Big 12 is shortsighted

by Longhorn in Canada on Nov 30, 2008 12:31 PM CST

Watching last night's game, when even Kirk Herbstreit noticed the blatant OU holding, I recalled a post I had made here some time ago. Stoops has his offensive line well coached to play in the Big 12. If the officials are not going to call holding, then teach your line to hold. This strategy has worked well for him, with more conference championships than I care to remember. However, when you reach a BCS game, you are not going to find Big 12 officials. I think this may be one reason Bob has laid so many eggs in bowl games recently. (Love that picture.) Your O-line cannot be conditioned to hold all year long and then suddenly switch to clean blocking.

What could we expect if OU passes Texas in the BCS, and goes to play Florida, for example? Well, let's look back to Dallas in October, when the Sooners faced another fast, talented team. 45-35, and I think it would have been about 52-21 if that game had been called by real officials. Given the speed and skill of Florida, I expect that score would be close to the outcome in Miami. As it would be closer to a Florida home game, and given a natural tendency of teams to give up when they are being whipped, i would not be surprised to see something like 63-14. Then everyone will say how much better Florida and the SEC are than the Big 12.

It's time for the Big 12 to start enforcing the rules of the game.

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Tech for sure

held in that game. And they passed the ball, I think 60+ times and not 1 holding call? With Kindle, Miller, and Rak rushing the QB? I don’t think so.

Other than that game I have not seen too many blatantly bad no-calls on holding in the big 12. Maybe you see things I don’t?

"A lot of people look for the easy way to do anything, in swimming there is no easy way." - Eddie Reese

P.S. 45-35

by SwimTexas on Nov 30, 2008 1:18 PM CST reply actions

Well

when members of your O-line publicly state their desire to be professional wrestlers, complete with trying out their make-up, i don’t think it’s close. Tech outholds OU. I just didn’t want to clutter up the post with rants about the pirates.
Query: did Leach learn the holding technique from Stoops when he was at OU, or was it the other way around? Enquiring minds want to know!

by Longhorn in Canada on Nov 30, 2008 1:39 PM CST reply actions

OU will probably represent the big 12 south because there is no crying in football

by Randyy on Nov 30, 2008 1:42 PM CST reply actions

i'm glad...

you said REPRESENT randyyyyyyyy….and not WIN, b/c there’s no way ou deserves it more than UT

on another note, it shows a lot about yourself when you’d rather be here talking crap, than being on ou’s site w/ other sooners discussing the possibilities. I think they have a name for that…troll.

by vy til i die on Nov 30, 2008 3:24 PM CST up reply actions