Bobby Burton stuff:
What is the Texas football team up to today and tomorrow?
Texas coaches are taking the team through an entire mock game weekend experience.
The team will board a bus and head to a hotel today, they'll have team dinners, and team meetings tonight, just as if the Horns were in Columbus a week from now. The players will even room with the same guys who they will be rooming with next weekend. Then they'll wake up, get breakfast, have more meetings at the hotel and head to DKR to get ready for a mock game situation.
With so many new faces this year, the coaches do these sorts of things to give everyone familiarity with what to expect.
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Trevor Goosby was back at practice this week, but his hand is taped up. He's best described as day-to-day at this point.
Interestingly, because it's a non-conference game, Texas and Ohio State do not have to submit injury reports, as they would if it were an SEC game for the Horns.
While Sark has historically been fairly forthcoming with injury reports, it'll be interesting to see how he handles this upcoming week.
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We were asked last night when Sark would release the team's depth chart. I didn't have the answer immediately. So I did some digging.
As CJ commented, Sark has revealed his two deep at several different times during his tenure in Austin.
From early in the week of the game - on Tuesday or Wednesday - to later in the week, including literally the day of the game when the sports information department provided media with a depth chart as they entered the press box for the game.
So we may - or may not - see a depth chart next week.
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I continue to hear that Texas wants "experience" on the OL when they head to Columbus. We've heard of some maneuverings that would probably surprise some folks.
It all seems to hinge, however, on Goosby's health.
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Thanks again to the folks at the Dallas Texas Exes for hosting last night's party. And to the guys at 3rd & Longhorn , too. They're all first class and such a good, positive representation of the University.
And it was nice meeting everyone, or seeing folks again. It just felt like a good ol' get together of a lot of like-minded Texas fans.
Hook'Em!