jrsooner
12/30/2006, 11:55 PM
Sooners getting some love from the Houston Chronicle...the horns down here didn't care for the comments.
http://blogs.chron.com/sportsjustice/archives/2006/12/big_12_south_ou.html
December 29, 2006
Big 12 South: OU and the five dwarfs
Bad news is coming in waves for Bob Stoops. This should be a great time for him. After all, he has just done his finest coaching job at OU. The Sooners won their fourth Big 12 championship in his eight seasons and are in a BCS game for the fifth time. He's 86-18 overall.
Next season is the one that's starting to fall apart. Yes, the Sooners probably will be the consensus preseason No. 1 pick. His problem is the rest of the Big 12 South. It's so weak that the strength-of-schedule thing is going to be working against him. Even if the Sooners crush both Texas and A&M--and that seems like a foregone conclusion at this point--OU can't afford even one slip.
That's the thought I had after watching A&M's total collapse against Cal in the Holiday Bowl. Turns out, that Aggie victory over Texas didn't mean much. Texas is now nothing more than a run-of-the-mill team, and the Holiday Bowl proved it.
The final score of 45-10 doesn't even begin to tell how lopsided the Holiday Bowl was. The hapless Aggies allowed Cal to score 31 straight points. The hapless Aggie defense gave up 476 yards, including 241 on the ground. Cal averaged 7.5 per rushing attempt. I love Coach Fran and have defended him against all the Aggies who want him fired. This game should be an embarrassment, not just in losing by 35 points, but in continuing to run that 19th century offense out there.
And remember this is the team that beat Texas. Now Texas has to play a Big Ten team in the Alamo Bowl, and you can guess how that's going to turn out. Tough bad, Coach Stoops.
http://blogs.chron.com/sportsjustice/archives/2006/12/big_12_south_ou.html
December 29, 2006
Big 12 South: OU and the five dwarfs
Bad news is coming in waves for Bob Stoops. This should be a great time for him. After all, he has just done his finest coaching job at OU. The Sooners won their fourth Big 12 championship in his eight seasons and are in a BCS game for the fifth time. He's 86-18 overall.
Next season is the one that's starting to fall apart. Yes, the Sooners probably will be the consensus preseason No. 1 pick. His problem is the rest of the Big 12 South. It's so weak that the strength-of-schedule thing is going to be working against him. Even if the Sooners crush both Texas and A&M--and that seems like a foregone conclusion at this point--OU can't afford even one slip.
That's the thought I had after watching A&M's total collapse against Cal in the Holiday Bowl. Turns out, that Aggie victory over Texas didn't mean much. Texas is now nothing more than a run-of-the-mill team, and the Holiday Bowl proved it.
The final score of 45-10 doesn't even begin to tell how lopsided the Holiday Bowl was. The hapless Aggies allowed Cal to score 31 straight points. The hapless Aggie defense gave up 476 yards, including 241 on the ground. Cal averaged 7.5 per rushing attempt. I love Coach Fran and have defended him against all the Aggies who want him fired. This game should be an embarrassment, not just in losing by 35 points, but in continuing to run that 19th century offense out there.
And remember this is the team that beat Texas. Now Texas has to play a Big Ten team in the Alamo Bowl, and you can guess how that's going to turn out. Tough bad, Coach Stoops.