Sherrod Harris News

Junior QB Colt McCoy and senior DT Roy Miller are on the 2008 Maxwell Award watch list, the honor given to the nation's top player at the end of the season.

“He had a lot of big-time scholarship offers out of high school.”

TULSA, Okla. : Quarterback G.J. Kinne, who was fourth on the depth chart at Texas, transferred to Tulsa on Wednesday. via International Herald Tribune

“Quarterbacks transfer in college football”

G.J. Kinne is transferring again, this time under much more normal circumstances.

The Texas Longhorns quarterback said Friday he is leaving the team after one redshirt season to find more playing time elsewhere. Kinne was behind starter Colt McCoy and sophomores John Chiles and Sherrod Harris on the depth chart.

In 2006, Kinne left Canton High School after his dad, the head coach, was shot by an angry parent. He transferred to Gilmer and was a two-time Class 3A offensive player of the year. Read more

“I'm excited about him for the fall”

By JIMMY BURCH The final stats sheet showed only two sacks for Texas' first-team defenders in Saturday's spring game.But because they came in matchups against the starting offense, and were accompanied by ... via Star-telegram.com

Breakdown: A closer look at the spring game Geoff Ketchum Orangebloods.com The North topped the South 14-10 on Saturday in the revised version of the Texas spring game. via Rivals.com

“Now, we've got the toughest schedule we've ever had coming up in the fall.”

This season, there's a different competition brewing within the Texas offense.

And this one's a little more important to the Longhorns than John Chiles and Sherrod Harris battling for the backup quarterback spot in 2007.

With the early departure of Jamaal Charles to the NFL, the Longhorns are in search of a running back to fill the void left by Charles. The three-way battle between Chris Ogbonnaya, Vondrell McGee and Foswhitt Whittaker has tightened even more after Texas' annual spring scrimmage Saturday. Read more

“It's been a dream of mine to play for Texas ever since we moved to Austin when I was seven”

No one covers University of Texas sports like the American-Statesman beat writers. via Austin American-Statesman