Bevo's Daily Roundup - July 27, 2010
40 days (give or take a few hours).
Be careful what you wish for.
Barking Carnival looks at the Cornhuskers' need for revenge.
Lucile Laughlin a 91 year old fan who grows tomatoes for her neighbors, believes that Mack Brown is Nick Saban incarnate when it comes to underhanded tactics, as evidenced by the one second put back on the clock at the 2009 Big 12 Championship game.
"They put that second back up, and you thought you had seen the last of the good people. When people do things like that to win, they might as well all fall in the ditch, hadn’t they," lamented Lucile.
She also said, "You reap what you sow. If you do a dirty thing like that, you’ll somehow get a slap back in your face. Don’t you believe in that? When you do something like that, it’s going to come back and bite you in the butt. Now you know what I feel."
Coach Brown is everywhere. Mack Brown speaks to ESPN radio.
Mack Brown on Sports Center.
There is an embarrassment of riches in Stillwater.
And it could be a quarterback competition like never before, with the Cowboys collecting QBs like never before.
Consider the potential depth chart behind center for 2011 spring drills: Brandon Weeden, Johnny Deaton, Nate Sorenson and Walsh.
That's a quarterback lineup to envy, in stark contrast to the thin position the Cowboys have lived with for much of the recent decades.
Tommy Tuberville doesn't mince any words about agents.
We act like this is a new situation. This has been going on forever. This has been a nightmare for all of us, and there’s really no way to handle it. As we know, money’s involved. When money’s involved, then anything can happen. There’s a lot of blame to go around in all this, but bottom-line, it comes back to the coaches because you’ve got to educate these kids on what they can and can’t do and then know what’s going on.
Dan Beebe has some thoughts on the agent issue.
In this case, nagging issues may require radical remedies, like the one Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe first posed while serving on an NCAA committee more than 15 years ago. During a meeting, he suggested an outside-the-box solution, one that would allow college athletes to have agents as long as a contract exists between the agent and the educational institution as well.
"Then everything is on the table," Beebe said last week.
Should the NFL even care about the agent issue in college sports?
- Bo Pelini isn't talking.
- Baylor needs to earn some respect.
- Mike Sherman will continue to call his own plays.
- The Aggies embrace the 3-4.
- Robert Griffin is a fighter.
- Balance is the word.
- Beebe is working to resolve the Colorado issue.
- Here are 12 things everyone should ask.
Mike Sherman needs to brush up on Aggie football history.
"Our former students dream of the days of the mid-80's and 90's when we were the marquee team...I think we're getting closer to that point. This season for us is about taking that next step... I think the Big 12 needs A&M to step up to the plate, and we're ready to step up to that challenge."
Just like the mid-80's and 90's?
Here are thirteen questions no one will dare to ask at the Big 12-2 Media Days.
Mack Brown, Texas: You do realize your offensive line will have to block this year, right? There’s no Vince Young or Colt McCoy to scurry around making plays or Jamaal Charles to outrun defenders to the corner. UT’s hogs - which have given up at least 25 sacks each of the last three seasons - have to get tougher and more consistent.
The Lost Lettermen has the top 10 quarterback battles of 2010. Colorado, Nebraska and Texas Tech make the list.
How thoughtful. Black Heart Gold Pants helps Iowa State find a bowl game.
College athletes have very little privacy.
And finally...
Some good news about Ray Ray from the guys over at Barking Carnival.
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Coach Brown sure has come a long way
since the days of presumptively “begging” selling for a 2005 BCS bowl game birth in Pasadena. If not for that bold effort, where would we be?
Oh those Husker fans
They put that second back up, and you thought you had seen the last of the good people.
Well, you still seem to be alive and kicking as well, Lucille.
Lucille reminds me a lot of my grandmother.
She is in her 80s, runs marathons, beat breast cancer twice and is one of the meanest women to ever walk this earth. I know that is a terrible thing to say about my grandmother, but it is the truth,
That woman will probably outlive me. The good die young and the mean live on.
by dimecoverage on Jul 26, 2010 7:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Damn, dime. Damn.
So, what does that comma mean?
Oops. That was supposed to be a period. Just imagine one there.
by dimecoverage on Jul 27, 2010 7:23 AM CDT up reply actions
I was so livid with the clock operator at the end of that game
Because of his/her blatant mistake, which was then fairly corrected by the referee, our reputation takes a blow. It was the first thing that crossed my mind when it happened, “if only that moron hadn’t let too much time run off the clock.” It wasn’t our fault, but we’ll sure as hell get the blame. I just had no idea to what extent.
