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The Touchdown Club of Columbus honored [tag]Colt McCoy[/tag] last night as their National Freshman of the Year. Past winners of the award include Adrian Peterson and Chris Leak.

The Touchdown Club of Columbus has been honoring the nation’s top athletes for the last 52 years. Last year Vince Young was awarded the Archie Griffin Award after all bowl games as the nation’s most valuable player.

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Colt McCoy named to Freshman All-America Team. One of only three unanimous selections.

Colt McCoy one of SI.com’s breakout players of the year in all sports.

Colt McCoy & Aaron Ross are players of the year.

The Wizard of Odds has up some videos and a poll on this year’s worst cheap shots. Right now our good friend Kellen Heard is running away with the voting but the best part is the Aggies defending him and everyone else mocking how stupid they sound.

I voted for Heard but the play by Iowa’s Mitch King where he rips off an Ohio State player’s helmet and then gives him a fist to the face is a very close second:

Go check out the plays and vote for yourself.

Honestly, I am not all that surprised at this move, it is just unfortunate that it comes at a time where we have some uncertainty with the health of our quarterback.

Nothing is official yet, but Coach Mack Brown has confirmed that they are aware of [tag]Jevan Snead[/tag]’s plans, and will not make an official announcement until after the bowl game. What does this mean for his availability in the bowl game? No one knows, and Texas still hasn’t been picked for a bowl game.

Snead currently has yet to decide where he will continue his college career, though it is said he is looking at TCU, Houston, and Louisville. People I have talked to say TCU is currently at the top of the list.

If [tag]Colt McCoy[/tag] cannot go for the bowl game, it gets pretty dicey on who will replace him. Do you throw away the red-shirt of [tag]Sherrod Harris[/tag]? Do you put 3rd stringer Matt McCoy into the mix? Or do you just play a full option offense and put receiver [tag]Quan Cosby[/tag] at the helm? I don’t know the answer, but they all sure sound like scary choices.

Maybe we need to just make a quick phone call down to Florida and see if Brantley wants to get his career started early. Ha.

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Our good friend the Wiz has video of Texas A&M’s Kellen Heard’s cheap shot on Colt McCoy near the end of Friday’s game. Heard’s hit was late (McCoy was already unbuckling his chin strap), high, and from behind. Not exactly an unexpected move from a kid who wanted to be a Miami Hurricane but didn’t have the academics to get in.

Man was that an ugly pass, Colt clearly wasn’t 100% and had faded by late in the game. Longhorn fans better hope he’s really full strength by the bowl game.

After the game, it seemed like there were no real incidents and I felt Horns fans showed some class in their loss to the Aggy. Aggy, however, is not showing much class with some of their latest posts on TexAgs.com. What can you really be thinking to post this kind of stuff…

Colt,

Glad to hear you were able to walk out of the hospital on your own yesterday. Just keep rubbing on the ******* and ******* and all will be well.

While you are taking time to recover, I thought you might like some entertainment. I hope you find the following video interesting:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qmbc7k299vk

You see, Colt, Kellen Heard didn’t really lay in to you like he could have. Next year, I fully expect him and the rest of the team to give you the ‘Detmer Special.’

You can also use this recovery time to practice your pouty face in the mirror. I know it will come in handy this time next year.

Oh, and tell your grandmother I said hello.

Your pal,

odessan

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I did a quick roundtable exchange with Brad from the 12th Manchild to discuss the upcoming game and some of the issues each team has. His responses are below (good stuff). You can check out my answers to his questions here (midway through).

1. No doubt Coach Fran is having a tough year, what are your thoughts on his performance so far this season? Are you ready to start looking for a new coach?

Tough year? no. Tough November? you bet.

It’s too early to legitimately and accurately evaluate this season. On the one hand, the physical condition of the program has vastly improved. The level of talent on both sides of the ball and currently being recruited is the best in years, the controversial decision to hire Darnell proved to be a good one, and Fran is finally winning on the road (undefeated so far this season). On the other hand, Fran continues to squander opportunities and choke in the big games.

Personally, I think Fran has done too well for his own good this season. Aggieland went from having very low expectations to delusions of grandeur in a very short time this season. What has got him in the hot seat again is his inane in-game decision making, the majority of Aggies feel that neither Nebraska nor Oklahoma beat us, rather Fran’s inept playcalling gave the games away.

If the Ags can win in Austin and win convincingly in our bowl game, “CanFran” will revert back to “FranistheMan”. Otherwise, with the hellish schedule next year, Fran could likely be gone by December 2007.

2. The Aggies’ schedule was noticeably soft at the beginning of the year. Do you think this played a part in your loss to Texas Tech? Would you like to play a tougher non-conference schedule to help prepare you better for the regular season?

The loss to Tech can be blamed on multiple things, but a weak non-conf isn’t one of them. Unless you’re putting New Mexico State or Hawaii on your schedule, no non-conference team will prepare your secondary for Texas Tech’s offense. If there is any one thing that can be blamed for the loss to Tech, it could be that we scheduled them as our first conference game of the season. Gimmick offenses are always strong early in the season, but as the season goes on and the tape stacks up, the offense falls because teams are able to pick apart the hidden system (i.e. Tech’s current season). Combine that with a relatively young secondary prone to giving up the big play, and you get an offensive shootout where the winner is the one who has the ball last.

I would certainly like to play a tougher non-conference schedule, but not for reasons of “preparation”. Nobody schedules big programs for preparation purposes anymore, they schedule them because of the way BCS depends on the polls -> hence the way polls depend on “big” non-conference games to reshuffle their pre-season polls.

I’m all for playing DI-AA Citadel again, as long as there’s also a Top 20 team on the schedule with them.

3. The Aggies’ 3 losses this season have only been by a combined 6 points, all at home. What will it take for the Aggies to get over the hump next year and start winning those close battles?

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I think Mack wants McCoy to keep a level head and wants a senior-led locker room.