i'm sick to my stomach right now.

don't even get to enjoy the dOUchebag loss today.

somebody post pictures of crying OU kids to help me feel better please.

"Is it okay that I feel like I dont want to live anymore?"

Defensive Coordinator: Did I forget to mention that their quarterback cannot look off receivers, is not accurate, has a slow release, hasn't been accurate, and makes bad decisions?

hard to blame the defense for this one.

nope i still blame greg davis for this.  offensive gamecalling blew.  i think its time to use john chiles much much much much more.  time to spread opposing defenses out and make them also have to worry about a mobile qb.  this will open up jamaal charles and get one on one matches downfield.  either that or use 2 tight ends to get colt more protection.  he got killed out there today.  wow hopefully we beat ou next week...that would really put a smile on my face (how ironic is it that i live in nj and my bio teacher is a sooner fan?  who the hell likes ou ouside of oklahoma?)

that when this team takes the field it just seems to go through the motions. There is no energy out on the field. How can a team come out so flat on the first conference game?

I'm glad OU lost, but by no means can the coaches take a look at this game and think that wholesale changes should not be made.  As they are currently constituted, the scheme on offense, defense, and special teams is broken.  The wrong players are on the field, and they are being put in positions where they could not be successful.

I understand the o-line problems, they're young and they will make mistakes.  But we should not have gone away from the run, especially when our defense is running out of gas.

The short pass offense was exposed. Our playmakers were not catching balls where they could be weapons.

The defense was not bad, but it was not great either.  I'd like to think that Kindle would have made a difference, but I doubt it.  There was not enough pressure on QB from the get go.  Give Freeman time and he will burn you everytime.

Changes to be made:
Offense: RUN THE FOOTBALL.  Put McCoy under center give JC and Co a running start.  Throw the ball down field.  Start developing next year's scheme and next year's players.

Defense: Forget about the seniors.  The OU game should see new at least one new starter in the secondary and 3 new starters at LB.

Special Teams: Put your best players on the field.

I think we all knew this game was coming; just most of us thought it would be next week.  Hang in, it could be a long season.

I say this as someone who really, really likes Mack Brown...

but this game just exposed all his worst traits.

How about some cheerleader or Pom Pom girl pics!

That was just miserable.  The team is flat, flat, flat.  Completely lacking in emotion.  The coaching and playcalling is... pretty much what it was ante-VY.  Mack is waaaay too loyal to his assistants to kick GD out the door.  Oh well, plenty of time to stew about it on the drive back to Houston.  :(

Where was Vince Young? I thought he was going to be in the stadium.

This team reminds me in some way of the current Chicago Bears. Every yard gained is cause for a freakin celebration; it's such a relief to get a first down because the offense isn't that good. As a result, you have to beg the defense to come up with a turnover.

Unfortunately Texas doesn't have a defense as good as the Chicago Bears. The defense didn't play horribly I thought. But, like the Bears, I felt that the defense has things happen to it that are just disheartening: bad offense, bad punting, bad coverage on punts and kickoffs, turnovers, etc.

to throwing up after a long night of drinking. It's usually the case with me that after a long bout of nausea and trying to fight the feeling, I finally ralph, and I feel much better. I new Texas was going to lose at some point this year and it made me feel sick every time we got close to doing so. But now that we have, I feel a bit relieved. Bleaahhhhh!

1. . . .it's clear we are not BCS material.  We won't make it to the conference championship game, much less through it. If we can't beat a good K-State team at home, can we really expect to beat a better OU team away?  And in the frame of mind they will be in?  Do we still inspire the necessary shock-and-awe edge so most teams actually fear having to play the Texas Longhorns?

2.  Sadly, so far McCoy isn't the quarterback he was last year.  He's been showing this in his play all season--average, with flashes of panache--but we remain with stars in our eyes. Sophomore jinx?  Latent egotism?  Overpreparation?  Peter Principle?  Dunno.  He may snap out of it tomorrow, but until then, maybe he just needs to be strategically sat down; if he, or any player, is convinced he has a lock on the starting job the next 2-1/2 years come feast or come famine, that is a travesty and is Coach's burden as well as his own.  Bale out?  Absolutely not: he is the Man and continues to start until he loses the job, but  Chiles should have played the final quarter. . . final half, to my mind.

3.  I brought this up last year, but we need to recognize that K-State loathes The University of Texas.  Their football program was abysmal, officially the worst in the NCAA at one point, until Snyder brought them the heady taste of ambrosia. They mark the beginning of their subsequent decline from that loss six (?) years ago to UT in the championship game. We rank right behind Kansas (and now, just ahead of OU) on their hate list. Nor does it help that in the broader scheme of things we are, after all, TEXAS, and they're just. . .well. . .kansas.

4.  Our wealth isn't so vast as we thought.  It all starts here: We need to recruit harder all those blue-chippers who seek happiness looking at Texas in their rearview mirrors.  I seem to be in the minority for being concerned, or at least puzzled, by this refurbished flight of talent from the motherland, but I'm past being weary of seeing all the good ol' boys in out-of-state livery who come back to sock it to us.  It works two ways: We get 'em. . .and if we get 'em, they don't!

5.  Ideally, the team will wake up tomorrow and, en masse, concede they've been living in a fool's paradise and resolve they will henceforth "leave it all out on the field" and never again be belittled by the unworthy.

       I feel better already.