Getting into character is how Carter fires up self, teammates

By Don Williams on November 22nd, 2008 View Comments Printer-Friendly

By Don Williams | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL

One of the biggest, nastiest dudes in the Big 12 Conference will let you in on a little secret. That stuff that Brandon Carter’s famous for, the stuff that you might call “war paint” or face paint,” is no such thing.

He picks it up from the, um, cosmetics counter at Wal-Mart.

“Actually, a lot of people don’t know, but it’s eye liner,” says Carter, Texas Tech’s gargantuan offensive guard. “It’s all eye liner that I put on my lips and on my face. It works best because I can make sharp edges and everything like that, and it’s not just globbed on.”

For three years, Carter has been known – maybe known best – for his crazy game-day mien: a face made up to rival Jack Nicholson’s or Heath Ledger’s villainous incarnations of Joker. A Mohawk haircut, all spiked up and sometimes two-toned. Tattoos and piercings complete the ensemble.

This year, the Texas Tech offensive line has kept quarterback Graham Harrell as clean as a whistle. They’ve helped running backs Baron Batch and Shannon Woods pile up 1,905 yards from scrimmage.

Football players talk often about the importance of preparation, but Carter takes preparation to a whole new level. It’s not just about practice. And it’s not just about time with the eye liner. The hair takes another 45 minutes. On game day, at the team hotel, Carter’s Mohawk requires washing, drying and the application of hair glue.

“It’s extremely thick, and it probably takes just as long to get it out as it does to get it in,” Carter said.

But Carter says it’s all worth the trouble. Getting into character gets him – and he believes teammates, too – psyched up. That’s a critical point he’d like people to understand.

“I think (some) thought that I was just kind of being an individual,” Carter said. “They thought it showed individualism and not much as a team player, which was the total opposite of what I was trying to do. It gets me hyped, and it gets other players hyped. That’s why I do it. I don’t do it to stand out above others or keep the focus on me.”

Tech line coach Matt Moore, when he was hired in the spring of 2007, talked Carter into toning down his look at the beginning of last season. It’s not that Carter’s style clashed with the new coach’s.

“He and I had a talk coming into his sophomore season,” Moore said. “I just told him, the way people are, that if you’re going to call attention to yourself, you’d better be really, really good. You know, let’s back off until you start playing real good, and then as you start playing good, you can start doing what you want. So that’s kind of been his reward.”

His original intention, Moore said, was to save Carter some grief.

“Just when you do that stuff, you’ve got a lot of eyes on you,” Moore said. “They’re going to pick out any mistake that you make – everybody.”

Wise counsel, but it came a little late. Carter already had been targeted. He said when Tech went on the road during his redshirt freshman year, opposing fans picked him out for needling. Imagine. A 6-foot-7, 353-pound guy who looks different.

The worst? Fans at Texas-El Paso and Oklahoma.

“They’d talk about, Go back to Hot Topic’ and things like that,’ ” Carter said, referring to the retailer known for music- and pop culture-related apparel and accessories.

Carter’s appearance might obscure a couple of admirable truths: He’s turned into a darn good offensive lineman, and one who’s dedicated to the task. (“He’s harder on himself,” Moore said, “than anyone else is.”) And, no rube, Carter can make a serious point with eloquence one minute and be funny the next. Like the time Carter cracked up an interview room this season when someone asked what Tech coach Mike Leach thinks of his look.

“Actually, he messes with me all the time about it,” Carter said in his East Texas drawl. “You know, his little jokes that you don’t really understand, but you laugh anyway? He always tells those jokes when I walk into his office.”

Being in the cocoon of a college football team the last four years, Carter has plenty of time to get comfortable among teammates.

But what about the time spent going to and from class?

“On campus, I really just get stares most of the time,” he said. “I think everyone realizes who I am. Most of the time I just get stares, as in, Is this guy going to hurt me, or is he just walking past me?’ Every once in a while, someone will take a few steps to the right or left to avoid me, which is kind of funny.”

Carter’s radical appearance spawned a certain camaraderie among fellow linemen. Center Stephen Hamby, guard Louis Vasquez and tackle Marlon Winn all have, or have had, similar haircuts.

