1 SPORTS PAGE 7 COMICS PAGE 6 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 8 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Friday, October 24, 2014 dailytexanonline.com bit.ly/dtvid CITY City Council plans to clean land code UT wants By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng he Austin City Council heard hursday from con- sultants and the public about CodeNEXT, a plan to revital- ize the current city land de- velopment code. In June 2012, the Coun- cil adopted a 30-year com- prehensive plan for the city known as Imagine Austin, which calls for a new land development code. he city has been working in tandem with Daniel Parolek, owner of Opticos Design, Inc. Parolek presented three approaches to cleaning up current city code, informally named “he Brisk Sweep,” “he Deep Clean” and “he Complete Makeover.” he City Council staf and Parolek both recommend- ed option two, “he Deep Clean,” as the most reason- able approach to revise city code. he only diference be- tween approach two and ap- proach three, “he Complete Makeover,” is the timeline. “What we’re thinking is that approach two timeline would be extended,” Parolek said. “Because we focused all our attention on approach two, we’re not sure how long it would extend. Approach three would probably extend the timeline of approach two due to the steady dismantling and rebuilding of code that would be much broader and more extensive.” CODE page 2 Rachel Zein | Daily Texan Staff Austin City Council member Chris Riley listens to plans for CodeNEXT at a City Council meeting Thursday afternoon. Integrity Week gives honor code attention CAMPUS By Aimée Santillán @thedailytexan he Senate of College Councils is holding its annu- al Integrity UT Week, which runs through Friday, to pro- mote academic integrity in- side the classroom and raise awareness of the University’s honor code. According to Robert Gua- jardo, biology senior and the Senate’s Academic In- tegrity Committee co-chair, the main goal of Integrity Week is to make it easier for students to know the honor code and the consequences that come when they break it. He said the week consists of four days of tabling, in which students get the op- portunity to receive prizes by reciting the honor code and take a picture with the integ- rity board, which will later be posted on Facebook. “his is an eye-opening week INTEGRITY page 2 Cristina Fernandez | Daily Texan Staff Biology pre-med senior Hamidat Momoh writes honesty and discipline as her deinition for integrity during the annual Integrity UT Week on Thursday. Integrity Week is held by the Senate of College Councils to raise awareness of the honor code and emphasize integrity. RESEARCH CAMPUS Professor lectures about forged letters Study: Mental relection can improve recollection By Nidia Cavazos @NCnidia A study conducted by two UT psychology researchers concluded that mental rest and relection on past learn- ing activities can help boost upcoming learning activities. According to the indings published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, the processing of prior memories is associated with subsequent learning. Pri- or knowledge can facilitate new learning as opposed to inter- fering with it, which was com- monly believed by scientists. Psychology graduate stu- dent Margaret Schlichting co-authored the study. “It has been known for years that processes at play in the brain during periods of men- tal rest are critically important for memory,” Schlichting said. “But, until our study, it was MENTAL page 2 By Matthew Adams @matthewadams60 During a lecture at Rainey infor- Hall on hursday, emeri- mation professor tus David Gracy talked about the long history of document forgery. Gracy has spent much of his life working with his- torical Texas documents, as he has served on the Texas State Historical Association and other history groups. As part of his talk, which the UT chapter of the Society of American Archivists hosted, Gracy talked about the Davy Crockett and José Enrique de la Peña letters. Historians have debated whether Davy Crockett died in battle or was instead ex- ecuted by Mexican General Santa Anna ater surrender- ing, as de la Peña claimed in his letters. “Having looked at all of the characteristics of that letter, we could not claim that it was forged,” Gracy said. “here was nothing obscure about the letter.” According to Gracy, the Crockett letter itself was a diferent story. What some believed to be the last let- ter Crockett wrote was sold to the Texas State Historical Association before a state of- icial realized this letter was a fake because of the emboss- ing in the let-hand corner. “History means many things to people,” Gracy said. “As we deal with his- tory, we are always dealing with the questions of how do we know what we base history on is real and how do we [know] whether any phys- ical document is not forgery.” Gracy said forgeries date back to the ith century B.C. during the Olympic games, and they have been a large part of history from then on. Gracy reviewed the forg- eries of William Henry Ire- land and Vrain-Denis Lucas from the 18th and 19th cen- turies. Ireland was a Brit- ish forger of Shakespeare’s plays and other works, and he also attempted to repli- cate Shakespeare’s signature based on a few remain- ing letters. Gracy said he believes Lucas is the most Graeme Hamilton Daily Texan Staff proliic forger of all time. Lucas was a French forger in the 19th century who forged more than 27,000 copies of letters. Of these copies, he tried to replicate the let- ters of Alexander the Great, Mary Magdalene and Gali- leo Galilei. Well into the 20th century, the world would see many more forgers. Gracy ofered several notable examples, such as Cliford Irving, who attempted to forge a How- ard Hughes autobiography FORGE page 2 Rachel Zein | Daily Texan Staff Alison Preston, associate professor of psychology, and psychology graduate student Margaret Schlichting found that subjects who learned with mental rest performed better than those with no rest. NEWS OPINION SPORTS LIFE&ARTS ONLINE REASON TO PARTY Maryland governor cam- paigns with UDems. PAGE 5 UT/TT poll shows Repuli- cans lead state races. PAGE 5 Student uses wheelchair on campus for a week. PAGE 4 Longhorns prepare for Kansas State quarterback. PAGE 7 Students advocate for adding bugs to their diet. PAGE 8 Letter: Social media has positive uses. PAGE 4 Ok. St. sues offensive coordinator Joe Wickline. PAGE 7 Hackathons are an outlet for UT student coders. PAGE 8 This weekend, check out The Daily Texan’s website for the latest campus news and stories. We don’t bite. dailytexanonline.com PAGE 6 POLICE contractors to monitor sites against thet By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94 A UT student reportedly stole items from a construction site last week near the Cockrell School of Engineering. Accord- ing to UTPD’s Campus Watch report, construction workers said the student ran through the site Friday and UTPD oi- cers found a construction truck that had been disturbed. UTPD discovered the student blocks away with items believed to be from the truck. he UT System Oice of Facilities Planning and Con- struction oversees construc- tion sites on campus, ac- cording to Facilities Services spokeswoman Laurie Lentz. OFPC director Bob Rawski said most major construction projects are contracted by out- side companies, which are re- sponsible for enforcing safety and security requirements at their construction sites. “Our construction contrac- tors by contract have care, custody and control of their construction sites,” Rawski said. “hey are required to erect a fence around the en- tire perimeter of the site with locking gates and to monitor access into and out of the site.” Despite incidents like the one at the site, Rawski said thets are not common at con- struction sites on campus. “Our contractors have expe- rienced some occasional thets from their construction sites, but this has not been a perva- sive problem,” Rawski said. According to Rawski, THEFT page 2 Information pro- fessor emeritus David Gracy pres- ents examples of documentary forgery and the stories of the people behind them at Rainey Hall on Thursday evening. Friday, October 24, 2014 NEWS MENTAL continues from page 1 unknown whether or not these same brain processes during mental rest might ac- tually boost people’s ability to learn in later situations.” During research, their Schlichting and co-author Alison Preston, associate pro- fessor of psychology and neu- roscience, asked participants to memorize diferent series of photo pairs. In between the assigned activities, the par- ticipants rested and were free to think about anything they wanted. Brain scans of the participants aterward showed that those who used the time to relect on the learning done did better on upcoming tests. When information from two tasks overlapped, the re- searchers found that the re- lection helped participants retain the material and al- lowed them to make connec- tions that helped them ab- sorb upcoming information. Preston said the results of the study can be applied to a wide audience. “he indings are a gener- al application for all people because we didn’t look at a speciic age or group of peo- ple,” Preston said. “hese are what mechanisms FORGE continues from page 1 in 1971, and Konrad Ku- jau, who forged and then claimed to have discovered the “Hitler Diaries” in 1983. Information graduate student Lilly Carrell said she was excited to listen to Gracy’s lecture. “It is exciting to hear Dr. Gracy because he is an occurs in the human brain. A lot happens in your brain when you’re resting. Your brain is replaying recent ex- periences — the goal being to make memories lasting.” Schlichting said the re- sults from the research are important because they can be implemented in real- world learning processes, such as learning in a class- room environment. “Work from our research group and others has shown that having strong prior knowledge about a topic may beneit you when you try to learn new, related in- formation,” Schlichting said. “For a student, this might mean that regularly studying course materials continually strengthens your knowledge base, making it easier for you to learn new facts later in the semester.” Physics freshman Javier Leija said the information is helpful, especially for a col- lege student going through a week of exams. “Cramming before a test is not the most eicient way to prepare for it,” Leija said. “Ater all, if you give your brain enough time, you will end up being more prepared than what you could ac- complish by binge reading.” engaging and interesting speaker,” Carrell said. “As part of the archives depart- ment, Gracy is a legend.” Katherine Isham, infor- mation studies graduate student, said the long histo- ry of forgery surprised her. “Hearing Dr. Gracy, I am amazed with the efort that people will put in to faking such documents,” Isham said. 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All articles, photographs and graphics, both in the print and online editions, are the property of Texas Student Media and may not be reproduced or republished in part or in whole without written permission. TOMORROW’S WEATHER High 89 Low 64 I just farted; I’m really sorry Graeme Hamilton | Daily Texan Staff Andrea Weissenbuehler passes between a telescope projection and a wall in RLM on Thursday. THEFT continues from page 1 there are currently seven OFPC-managed major capi- tal construction projects under construction at the University. Most of these projects are contracted by companies such as Hensel Phelps, which has worked on the San Jacinto Residence Hall, the Frank Erwin Cen- ter, and is currently involved in building the Dell Medical School. Hensel Phelps is also in charge of the construction site on the Engineering Edu- INTEGRITY continues from page 1 because I can see how much change Integrity Week could cause,” Guajardo said. “here is a tremendous amount of change in how many students know the honor code.” Since the University changed its honor code two years ago, Guajardo said In- tegrity Week also helps up- perclassmen be aware of the new honor code. According to Guajardo, the honor code was changed to be more con- cise and easier for students to recognize. “Now that the honor code has been changed, we want students to know it better than they would before,” Guajardo said. Guajardo said the week also consists of diferent lun- cheons in which faculty guest cation and Research Center, where the thet took place. Rawski said whether a project is contracted by an outside company depends on the project’s size and the con- struction techniques needed. “Major capital construc- tion projects managed by OFPC are contracted through outside construction com- panies,” Rawski said. “Minor projects managed by cam- pus groups, such as Project Management and Construc- tion Services, may be done by outside contractors or by internal construction groups, depending on the size and nature of the work.” UTPD spokeswoman Rhonda Weldon said UTPD regularly patrols campus construction sites to try and prevent thets. “In general, the con- struction sites are Univer- sity property and are part of UTPD’s regularly sched- uled patrols,” Weldon said. “If criminal activity is wit- nessed or reported, UTPD responds and investigates as appropriate.” he incident last Friday is still under investigation. speakers talk about what in- tegrity means to them. Ac- cording to Guajardo, it also involves an event at the Perry- Castañeda Library, “Integ- rity: Pass It On,” in which the Senate members pass on blue books that have the honor code on the back. He said they also project the honor code on the exterior of the PCL. “All of these activities are meant for students to either memorize or learn the honor code,” said Elizabeth Roach, history freshman and Senate at-large member. “We also encourage students to wear our T-shirts on test days, which becomes a subtle reminder of integrity.” At hursday’s luncheon, President William Powers Jr. talked about the importance of the honor code to the University. “his is a great university and there’s a lot of things to be proud of,” Powers said. “We play fair, and we know that rules are for people with integrity, which is something that’s promoted with the honor code.” According to Guajardo, the Senate gives away 1,000 shirts each year to students who are interested in learn- ing the honor code. “Integrity Week brings awareness the honor to code,” said Ryan Shu, busi- ness sophomore and Senate of College Councils at-large member. “I have seen that it does make a diference.” Guajardo also said stu- dents get the opportunity to express what integrity means to them. “To me, integrity means not being afraid to do the right thing,” neuroscience fresh- man Toyana Niraula said. 