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Colt McCoy has the team’s full backing. No quarterback controversy this year, the Longhorns are his team.

A week after being on the cover of Sports Illustrated, former Texas running back commitment Emmanuel Moody is now apparently a former USC Trojan. He rushed for 459 yards on only 79 carries last year as a true freshman but an ankle injury cut his season short and a hamstring injury kept him out of spring practice. Moody will be transferring closer to home because according to his uncle, USC was “just not the best fit for him.”

Moody is reportedly looking at three schools in the area, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, and possibly Texas. Oklahoma State is probably the favorite here. The Cowboys have the most inviting depth chart at tailback and is close to home and a little out of the limelight.

Texas on the other hand has several good young backs (Vondrell McGee is reportedly looking great in practice) but is a school Emmanuel already felt comfortable enough with to commit to once. Whether Mack Brown and the Texas staff wants him is another question. He already turned his back on the program once but obviously they know a lot more about the situation and the kid than we do. He’s a Texas kid with a lot of talent, if Mack wants him then I’ll be fired up to have him on the team.

CNNSI has Jamaal Charles at #9 in their top 20 running backs. He’s ahead of some very good backs.

Senior wide receiver [tag]Limas Sweed[/tag] suffered a possibly serious wrist injury today in practice. Officially called a wrist sprain, Texas athletic trainer Kenny Boyd stated that Sweed was expected to make a full recovery.

Boyd’s comment is uncomfortably vague. It could be a simple sprain and Limas could be back by week one against Arkansas State, or it could be a broken wrist that Limas will completely recover from in 6 – 8 weeks. The wide receiver position is one of the deepest on the team but the loss to Sweed would be a serious blow to the offense. He was reportedly looking really good in practice and I was expecting a huge season out of him.

We’ll have more information on Sweed’s injury as it becomes available.

Update: Suzanne Halliburton of the AAS is reporting the Sweed will be ready by week one against Arkansas State. Unless he’s absolutely 100% than he should sit and get ready for TCU (9/16/2007)

Vince Young trying to evolve from thrower to passer. I think the late Eric Moulds signing may be the Titans only good move of the offseason.

Listen carefully during the technical difficutlies for some NSFW fun:

I’m not sure exactly why but I found that incredibly funny. I used to kind of like Lee Corso but his act has really beat me down the last few years and his incident on The Ticket made him look like a gigantic jerk.

The expletive just comes out of nowhere with no warning. I can’t stop watching and laughing, and laughing and watching. The apology at the end from Karl Ravech Chris Fowler is a nice touch, it totally makes up for the the way they violated my virgin ears.

I did actually like Desmond Howard Rocket Ismail better that way. He seemed more intelligent than when you can actually hear what he’s saying. Maybe this year I’ll watch all of College GameDay on mute.

(via FanHouse)

Ryan Perrilloux pulled from LSU media day by coaches. They were probably worried he’d commit another crime in front of them.

Seattle Sonics likely moving to Oklahoma City according to team owner. Bad news for KD but good for us fans who can now go see him play.

Vince Young benched for preseason opener for violating curfew. Spent the night at home instead of team hotel for some reason.

I’m not one to hang out on Aggie message boards but fortunately there are Texas fans that do and then point out the great ones. Chargee over at Orangebloods found this piece of comic gold on TexAgs’ football board…

WineberryovrGold:

Had an interesting conversation with my friend… He brought up the Ags by asking me how well I thought they would do this season. I told him I was very excited and beleived our team would finish with 10+ wins and a possible Big 12 championship. After hearing this he started to vehemently agree with my points, and even went so far as to say we had a decent chance of going undefeated. This really got me pumped up because he usually never gives A&M much respect, and he is usually right to not make any lofty predictions.

I can’t imagine a Texas fan on Hornfans or Orangebloods coming on and saying “hey my random friend thinks we’ll be good this year!!” Aggies have such a strange and sad longing for external validation, but I guess being little brother for most of the last 100 years will do that to you. And how exactly does one “vehemently agree” with a person? How in the world would that work?

Of course, like any thread on an A&M message board the responses to the original post are just as good:

BaronVonAggie:

We’re like a hot chick who doesnt realize how hot she is.

First off, no you aren’t. Aggies are more like the fat chick who every year claims she’s going to lose 100 pounds and get hot but when swimsuit season rolls around there she is still at a deuce and a half. And even if they were “the hot chick,” how exactly can you personally claim that you’re the hot chick who doesn’t know you’re hot? That’s like saying, “Not only am I the best looking person in the room, but I’m modest too.” It doesn’t work that way.

Aggie_Fanatic:

there is not a team on our schedule that we are not better than. Not only that but we will win convincingly against every team we play.

That’s a lot of confidence in a team that’s beaten one good team the last four years (unfortunately it was Texas) and struggled to get past teams like Army, Kansas and Baylor last season. The Kool-Aid in College Station must be even stronger this year, how else would someone come to the conclusion that they “honestly think we have a 33% chance to win the BCS Championship.” When is the last time the Aggies even finished the year in the top 25?

A&M will admittedly be better this year (though there’s still a lot of questions about their defense), but only an Aggie would make the leap from one 12-7 win over a team with an injured QB and a 35 point loss to an average Pac-10 team to undefeated and untested national champs. I love August.