Beyond the hair, though, Hamby humorously offers that he’s not apt to follow Carter’s lead. For example, Carter once had 21 piercings. Now he’s down to two, he said. He lost one in last year’s game against Texas A&M. On a play in which the Red Raiders scored a touchdown, Carter’s helmet got pushed up, his chinstrap caught on a lip piercing, and out it came.

So Carter’s kind of gotten away from the piercing thing.

“He finally pulled those out. Now I can actually hang around him in public,” Hamby said jokingly. “I’m pretty sure I was there for the first tribal tattoo, and then I’ve just watched as it’s grown from there. The haircuts, me and him did them. I think my sophomore year is when I started doing it. But he just took it to a whole different level where I couldn’t even compete.”

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  • jerome prissy

    Both he and I luv make-up, so what?

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  • Pete Storseth

    Hey, great.
    I just need to warn that you don’t wanna focus so much, even the media, on someone’s haircut (or makeup).
    Look at David Carr. When he was QB in Houston, his and everyone else’s attention was on his next hairdo. Who cared?
    Well, the Texans obviously had nothing else to talk about.

    But I see where Carter is going. Getting your team to bond and have fun in the process of working to be the best can be done in various ways (team practice, parties, even trips to jail together haha) and its apparently worked with this team.

    Don’t worry about your hair today. Just grimace at them to scare them. And hopefully noone from OK read this in time for them to shout more jokes about men wearing eyeliner.

    GUNS UP

    Good luck today. Wreck em Tech

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  • jerome prissy

    That’s right honey, 2 snaps…

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  • http://wees@sd.edu Soonerfan4ever

    Sure hope its not that time of the month for him/her whatever he/she/it is???

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  • sailor2

    Yup, he’s “gay” alright.

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  • devin everett

    WE’RE COMING GET READY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    YEAH SR.
    GO RED RAIDERS!!!!!!!

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  • devin everett

    SAILOR, WHERE YOU AT? I WILL TUNE YOU UP

    THIS IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS

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  • Pete Storseth

    sailors are gay

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  • ChrisG.

    Pete Storseth should know.

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  • http://Notagain LKP (TTpilk645 on DT Nation)

    Everyone to his own. But this is just one method several people through the years have used as a means to help inspire their team. Brandon is simply a good football player that gets up for a game in his own style. The rest of the team, O & D, are inspiredby his antics and style. If his makeup and stuff was detracting, taking away from the overall abilities of the team, you can be sure he would not do this. But because of the inspiration and excitement it brings, it actually helps them to perform at a higher level, which he says is his intent. Bottom line, this is a very good team that, with a win today and for three more games, can become a great team, and possibly be considered among the best ever. Oklahoma is a very good team as well, who are at home, have a bone to pick against a team that knocked them out of the championship last year, and hate anything from any Texas college. Get ready for a great game. Both teams will play to their best. May the best team win, may it be a clean, well-coached game, and may there be no injuries on either side.

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  • ChrisG.

    LKP is gay too.

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  • Pete Storseth

    I like in particular how this article noted that he had to earn the priviledge to wear his “war paint”

    FWI, war paint is a better euphemism for makeup
    stick with that, please

    sailors get the wrong idea, and some soonerfans4ever get turned on

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  • Pete Storseth

    oops

    what is fwi? i meant fyi

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  • Billy

    soonerfan4ever

    Yep, it’s that time of month alright, time for a good ol Texas Tech ass whoopin thats long over due and in your own house. lol

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  • http://Notagain LKP (TTpilk645 on DT Nation)

    ChrisG. is making some bad statements on this, a football blog. I think he must have gotten lost somewhere, and really has no clue whatsoever of the world in general. If you look to the Lord and ask for His guidance, you would never make those kinds of comments. As it is, please stay on your own blogs and off of the raider blogs. We do NOT want your input. As for Pet Storseth. If you can’t say anything without cutting down someone who is or was in the armed forces, don’t say anything at all. Now, Sailor, is probably as bad, if not worse than both of you when you check out all of his posts on different blogs. The guy really needs to get a life. He is obviously an A&M fan. Why is he even on a Tech blog site, except to cause disrespect? Maybe his A&M Christian friends, if there are such people, can enlighten him. As an ending thought, may God forgive you all for your indescretions. I know I do. I just hope you change your ways and become much more civil on the blogs of your choices. And lastly, GO TECH! WRECK OU!

