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Let’s hope the fans (and Colt & Jevan) understand this is their 1st time under the lights and they’ve got time to grow.

Draft Express has excellent conversation with the future Longhorn.

For some reason, he just rubs me wrong and I have to root against him.

I guess he can’t get beaten any worse than Troy Smith & the Buckeyes did in January.

Final Four? What Final Four? The national champs will be coming to a television set near you this Saturday at 6 p.m.

FSN Southwest will televise Texas’ spring football scrimmage at 6 p.m. Saturday. The game will be carried in many of FSN’s southern markets and by KDFI in Dallas. FSN will air a replay at 1:30 p.m. on April 5.

Don’t miss your first chance to see Colt McCoy, Jevan Snead, and the rest of the 2006 Texas Longhorns. Should be the best spring game in a long time, I’m as interested to see the second and third stringers as the guys who are starting.

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Marcus has the inside shot for starting SS and Michael is one of the top DB’s in the nation.

I’m not sure I agree that Tucker’s decision is linked to Aldridge’s.

Trust me, Icy Hot should never go near that area.

PJ Tucker, LaMarcus Aldridge, and Daniel Gibson all say they’re coming back (for now)…

Sophomore forward LaMarcus Aldridge, sophomore guard Daniel Gibson and junior forward P.J. Tucker said they plan to come back to Texas next season, although Aldridge didn’t want to spend much time discussing it Saturday.

“As far as I know I’m coming back. But I’m not going to get into that right now,” Aldridge said.

Said Tucker, “I think we’re all coming back right now. I talked to LaMarcus and Daniel, and that’s what they told me.”

Said Gibson, “Right now, I feel like I’ll be back.”

Despite his inconsistency, Aldridge is almost surely a top 5 pick if he comes out this year. The NBA draft is all about potential and LaMarcus certainly has plenty of that. He’d likely improve his all-around game with one more year in college (and the weight room) but I can’t imagine turning down all that money and a chance at your dream career.

As for Gibson, his stock has dropped over the course of the last season and is probably an early second round pick right now. He doesn’t have the size to be an NBA shooting guard but his ball handling troubles lost him the point guard job this year. He definitely needs to spend the offseason working on becoming Texas’ point guard next year so that an NBA team will think about making him their point guard in the 2007 draft.

With Tucker, he’s NBA ready now but the NBA probably doesn’t know it. Just like Gibson, he’s too short for the position he’s best suited for. Listed at 6-foot-5 he’s about three inches too short to be an NBA power forward and an inch shorter than Charles Barkley. PJ is a fantastic basketball player but he’s no Barkley, an all-time great. Right now he’s a late second round pick, if his academics are in order than he’s certainly better served with one more year at UT. He’s not going to get any taller, but a Texas degree would give him an excellent fallback plan. Can he possibly improve his perimeter game and his NBA future with another season?

My guess, Aldridge goes and Tucker and Gibson stay.

Jason White’s hometown threatens to call the FBI because they couldn’t configure their own web server.