the tech game sham

by kmacsm on Nov 11, 2007 3:02 PM CST Comment 12 comments

I've seen a good amount of tech games, but one was one of the most deflating games I've witnessed in a while

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news;_...

great job by doubletnation.com for getting that.

also everyone should check out doubletnation, no one else ive seen has been able to put into words exactly what most tech fans feel during the Texas game. I'll admit i am a rather passionate tech fan, and a rather passionate Texas hater, but even y'all have to realize that obvious bias that Texas receives for every big twelve game (outside of ou) but it really seems way to obvious that whenever texas needs a break or a change of momentum that the yellow and red flags just come falling like manna from heaven. it has just gotten bad. the officials gave Texas the shipley touchdown, and took away the britton touchdown. thats 14 points in a 16 point game.

i've seen a good amount of tech games, but one was one of the most deflating games ive ever seen

but, the only thing more painful to watch than the officiating was techs defense. if u had told me before the game that tech would score 43 points and jamal charles would get hurt at half. i would be reallly really confident in a tech victory, but colt mccoy (oh dear god, i hate that name, and i hate the whole aura that sounds him... seriously guys his only production came on broken plays, he just simply cannot run an offense) would scramble for eight on a third and seven, or there would be a reciever 5 yards up the field on third and three. that was just like chinesse water torture.

I am a big fan of ruffin and i think he can turn around the tech defense, but he has a really long way to go.

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i dont agree with you at all. we did not get all the calls yesterday. crabtree did make the catch IMO but there wasnt video evidence. shipley made that catch and your td was dropped. i dont understand how you cant see that on the video. both of them are quite obvious.

another point- lesser teams in any conference always make these types of claims. i live in tOSU country and all the other teams always bitch about tOSU and Michigan always gets the calls when they clearly dont.

as for y'alls defense- well, ours was just as bad. i mean- we let y'all score untouched on a 60 something pass with 1 miunte left. i was confident all day that we could not stop you at any point. i honeslty think you should have went for two every time you scored. i guarentee you would have got them all, we had no chance stopping you.

by TEXASFIGHT on Nov 11, 2007 3:10 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

this is ridiculous

There is no freaking conspiracy. Texas got some calls yesterday, yes. But there's no systematic favoring of Texas. We didn't get the calls last week in stillwater and we didn't get the calls last year against A&M in austin. Stop with the "my team didn't get the calls so there's a conspiracy" bullshit. Some Texas fans were doing it last week too at the end of the first half. It's beyond stupid. Missed calls do not equal a conspiracy.

by billyzane on Nov 11, 2007 3:17 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

lol

If it makes you feel better for me to vote that we get the calls against teams from Lubbock and Stillwater, I'll vote that way.

So hey, you're right. Texas cheats. Texas cheats to win and there isn't anything anyone can do about it. So that sucks for you guys.

Ryan Bailey is my hero, and also my child.

by Bdub on Nov 11, 2007 3:23 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Refs were not bad.

I can not believe you bought into leach's propaganda. If you thought that Britton's TD was a catch than you are just a dellisional fan.

Yeah, we get calls in our favor but thats the way life is. The refs were not at fault in this game. You are just being a sore loser. I think Leach and you guys just realized that this could be Mack's worst team int the last 6 7 yrs and we still beat you guys. The reason you guys lost is that you gave up 60 points.

Don't diss Colt McCoy. You are just jealous that Harrell isn't as good. If you want to nitpick as how Colt moves the ball. Harrell just dumps the ball off on these little screens and lets his recievers do the work.

by dsmith on Nov 11, 2007 3:29 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Texas bias for every big 12 game...

So K-state is no longer in the Big 12?

I'm not even questioning the officiating in the two k-state games, but some timely penalties that could've helped swing the momentum our way never seemed to show up.

Maybe the officials were taking a day off from their Texas bias...or MAYBE K-state didn't commit dumb penalties at crucial, momentum shifting moments.

We got a couple of breaks yesterday, but no more than you'll see in any given game. Leach is letting this "travesty" build in his head because he's convinced it's there.

Tech lost yesterday because we were able to put up more points on your crappy defense than you were on ours. Even by your own argument, we still win by two points.

Does it seem to anyone else that since this is an obvious "down year" for Texas, teams are even more annoyed when they can't pull out a win? Seriously, you just lost the game. Take it. Don't be Aggies.

by sterling on Nov 11, 2007 3:36 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Leach has successfully

deflected all criticism away from himself and onto the refs.

For some reason, a lot of tech fans are buying it.

by the other Andrew on Nov 11, 2007 3:51 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

It's the ole 'blame them' maneuver

I expect more from Leach and this lowers my respect for him. The holding call was not defensible. Perhaps the rusher (37 I think) could have pulled up but he was a step from the passer at the release, not two steps.

Randy Crystal has been around Austin a long time. I have seem him excoriated numerous times by Texas fans while umpiring Horn baseball games, where he can hear every debasing word. Whatever feelings he might have for Texas is certainly balanced out by such visceral and insulting outbursts.

Anyone who chooses to referee catches it from fans on all sides - and coaches have alternatives, they can complain directly to the Big 12 office.

The amount of crap that referees are subject to is one of the reasons there are fewer and fewer refs going into high school sports (notably football and baseball). That is the nursery, the learning level, and it would probably be a valid claim that those HS sports are being degraded a little just by the incompetence, the lack of experience of refs, especially in the lower classifications. It's a damn tough road for refs.

This doesn't mean there are poor or self-serving refs - there are, the lady ref in the Waxahachie/Kerrville state title girls basketball game who was banned for life because she absolutely tilted the game away from Kerrville is a good example of the worst that can happen. I covered most HS sports and, quite frankly, the level of refereeing can be appalling. For the most part though, most are doing there best to call the games as well as the can. It is a damn tough dollar to earn.

Leach, being a lawyer, should have found a much better case to present. This was sour grapes.

by whills on Nov 11, 2007 4:25 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Very Savvy move by Leach

He was out-coached by Greg Davis and Mack, very embarrassing for that gun slingin trickster. High praise to Greg and Mack for calling a smart, aggressive game and putting the wood to the sand aggies.

by burntup on Nov 11, 2007 4:01 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Yea!!!!

Fucking sand aggies!

by Red Blooded on Nov 11, 2007 6:26 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I was sitting next to a Tech fan

who kept referring to surrounding Longhorns as "t-sips", which I thought was pretty stupid. I looked it up and it's apparently an insult to go to a school that produces professionals.

Go Sand Aggies! Love me some Red Raider football and Coach Leach is hysterical.

by Red Blooded on Nov 11, 2007 6:55 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

this HAS to be

a post by Mike Leach himself...or tech fans are just as immature and paranoid as Leach

my first born shall be named vy

by hookemkp on Nov 11, 2007 5:06 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Them's the Breaks TTU...

There is NO Austin bias. If there was I can think of a call last year with a TD pass Limas Sweed caught against A&M that was taken away in Austin. If we would have gotten that call that would have been the game winner, putting us up to 14 on the scoreboard, with them scoring only 12 points. As it was it was a pass interference judgment call on the ref's part and it went against us, and we lost. Was there an A&M bias... NO.

There is no bias and this is just sour grapes. Oh and leave Colt McCoy alone until you can beat him. He's now had two very good performances against you guys, again sour grapes.

You guys played to the last second and put up a great effort, this type of thing cheapens the good performance you DID put on in Austin.

1 Peter 2:17

by HornsFan87 on Nov 11, 2007 11:27 PM CST reply actions 0 recs