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  • Pete Storseth

    ok man
    i said nothing of “the armed forces”

    his name is sailor, maybe he owns a yacht. maybe he likes donald duck’s hat, maybe all he is is a naval wannabe.

    in general, sailor is gay and wants to lick the make up off of our painted lineman.

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  • http://Notagain LKP (TTpilk645 on DT Nation)

    OK, Pete. Gotcha. Just don’t include the real sailors when you talk about sailor2. He is not one of my favorite bloggers, and he puts all bonifide sailors to shame with his nonsense. GEAR UP, TECH FANS. Let’s win the next three games and add our school’s name to the list of NATIONAL COLLEGE FOOTBALL BCS CHAMPIONS! Ya gotta love it!

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  • Billy

    I want to apologize to everyone for my posts. I gawt no life so I come on here and post stuff. I didnt even go to OU. Im too stupid. Its just where my momma dropped me off when she had enough of me. I know that tech will win today. Im gonna go now and put on my sweaty Sam Bradford jersey and touch myself in the special place. I love you Sam. you gawt such a purdy mouth.

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  • ChrisG.

    LKP,
    Why are you being holier than thou? You think your’re more righteous than everyone else, don’t you? Hypocrite…

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  • Pete Storseth

    we keep getting alot of apologetic UT people today….
    wierd

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  • Billy

    I love to sail, so I guess that makes me a sailor, so does that make me Gay? Well, come on down to Austin and find out Chris. I promise to give you a different idea of what a sailor is. GUNS UP

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  • Billy

    Sometimes when I’m feeling really warm and fuzzy, I’ll put on my sweaty Sam Bradford shirt and a sailor hat and just stare at myself in the mirror. I pretend I went to OU and it makes me feel happy.

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  • Billy

    I did not write the above apologetic post, some lame pethetic whimp with no balls to write his own post hiding behind his ou colors or his t-cup in Austin. I didn’t go to college at all and it sure as hell would not have been ou. and I make well over a hundred grand a year repoing cars from whimps like the guy who wrote the above post. Wanna try me? I’d rather fight than eat, thats why I repo, I like the confrontation that comes with it, even though once I step out of my truck they suddenly run away. I don’t know why, I’m a nice guy, maybe it’s cause of what I’m wearing Raider Red, and they are from texas or ou.

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  • jerome prissy

    So much “gay” talk on this blog. Not sure if I should be offended or turned on…heyyy…2.5 snaps

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  • Billy

    Better watch all the talk about gays, you could be arrested and charged with a hate crime you know, especially with Noboma in office.

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  • Billy

    I guess there are 2 Billys in here. I’m the sooner that keeps posting idiotic things in here about OU beating Tech. I do it because I’m retarded. I’m good friends with Longhorn Sally. She’s my heffer.

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  • Billy

    Poor pethetic soor losing t-sipper sitting around in McCoy’s jock strap making negative comments posing as Billy, dude get a life man, there’s alot better things to do in Austin. You would have to put some clothes on though, don’t worry you can still wear McCoy’s jock strap underneath and no one will know, promise I want tell.

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  • gotech2008

    Billy,

    How about making up your mind? Are you a Tech fan or a sooner idiot?

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  • Billy

    I’m just an idiot in general. I love OU cuz I like their purdee colors. I’m the one with NO LIFE because I get on Tech websites and post really stupid comments against Tech instead of sticking with my own inbred kind. boomer sooner! boomer sooner! wow, that got my warm inside. oh, wait , i just peed on myself. sorry.

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  • Billy

    Oh your that t-sipper I repoed last week. Fact is I am a former texas fan that has been converted to a Raider fan, I’m a classy person and Tech has class unlike yourself, your only giving texas a bad name. I feel really sorry for you, that you have no life and no big 12 championship.

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  • Billy

    gotech2008

    Tech all the way, it’s some lame ass posing as Billy, and I’m not an idiot, or I would be pulling for ou and would have atayed with Texas.

