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Sports on Monday (Week 11) Presents:
10 Reasons why Mike Lupica is a moron:
(Mike Lupica, for those who don’t know, is a New York sports columnist who viciously attacked Stoops on ESPN’s Sports Reporters Sunday morning for supposedly running up the score during OU’s 77-0 rout of Texas A&M Saturday.
1. The score was 49-0 by HALFTIME, and 77-0 by the THIRD QUARTER. Should OU have stopped playing in the first quarter?
2. The final TD was scored when A&M fumbled the ball on their own 17, and OU’s Strait picked it up and returned it (untouched) for a TD. Find me one defensive football player ANYWHERE who would not have capitalized on a ball practically handed to them.
3. Starting QB Jason White and top receiver Mark Clayton did not play even one down in the second half – which means OU scored 3 offensive TDs without our two top offensive weapons. (Leading RB Renaldo Works didn’t play all game, due to injury. Apparently Lupica thinks Stoops should have done the same with the rest of our starters.)
4. In the Stoops era, OU has defeated A&M in Norman 51-6 (1999, by a 7-5 team) and 31-10 (2001). Obviously, the Sooners own the Aggies on Owen Field. (College Station is another matter, but that’s not the point of this list.)
5. Last week OU defeated OSU 52-9. OSU beat A&M – in College Station, supposedly a near-impossible place to win an away game – 38-10. Why is anyone surprised at 77-0?
6. In 2000, many vaunted sports authorities (a high percentage of NY papers among them) argued that Oklahoma did not deserve a place in the National Title game despite their unbeaten record. One "reason" columnists like Lupica gave was that OU was not beating their opponents by ENOUGH points.
7. Check out this ESPN.com article.
8. Every year there are really good teams in college football and really bad teams. Sometimes they play each other, and the result is not pretty.
9. OU’s schedule concludes A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech. A&M and Baylor were/are obvious easy wins. Tech no longer looks as threatening as they did early in the season. If the Sooners maintain the in-game focus and intensity they are going to need once they reach the postseason, it’s going to result in some lopsided scores.
10. Throwing the ball into the end zone at every opportunity when you are way up late in the fourth quarter is running up the score and unsportsmanlike. Anything else is playing hard and what I would expect any good team to do.
This Week's Win-Loss Smileys
University of Oklahoma (vs. A&M)
Oklahoma State (vs. Texas)
Tulsa (vs. Rice)
NY Jets (at Oakland for the 5th time in a row)
(OT win!)
10 Reasons why Mike Lupica is a moron:
(Mike Lupica, for those who don’t know, is a New York sports columnist who viciously attacked Stoops on ESPN’s Sports Reporters Sunday morning for supposedly running up the score during OU’s 77-0 rout of Texas A&M Saturday.
1. The score was 49-0 by HALFTIME, and 77-0 by the THIRD QUARTER. Should OU have stopped playing in the first quarter?
2. The final TD was scored when A&M fumbled the ball on their own 17, and OU’s Strait picked it up and returned it (untouched) for a TD. Find me one defensive football player ANYWHERE who would not have capitalized on a ball practically handed to them.
3. Starting QB Jason White and top receiver Mark Clayton did not play even one down in the second half – which means OU scored 3 offensive TDs without our two top offensive weapons. (Leading RB Renaldo Works didn’t play all game, due to injury. Apparently Lupica thinks Stoops should have done the same with the rest of our starters.)
4. In the Stoops era, OU has defeated A&M in Norman 51-6 (1999, by a 7-5 team) and 31-10 (2001). Obviously, the Sooners own the Aggies on Owen Field. (College Station is another matter, but that’s not the point of this list.)
5. Last week OU defeated OSU 52-9. OSU beat A&M – in College Station, supposedly a near-impossible place to win an away game – 38-10. Why is anyone surprised at 77-0?
6. In 2000, many vaunted sports authorities (a high percentage of NY papers among them) argued that Oklahoma did not deserve a place in the National Title game despite their unbeaten record. One "reason" columnists like Lupica gave was that OU was not beating their opponents by ENOUGH points.
7. Check out this ESPN.com article.
8. Every year there are really good teams in college football and really bad teams. Sometimes they play each other, and the result is not pretty.
9. OU’s schedule concludes A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech. A&M and Baylor were/are obvious easy wins. Tech no longer looks as threatening as they did early in the season. If the Sooners maintain the in-game focus and intensity they are going to need once they reach the postseason, it’s going to result in some lopsided scores.
10. Throwing the ball into the end zone at every opportunity when you are way up late in the fourth quarter is running up the score and unsportsmanlike. Anything else is playing hard and what I would expect any good team to do.
This Week's Win-Loss Smileys
University of Oklahoma (vs. A&M)
Oklahoma State (vs. Texas)
Tulsa (vs. Rice)
NY Jets (at Oakland for the 5th time in a row)
(OT win!)Read/Post Comments (0)
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