whew, i can breathe again... damn... with the closeness of points in the polls, could OU and TX swap positions in the polls monday? that is if OU demolishes Mizzou.
I hope this serves as a wake-up call to Mack Brown that Greg Davis' No-Risk offense is a very, very bad thing. OSU came back by trusting their players to make plays - we would've rolled them if we had done the same. If it wasn't so predictable that Davis would call plays like this - I'd be distraught, but this is just S.O.P. for Greg.
Cat-I like you and everything, but chill with the ref/officiating b****ing anytime your teams get "screwed" by refs. Fact is, bad officiating or not, UT shouldn't have been in a 2 pt game with OSU, on the ropes.
Yeah, I bet the people in UT chat would say it was successful Congrats on the win, look forward to a battle next week.
Well, I'd like to, but when there is an obvious hold on the touchdown run, and a pass interference where the two players didn't even touch... it's hard. I will try to, though. I think this may be a real positive for us for next week. Like Pued said, we needed a wakeup call on the little three yard routes that we run so often, and hopefully this was it. Also, it's good that they have the experience of winning a close game before OU. OU got that with Alabama... we had ours today.
I was in attendance and here are my thoughts: 1. Dusty Mangum's scholarship needs to be revoked, without him missing 3 fg's within 40 yards this game would never have been in doubt. 2. Greg Davis get a clue. I don't mind the 5 wide receiver system, however once we get inside the 20 how about catching them off guard with Benson or at least use him as a decoy giving them something else to think about. 3. The Refs were terrible. Both of OSU's td drives came off phantom pass interference calls. It's called playing the ball, learn it before you come back to DKR again please. 4. As much as I was pissed off, the bottom line is we won and that is all that matters going into OU. The polls mean jack at this point so if we switch spots who cares. Btw, Simms played a fine game considering our o-line forgot how to give benson holes and our receivers dropped numerous passes-his one interception was on a missed ball by Roy. I guess at least we got a good test before OU, and Les Miles has OSU on the rise, but the overall deal is we won.
I hope this serves as a wake-up call to Mack Brown that Greg Davis' No-Risk offense is a very, very bad thing. Agreed. We play not-to-lose -- simple as that. It will catch up to us one day. You can blame the refs all you want, but there are bad calls in EVERY game, and many of the "bad" calls were really not that bad. If our team struggles to overcome a bad call or two against a scrub team at home, that says something about our team. Our piece-of-crap offense is the reason we almost lost this game. How you can take that much talent and make it look that bad is beyond me. Our offense has looked terrible against North Texas, Tulane, and now OSU. We aren't looking ahead, we aren't "not showing the playbook" and we aren't getting screwed by refs. We're simply not executing well AT ALL.
Brown does not recruit kickers (well, I think McFadden was on scholarship before "picturegate"). Every kicker and punter on the team is a walk-on non scholarship. Brown may open up competition for the kicking job but he no one besides Mangum with any experience.
I know we may get ripped for starting a "child molester" by Aggies and Sooners, but McFadden's a guy I'd like to see. I believe Brown had him on scholarship, something he rarely does for kickers.
Wow, not really related, but Texas Tech just beat A&M 48-47 in overtime. A&M missed the 1pt conversion in OT.
I think the positive from this game is that it was a wake up call. Last year we coasted into ou, destroying a ttu team 41-7. Oh, and I hate to call out a 19 year-old, but Mangum has togo.
I don't know...Chris' passes were right on the money, and there are some situations where you need to zip a ball into a tight place, but for the love of God, please try to mix in some touch on your throws, Chris! That's what I loved about Applewhite -- he gave his wr's a chance to make a play on the ball. With Simms, he just zips it from A to B and I don't think some of our wr's can handle it, especially in tight situations where you have other things to think about besides catching a bullet, i.e. the safety that's about to blast you. That said, Simms hasn't been making critical mistakes, which is all I ask of him, our defense being what it is.
I'm glad Texas has a coach that can't beat Bob Stoops. How many championships does Mack have? Can you count that high?
Mack Brown beat Bob Stoops his first season here you big doofus. Try not getting outgained by your crappy opponent tonight like you did vs South Florida.
