5 Things We Know On A Friday: 7/29/10

1.  Texas A&M President Bowen Loftin sounds like the kid a the fair wanting to know why he didn’t win the big teddy bear prize at the milk can toss  that he was promised. The Aggies can keep asking for the $20 million and interim commissioner Dan Beebe can keep telling them the checks in the mail, but the A&M will be lucky if they get to take home one of those sickly goldfish you win at the fair. Oh, and good-luck with that SEC thing.

2.  Dennis Dodd’s interview with Pac 10(12) boss Larry Scott was revealing in many ways. Scott won’t make the same mistakes next time. Good cover for Texas too to lay some blame on the politicians. The politicians didn’t derail the bid, the BCS, TV and Texas did. Makes for a good story though.

3.  I’ve got no use whatsoever for people that try to use the turn lane to “merge” into traffic nor the old ladies who cross double-yellow lines at intersections trying to turn left across traffic and wonder why everyone is staring and honking at them. It should be mandatory that folks retake their driver’s license test every five years and then every year after age 65.

4.  Carl Edwards is one of the most annoying athletes out there that fortunately most folks don’t know about.

5.  Great to see former Texas Tech football player Marcus Coleman go into the Hall of Honor. Along with Donny Anderson, Coleman may be the most talented overall athlete to ever wear the scarlet and black.