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Council member Chris Riley said he can see both approaches two and three succeeding the City in Council’s goals to revamp the land development code, but he supports the third option. “‘The Deep Clean’ looks like it’s coming down to the geographic scope of our effort; it would focus on Airport Boulevard and said. downtown,” Riley “The complete overhaul would put new measures in place across much broader areas in the city. With ‘The Deep Clean,’ the hope is if we can demonstrate some effective new code provi- sions in those areas, we would eventually see those improvements spread to other areas of the city, but that would entail a much longer timeline than if we were to set out to overhaul the whole code in the ini- tial effort.” Council member Kathie Tovo said she supports op- tion two ater hearing from staf and from the public. “The fact that the con- sultants and staff recom- mend [option two] is com- pelling to me,” Tovo said. “They made it very clear that it would be more ex- take more pensive and time to take option three. Option two sounds like it makes the best sense and that it is a balanced and reasonable approach. It allows us to introduce new elements the code, but it also preserves some of the environmental protections our existing code has.” into Riley said completely re- doing the existing land de- velopment code is necessary to accommodate student housing needs. “We have issues with a lack of afordable housing options today, and that es- pecially impacts students who are oten in a position of trying to ind afordable housing in the central city,” Riley said. “If we are suc- cessful, then we should see a much greater supply of housing options that would meet students’ needs. Stu- dents have a lot at stake in how well we do at ixing our current code.” Tovo said option two would student address housing needs just as well. According to Tovo, the city should focus on en- forcing existing density instead bonus programs of rewriting the entire land development code to benefit those who need affordable housing. “It’s going to clarify the code; it will make it easier to use whether it be aford- able housing or market rate,” Tovo said. “Our best ability to impact afordable hous- ing is to have strong density bonus programs to require developers to provide that on site.” he City Council voted to keep public hearing sign-up open until their next meet- ing on Nov. 6, when they will revisit the issue. W&N 3 Name: 3077/re:fuel-Seaworld Park & En; Width: 60p0; Depth: 20 in; Color: Process color, 3077/re:fuel-Seaworld Park & En; Ad Number: 3077 WILL YOU SURVIVE THE CURSE? 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You might wonder why I would subject myself to this. My intentions were twofold: to un- derstand better what my handicapped class- mates were dealing with on a day-to-day basis, and to see where the University might be able to improve on its accommodations for them. I was nervous, to say the least, when I sat down in my rented wheelchair for the irst time. Within a few minutes, I headed past Robert Lee Moore Hall on Dean Keeton to the intersection of 24th Street and Speed- way. Sliding through the crosswalk, hoping the cars could see me, my hands started to throb and my back tightened as my mind- set began to change very quickly. I stopped wondering about what would be the fast- est way to get to my next class and started strategizing about the only way to get there. Which path had the fewest stairs, the easi- est access to an elevator, even the smooth- est sidewalk? Every obstacle seemed to be ampliied, even the tiniest pothole on the pavement. Other students rushed past me, oblivious to my hardship. I felt invisible and yet also awkwardly conspicuous. No one ofered to help that irst day. hey all had their own struggles. Just grab the wheels and push, my mind seemed to say, and eventually I got to my biology lab, only 15 minutes late. I hurt from head to toe, and it was the irst time I actually remember feeling relieved about getting to class. Over the next few days, I spoke to several students here on campus about their own experiences. “When I used the community bathrooms for the irst time at my new dorm, Kinsolv- ing, they didn’t have grab rails to hold onto,” said Shalom Hernandez, a business fresh- man who uses a wheelchair to get to most of her classes. “he bathrooms didn’t have anything to hold on to. here was a stool to sit on in the shower, but it was broken. So the irst few days of being here were diicult, to say the least. I went directly to the [Ser- vices for Students with Disabilities] oice, and they immediately moved me to a newer, more accommodating dormitory.” Next, I spoke to a University alum, Max Ritzer. He broke both of his feet and a leg in a car accident. I asked Ritzer how he found his experience on campus ater his injuries. “I only needed to use the wheelchair for a couple of months,” Ritzer said. “I thought that I could have just powered through it and that there would be some kinds of ser- vices to help me get to class. It was hard, to nearly impossible. Stressful to the point where it would have adversely afected my academic performance and my mood, even taking a minimal load of classes.” Ritzer also cited dorm issues. “I wanted to live in Carothers [dorm]; however, it was not wheelchair accessible af- ter hours,” Ritzer said. “Each evening, some- one would have had to have come down and let me in from the front desk. I tried to talk to some of the staf there, but they did not seem like they had encountered this type of situation before.” Ritzer spoke to the Services for Students with Disabilities oice on campus about get- ting some help. His impression of the SSD was surprising. “hey seemed geared more towards the learning disability side of things and not so much mobility issues.” Ater speaking with students like Ritzer and Hernandez, I ventured out to do some investigating myself. On a visit to Carothers, the employees at the front desk informed me that the building was still inaccessible ater hours. hey divulged another interest- ing bit of information: he Blanton dorm is completely inaccessible by wheelchair. Ev- ery way, in or out, is dominated by stairs. Ater learning about this, my next stop was the people responsible for making accom- modations for students with a variety of dis- abilities, including mobility problems here at UT. “Older buildings are allowed to be grandfathered in if it is not cost effective to make major changes to them,” said Emily Shryock, associate director of the SSD. “If a student with a physical handicap is as- signed to a classroom that is not accessible to them, the entire class is actually moved to a different room rather than telling the student they can’t take the class.” Shryock is a graduate student herself and also uses a wheelchair, so improving disability access here is a personal as well as professional Guest columnist Andrew Ridout sits in his rented wheelchair outside Jester Center. Ridout spent a week navigating campus with the wheelchair, seeing how accommodating the Univer- sity is for disabled students. Graeme Hamilton | Daily Texan Staff passion for her. “Because it is an older cam- pus, renovating buildings is a work in prog- ress for the University, but we are working on it,” she related. In my searching, I did ind some things that, in my opinion, could be improved upon. he bulk of my time was spent in the University’s chemistry building, Welch Hall. I discovered that very few of the doors there were equipped with handicapped buttons. Not being able to it through the door of the main auditorium in Welch or trying to use the bathroom in a stall that was too small to even close the door — those were a few of the more disturbing experiences I encoun- tered. Most buildings, however, were out- itted with at least one ramp, self-opening exterior doors and elevators. here was only one building on campus that I found com- pletely inaccessible to wheelchairs: Blanton. One thing I learned from many of the stu- dents whom I interviewed, though, is that they are just students like everyone else. heir mobility issues are another challenge to overcome but, more importantly, they also hold jobs, make good grades, go out on dates and have just as much fun as any other student. “We’re normal people,” said Mark Zupan, a wheelchair rugby player and captain of the United States wheelchair rugby team that competed in the Paralympic Games in 2004. “Don’t be scared because we are in a chair. People don’t understand that. hey think, ‘Oh, a wheelchair, something’s wrong with their heads, something’s just not right.’ Well, yeah, we may be a little twisted, but no more than anyone else.” As I became more comfortable with my new mode of transportation over the week, I found that many people did reach out to help me, oten holding doors open or show- ing me the nearest wheelchair ramp. I dis- covered unique paths to my classes and even saw parts of the campus that were totally new to me. I did ind, though, that more times than not, there was only one way in or out of a building. Luckily, I could usually negotiate it. Just as my mind and body were inally getting used to a new life, my week in a wheelchair was over, but many of the les- sons that I learned will be with me forever. Not only had my sore hands gotten tough and calloused, but my mind had toughened a bit as well. What started as a discussion with a friend about handicapped mobility on campus ended up being an experience that broadened my horizons and gave me a whole new respect for my classmates with disabilities. Ridout is a French senior from Garland. FIRING LINE COLUMN Despite social media concerns, platforms can still enrich lives Students should expect more from new apartment complexes In the recently published column “Look outside social media for life’s most valuable moments,” author Kirby McDaniel suggests that social media is a poor substitute for real interactions, emotions and experiences in life. My response is not to refute McDan- iel’s claims. In fact, some scholars, includ- ing MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle, agree with some aspects of the “social media is isolating” argument. Instead, I’d like to sug- gest that we approach the subject of media in daily life with more nuance. First, it’s important to note that every new form of media has been heralded by some as isolating and potentially dangerous. As early as around 370 BCE, Plato argued in Phaedrus that the popularization of writ- ing would lower public discourse and could not do justice to clear arguments. More re- cently, we have seen (and continue to see) similar panics regarding film and television as isolating, maybe morally questionable. Today, commentary on social media is just the most recent in a long history of skep- ticism toward communicative technology. This skepticism is not necessarily bad, but it shouldn’t be assumed outright. With that in mind, I suggest we shouldn’t be so quick to pass judgment on these tech- nologies as good or bad. Technology his- torian Melvin Kranzberg famously argued, “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” Media changes how we live in the world, but we shouldn’t necessarily as- sume that it cuts us out of that world either. Writer Nathan Jurgenson argues in his es- say “The IRL Fetish” that emphasizing “real life” as separate from “offline” fails to ac- knowledge that “what we do while connect- ed is inseparable from what we do when disconnected.” Instead of looking outside of social media for valuable moments, my response is that we should instead embrace those moments throughout our lives — both offline and online. — Kyle Wrather, a media studies PhD candidate from Columbus, Mississippi, in re- sponse to Kirby McDaniel’s Tuesday column. DON’T FORGET TO VOTE! Early voting is underway. Registered Travis County voters can vote at the Flawn Academic Center from now through Oct. 31. Polls are open the following hours: I Voted Mon. - Sat. : 