40 Acres Sports

Horns are facing ex-coach Gene Chizik for first time. Tough season for Chizik, but unlike Greg Robinson at Syracuse I don’t feel sorry for him.

Is this weekend Dennis Franchione’s last stand? Another loss to Tech may mean even an upset of Texas won’t save him.

Feel like a VIP, read all of Fran’s VIP Connection newsletters straight from official A&M site. The FOIA can provide fun on occasion.

Yes, you are reading that right. This is an actual headline to an actual story that KUSports.com is currently running on their site.

I would assume Coach Mangino knows that he is more than a little overweight, but if I were him I might be a little upset that my own school website is making fun of me. I truly hope that editor had permission to run with that image.

Not sure what to even think about this one, but the San Antonio Express-News is reporting that Texas A&M Coach Dennis Franchione had been selling inside information about his team to select boosters. This “secret” newsletter, called the “VIP Connection,” was available to these boosters for the hefty price of $1200 / year. Apparently detailed information about players’ injury status was made available, something Coach Fran usually keeps under wraps. Sounds like a sports gambler’s dream to me.

The Aggy athletic director Bill Byrne said that he was not aware of the newsletter (yeah right), and the money from the newsletter supposedly went to finance his personal website, coachfran.com. I don’t know about you, but if I was getting that kind of money solely for my website, my site would look quite a bit better than Coach Fran’s.

Yet another black mark on what is turning out to be some rough times for Coach Fran’s reign in Aggyland. The funny thing about all of this? If A&M was actually winning games, this probably wouldn’t even be a big deal.

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Texas defense is in good hands with Duane Akina, especially if linebackers step up.

Major Applewhite is quickly moving up coaching ranks. I hope he doesn’t get any slime on him from standing too close to Nick Saban.

Dennis Dodds’ coaches on the hot seat list has Mack Brown as one of the country’s few untouchables.

Goestenkors hires Gale Valley as first assistant coach. Valley was Goestenkors’ long-time assistant at Duke.

Coach Bibb Falk to be inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame. Longhorns now now have 3 of the first 21 inductees.