2013 Longhorn Football Prospectus: Thinking Texas Football
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Publisher Description
Welcome to the inaugural 2013 Longhorn Football Prospectus: Thinking Texas Football.
We wrote this guide because we believe it fills an important, underserved niche in the market. Like many passionate football fans reading regional or national publications, we realized that we knew more about our team and conference than the “experts.” And most of their previews might better be termed “historicals” - as they are written in late April for June publication. We targeted an August release to include the most recent developments: transfers, injuries, off-season intelligence, and staff hires.
Local media vary widely in talent and intellectual curiosity and even the best of them are constrained by the need to fit formulae into a 800 word column, catering to sports section readers that their editors believe operate at a 8th grade reading level. Thinking Texas Football, in deference to its name, is written for an intelligent football layperson. We won't insult you by writing down to the lowest common denominator nor will we try to overawe you with technical babble.
The internet has several fantastic resources - public and pay - but they (where we write included) serve a reactive news cycle and rarely have the chance to be comprehensive and develop deeper themes. It’s the difference between books and newspapers. We like both.
Our best ambition is to provide you with different tools - while plainly communicating an awareness of our own biases and blind spots - so that we can drive a conversation that mutually enriches our shared passion.
Customer Reviews
The big CF season preview magazines
just went obsolete, I think. For years I spent upwards of twenty bucks a year, every year, on various preseason magazines, mostly to read the four pages about the Longhorns and learn nothing new and skim the rest of the conference. This mag is much more intelligent and engaging 110+ pages strictly on the Longhorns and their foes. The writing is colorful and fun to read and the level of analysis you won't find anywhere this side of Football Study Hall. Very unique. Very impressed.
Haven't finished it yet
But it reads really well. And kudos to you for bringing an old idea (football season preview mags) to a new medium!
A must have for Horns fans.
These guys have been creating top notch Texas Longhorns content for years. I'm very happy they finally compiled it in a single volume.
Let's face it, it's a make or break season for Mack Brown and this book really sets the stage telling you what players and schemes matter with real insight and knowledge and most importantly that patented Barking Carnival humor.
There is no more valuable offering as we Texas fans head into the 2013 campaign.
It's also very cool to be able to take questions and comments right back to the authors on their blog and interact directly with them.
Pretty much a must have if you want to know what's going on with the Horns this season.
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