40 Acres Sports

ESPN previews Big 12 spring practices. A few quick notes on all the teams.

Here are some pictures from the Spring Game this past Saturday, including some pretty cool shots of the new construction on the north end. Thanks Brady and Katie for the pictures.

Video up on YouTube of the entire Texas Orange-White scrimmage/spring game. Much better way to watch the game than that terrible FSN production we sat through on Saturday. No missed plays, no fluff, just every single play in 18+ minutes. Check it out below:

Thanks to YouTube user and Orangebloods member KeriCarter for the great video.

Colt McCoy and Jamaal Charles are bulking up for 2007 season. Word is that McCoy has looked real good this spring.

March 3rd spring scrimmage notes and photo gallery. Chiles and Harris are splitting the backup QB reps evenly.

John Chiles looked good in first two spring practices, is there a battle brewing for the backup QB spot?

Myron Hardy and Jeremy Campbell are both out of school and off the team. It is unclear if they’ll be back in the fall.

No track until at least after spring football practice is over for Jamaal Charles.

Just a reminder that spring football practice gets underway today and the first two practices will be open to the public. Today’s practice is scheduled to get started at 4 p.m. and Saturday’s will begin at 1 p.m. These will be the only two practices open to the public and your only chance to see the Longhorns in person until the spring game at the end of March.

If there’s rain or other weather issues Mack Brown will move the team inside the bubble, which is not open to the public so pay attention to the weather reports before you head to campus. There’s supposed to be thunderstorms rolling in tonight but they shouldn’t cause any issues with this afternoon’s practice.

If any of our readers get the chance to attend, please contact us and share any photos (if cameras are allowed) or thoughts from the practice with us. You can also sign up to become a Bevo Booster and make your own posts here on the site.

[tag]Roddrick Muckelroy[/tag] is healthy and will be back on the field when spring practice starts this week.

Muckelroy was the Longhorns’ best linebacker on the field through the first three games of the season before he was injured. He had surgery to repair a ruptured tendon in his right ring finger suffered against Rice and was forced to miss the rest of the season. I kept waiting for him to be back after a couple of weeks, and it sounds like he was as surprised as I was that a finger injury could be so serious:

“Everything feels good,” Muckelroy said heading into the opening of spring. “Sitting out that long after starting the first three games was a setback, but I understood the injury, and I had to get it fixed because I was worried about using my finger in the future. I think it was the best thing for me, and it’s good now.”

Muckelroy had to come to terms with how a finger injury could cost him the entire remainder season. However, after it was explained, it did not leave much of a decision as to whether or not to have surgery. “When I hurt it, I went to the sidelines and told them what happened,” Muckelroy described. “I thought my finger was just broken. I wanted them to tape it up and go back in because it was fourth down.

It’ll be huge for the Texas defense to have Muck back out there. He was playing incredibly well and he brings speed, nose for the football, and big hit ability to a linebacking corps that was missing all three of those things last season. While Scott Derry played very well in his place, he’s a solid player but not a difference maker like Muckelroy can be.

Muckelroy is just the type of player Duane Akina wants for his more aggressive new defensive attitude.