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. Sun. : Noon - 6 p.m. By Jan Ross Piedad Daily Texan Columnist @jan_journ When I moved into he G apartments I was honestly just happy to have a place to call home. While other nearby complexes postponed opening for months, we were pushed back for only two weeks and were able to settle in before September. he Pointe on Rio, two streets away, started housing-displaced students at the Dobie Center and still won’t be ready until the new year because of delayed construction and city inspections. For the cell-block gray building on the corner of 18th and Guadalupe Street, obtaining the nec- essary permits through the City of Austin was a real setback. For the irst week of the fall semes- ter, residents were lodged in rooms at nearby ho- tels on the owner’s dime. Fees were prorated and a month’s worth of rent waived. All is well, right? Here are a few isolated incidents one wouldn’t ex- pect: power tools whirring on the loor above at 7 a.m., units blacking out intermittently over the course of an evening and a garage gate that seems to have broken two weeks into use. here are other situations that can test a tenant’s patience, such as complications about locked garbage chutes. he “valet trash service” alternative tries to be systematic, but with tem- Here are a few isolated inci- dents one won’t expect: power tools whirring on the loor above at 7 a.m. ... and a garage gate that seems to have bro- ken two weeks into use. perate, poorly ventilated halls, leaving trash in the hallway is not the best option. Weeks’ worth of mail sat on hold at the post oice, since a newly-implemented USPS policy held mail addressed to new student housing complexes. Now, instead of having personal bills and let- ters delivered directly to a designated lockbox, management must sort through envelopes and packages delivered from the post oice, which students pick up during oice hours. Daily operations run out of a four-bedroom apartment within the building, as the leasing of- ice at street level remains to be inished. Admit- tedly, management tries its best at professional- ism and good service for over 200 residents in 79 units, but Fairway Properties’ presence at he G is clearly short-stafed. he ability to pay rent online is delayed until November; which is, at the very least, a small inconvenience. However, I recently received a notice of delinquent rent with additional late fees, even though I paid in person well before the October deadline. It turns out that the funds were applied to another tenant’s account, not my own. Human error, I was told; and the mistake was corrected. To be clear, I can’t fault the hardworking men and women behind all the physical and logisti- cal labor on site. It seems the real issues lie with decisions made by the owner, who is clearly out of touch with the student population. (he owner’s other commission in the area, Long- horn Lux, was also delayed.) Housing close to campus costs a pretty pen- ny, and it’s no wonder investors are jumping to build and lease apartments as quickly as pos- sible. To developers, I say this: It’s about people’s livelihoods, not just the payout. Students come to UT for variety of reasons, oten with limited resources and options. If a property is marketed as the best value or opportunity, then it better deliver. Some situations can’t be helped, but for the price tenants are paying, upwards of at least $750 a month, and on the promise of “luxury,” we can expect more. Piedad is a journalism senior from San Anto- nio. 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NEWS Friday, October 24, 2014 CAMPUS CLASS 5 5 NEWS BRIEFLY Latest poll shows Republicans with lead Republican candidates hold substantial leads in the major Texas races, according to a statewide poll conducted from Oct. 10 through Sunday. he Texas Tribune and the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas are conducting a series of online polls, and the latest showed that Attorney General Greg Abbott has a 16-point lead over State Sen. Wendy Da- vis, D-Fort Worth. In June, a previous Tex- as Tribune poll showed Abbott with a 12-point lead over Davis. he latest Texas Tribune poll surveyed 1,200 regis- tered Texas voters. For the lieutenant governor race, State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, trails State Sen. Dan Patrick, R- Houston by 17 points. In the attorney general race, the U.S. Senate race and land commissioner race, all leads were held by the Re- publican candidates. “he substantial leads held by Republicans from the top to the bot- tom of the ballot suggest that the much-discussed demographic changes in the state are unlikely to translate into an immedi- ate reversal of fortune for the Democratic Party in this election,” said James Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project and a co-director of the poll. Daron Shaw, govern- ment professor and poll co-director, said in a state- ment that the results of these statewide race polls had more to do with politi- cal ailiations than race. “Very few race-speciic dynamics exist in these down-ballot statewide races,” Shaw said. “hey are really just expressions of the underlying partisan- ship of the Texas elector- ate, and that’s not good for Democrats these days.” —Jackie Wang ! 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Martin O’Malley spoke to Univer- sity Democrats on hursday aternoon in front of Little- ield Fountain before the group block walked through West Campus in support of State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth. Speaking to the group, O’Malley talked about the importance student of in the elec- participation tion and why Davis is his favored pick in the Texas gubernatorial race. O’Malley, who has previ- ously served as Baltimore mayor and is considering running for president in 2016, said he appreciated the group’s efforts to bring students together through the block walk, where club members walked through the neighbor- hood to talk with residents about voting. “In my first race, I ran for state senate at the age of 27,” O’Malley said. “I lost by 22 votes. As you’re knock- ing on doors and flushing people to do early vote, know that sometimes these things are as close at 22 votes. Every person makes a difference.” According to O’Malley, students should favor Davis because of her views on col- lege tuition and future eco- nomic development. “In this choice for gover- nor, you have a woman who believes that making col- lege more affordable for the greatest number of people is good for our economy, and then you have the other fellow that wants to treat it like a toll road,” O’Malley said. “I think that one is- sue demonstrates a differ- ence in philosophy. 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SPORTS BRIEFLY Soccer faces road tests at Baylor, OU Texas has another tough pair of conference games this weekend. he Long- horns will take on Okla- homa (8-5-3, 2-2-1 Big 12) in Norman, Oklahoma, on Friday at 7 p.m., and then turn around and head to Waco for a 6 p.m. Sunday tilt against a physical Baylor squad (8-5-2, 2-2-1 Big 12). Oklahoma was ranked as high as 15th in early September, but the Sooners have dropped of since then and are winless in their last three contests. his season, Baylor’s of- fense has excelled where the Longhorns have strug- gled. he Bears have made the most of their opportu- nities, seeing just over half of their shots this season come on goal, while Texas has hit just 41.9 percent of its shots on target. Junior goalkeeper Abby Smith will have her hands full against the pair of Big 12 ofenses, but she should be fresh since head coach Angela Kelly gave her the night of against Arkansas- Little Rock. Oklahoma and Baylor are hardly the elite of the Big 12, but the Longhorns have not made much of an impact since knocking of then No. 6 Texas Tech in September. A 2-3-0 confer- ence record ties Texas with TCU for the last spot in the Big 12 tournament, but wins this weekend could bring some much needed insurance in the closing weeks of the season. —Daniel Clay Last year against Texas, Kansas State quarterback Jake Waters ran for just 26 yards on 18 attempts. This year, he already has seven rushing touchdowns through six games. Chelsea Purgahn | Daily Texan ile photo ball of, keep it or utilize the play-action pass, he is oten able to freeze the defense, opening things up downield. Case in point in last week’s game against Oklahoma, when Waters faked the quarterback draw and lobbed a pop-pass to fullback Glenn Gronkowski for a 62-yard score. Texas will have to be conscious of that possibility again this weekend in order to limit big plays. “It comes back with disci- pline, knowing your assign- ment, what your responsi- bilities are, situations, and when it pops, it can’t go for 70 yards,” Bedford said. In particular, the Long- horn defensive backs will have to practice better eye discipline against the Wild- cats. Against Iowa State, the Texas secondary often got caught with its eyes in the backfield, leaving receivers open for big gains. Kansas State’s ofense is designed to just do that, so it will take a concerted efort to lock down the Wildcats’ tal- ented receiving corps. “he quarterback is sitting back there dancing,” junior cornerback Duke homas said. “If you’ve got a man, you’ve really got to pay atten- tion to what’s going on.” FOOTBALL OSU sues Texas ofensive coordinator By Jori Epstein @JoriEpstein Joe Wickline, Texas’ of- fensive coordinator and of- fensive line coach, thought he was done dealing with Oklahoma State adminis- trators in January when he let Stillwater, Oklahoma, to work for Texas. But throughout the last eight months, Oklahoma State athletic director Mike Holder has reminded Wick- line that the Cowboys aren’t as far away as he thought. On Oct. 17, the Okla- homa State System sued Wickline, claiming that he does not actually hold the play-calling responsibili- ties he claims he does. he suit reiterates complaints dating back to March 24, when Holder wrote Wick- line a letter saying Wickline violated his previous Okla- homa State contract. “Regrettably, it has come to our attention that neither of those statements [about your responsibilities] is ap- parently accurate,” Holder’s letter said. “In reality, it ap- pears you unilaterally and voluntarily terminated the contract to make a lateral move.” According to Oklahoma State’s lawsuit this month, Wickline “recognized that the loss of his services to OSU … would cause an in- herent loss to OSU incapa- ble of estimation with cer- tainty, fairness or adequate through compensation monetary damages.” In their 2009 contract, Oklahoma State agreed to relieve Wickline of the obli- gation to pay liquidated dam- ages — in this case, $593,478 — only if he works as an NFL assistant coach or a Division I ofensive coordinator, with play-calling duties. In the law- suit iled last week, Oklahoma State claimed Wickline violat- ed the terms that he must “ac- cept employment as a Head Football Coach or as an Of- fensive Coordinator with play calling duties.” he latter clause, “with play calling duties,” is the source of disagreement between Oklahoma State and Wick- line. Alhough head coach Charlie Strong said Wickline would call plays at the time of his hire in January, many speculate that Shawn Wat- son, assistant head coach for ofense and quarterbacks coach, instead fulills these responsibilities. Speculations have stirred ever since Strong’s comments in March, noting that, ac- cording to ESPN, “the one inal voice will be Shawn.” Interviews with Strong, Wat- son and players suggest that Watson calls at least the ma- Joe Wickline Offensive coordinator jority of plays while Wickline supervises the run game. his week speciically, Watson discussed scripting plays for the team. “I’ll only go anywhere from 15 to 25 [plays],” Wat- son said Tuesday. “Basically, for me, it’s a hot list. his past week, I only used the irst 21, and we were on task with what we were doing.” Watson did not mention Wickline’s role in develop- ing the plays. Wickline is set to face Oklahoma State in court in Stillwater on Nov. 15, at which time the court will need to determine wheth- er Wickline calls enough plays for his position to qualify as more than just a lateral move. According to the Austin American- Statesman, UT law graduate David Beck, who donates to the University, will repre- sent Wickline. check out ONLINE stories videos photo galleries dailytexanonline.com Name: 3206/Buffalo Exchange; Width: 29p6; Depth: 5 in; Color: Black, 3206/Buffalo Exchange; Ad Number: 3206 FOOTBALL By Stefan Scraield @StefanScraield Last week, against a strug- gling Iowa State team, the Longhorn defense turned in its worst performance of the season. Save for a few well-timed turnovers, the Texas defense had a miserable time slowing down quarterback Sam Rich- ardson and the Cyclones’ op- tion attack. his week, they’ll face a similar scheme, run by a much better team with a much better quarterback. Kansas State’s senior quar- terback, Jake Waters, has had incredible success running the option for the Wildcats this season, as he leads the team in passing and rushing. “He reminds me of Rus- sell Wilson,” Texas defensive coordinator Vance Bedford said, comparing him to the Super Bowl winning quarter- back of the Seattle Seahawks. “[he] guy is a winner, com- petitor. You have to be very disciplined on defense be- cause of what he does.” Under