In case you were wondering when Texas football would return to national prominence, the university has issued an answer in the form of a 2013 trailer.

According to the video, “Texas… Football… Is… Back.”

Go ahead, get out that hearty laugh.

The video is full of clips from last year and coach Mack Brown does a voiceover aimed at getting Texas fans pumped, but really just apologizes for the past couple seasons.

"All of the energy and work we've put in the last two years are going to start showing more results," Mack Brown says. "You want to get back to being one of the top football programs in the country, where we deserve to be and our fans deserve to be."

The Longhorns are in the midst of one of their worst stretches since the 1990s. The Longhorns were 5-7 in 2010, 8-5 in 2011 and 9-4 last year. Brown was so proud of his team’s win in the

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When TCU kicks off the season against LSU in Cowboys Stadium in the fall, it will do so without one of its best players.

Coach Gary Patterson announced Wednesday that sophomore defensive end Devonte Fields has been suspended for the first two games of the 2013 season.

This is a big blow considering Fields was the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year and the league’s Rookie of the Year after leading the Big 12 with 17.5 tackles for loss and ranking second in the conference with nine sacks.

But Patterson told ESPN.com that he wasn’t happy with the way Fields had been playing in the spring. Patterson noted that perhaps the amount of success Fields had as a freshman might have hindered his development.

"He’s not had as good a spring as we would have liked him to have had," Patterson said. "You just expect him to get better and faster, but if I tell you all the things, then everybody knows about him. The biggest thing is sometimes you don’t think you have to work as hard and come back and do some things, so getting him back on the level of why he was the player that he was."

Even if Fields wasn’t giving his all during spring ball, his presence will sure be missed against an LSU offensive line that got better as last season progressed.

The game against LSU was a chance for the Big 12 to back up coach Bob Stoops and his comments about his conference being on par with the SEC. LSU will probably start the year ranked in the top 15 and while a TCU win was probably a longshot, it would have been a huge boost for the Big 12 so early in the season.

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Perhaps it’s the fact that his name is only one letter off — or perhaps it’s his warm and friendly demeanor — but SEC coaches have a nasty habit of referring to Alabama coach Nick Saban as the devil.

Florida offensive line coach Tim Davis was speaking at a booster club function when he referred to Saban as “the devil himself.”

"I've always wanted to work with Will," Davis said. "Will's got a plan. Will coached under the devil himself for seven years. I only did three. He did seven. And his DNA is not any different than Nick."

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Three months after newly named Hawaii athletic director Ben Jay declared all Hawaii men’s athletic teams would be the Warriors, he’s going back on that decision.

Jay announced Tuesday that Hawaii’s men’s teams would be the Rainbow Warriors as they were 13 years ago.

“The decision on February 13 to change the nickname of the men’s teams to Warriors has generated a lot of discussion and we have received both positive and negative feedback,” Jay said. “We listened to the public discussion and we went back to the original two questions we asked ourselves - who are we and what is representative of the islands?”

Since 2000, Hawaii men’s athletic teams have been named everything from Warriors to Rainbows to Rainbow Warriors. Jay said his initial decision to go with Warriors came from discussions with several coaches, but in the end, the university wanted to stay true to its heritage. All women’s teams are already called Rainbow Wahine.

"I've been asking since I was hired here (last December) who we are and what is most representative of the islands," Jay said back in February. "Those three words, Warriors, Rainbow and Wahine, are representative of who we are."

Now, let’s stop for a second

(Philly.com)Michigan State incoming freshman Jay Harris has decided to forgo college and pursue his lifelong dream as a rapper.

But not until Michigan State decided to yank his scholarship thanks to an explicit rap video he posted on YouTube. The video, “DatBull 4 Life,” opens with Harris lighting a marijuana cigarette and contains various explicit lyrics.

Harris said it was his decision to leave Michigan State, but the school told Philly.com that the decision was "mutual."

He released his first single “Datbull 4 Life” in April and it’s amassed more than 50,000 hits. Here’s the video, so you can judge for yourself (be warned, it does contain strong language).

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This offseason we will count down various topics from Monday through Friday, bringing you the top five of the important and definitely some not so important issues in college football. It's the Doc Five, every week until we will thankfully have actual games to discuss.

BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS: ACTORS WHO PLAYED COLLEGE FOOTBALL

NO. 4 – DWAYNE “THE ROCK” JOHNSON

Before Dwayne Johnson earned the nickname “The Rock” thanks to his professional wrestling exploits, he was better known as “Dewey” to his Miami Hurricanes teammates.

Yes, the wrestler turned actor turned reality TV host was a linebacker for Dennis Erickson’s Hurricanes in 1991 and won a national championship. But a star he was not. Johnson started just one game, but played in 39 and finished his career with 77 tackles and 4.25 sacks.

Former Miami defensive line coach Ed Orgeron, who recruited Johnson, shared his thoughts with ESPN.com about Johnson’s potential.

"As a freshman, he came out, and back then we didn’t play too many freshmen. But he was very strong, he had some great practices and we were able to play him as a freshman, and at one point we thought maybe we’d start him as a freshman.

"The problem with Dwayne was there was a guy named Warren Sapp who came along the next year."

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"You’re talking about one of the best college football players of all time [in Sapp]. If not for [Sapp], Dwayne could have been an all-conference, perhaps an all-American."

That’s right, Warren Sapp ruined Dewey’s budding football career, but put him on a path that has ultimately made him one of the most popular wrestlers and action stars in recent history.

Not a bad trade.

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Florida State athletic director Randy Spetman says the school has no plans to allow star linebacker recruit Matthew Thomas out of his letter of intent.

Thomas, a senior at Booker T. Washington High School in Miami, recently said he wants out of his letter of intent because he was pressured into signing with Florida State back in February by his mother, Mariska Noyn.

“You’d get into a situation where if you release him, then people would be doing that every year,” Spetman told the Tallahassee Democrat Tuesday at the ACC spring meetings.

Spetman has a point. Future recruits could point to a decision to release Thomas as justification for doing the same thing, but how likely is that to happen and how often? Probably not a big risk of it becoming an epidemic at FSU.

Spetman also told the Democrat, "We would be more than happy to release someone if there is a compelling reason."

Isn't the fact that the young man doesn't want to be at your school, wear your uniform and play for your team compelling enough? Do you really want players on the roster who are being forced to be there?

It's not like it would ever come to that, but FSU needs to be

Jacquese Kirk (Rivals.com)Nothing warms the heart like two football players from the same school getting together to talk about old times, at least until a fight starts and one stabs the other with a pocket knife.

Last month, according to a police report obtained by the Tennessean, then-Vanderbilt receiver Jacquese Kirk stabbed former Vanderbilt player Justin Cabbagestalk at a Nashville bar on April 7. News broke a week ago that Kirk was transferring, and now we know why.

No charges will be pressed and the case is considered closed because Cabbagestalk “wanted to let the matter die” and “would not assist in prosecution," the Tennessean said, referring to the police report. He suffered only minor injuries.

The trouble on April 7 started when Cabbagestalk, who the Tennessean said last played in 2010 (Kirk's first season with Vanderbilt was 2011), saw Kirk at The Tin Roof bar in Nashville.

According to the report, Kirk told police he saw Cabbagestalk, who made hand gestures at him across the bar. Cabbagestalk asked him to step around the corner to talk. Kirk claims Cabbagestalk hit or pushed him in the head after he declined, and the Tennessean explained what happened next:

According to the report, Kirk said he pulled out “a little pocket knife, stabbed the victim, closed the knife and put it back in his