The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly &#8211; Texas 51, Kansas 20

NCAA football is about to lose about 850 lbs of head coaches, and that’s just from two upcoming firings.

Mark Mangino was a dead man walking as he took the field for this game, amid allegations that he has abused his players during his tenure at Kansas. Mangino has done a fine job of taking a dust bowl of a program and turning it into a fairly consistent performer, but if some of what is being alleged about his ridiculing of players’s socio-economic circumstances and family backgrounds is true, there is no way Kansas University can keep him on the payroll.

Coaches can yell at players, they can scream at players, they can even poke them in the chest occasionally to emphasize a point they’re trying to make – but the serial demeaning of kids whose unfortunate backgrounds came about through no fault of their own is beyond the pale, even to a rigid detester of political correctness like myself.

So Mangino is toast at Kansas, though he’ll probably fit right back in with one the programs led by anyone named Stoops.

Get that anger under control, coach.

Charlie Weis wasn’t quite a dead man walking when Saturday’s game with UConn began, but he most likely was as he left the field after a 33-30 double overtime loss to the Huskies. Personally, I can’t think of any coach in America who more richly deserves firing than this arrogant, useless tub of goo. Now, Notre Dame can go out and hire the next Great Hope, and Lou Holtz can spend another five years slobbering out predictions that the new coach will win the national championship each August. And five years from now, the Irish will begin yet another coaching search.

Charlie Weis as a baby.

So, the two heaviest-weights in major college coaching today will be pounding the pavement – and no doubt creating some sizable potholes – soon, leaving open a couple of jobs that will attract a lot of attention. Kansas is, thanks to the talent Mangino is leaving behind, a pretty attractive job for either a young, ambitious coordinator to use as a proving ground, or for a lower division head coach to use as a stepping stone. Notre Dame, of course, has long been one of the true destination jobs in major college football. It’s been a long time since the Irish were really competitive with the nation’s power programs, but the legend lives on regardless.

One guy who has already let it be known he would be interested in the Notre Dame job got his ass handed to him by one of his former assistants up in Lubbock. Bob Stoops appears to have lost complete control of his program in Norman, and I can’t say I’m distressed at all to see that happening. Texas Tech dominated his Sooners from the opening kickoff until the final gun, handing OU its worst defeat since the 2005 loss to Texas in Dallas. I’m sitting around sick this weekend, but watching the last three quarters of that ass-whipping lowered my fever 2 degrees and cleared up my sinuses. Good medicine.

Stoopsie’s Sooners now stand at 6-5, and really, I don’t care how many injuries his team has suffered, that is just an inexcusable W/L record for that program to have compiled in this year’s pitiful version of the Big 12 conference. Factor in the fact that Stoops has pretty much lost his ability to compete with Mack Brown’s Texas program, and this would be a real good time for Stoops to make the jump to South Bend. The Irish have employed a coach with three chins for the last 5 years – maybe hiring a coach with no chin at all will do the trick and get them out of their two decade slump. That’s how I’m trying to sell it to them, anyway.

I hear South Bend is chilly in the winter – be sure to take your parka.

Let’s go to the Good, Bad and Ugly:

Good: Darrell Royal participating in the pregame coin toss. The old coach looks awfully frail, an inevitable indicator of his advancing years. But what a great man, what great memories he and his teams provided to those of us who were lucky enough to have lived through those years. Some of those memories are still so fresh in my mind that it’s really hard to believe it’s been 33 years since DKR coached his final game. God bless Coach Royal.

Thanks for the memories, Coach.

Good: Officiating. Referee Tom Walker and his crew have become just about the best the Big 12 has to offer. I got to thinking about it late in the 4^th quarter, and realized I could not think of a single blatantly bad call these guys made all night. I’m not sure I’ve ever had that experience watching a Big 12 game. The other thing I like about Walker is that he doesn’t waste a lot of time huddling with his fellow officials, and he makes an effort to clearly explain what’s going on on the field. He’s a real throwback, and the contrast between the game he and his crew called last night, and the continuing SEC absurdity we saw in the game between LSU and Ole Miss was very striking.

