Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Priorities
At Texas, Rick Barnes' club gets second billing. Ouch.Nine months before his first game for the University of Texas, Cedric Benson already was as popular as any Longhorn football player.
More than 32,000 fans showed up at Royal-Memorial Stadium to see the superstar running back play his final high school game on a December afternoon four years ago — far outnumbering the 4,000 who watched a Longhorn basketball game in the nearby Erwin Center that day, much to the public annoyance of basketball Coach Rick Barnes.