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ESPN’s Pat Forde hands out awards to several Longhorns and really lays into the Aggies a couple ot times.

Mack Brown, Vince Young, Jamaal Charles, and Brian Orakpo receive additional honors.

I think (hope?) the team won’t overlook anyone after the Aggie game.

Texas LB Rashad Bobino makes second team.

Texas stays #1 in Stewart Mandel’s power rankings.

Vince Young and the entire Longhorn team had an off day Friday versus the Aggies. While they managed to put 40 points on the scoreboard, the offense was misfiring all game and Young finished with only 181 total yards. Now some morons are bashing Vince for pouting on the sideline during the game because he “lost the Heisman.”

While he was clearly disappointed (and rightly so) with the way he and his team were playing, to jump to conclusions because you saw an eight second clip of him on TV is asinine. Maybe he was mad he just overthrew a deep ball, or because his buddy Selvin Young wasn’t getting any playing time, or because the offensive line was picking up the blitz, or maybe the turkey he had the day before wasn’t sitting too well, or because Courtney Lewis, his best friend and high school teammate got hurt, or… or… or… about a 1,000 other things. You know what happens when you assume don’t you?

Next time I see Vince smiling on the sidelines I’m going to assume he’s thinking about puppies. Makes almost as much sense.

…the Longhorns only hope to retain him.

Pretty good article and a cover for Vince Young in last week’s (it came Friday) ESPN the Magazine. Definitely a lot of love for his skills with the football and his character on and off the field. Maybe that’s why he had such an un-Vince performance against the Aggies, an “ESPN the Magazine” cover jinx!

The article has some comments on Vince’s fun, confident, and fearless attitude as well as his leadership ability. That’s a great quote. Interesting stuff on Vince’s relationship with his mother, Mack Brown, and Greg Davis and the lack of one with his father. You’ve got to love the passion and emotion Vince seems to have about Texas and his teammates, “Being QB of this team is what God put me on Earth to do.” You can see why the family atmosphere Brown has created would be hard to pass up for so many top high school athletes and their families.

One slightly scary quote though from Vince on his future near the end…

“It depends on the season, then I’ll sit down with my mother. Right now, I’m just playing.”

First time I’ve heard him say anything other than that he was definitively coming back next year. As Longhorn fans, let’s hope he knows he probably needs another year in school to improve his skills, even if it might not change his actual draft slot.

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