This whole argument that Stoops runs up the score is ridiculous. There have been so many fourth quarters this year where Joey Hazle, the backup quarterback as well as second and third string players got put in to play the game. A coach cannot tell a second or third string player to “ease up” especially when that may be the only time he is on the field in front of his friends and family. Also, Stoops did not design the system. The simple fact that Texas beat OU and yet now OU is playing for the national championship, should tell any UT person who made it even through one semester of school that “style points” are just part of the game/system and that class has nothing to do with it. Mack Brown, should figure out that if you want to be a “nice guy” you should not be a college coach and that a game where you try to knock the snot out of the guy in front of you does not involve allot of "class."
Many UT fans get confused between the University of Texas and the State itself as if they are one in the same. The University has always had a mediocre to high-level of a football program. The state has always had mediocre to poor programs even during the Southwest conference. OU has seven national championships, 42 conference championships, 24 bowl wins with 41 appearances, the longest winning streak in college football history, the most points scored in any season by a college football team (706 this year), and according to the NCAA, the number one football program and modern era. OU only looks at UT as a mere spoiler to its championship season every year. Basically, we view you as you view the A&M Aggies.
This is the first season, UT did not choke the rest of the season after losing one game. Good for Texas-ya’ll are learning. Bob stoops knows that you have to play EVERY game the hardest no matter whether you are winning or losing in order to reach a national championship and that you never stop playing until the time runs out because the one moment that you stop, you loose, 45-35. Mack Brown is slowly starting to figure out that “style points” are unfortunately a strategy these days and not to be used in some type of crappy argument over class. OU vs. Florida for the NC….enough said.
-Dr. J
