Comments on: OU defense holds Tech to season lows

By: Justin Wingo

Justin Wingo — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:59:29 +0000

OU Fan to TT Fans
You TT fans are great. I saw many TT fans stay to the end which I admire. I think your coach is great and laid the foundation for OU’s 2000 NC. I hope TT can keep him. I think TT and the rest of the nation found out the OU defense is not as bad as it has been made out to be. The OU defense is very talented but also very young especially at LB and CB. This youth has lead to being in bad position at times leading to big plays for the opponet. However, the defense has improved each game during the season and finally played its best game of the year against TT. Good luck in your bowl game and represent the Big 12 with a win. Hopefully we will do the same.

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By: Pete Storseth

Pete Storseth — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:29:23 +0000

I think that the Owen Field crowd (record setting by the way) played a major role.

Prior to the game, all the reporters were picking OU by 7 due to home field advantage. I mocked them and challenged OU by countering with the passed six year record in big games.

Well, I was dead wrong. OU had alot things going for it.
But the home field advantage had more to do with it than I thought it would. However, that could backfire if they lose to OSU in Stillwater. Then pollsters have reason to believe that OU can’t win big unless they are at home. Then UT has a better shot. Still Tech isn’t out, though I don’t know how close we are.

Wait til its over, pick up the peices. Bowl games or championships will be determined in a week.

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By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:18:46 +0000

The fans were, maybe, a small factor. I feel, no matter where they would have played last night, OU was simply the better team!!! The “cream always rised to the top”!! The crimson and cream rose up, and set things back in order.

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By: hardcoreRDRfan

hardcoreRDRfan — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:44:53 +0000

i was at the game and the OU fans definitely showed up but so did the RR fans. Everyone was on fire and on the edge of their seats. It had a sad ending but for one week only! I will NOT give up on my boys. It is unfortunate that only one team can play in the NC. Still could be TTU!!! Never give up! Hardcore Raider Fan til the end…………..

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By: LJE

LJE — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:48:37 +0000

You’re right PJ…. OU just beat us.

However, I also watched to the bitter end, and I am SO PROUD of our Raiders this year. They are fighters, and I feel sorry for Baylor.

12-1 after the bowl game…. I’ll take that!

GO RAIDERS!!!

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By: PJ

PJ — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:16:29 +0000

Guys n’ gals…the best team in the conference won last night. They beat us without their starting defensive ends and starting middle linebacker. They beat us with a defense that had only two starters from last year’s team. OU is loaded. Period.

Tech just ran into a superior team.

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By: Techsan

Techsan — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:52:04 +0000

We need OSU to Win and were in.

Tech is always near the goal but can’t punch it in.

1997 enter the game 3-0 in the south all we have to do is beat Texas we lose 38-32
1998 enter the 4-0 in the south all we have to do is beat OU we lose 32-21
2002 enter the game 4-0 in the south all we have to do is beat OU we lose 65-15
2008 enter the game 3-0 in the south all we have to do is beat OU we lose 65-21

The above games give us the South Championship if we win. The First two are Spike Dyke teams. The next two are MIke Leach teams. We ha ve a history of losing the big game to win the south.

Go Raiders Beat Baylor

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By: Pete Storseth

Pete Storseth — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:05:43 +0000

I bet Ruff McNeil did his share of hollering.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

The thing is, we hadn’t lost in over a year. By halftime, I can sense that those boys didn’t know how to feel. They were understandably more shocked than anyone else in the country.

I appreciated Herbstriet more than the other reporters this month.
The Fox netwk really reaks of bad reporting. Those guys are idiots.
And you are right, its only one loss. But the emotional damage is devastating.

We can show more of our grit and class by shaking it off next week and doing the same thing (10-0) next year and going out for revenge vs OU in 09.

Tell your boy we still believe in him and the whole team. GUNS UP

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By: Britton Sr.

Britton Sr. — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:14:01 +0000

Believe me Benny and Ruff, got in there faces. You can not do that with GH. Any great team has to learn to adjust, and we did not do it soon enough or consistently. I had hoped GH would throw to the open field and let his WR adjust to the ball. #27 quickness and Lewis as well as Crab, IMO were trying to get GH to release quicker. Carter was a monster! If there is a subplot, it will reveal itself this week, or in the big12 game. as for myself, the game of football is to be played on the field not in the press box, where our fate lays in the hand of the K. Herbstriets, and others. One loss is one loss. Points and stats play out in the game, College Football has evolved, and the playoff should as well. Guns UP#27

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By: Pete Storseth

Pete Storseth — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:54:51 +0000

Hey Mr Britton.

Don’t you think that we should give Carter a tryout at defensive line? haha

Next year, we should assume that this loss carries over so that we start 0-1 before our first game. That way, maybe we can play with something to prove and vengeance to work for until the OU game in 2009.

Hopefully Leach will also develop a temper. At halftime, my old coaches would have chewed the team so much that they would hate him and take it out on the other team in the second half.

Our biggest failure, maybe the only true failure, was on defense. Noone tackled properly until midway through the third quarter.
I was most disappointed by the D.

Otherwise, our team did not suck. OU just took Stoops’ leadership and ran with their momentum fed by the crowd. Penalties, mostly OU’s personal fouls, also fueled fire that kept us out of sync.
All in all, Tech has a great team. Last night had no illustration of any of our talent, but it exists just the same

Keep your guns up. At least two games to go. Baylor and Bowl.

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