Good: Ron Franklin back in prime time. Yes, he’s older, and yes, he gets confused and tongue-tied at times. I get that. But this guy has been treated extremely unfairly for half a decade by ABC/ESPN for a single snide remark he made to a dimwitted sideline reporter, and it’s nice to see him getting some prime time assignments again. Even in his advancing age, I’d much rather listen to Ron call a game than pretty much anyone else.

Good to see you back in prime time, Ron.

Bad: John Chiles starts instead of Malcolm Williams – immediately blows a route on 3^rd and 6 to kill the opening drive. Why?

Good: Goodwin and Williams in for the second series – helps to have your best players on the field. Goodwin immediately rips off a 34 yard WR screen that was extremely well-blocked.

Good: Very nice Colt first quarter TD pass to Kirkendoll, who actually ran the right route. Kirkendoll had a very fine game, without doubt the best he’s had. Malcolm Williams also had a very nice night catching the ball and getting hard yards after the catch.

Good: Earl Thomas was just all over the damn field. Earl got his record tying 7^th interception, and had two other balls in his hands that he was unable to secure. He has become such a man among boys out there that I seriously worry he might be tempted to go out for the NFL draft after this season. It’s hard to make a case he isn’t ready.

Good: Colt McCoy had his best game of the season, and may well have gotten himself back to the top in the Heisman race. ESPN did its dead level best to boost Tebow and Ingram, both of whom also had excellent days, but they weren’t on semi-national television like the Longhorns. I, of course, had the genius foresight to count Colt out of that race after the Oklahoma game, and if he ends up proving me wrong, no one will be happier about it than I will.

Coming to Austin after all?

Bad: Dump the ball, Colt. He took several losses in this game needlessly because he refused to dump the ball. This has not been a weakness for Colt, and I wonder if the fumble that occurred the first time he tried to dump one off stayed in his mind the rest of the night. At any rate, it’s a very minor criticism of an otherwise balls-to-the-wall performance.

Ugly: The program’s most consistent ongoing weakness reared its ugly head again in this game, as the OL was horrible in pass protection all night, and Colt was rightly pissed about it. Kansas was able to get consistent hits on the QB, even with a four man rush. This does not bode well for the Big 12 Championship game against Nebraska.

Indifferent: Stanford started 18 white guys against Cal. It was like watching the 1969 Longhorn national championship team, except Stanford lost. I think this is neither good nor bad, just the result of the school’s entrance requirements. At any rate, it was striking to see any team with 10 white faces starting on its offense.

Ugly, Ugly, Ugly: Texas coverage teams were uniformly horrible in this game. Just a real regression in that phase of the game, which had been on a good run for the last 6 weeks. Earl Thomas was even missing tackles on kickoff coverages. When that happens, you know you’re not having a good night.

Good: Ohio State’s Uniforms – love ‘em.

Nice uni.

Special Teams Player of the Game – Hunter Lawrence, who hit three very nice field goals in the game.

Defensive Player of the Game – You have to single out Earl Thomas in this one, but Lamarr Houston and Rod Muckelroy also deserve mention here.

Offensive Player of the Game – Colt McCoy, for about the zillionth time. Jordan Shipley was also stellar, with another double-digit catch game, but Colt was unconscious.

Senior night is always a bittersweet occasion for any athletic program, but this one was especially moving for this group of Longhorns and their fans. Kudos to ABC for doing an excellent job of covering much of the pregame and post game activities, and for giving the offensive and defensive seniors a lot of camera time as they were allowed by Coach Brown to leave the field and take their bows. I don’t know about y’all, but I was especially moved by the great joy on the faces of Lamarr Houston and Ben Alexander, the two great defensive tackles who did such a stellar job of answering the only real pre-season question mark on this defense in a huge way.

And then, of course, there was the sight of Colt McCoy and Jordan Shipley walking off the field together, helmets held high, giving the Hook ‘em sign to the fans in the stands. What a pair they have been. Shipley overcame so much in the way of injuries to become the greatest wide receiver in the history of a football program that has been littered with terrific talent at that position for the last 25 years – he was out so consistently his first three years on campus that I remember facetiously questioning whether he really existed, or if he was just an urban legend.

