From: ables@hal.com (King Ables)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college
Subject: Re: Texas-Syracuse.   Good game, but..  :-(
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:35:46 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.

I don't feel at all bad about how Texas played on Saturday.  I was hoping
for a win, certainly, but I was prepared to be blown out.  Texas played
a good, solid game, and except for a few mistakes, played as well as they
were capable.

>   Did any of you think that Syracuse pushing the ball in from 2 yards
>   with 7 seconds to go with a lead already, and with Texas having no
>   time-outs left, was a little (not much, though..) unclassy ?..

Oh, not really.  Face it, beating an unranked team by only 3 isn't as
good as beating them by 10.  Syracuse was thinking of that national
ranking, and I can hardly blame them.

What I couldn't believe was the call of that long pass!  Ok, it worked
and it was pretty and "missle" made a great play.  But come on!  It's a
*low* percentage play.  3rd down and 3 (4? I don't remember, but short)
with less than 2 minutes left... you get a first down and you can run out
the clock and the game is over.  You throw a long, low-percentage pass
and 9 out of 10 times it will be incomplete.  4th down, clock is stopped
and you have to punt and give Texas a chance to pull the game out.  STOOPID.

Like I said, it worked, so it was ok, but it was a DUMB, DUMB call.  I know,
the surprise is what made it good... but that doesn't make it *smart*.

>   Just that I would have really liked a 24-21 score in this, which is
>   how close the game really was. Also, wasn't the two-point catch really
>   on the ground ?

I thought so, but the announcers disagreed.  I think they were just trying
to avoid controversy, though.

>   Heard that Miss State had 8 turnovers in this week's loss !   Why didnt
>   they do that against Texas ? Come to think of it, nobody seems to have
>   had more than 3 turnovers against Texas in the last 7 years (except OU
>   once perhaps !).

People are *up* when they play Texas... whether or not Texas is any good,
we still carry the tradition of "Good" with us.  The announcers on the game
mentioned that we are the 3rd winningest program in college football.  Of 
course, nothing in recent history backs that up, but we still have it.  We've
been the high-point of people's season in years when we went 5-6.  It's the
same when we get up for OU even in years when they're not that good... it's
the tradition you're playing sometimes more than the team.  Comes with having
a successful history.  ;-)

What I *really* loved were the Syracuse cheerleaders... mugging the camera,
holding up one finger, shouting "we're number one!"  Yeah, I guess... if 
losing (as they were at the time) to an unranked team is the definition of
being #1... geez.  Get a clue folks.  But people always do this, I've never
understood it.  Makes me wonder what game they're watching.  ;-)

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