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  • Gotech2008

    Billy,

    I’ve seen you on several posts in different articles and most of the time you are talking trash about Tech and how OU is going to beat them. You are NOT a Tech fan. In fact, if OU wins, I’m sure you’ll be back on here suddenly acting like you’ve been an OU fan all along. Grow some balls and stick with your team. Quit riding the fence. Tech will win.

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  • jerome prissy

    Hey ya’ll, could I ask a serious question? Last week someone told me that it was wrong for me to be a gay man. They also said I was going to hell if I didn’t repent. That really shook me up. What did that person mean? Anybody…

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  • Billy

    Just had a bit of a struggle making the switch bro, I made up my mind and it should be fairly obvious by now who I’m pulling for. It is America I can change if I want right? Promise you want see me on here making negative comments on Monday, and if you do it will not be me it will be that t-sippin imposter. I will be in my blind in Hondo, Tx. sittin in my tree stand with bow far from any computers.

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  • Pete Storseth

    ok the Billys are either bipolar or two opposite people with the same name. it confusing. add your last name or something

    one or both of them are hilarious. i am at work and people are looking at me while i cackle on and on. please stop, i could get fired. haha

    i am not gay, but gay people are cool. but just leave it at that.
    the references stemmed from Carter wearing makeup, i mean war paint.

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  • Billy

    Pete,
    I am the real Billy the other is an imposter, the positive comments are me, all the other is the imposter. GO TECH

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  • Billy Brown

    The real Billy

    GUNS UP

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  • Pete Storseth
  • Pete Storseth

    thanks billy b

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  • Pete Storseth

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  • James

    I’m a Tech idiot, I’ll admit it.

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  • devin everett
  • Pete Storseth

    whats a sooner anyway?

    GO TECH
    BEAT OU
    PASS BAMA IN BCS!!!

    #1

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  • the Football Prophet

    THE PROPHET SPEAKETH AGAIN.

    ORACLE # 2

    THE MIGHTY CRIMSON WARRIORS WILL SCORE MORE ON THE RED RAIDERS THAN THE NUMBER OF TIMES RAIDERgirl HAS BEEN SCORED UPON.

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  • redblack4ever

    I wish people would stick to discussing the game and get off the other stuff. I bet most of us could care less about the rude, crude personal opinions on the non-football issues! It’s game day — keep your comments focused on the game!!! GUNS UP!

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  • James

    Sailor nice impersonation, keep it coming.

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  • James

    Go Sooners

    Hook em Horns

    Horns in the BCS championship

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  • Pete Storseth

    Keep waiting for a miracle James

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  • Billy Brown

    A HORN PULLING FOR OU, WHAT A DISGRACE TO TEXAS. We got beat and lost our chance. Why not pull for a Texas team to beat the sorry ass boomer sooners, you are definately not a Texan.
    Put your horns down and pick up your guns and pull for the Raiders. Sorry Texas does not deserve to be there this year, They just didn.t want it that bad, they played like a bunch of pansys against Kansas, it was too cold for them, they even had heated benches brought in, I was embarrassed for them. GO TECH.

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  • Texas Tornado

    Go Raiders. Hope you guys win. Devin Everett, take care bro. Raider fans, I salute you.

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  • James

    Wreck em Tech!! Beat the sonners!

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  • Pete Storseth

    Yes Billy B

    Texas is king. You cannot benefit from a Tech loss, even though that is the general assumption.
    I believe OU would pass UT and Tech in BCS and go to the BIG12 championship if they won.
    If Tech wins, hopefully they will be #1 tomorrow night, above Alabama.

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  • Texas Born

    What are you stupid Pete Storseth, of course Texas benefits with a Tech loss. Texas is going to a BCS game Tech wins or loses. Tech losing is icing on the cake. Tech losing will put them 3rd in the bcs standings and therefore out of any BCS game. Woo Hoo

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  • Billy Brown

    I should have trusted my gut, Tech was a bad abd bad choice. Losers, that’s what they have always been and always will be TUCK BECH

    HOOK EM HORNS

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  • Texas Born

    How do you spell choke?

