Immediate Reaction: Texas Beats OU

by Peter Bean on Oct 7, 2006 6:25 PM CDT in Texas Longhorns Football

Texas came into this game favorites, they proved their superior ability in the first quarter, and then we got soft in our comfort with the lead. I was angry. I put up a nasty post at halftime about how unhappy I was with our passivity with the offense in the first half.

But things changed at halftime. Greg Davis came out and did what we wanted the Texas offense to do. And it worked. It was a great performance. While the defense made play after play, the offense played like a unit that understood that the quarterback was capable of exposing weaknesses in this Oklahoma defense.

And that's all you want from your offense. The next thing we want is to see it for 60 minutes, and not just 40 minutes.

The bottom line: there's plenty to be bothered about the coma we went into after Texas went up 7-0. But there's an equal amount to celebrate after the half. The net result was a decisive win over the most dispicable group of athletes on the planet. And that's all we really wanted, right? At the end of the day, it was a good day.

We'll get into the nitty gritty of this game over the next 48 hours, but for now, it's time to enjoy a terrific, decisive victory.

Yet another Saturday that I'm proud, proud, PROUD to be a Longhorn.

Big Game Bob is dead.

Long live the Longhorns.

--PB--

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The song

One of the best rap songs ever! Oh yeah, the results of the game today weren't too shabby.

by JohnsonUT on Oct 7, 2006 9:28 PM CDT reply actions

Gulp!

Congratulations on the win Texas, and B.O.N. faithful. The second half really separated the men from the boys! Good luck the rest of the season.

by MattH on Oct 8, 2006 1:12 AM CDT reply actions

How the hell

So how the hell did we win so nicely by earning more than 100 yards less than OU? CHAPS!

"It's so beautiful," "Don't you think that's beautiful? That crystal's so beautiful. It's coming home all the way to Austin, Texas."

by 2Bearnest on Oct 8, 2006 1:30 AM CDT reply actions

Who's got the CRYING KID!

PLEASE someone who taped this game find the Crying OU kid from the 4th Q and post a screen capture. He Shall Be Known As... David Boren Jr.

by PJM on Oct 8, 2006 2:36 AM CDT reply actions

Here you go

by ImBobbo on Oct 8, 2006 4:40 AM CDT up reply actions

Boy

That whole picture pretty much defines the Sooner Nation, doesn't it? Welcome to reality, kid...

by Kahuna on Oct 8, 2006 6:17 AM CDT up reply actions

can

can you email this to me, it isnt showing up whn I try to look at it,

christopher.deck@asab.centaf.af.mil

by Rigger on Oct 8, 2006 7:47 AM CDT up reply actions

Yep

That kid looks like he no longer has the will to live. I love it. Speaking of this pic, I've seen many people in the blogosphere looking for this image, might be good front page or diary material.

by AMB on Oct 8, 2006 7:02 AM CDT reply actions

Technology sure has come a long way...

Now we have high definition crying.

by ImBobbo on Oct 8, 2006 7:18 AM CDT reply actions

pic

doesnt work can you email the pic to me ad

christopher.deck@asab.centaf.af.mil

by Rigger on Oct 8, 2006 7:42 AM CDT reply actions

Great Pix

Watching the fourth quarter in a public place, and everyone (about 100 people or so) started laughing when ABC put the kid up there. Not guffawing. Not chuckeling. Out and out laughing. Good times.

With Auburn losing, how many spots will the Tigers fall? 2? 3? The Tigers should be ranked right around 20 after getting hammered at HOME by unranked team.

Since Texas lost to the top team in the country and dropped 8 spots, shouldn't Auburn fall 20 spots or so?

by milevin on Oct 8, 2006 8:47 AM CDT reply actions

The picture is almost as good

as the Sooner who gave the stadium the bird on the jumbotron.

by Wells on Oct 8, 2006 9:16 AM CDT reply actions

Greg Davis blues

Without the intervention of Coach Brown at halftime, we would be cying in our beer this morning. Is there any other offensive coordinator in the country that can personally destroy a good team and field position like Davis? I don't think so. His typical east-west attack resulted in 0 yards in the 2nd quarter. It makes you wander how he can look in the mirror. He already has one loss strictly attributed to his gutless offensive calls and he was on the way to another. Maybe he should check his job description again. It says OFFENSIVE coach!