Waters’ leader- ship, No. 11 Kansas State has risen to the top of the Big 12 standings as the only team that remains un- beaten in conference play. VOLLEYBALL In Waters’ second year running the Wildcat ofense, the junior-college transfer has completed 65 percent of his passes for 1,431 yards and nine touchdowns while rush- ing for another 371 yards and seven scores. Waters and Kansas State’s running backs are at the cen- ter of head coach Bill Sny- der’s high-powered option ofense, but the Wildcats’ capacity in the passing game are what force defenses to respect Waters’ arm. Senior receivers Tyler Lockett and Curry Sexton have combined to form one of the more po- tent wide out combinations in the Big 12 so far this sea- son. “[Waters] has two tre- mendous weapons out there with Lockett and Sexton and those guys, they go out and compete each and ev- ery game,” senior defensive back Quandre Diggs said. “Just the opportunity to go out and compete against one of the best in the country [is special.]” Kansas State’s option pro- vides opposing defenses with a unique challenge, as it slows things down at the line of scrimmage. As Waters decides whether to hand the Junior middle blocker Molly McCage, who leads the Long- horns in blocks with 1.31 per set, is ready for Oklahoma. Daulton Venglar | Daily Texan Staff Texas ready to take on Oklahoma on Saturday By Nick Castillo @Nick_Castillo74 The Red River Show- down will make its way to the volleyball court Satur- day, as No. 2 Texas (15-0, 7-0 Big 12) takes on archri- val Oklahoma (14-6, 5-2 Big 12). While it may not get the same attention as the foot- ball side of the rivalry, ju- nior middle blocker Molly McCage expects the game to be just as intense. “I actually know some of the [Oklahoma] girls, so it’s more fun,” McCage said. “[There’s] smack-talk back and forth; it’s not anything super meaningful. But I love the rivalry between us still. I love that the fans are super supportive be- hind us and everything. It’s a more emotional and entertaining game.” “[A The fans will play an im- portant role, as the Long- horns will play in front of a sold-out home crowd for the first time this season. Head coach Jerritt Elliott expects the crowd to be a major advantage. sellout] brings so much energy to [the team],” Elliott said. “It gets their adrenaline flowing. It makes [Gregory Gym] sig- nificantly louder. It creates energy flow. The fans want to be more involved in [the game] because there are more people. … When you have that, it’s nice.” While Texas is looking forward to its upcoming rivalry game, it has some tuneups to make before the Saturday. Although Longhorns made history Wednesday night, winning their 34th straight home game and improving to 15- 0, Elliott was disappointed with the team’s play. “I thought [Wednes- day] we got pretty com- fortable with just who we were,” Elliott said. “We felt like we were going to win the game, and that’s the challenge now: for me to get back to them and see if we can improve on that.” Elliott’s dis- Despite McCage appointment, says the team recognizes what struggled with against TCU. it “I understand [Elliott’s] disappointment,” McCage said. some “here were things we practiced all this week that we didn’t execute during the game. hat’s a mi- nor setback, but I think our team did well regardless of the minor mistakes that we made. We still did well and inished the match.” Texas will look to Mc- Cage when it takes on Oklahoma, as she leads the Longhorns in blocks with 1.31 per set, good for sec- ond in the Big 12 and 37th in the NCAA. McCage also leads team which ranks seventh in the Big 12 with a .340 hitting percentage this season. and McCage Texas take on the Sooners at 5 p.m. Saturday in Gregory Gym, with the game be- ing the Longhorn Network. broadcast on “I’m super excited about this game,” McCage said. “I know that it’s at home and our gym is going to be super packed. I’m expecting a lot of huge plays coming from my team. But I think OU is going to show us whatever they got.” 8 L&A 8 Students advocate cricket diet LAUREN L’AMIE, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR | @DailyTexanArts Friday, October 24, 2014 OFFBEAT By Hunter Jekot @Dr_Je_ As radio-television-ilm senior Ross Bullington packs away his homework ater a study session at local grocery store in.gredients, he reach- es for his post-study snack of choice, the Hopper Bar. What looks like an ordinary protein bar is actually part of a conscious decision by Bul- lington to include insects in his diet. “Insects are just much more eicient in terms of converting feed into calories for people to eat,” Bullington said. “You can feed them food scraps that would otherwise be thrown away, and you can [raise them in] these vertical bug farms so that you’re us- ing less land — instead of a whole pasture for a cow.” In a class lecture on sustainability, Bullington learned about entomophagy, an environmentally friendly alternative to other meat- based diets. Shortly ater, he decided to assist his friend and now UT alumnus, Renzo Tomlinson, in raising edible mealworms in his closet through he two got the chance to play around with making homemade meals using the worms, and Bullington de- cided to take further steps to connect to the entomophagy community lo- cal nonproits such as Little Herds, which focuses on the advocacy of bug eating. When Bullington re- ceived a ilm assignment in one of his radio-televsion- ilm classes, he used the opportunity to create “Bug CAMPUS Radio-television- ilm senior Ross Bullington enjoys his Hopper Bar at in.gredients. Ross is an entomophagy advocate, and he believes insects are more eficient for converting feed into calories for people to eat. Xintong Guo Daily Texan Staff Michael Barnes, Chris Hogue, Jewel Langevine and Xuming Zeng keep focus during HackTX. In its third year, HackTX invites groups of students to code and invent anything from an application to computer hard- ware in 24 hours. Cristina Fernandez Daily Texan Staff Brothers,” a short documen- tary that explores the edible insect resources available in Austin. He was surprised to ind the Austin entomoph- agy community is one of the largest in the nation. In June, Austin’s seventh annual bug-eating festival celebrated its return to Zilker Park in order to accommodate all the patrons. Students can expect to have an increased amount of access to edible bug prod- ucts, with companies such as World Entomophagy and Hopper Foods working to make insect products avail- able to the public. One such product comes in the form of Cricker Crackers, a cricket lour-based paleo cracker de- veloped by UT alumna Me- gan McDonald and South- western University alumna Leah Jones. he two will be- gin selling the crackers at the farmers’ Republic Square market every Saturday start- ing Nov. 8. “here’s times as four much calcium [in a cup of ground crickets] as in a cup and iber of milk. [here are] 70 grams of protein in one cup of crickets, tons of B vitamins, magnesium, [and] iron,” Jones said. McDonald Jones hope that their grassroots approach will gain a strong local following for the cause and their product. hey plan to limit Cricker Cracker sales to local markets for the time being and consider expan- sion to commercial retailers more of a long-term goal. Jack Ceadel, founder and CEO of Hopper Foods, originally turned to crickets as a food source in an efort to conserve water. Ceadel was inspired by his work with nonproits such as the Global Water Foundation. “hey have very low water requirements in comparison with traditional livestock,” Ceadel said. “If you’re want- ing to produce one pound of beef compared to one pound of crickets, it takes 1,000 times more water.” he Hopper Bar, which cricket names proudly powder as one of its main ingredients, will begin to es- tablish more of a presence around Austin as it starts shipping to more retailers in early 2015. Hopper Foods also plans on directly includ- ing students in its business, as it looks for interns and campus representatives. Ceadel said students will play an integral role in the growth and development of the bug-eating movement. “Students really are lead- ers of our generation,” Jones said. “If students can set the example, that’s huge.” CAMPUS HackTX challenges students to bring ideas to life in 24 hours By Amanda Booth @wordswithamanda A computer science stu- dent’s dream becomes real- ity for two days at HackTX when the SAC ills with hundreds of students work- ing diligently on their lap- tops, playing video games tech talking with and representatives. At the event, which was held last weekend, students put themselves into small teams and invented anything from an app to computer hardware. Taylor Barnett, computer science senior and lead organizer of HackTX, said hackathons like this bring students from around the country together. runs and inds a space,” Barnett said. “hen you start working.” “Everybody Some participants come to hackathons with ideas and teams already in place, but all participants are pro- hibited from using any sort of prior work to help them create their product. “[Hackathons] show you what someone can do in 24 hours,” Barnett said. “It’s re- ally incredible.” Barnett said productivity increases at hackathons in part because of the focused energy but also because send various companies representatives to provide insight and resources to help students with their projects. “he companies under- stand they’re there as men- tors, not to be a part of a team,” said Barnett. “hey’re a resource — not a crutch.” Major League Hacking is one such company. Mike Swit, co-founder and com- missioner of Major League Hacking, said, since its found- ing in fall 2013, the company has made high-quality hack- athons more accessible. “You can think of us as the NCAA for hackathons,” Swit said. Another purpose of Ma- jor League Hacking is to provide continuity amongst the hackathon community. Before Major League Hack- ing, people would typically just go to their school’s hack- athon or possibly one in the area. Now, it’s normal to go to multiple hackathons a year, even if it means lying across the country. Although Swit said he doesn’t believe the compa- ny is the sole reason hack- athons have become more legitimized, he said it has done its part. “Hackathons have been growing organically for the last couple of years,” Swit said. “But what they were waiting for was something to connect them.” Swit said Major League Hacking also provides things to entertain hackers in their downtime, such as photo booths and unreleased gam- ing consoles to use. “What we really want is for people to walk away and say, ‘hat was the best expe- rience of my life,’” Swit said. Barnett said HackTX is unique because it reaches out to groups that feel they should have more of a hack- athon presence. Barnett fo- cused speciically on women. typically underrepresented in hack- athons,” Barnett said. “Even more so than in their respec- tive majors.” “Women are Barnett said 20 percent of this year’s participants were women and 60 percent of the participants had never attended a hackathon before. Southern Methodist Uni- versity freshman Eric Straw was part of that 60 percent. He said he was more focused on getting the hang of things than being competitive. “A lot is happening in one room,” Straw said. Straw said he appreciated working in an environment that allowed him to be pro- ductive and relaxed. “I don’t know how I’ll feel at 4 a.m.,” Straw said. “But now it seems fun.” University of Houston alumna Priscilla Salisbury performs as Zerbinetta at rehearsal for “The Prologue From Ariadne auf Naxos” on Wednesday night. Music school kicks of opera series Ellyn Snider | Daily Texan Staff By Alejandra Martinez @ahl3h she Although attends diferent classes each day, Ellie Jarrett ends her days the same way — rehears- ing for her upcoming opera performance. For Jarrett, a irst-year doctoral student and mezzo soprano who will be in two selections per- formed by the Butler Opera Center on Friday, rehearsals have been a balancing act this semester. “It’s been a challenge to stay at rehearsal every night, and then come home and try to do reading[s] and try to do journals and try to study,” Jarrett said. Jarrett’s work will move to the stage Friday night when the two operas are per- formed at the McCullough heatre. Despite the struggle to balance school and per- forming, Jarrett believes the preparation for Friday’s event has paid of. “It’s the style and the range that has been most challeng- ing for me,” Jarrett said. “I feel like I can do almost any- thing now, vocally, because of how much of a struggle it was for me at the beginning.” he irst piece for Friday’s event, the Prologue from Richard Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos,” revolves around two groups of performers with radically diferent styles who have to perform as one cohesive group on the night they meet. he second, Gus- tav Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde”, is based on vari- ous Chinese poems translat- ed into German that explore more abstract concepts. he process of bringing the pieces to life began last spring. Robert DeSimone, music professor and di- rector of the Butler Opera Center, has been follow- ing the process from the v ery beginning. “here’s a fairly rigid pro- cess of how these things are put together,” DeSimone said. “And this process is done very much in the same way that you might ind in a professional opera com- pany anywhere in the world. just that our singers It’s are students.” While the Mahler piece was rich with emotional mu- sical material, staging it gave the group the creative free- dom to interpret the piece beyond the music. Accord- ing to Kathleen Kelly, princi- pal vocal coach and lecturer THE PROLOGUE FROM ARIADNE AUF NAXOS & DAS LIED VON DER ERDE When: Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 4 p.m. Where: McCullough Theatre Cost: Free for UT students, $20 for the general public at the Butler Opera Center, there was ample room for interpretation. “here’s a lot of emotional content in the orchestra,” Kelly said. “But in terms of how to physicalize it on stage, we’re just making all of that up. So the amount of creativity involved is huge. It’s a place for our directors’ imaginations to run wild.” DeSimone expects a di- verse audience made up of people familiar with the work and those who are new to the music and their composers. “Anyone who is attracted to classical music will tend to know the name of both composers,” DeSimone said. “hat in itself becomes an at- traction, maybe even if they don’t know the work.” 1 presents DOUBLE COVERAGE Friday, October 24, 2014 YOUNG, MCCOY, SWOOPES? 