    R E D R A I D E R S

    Hook em Horns

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  • chris

    Sorry Tech Fans I am a huge HORNS fan. But i do pull for you because this game just knocked you and us out . It is going to be Oklahoma and Florida.

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  • chris

    Anybody their

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  • James

    Im here this is just flat out embarrassing.

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  • chris

    do you thank Texas will make it

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  • Raider in Florida

    Texas Born… UT choked against Tech, remember? Anyway, atleast Tech goes to Norman, unlike the ‘whorns who never will.
    OU was definately the better team, tonight. Congrats to them.

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  • chris

    So Raider stay in florida

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  • Raider in Florida

    Chris… is that the best u got…. please, go to sleep.

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  • chris

    Know but I do back my state.

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  • Raider in Florida

    Jus ‘cuz you don’t live in the state your from doesn’t mean you don’t back it. How narrow minded can you be.
    I support every Texas team that plays anyone outside of the Lone Star State. I’ve got more Techsan in me bro than you’ll ever know.
    So don’t mess with it!

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  • Texas Born

    I don’t know about you guys, but that was just a good old fashioned ass whoopin.

    LMAO

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  • LJE

    We just got beat…. badly… in every area of the game. Let’s give credit where credit is due. OU was a MUCH better team tonight.

    I’m still proud of our Raiders… best team I’ve seen since 1977.

    I would love a chance at a BCS bowl this year… but after tonight it is probably out of the question.

    If not… I wouldn’t mind a trip to San Diego again.

    Let’s get ready for Baylor.

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  • Texas Born

    Hey Chris, Texas is not knocked out at all. As a matter of fact Texas is looking better than ever. Even if OU loses against OKIE state, Tech would go to the big 12 championship game.
    No problem, Texas would be #2 in the BCS standings and would be going to play for the National Championship.

    Woo Hoo

    Hook Em Horns

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  • Alicia Allenson

    I’m sick of the politics of college football. There is a conspiracy to keep Texas Tech out of the national championship game. Now college football got what they wanted. Texas Tech is CLEARLY the best team in the country, and they were robbed.

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  • LJE

    TEXAS BORN…

    Being a realist…. OU just plain old WHIPPED us tonight.

    However after beating the #2 as badas they did, and playing 2 ranked teams at the end of the year… I see OU jumping ahead of Texas if they beat OSU.

    If OSU wins… Tech would go to the Big 12 Championship game.

    I don’t see the Cowboys beating OU after tonight though.

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  • Alicia Allenson

    The referees were horrible. They GAVE Oklahoma the game. it isn’t fair. If it weren’t for the cheating referees, Texas Tech would have kicked Oklahoma’s a$$ all over the field. GO RED RAIDERS!

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  • LJE

    Alicia…. gotta give credit where credit is due.

    After tonight Tech is NOT the top team in the country.

    Better than Utah or Boise State…. absolutely. But not #1.

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  • Alicia Allenson

    FINALLY, Texas Tech looks like they will play for the national championship. Only to get ROBBED by the referees. I couldn’t believe those calls. Tech was beating Oklahoma all over the field, and the refs just kept bailing out The Sooners. Oh well. I guess Oklahoma will be very proud of their GIFT-WRAPPED national championship. You’re a bunch of cheaters, Oklahoma. It’s as simple as that.

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  • James

    Alicia I am a Tech graduate but, how in the hell do you think the referees geve this game to OU There were a couple of bad calls like that catch in the first quarter but we just got our asses handed to us tonight.

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  • Alicia Allenson

    No way, LJE. You are being very gracious and a good sport, BUT……….. we both know that Tech would have beaten Oklahoma all over the field if it weren’t for a few terrible calls. That changed the momentum of the game. There really should be an investigation by the NCAA into this.

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  • Alicia Allenson

    JAMES, again, you are a good sport. But there is NO WAY that the better team won tonight. I have no problem tipping my cap to a team that outplayed us, but not when we get cheated the way we did tonight. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. JEEZ. Why don’t the referees just make a public announcement as to how much they hate Texas Tech? GRRRR!!!

