Game Two: #1 Ohio State 24, #2 Texas 7 (9/9/06)

[High Lonesome]

Not only did he miss open targets( finley was the one that stands out the most) His completion to selvin was a bad pass and there were several other times that he had players open that flat out didnt see....but the larger issue than all of that was the playcalling that asked him to throw many of those 2 and 3 yard plays. when i said that texas shut down the run I was speaking more to the entire team, not pittman specifically. Anyway, the point was that at not time was I worried about tOSU breaking off a long run, it was more or less a non factor in the game

[NFBuck]

Originally Posted by High Lonesome

I am sure that I will take some time off from this site but I will be back at some point. Till then I wish yall luck and I hope that ever one had a good time that came to Austin,

Hook 'em and

Hope you want to remain a regular HL, we've enjoyed having you and some of the other Horns around. If your return is later as opposed to sooner (sorry, bad word), best of luck the rest of the way. UT has gained a lot of new supporters here on BP.

Hook 'em and

Originally Posted by BuckeyeNation27
where the [censored] is xray?

I'd be willing to wager dimes to calculators we've seen the last of the Blowhard Statistician.

[the_woodster]

high lonesome,

i don't think there is a team i am pulling for more than texas right now, excluding tOSU. i hope Mack gets things corrected and i can't wait for the red river shootout.

[Fungo Squiggly]

Originally Posted by High Lonesome

1) 3rd and 1 from the osu 30(ish), Texas lines up in shotgun and runs the zone handoff(i refuse to believe that there was any reading going on here). tOSU stuffs the latteral run and texas misses the fg badly. Here is my problem and something that I don't understand yet. Where was Henry Melton? How in the world was he good enough to play as a true freshman in one of the toughest venues in college sports but not as a soph at home? Moreso, where was the power package with Lokey at fb...If you must have Selvin in then at least let him run down hill.

100% agreed. In Davis/Brown's defense, we weren't having a whole of success against the lateral running game. I understand why they would call a play that has been working most of the evening. However, a combo of Melton & Lokey in the backfield surely can get a single yard.

3.) This is actually my largest problem with the whole game and is the sole reason that I left a game early for the first time in my life. Our coaching staff gave up on the team. Late in the 4th as Texas is down by 3 scores with the ball on the 25ish, 3rd and 15+. I look down and Kasey Studdard is pleading with the fans to get into it, it is tough but I begin to yell scream and what not and then it happend. We ran a speed option to the short side of the field and got 3 yards.

That is flat out give up football and is unexcusable in my book. I am sure that deep down the coaches didn't want Colt to lose any more confidence than he already had but in doing so they sent a message to the team and the fans that this is a rebuilding year. That is a sad thing to do when you have a team as tallented as we do. They should have scratched and clawed away doing everything they could to win. Tressel is not going to run up the score, he is not bob stoops, and now Mack and Greg have to look guys like Blalock and Studdard and Michael Griffin in the eye and convince them that they made good decisions on comming back to school.

I am not going to proof this so I am sorry if it rambled but I had to get it off my chest. I am sure that I will take some time off from this site but I will be back at some point. Till then I wish yall luck and I hope that ever one had a good time that came to Austin,

Terrible. I couldn't believe they ran that play. Stranger things have happened than a team overcoming a 17 point deficit. At least play until the game is over. Show some guts out there, dammit. I would be [censored]ed, too.

Hook 'em and

Come back whenever you're ready. You are always welcome around here! Hook 'em!

[scooter1369]

Maybe xray is still calculating how late the fllag was and how much influence the Texas bench had on that Grounding call in the first.

I don't ever want to hear about the Fiesta Bowl "late flag" again. That flag on Saturday came out after about 20 seconds

[DaddyBigBucks]