WED. 1-20-21 The Texas Porch Report - George Springer chunks the deuces, Sark's new DC

01/20/21 • 4 min

A couple of coordinator hires at Texas schools. Some bad news for Astros fans, and College basketball I suppose. Howdy I’m J.P. Heath and here’s The Texas Porch Report: your Texas sports essentials in four minutes or less.

But the big news. Hold on Astros fans, if you haven’t heard. George Springer and the Blue Jays are in agreement on a deal. This is still pending a physical. But 6-years and $150 Million was enough to lure him away. 7 seasons for Springer in Houston and from the Astros fans perspective I always gathered this day would come. Podcast Josh for one. A while back he said it’s inevitable. Now it’s here. Another huge piece of the 2017 title team appears to be gone. The tough time continues for Houston sports fans.

All 3 Texas NBA teams in action tonight. Rockets are 12 of their 72 games into the season. They’re anxious to turn it around. Houston hosts the Suns tonight with their big gun still out. John Wall still out with his knee issue. Former Cougar and Aggie Danuel House has Covid protocol and Dante Exum is still out, but he still hasn’t played since coming in the James harden trade. Suns and Rockets jump at 8:30 on ESPN.... Spurs look to continue their better than expected start. San Antonio a late one at Golden State. ... Mavs try to break a 3-game losing streak. They play in Indiana. Early 6:00 tip.

On the college front remember #5 Texas is postponed at Iowa State. Ditto for Texas Tech. 12-th ranked Red Raiders won’t play at TCU. Head coach Jamie Dixon tested positive Monday.... In Southland play Northwestern St. is at SFA Lumberjacks 4-0 in Southland play. That’s good for first place. ... HBU home to Nicholls St. ... A&M-CC plays at UNO... Abilene Christian goes to play Sam Houston St. That’s on ESPN+. Late 8:30 start... Incarnate Word @ Lamar, PPD

Looks like Kellen Moore will interview after all in Philly. This a day after it looked like the Eagles had zeroed in on Josh mcDaniels as their coach.

Steve Sarkisian is going back near his Washington roots for his next DC. Pete Kwiatkowski has agreed to come to the 40 acres to head a once-proud defense. This according to the Football Brainiacs. Kwiatkowski’s time with the Huskies was not at the same time as Sarkisian when he was head coach. Kwiatkoswki was DC under Chris Petersen at Boise State before going to the northwest the last 7 seasons. All 7 seasons they’ve led the Pac-12 in yards per play. He’s coached 16 NFL draft picks, 10 in the first two rounds the last 6 seasons for what it’s worth.

Houston Cougars are going to promote Doug Belk as DC. He was the co-DC with Joe Cauthen, who was let go tuesday. Shoutout to to Cauthen, old DC when I was at A&M-Commerce in school. You can see the timing. Belk

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Looks like Kellen Moore will interview after all in Philly. This a day after it looked like the Eagles had zeroed in on Josh mcDaniels as their coach.

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TUES. 1-19-21 The Texas Porch Report - Ballin' Baptists, Texas native NFL hire, Spurs win

An Aggie is getting a crack at another NFL job. More on that in a little bit. AND gets a massive home win. I’m J.P. Heath and here’s The Texas Porch Report: your Texas sports essentials in four minutes or less.

All 3 Texas. NBA team had MLK day games. ....

Four Spurs go for 20 or more and they go to 8-6 and beat the Trailblazers 125-104. LaMarcus Aldridge had 22 against his former team and DeMar DeRozan had 20 points with 11 assists. The ageless one Patty Mills had 21 and so did Rudy Gay. SA’s bench was dominant. They scored almost half their points. Tomorrow the bench and the starters play at golden State.

Short-handed Mavs get whalloped in Tampa. I feel like a bad NBA fan and questionable host of a sports-ish podcast for not knowing until a couple days ago that the Raptors have moved their because of that whole Canada banning travel from the US thing. But Florida venue or not the 2019 champs blow out Dallas 116-93. KP 23 points and 9 rebounds. Dallas goes below .500 at 6-7. It’s their first three-game losing streak in almost two years.

