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how about you quit whining? Don't act like you haven't got your share of bad calls.
I saw ONE bad call the whole game. That was the onside kick. I think most people forget that there must be CRYSTAL CLEAR evidence it should be overturned. There wasn't, UO's ball.
Guess that's why the crew got suspended, huh?
Everybody in the COUNTRY saw that it was a bad call....as was the pass interference play.
Billotti, if he had any stones, would forfeit the game.....
...and Stoops, being the class act he is, wouldn't accept it....
....so the game would be struck from the records, and both teams would still be 2-0, with an 11game schedule.
....now back to reality..... :brick:
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
men."
-- Samuel Adams
They wont throw the ball. Nebraska has such good QB and receivers now and for some reason he just stopped throwing this game. Also, USC's o-line has impressed me stopping the Nebraska front seven so well. I thought that would be their biggest weakness with so little experience.
It's called 5Star players v NO Star players....
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
men."
-- Samuel Adams
You mean like last year when OU beat your fuskers?
When ya'll were crying like babies how the OU line was holding on AD's long TD run?
WAAAAAAAA
ps. Are the fuskers getting ready to join Troy's conference? Seeing how they play them just as often.......
OU is the ONLY Big XII team to NOT play a Div IAA team in the last 2 years.....
....wonder why?
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
men."
-- Samuel Adams
Nebraska has almost as little of experience as SC. The only thing that I hated about that game was the coaching. Nebraska has made this huge stride into becomming a great passing team and then they don't even attempt to pass. They called so many run plays in a row at the beginning of the game and ended the first half with like 6 attempts. Some of those attempts where also just screens. It was kinda lame the way Nebraska tried to play it by just eating up the entire clock and hopeing to come out on top. I knew the secondary was going to be in question for Nebraska but I never thought that they would go from trying about 5 runs a game last season to trying to only run the ball again this game. It really made me kinda mad when I was watching it. USC is pretty good though and I have to say their o-line wasn't near the weakness, with 3 first year starters, that I thought it was going to be. Other than their o-line and Nebraska not passing the ball the rest of it went kinda how I saw it going.
I think your main problem is mr "stupidest players in the league" callahan......
...just like I've been trying to tell you.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
men."
-- Samuel Adams
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The instant replay official whose failure to overturn a bad call led to a narrow victory for Oregon over Oklahoma said he feels like he is under siege after receiving menacing phone calls and a death threat.
Gordon Riese said he would make a decision soon about whether to finish the season, or even whether to return next year.
"I'm struggling with it," Riese said in an interview at his home. "I feel so bad I missed that call, it's driving me crazy."
A former college baseball pitcher in the 1960s who was inducted into the Portland State Hall of Fame in 1997, Riese said he never played football but always enjoyed the game during 28 years as a Pacific-10 Conference official.
"I loved it, I absolutely loved it," Riese said.
But that was before he became an instant replay official.
"I've felt much, much more pressure as an instant replay official than I ever did on the field," Riese said.
He said the equipment is not as sophisticated as NFL replay equipment, and does not allow the official to freeze the frame. But Riese lays the blame on himself after replays showed that an onside kick was touched by an Oregon player before it traveled the required 10 yards. The Ducks went on to score the go-ahead touchdown.
"I can't sleep, I can't eat, my blood pressure is skyrocketing," Riese said, looking haggard and worn as he sat on the front porch of his house.
His wife is a registered nurse, and has been checking his blood pressure every four hours, he said.
Riese said he has stopped answering the phone, and police are investigating the threatening calls while keeping an eye on his neighborhood.
"They not only threatened me, they threatened my wife and kids," Riese said.
Riese has endured plenty of physical pain in his career. He said a torn rotator cuff ended his pitching days, all the ligaments in his right knee were torn when he was hit by an Oregon defensive back at Autzen Stadium in a 1984 game against Washington State, and he separated a collarbone when he was run over by opposing linemen trying to block each other in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl.
