RIP, Tarp. We hardly knew ye.
Honestly, the most entertaining part of the night came from the Baylor fan behind us who was actively and vociferously rooting for Under. Like rooting against his own team for the sake of a $1,000.00 bet on the under. He left before the end of the game but we’re pretty sure he was happy with the results of the game, since the number he had was 74 ½. For what it’s worth, we told him he was a very stupid man for betting $1,000.00 of American money on a football game, but to each his own.
We are not football coaches and do not pretend to be. We will not criticize football coaches for making football coaching decisions which are beyond our expertise. However, whatever the offense was that we trotted out there against Baylor was simply mystifying. The worst of it was that the defense was playing well enough to give us a chance and the offense gave them no assistance. Baylor’s defense is not the Steel Curtain. Kansas State ran all over them. No, whatever the problem was, it was wearing crimson helmets. More likely, a crimson headset.
The most boneheaded thing, though, was throwing the ball with a minute left in the first half down 17-5. It was bad enough that we had garnered a total of three points on two trips inside the Baylor five, but at 17-5 the game was on the verge of slipping away from us. Given what we had done up to that point there was no way to believe realistically that we were going to do anything with a long field and a minute to play. Yet we're out there throwing the ball, it gets picked, and we knew the game was over right then. We knew Baylor was going to score and we knew there was no way we were going to score even 20 points the way the offense was playing. Frankly, we're astonished that we eventually scored a touchdown at all.
We continue to maintain that spending an evening watching football, even bad football, is still better than working. That said, with still a month to go, we know now there will be no Big 12 Championship this season, nor any BCS Bowl. The most we can hope for from the season at this point is to play Nebraska in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, so that we can at least commiserate with old friends who have fallen on tough times as well.
Thanks to the miracle of modern technology, we are dictating this report to our phone while driving north on I-35. Fortunately, the least that the Baylor people could do for us, they did, which was stay in the stadium to celebrate so that we could get out of town quickly and move on to more productive pursuits, like drinking copious quantities of intoxicating beverages.
I'm thinking 11 AM for Iowa State. Get it out of the way and move on to other things. See you in Norman next Saturday.
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