Football Is Becoming Sissified
It is becoming harder and harder to love football. The game is changing as the powers to be (NFL, NCAA) continue to work in making the game safer and safer for the players. In a perfect world the rules could be tweaked so injuries could be taken out of the equation. Problem is, football cannot be made safe in all situations, and the way the rules are being officiated on the field of play will eventually ruin the game as we know it. What to know why extreme martial arts (XFC) is so hot? You know why. Point in case: Florida St./Okla. FSU qb throws the ball over the middle near the goal line and the FSU receiver makes a catch, followed immediately by a high crunching tackle by two OU defenders. The hit was violent, extreme, and the FSU player is immediately knocked out and looses control of the ball as he falls into the end zone, on his back unconscious. Officials flags fly as the hit is ruled illegal. On bang bang plays like this the instinct of the defenders allow no split second modification of their actions. Defenders should not be flagged in non intentional injury hits. In looking at this particular play, neither OU defender did anything wrong, The hit was not helmet to helmet. If you want to get technical, as the rules read. any time a runner back uses his helmet to lead in making contact with a defender, that runner is breaking the rule. He's using his helmet to spear the tackler. Can you see the officials throw a flag every time a runner is diving into a defender or pile? Not going to happen. Simultaneously, why does an offensive coordinator draw up plays for receivers that go over the middle, knowing they are putting their player in harms way? Outlaw hits over the middle? Go to touch football? Face mask penalties are not called on runners when they stiff arm defenders when the stiff arm goes in the grill of said defender. Ever see a offensive runner called on that? The new rules are hurting the game. Enjoy the game as much as you can. Football won't be football in a few years. Thank god for extreme fighting.
OU Must Get Mental Attitude For Win Against FSU
OU's meeting with Florida State Saturday night will be won or lost by the mental attitude of the Sooners. OU is much the better team and if the game was held in Norman the Sooners would be a good touchdown or more favorite. On the road, OU is giving 4 points. Some say that OU doesn't play the top teams on the road in as Bob Stoops would say, "a good way." The Sooner coaches have had two weeks to prepare for this game and there should be no excuse for OU not to put another whipping on the Seminoles. All this crap about playing on the road is just fine and dandy, but when you are the better team, it won't wash. Teams that win National Titles win games like this. Sure, OU could still lose and contend for the NC but a backdoor approach after this game won't sit well with all Sooners, team and fans alike. Win and take care of business. Do not let the mental mistakes, turnovers, penalties, missed assignments and the lack of toughness cause you to lose because you are on the road and not mentally ready. Expect a win, no. Just win. When you beat someone by 30 the previous season and get the majority of players back, you go and win. A loss is not in the vocabulary.
Thanks To Presidents Bush and Obama/Shout Out To Our Military
It has been ten years today from the attacks on our country. In that time our government has done it's job in keeping us safe from another terrible attack from our the people who would like to see us all die. Our leaders, Presidents Bush and Obama have been diligent in the process of thwarting these scum of the earth bastards and directing our military in killing as many of these bad guys as possible. Let us all continue to be together and support President and the men and women in stopping those who want to kill the free people of the United States. Never forget, there are people in this world that want us dead and another 9-11 can happen again.
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Arizona Has Problems
One thing is true. Don't bring a football team to Boone Pickens unless they are prepared to play. Someone needs to tell that to Arizona coach Mike Stoops. His Wildcats were skinned and eaten by the Cowboys last night in front of 54,000 Wednesday night fans and a national ESPN television audience. Coach Stoops is not a good head football coach and now in his 8th season at Tuscon his days are numbered. A raving idiot on the sidelines, Bob's little brother has proven that his "coaching them up" is not what Arizona needs. Playing his star quarterback in the final minutes of the game last night comes to mind. Why? The game is lost and you are risking injury to a future NFL quarterback? Thankfully he survived a late play hit and he didn't suffer a major injury. Stoops doesn't think, he has no clue. Then watching various Arizona players walking off the field with smiles and grins on their faces say that playing football at Arizona currently is not that big a deal. Could you imagine any of Mike Gundy's players walking off the field smiling after a loss. No. Arizona will lose its next two games (Stanford,Oregon) and will have a real test with USC the game following. Mike Stoops won't be the head coach at Arizona come December. As for the Cowboys, they are very good. The Texas A&M game will be a real test in two weeks.
