I don't want to get my hopes up, but I just tuned to 407 on Dish and have a message that says Longhorn Network HD . . . check back soon. Rebooting my hopper. Hopeful they decided to give us the real stuff. /edit. Just looked at the guide and have two channel 407s. One is HD, but it's not active...

Earlier this evening, I got a little ping on Bleacher Report (likely source) about a quote from Patterson that Texas never considered Nick Saban. I tried to find it to link it, but it's gone. Anyone else see it? /don't shoot the messenger //TexasStrong!

"Frenchy can drive." /"Frenchy" is Duke

A person with whom I work who has lots of political connections (and has a football information source that has proved reasonably reliable in the past) tells me he was told that they are flying to meet with Mora tonight. I don't know his source, but keep an eye on the flights out of Austin tonight.

Look, I wanted Saban as the next Texas coach as much as anyone. But, it is pretty clear that that is not happening. We, as fans, need to take his picture off the mirror and burn that Longhorn jersey that we were waiting for him to sign. We asked him to prom, and he went with someone else. We...