Time for a collective sigh of relief. An MRI shows that Goodson suffered a sprained knee.

I have found the silver lining of the Cal loss. Michael Goodsoon's knee injury late in the game might not be an ACL tear. He is having an MRI and we will know more next week.

The football game was embarrassing. Fans, coaches and players are all doing what we do best, "grasping for positives after a crushing defeat" (ouch). Another disappointment in a long history of post-season disappointments. I kinda wish the basketball game was not moved, so I could turn that on and feel better about our athletic department. Speaking of basketball...

We rolled Grambling State, 101-27. And now for my favorite post-blowout game, fun with the stat sheet.

• We had more points in the paint (46), more points off turnovers (49), and more bench points (32) than they had total points.
  
• As a team, Grambling made only 2 more field goals (10) then both Josh Carter (8) and Joe Jones (8).
  
• We made more free throws (15) than they shot (10).
  
• Two of their starters (Thomas and Calloway) had the same number of points as my mom (0).
  
• Six players, two of them starters, (Thomas, Prestley, Ratliff, Nixon, McFadden, Akpele) had more turnovers than points.
  
• No Grambling player had more assists than turnovers while we had 7 (Acie, Joe, Dom, Josh, AK, Sloan, Muhlbach).
• They had 30 turnovers. We had 49 points off turnovers. That is 1.6 points per turnover.
  
• Our longest scoring drought was 2:17 (last 2:17 of the game), theirs was 8:18 (first 8:18 of the game).

I think I am going to start a new stat. The number of major Texas newspapers that run the AP wire story instead of having the college basketball beat guy do a story. Think of it like attendance, but for reporters. This will likely take more work than I am willing to do.

I have already lost motivation.

Most points in any half in history at 65, previous record was 61.

65-13, radio guy will likely come up with about 23874032 stats about how this is the biggest blowout, most points scored by, least points scored against, etc.

Grambling finally scored, but not before we put up 28 including 6 3s from Carter.

Great start, 15-0 run and I believe all of their shots have been air balls. The game is NOT of Sirius, which probably is part of moving the game time. Dave South is in Cali with the football team which means Tom Turbiville is doing play-by-play. And I must say he is doing a VERY good job.

Here is my favorite person's favorite player:

The men's basketball team has climbed back up in the polls, 11 AP and 12 ESPN/USA Today.

Bowl season has historically been a sad time of year for the Aggies. 0-5 at the Cotton Bowl, 1-2 at the Alamo Bowl, 0-1 at the Sugar Bowl, and 0-1 at the Independence Bowl. Our most recent bowl victory was at the soon-to-be-renamed galleryfurniture.com bowl in 2001. I went to that game, and I totally agree with RC Solucm when he said "it was fun to finally win a bowl game." Now we are back at the Holiday Bowl. If history makes you sad, then the history of this game will make you laugh. Not only did we beat BYU in our only other Holiday Bowl appearance, but we dislocated BOTH of Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Ty Detmer's shoulders.

The hire that everyone hated, defensive coordinator Gary Danrell, has really panned out for Fran. Danrell oversaw an improvement from from 107th to 37th in overall defense this year. Apparently he has done it all by adjusting the team's "confidence and attitude". I am impressed with his half-time adjustments, I am just a little confused why we ALWAYS need to make half-time adjustments. Does he not get much from film during the week?

Fran is trying to "get the week started in right direction" by practicing in full pads. And
the team's tour guide, and leading receive, Ma Bennett plans to "shine like Rudolph's nose". For some reason this whole blue stat v red state/war fighter v war protester type of comparison of the game really annoys me.

The men's basketball team won at Aubrun, 87-58. This was out first road win of the year, and a dominate win at that, but if you asked Billy, "There wasn't a whole lot of fancy stuff". It might not have been fancy, but it was Auburn's worst home loss since 1952. To accomplish that we relied on "good defense and hot shooting". Now that is a formula that will win some games. As I posted earlier I was not able to listen to, or watch this game. I do not think I was alone on that. All of the major Texas papers ran the same AP report. Here is a quick highlight of the game. And of course, my favorite, the box score. Acie was red hot (shot over .61), so was the team for that matter. Auburn was not hot, shooting around .30. That must be the good defense and hot shooting.

In a continuing saga, seven guys logged more minutes than Joe. Was it the fouls? It does not seem to be at first glance. He did have four, but only 2 in the first half. The game log shows Billy benching him for 3 minutes after missing a lay up and then fouling. Later in the first he fouled again with 8 left, and Billy sat him for the rest of the half. Joe found early in the second, and sat for about 10. Looks like Billy is trying to teach him to play without fouling.


My two favorite players got some press. Marlon and his magic foot are nuts of defense and Kirk is a"glue guy."