Colt McCoy as a legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate and it put even more emphasis on this weekend's game against the Missouri Tigers. Big-12/National Title/Bragging Rights all surely on the line Saturday night.
But all is not good in the land of Texas football. Not long after learning the fate of Tony Romo, the team learned that the NFL's hall-monitor on steroids has re-suspended Adam "Pac-Man" Jones for a period of not less than four games. That's just a brutal double whammy for a team that desperately needed some good news. However, Bill Simmons encourages Cowboys fans to look on the bright side:
"[W]e're five years away from Wade Phillips' becoming the most successful coach in college football."The ugly involves former assistant football coach at Jim Ned High School in Tuscola. According to an indictment returned by a grand jury last Thursday, he has been charged with three counts of attempted improper relationship between educator and student, a third-degree felony punishable by two to 10 years in prison.
Apparently, Kaleb Tierce, a teacher of pre-Advanced Placement English, provided his ninth-grade class with a reading list that contained a book about a murderer who has sex with his victims' bodies. If that wasn't ugly enough, Tierce allegedly asked one girl to come to his home under a "normal pretense," then allegedly kissed her and exposed himself to her. Allegedly, he also asked another girl "what she would be willing to do for a better grade" and asked a third girl for sexual favor. The best part:
"But amid the uproar, most people in the West Texas town of 700 seemed to rally around Tierce, saying he should be reinstated because he was a great coach."Where did Heisman candidate Colt McCoy go to school?
Jim Ned High School in Tuscola.
God bless Texas.
4 comments:
I heard about the teacher in Texas on KQ this morning. Sounds like the 9th graders he was hitting on were hotties probably.
To quote one of my comments on startribune.com about Pacman Jones, "If Pacman would have eaten more of the big white circles he could have cleaned up the ghosts of his past."
As a UT alum, I was thrilled about the victory over OU!!
Yuck re: high school coach. I hadn't made the connection to McCoy.
Thought I'd give a friendly plug/reminder to friends and avid readers of another great blog I regularly keep tabs on by the man who walked more miles than the Proclaimers, been through more hurricanes than there are minutes in the Kentucky Derby, and made Dark Horse a vegetarian for a year: David Garfunkel
http://holadavid.blogspot.com/
Garf is doing peace corps in the Dominican Republic and keeps friends and family updated on his blog from time to time....
Not to stomp on Colt McCoy, but when your quarterback is also the leading rusher and your name is not Tim Tebow, its only a matter of time before Texas loses.
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