What would Nebraska be using as motivation right now had the clock operator HAD correctly done his/her job and stopped the clock with a second or two initially?
Further, has any Nebraska fan actually looked closely at the replay and seriously disputed it? Or are they so irrationally bitter that they had thought they won for a moment and had it taken away that they refuse to listen to reason?
by BrooklynHorn on Jul 26, 2010 8:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Ugh.
Should read:
What would Nebraska be using as motivation right now had the clock operator correctly done his/her job and stopped the clock with a second or two remaining?
by BrooklynHorn on Jul 26, 2010 8:11 PM CDT up reply actions
They are so irrationally bitter...
I mean, it is not like it was 5th down or anything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOeGiQZSIuE
"Stats are for losers. I like winning games." ~ Will Muschamp
"I always felt like, and I paid a price for it, that it didn't seem right for one guy to bring me down." ~ The Tyler Rose
"I'm Colt McCoy and I Am Second." ~ Colt McCoy
by Mulliganville on Jul 26, 2010 9:55 PM CDT up reply actions
Not to beat a dead horse...
…but I love how Husker fans are so livid about the one second. As if….
….the Neb kicker kicking the ball out of bounds for Texas’ last drive didn’t play into the equation at all?!?
….the horse collar penalty wasn’t crucial?!?
Both of those bone-headed plays occurred on Texas’ drive that set up the FG and one second “controversy.” I think we all liked Texas’ chances on that final drive regardless, but considering how the Nebraska defense played all game, I have to think Neb wins the game IF they don’t kick the ball out of bounds and the horse collar penalty doesn’t occur.
So instead of whining about the one second, they should channel their anger at the players making those two crucial bone-headed plays.
I say we begin a campaign
to get the Texas fanbase more pissed off at Nebraska than they are at us. If for no other reason than that they’ve no basis for their own anger.
I’ll bet we could beat them even at feigned indignation, because they certainly haven’t beat us at anything else. We’d march into Lincoln like its a revenge game for us. Then they’d REALLY be pissed off.
by BrooklynHorn on Jul 26, 2010 10:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Or every Texas fan at the game, and any time you see a cornshucker, hold one finger to remind them of that one second(you can choose which finger hah). They’ll get so mad they’ll pop their corn.
by dukeoforange on Jul 27, 2010 7:48 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I don't know what we're yelling about
So, the basis for our anger will be the lack of such for theirs? I like where your heads at here. The whining and attempt to smear Texas can be our motivation. Then we beat them in Lincoln by a kagillion points and send them packing to the Big 10 11 12 for their hate to fester from which they blame us for poverty or terrorism. Then we could be more pissed about that. And so on…
by Infield Elephant on Jul 27, 2010 9:13 AM CDT up reply actions
fans always remember the end of a game
and put more relevance on those plays than ones that happen throughout the game. Very seldom is the outcome changed on the last play and end up in controversy. There was definitely 1 sec on the clock when the ball McCoy threw out of bounds finally hit something. It’s a good thing he doesn’t have a big arm or maybe the ball stays in the air 1 more second. If only Colt would have hit the weight room a little harder, if only the the CCG was in Boulder where the air was thinner, if only osbourne was still coaching, if only neb had equal revenue to buy the time warp continuum transfucntioner to run that 1 second off…if only.
Will O-line play improve if we're under center and running more?
I’m pretty sure if we run more 3 things happen:
A. There are naturally fewer opportunites for sacks
2. Teams won’t plan scheme after scheme to take away our bread and butter (and blitz like crazy).
D. Play action pass should help keep defenses honest.
You Ese! You Ese! You Ese!
by Ese-De-SA on Jul 26, 2010 8:19 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
I thought I was was the only one that noticed that!
Well done.
" Answers --Become Resources."
Without Questions, There are limited Resources...
Open further review, it was Home Alone 1. No biggie.
" Answers --Become Resources."
Without Questions, There are limited Resources...
Yup. It was Buzz. nt.
You Ese! You Ese! You Ese!
by Ese-De-SA on Jul 27, 2010 7:26 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Do french girls shave their pits?
What happened to Caulkin?
Don’t google that, you won’t be happy.
" Answers --Become Resources."
Without Questions, There are limited Resources...
Run blocking compared to pass blocking
Reason IV is that run blocking tends to be more popular with the OL because the OL is proactive rather than reactive.
