Offseason news may be in short supply, but nostalgic daydreaming needn't be, which is why today I'm inviting you to join me in drafting your all-time favorite Longhorns team. The rules are simple: three players from each of Texas' main sports, plus two athletes from other sports, and two non-sport alumni.
One catch: I'm putting together a short No Draft List, all of whom are exempt from drafting. It's not exhaustive, but will help cut down on too much repetition.
No Draft List
PB's Team
Football: Casey Hampton, Lamarr Houston, Derrick Johnson
Basketball: Brian Boddicker, Travis Mays, Gabe Muonecke
Baseball: Calvin Murray, Brooks Kieschnick, Huston Street
Other: Cat Osterman, Justin Leonard
Non-sport alumni: Farrah Fawcett, Walter Cronkite
Texas Tri-Delt Farrah Fawcett
Who's on your all-time team?
1 recs | 60 comments
Major wasn't off limits and you passed?
I’d take Major, DD Lewis and Mr. Jammer. Three of my favorite UT football stars to ever watch. I hate to admit that I’m not as familiar with other UT sports as I should be, but it is what it is. There are my football guys.
chief - May 22, 2008
You guys watching aggie meltdown?
10-0 Texas middle of the 3rd!
watch poor aggy here
horndude - May 22, 2008
Do you know another way to watch?
That’s blocked at my computer at work, and gametracker from CSTV isn’t working.
hornbone - May 22, 2008
Big 12 website has tracker and link to CSTV video
Click Here
the1austin - May 22, 2008
That's the only thread
I know of.
Here’s the audio if you want.
12-0 good guys middle of the 5th.
Run rule is in effect!
horndude - May 22, 2008
Sweet. I guess I don't need gametracker after all.
hornbone - May 22, 2008
Nice topic...
First, My nominations for No Draft List: Major and Roger Clemens
Football: David Thomas, Quan Cosby, and Brian Robison
(FYI I chose Cosby because he fights for every damn yard every time he gets the ball, he’s been a highlight for me the last two years).
Basketball: James Thomas, DJ Augustin, and Connor Atchley
Baseball: Huston Street, Omar Quintanilla, Drew Stubbs
Other: Cat Osterman, Alyson Jennings, and all Pom Girls
Non Athlete: Lady Bird, Joe Jamail, Wes Anderson
the1austin - May 22, 2008
argh! I forgot David Thomas. Sorry, DT.
hornbone - May 22, 2008
you drafted DJ..
..on he’s on the no draft list! i cry foul!
vy til i die - May 22, 2008
Can't believe I missed that... replace him with Buckman.
the1austin - May 23, 2008
I'm going to go with people I've seen play, and remember enjoying...
Football: Major, Ungar (just fun yelling his name), Cory Redding
Basketball: Royal Ivey, PJ Tucker, James Thomas
Baseball: Huston Street, Taylor Teagarden, Omar Quintanilla (remember when he got that line drive to the face? Damn. I’m glad he’s still playing.)
Other: Cat, Destinee Hooker (does she count if she’s still an active player?)
Non-sport: Janis Joplin, and I’ll see your Farrah Fawcett and raise you Jayne Mansfield.
hornbone - May 22, 2008
BiC's Picks - and an effort not to repeat whats been drafted.
Football: Tom Landry, Roy Williams, Bryant Westbrook
Basketball: Connor, Dexter, Aldridge
Baseball: Pass, dont know enough.
Other: Mary Lou Retton, Jill Gilbeau (cutest athlete I could find on short notice)
Non-sport alumni: Robert Rodriguez, Tex Schramm
BoddickerIsClutch - May 22, 2008
Dude
No Boddicker?
Peter Bean - May 22, 2008
I know! I thought Boddicker was an automatic
Speedway - May 23, 2008
PB already drafted him!
I was so disappointed.
BoddickerIsClutch - May 23, 2008
football (trying not to pick what others have)
Michael Huff, BJ Johnson, Vasher
Hook'em13 - May 22, 2008
Good call on Vasher
the1austin - May 22, 2008
I would have to say
Football: Limas Sweed, Eric Metcalf, Tyson King
Basketball: Lance Blanks, Terrence Wrencher, Chris Klack
Baseball: Brooks Kieschnick, J. Brent Cox, Shea Morenz
Other: Cat,
Non sport alumni: Matthew McConaughey, Renee Zellweger
joenewby4040 - May 22, 2008
Oh mang...
you stole Terrence Wrencher.