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  • Alicia Allenson

    I just looked it up. Our QB had 361 yards through the air. Oklahoma only had 326 yards passing. see? I TOLD YOU that we outplayed them. We scorched them through the air, only to be robbed by the officials. Those Oklahoma defensive backs were embarrassed by us chewing them up for 361 yards.

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  • James

    I just don’t get how in the world you think the refs gave this game to OU when we loose by 44 points.

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  • Ben Eagle

    Alicia:

    You are making the rounds tonight (her second blog) with the (UT fan) dribble.

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  • James

    Yeah I doubt Alicia is even a fan of Tech. The stuff she is saying is just asinine

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  • Billy Brown

    Alecia, put the crack pipe down, please, your killing me here.

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  • Billy Brown

    Texas Born, here’s how you spell choaked Joke-d

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  • Raider in Florida

    Alicia…we have to take our medi and move on. OU rose to the occation, played their best game of the year, and whipped our butts!, by far… Let’s focus on Baylor and complete a 11-1 season!
    Guns are still UP!

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  • Pete Storseth

    FOR ALL YOU UT PEOPLE WHO ROOTED FOR OU
    AND TALKED TRASH FOR A MONTH AFTER A LOSS:

    IF YOUR MOTHER DIED, I WOULD NOT BE THERE TO LAUGH IN YOUR FACE BECAUSE TECH HAS CLASS.

    WAY TO PROVE HOW YOU ARE BAD PEOPLE.

    AT LEAST TECH DOESNT GO TO UT AND OU WEBSITES AND TALK TRASH FOR MONTHS

    TEXAS BORN, YOU ARE THE MOST SPOILED SPORT I HAVE EVER WITNESSED.
    and Billy B, I am disappointed in your disloyalty. shame on you

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  • Pete Storseth

    Back to football:
    Give credit where it is due.

    One, Great job to Coach Stoops. Earned back his ‘Big Game Bob’ status and its no joke. Making the adjustments in the bye week paid off big time and he led his Sooners to an impressive victory.

    Two, OU defense. Those guys are the ONLY ones who could hold our talented offense, rattle our QB, penetrate our line, and force big turnover plays. We are not used to having to punt.

    Three, OU fans. I could not have been more wrong about home field advantage. They lived up to legend and made it very uncomfortable. You deserve the glory as well as the team.

    FOUR, TEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS, I salute your sportsmanship. Look back at penalties. OU had alot of dirty and blatant personal fouls. (particularly the horse collar on Crabs’ first catch) They played well, but not with professionalism.
    It was not a pretty first half that set the game in motion against us. We had penalties, but we took the game in stride. And though we did not actually show our true skills, we showed incredible humility and class in a devastating loss.

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  • Billy Brown

    Peter,
    Sorry, I pulled for Tech, but my blood is burnt orange. Does TT stand for trash talk? Yall sure did alot of it. I predicted the score ou-45 and tech 17. Wasn’t too far off was I. I told you ou was a better team and yall barely beat Texas in your own house cause Texas had an off night, and yall thought you were cock of the walk. Tech will never get to a BCS bowl as long as Texas and ou are in the picture. Top teams (consistent that is) get the recruits. Tech will never be able to compete, oh they will get lucky from time to tome, but like I said consistency is the key to BCS bowl games, something lacking at tech.

    HOOK EM HORNS #5 COMING UP

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  • LJE

    I wonder if the OU strong safety (#5) can read and write? Probably not. He will be playing for OKLAHOMA STATE PENITENTIARY in another 3-4 years when he goes to prison. He’s just a thug and a criminal.

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  • Pete Storseth

    whew, you know, its not trash talk when you are talking to other Tech fans.
    besides that, its only supporting your team

    way to be two faced, Billy

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  • Terri

    I wore my Tech T-shirt yesterday and had people tell me they were glad to see I wasn’t a fair weathered fan. I’m not. I was sick at my stomach, and, being a woman, wanted to cry after ou beat us. It’s not over, by a long shot. We still have a week to go, and I am the proverbial optimist. I bet I am older than most of you on here, and I have waited for a season like this longer than most of ya’ll. I told the man in the grocery store yesterday, “I love my Red Raiders”…and I do.

    Go Tech!! Guns Up!!

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