scooter1369 said:
Great game Horns. My body hurts all over from being there for 20 straight hours. If our offense wasn't so inept, the game would have be ours by 2 TD's.
One thing I did notice, and it happens all the time, is that on the rare occassion we did beat the O-line getting to Young, we got drug down from behind and it wasn't called even once. I wish I brought my camera in. 1st quarter alone they missed 4 flagrant holding calls that would have constituted sexual assault charges on the street. Fucking horrible.
Can't wait for the return game though. See you in Austin Horns.
My body is aching like no other. I just got back from returning our RV a few minutes ago. Man alive Scooter, great lot. I don't think that I had a chance to speak to you in person, but thanks for the pretrip information. I was about 15th or so in line as the RVs lined up at about 2:30am.
I have not read the rest of this thread yet since earlier last week, but I will read the thread and a make a few game comments. But in general, AJ Hawk is a beast, and Carpenter and Schlegel are great as well. I think both of your lines played well. I think that our lines played outstanding. I think that almost everything said on this board came together and showed itself on the field. A buddy of mine was saying after the 10-0 lead that it was over, and I knew that it was not, I expected the comeback, and if Hawk keeps it up, he seriously deserves Heisman talk. When he got his arms around Vince, he was not letting go until he went down.
The Holmes TD. Wow, great throw, right on the money. It was very tight coverage, just perfect execution.
Man, what a call by Mack to keep Selvin out of the game (supposedly injured), Charles will be the real deal, and his receiving ability showed on saturday. Melton is a beast too, even though his knee went down on the third down play, he took his first real hits in D-1 and kept his feet moving. And he was definitely in the end zone at the end of the game, that was a weak call.
I observed as did everyone else it seems, that tOSU just played differently with Smith in there. To me it just seemed like he had the pulse of the team. And his runs were frustrating as hell. But I also thought Zwick looked good finding the open man on a few occasions as well. Pittman looked solid against our defense.
Of course our kick coverage was atrocious. We placed Huff on the coverage as a safety, absolutely the last line of defense, and he makes a couple of tackles. NOT GOOD.
Ginn didn't touch the ball enough, and dropped at least one screen play. But when he did have the ball, he made cuts and broke tackles with the best of them.
Most importantly, I was so impressed by how your team was so confident and not arrogant, and just played their hearts out on Saturday night. I love how Tressel had them prepared, and your fans can second guess his QB switching, etc. but it goes to show that he isn't going to let you screw up off the field, and then just return and take over a starting spot. Ultimately, I think he sends a great message that will have dividends down the road. (BTW does every football program have a page stating what Boosters can and can't do or is that just an OSU thing?)
As for the play calling, execution, etc. of tOSU offense. I think its natural for fans to blame the coaching, etc. but on Saturday, the two defenses that came out to play were unfreakingbelievable. UT had horrible kick coverage, and turned the ball over three times, including two picks that would have been talked about 10,000 times more if the game would have ended the other way. Well, in my opinion, UTs defense showed why Chizik was such a good pick up. I thought his adjustments and stunts were amazing. Being able to come out there time after time and stop tOSU's offense after UT's own offense kept giving the ball away, takes a lot of stamina, preparation, and just absolute talent. I think your offense has several big yardage games ahead of them, but on Saturday, our defense played amazingly, coverage, pressure, tackling you name it.
As everyone said on this board on any TV show, in any paper, etc. If UT was going to win this game, Vince was going to have to do it through the air. A lot of Texas fans, including me, thought that we would have more success on the ground, but your defense showed us quickly that Vince might get five yards here, five yards there, but there will not be a run dominant offense that runs over this team.
So Vince goes to the air, throws two picks, but also completes great passes across the middle, and one pass to Sweed that put us on top. If you have seen my posts, and some of the other posts on here, you know that we were not very confident about Sweed's hands. And the fact that he almost dropped that one, man our collective hearts as a fan base skipped three beats. Vince threw the ball well and his feet and his OL allowed him enough time to beat your defense through the air. And of course, the game comes down to tOSU missing a 50 yard field goal without Nugent, and then Vince throwing a TD pass to go ahead. Crazy. I predicted a one point victory for the Horns, but I would not have put anything of real value down on a bet on this game. And if they played each other again, I wouldn't place any bets then either.
That game was well fought, and Vince really showed me a lot, but your team should not lose another game this year. And I am ecstatic about both teams' effort. Good luck for the rest of the season, and I will be watching a lot of your games from here on out, so I might chime in with comments now and then.
Hook 'em and
Unfortunately Vince Young matured into a good enough passer to take advantage of a defense thats main goal was to stop him from running and getting loose.
