70-3 still lingers with Buffs : (Boulder Daily Camera)
The Boulder Daily Camera has an interesting article on how the memory of the 2005 Big 12 demolition of CU is still fresh in the minds of the 9 remaining players and 2 coaches from that team.
Here's a good quote from Darian Hagan, an assistant coach (and former CU QB) who was on the 2005 staff.
"I remember warming up and those guys were laughing and joking over there," Hagan said of the Longhorns, then led by quarterback Vince Young. "They didn't respect us. We thought we could go in there and hang with them. Never in my wildest dreams did I think it would be 70-3. And then in the fourth quarter, blitzing and piling it on, I didn't think that would happen, but it did.
"What they did was pretty much try to clown us on a national stage, but you can't carry that. We have to let it roll off our back, but it's going to be in the back of our minds, I can tell you that."
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Um...
They were good when we played them the first game, and I thought they played admirably tough despite being overmatched. By the Big 12 title game, however, they had all but collapsed. They didn’t really deserve our “respect.” Besides, they got oh-so lucky in 2001, and we had to, you know, make sure they realized it.
Besides, we didn’t even score in the fourth quarter. It was 70-3 midway through the third. We could have scored 100 easily, so I don’t know why they think we were just piling it on.
by TheElusiveShadow on Sep 29, 2008 2:21 PM CDT reply actions
Funny Stuff
In the 05 Big XII champ, CU gave up after the first 2 minutes…that was just a pathetic performance by CU……a high school team could have clowned CU that day.
Good
I’m glad we ran it up. They kicked our ass in the big twelve championship in 01 and wern’t afriad to rub it in. I wish we would have scored more points on them. and as fo “piling it up in the fourth quarter”, like shadow said, WE DIDN"T EVEN SCORE ANY POINTS ON THEM!
BTW, this was worthy of a fanpost.
"There aint nothin' over till it's over. "
~Rocky Balboa
maybe PB can bump it w/ rec's..nt whills
by vy til i die on Sep 29, 2008 6:17 PM CDT up reply actions
I recomended it. dont know what will happen
"There aint nothin' over till it's over. "
~Rocky Balboa
They kicked our ass?
What were you smoking during that game? We lost by two points.
And we didn’t run up the score on them in 2005.
They were kicking our ass in 01
and would have continued to run up the score if possible, But major brought us back. The point I was trying to make was football is football and people get their asses kicked
"There aint nothin' over till it's over. "
~Rocky Balboa
It's not running up the score
If the game is still in question. The game was obviously still in question if we almost won.
Doest the box score prove they werent deserving of respect?
Respect is something you earn, not something handed to you.
We pulled off the gas mid 3rd quarter, I dont care how bad you are winning, its totally acceptable to play 2 and a half quarters of football.
Maybe this guys attitude is part of why we were able to humiliate them so badly.
by BoddickerIsClutch on Sep 29, 2008 6:50 PM CDT reply actions
clowning
What they did was pretty much try to clown us on a national stage,
As their new coach says,“This is Big XII football!”…clowned or be clowned. We weren’t trying to clown them, but they played terrible and were clowned due to their own ineptitude.
(However, I do remember almost feeling bad for their Sr. QB (can’t remember his name) whose game ended not only with an embarrassing loss, but also with a near decapitation.)
Joel Klatt IIRC..
..I think I heard somewhere that he had to stay in the hospital after the game. Man, that’s rough
by vy til i die on Sep 30, 2008 9:31 AM CDT up reply actions
Klatt has a Wikipedia page and he apparently went off on the NCAA for not
protecting quarterbacks better. LINK.
Quote:
“If they want to exploit us as athletes and sell our jerseys and put us on video games, then perhaps they should protect us on the field better, so that we can, in the future, get that compensation and possibly go to the NFL. … It seems like they’re more concerned with what guys do after the play and after they score, which is completely irrelevant to safety, or anything like that. But is a player who goes into the end zone and gets a little too excited, is that as important as someone who gets a head injury? I just think their priorities are a little out of whack.”
Get a life........
That was three years ago and the majority of this current Texas team (and their team also) were not involved.
I agree with that, that's why I posted this..
I was really surprised to see the bitterness among the staff there over that game.
Just another motivational ploy...
Darian Hagan knows they got their asses handed to them that day, and he’s looking for an edge for this game. We would be doing the same thing if the situation was reversed, heaven forbid. Bottom line: It won’t make any difference on Saturday if we protect the ball, stop the rush, and pressure their QB. All of the Haganisms in the world can’t “Hold Back the Rak”…!
by Horns757 on Sep 30, 2008 2:35 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Unfounded allegations?
Just read the article from the link above. I think they need to go back to their dictionaries. Unproven allegations, yes. Unfounded, not so much. When a recruit changes his mind at the last minute, and mom suddenly has a new job in Boulder, it looks to me like there is some foundation for the allegations of improper recruiting. (Not to mention all the other issues brought up on this site at the time, concerning style of play, MNC chances, etc.)
By the way, thanks to PB and all the rest of you for the great discourse on this site. I just got back from 3 weeks at sea, helping friends take their sailboat from Victoria, BC to San Francisco. When I left the boat and checked into a hotel before flying back, the first site I checked was, of course, BON.
by Longhorn in Canada on Oct 2, 2008 5:52 PM CDT reply actions
Just because you read it on the internet does not make it true
There was never a job for his mother in Boulder. That is a bullshit internet rumor, pretty much the definition of unfounded.
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