aurorasooner
12/1/2008, 01:45 AM
Excellent article by Gil. Just like Bob Stoops press-conference, it tells it like it is w/o all the carpetbagging politics BS. I only quoted the 1st part of Gil's article, but the whole column is worth the read. http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1066534.html
In the eternal struggle of man versus machine, man failed miserably Sunday.
That’s not to say that the right team won’t be playing in the Big 12 Championship Game on Saturday. The Oklahoma Sooners argued their case eloquently.
They said nothing.
No rented planes circling over Austin. No phone-ins from Bob Stoops in the middle of Mack Brown’s Thanksgiving dinner.
Just football. Just a 61-41 victory in hostile environs over a No. 11-ranked archrival.
The Sooners’ decisive win Saturday over Oklahoma State was as significant a road victory as any team in the Big 12 Conference achieved this season.
There’s your tiebreaker.
As myopic Texas fans — and their head coach — conveniently decline to acknowledge, there was a three-way knot, not a two-team tie, atop the Big 12 South standings.
and this is just too good not to quote.
In the end, what could Brown have done for me?
He could have just shut up and allowed his team’s memorable 11-1 season do the talking for all of Longhorns, Inc.
Instead, Brown began to show up on TV more than that Geico lizard. :D :D :D The poor-taste clincher came Saturday night when he agreed to be interviewed in the middle of the Oklahoma-Oklahoma State telecast.
Why didn’t Oklahoma do that, Stoops was asked Sunday?
"I was asked to be on the Texas game Thursday," the OU coach said, "and I said no. I didn’t want to do it. I didn’t think it was right." BTW, That's Ft. Worth Star Telegram not Stat-Telegram in the title Typo.
In the eternal struggle of man versus machine, man failed miserably Sunday.
That’s not to say that the right team won’t be playing in the Big 12 Championship Game on Saturday. The Oklahoma Sooners argued their case eloquently.
They said nothing.
No rented planes circling over Austin. No phone-ins from Bob Stoops in the middle of Mack Brown’s Thanksgiving dinner.
Just football. Just a 61-41 victory in hostile environs over a No. 11-ranked archrival.
The Sooners’ decisive win Saturday over Oklahoma State was as significant a road victory as any team in the Big 12 Conference achieved this season.
There’s your tiebreaker.
As myopic Texas fans — and their head coach — conveniently decline to acknowledge, there was a three-way knot, not a two-team tie, atop the Big 12 South standings.
and this is just too good not to quote.
In the end, what could Brown have done for me?
He could have just shut up and allowed his team’s memorable 11-1 season do the talking for all of Longhorns, Inc.
Instead, Brown began to show up on TV more than that Geico lizard. :D :D :D The poor-taste clincher came Saturday night when he agreed to be interviewed in the middle of the Oklahoma-Oklahoma State telecast.
Why didn’t Oklahoma do that, Stoops was asked Sunday?
"I was asked to be on the Texas game Thursday," the OU coach said, "and I said no. I didn’t want to do it. I didn’t think it was right." BTW, That's Ft. Worth Star Telegram not Stat-Telegram in the title Typo.