Wayne Freeman

Husband, Father, Son, Rangers fan, Horns fan, Buffs fan. Foundational Architect @ Canyon Rim Consulting

[Wayne Freeman @Dubyafree]

@WalkerATX @UTAustin @fox7austin Coming from a town of less than 500 people this was my first experience with the largeness of UT. It was crazy.

[David Eckert @davideckert98]

Profit/loss made by Texas sports in fiscal year 2025, according to documents obtained by the Statesman:

Football: +106.9 million
BASE: -2.1 m
MBB: -5 m
WBB: -7.5 m
Beach VB: -1.7 m
MGOLF: -1.4 m
WGOLF: -1.3 m
ROW: -3.0 m
SOFT: -2.2 m
SOC: -2.0 m
MSWIM: -2.2 m
WSWIM: -1.6 m
MTEN: -1.3 m
WTEN: -1.8 m
MTF/XC: -2.7 m
WTF/XC: -2.8 m
VB: -2.6 m

[Wayne Freeman @Dubyafree]

@LucasKinseyWT Money!

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

130 schools said no.
He led the losingest program in college football history to a national championship anyway.
Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit from Miami.

He tried to walk on at his hometown school. They passed.
So did FIU.
So did FAU.
So did everyone else.

At 17, he was sitting in his bedroom, crying over a silent recruiting inbox—after driving to 18 camps with his dad and sending highlights to more than 100 programs.
Not one FBS offer.
His only option? Yale. No scholarship. No NFL path.

Everyone told him to be “realistic.”
“Know your place.”
“Be grateful.”
He didn’t listen.
Because Mendoza understood something most people miss:
The worst outcome isn’t failing.
It’s never getting the chance to try.

Two weeks before signing day in 2022, his phone rang.
Cal needed a body. One offer. Out of 134 schools.
He took it.
He arrived as the third-string quarterback.
Spent a year on the scout team.
Lost his first four starts.
Got sacked 41 times behind a broken offensive line.

Still got up. Every time.
Then Cal brought in a transfer instead of building around him.
So Mendoza left the only school that had ever said yes.
He transferred to Indiana—the losingest program in college football history.

People laughed.
“Career suicide.”
“Graveyard program.”
“Nobody wins there.”
One coach told him something different:
“I’m going to make you the best Fernando Mendoza possible.”
That was enough.
Mendoza wasn’t just playing for football.
His mother has battled multiple sclerosis for 18 years.

Before every snap, he thought of her.
“My mother is my why.”
Indiana went 16–0.
Beat six Top-10 teams.
Won their first Big Ten title since 1945.
Mendoza threw 41 touchdowns.
Won the Heisman—first in school history.
First Cuban-American to ever do it.

Then came the title game.
Miami. Near his hometown.
Fourth-and-4. Season on the line.
Quarterback draw.
The kid 134 schools rejected spun through defenders and dove into the end zone.

Game over.
Indiana—national champions.
The losingest program became the best team in America.
All because a 17-year-old refused to believe “no” was the end.

Rankings don’t decide your ceiling.
Gatekeepers don’t write your ending.
Being overlooked isn’t a verdict—it’s a starting point.

Sometimes all you need is one shot…
and the courage to bet on yourself when nobody else will.
Don’t quit.

Credit: Barclay Mullins

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Curt Cignetti 🔥

"Not affected by success.
Not affected by failure.
On to the next play.
Never satisfied.
Playing to a standard, not the circumstances of the game...

First, you form your habits. Then your habits form you."

Elite leadership. Elite coaching.

🎥 AFCA

[Robert Behrens @rcb05]

Texans have tolerated the Rose Bowl’s claims of being the best college football setting long enough.

It’s time to build a football stadium in Palo Duro Canyon.

[Kathleen Winchell ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🇺🇸 @KathleenWinche3]

This is a classic! 😃

[SkinsHoops86 @SkinsHoops86]

Phew! WBB exhibition upset! D2 West Texas A&M beats Arizona. #ncaaw

West Texas A&M also played SMU tight the other night.

They were 12-10 in conference last year too ... some of these HMs only HM in name 😂

They see better comp in loaded LONESTAR CONF i.e. Lubbock Christian😂

[Wayne Freeman @Dubyafree]

@DschlopesIsBack Something human

[poopy galore @poopygalore]

@AlexBerenson “People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.”
Thomas Sowell

[OSU Cowboy Football @CowboyFB]

Meet new OL Coach, @CBassett_OSU! Take a listen as we sit down and learn a little about him 🤠

[Justin Hart @justin_hart]

This drone shot follow is wild!

[Greg Tepper @Tepper]

Four Texas high school football playoff games being played outside of Texas this week.

☞ Canyon West Plains vs. Clint in Artesia, NM
☞ Canyon Randall vs. El Paso Ysleta in Hobbs, NM
☞ Littlefield vs. Friona in Clovis, NM
☞ Wellington vs. Petrolia in Lawton, OK

#TXHSFB

[SkinsHoops86 @SkinsHoops86]

D2 West Texas A&M WBB hanging tough v. Arizona. 11 point game late 3rd; even though they give up a lot of size, they look very well coached

Lot of kids think they're above D2 ... but when D2 hanging with NCAA tourney team ... its not "intramurals, brother," word to Dan Hawkins😂

[A David Collier @CollieronTV]

Mentor meets student Saturday in Pullman.

Tech OC Zach Kittley explained to @AJ_DonWilliams on Monday how WSU OC Ben Arbuckle first joined him at Houston Baptist.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Marvelous!

And time goes fast …

[Clinton @614clinton]

Polk County Florida Sheriff - "You kill a policeman it means no arrest...no Miranda rights...no negotiations...nothing but as many bullets as we can shoot into you...PERIOD."

POLK COUNTY FLORIDA SHERIFF, GRADY JUDD

A man in Polk County , Florida , who got pulled over in a routine traffic stop, ended up "executing" the deputy who stopped him. The deputy was shot eight times, including once behind his right ear at close range. Another deputy was wounded and a police dog killed. A state-wide manhunt ensued.

The murderer was found hiding in a wooded area. As soon as he took a shot at the SWAT team, officers opened fire on him. They hit the guy 68 times.

Naturally, the liberal media went nuts and asked why they had to shoot the poor, undocumented immigrant 68 times.

Sheriff Grady Judd told the Orlando Sentinel: "Because that's all the ammunition we had." Now, is that just about the all-time greatest answer or what!

The Coroner also reported that the man died of natural causes. When asked by a reporter how that could be, since there were 68 bullet wounds in his body, he simply replied: (BEST QUOTE ever) . . .."When you are shot 68 times you are naturally gonna die."

#614clinton

[Star Tribune Sports @StribSports]

Minnesota State Mankato faces West Texas A&M on Thursday in an NCAA Division II men's semifinal, and @Patrick_Reusse tells us of some Minnesota ties and how basketball is a small world:

https://t.co/VoxlLJs8td

[Dan Roche @RochieWBZ]

One of the greatest pregame speeches ever! #MiracleOnIce