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Texas and Texas Tech are both out. Oklahoma is playing in the Big 12 Championship game. Longhorn fans are making noise that it should be them heading to Kansas City. Even, the almost always, politically correct Mack Brown is speaking out. "It is what it is," Brown said on Sunday. "We don't like it, we don't agree with it or think it's fair, but, like anything else, we'll handle it and move forward." The BCS and Oklahoma fans don't see it Mack's way. In my opinion, they're wrong. We know that Texas and Oklahoma are the two best teams from the Big 12 South. The computers, the polls and all the experts tell us they are. No one in the national media, or that knows anything about what's going on, is even mentioning that Texas Tech should be part of the argument. The Red Raiders were almost beat by Baylor in Lubbock. It took overtime before they finally defeated Nebraska. And, Oklahoma crushed them by 44. They're out! So the debate is about who is better between Texas and Oklahoma. They played... and Texas won. They both have the same record. They're both top three BCS teams. And did I mention, they played. It's mystifying how this is possible. Only in the BCS! Oklahoma is fortunate they are in the Big 12. In the five other NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision conferences that have two divisions, Texas would hold the tie breaker. Now before you bring up the tired argument, Oklahoma beat Texas Tech. The Sooners had the luxury of beating Texas Tech at home. Texas played Texas Tech in Lubbock and barely lost. Texas soundly beat OU on a neutral field. Texas is the only team of the three that didn't get decisively beat by another one. The bottom line is this, when trying to decide who the better team is between two teams, nothing else should matter except for who won the game. Texas won the game decisively, 45-35. Not on a last second score (Harrell to Crabtree), but with certainty. Texas is 11-1 and beat both teams playing in the championship game by a combined 35 points. Only in the BCS! 8 CommentsLeave a comment |
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College football is suppose to be fun to watch and to teach sportsmanship. But on Saturday night with :30 seconds left to go on the clock, with OSU having no time outs and no way to stop the clock. Stoops felt that kneeling the ball and running out the clock was not good enough, he needed to run one more play. And that play resulted in a touchdown, bringing their score to 61 and beating OSU by 20 points. And the only reason he did that was to make his team look good; so they could jump the Longhorns. Now tell me should a team be rewarded for trying to run up a score, for trying to make a statement to a bunch of voters. We watch sports every weekend, and we see teams with a lead kneeling the ball to run out the clock, they dont feel like that need to embarress the team they are going to beat anymore. But on this weekend a team gets rewarded for that. What kind of message does that show the students.
RE OU,Texas
The real problem isn't the BCS putting OU in the championship game the real problem is Missouri in the championship game.
Yes, college football used to be fun!
Now it's all about money and winning at all costs to get more money.
Stoops showed what he is made of, He's 2 faced and a very poor sportsman. After the game Saturday on ABC on the non=cable national audience, hes was "aw shucks" we just did what we neede to do to win, then you switch channels to the ESPN post game on cable and its is we have beaten everybody by at least 20 points and its what you do at the end of the season that counts.
I thought that point differential had been taken out of the equation? but now it's called stype points!
Stoops is a slimeball just like Switzer is and if Zero U is proud of that then they deserve one another!
Gundy showed a lot of class after the game, a lot more than Stoops did the last time OSU beat them when he shoved Les Miles after the game, cause he lost
And to add to the discussion, it's information that follows that doesn't make the news very often, look who's last place.
Longhorns lead Big 12 in academic all-conference selections for third straight year
Texas totals 22 selections on the 2008 Academic All-Big 12 Football Team, including 17 on the first team.
AUSTIN, Texas -- The Big 12 Conference named its 2008 Academic All-Big 12 Football Team on Tuesday, and for the third straight year, Texas led the conference with 22 selections, including 17 first-team accolades.
Texas' 17 first-team honorees were more than all but two other schools in the conference had in combined first- and second-team selections with the exception of Nebraska, which had 19 total (13 first team/six second team) and Texas Tech, which had 18 total (12 first team/six second team).
The first-team included sophomore DE Sam Acho, junior K Ryan Bailey, senior WR Quan Cosby, sophomore LB Dustin Earnest, sophomore P John Gold, junior C Chris Hall, junior DS Will Harvey, senior LB Chad Kugler, senior FB Drew Marcantonio, junior QB Colt McCoy, junior TE Mac McWhorter, senior DE Cory Michner, senior RB Chris Ogbonnaya, senior WR Daniel Orr, senior RB Alex Spears, senior FB Luke Tiemann and junior OT Adam Ulatoski.
