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Really odd story but he sounds like he’s okay.

ESPN.com has a pretty cool special called “The Education of Vince Young” up right now featuring a good article from Michael Smith, a photo gallery with twelve great high-res photos, and a short video from Sean Salisbury. Photos look great and there’s some shots in there that might make for great desktop wallpapers. Salisbury is very complimentary of Vince and especially his intangibles.

Vince is also on the cover of this week’s ESPN The Magazine so he’s definitely starting to get the love from ESPN (the moron Merril Hoge excluded of course.)

The match-up in the Holiday Bowl against California should be a tough one for the Horns. DeSean Jackson is a badass and the Texas secondary has been…

Wait… isn’t Texas playing in the Alamo Bowl versus Iowa? Texas A&M is in the Holiday Bowl, right? Well someone might want to inform Desmond Howard of that:

It actually sounds like Howard did his research on this mythical game between Texas and Cal. He even knew the (relatively) breaking news that Jevan Snead had decided to transfer to Ole Miss. He had all week to prepare for his 30-second segment and he botched it big time. Doh. Brad from the 12th Manchild said that Desmond actually made the same mistake both before the game and then again at halftime, though they might just have reaired the same segment.

Just another in the long list of colossal mistakes by ESPN/ABC in their coverage of sports and college football specifically. I never thought I’d be saying this, but I miss Trev Alberts.

The bowl season kicks off tonight with the classic San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl.

Not Longhorn related but pretty freaking cool.

Several members of the “Springdale 5” aren’t happy with the way Houston Nutt controlled the [tag]Arkansas[/tag] offense and they’re getting mommy and daddy to complain about it. Rumors of trouble in Fayettenam starting swirling last week on the message boards but now the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has a story on it as well. The parents of quarterback Mitch Mustain and WR’s Damian Williams and Ben Cleveland apparently thought the offense should be tailored around them as true freshmen so they went above head coach Houston Nutt’s head to athletic director Frank Broyles. There’s some pretty interesting quotes in the article:

“The reason for the meeting was very simple,�? Rick Cleveland said. “We wanted to know what is the direction of Arkansas’ football program ? Are we eventually going to get to Gus’ offense ? Or are we going to stay with the way we are at present?�?

The way you are at present? You mean in the SEC Championship Game and having a chance for a national title in the final weeks of the season?

“With our kids going to Arkansas, it’s basically like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole,�? Rick Cleveland said of the offense. “When Gus came onto the scene, the very first question we would ask was, ‘Do you have full control of the offense and do you have full control of the personnel ?’ Which we were told, ‘Yes.’

“I don’t believe Gus lied to us. But as the season has progressed, it’s very obvious that this is not Gus Malzahn’s offense and Gus does not have full control of the personnel or the play calling.

“From our perspective – and it’s only our perspective – it seems as if you’ve been sold a bill of goods.

“We never would have committed here knowing that this was the offense, because we knew our boys wouldn’t be happy.�?

I can’t believe they’re actually publicly complaining about an offense that resulted in one of Arkansas’ best seasons in many years, made running back Darren McFadden the Heisman Trophy runner-up, and is getting offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn national honors as a coach. This is an incredible display of immaturity and selfishness and I can’t believe these kids parents are supporting it. Clearly they think their stats are more important than the team winning.

Damien Williams has already asked for and been granted release from his scholarship and will be transferring from Arkansas. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mustain and Cleveland followed him, though they’re currently saying all the right things and that they’re going to be Razorbacks for three more years.

All this drama is definitely entertaining for Longhorn fans and I hope things only get worse.

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Interception, forced fumble, & a fumble recovery against the Lions.

Titans succeeding by letting Vince be Vince.

Season ticket info including the new North end zone seats.

Colt McCoy & Aaron Ross are players of the year.