You don’t run into too many people who don’t like Matt Rhule, the new Baylor football head coach. Jim Grobe did a fine job in a “caretaker role,” in 2016, in which he knew, and wanted it to be, just for a year, but Rhule—hopefully for the Bears’ sake—will be in Waco for some time, because that will mean he’s successful.
He comes to BU from Temple where he had back-toback 10-win seasons in 2015 and ’16.
“We’re truly committed to getting the wrongs of the past correcte ...
Houston Baptist University’s football team went 4-7 in 2016. You may not think too much of that record, but the Huskies have actually just played a normal schedule for three years.
“And, oh by the way,” you might be asking, “why do we care what HBU’s record is anyway?” Because Ray Dixon, the outstanding lineman of the Llano High Jackets has decided he’ll attend school and play and throw for Houston Baptist in 2018.
“The coaches are standup men,” is how Ray described the ...
Four years ago, the guy was a freshman—somewhere else. He’s a senior at TCU, and, if you judge Kenny Hill by his junior season, the headline should be no concern. I’ll have a word with my headline writer.
“It’s my last year,” Hill told me at Big 12 Football Media days a couple of weeks ago.
FRISCO—I guess it’s okay to call this town “Frisco,” because that’s its name, but what they say in San Francisco is: “Don’t call it Frisco.”
That’s my offering for the day. Now we can turn to the Big 12 football coaches, who had a lot to say during Media Days July 17-18 right here in “Don’t call it San Francisco.”
You’ve read some of their insights, but here are a few more—important and not so important—and a couple, maybe, close to being humorous.
Dana Hol ...
FRISCO—Adrian Lindsey had a .500 record, 1927-1931, after he succeeded Oklahoma’s Bennie Owen in 1927. Owen won more games as the Sooners’ head coach than anyone else the first 50 years of the program.
Gomer Jones went 9-11-1 following the heralded Bud Wilkinson, who set the school mark with 145 victories between 1947 and 1963.
And now Lincoln Riley steps in for Bob Stoops (190 victories in 18 seasons).
PITTSBURGH, Pa.—No matter how many times outstanding athletes win, they want that next title, or they want to repeat as a champion. It’s the drive in them which makes them so successful.
Ed Thompson of Horseshoe Bay, July 21-22, took on the nation’s best in the 70-and-over division of the National Physique Committee (NPC) Masters’ National Championships.
No one seems to really care. I keep writing these semi-brilliant commentaries, and no one listens.
In Denver, July 21, Pittsburgh batters were hit four times by Colorado pitchers. I know some of the pitches “got away,” but there must be harsher penalties than a two-four-game suspension. Amazingly, the guys in the dugout stayed there.
Llano High School girls’ head basketball coach, Jerry McSherry, submitted this report on girls’ summer camps.
“We finished camp and I would like to recognize our kids that won or got runner up in our competitions. We had three groups of kids with the largest group being incoming 9th and 8th graders who we called the Black Division.
The Llano Football Camp will be held July 31-Aug. 3. Participants can register for the Jacket football camp on the morning of July 31 at Jacket Football Stadium. Camp runs from 8-10 a.m. for incoming seventh through ninth graders only. The cost is $30.
On Monday, Aug. 14, Llano Junior High coaches will issue football equipment for eighth grade at 1 p.m. and for seventh grade at 2 p.m. Equipment issue will end at 3:30 p.m. Equipment will be issued from the Llano Junior High.
