Remember, remember the 1st of November...
by HornsAPlenty on Sep 15, 2009 11:10 AM CDT
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As the Tech game approaches, Mack has told the press that this will not be a "revenge" game. However, as a fan I can't help but feel that this is a HUGE underlying issue for our team. Mack may not want his team to seek revenge for last years game, but he certainly will not let them forget to finish the job that they didn't last year. So let us not forget and to use that as motivation to win this game! Hook 'Em Horns and OU Sucks!
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I don’t know about most people, but only two things can cause me to shift into burning-intensity mode, and one is the shot at sweet, sweet revenge, especially when it’s for something that cost me big-time. If I’m different from, say, your average Texas Longhorn football player this season, so be it, but if I’m not, I’m pretty sure these kids would respond pretty well to the revenge angle. My guess is that it has in fact been pushed in practices, team meetings, etc., but it’s being kept quiet from the media, which is a good idea any game of the season.
by burntorangehorn on Sep 15, 2009 11:39 AM CDT reply actions
Mack is of course a nice guy for the media.
But unless Mack plays good cop to Muschamp’s bad cop, there is no way he is Mr. Sweetcakes off-camera with his players. We’ve seen him rage on the sidelines and I’m sure he brings that same energy to the locker room.
This will be IN-TENSE.
agree 100%
Hard to tell how Mack acts behind closed doors, but I guarantee you coach boom is using the revenge slant
by trueorangeblood on Sep 15, 2009 12:27 PM CDT up reply actions
The last time
The last time I remember a game where Mack took the “it’s not a revenge game” angle was Kansas State in 2007. Maybe if they had approached it as a revenge game, it would have turned out a little differently. That being said, everyone is right about not knowing what is said behind closed doors.
I've been fuelin' my dreams eatin' greens and beans.
Bonus question:
Who, in an interview with a major sports publication, said, “We owe that team an ass-whuppin”?
by burntorangehorn on Sep 15, 2009 2:06 PM CDT up reply actions
I’m guessing the point wasn’t lost, then. It’s just that Blount made for some great bulletin-board material for the Broncos, and they shut him and the rest of Oregon down. Why give Tech that kind of motivation? Make revenge the issue, but don’t put it out to the media.
by burntorangehorn on Sep 16, 2009 8:13 AM CDT up reply actions
The attitude our team will have Saturday...
Longhorn defensive coordinator Will Muschamp studied video longer than normal Monday.
The Crabtree touchdown was on the loop.
“I watched it,” Muschamp said with a brusque tone.
There was no elaboration.
Excerpt from Austin-American Statesman
"Stats are for losers. I like winning games."
-Will Muschamp
Revenge angle?
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love nothing more than to see Texas wipe the floor with Tech this Saturday, but I’m having a hard time seeing the satisfaction in beating a “Crab-less, Harrell-less, unranked” Tech team.
Winning this game certainly isn’t going to make me feel any better about getting screwed last season. Only an undefeated season and an invite to the BCS championship will do that.
And provided we do win Saturday, do you really think Tech fans are going to feel anything like we did after they beat us last year? Hell no. They’re going to say, “well, yeah, you’re the #2 team in the country playing at home. We’re not even ranked and we’re rebuilding. At least we won when we were both ranked in the Top 10.”
Playing Tech is like playing against your little brother…beating the little bastard is expected and rarely gratifying.
Personally, I’d rather see the angle be, “let’s go stomp the crap out of these Tech fools because they’re standing in our way and we’re playing on national TV.”
Be nobody but yourself in a world that desperately wants you to be like everybody else.
It's part revenge
And also, it’s the first conference game. This game matters! I think there’s a lot of pent up energy for that after playing our cupcakes.
So much for “vanilla” offenses and defenses. Our guys are going to win this game like it means something, and there’s some real ( granted, inferior, but real ) talent on the other side of the ball.
THIS game starts our season. Followed by more preseason at UTEP, Colorado, until our rivalry in Dallas.
I get that 54b
And coming from a former player (reguardless of the “b” status) that is interesting. Yeah they lost some huge pieces and they are unranked, but you are telling me if you were playing, you would be thinking about revenge? a little?
Personally I would like to see this game go from “we won at the last second” to “We beat you last year” to “well, we won a couple of years ago” to Remember that one time when we were kids and we beat Texas?"
I don’t think a mind is a “one thought only zone” (although some of my students challenge that theory) I think we can be going for revenge AND stomping the crap out of the fools in our way of the MNC.
"A lot of people look for the easy way to do anything, in swimming there is no easy way." - Eddie Reese
Change "revenge" to "avenge" and we've got a deal. nt
Be nobody but yourself in a world that desperately wants you to be like everybody else.
Well most of their defense was the defense that played last year. nt
by girlslikefootball2 on Sep 16, 2009 2:10 AM CDT up reply actions
Minus their two sack leaders.
Who had 21 of their 34 total sacks.
by BoddickerIsClutch on Sep 16, 2009 9:01 AM CDT up reply actions
And a 2nd round pick quality NFL safety/corner
proud to swim home
by learned hand on Sep 16, 2009 11:00 PM CDT up reply actions
Coach / Player Interviews
After perusing through the usual monotone drivel of the Sept 15 update on MBTF, I’ve decided that there’s no point in messing with public coverage. Just once, I’d like for some player to say:
“You know what, I am pissed about last year, about losing to Tech, and that tiebreaker bullshit. Anger is a healthy response to failure, and helps drive me towards improving. This game is special to me, moreso than the other two we’ve played so far, and I’m ready to go out there and whoop some ass. If I have it my way, they’ll be getting delay of game all the time in the second half because they’re all too damn scared to come back out on the field. It’s time for practice, get the hell out of my way MF.”
Is the title of this post
an intentional Lennon reference?
If so, I appreciate it.
Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis.
I think it’s actually a reference to the poem Guy Fawkes Night, which was about the Gunpowder Plot on the 5th of November, 1605.
Either that, or it’s a reference to V is for Vendetta, when V, the terrorist wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, repeated the same phrase.
by burntorangehorn on Sep 16, 2009 10:33 AM CDT up reply actions
Of course, if I recall correctly, the Lennon song itself is making a reference to Guy Fawkes Night.
by burntorangehorn on Sep 16, 2009 10:34 AM CDT up reply actions
and i am put squarely in my place
but i learned something!
Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis.
to be sung to the tune of
“Try to Remember the Kind of September”
from The Fantasticks?
by crocodile235 on Sep 16, 2009 1:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Revenge
Seeking revenge is looking to the past. We need to be looking ahead, motivated by what we can attain now, not what happened last year.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. If they get mad, you're a mile away AND you have their shoes.
cant be revenge...
this single game with Tech cant in anyway adequately payback Tech for last year. we lost more in that 1 game than Tech has ever had in all their football years. REVENGE this year IS NOT about texas tech.
REVENGE this year is about winning EVERY single game, knocking out ALL opponents. TRUE CHAMPIONS GO UNDEFEATED.
werent the last few BcS champs kinda lame, considering they lost at some point.
look up -- get up -- dont ever give up
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