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PAGE 12 EDITOR’S NOTE Iowa State nearly shocked Texas at home last weekend, but the Longhorns came away with a much needed victory. Charlie Strong’s bunch will need at least three more wins this season to gain bowl eligibility and, with three of their inal ive games coming against ranked opponents, that will mean pulling off an upset or two. This weekend’s visit to No. 11 Kansas State will be their irst opportunity to do just that. Stefan Scraield, Double Coverage Editor presents DOUBLE COVERAGE Friday, October 24, 2014 Vol. 9, Issue 8 Writers: Evan Berkowitz Garrett Callahan Nick Castillo Daniel Clay Jori Epstein Sebastian Herrera Drew Lieberman Jacob Martella Peter Sblendorio Double Coverage Editor...............................................................................Stefan Scraield Design Editor................................................................................................Omar Longoria Photo Editor..................................................................................................Shelby Tauber Copy Editor............................................................................................................Taiki Miki Name: 2961/Dobie Center; Width: 60p0; Depth: 10 in; Color: Process color, 2961/Dobie Center; Ad Number: 2961 3 Having lost four of his irst six games in Austin, head coach Charlie Strong’s inagu- ral season with the Longhorns isn’t exactly going to plan. Texas will need to lip the script and win four of its inal six games to gain bowl eligibilty in 2014. Are Swoopes and Co. capable of turning it around or will the Longhorns continue to spiral down the historical drain? It all starts with Iowa State this weekend. riters: Evan Berkowitz Garrett Callahan Nick Castillo Daniel Clay Jori Epstein Sebastian Herrera Drew Lieberman Jacob Martella Peter Sblendorio ...............................................................................Stefan Scraield ................................................................................................Omar Longoria ..................................................................................................Shelby Tauber ............................................................................................................Taiki Miki 4 84-27-3 Texas’ all-time record in its eighth game of the season, winning 73.7 percent of those contests. 6-2 Texas’ record when entering a game at 3-4, a win percentage of 75 percent. 26-24 4 BY THE NUMBERS By Drew Lieberman @DrewLieberman 8-6 The series record between Texas and Kansas State, in the Wildcats’ favor. Kansas State leads the series 7-3 since the formation of the Big 12. The Longhorns are 1-5 against the Wildcats on the road. 100.8 Rushing yards per game allowed by Kan- sas State so far this season, the fewest in the conference and ninth-best nation- ally. The Longhorns are only averaging 144.43 yards on the ground per game, ninth in the conference, but are com- ing off a season-best 191 yard perfor- mance against Iowa State. 11 The number of passes the Longhorns have intercepted in their irst seven games of 2014, one more than their 2013 interception total. The defense has 10 picks in the three victories, while only one has come in the four losses. 5 In the win over Iowa State, Swoopes be- came the ifth quar- terback in program history to throw for 300 or more yards in back-to-back games. Of the ive to do so, only James Brown and Colt McCoy accomplished the feat at least twice in their careers. 77.8% The conversion percentage of Kansas State’s opponents in the red zone, the lowest percentage in the Big 12. The Longhorns are allowing opponents to score in 80 percent of their trips to the red zone, which is tied for sec- ond lowest in the conference. Friday, October 24, 2014 The average score of games in the series, in Texas’ favor. But, the average score is 34-18 in Kansas State’s favor when the Longhorns are on the road and 32-21, in favor of the Wildcats, in Big 12 con- ference contests between the two schools. 24 The Longhorns have sacked op- posing quarterbacks 24 times this season, tied for the conference lead and ranked seventh nationally. Kansas State, on the other hand, has recorded only seven sacks, few- est in the Big 12 and tied for 117th in the nation. 800 Sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes has accounted for a total of 800 yards of offense over Texas’ past two games. Only former quarterbacks Colt McCoy and Vince Young have accounted for higher totals in back- to-back games in school history. 371 The number of rushing yards on the season by Kansas State’s senior quarterback Jake Waters, the most in the conference by a non-running back. Waters enters this weekend only 25 rushing yards behind Texas’ leading rusher, senior running back Malcolm Brown, despite play- ing one less game. Tyrone Swoopes QB 6-2 The record of Shawn Watson, Texas’ quarterbacks coach and play caller, when calling plays against Bill Snyder, Kansas State’s head coach. Wat- son’s record against Snyder was 4-2 when he called plays for Colorado from 2000-05, and his 2009 and 2010 Nebraska teams went 2-0. Friday, October 24, 2014 5 5 MATCHUPS By Daniel Clay @dclay567 QB RB WR OL Advantage: Kansas State Advantage: Kansas State Advantage: Kansas State Wildcat signal-caller Jake Waters is the engine behind one of the most bal- anced option attacks in the country. he senior leads the team in rushing and has notched two 100-yard rushing perfor- mances on the season to complement his 8.6 yards per pass attempt. Tyrone Swoopes’ performance against Iowa State perfectly summed up the sophomore quarterback. Swoopes lashed his great athleticism by scampering for 95 yards and lobbing two perfect deep balls on Texas’ inal drive, but he showed his inconsistency with a horrendous inter- ception in the end zone and dangerous misires on earlier long passes. Sophomore Charles Jones and senior DeMarcus Robinson give Kansas State the two-pronged attack that Jonathan Gray and Malcolm Brown were supposed to bring to the Longhorns. Jones and Robinson are averaging 4.9 and 4.6 yards per carry, respectively, and the two have an almost equal share of the touches out of the backield. Junior Johnathan Gray and senior Mal- colm Brown have been serviceable run- ning the ball all season, but the tandem was supposed to make up one of the best backields in college football. he run- ning backs have not yet proven that they can carry this team to victory this season. At the receiver position, the Wildcats have a frightening duo that will expose any weaknesses in Texas’ man-to-man coverage ability. Senior Tyler Lockett is one of the best receivers in the country, but senior Curry Sexton has thrived in his shadow, hauling in 412 yards and two touchdowns. Junior Marcus Johnson has used the last couple of games to work his way back into the mix and give the Texas ofense a much-needed vertical threat. Senior John Harris continues to be Swoopes’ go-to re- ceiver and is coming of of a nine-recep- tion, 147-yard game. Advantage: Kansas State he Wildcat ofensive line has been a stout run-blocking unit all season. he three veteran starters on the let side — including B.J. Finney, a Remington Tro- phy candidate — have combined for 88 career starts and helped the Wildcats av- erage 4.6 yards per carry this season. Ofensive line coach Joe Wickline has been rotating personnel all season in search of the perfect combination of line- men. Junior let guard Sedrick Flowers is the only lineman who has started every game for Texas, but the group has made steady improvements each week. 45 LB 50 DB 45 ST Advantage: Kansas State Advantage: Texas Advantage: Texas DL All-American defensive end Ryan Mueller had 11.5 sacks in 2013, but the senior has only 1.5 so far in 2014. he Wildcat defensive line has done a great job against the run, however, holding its opponents to a mere 3.2 yards per carry. he Texas defensive line has played much better against the run in recent weeks, but it needs to start getting pres- sure on the quarterbacks. Opposing pass- ers have had plenty of time to pick apart the secondary when the Longhorns don’t come with a blitz. Texas needs a great game from its linebackers in order to knock of Kan- sas State. he Wildcats’ balanced attack thrives on linebackers overcommitting to the pass or the run, meaning senior Jordan Hicks and company will have to play with great discipline to stop both the short-pass and ground attacks. Senior linebacker Jonathan Truman anchors the Kansas State linebacking corps and leads the Wildcats with a team- high 60 tackles. Fellow senior Dakorey Johnson has spent a lot of time in oppos- ing backields this season, generating a team-high 5.5 tackles for loss. Senior Quandre Diggs is one of the best cover corners in the nation, but the rest of the secondary has struggled to sup- port him at times. Senior safety Mykkele hompson struggles to tackle consistent- ly and junior cornerback Duke homas is not as good as his three interceptions might suggest. he Wildcats do not really have a weak- ness on defense, but the secondary has not been quite as dominant as the front seven. Still, the Wildcats have held op- ponents to a solid 251.2 passing yards per game, and junior cornerback Morgan Burns has recorded three interceptions in his last two games. Advantage: K-State he Wildcats have the explosiveness to exploit the Longhorns’ frail special teams. Tyler Lockett’s 26.8 yards per return av- erage is the highest in the country, and the senior has four kickof return touch- downs in his career. Redshirt freshman kicker Matthew McCrane has converted all 21 of his kicks this season. Texas inally played a full sixty minutes without a horrendous special teams gafe and, not coincidentally, managed to pull of its irst close win of the 2014 season in the process. his unit has proven that it can at least be mediocre, but the return game needs to improve if special teams are to become a strength for the Longhorns. KEYS TO THE GAME By Daniel Clay @Dclay567 Friday, October 24, 2014 6 6 Better Backs Junior Johnathan Gray and senior Malcolm Brown have been reliable but un- remarkable in the season’s early weeks. Back then, it was assumed that defenses were throwing all of their resources into stopping the run with the hopes of forc- ing a young and unproven Tyrone Swoopes into mak- ing more throws than he was comfortable with. The sophomore quarter- back has looked as good as advertised the last two weeks, but the running backs still have not lived up to expectations. Brown did score two touchdowns against Iowa State, but his 3.8 yards per carry were a better indicator of his over- all performance. The Long- horn staff says Gray is fully recovered from last season’s ruptured Achilles, but the junior does not look as ex- Name: 3155/House Ads; Width: 19p4; Name: 3155/House Ads; Width: 19p4; Name: 3155/House Ads; Width: 19p4; SUPER FAN Depth: 10 in; Color: Process color, 3155/ Depth: 10 in; Color: Process color, 3155/ Depth: 10 in; Color: Process color, 3155/ House Ads; Ad Number: 3155 House Ads; Ad Number: 3155 House Ads; Ad Number: 3155 Show your support for the #1-rated college newspaper in the U.S! Like Friends of The Daily Texan on Facebook: @Friends-of-the-Texan Join us this season! Watch UT Football on our patio COMing SOON: NEW RAINEY ST. LOCATION GO HORNS! 