Don't Look Now But Lake Hefner Is Drying Up
Don't look now but I think Leke Hefner is having a problem, with water. The north OKC lake's shoreline is shrinking inward as the drought and the City's use of the lake is taking its toll. I wonder how deep the water is at the center of the lake. I hope we get some nice State Fair rains this month. Pray for rain, please.
Big Twelve Should Stay In Existence
Everyone is so wanting Oklahoma and Oklahoma State to drop it's affilication with the Big 12 Conference and join the Pacific Athletic Conference, once the Aggies of Texas A&M join the Southeastern Conference. Sounds nice, but is it in the best interest of OU and OSU? In the end are we going to have three or four super conferences for the top layer of the NCAA, and if we do, what will it look like? If the SEC, PAC and or the ACC and BEC form to make four super conferences, what happens to the other 60 or so NCAA D1 tootball playing schools. The Big Ten do not seem to want to go to 16 and with their attitude, they would not go higher if the SEC or PAC stay at 12. Are the others going to get squeezed out of the run for a national championship in football? Will the football programs such as Baylor, Iowa State, Houston, Tulsa, just to mention a few, wither and die? Do the Sooners and Cowboys need to make the jump now, or later, or never? What about the student athletes, the fans, the cost of travel, and the influence of the media, such as ESPN and FOX Sports? I know the powers to be at OU (the AD and President) are going to do what they think is best for the school, but they could be wrong. And being wrong in this business can happen and if Joe and David make a bad decision, football as we know it, expect it and love it in this great State of Oklahoma could be changed forever in, as Coach Stoops would say, a bad way.Keeping the Big 12 and add new teams would hurt the now conference members and the dollars they bring in. Tell that to the Univ. of Texas,or even Oklahoma, and I don't think they would say that this statement would be true. Texas wants to keep their Longhorn Network and it's $300,000,000 for the next 20 years. They would not make any more money moving to another conference. OU could have the OU Network and I wouldn't believe they would be getting much richer in a move. Both of these schools would keep their excellent scheduling which would allow them to get to the National Title game more often than if they moved to another conference.
It is time for the teams in the Big 12 to get away from their inferiority complex they have developed in regard to the SEC. That complex is driving the car right now and it might take a detour into a money ditch. The midlands and southwest schools need to get a backbone with a positive attitude to go along with it, with regard tofootball. Want to make the Big 12 better, get better players, put money into the programs, and don't think that the SEC is better than you Don't downplay the teams that want to join the conference by saying they not any good. Who is any member of the Big 12 that thinks they are better than the schools that would die to get in the conference? Baylor a better school than SMU? Tulsa? Air Force? NO! And any conference school that thinks that the SEC is the great SEC needs to get a head check. (Want to bet that half of the players at Alabama, Mississippi State, and Auburn can read on an 8th grade level?)
With a base of the nine remaining schools, adding three schools now would keep the PAC from becoming a super 16 team league. Who would they pick up if the Big 12 four don't go? New Mexico, BYU, UNLV, etc? No, for the PAC to go to 16 they need OU, Texas, and two other Big 12 schools. Missouri want to go to the Big 10? Let'em go. How many BCS titles to the Tiger's have? How many conference titles do they have in basketball? Well, we lose the St. Louis market. So, do we really have it now?
Add schools that belong to the region. Add TCU. Add SMU. Add Memphis. Add Air Force. Add Houston. Tulsa? Add a sleeping giant that is still an newborn, the Univ. of Texas San Antonio, who drew 56.000 fans at their first game in history against a D2 school. If it is good for Okie State to schedule the Roadrunners for three consecutive games beginning soon, it should be ok to get them in the conference.
Players like to have family attend their games. Go west and forget those games. Price of travel is not getting cheaper. Time zone problems will see games beginning at odd hours. Recruiting could take a hit.
The thought of OU and Texas going different ways is not much a problem. That rivalry will not be touched. Neither will the OU OSU ties. Same conference or not, they will play.
The excitement of going west, south, or even north (Big 10) is there, What about in five years? Excitement that is.
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