I call Brandy Perryman, then.
Skin Patrol - May 22, 2008
Mine
Football: Stoney Clark, Eric Metcalf, James Brown
Basketball: Travis Mays, BJ Tyler, Terrence Rencher
Baseball: Mark Petkovsek, Greg Swindell, Keith Moreland
Other: Ben Crenshaw, Tom Kite
Not sport: Walter Cronkite, Denton Cooley
billb - May 22, 2008
Hmm...
Football: Quentin Jammer, Phil Dawson, James Brown
Basketball: Reggie Freeman, Kris Clack, Chris Mihm
Baseball: Street, Stubbs, Quintanilla
Other: Roy Williams (Pizza Delivery Man)
Luke Zimmermann - May 22, 2008
Ehh, Why the Heck Not...
Football: Ced Griffin, Bryant Westbrook, Amard Hall
Basketball: Royal Ivey, James Thomas, Kris Clack
Baseball: Omar Quintanilla, Street, Drew Stubbs
Other: Cat, Ben Crenshaw
Non-Sport: Zellweger, Farrah Fawcett
heeltuckitandrun - May 22, 2008
picks
FB: Benson, Crowder, and whatever kicker is lining up for the field goal (cool name like Dusty or Pino preferred).
BKB: Good Connor, Royale Ivey with Cheese, random tall white guy
BB: Closers Street + Cox, Carson Kainer
Other: Cat to Megan Willis ftw
Non-sport: Red McCombs for the school, Owen Wilson for Zoolander
jc25 - May 22, 2008
A few of the obscure ones I had to repeat…
Football: Dan Neil, Phil Dawson, Mike Addams
Basketball: BJ Tyler, Chris Owens, Ian Mooney
Baseball: Greg Swindell, Jeff Ontiveros, Huston Street
Other: Lovell Pinkney (for sending Durant our direction), The Bat Mascot (circa 1994)
Non-athlete: John Hillerman (aka Higgins)
Johngo - May 22, 2008
my picks
Football: Lokey, Derrick Johnson, and Major and Chris Simms!
Basketball: Daniel Gibson, Chris Mihm, and Connor
Baseball: damn, this is hard, should I put the Rocket or not :( I just don’t want to think about it.
Other: Cat and Hooker (Cat should be in the no draft list though)
Cyrus - May 22, 2008
good ones so far
Football: Roy “Legend” Williams, Marcus Tubbs, Priest Holmes
Basketball: Chris Mihm, Johnny Moore, Gabe Muoneke
Baseball: Brooks Kieschnick, Beau Hale, Shane Reynolds
Other: all the olympic winning swimmers, any UT athlete who has ever contributed to an aggie or sooner beating
Non-Sport: Luke Wilson, Abraham Lincoln
YouGotGold - May 22, 2008
football dilemma
I’m having a hard time picking between Ron Weaver and Ron McKelvey as my last football choice. Any suggestions??
junglerules - May 22, 2008
awesome
ah, thanks for the laugh!
cheevyjames - May 23, 2008
Nice Topic
Football: Tommy Nobis, Derrick Johnson and Aaron Ross (mainly because I loved chanting “Dress for less” everytime he was back to return a punt)
Basketball(Going with players I’ve actually seen here): Daniel Gibson, Brandon Mouton and Royal “with cheese” Ivey
Baseball: Huston Street, Roger Clemens and Shane Reynolds (because I’m a ‘stros fan)
Other: Cat Osterman and Sanya Richards
Non-Athletes: Bill White (lawyer, mayor of Houston and my aunt’s first ex-husband) and Rip Torn
afaeguy - May 22, 2008
Gald to see Rip get some play
He was a close 3rd for my non-athletes!
BoddickerIsClutch - May 23, 2008
Careful Rip maybe be cool but he's part Aggie too!
