While I got ya, here are nine things and one crazy prediction:

1. Meet Jordan Spieth, golf course architect. Well, kinda. The two-time major champion is trying his hand at golf course design as the 23-year-old Longhorn All-American has teamed up with veteran Austin golf architect Roy Bechtol to map out a six-hole course at the UT Golf Club. The mini-layout will help the men’s and women’s golf teams at UT sharpen their short games, and it will be named The Spieth Lower 40, playing on the Forty Acres tag for UT’s main campus. “I’m excited about it,” Spieth said. “It’s going to be a cool little par-3 golf course that will be demanding visually but still fair for really solid wedge and short game work. I was definitely very hands on. I looked at the blueprints, the mapping, the scale. It’s cool being part of the design process with Roy because I’m interested in doing that later in life.” Bechtol called it “an incredible venue for all walks of golfers to hone their short game in a championship setting,” and Texas men’s golf coach John Fields described the 4½-acre layout as “awesome” and hopes it will be grassed in the next six to eight weeks and ready to open in September. “We’re thrilled about it. Jordan has gotten actively involved as a donor and enhanced the project with Roy,” Fields said. “It’s the next step in our growth to have a facility like that to attract the best players in the country.”

2. Dan Jenkins, the best sportswriter Texas has ever produced if it’s not Blackie Sherrod, is receiving another honor. The Texas Program in Sports and Media announced the creation of The Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting, which will be presented annually. Two writers will be honored next fall, one for lifetime achievement in sportswriting and one for the most outstanding work of sportswriting published in the previous calendar year. “Dan Jenkins is a born-and-bred Texan whose name needs to be celebrated and whose work deserves to be studied,” said TPSM executive director Michael J. Cramer. “Dan is a quintessentially original writer with a creative and resonant voice that has entertained readers – and inspired writers – for decades. He introduced or innovated many conventions in what we have come to accept as common sportswriting practice today.” Austinite Michael MacCambridge, the terrific author of “The Franchise: A History of Sports Illustrated Magazine” and co-chair of the Jenkins Medal awards committee, has described Jenkins as “the single most influential sportswriter of the past 50 years.”

3. Colt McCoy, who lives in Austin three months of the year with wife Rachel and daughters Sloane and Brooke, looks as refreshed, fit and ready to play as ever. He’s signed for two more years with the Redskins and loves it in Washington, where he backs up quarterback Kirk Cousins, who recently was franchised by the club for the second straight year. McCoy, who didn’t play a single snap in 2016, said “I feel I have a great handle on how to run the system” while attending the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play draw Monday night. “My job’s to be prepared. I’ll be ready, and I just have to climb the ladder to get the chance.” McCoy said the nerve damage he suffered in his neck during the 2009 national championship loss to Alabama lingered and was “a 3-, 4-, 5-year deal,” but he also has dealt with broken ribs and a shoulder injury. He doesn’t know if he’ll eventually go into coaching, but said he’s “already been offered jobs at every level. NFL. Colleges, too. People have been gauging my interest.” McCoy also raved about the leadership shown by new Texas football coach Tom Herman, saying, “He has a vision and a plan.” McCoy said he’s been so dejected over the Longhorns 16-21 record over the past three years that “I’ve been in the NFL for eight years and I can’t wear anything (Longhorns-related) in the locker room.”

4. McCoy’s not the only former Longhorn trying to regain a starting position. Count Mack Brown among those who are rooting for Vince Young’s second chance at a football career to take hold. Ran into Mack at the NCAA women’s basketball tournament at the Erwin Center, and he’s 100 percent behind Vince’s attempt at a comeback in the form of a job with the Saskatchewan Rough Riders. “You’ve only got one life to live,” Brown said, “so why not go for it. I give him a good chance.” McCoy said the same, adding, “It’s hard when you love something so much, it’s hard to let that die. His passion is still there. I’ll be pulling for him.”

5. Tom Herman said Texas is actively recruiting former LSU quarterback Brandon Harris, who announced he is transferring, but Harris has not yet visited Austin. That’s one thing about Herman. He uncovers every stone. Harris is a dual-threat quarterback, although some think he’s not a credible passer. Herman said he will play in the Byron Nelson Pro-Am in Dallas in May, but suggested he is one terrible golfer even though he loves the sport. “I’m awful,” Herman said. “I’ll be Charles Barkley. I’ll be the comedic relief.” The coach said he probably won’t get out to the Dell tourney this week. “I’ll probably watch from the comfort of my living room. Or Major Applewhite’s living room.”

6. CEO Michael Dell sounds like he would be open to extending the contract of his sponsorship of the Dell Match Play tourney beyond 2019, but said, “I’m not going to negotiate with the PGA Tour with you here, but we came close to having a billion people watch last year’s event in 200 countries. The ratings were quite high.” When I asked if he’d ever talk to UT about possible naming rights for, say, the Longhorns’ planned basketball arena, Dell said, “We’d consider it. I love basketball.”

7. My bracket’s full of holes as usual. Thanks a lot, Duke. To be honest, I root for teams even if it means picking against my bracket. That’s how much a sucker I am for underdogs. I felt awful for Vanderbilt’s Matthew Fisher-Davis, who lost track of the score and fouled Northwestern’s Bryant McIntosh, giving him two free throws. The guy scored 22 points off the bench, but had a Chris Webber moment. … Do not ever pick Virginia to go anywhere in the NCAAs. If you can’t score, you can’t win. …. Duke was downright awful. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought the game was fixed. Had no idea the Blue Devils could play like a 16th seed. … South Carolina coach Frank Martin is such an intense, fiery dude, I’m scared of him just watching from my study. Man, can he ever coach. … Go Big 12. It has three teams in the Sweet 16, matching the Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC. … The calmest team I saw all weekend was UCLA. Kansas was one of the most athletic. Wisconsin’s and Wichita State’s teams played the hardest, but oh did Northwestern show some grit and might have advanced with the aid of better offiicating. Love Baylor’s passion. I am a little weary of the orchestrated water-spraying celebrations in the locker rooms of the winning teams. Tell me again how Michigan’s John Beilein happened to pack a water gun for the trip. Maybe I’m just jealous I don’t have the water concession for the NCAA Tournament.

8. Brad Underwood’s shocking decision to leave Oklahoma State to become the head basketball coach at Illinois, where he’ll earn more money, strikes me as another nail in the Big 12’s coffin. I thought Oklahoma State used to be a basketball school. I know Illinois is.

9. Was blown away by the depth of acting and the storyline in “Fences.” Denzel Washington got robbed. He was far and away the best actor in his Oscar category and deserved the award as did perennial favorite Viola Davis, who will be the new Meryl Streep and get nominated every year. Gave “Fences” nine ducks.

10. Crazy prediction: A golfer not ranked in the top 10 will win the Dell Match Play.