Bulls pull one out and beat the Rockets in Chicago, 125-120. Houston shot 52% from the field but way too many first half turnovers to overcome. Victor Oladipo 32 points and 9 assists in his Rockets debut. It was the second most points in a debut in Rockets history. John Wall still out with a sore knee. Christian Wood continues to impress - 30 points and 9 rebounds. Rockets are 4-8.

#2 Baylor was on the way to throttling #9 Kansas at the Ferrell Cnter. Jayhawks got it down to 5. 77-69. Jared Butler if you somehow don’t know about him. Man. 30 points and 9 assists. Bears hit 54% of their shots and that made up for 18 turnovers. .... TCU head coach Jamie Dixon pops a positive for COVID-19. Two Horned Frogs upcoming home games are now postponed. Wednesday vs Texas Tech and Saturday vs. Texas. The Longhorns had their game tomorrow postponed at Iowa State.

The Texans finally interview Eric Bienemy for their long-vacant head coaching job. He joins Leslie Frazier, Matt Eberflus, and David Culley. This straight from the Texans twitter account. ... Clifton, Texas, native and former Aggie and Cowboy Dan Campbell will get another crack at an NFL head coaching job. He was interim head coach for the Dolphins in 2015. Most recently

ICYMI, Pride of Whitehouse Patrick Mahomes did NOT suffer a concussion in that awkward fall against the Browns Sunday. He tweaked a nerve in his neck. He’ll still undergo tests this week before getting the final medical sign-off. Technically he’s in concussion protocol but Sunday he immediately passed the initial concussion tests after the hit from Mack Wilson

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FRI. 1-22-21 The Texas Porch Report - Texas native Ted Thompson passes away, Gary Kubiak hangs it up, Texas WACky news

From my road office in NOT Texas... Sorry about yesterday. Gotta get that rest. And day job prevailed. I’m in Birmingham. More on that in a bit....make sure you catch Josh and me in our just released full episode. Your Texas sports essentials in four minutes. Or so.

The Cowboys officially announced their three new recent coaching changes. Dan Quinn indeed is the new DC, Joe Whitt Jr is the secondary coach and the defensive pass game coordinator. Harold Nash Jr has been promoted to head strength and conditioning... OC Kellen Moore is officially safe. For now. Eagles hire Nick Sirriani

Ted Thompson passed away Thursday at his Atlanta, TX home. Most widely known for being Packers GM for ten years. Aaron Rodgers was his first draft pick. he was a captain at SMU and went to the NFL as an unstaffed free agent. Thompson played ten years for the Oilers as a LB and special teams captain. .

Former Texans head coach an all time wins leader Gary Kubiak has hung em up for good. The Houston native and former Aggies QB left his Vikings OC post Thursday and said this was it this time. He spent 36 years in the NFL as a player and coach. He’s only 59. He had to leave previous coaching stops because of health. Kubiak retires with four super bowl rings as an asst with the 49ers, Broncos, and Ravens.

I-35 rivalry with Spurs host the Mavs tonight. Spurs have been in almost every game. Four of their losses have come by 8 points or less .... Rockets at Pistons tonight. 6:00 jump. Still no John Wall. Christian Wood sprained an ankle Wednesday. It’s not certain if he’ll go.

The four Texas schools joining the WAC will officially be there sooner than originally expected. SFA, SHSU, Lamar, and ACU will officially join July 1st now. That’s up one full calendar year. You read between the lines the Southland Conference is saying ‘don’t let the door hit ya.”

Texas college basketball tonight UTSA home to Southern Miss... Rice at UAB... UTEP hosting LA Tech, North Texas at ODU.Texas St at ULM, UTA hosts Little Rock

Good news keeps rolling in for the Astros. A day after re-signing Michael Brantley, it was reported Jason Castro will be back. 2 years possible $9million deal

Longhorns WR Tarik Black has declared for the NFL draft.

And FINALLY this is a hockey pod. the Stars are back. After their first four games had to be postponed because of COVID-19 in the team they host the Nashville Predators tonight. Ben Bishop working his way back from knee surgery. He won’t play in the net.