After this season, you can dump the word “urban” when talking about Shipley in the context of this football program’s history.

What is left to say about Colt? Think about the character required in a kid from a town of 700 people to show up in Austin, redshirt a season, then immediately grab the starting quarterback job and excel in it in such and incredible manner that he becomes the winningest quarterback in the history of collegiate football. He took that job over from Vince Young, who remains in my mind the single most incredible football player to ever play the position at the collegiate level, and went on to become the highest-performing quarterback in the history of the game. It’s an extraordinary achievement that people will no doubt be writing books about in the near future.

Greatness times two.

We never got that “senior night” moment for Vince, due to his early departure to the NFL. That may well have cost the program a second straight national championship, though we’ll never know for sure. But in the grand scheme of things, the other way to look at is that had Vince stayed for his senior year, the naming of his ultimate successor and the history of the last three seasons of Longhorn football may have been entirely different.

Watching Jevan Snead take Ole Miss to a close win over LSU yesterday, all I could think was thank goodness Colt won that job as a redshirt freshman. Snead is a pretty good college QB, and may well end up a better NFL prospect, but there is no way he would have prospered in the Texas offensive system the way Colt has. And he certainly does not possess the leadership qualities that Colt has shown for four seasons.

Things happen for a reason, and in this instance, they worked out perfectly for the Longhorns.

Now, it’s on to Kyle Field, where the Aggies will be honoring the tenth anniversary of the bonfire tragedy, in which 12 students were killed in 1999. While Mack will no doubt have his team properly honor the occasion, I have no doubt he also remembers the dirty tricks the Aggies pulled on his team even in the wake of such a terrible tragedy leading into the 1999 contest.

Mack has been really adept at learning difficult lessons and adjusting accordingly in his tenure at Texas. We can expect this occasion to be no different, and the team to be ready to play well. If that happens, the Aggies cannot win. Our team will no doubt exhibit the character they always exhibit, and then will take care of business on the field.

That’s what this team does. What a joy and privilege it has been to watch them.

Hook ‘em!!!

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College Football, Good Bad & Ugly, Kansas Jayhawks, Texas Longhorns, Will Muschamp

56 Responses

HelmetBoy said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 8:13 am

Thanks for that retrospective, Eyes. Great stuff.
t1climb1 said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 8:19 am

IIRC, Franklin made a condescending remark to the sideline reporter and called her “sweetheart” or something right?
Joe Pfäffikon said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 8:19 am

Any word on Aaron Williams?
HenryJames said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 8:28 am

When we opened up in the empty set with Newton split out wide instead of Malcolm Williams, I had to restrain Trips from charging the field.
EyesOfTX said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 8:30 am

t1climb1 – yes. A female sideline reporter had something typically insipid and stupid, and he responded condescendingly on air.
t1climb1 said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 8:32 am

Joe,

It’s his knee and preliminary reports are promising. Earl Thomas said after the game that Aaron’s knee wasn’t serious. One poster on OB said he was hanging in the player tent after the game and talked to Aaron who said it wasn’t bad. Hopefully they are right.
Vic Scott said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 8:35 am

The bad is we only get to look forward to reading three more of these recaps this season. Great read as always.
EyesOfTX said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 8:39 am

One other bad that I left out: Complete lack of intensity on either side of the ball coming out after the half. Second straight week this has been the case. Not good.
Sugarpants said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 8:40 am

Unfortunately most of the east coast was forced to watch a nationally meaningless PAC-10 game, so Colt’s Heisman hopes weren’t helped that much.

I couldn’t care less about the Heisman at this point. Colt is at the top of the record books, and deservedly so. If folks want to give the Heisman to Ingram, so be it, but I don”t see anything stellar about the kid. I’d rather see Keenum get it. I can’t see why they keep claiming Tebow is in the lead.