Of course, there is still a significant possibility that the UT OL does not run block that well vs OU and NU. In that case the horns will have to fall back on their short passing attack and roll out passing attack.
I expect that GG will be much more likely to throw the ball away than Colt when pressured so the number of sacks will probably drop for that reason as well.
USA! You SA! You ese!
Agree with you Gregor
I just want to see some more nastiness out of our O-line. I particularly want to see a healthy Mason Walters. His HS film had a couple of clips where he was playing center at 6’6. He on more than one occasion grabbed the NT, lifted them off the ground, and body slammed em. Christian Westerman was routinely pushing anyone in his way backwards and also making solid blocks up field.
We are gonna need alot of butter and surr-up. \m/
You Ese! You Ese! You Ese!
by Ese-De-SA on Jul 27, 2010 8:59 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Perhaps it is the other way around?
Re: Kansas City Star about balance in dime’s link above.
The high level of offensive football has been such a hit nationally you wonder whether it might have played a role in keeping the conference together. Fans watch SEC for its power football, the Big Ten for tradition, but for sheer fun and entertainment, nothing’s topped the Big 12 in recent years.
In naming the dynamic offensive teams, nowhere is NU or CU mentioned. Nor A&M or Baylor.
And if the conference is now moving back toward more balanced offenses, the two that might have benefited, NU and CU, hauled ass. Too bad. Lemme drag out the violins…
Zac Lee will throw for 3,000 yards this season
and lead the Big 12 in efficiency, Jared Crick will be better than Suh, Bo Pelini will stop dressing like a guy who passes out free candy in an unwindowed Econoline, and Nebraska will once and for all establish its dominance over Texas if it can improve its record to 2-8.
Its true: I read it on the a Nebraska blog, and they have the bestest, nicest, smartest fans in competitive sports (note: this is assuming you can call Nebraska’s history against Texas a “competitive sport”)
Ken Womack and ENSBSN: Leaving insight and originality to the other guys since Q2 2010.
Zac Lee
Will throw for 3,000 yds if……you count int yds
Jared Crick will be better than Suh …….uhhh…never
Pelini can’t help it……..he’s wearing osbourne hand me downs
Texas dominance over Neb……no one will talk about that once they’re in the big ten
by soonerspeak on Jul 27, 2010 12:01 PM CDT up reply actions
I was walking through Central Market this morning and I realized that what I said was not very nice. Zac Lee has his strengths as a quarterback…When I figure out what they are, I’ll post a retraction.
by dimecoverage on Jul 27, 2010 1:02 PM CDT up reply actions
well-played
Never ask a man if he's from Texas. If he is, he'll tell you soon enough. If he's not, don't embarrass him.
these sportswriters who are pining for a return of balanced football are ignoring something
the reasons the Techs, Missouris, and Kansases of the world moved to a spread offense was because it was a way for them to compete with the Oklahomas and Nebraskas of the conference
If it comes down to recruiting the offensive linemen, fullbacks, and tight ends needed to run a power offense, Kansas and Missouri aren’t going to beat out Nebraska for players, and Oklahoma State isn’t going to beat out OU for players
until that inequality disappears (and I don’t see a way for that to ever happen, honestly), you’re still going to see teams running spread offenses
I think too many of these sportswriters are scrambling to discover the next “new new big thing” on offense in the Big 12, and they’re really swinging at air here
So a&m moved to the spread
to keep up with the Techs, Missouris and Kansases?
Sports is man's joke on God, You see, God says to man, 'I've created a universe where it seems like everything matters, where you'll have to grapple with life and death and in the end you'll die anyway, and it won't really matter.' So man says to God, 'Oh, yeah? Within your universe we're going to create a sub-universe called sports, one that absolutely doesn't matter, and we'll follow everything that happens in it as if it were life and death.'" - Sam Kellerman
by 2Cor12:9 on Jul 27, 2010 11:03 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
no
we moved to the spread halfway through 2008 to take advantage of the talent we had at WR, and take pressure off our offensive line
the attempt to use 21 personnel in early ‘08 was just plain ugly, although we did use it some in ’09, especially when we got ahead and wanted to run the ball, and I think Sherman’s intent is to be a true WCO team the majority of the time
On those Husker fans
The same replay officials who made the “one second” decision at the end of the game overturned a first quarter, 4th down stop by our defense, effectively “adding yardage” for NU, allowing them to kick their first field goal four plays later. Without that help and those points our drive at the end of the game becomes moot (& renders NU mute). I haven’t read one mention of this in all the Nebraska revisionist history.

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