With the calendar turning to November in just 34 short hours, it’s time for our return to the keyboard, and a return to covering the sport and team we love so much.

It’s certainly been a busy off-season for both yours truly and Rick Barnes. But while I spent most of my summer months making money to pay for my travels and earning favor points with the girlfriend I practically abandon from November to March, the coach of the Longhorns had much more important tasks at hand. Most recently, Barnes added two walk-ons to his already robust roster, and has been working for the last two weeks with an incredibly stacked team that opens the season ranked third in the nation.

We’ve got quite a bit of work to do in the next two weeks to clean up around here, with the first priority being a massive uploading of photos. Unfortunately, a hard drive crash in April fried all of my pictures and videos from the last few weeks of the 2008-09 season, but with the help of folks that joined me on those trips, I’m hoping to piece together something for those pages.

For now, enjoy the football team’s big game in Stillwater and swipe a few pieces of the Halloween loot your kids bring home. We’ll be back on Monday the 9th, when we hit the ground running for what promises to be an exciting 2009-10 season!