At this point we have a viable candidate for every postseason award (although I don’t know who’s made various finalist lists) except the Doak.
Thorpe: Earl Thomas
Lombardi: Sergio
Bednarik: either of the above
Heisman/Walter Camp: Colt (plus all the QB awards)
Biletnikoff: Ship

That’s pretty strong. Mack should be given a trophy just for that.
Texoz said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 8:42 am

The fact that both Tebow and Ingram did well could actually be a good thing. It splits the east coast vote and opens things up for Colt.
tangentorange said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 8:46 am

Eyes, thanks for the write-up as usual. I was thinking the same about Coach Royal, he certainly is showing his age now; I could have done without Mr. Jamail being out there.
chuck nevitt said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 8:53 am

our o-line looks like dog shit and it’s not just getting manhandled, it’s the missed assignments, etc…Colt was pissed. If nebraska doesnt devour it, bama or florida will chew those dandlies up and spit them out. Not looking forward to that.
EyesOfTX said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 8:57 am

our o-line looks like dog shit and it’s not just getting manhandled, it’s the missed assignments, etc…Colt was pissed. If nebraska doesnt devour it, bama or florida will chew those dandlies up and spit them out. Not looking forward to that.

I sure wish I could argue with any of that.

Hook ‘em!!!
texastough said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 9:09 am

bad – opening the game and spending most of the first half in empty backfield. I hope this was something concocted to impress D. White, because we sure could use these last couple of games to continue working on the run to balance the O.
Cricketslayer said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 9:10 am

God bless Coach Royal.

Amen. A perfect way to start my Sunday morning, as per usual. Thanks, Eyes.
Texoz said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 9:27 am

We will face increasingly better defensive lines over the next 2 games, which should give us a good idea how bad/good things will be for our OL if we make it to the NC.
ransomstoddard said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 9:36 am

Nice read. The o-line is so miserably bad I feel sorry for our rb’s. There is absolutely not a single atom of space for them to run through. I fear this has serious implications for the road to come. Again, defensive coordinators from Lincoln to Gainesville must be foaming at the mouth when they see our offense on film.
Art Vandelay said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 9:46 am

Trips, thanks for typing hurt. Great read as usual.
BEHorn said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 9:58 am

“NCAA football is about to lose about 850 lbs of head coaches”

Which half of Mangino isn’t KU going to fire?
java said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 10:06 am

Vic, totally agree with your sentiments on these write-ups. Look forward to them every week, Eyes.

Bad I: Giving up 20 points to KU. That sucked.

Bad II: Texas received no coverage on Sportscenter last night, but Florida and Alabama received a great deal for walloping cupcakes. The coverage, minimal, was included this morning. Very irritating.
ballrific said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 10:11 am

“Texas received no coverage on Sportscenter last night, but Florida and Alabama received a great deal for walloping cupcakes. The coverage, minimal, was included this morning. Very irritating.”

I blame the idiot monkey beebe and the big 12′s “marketing/PR” department. Man we have some dumbfucks in those offices. I can see Beebe now bragging and patting himself on the back for re-upping with FSW for another 10 yrs to broadcast the big 12 games….
java said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 10:12 am

BTW, did any of you hear info yesterday about two high profile commits? It may be forbidden to discuss in this thread, but I saw it last night on another board and thought I would mention it. Jeffcoat and someone else, maybe Davis?
HenryJames said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 10:13 am

Texoz,

With the exception of Von Miller, A&M’s defensive line is hammered dogshit.
java said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 10:24 am

Me too, ballrific, when we lost the 1st commish who had some football savvy and this idiot was installed, I knew it was a bad move, but had no idea it would get this bad. Damn!
scott said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 10:33 am

Love reading your blog. Keep up the great work.
WWGDD said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 10:36 am

Good- BC

Good- Vacarro hungry to destroy on ever possible play he’s on the field. I remember my man crush on Keenan’s desire to hurt opposing players every special teams play his Freshman yr…reminds me of another bad ass we’ll love for many more years.

Good- Colt getting whacked on his 8 yd run or so in the 1st half, getting up and displaying his appreciation for the big hit, firing the team up, waking the fans up, sending an “fu” to Davis, and going on his own to a hurry up offense and hitting Ship for a TD. Heisman footage in my mind. Nothing spectacular, but truly showed his leadership and toughness.