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It would not be unreasonable to assume that Swoopes re- gresses against the Wildcats, and if he does, the backs will have to pick up the slack and put their recent struggles behind them. Improved Linebacker Play he Texas three-man linebacking corps will have to play disciplined football and win its one-on-one matchups in or- der to contain Kansas State’s diverse collection of ofensive threats and stop an attack that is eerily similar to the one that helped BYU romp to a 41-7 victory over the Longhorns back in September. he linebackers have to make an efort to neutralize senior quarterback Jake Waters’ run threat and still ind a way to pressure the strong passer into making bad decisions. hat being said, Waters will let his running backs — sophomore Charles Jones and senior DeMarcus Robinson — take over the game if the front seven is too focused on the quarterback. Wildcat sophomore fullback Glenn Gronkowski will spend most of his aternoon lead blocking in the run game but, as Oklahoma quickly learned, he can tear up a defense if the line- backers do not account for him on short passes and play action. Cover the Stars Defensive coordinator Vance Bedford loves to trot out ive guys to bolster his secondary, but some of his defensive backs are so weak in man coverage that it may not be worth the change in personnel. Texas’ nickel package means that Kansas State’s senior receivers — Tyler Lockett and Curry Sexton — will get the chance to line up opposite either sophomore Dylan Haines or senior Mykkele hompson when one of the two slides from safety to cornerback in the nickel package. Opposing quarter- backs love to pick on Haines and hompson in man coverage, and neither has given them a reason not to. Senior defensive back Quandre Diggs could help neutralize one of the best receivers in the country in Lockett, but Bed- ford prefers to line Diggs up at nickelback to help stop the run. Haines and hompson will have to put the Iowa State game behind them and play lockdown defense if Texas is to avoid another secondary meltdown against one of the best receiving corps in the country. 7 7 … If sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes can continue to improve. Against Okla- homa and Iowa State, Swoopes threw for a combined 655 passing yards and three touch- downs. Additionally, Swoopes ran for 145 yards and two touchdowns. If Swoopes can perform up to the standard he set over the past two games, the Longhorns will be in prime position to beat the Wildcats. Texas quarterback Tyrone Swoopes is playing some of the best football we’ve ever seen from a Longhorn quarterback. He’ll need to continue his hot play to upset Kansas State. Ethan Oblak | Daily Texan Staff Name: 2809/Randolph Brooks Federal Cr; Width: 29p6; Depth: 6 in; Color: Black, 2809/Randolph Brooks Federal Cr; Ad Number: 2809 Friday, October 24, 2014 SCENARIOS By Nick Castillo @Nick_Castillo74 Texas Wins … If the defense can rebound from its rough outing against Iowa State. he Longhorns gave up 524 total yards against the Cyclones. If Texas is going to upset No. 11 Kansas State, the defense needs to play like it did against Baylor and Oklahoma, and head coach Charlie Strong knows that. At his weekly press conference, Strong said the mistakes made against Iowa State are ixable. “It’s all about fundamentals and technique,” Strong said. “It’s about alignment. It’s all about gap integrity. [Iowa State] making the throws that should have never been made. Guys weren’t [in pass coverage] dropping in the right spots. hat’s what upsets you cause it’s things we have done and played so well.” If the defense plays up to its potential, Texas could pull out a win Saturday. he ave and gles … If the running game continues to get better. With Swoopes’ improvement, the Longhorns’ running game has played a bigger role in the ofense. Swoopes, senior run- ning back Malcolm Brown and junior running back Johnathan Gray rushed for ive touchdowns against Iowa State. If Texas can get a similar production from the running game, the Longhorns can take down Kansas State. Texas Loses … If it can’t contain senior wide receiver Tyler Lockett. Lockett is a huge threat in the Kansas State ofense. his season, Lockett has amassed 485 receiving yards and four touchdowns. If the Longhorns can’t contain Lockett, it could be a long aternoon in Manhattan. … If it can’t stop Kansas State’s rushing attack. he Wildcats have recorded a total of 1,105 rushing yards and 19 rushing touchdowns this season. Kansas State also averages 184.2 rushing yards per game. Texas will need to stop the Wildcat running game, or it will struggle Saturday. … If it struggles against senior quarterback Jake Waters. Waters is the team’s leading rusher with 371 yards this season and has rushed for seven touchdowns. Waters has also thrown for 1,431 yards and nine touchdowns. If Waters plays well against the Longhorns, they don’t stand a chance. 8 Friday, October 24, 2014 8 WHO NEEDS TO STEP UP By Nick Castillo @Nick_Castillo74 Safeties Ethan Oblak | Daily Texan Staff Defensive end Cedric Reed Texas linebacker Dalton Santos was forced into action in place of the injured Steve Edmond last week. With Edmond still recovering, Santos will likely get plenty of reps again Saturday. Name: 3045/Cinco Vodka; Width: 29p6; Depth: 5 in; Color: Process color, 3045/Cinco Vodka; Ad Number: 3045 Safety Jason Hall may only be a freshman, but his presence was sorely missed against Iowa State. he patchwork rotation of sophomore Adrian Colbert and senior Josh Turner struggled against the Cyclones. Hall is listed as day-to-day, so even if he does play against Kansas State, it’s unlikely that he’ll be at 100 percent. he Longhorns will need better production from Colbert and Turner if Hall is out or not at full strength. On the opposite side, senior safety Mykkele hompson had issues against Iowa State, too. he Longhorns will have a challenge in defending Tyler Lockett, Kansas State’s deep threat, so they can’t aford to have troubling safety play plague an otherwise solid sec- ondary. Colbert, Hall, hompson and Turner must step up in order for Texas to upset the Wildcats. Linebacker Dalton Santos Junior linebacker Dalton Santos started at middle linebacker in place of senior Steve Edmond against Iowa State. Dalton appeared a step slower than the Cyclones, and Edmond was forced into action as a result. If Edmond isn’t 100 percent Saturday, Santos will need to be ready to go against the Wildcats. He’ll need to step up and perform better than he did against the Cyclones if he is forced into the middle linebacker role against Kansas State. Senior defensive end Cedric Reed hasn’t had the season he was expected to have. While Reed’s presence on the ield is noticeable, his season statistics show that his productivity hasn’t been great. his season, Reed only has 1.5 sacks and four tackles for loss. he Longhorns need more from Reed as they look to knock of the Wildcats on Saturday. Running Backs While the ofensive line has hampered the Longhorn running game this season, senior running back Malcolm Brown, junior running back Johnathan Gray and sopho- more quarterback Tyrone Swoopes have inally started to see success running the ball. Swoopes ran for 95 yards and a touchdown against Iowa State. Brown and Gray added an additional 86 yards and three scores on the ground against the Cyclones. Now that Swoopes is having success running the ball, defenses are more likely to respect him in the run game, which will open things up for the backs. If the Wildcats contain Swoopes, the running backs will need to step up in his place. Longhorn defen- sive end Cedric Reed has strug- gled to live up to expectations this season. He’ll have to be bet- ter in order for Texas to knock off the Wildcats on the road this weekend. Ethan Oblak Daily Texan Staff Handcrafted40% Alc./Vol. © 2014 Cinco – The Five Star Vodka. Please drink responsibly.All The Way FromIMPORTEDTEXASTRIPLE GOLD WINNER Friday, October 24, 2014 9 9 STOCK UP, STOCK DOWN By Evan Berkowitz @Evan_Berkowitz Name: 3287/PPD Development -- Display; Width: 29p6; Depth: 10 in; Color: Black, 3287/PPD Development -- Display; Ad Number: 3287 Stock Up: Tyrone Swoopes Swoopes is a regular on this list now as almost all the atten- tion has been on him recently. For the second consecutive week, Swoopes lived up to the high standards that were set for him, throwing for 321 yards. he coaching staf inally looks com- fortable letting him air it out, and it is paying of. But most im- portantly, Swoopes is inally running and showing of the legs. He is by no means “Vince Young Jr.,” but he is efective. His 14 rushes for 95 yards and a touchdown really opened up the of- fense against Iowa State. he young quarterback is improving at a rapid pace, and everyone can tell. Stock Down: Johnathan Gray he Longhorns carried the ball 39 times against Iowa State, but only six of those went to Gray, who managed to punch one into the endzone. he former ive-star recruit’s workload has decreased each game, as senior running back Malcolm Brown has earned the bulk of the carries. Gray got over 50 percent of the running back touches in week one and ex- actly half the carries the following week, as he and Brown were sharing the workload. But, his impact has declined ever since. Despite Gray’s higher yards per carry average, Brown is getting the majority of the touches now. Over the past three weeks, Gray has had just 34 percent of the running back touches, and that number is trending downwards. Stock Up: Dylan Haines he 74-yard interception return for a touchdown stands out — as it should. But, the former walk-on did more than that against the Cyclones. He led the team in solo tackles with nine and helped limit the deep throws for Iowa State. He is also involved with the special teams on punts and kickofs. he sophomore safety is quickly becoming one of head coach Charlie Strong’s favorites. “hat’s the kind of guy that you like to see go play because he plays hard, and he gives you everything he’s got,” Strong said. Stock Down: Adrian Colbert he Longhorns have two stars at corner: senior Quan- dre Diggs, who has made his presence felt for a while, and junior Duke homas, who is emerging as a shutdown guy on the other side ater a few slow games to start the year. But aside from that, Texas’ secondary has some major holes. Colbert, who got the majority of the reps with fresh- man Jason Hall out, was sloppy all around. He didn’t help stop the rush or do much to slow down the passing game. He ended up with just ive tackles on the evening, a rather unimpressive number against a team that completed 36 passes and ran the ball 38 times. If it wasn’t for Haines’ pick-six and homas’ late-game interception, the second- ary’s performance would have looked awful. Giving up 345 passing yards to Iowa State is nothing to brag about. 10 Swoopes’ rapid growth has many thinking he might just be the quarterback the Longhorn football program has been desper- ate for ever since Colt McCoy left in 2010. Jenna VonHofe Daily Texan Staff Friday, October 24, 2014 11 Many Longhorns capitalize on fresh start By Drew Lieberman @DrewLieberman At the conclusion of spring camp, Texas seemed pretty set at wide receiver. Senior Jaxon Shipley and junior Marcus Johnson looked poised to be the team’s primary pass catchers. Six months later, and more than halfway through the season, neither Shipley nor Johnson are the team’s top receiver. hat distinction be- longs to senior wide receiver John Harris, who has quickly become quarterback Tyrone Swoopes’ favorite target. Ater four largely unremarkable seasons with the program, Harris has surprisingly emerged as the most reliable weapon on a team he nearly quit. “I remember — he was considering not com- ing back because he was disappointed in some of the things that happened in his career before we got here,” said Shawn Watson, quarterbacks coach and play caller. “He was really down and had gotten heavy.” Swoopes and the Longhorn ofense are thank- ful he reconsidered. Currently, Harris leads the team in receiving yards and has caught two-thirds of its touch- down passes. In seven games this season, he has already tripled his career touchdown reception total, more than quadrupled his career receiving yardage and snagged 40 passes ater only record- ing nine catches in his irst four years on campus. “He’s become the poster child for what we want in our program, I think, ofensively and defen- sively, every coach would tell you,” Watson said. “Because he’s invested himself in our program, and he’s invested himself in what he expected to get out of it.” Another player who has experienced a mete- oric rise to relevance is sophomore safety Dylan Haines. Haines joined the program in 2012 as a walk-on but didn’t see the ield in his irst two seasons. Under the old regime, he may never have even seen the ield. But with a new coaching staf in town and a couple key personnel changes, Haines took advantage of an opportunity to seize the va- cant safety spot. “He was getting picks,” Harris said of Haines’ performance in the spring. “So he SURPRISES page 16 ALL IN ONE FELL SWOOPES From zero to hero, Texas’ quarterback is being compared to the Longhorn greats By StefanScraield @StefanScraield here is perhaps no college quarterback more honest than sophomore Tyrone Swoopes. Ater a rough outing against Baylor, he admitted to being nervous in the game’s early stages. He looked a little slug- gish in the open ield against Oklahoma and was quick to acknowledge that he’s not exactly the fastest guy out there. And this week, Swoopes conceded that he didn’t believe his ofense was capable of scoring the 48 points that it needed to squeak past Iowa State. Heck, Swoopes even confessed that he didn’t know if he’d ever get to call the Texas ofense “his.” With David Ash gaining an extra year of eligibility and top recruit Jerrod Heard arriving on the 40 Acres this of- season, the Whitewright, Texas, native didn’t think he’d ever be the starter in Austin. “I honestly did not,” Swoopes said. “I know a lot of other people didn’t think I would be either.