Speedway - May 23, 2008
Mine
Football: Major, Huff, Brackens (mmmm, love me some Tech Kicker)
Basketball: Ivey, Mays, Rencher
Baseball: Street, Kieschnick, Stubbs
Other: Cat, Sanya Richards (Gonna be the mother of a FAST Longhorn)
Non Sports: Jamail, McConaughey
ctex80 - May 22, 2008
Texas
Football: Huff, Dave Thomas, Shaun Rogers (for his picture alone)
Basketball: Mouton, Boddicker, PJ Tucker
Other: All the swimmers at the Olympics (?)
Non Sports: Wooderson (but not Matthew)
JohnsonUT - May 22, 2008
Indeed
Foosball: Major, Phil Dawson, Tony Brackens (yeah, I went to school in the 90’s, what of it?)
Basketball: PJ Tucker, Gabe Muoneke, Sonny Alvarado
Baseball: Greg Swindell, Kieschnick, Street
Other: Tom Kite, Harvey Penick (what other school has as good of a golf line-up as Texas, when you add Crenshaw and Leonard?)
Non-sports: Eli Wallach (is Tuco the greatest supporting actor role in the history of film? I’ll argue for it), Wes Anderson
Kahuna - May 22, 2008
Doh
Penick was a coach, and this is players only. Replace with Ben Crenshaw.
Kahuna - May 22, 2008
Football: Rod Babers, Roy Williams, Mike Williams (star of The Mike Williams Show)
Basketball: James Thomas, James Thomas, James Thomas
Baseball: Use wooden bats and I’ll care
Other Sports: What other sports?
Non Sports: Me
Meekrob - May 22, 2008
Football: Eric Metcalf, Tony Brackens, Major Applewhite
Basketball: BMW – Blanks, Mays, Wright
Baseball: Brooks Keischnick, Huston Street, Roger Clemens
Other Sports: Katy Jameyson (VB), Josh Davis (Swim)... Cat should be on the No-Draft List… Justin Leonard would be up there, too.
Non Sports: Tom Hicks and E.D. Hill
the usual suspects - May 22, 2008
Tom Hicks
Not that a non-Longhorn’s opinion counts, but Tom Hicks is a strong candidate for his sterling work in wrecking Liverpool Football Club. Unless that’s not deliberate, of course.
DC Trojan - May 22, 2008
football: nate vasher, derrick johnson, david thomas
basketball: royal ivey, justin mason, brandon mouton
baseball: huston street, j brent cox, and jeff ontiveros
others: cat osterman and, uh, i dunno, jamie carey?
non-sport: wes anderson and walter cronkite
billyzane - May 22, 2008
football – Derrick Johnson, Roy Williams, Peter Gardere (OU sucks)
basketball – Royal Ivey, Travis Mays, Panama Myers
baseball – Calvin Murray, Kieschnick, Scott Bryant
other – Katy Jameyson, Nikki Busch
non-sport – Walter Cronkite
SaintBevo - May 22, 2008
football- hodges mitchell, major applewhite, beau trahan (back up qb 2002), and bj johnson
basketball- James Thomas. chris owens, royal ivey
baseball- huston street, jp howell , j brent cox
other- lance armstrong, justin Leonard
non sport- matthew mcconahay, rip torn, Tom Hicks i guess
Olemissreb451 - May 22, 2008
Did Lance go to UT?
the1austin - May 22, 2008
football - Rooster Andrews, James Street, Jerry Sizemore
basketball - Clarissa Davis, Larry Robinson, Johnny Moore
baseball - Burt Hooten, Spike Owen, Greg Swindell
other - Cat Osterman, Johny Lam Jones (track)
nonsport—Jayne Mansfield, Janis Joplin
Caradoc - May 22, 2008
If I knew we could choose Women's BB.
I would have chosen Lyssa McBride.
billb - May 23, 2008
I was in love with her back in the late 80's
Bevoboy94 - May 27, 2008
Horn Brain's all-man-crush team.
Football: Sergio Kindle, Aaron Ross (Who remains the Boss), Major Applewhite
Basketball: The Bod, DamJam, Dexatrim
Baseball: Chance Ruffin, Kyle Russell, James Street (I cheated)
Other: Cat’s too easy, should be on the no draft list. I’ll take Ben Crenshaw and Sanya Richards. I figure this is cheating, because I’m going to breed more players for my team between Sanya and Aaron.