Bad- If the previous were to be run by Tebow, ESPN would have shown both plays followed by a chin wipe.

Ugly- ESPN discussing Tebow’s 1.5 yd avg TD run setting SEC record more than a QB setting an all time NCAA winning record. Gay.

Good- Seemed as if the fans hung in there to show deserved respect for our seniors. Was good to see.

Good- OU being the only team to lose wearing it’s Nike Combat Uni’s….hahahahahhahahahahah
P said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 10:39 am

HenryJames-

Hammered dogshit vs hammered dogshit is a push, with Von Miller being the variable.
WWGDD said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 10:46 am

Good- Mack honoring the seniors in the style he did. A very special human being we have
P said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 10:46 am

Just when I was beginning to think Blake Gideon turned the corner, he reared his ugly side again. Just about every big play had a shot of Gideon running into the play late, and attempting to make a tackle.

Luckily, from here on out, we face very little in teams who are effective throwing the football.

While the A&M game is interesting, the teams that should post real threats are running teams.
Nordberg said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 10:58 am

Yeah that was probably Gideon’s worst game of the season.
Kosciuszko said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 11:22 am

Nice write up, as usual.

Maybe a great OL coach will be available after this season, but it would mean significantly more wear and tear on the home sideline, and will undoubtedly raise the University’s health insurance rates.

I was ready to throw things at the TV when our offense started out in the empty set. It all worked out, and Davis seemed to call a pretty good game, especially using screens and moving the pocket in the second half to offset their DL’s ownership of our OL on pass plays.
Streets of Laredo said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 11:43 am

Eyes, nice work as usual. On the game against aggy in ’99, I remember some of the dirty tricks. Wasn’t there also a problem with the hotel in Collieville where the Horns stayed that year? Management didn’t have a morning meal ready,…or something like that. Coaches and staff had to scramble to get food for the team. Anybody recall anything that?
Streets of Laredo said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 11:45 am

(Sorry ’bout that last sentence…..”Anybody recall anything ABOUT that?”)
PrimeTime said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 11:46 am

What tricks did the Aggies pull in ’99? I didn’t watch that game.
Toadvine said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 11:48 am

Thanks Eyes.

99′ was when everyone got sick from the hotel catering, and someone called the rooms all night, if I remember correctly.

I hope Colt remembers 2006 vividly, when Kellen Heard hit him about 5 seconds after the play was over and someone managed to avoid so much as a penalty. That hit really set Colt back, and it was one of the single dirtiest plays I have ever seen in a Big 12 game. I hope the entire team watches that play before the game — especially the O-line.
parlin said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 12:09 pm

Great write-up Eyes, especially for someone under the weather.

good–nearly 700 Open Thread posts, with the f-bomb quotient rising steadily. This bodes well for family interactions during the A&M game.
chuck nevitt said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 12:17 pm

Re: Gideon, he’s always late coming in on the tv screen. I’m wondering if akina is screamling like the rest of us “get over the top motherfucker!”. If you’re white and under average speed, play deeper if you can’t get there. I saw him attempt a tackle along the sidelines and got slung aside like my 10 yr old nephew.
bob said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 12:21 pm

I was at the game and it had a weird vibe. The crowd seemed a little out of it and the team didn’t play particularly well. I would describe it as a workmanlike game.

The good news is that even with a workmanlike effort we completely dismembered KU.

Also over half the stadium stayed to watch the seniors on the field post-game. I was at the very top of the stadium and of the people that stayed to sing the eyes no one headed for the exit until Colt walked through the tunnel. It really looked like non of the seniors wanted to walk off the field.
edsp said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 12:42 pm

Another hefty man coach said to be on the firing line is Ralph Friegien at Maryland.
Jim Bob said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 12:44 pm

Good: Unlike last week, this camera crew was prepared for the offenses to go to the quick snap. It’s nice to see the plays, isn’t it?

Yes, it was great to see Ben and Lamarr come out with big smiles on their faces. Ben is one of the great unsung heros this year. I wish some of our highly regarded o-linemen had stepped up the way lightly regarded Ben Alexander has.
HenryJames said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 1:07 pm

I wish some of our highly regarded o-linemen had stepped up the way lightly regarded Ben Alexander has.

