don’t call my huskies wimps. just cause they didn’t start a brawl doesn’t make them wimps.

I happen to buy into the whole NCAA sportsmanship idea (I know, I know) and this goes over the line. Maybe if a team I didn’t despise with every fiber of my being commit this act I could look past it, but when the land thieves pull this crap it beings up images of Big Red Sports, Switzer and just general Boz low class cheating.

You would never see Army or Navy pulling this junk and I hope we never do anything like this either. This is the shenanigans that separate the Army’s of the world from the Miami’s and it defiantly distinguishes the sooners from us.

…but you must now join the ranks of the others who have missed the main idea.

Ross’ hit wasn’t dirty, true…but it also wasn’t necessary. Why’d he do it do you think? Why’d he go low and hit Leinart when he was already down on the turf? Forward progress had been halted. There was no loose ball, no struggle. The play was dead.

Why do you think Aaron Ross, Thorpe Award winner, All-American, first round draft pick, and Super Bowl champion – why do you think Ross hit Leinart when he was down? Did Matty call him names? Or make fun of his mama? Or talk shit about his girlfriend? I doubt it. So…why did Ross do what he did in that game?

Because in the heat of the moment, in the middle of the limelight, among the other competitors dancing on the surface tension of the ether called adrenaline Aaron Ross’ instinctual side wanted to destroy Leinart. And I guarantee when it happened you had that guilty wry smiling grimace that we all do when we see a big hit. We all go “ooooooooooh, man!” and then we chuckle and anxiously await the replay to watch it again and again and again.

It ain’t dirty. It’s football.

ou ain’t dirty – there are one or two dumb players that do boneheaded things, but they ain’t dirty. They compete, and they look for kids that have that ineffable quality that lets them skate on the edge of nasty while collected accolade after accolade.

But once in awhile, a Bosworth comes along. And now that Bosworth apparently has been re-christened Granger (though I would never saddle Granger with the idiocy of Boz – I hate the muthaf****r). Granger was anxious and ready to hit some one. Yes, we’re all taught to pull-up at the whistle, but we’re animals and sometimes our base instinct is to fight, to hurt, to draw first blood.

And THAT’S the kind of player we need! Derrick Johnson, Tommy Nobis, Leonard Davis, Dan Neil, and yes…Aaron Ross among the select group of UT Longhorns that helped harden and even pit the chrome of our shiny Cadillac.

My last two points: You should never EVER let anyone walk over you. You will never live it down. You must be wary of the situation, its implications and its consequences, but you must always protect you and yours from humiliation. Your response must always be measured, however. If someone is blocking you from the field, push through them and take the field. The Huskies backed down, period. That’s the beginning of the end for Willingham. They are now 0-3, and played like it.

2nd point: There is no such thing as a “rational, thinking” young man.