Coach Brown should accept the facts and dump him before next year. Let's not squander the talent that Mack recruits with this gutless wonder.

by valonghorn on Oct 8, 2006 11:20 AM CDT reply actions

You are ridiculous

Did the first pass of the game deep to Sweed not do it for you? You are ridculous. The holding penalities are what caused the 1 yard second quarter, not GD. Why can you not accept that he called a good game? Even in victory you are fickle. If we had Norm Chow calling our plays you would still be bitching.

by Wells on Oct 8, 2006 11:26 AM CDT up reply actions

GD

"Did the first pass of the game deep to Sweed not do it for you?"

Apparently one pass per quarter does it for YOU.

Go and read some of the press conferences and listen to the radio on-line.

From the horses mouth, both GD and Mack admit that Greg was being too conservative. Mack made the change at half-time.
"Brown thought offensive coordinator Greg Davis was being too conservative with McCoy, so he told him at halftime to let the kid loose. McCoy responded with his longest play yet on his first snap of the third quarter and built from there. "

-- per DMN

He has an INT phobia and does not trust his players. Davis relies on charts and graphs to guide his play calling, rather than what his own eyes tell him.

Nobody is bitching, but f*#$ing UAB and Washington put up more yards and points on OU in their own Norman house.

Do you think they have more talent than Texas?
UAB's QB and RB were both starting their first game.

Geezus, Davis deserves criticism, because even he and the HC are admitting his faults.

Cats and dogs sleeping together.

by EYESofBEVO on Oct 8, 2006 11:38 AM CDT up reply actions

RE:

"Nobody is bitching, but f*#$ing UAB and Washington put up more yards and points on OU in their own Norman house.

Do you think they have more talent than Texas?
UAB's QB and RB were both starting their first game."

To be fair. The game was over a lot sooner than the UAB or Washington games. We were basically running the clock out for the last part of the fourth quarter.

by aorist9 on Oct 8, 2006 12:08 PM CDT up reply actions

GD

I don't want to dump all over GD after such a good day, but I will say this. Mack Brown specifically said that at halftime he thought Davis was being too conservative with McCoy and told him to loosen up. What disturbs me is that, after it hasn't worked the last 19 times in a row, GD thought it would be a good game plan to play conservatively. He is like a machine that is incapable of learning; experience literally teaches this man nothing. It was just a few weeks ago that he said "perhaps I was a bit too conservative" against tOSU, but he thought for some reason that it would be a good idea to play that way again yesterday. What is so infuriating every time he does this, is that each time, he acts as if this is the first time he has ever tried that approach. "Oh, perhaps we were a bit too conservative...oh well." And then he'll do it again next time, we all know he will. Without Mack's intervention yesterday, he would have called the same plays in the second half. We need to give all the credit to Mack.

by BrooklynHorn on Oct 8, 2006 11:33 AM CDT up reply actions

University of Texas Rivalry Games

Just got back from Dallas, and what a great victory. One thing I was disappointed with, though, was the general atmosphere. I was expecting it to be much crazier. In fact I've been disappointed with the atmosphere at all Texas rivalry games. I've been now to a red river rivalry game and a Tex A&M game and im surprised at the relative calmness of these games. I suppose it could be called class but the level of interest just doesnt seem to be there.

I'm a University of Michigan graduate here at UT for a grad degree, and I fully expected the games down here to much crazier, given the state of Texas' "Football is king" reputation. Instead the big games greatly pale in comparison to Michigan/OhioSt or other raucous Big 10 games. Royal stadium seems to lack deafening crowd noise and is sometimes half empty by halftime (or kickoff, depending on the opponent). The loudest I've heard the stadium is for ohio state and even then not too bad.

I'd be interested in what other Texas fans think, especially if you've been to rivalry games at other schools.

by hookemblue on Oct 8, 2006 12:36 PM CDT reply actions

Fair...

but I've been to games at Alabama, Nebraska, USC, etc. and I tend to find that, uniformly, the school that is king of that region, tends to conduct itself with more of a sense of entitlement than fury. It is usually the chip-on-its-shoulder, something to prove to the world, second-best teams that seem to be crazier. So Auburn is way crazier than Alabama, A&M (sorry guys) is a bit crazier than we are, tOSU is supposedly a lot crazier than Michigan, etc.

I'm comfortable with who we are. Its better than the alternative.

by BrooklynHorn on Oct 8, 2006 12:54 PM CDT up reply actions

Vitriol

It hasnt been in the series lately. I dont know why. It used to be there in force. I havent seen a good drunk arguing match in years.

You still see all the horns down and stuff from the Sooners, but for the most part no one is interested in taking a dump on the hood of your rival's car anymore.

by the other Andrew on Oct 8, 2006 4:53 PM CDT up reply actions