Non sport – (I said man crush, what’s between Sanya and me is purely platonic. That’s the boss’s girl.) It’d be a shame not to mention the guy that built my computer, Michael Dell, and give me a Joe Jamail after that video PB gave us a few days ago.
I’m too young for this. Give me 30 years and these will seem like the picks of a grizzled veteran ‘Horns fan.
Horn Brain - May 22, 2008
I appreciate the link
But I don’t want to be mistaken for the Man, the Myth, the Legend Himself. For to do such, would be nothing short of blasphemery.
BoddickerIsClutch - May 23, 2008
Haha. Loved that post. I remember thinking that you honestly revered The Bod
Speedway - May 23, 2008
Other
I’ll focus on this category, since you guys have covered all of my choices on the Big 3 sports
Volleyball: Julianne Faucette, Ashley Engle, Destinee Hooker, Mira Topic, Dee Sance
WBB: Stacey Stephens, Jamie Carey, Clarissa Davis
Womens Swimming: Jill Sterkel
Mens Swimming: Brendan Hansen, Ian Crocker, Aaron Peirsol, Neil Walker, Gary Hall Jr.
WTF: Carlette Guidry, Sanya Richards, Destinee Hooker (again)
MTF: Leo Manzano, Donovan Kilmartin
Softball: The Cat, of course
patienthornsfan - May 23, 2008
Comic Re-Leaf
FB: Priest Holmes, Lovell Pickney, Ryan Nunez, (alt: Duane Vacek)
BB: The Penders Clan, Jason Klotz
Baseball: Greg Swindell, Scott Coolbaugh, Jerry Don Gleaton
Other: Ashley Engle (this one is serious…she is hot), Tally Thrasher
Alumni: Red McCombs, Darrin Gowell
have a nice weekend!
burntorangenance - May 23, 2008
How could you omit Sonny Alvarado?
Caradoc - May 23, 2008
Whoa you're throwing out the JDG!
I thought it was only my brothers and I who “loved” the JDG. My favorite was his topps card. I can’t find a pic. But here’s a Mariner one.
Speedway - May 23, 2008
oh, NICE!!!
burntorangenance - May 23, 2008
All the great names are taken
But I’ll add a few from history:
FB: Steve Wooster, Randy McEachern (third-string QB who came in to win the OU and take UT all the way to a near-national championship back in the 70s)
MBB: Ron Baxter (the Dexter Pittman of the 70s)
WBB: someone said Clarissa Davis, right? Stacy Stephens?
Other: Didn’t Richard Linklater go to UT?
NYCHorn - May 23, 2008
I'll second those
and raise you:
FB: Cotton Speyrer, Happy Feller, Freddie Steinmark
BB: LaSalle Thompson, Carlton Cooper, Jim Krivacs
Other: Kinky Friedman
horndude - May 24, 2008
Ok, we’ve got Baxter, Krivacs, and Moore—so how about some love for Tyrone Branyan?
Caradoc - May 24, 2008
most definitely!
and while we’re in that era, we can’t leave out “proof that White Men Can’t Jump” Mike Wacker and Jordan and Johnny Danks’ daddy (and my frat bro) John Danks Sr. (that boy’s got some DNA along the lines of James Street!)
And might as well throw in Krivacs’ teammates – Houston Rocket Gary Goodner for good measure.
Who did I forget?
Oh, and PB, aren’t you a bit young to have been looking at Farah Fawcett? Or did you just do that for “our” benefit?
horndude - May 24, 2008
OMG
I just read that Goodner died of a heart attack 4 months ago. I hadn’t heard that.
Make sure and read the comments
A great longhorn!
horndude - May 24, 2008
cant beleive
we all forgot bout freddy steinmark
Hook'em13 - May 24, 2008
against the tT sand aggies one year
at DKR, i saw aaron humphrey hit sand aggy qb so hard that his children were born with two black eyes. they take him off the field. next play he knocks that guy out as well. i think that was kingsbury’s 1st game maybe. anyway, humphreys, major, and i always liked watching bryant westbrook he was not a afraid to hit people.
basketball i got nothing. when i moved here, penders was runnin out the door and ricky ruled, so i gots nothing.
baseball- huston street.
volleyball- jenn christian
swimming- courtney brown
hangover ending must find makers bottle…...
UTHomeSearch - May 27, 2008
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