The knee and the collarbone still bother him, occasionally, he said. But not as much as his ruling from the booth last Saturday.
"I don't know how to deal with it," he said. "I guess it's just one of those things."
Dang....I was afraid they were going to tell us he had inflamed hemmoroids, also.....
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
men."
-- Samuel Adams
I guess no team should ever try to recover an onside kick if they have the lead. I mean if they aren't good enough to stop the other team again, they don't deserve to win, right?
That is some stupid logic. No team should have to win a game more than once. The logic that OU's D should have held them, or they should have made the kick is rediculous. OU already won the freaking game.
Everytime a team gets another chance the odds of them pulling the victory out increase. Obviously.
Bottom line is OU won and everyone saw it. Don't sit on some high horse and say OU should have won the game again if they were so good.
They beat Oregon in Oregon. That is pretty damn hard, now you want them to do it twice?
And as for David Boren, youre out of your mind. He is one of the best Presidents in the NCAA.
African-American athletes that decide not to graduate do not need their hands held to make it through school. That was meaningless to say.
No he isn't. He is not letting his AD do his job. And he sounds like a whiny priss. Man up and accept that bad stuff happens, and work to make sure it doesn't happen again. Act dignified.
And it was not meaningless to say, as other schools of similar size and athletic success do not have such a horrible rate. So it's either 1 of 3 things:
They recruit dumber athletes.
They are harder school than places like UCLA, Notre Dame, UVA, Penn State and others who major D-I football, since it is harder to graduate.
They just don't care.
I have nothing against OU, I am merely bringing this up to point out that while it was a horrible call, it should not be #1 on his plate. Clearly, he has other thinsg to worry aBOUT. It is just a football game. It's not like OU won't continue to have great teams year in and year out. It's not like this call affected the payout from the game.
So basically you're saying that Callahan is a bad coach.
He has been good to this point but he didn't play that game well at all. He went against everything that he has worked on with this team and used it's weakest point from last season to try winning a game against USC . I would say that is pretty bad coaching.
No he isn't. He is not letting his AD do his job. And he sounds like a whiny priss. Man up and accept that bad stuff happens, and work to make sure it doesn't happen again. Act dignified.
And it was not meaningless to say, as other schools of similar size and athletic success do not have such a horrible rate. So it's either 1 of 3 things:
They recruit dumber athletes.
They are harder school than places like UCLA, Notre Dame, UVA, Penn State and others who major D-I football, since it is harder to graduate.
They just don't care.
I have nothing against OU, I am merely bringing this up to point out that while it was a horrible call, it should not be #1 on his plate. Clearly, he has other thinsg to worry aBOUT. It is just a football game. It's not like OU won't continue to have great teams year in and year out. It's not like this call affected the payout from the game.
I have to disagree with you. I think he is doing his job. Tuition and Football are things that help pay the bills for our University. Think about if we were to go undefeated the rest of the way and this cost us a spot in the National Championship game. Now keep in mind this is just speculation. There is a lot of money to be made in a National Championship football team, such as merchandise sales, boosters giving more money, more boosters arising from the cracks and ticket sales.
Also it gives money to the big 12 as well, so I would have to say that this has a lot to do with him as well. There are a lot of stupid rules that affect the APR, just like when a lot of our basketball players transferred and went to another school. They still graduated, yet it counts against us.
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Myself, Shawn (a chefs fan) and Mike on our way home from the Sand Trap in June '06. (Mildenhall AFB)
Also it gives money to the big 12 as well, so I would have to say that this has a lot to do with him as well. There are a lot of stupid rules that affect the APR, just like when a lot of our basketball players transferred and went to another school. They still graduated, yet it counts against us.[/QUOTE]
No disagreement there. The rules are dumb.
But they do give you six years as well.
Anyway, assuming that OU goes 1 loss, it's still a pretty payout from a major bowl.
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