McCoy, McWhorter, Ogbonnaya and Ulatoski all earned first-team honors for the third straight year, while Bailey, Harvey and Tiemann did so for the second straight year. Hall was selected for the third straight year overall after being on the second team in the previous two years.
Five others were named to the 2008 second team, including junior DB Clark Ford, junior DT Lamarr Houston, junior TE/OL Greg Smith, junior OG Charlie Tanner and junior WR Chris Wieland.
Tanner is on the second team for the second straight year after earning first team honors two years ago, while Smith is also on the second team for the second consecutive year.
Nominated by each institution's director of student-athlete support services and the media relations offices, the football academic all-league team consisted of 91 first team members combined with 46 on the second team. First-team members consist of those who have maintained a 3.20 or better GPA, and the second-team are those who have a 3.00 to 3.19 GPA.
To qualify, student-athletes must maintain a 3.00 GPA or higher either cumulative or the two previous semesters and must have participated in 60 percent of his team's scheduled contests. Freshmen and transfers are not eligible in their first year of academic residence. Senior student-athletes who have participated for a minimum of two years and meet all the criteria except percent of participation are also eligible.
2008 Academic All-Big 12 Selections
School First team Second team Total
Texas 17 5 22
Nebraska 13 6 19
Texas Tech 12 8 18
Baylor 11 5 16
Kansas 7 5 13
Oklahoma 6 7 13
Break my heart...... Weird Austin's team and all it's t-shirt fans got their feelings hurt.....cry me a river!
Heh heh. I could write the rest of the article after the first couple of paragraphs. Hamilton wants to sweep the Horns loss to Tech right under the rug. The games in question between Texas, OU, and Tech could have all went differently on any given day. So who has the better team? OU played a harder schedule and beat each team more soundly than Texas did. The computers, which are unbiased (unlike our media, ahem), using only statistics to guide their selections, say OU is the better team. Get over it.
And while we're being honest here, let's touch on this "sportsmanship" argument. In the comment from Mike above, we're led to believe that OU was wrong to run the score up... unless I'm reading the scores wrong, I believe Texas won 9 of their games this year by 20 points or more. Did they need all those points to secure the win? Probably not. So what. Good for them.
These coaches are paid millions by these universities for what? To win titles. That's it. Not sportsmanship trophies. Remember sportsmanship trophies when you were a kid? They were the little ones that everyone on the team got. Remember the big one? Yeah. The one that the team with the most points got. That is for the winner, not the sportsman.
Don't get me wrong. Sportsmanship is important. However, scoring lots of points doesn't qualify as poor sportsmanship. These coaches understand the BCS system, as screwed up as it is. They get it. They know that to move up in the polls and get titles they need to not just win, but win big.
So guess what Texas fans? I'll give it to you straight. The BCS, which is the SYSTEM EVERYONE HAS TO PLAY IN, picked OU as the team for the Big 12 championship. Waaah! If it was Texas in this position I'm sure there would be OU fans arguing the same crybaby logic you guys are using. And you know what? They'd be crybabies too...
How stupid is Mack Brown for thinking sportsmanship is rewarded in our civilization.
If you want to get ahead you need to learn to step on somebody neck when their down, not to show compassion. Just because the other team realizes the game is lost and puts in their 2nd and 3 stringers so they can get to play in a game is no reason for you to stop kicking them. That’s the message we want to send to our youths.
Compassion? We're talking about football here, not kickball at summer camp. These are big boys, Pat.
You didn't respond, however, to my stat on the Texas wins this year. Did Mack Brown show compassion to the nine teams they beat by 20+ points? No. But who cares. It's a game of football. If the system rewarded sportsmanship (the way you describe it, that is), all coaches and teams would run a different program. That is not the system that is in place. The system in place rewards statistics. Go generate numbers so my school gets on TV more, which makes us more money - that's the name of the game.
It's amazing how self-righteous people become when they don't win. You want to change the system, Pat? You want to make it some euphoric Vince Lombardi-esque game where sportsmanship is king and stats don't matter? Get the money out of it. Stop holding bowl games named after shipping, tortilla chip, and insurance companies. Stop selling ads for $$$$ during the time-outs, and stop putting team logos on everything in my grocery store.
The money drives this entire process. Yes it's broken. Yes, I'd love to see it played differently, but it's simply not going to happen until the money stops driving the game.
And don't even get me started on pro football, they've got all the same problems (except the bowl games) and they've got the spoiled, over-paid, thug players.
Like I said in my previous post, if the Sooners were in this spot, they'd be crying too. You've got to put this in the right perspective and get your emotions out of it. These teams do everything they can legally do within the confines of the system we have.