“ Even his coach, Charlie Strong, wasn’t sure if Swoopes could handle the responsibility. Ater his struggles back in April, Strong joked that he considered taking advantage of his quarterback’s size somewhere else on the ield. “I go back to spring practice, and the spring game was like, wow, can he play quarterback?” Strong said. “I was go- ing to tell him to move to another position.” For what it’s worth, Swoopes never considered changing positions. “No, I honestly didn’t,” Swoopes said. “I knew there was going to be growing pains. … So, I knew it was just going to be diicult at irst.“ Diicult indeed, but through it all, Swoopes maintained a level head and continued to put in the hours, knowing he SWOOPES page 16 Jenna VonHofe | Daily Texan Staff Sophomore safety Dylan Haines is one of many key Longhorns who never saw the ield under the old regime. New head coach Charlie Strong and his staff gave everyone a chance when they irst arrived in Austin and several Longhorns who struggled under Mack Brown have taken advantage of the opportunity. 12 12 Kansas State quarterback Jake Waters has gone from being an unheralded junior college pivot in Iowa to one of the top players in the Big 12. The senior enters Saturday’s contest with the Longhorns as the team leader in passing and rushing. Waters leading Big 12’s top team Chelsea Purgahn | Daily Texan ile photo By Jori Epstein @JoriEpstein It seems that everyone — opponents, teammates, coaches and scouts — sees Jake Waters, Kansas State’s senior quarterback, a little diferently. Some say he’s tough, others say he’s persistent; some note his running game, others look at his passing game; some high- light what he’s already ac- complished, others tout his potential. But head coach Bill Sny- der sees it all. “I see a young guy that is committed to becoming a better player and works diligently at it,” Snyder said at a Tuesday press confer- ence. “He studies the game, has made that improve- ment [and] has gained more confidence about his abilities in all the facets of the game.” Waters’ confidence wasn’t an immediate de- velopment. Like many Wildcats, the senior signal caller’s collegiate career didn’t start in Manhat- tan, Kansas, but rather in Council Bluffs, Iowa, at Iowa Western Com- munity College. Waters earned the 2012 NJCAA Offensive Player of the lead- Year honor after ing the Reivers to a 12-0 record and a national championship. His ju- nior college performance earned him a spot on the Wildcats’ team, where he started every game in his rookie season at the FBS level last season. Snyder says Waters’ experiences show he’s “committed to continued improvement.” He reiterated Waters’ ver- satility after Kansas State beat Oklahoma 31-30 last Saturday. “When I asked Jake, ‘Can you do this,’ he said, ‘I can do it coach,’” Snyder said. “I asked if there was anything we need to be restrictive of and he said, ‘I can do it all. If you want me to run it, tell me. If you want me to throw it, I’ll throw it.’” three Waters was effective through the air and on the ground against Oklahoma, using his arm and legs to register each of the Wild- cats’ touchdowns. With 225 passing yards and another 51 yards rushing, Waters moved his way up the Kansas State record books. He now sits 10th all time in total yards — 4,583 — and comple- tions — 267 — despite this being only his second sea- son with the program. After the Oklahoma game, multiple Sooners commented on the pow- erhouse that Waters has become. Redshirt sopho- more quarterback Trevor Knight said Waters makes a victory over Kansas State “extremely challeng- ing” as he “conducts the offense very well.” Okla- homa sophomore corner- back Zack Sanchez echoed those sentiments. “[Facing Waters is] ex- tremely tough — especially the way they use him,” San- chez said. “here’s just so many things he can do, from the run to throwing the ball while he’s on the run. He’s just a really tough quarter- back to scheme against.” ready they, to too, As the Longhorns get travel north, anticipate K-STATE page 16 Friday, October 24, 2014 PLAYERS TO WATCH By Peter Sblendorio @petersblendorio Quarterback Jake Waters Waters is enjoying a breakout campaign in his second year as the starter, passing for 1,431 yards and nine touch- downs and just three interceptions through six games. He currently sports a career-high 65.1 completion percentage, and he’s topped 200 passing yards in every game in 2014. he biggest diference for Waters this year, however, has been his ability to run the ball. he senior leads the Wild- cats with 371 rushing yards, already more than he had all of last year, and he’s scored seven times on the ground. He’s rushed for at least one touchdown in ive of his six games this season, and he has four games with at least 50 rush- ing yards. he Texas defense had trouble slowing down Sam Richardson, Iowa State’s dual-threat quarterback, last week, and Waters igures to be an even tougher matchup. Wide receiver Tyler Lockett At 5-feet-11 inches and 175 pounds, Lockett doesn’t it the size of a prototypical number one receiver, but that’s exactly what he’s proven to be for the Wildcats. Ater catch- ing 81 passes for 1,262 yards and 11 touchdowns last year, Lockett has seen a bit of a dip in his numbers this season. Nonetheless, he’s still been highly productive, hauling in 35 passes through six games while leading the Wildcats with 485 receiving yards and four touchdown grabs. Lock- ett dominated the Longhorns last year, recording a career- high 13 catches for 237 yards, and he could be in line for another big day against a struggling Texas secondary. Wide receiver Curry Sexton hrough six games, Sexton has been one of the biggest surprises in the Big 12. Ater a promising junior season in 2013, the senior has exploded this season for 412 yards and two receiving touchdowns while leading the Wildcats with 36 receptions. He’s had three games with at least eight catch- es already, and he has two games this season with at least 120 receiving yards. He’s been particularly impressive in his last two outings, hauling in 17 receptions for 205 yards and two scores over that stretch. He and Lockett combine to form one of the best wide receiver duos in the conference. Sophomore running back Charles Jones Despite having zero carries under his belt entering the season, Jones has established himself as one of the Wild- cats’ most explosive playmakers. he sophomore leads Kansas State with eight touchdowns this season, and his 336 rushing yards are second on the team behind Waters. He rushed for at least one touchdown in each of his irst four games this season, and he has three games with at least two scores so far in 2014. He’s still looking for the irst 100- yard performance of his career, but he’s been steadily aver- aging 4.9 yards per carry so far this year. 13 13 Friday, October 24, 2014 BIG 12 NOTEBOOK By Jacob Martella @ViewFromTheBox Oficials clear up controversial video review To say the oicials were a bit lag-happy in Mor- gantown, West Virginia, on Saturday would be an un- derstatement. In West Vir- ginia’s 41-27 win over Baylor, the oicials penalized both teams a total of 32 times — a Big 12 record — but it was a review at the end of the irst half that caught a lot of ire from fans watching the game. With the ball at the West Virginia 39-yard line, Mountaineer senior quar- terback Clint Trickett com- pleted a pass into Baylor ter- ritory, but it was called back for ineligible man downield. But, despite a supposed in- ability to review that variety of penalty, the replay oicial called for one and ended up reversing the call, putting West Virginia in position to hit a ield goal before half. Monday, Walt Anderson, director of oicials for the Big 12, said the replay oi- cial was, in fact, “correct” in calling for the review, ESPN’s Jake Trotter said. Anderson said the referees can review when the error is “egregious.” he Big 12 has had multiple oiciating issues this year, so it’ll be worth watching to see what kind of can of worms this may open. Pair of Oklahoma State play- ers arrested Oklahoma State might be without one of its receivers and a backup cornerback when it takes the ield Sat- urday against West Virginia. Sophomore receiver Jhajuan Seales and freshman receiver Juwan Ofray were arrested Sunday on complaints of public intoxication. he two were allegedly found asleep in a car in the drive-through lane of a Whataburger, ac- cording to a police report attained by the Tulsa World. Ofray was also cited for hampering an oicer when he reportedly gave the oicer a fake name before admit- ting his actual name. Seales has caught 13 passes for 236 yards and three touchdowns for the Cowboys this sea- son, and Ofray has recorded three tackles. Tech facing numerous inju- ries ahead of TCU showdown he injury list for the Red Raiders is a lot longer than they hoped it would have been going into a big game against TCU on Saturday. According to the Lubbock Avalanche- Journal, Texas Tech has about a dozen players on the injury list, including eight men on a Name: 3011/Fiesta Mart; Width: 60p0; Depth: 5 in; Color: Process color, 3011/Fiesta Mart; Ad Number: 3011 Lauren Ussery | Daily Texan Staff Big 12 oficials have come under plenty of scrutiny in 2014. The latest issue stems from a controversial decision to review a call in last week’s game between Baylor and West Virginia. defense that has struggled even when healthy this season. he biggest injuries are to sopho- more safety Keenon Ward, who sufered a concussion in the win against Kansas, and se- nior linebacker Sam Eguavoen, who let the game with a lower let leg injury. Ward has 46 total tackles and a forced fumble this season, and Eguavoen has 49 tackles, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery this year. 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Dak Prescott Quarterback 2. Oregon QB Marcus Mariota Last week (W, 45-20, vs. Washington): 24-for-33, 336 pass- ing yards, 2 TDs 2014: 1,957 passing yards, 19 passing TDs, 0 INTs, 289 rushing yards, 5 rushing TDs he Ducks have silenced critics over the past two weeks ater their loss to Arizona, and, through it all, Mariota has kept the same poise he is known for. It seems impossible to startle the ju- nior in any situation. Against Washington, his numbers weren’t proliic, but it’s the intangibles that showed up once again on each drive, which led Oregon to an easy 25-point win. Field generals don’t come better made than Mariota, and although Oregon still has tough opponents ahead, it’s diicult to bet against the leader of this Ducks team. 3. Wisconsin RB Melvin Gordon Last week: BYE 2014: 132 attempts, 1,046 rushing yards, 13 TDs, 1 receiving TD With Todd Gurley’s status still unknown, Gordon stands alone as the best running back in college football. he title is well deserved, as the 6-foot- 1-inch, 207-pound junior has been on another level this sea- son. Gordon has scored mul- tiple touchdowns almost every Saturday this fall, and, with a nation-best 174 yards per game average, Gordon has heavily impacted every matchup. Melvin Gordon Running back Charlie Pearce | Daily Texan ile photo Oregon’s Marcus Mariota continues to ind his name at the forefront of the Heisman conversation, despite the Ducks loss to Arizona. The junior has been the most consistent pivot in the country this season and has yet to throw an interception. 4. Alabama WR Amari Cooper 5. Florida State QB Jameis Winston Last week (W, 59-0, vs. Texas A&M): 8 receptions, 140 yards, 2 TDs 2014: 62 receptions, 908 yards, 7 TDs Last week (W, 31-27, vs. Notre Dame): 23-for-31, 273 passing yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT 2014: 1,878 passing yards, 13 passing TDs, 6 INTs, 2 rushing TDs took There were plenty of opportunities to shine in Alabama’s blowout over Texas A&M last week, full and Cooper advantage. He looked untouchable against the Aggie defense, as he has many times this fall. But, the greatest part about Cooper’s stat line against the Aggies is the realiza- tion that those kinds of numbers have been the norm for the Tide receiv- er. The way Cooper has been playing, he looks like he’s the only Crim- son Tide target on the field at times. He’s been that good. Somehow, Winston’s slew of of-the-ield issues haven’t afected his on- ield performance at all, as he’s roared back into the Heisman conversation. Of course, getting back into this race is easier when you do what Winston has done all season long — win. Ater a year and a half, Winston is still undefeated as a starter at Florida State. Against Notre Dame, he completed 15 of his 16 passes in the second half and led the Seminoles to three critical touchdowns to defeat then- No. 5 Fighting Irish. Amari Cooper Wide receiver Jameis Winston Quarterback Name: 3029/House; Width: 60p0; Depth: 10 in; Color: Process color, 3029/House; Ad Number: 3029 15 Caption here. | Daily Texan ile photo Come on! everyone’s invited Free Food & Fun! Look for the Daily Texan tent near MLK & Brazos before every home game Starts 4 hours before every game Special thanks to our sponsors: 16 SWOOPES continues from page 10 might still get his shot. “I knew I needed to stay ready,” Swoopes said. “[I] just went out and practiced every day, worked hard and just kind of came into what I am now.” What he is now is a dual- threat gunslinger with a propensity to ill up the stat sheet. The sophomore threw and ran for a total of 800 yards against Oklahoma and Iowa State, a two- game stretch that has only been matched by two oth- ers in program history: Vince Young and Colt Mc- Coy. Not bad