Any doubt that they wouldn’t if they were coached by Muschamp?
Groundhogday said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 2:40 pm

How is there no mention of that buffoon Les Miles? There is no question that this man is worst coach of such great talent.

LSU was fortunate to be up 17-9 in the first half when he tried a really low percentage onside/pooch kick that failed. His clock management in the last 45 seconds of the game was laughable and his attempt to get two plays off in one second was pure comedy. There had been rumblings about the mad hatter in bayou country, but surely every coonass knows this man is a fraud.

Otherwise, great write up Eyes.
raoulduke said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 2:54 pm

.

Fear The Hat over here.
NBMisha said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 5:14 pm

Thanks, Eyes, for another great season of post game.

A modest addition:
Good (greatness, really): that lady that sang the national anthem. Absolutely the best I’ve ever heard, anywhere, anytime. Were those tears in my eyes?

Per a comment above, yes, I also thought this was but a workmanlike effort, against a playing better than average KU team, but still a blowout. A bit of imporvement will get us thru a FL or Bama.

We just need to be up against aggy, and not repeat prior sleepwalking losses and near misses.
java said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 6:01 pm

’99 game was when the players names and room numbers were posted on the internet and they received phone calls all night. No one showed to serve or cook breakfast at the roach motel and the guys ate an assortment of dry cereal, Jack in the Box, and anything else in sight. I think hamburgers were delivered at half-time. It’s also when Mack realized that no matter what lip service RC gave to ‘enough talent in Texas for everyone’ the Ags had no intention of playing fair.

I don’t think Mack turns his back on the Ags now. He’s pleasant and gracious, but he knows they will knife him in the back if given the opportunity. Smart man. Time for pedal to the metal.
Patrck said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 6:35 pm

Sugarpants….forgot about one:

Groza: Hunter Lawrence
hornsince75 said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 8:31 pm

What’s fucking ugly is the absolutely determined effort by the sports media to not recognize McCoy’s breaking of the wins by a starting QB record. It’s a team achievement and I hope the 2009 team uses this disrespect like the 2005 team used the lack of respect they received to stomp mudholes in their next 3 opponents.
Nordberg said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 8:45 pm

Imagine for a second that Tebow sets the all-time record for wins at the QB position, in his last home game, while accumulating 430 yards of offense with 4 TD’s and 0 INT’s.

All of our cable boxes and satellites would fucking explode. Gary Danielson would spontaneously combust.
burnt orange outrage said:

November 22nd, 2009 at 11:23 pm

God bless Colt McCoy. I couldn’t be any prouder of the kid if he was my own son. He epitomizes everything good about college sports, and I’m so freakin happy for him that he got the all-time wins record tonight. Fuck ESPN if they don’t realize what an accomplishment it is.
The last 5 minutes of the game gave me a serious warm fuzzy…first Mack calls timeouts to get his offensive and defensive seniors off the field to huge ovations, then after the game, Colt comes over to (doubtless) offer words of encouragement to Mangino (I’ve seen some comments recently saying he’s “gotta be over 300″ — hell, he’s easily 450 if he’s an ounce) and Mack does the same to Reesing. Our program is built on class. I know we occasionally have some knuckleheads who shame us as fans and the University as a whole with their off-field behavior, but in general, we do things the right way, and it all starts at the top. Mack Brown is pure class, and I sure as hell hope people appreciate how lucky we are to have a coach who doesn’t berate/humilate/throw his players under the bus to save his own ass like certain other Big 12 and national coaches do.
I painfully recall all the years of derision by OU fans who laughed at Mack as a corn-pone cheerleader whose sense of dignity and nice-guyness assured he’d forever be Stoops’ bitch, while those same fans worshipped Stoops’ assholery and his the-higher-the-margin-of-victory-the-better mentality. Well, the worm has turned, motherfuckers, and when the curtain is pulled back, you see now that all you have is an arrogant prick who’ll lie, distort and smear anyone and everyone to make himself look better when adversity rears its head. Can’t wait to watch Chinless Bob squirm as the fans and alums turn up the heat. Mack handled the same kind of abuse from the douchebag element of Texas fans years back with his typical class.
Anybody know if there’s a Firebobstoops.com up and running yet?

