TEXAS vs. AM

[Cuernos_Largos]

Current Standings in the Director's Cup

#1 Standford
#5 TEXAS
#20 A&M

Texas will get a few more points for Baseball and Men's Golf and Men's track.

A&M will make a huge jump once Softball and Outdoor Track are done.

I see TEXAS ending up righ about where they are. A&M could make it all the way to Top 10 if they continue their success in track and field.

This is good for us. TEXAS is doing what they are used to doing, being at the top. A&M is starting to become competitive.

Whoever is on top in TRACK AND FIELD, will most likely keep winning the Lone Star State trophy. We were on top in track the first three years. They have killed us this year with the exception of Men's Indoor.

Bev and Bubba will have their hands full with Pat Henry at the helm of A&M. More importantly...how is TEXAS going to justify paying two coaches when A&M is paying for only ONE and he is still beating us.

We need more Marshavett Hooker's, Sanya Richard's, Michelle Carter's. Either this or A&M athletes need to start leaving the program early if they are that good, just like some of TEXAS athletes have left to turn pro (Knight this year).

 

[tamster]

no offense, but the m. hooker's and sanya richards of the world are elite, rare, one-of-a-kind athletes. they don't just grow on trees. that's why they end up in the olympics. i think the coaches are doing their best to recruit the best they can find. here's hoping they get some recruits of that caliber in the near future.

skc

 

[BevoMDCXVIII]

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[Branyon]

Let's face it folks, Dodds and Plonsky, especially, cut their coaches plenty of slack, sometimes too much. Dodds was quoted a week or so ago about how being on an athletic scholarship at Texas can make athletes "soft". Well, it can have the same effect on coaches.

If one were to rate the programs at Texas this year, there are very few that overperformed (men's tennis for example), some that performed to the standard of a school with UT's resources (men's swimming and track and women's soccer and V-ball) and plenty that underperformed, for example fooftball, baseball, golf and golf.

This is especially true relative to our state rival ATM which has really beefed up its women's programs with several NC contenders to only two women's programs remotely close to NC contention for Texas (soccer and V-ball). With time women's b-ball and swimming will contend, but why did Plonsky wait until those programs went second tier to make changes? Plonsky has overseen a real slide in several once dominant programs.

 

[George Best]

Aggie is kicking our butts in a lot of sports lately

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The University of Florida won the team title at the third annual Collegiate Wakeboard Nationals on Sunday in Boulder, Colo. The Gators defeated Texas A&M in the finals. Defending champion Central Florida along with UNC-Wilmington were the other two teams that advanced to the final four. Twelve of the nation's top collegiate wakeboarding teams participated in the event.

The Collegiate Wakeboard Nationals was being held as part of CBS College Sports Network's Collegiate Nationals, a festival of events that crowns national champions in 11 sports. Malibu Boats served as the official towboat for the Collegiate Wakeboard Nationals, which was held at the Boulder Reservoir.

The tournament was conducted in a head-to-head format. Each team was seeded and paired against another school. Each team was allowed four male wakeboard athletes, two female wakeboard athletes, and one wakeskate athlete (a wakeboard division rider was allowed to ride in the wakeskate division).


In the finals, Florida got victories from Scott Hopkins, Chris Beckman, Carolyn Fortson and Olga Timofeeva. Texas A&M was led by Cameron Talbert, Mitch Fields and Keith Steinbeck, who all earned victories in the finals.

In the individual competition, Steinbeck won wakeskating, Texas A&M's Courtney Harris won women's wakeboarding and Sacramento State's Dan Bright won men's wakeboarding.

Extensive television coverage of the Collegiate Nationals kicks-off with a special one-hour program on CBS Sports on Sunday, May 25 (2 p.m. EDT). The show will launch eight consecutive days of Olympic-style programming on CBS College Sports Network, followed by individual sport highlight shows. The Collegiate Wakeboard Nationals is tentatively scheduled to air on June 11 from 8 to 9 p.m. Check local listings.
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