company for a guy who has only started six games. Just a couple weeks ago, fans and media alike were clamoring for Heard to re- place Swoopes. hat narra- tive has quickly changed. Swoopes’ recent success has many of those same people wondering if he is the dominant signal caller the Longhorns have been SURPRISES continues from page 11 earned the right, so there was nothing in my mind that didn’t think any- thing of it. He was mak- ing plays all spring, so he deserved it.” Before the season opener against North Texas, Haines was rewarded with a schol- arship. In that 38-7 victory, he recorded the irst inter- ception of his career — a sign of what was to come in 2014. “he kid’s a football play- er; it’s that simple,” defensive coordinator Vance Bedford said. “He understands the game. He understands his strengths, and he under- stands his weaknesses.” One of his strengths appears to be a penchant for the football. In last 16 Swoopes has been hon- est about his struggles at times in 2014, but now that he’s playing so well, he has nothing to dwell on. Ethan Oblak Daily Texan Staff desperate for ever since Mc- Coy let Austin in 2010. His aren’t teammates looking so far ahead, but they, too, have noticed his exponential growth, and their expectations have ris- en accordingly. “Every week that he plays better, our expectations get higher,” said senior receiver John Harris, who has been Swoopes’ target this season. “He can be that guy here. I don’t understand why people doubt him.” favorite here aren’t many doubters let, but if those who remain do have one thing to hang their hat on, it would be Swoopes’ inability to win the big game thus far. As the leader of the of- fense, Swoopes has come close against the likes of UCLA, Baylor and Oklaho- ma, but he hasn’t been able to come up with a victory. He’ll get another chance this week against No. 11 Kansas State on the road. “I think every quarterback has got to go out and get the big win because those big wins are what begin to de- ine your career,” said Shawn Watson, quarterbacks coach and play caller. “I think that’s big for [Swoopes], and that’s his next step.” As long as he continues to play the way he is now, Swoopes will eventually get the big wins. Many of his teammates claim they’ve seen the po- tential in him for some time now, but there’s no way too many people thought he could be this good. I, honestly, did not. week’s 48-45 victory over Iowa State, Haines picked off his second pass of the season and proceeded to return it 74 yards for a touchdown. Harris’ and Haines’ im- pact have certainly been a surprise but not quite as shocking as the Hughes brothers’ contributions. In last weekend’s victory over the Cyclones, sopho- tackle offensive more Camrhon Hughes earned the first start of his col- legiate career, debuting at right tackle. The move was a surprise because he didn’t even step on the field in his first two-and-a-half sea- sons on campus, but the older Hughes played well enough to be considered for a starting spot again this weekend. Younger brother Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan Staff Senior John Harris has been Tyrone Swoopes’ favorite tar- get this season, but the ifth-year receiver nearly quit play- ing after riding the bench for four years under Mack Brown. Naashon Hughes, a red- shirt freshman defensive end, has played in all sev- en games for Texas this season. In its two most recent contests, however, he has earned the start- ing nod over junior Shiro Davis and Caleb Bluiett. sophomore hat’s not bad for a kid who was initially only of- fered a grayshirt when it appeared the Longhorns would only sign one line- backer in his class. K-STATE continues from page 12 Waters’ dual-threat abilities. tight end Geoff Senior Swaim dubbed Waters as “a hell of a quarter- back” and a model of the discipline for which this Wildcat group has become known. Texas head coach Charlie Strong said the Longhorns’ defensive struggles against Iowa State serve as a great reminder of the challenges that lie ahead. “It’s good that that happened because now we have to slow down Wa- ters,” Strong said. “For our defense, sometimes you need to be brought down to earth. Now they have a chance that they’ve really got a challenge in front of them, and they have to step up.” Longhorn defenders know they’ll need to be better this weekend. Al- lowing 45 points and 524 yards of total offense to an Iowa State team that has yet to win a Big 12 game was a major step back after hold- ing Baylor and Oklahoma to just 28 points on 389 yards and 31 points on 232 Friday, October 24, 2014 It’s good that that happened because now we have to slow down Waters. For our defense, some- times you need to be brought down to earth. —Charlie Strong, Head coach yards, respectively. Senior cornerback Quan- dre Diggs is looking forward to leaving Austin for the Land of Oz this weekend. His defense will look to im- prove across the board, but stopping Waters remains the focal point. “Right now, he’s playing like he’s one of the best quar- terbacks in the Big 12,” Diggs said. “We have a number of great quarterbacks in this conference, and he’s doing great things.” NOTEBOOK continues from page 13 TCU receiver snags Big 12 honors TCU junior receiver Josh Doctson nearly beat Okla- homa State all by himself. In the span of three offen- sive plays, Doctson caught touchdown passes of 77 and 84 yards to put the Horned Frogs up 21-3 in the first quarter, en route to a 42-9 win. For his ef- fort, he was named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week. Doctson finished the day with seven catches for 225 yards and those two touchdowns. West Virginia came up with one of the biggest up- sets in the conference this season when it held the Bears to only 27 points, their lowest point total this season, and a big reason was senior defensive line- man Shaquille Riddick, who was named Big 12 De- fensive Player of the Week. Riddick totaled four solo tackles and three sacks in the win. Texas junior kicker Nick the rounded out Rose awards, earning the Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week award after kicking a 21-yard field goal to lift the Longhorns over Iowa State. It was Texas’ first game- winning field goal since Justin Tucker’s kick to beat Texas A&M in 2011. Friday, October 24, 2014 17 17 BIG 12 POWER RANKINGS By Evan Berkowitz @Evan_Berkowitz 1 No. 10 TCU The Horned Frogs are rising quickly. They started off this sea- son near the bottom of most Big 12 standing projections, but, aside from a complete fourth quarter meltdown against Baylor, they have been the most dominant team. They beat Oklahoma, they should have beaten Baylor and they crushed Oklahoma State. They are scoring at a ridiculous pace — 45.2 points per game — behind the arm of junior receiver-turned-quarterback Trevone Boykin. He’s thrown 14 touchdowns against just three picks, while adding over 57 yards per game on the ground. 2 No. 11 Kansas State The Wildcats currently sit atop the Big 12 standings with a 3-0 conference record. Head coach Bill Snyder is making a case to be coach of the year, as he has his team outplaying more talented teams yet again. They were lucky to escape Oklahoma with a win Saturday, but with senior quarterback Jake Waters’ rapid improvement and a solid defense, Kan- sas State will be able to compete with anyone. When will we stop underrating Kansas State? 3 No. 17 Oklahoma The Sooners should have beaten Kansas State at home Saturday. Michael Hunnicutt, their typically outstanding kicker, missed two “easy” ield goals and had an extra point blocked, as they went on to lose by one. The real worry isn’t Hunnicutt, however — it’s redshirt sophomore quarterback Trevor Knight. He’s completing just 59 percent of his passes while throwing six picks. He had his best game of the season against the Wild- cats, but can he keep it up? 4 No. 12 Baylor For the third straight week, the Bears looked less than stellar. They are still the highest scoring team in the country, but their defense is a major liability. After allowing less than 13 points per game in the irst ive contests, many thought this defense had igured things out. But then TCU put up 58 points, and West Virginia tallied 41 in the upset. Their remaining schedule isn’t easy, either, as they still face Kansas State and Oklahoma. 5 No. 22 West Virginia The Mountaineers proved they should be taken seriously, as they are now in the top 25. They are 6-1 on the season and have a great offense. Redshirt senior quarterback Clint Trickett is a seri- ous candidate for the Big 12 Player of the Year award, averaging over 360 yards per game to complement his 15 touchdowns. Oh, and he is completing nearly 70 percent of his passes. 6 Oklahoma State TCU put the Cowboys in their place in a blowout win last weekend. The Cowboys have the toughest remaining schedule in the Big 12, as they will face No. 22 West Virginia, No. 12 Baylor and No. 17 Oklahoma on the road in their inal four games. It may be a rough end to the season for head coach Mike Gundy and his Pokes. 7 Texas For the second week in a row, the Longhorn offense, led by the emergence of sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes, has looked like the real deal. Texas outplayed Oklahoma and hung on to beat Iowa State. Texas isn’t going to scare anyone, but they aren’t road kill either. But, sitting at just 3-4, they will need to win three of their inal ive contests to be bowl eligible. With TCU and Kansas State still on the schedule, that won’t be an easy task. 8 Iowa State Once again, the Cyclones hung around with a better team, but once again, they lost. Redshirt junior quarterback Sam Richardson is playing well at quarterback, but their defense isn’t good enough to compete in a Big 12 loaded with of- fensive juggernauts. 9 Texas Tech The Red Raider defense gets worse and worse each week. They allowed 21 points and 363 yards to Kansas, which might have been their worst performance of the year. After a hot start, their offense has begun to falter, and David Webb’s stock continues to plummet. 10 Kansas The Jayhawks aren’t going to get a Big 12 win this year. At this point, all they can do is count down the days until basketball season. Name: 3118/West Campus Partners (The ; Width: 29p6; Depth: 10 in; Color: Process color, 3118/West Campus Partners (The ; Ad Number: 3118 GAMES TO WATCH By Jacob Martella @ViewFromTheBox 18 18 Friday, October 24, 2014 Tiger Stadium Baton Rouge, Louisiana Saturday, 6:15 p.m. ESPN No. 3 Ole Miss at No. 24 LSU Ole Miss has been one of the surprise teams in the SEC West, upsetting Alabama three weeks ago. Now, the Rebels will get another challenge as they go into Death Valley at night to face a Tiger team trying to hang on in the SEC West race. Ole Miss has beneitted from a much improved Bo Wallace. he senior quarterback has thrown for 1,899 yards and 17 touchdowns so far this season, averaging 9.1 yards per attempt, the highest of his career. On the other side, freshman running back Leonard Fournette is leading the Tigers with 544 rushing yards and seven touchdowns. But, he did not score in either of the two LSU losses this season. Although the Tigers are having a down year, this is by no means an easy game for the Rebels, especially in Baton Rouge with major playof implications at stake. Rice-Eccles Stadium Salt Lake City, Utah Saturday, 9:00 p.m. Fox Sports 1 No. 20 USC at No. 19 Utah he only other matchup between ranked teams comes way of the beaten path. While they both come in ranked in the Top 20, neither USC nor Utah are in any serious conten- tion for the playofs. But, that doesn’t mean this game won’t be intriguing. he Trojans are on their way back to some relevancy ater a horrendous couple of years under former head coach Lane Kiin. Redshirt junior quarterback Cody Kessler has been fairly impressive this season, throwing for 1,884 yards, 18 touchdowns and only one interception so far. But the Trojan defense is only 47th in the country, surrendering 23.1 points per game. he Utes, on the other hand, have seemingly come out of nowhere to earn their ranking. Ater two years of being an aterthought in the Pac-12, Utah pulled of an upset over then-No. 8 UCLA two weeks ago and beat Oregon State in double overtime last week. Yes, this is a late kickof, but it ought to be well worth the wait to see these Pac-12 teams go at it. Boone Pickens Stadium Stillwater, Oklahoma Saturday, 2:30 p.m. ESPN No. 22 West Virginia at Oklahoma State he most intriguing game in the Big 12 this week comes between two teams that have had their share of ups and downs this season. West Virginia has been a bit of Jekyll and Hyde, almost pulling of an upset over Alabama and beating Baylor last week but losing to Oklahoma and needing a last-second ield goal to beat Texas Tech. Senior quarterback Clint Trickett has been masterful for the Mountaineers, passing for 2,525 yards, 15 touchdowns and ive interceptions. On the other side, Oklahoma State has struggled since junior quar- terback J.W. Walsh went down in week two with an injury. Fellow junior quarterback Daxx Garman has played decently in his place, but the Cowboys look like a far cry from the team that almost beat Florida State to start the season, having just edged out Kansas by seven points and losing 42-9 to TCU last week. If both teams show up this week as Dr. Jekyll, we could be in for a heck of a game. 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