Beat the living shit out of aggy!
Barking Carnival — Blog — Texas Post-Mortem: Not Done Yet said:

November 23rd, 2009 at 8:53 am

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P said:

November 23rd, 2009 at 9:23 am

burnt orange outrage-

Nothing personifies “class” more than this moment……

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvpI2HJkL34&feature=player_embedded

That is what makes you root for guys like Mack to be successful. He has honored players’ scholarships, even when they couldn’t play. He just seems to be a good man. The football gods should award this guy one more national championship, and allow him to ride off into the sunset.

I couldn’t be more proud of the program then I have been in the last 5 years. It has shown resilience, that it previously didn’t have. It is tough, and has a swagger that’s been passed down since the days of 10. We have turned the corner. Mack Brown has grown into the position gracefully, and even though he has toughened, he has not lost his humility, and compassion. The players resemble him also. Good times………….
TaylorTRoom said:

November 23rd, 2009 at 10:24 am

“Factor in the fact that Stoops has pretty much lost his ability to compete with Mack Brown’s Texas program, and this would be a real good time for Stoops to make the jump to South Bend.”

There is some logic in the idea that Stoops might be interested in ND. After all, it would be another challlenge, and a fresh one. At his age, he doesn’t have more than one move left.

There is really not much logic at all in the idea that ND might be interested in Stoops. They aren’t going to pay $18 million to dump their 6 lodd coach just to hire OU’s 5 loss (maybe 6?) coach.
Art Vandelay said:

November 23rd, 2009 at 10:40 am

I meant to say thanks for typing hurt EYES. Shouldn’t type while fighting a vicious hangover.

Also, I’ve been a huge Ron Franklin for years, and played many a game of pool with his son at UT, but in the 4th quarter he was really struggling. He is still better than most, and always makes me feel “at home”.
JP said:

November 23rd, 2009 at 11:08 am

Thanks Eyes. You are greatness and always bring joy to my Sundays (sometimes Mondays).
Homesick Alien said:

November 23rd, 2009 at 2:32 pm

I’m prepared, at this time, to sound like a raving, conspiratorial lunatic. I am open to hearing rational, reasoned explanations for the following that do not involve collusory, backroom shenanigans by the evil ESPN, but I can’t come up with any myself.

Here is the opening sequence on ESPN Saturday night, on the night Colt McCoy became the winningest QB in the history of college football:

1) Oregon-Arizona recap
2) Stanford-Cal recap
3) Loooong, extended Notre Dame-UConn recap with weigh-ins from Herbstreit, Palmer, McShay, Holtz, May and others
4) LSU-Ole Miss recap
5) Recap of utterly, completely meaningless Ohio State-Michigan game
6) Combined recaps of Alabama and Florida’s games against fucking Chattanooga and Florida International
7) NASCAR
8) Jets/Pats preview
9) Harvard-Yale recap
10) More LSU recap
11) More Notre Dame recap

…and finally…

12) Texas-Kansas recap. Without one word mentioning Colt’s record.

No helmet sticker on College Football Final. No nothing.

Seriously. I don’t want to be screaming, raving, media-hates-us guy, but what the fuck?

Is there a rational explanation out there that I’m missing?

Eyes’ theory that ESPN is trying to protect their SEC Heisman candidates makes as much sense to me as anything.

I shouldn’t be this way, but I was boiling hot livid seething Saturday night about all of it. Colt is too good a kid, and that record is too significant for it to be completely ignored like that. Getting hot and bothered thinking and typing about it again, so I’ll stop?

Can I has measured, non-conspiratorial explanation please?
Homesick Alien said:

November 23rd, 2009 at 2:36 pm

Oh yeah, forgot…

ESPN’s news crawl, The Lead: Tebow sets all-time SEC TD record

Nothing about Colt.

That’s just straight purposeful.

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