As great as Heacock is, the defense had some absolute stinkers that year.
Gave up 27 to Iowa, 31 to Baylor, 38 to WV, 41 to TT,
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Gave up 27 to Iowa, 31 to Baylor, 38 to WV, 41 to TT,
As long as Garibay isn't kicking, I think we'll be OK. I was there. Never, ever have to go back to Lubbock. Weird environment, the student section got cleared. I knew it was not going to end in our favor at that point...
Graduated in 2001, you at least could have memories of the good times in the 70's. First coach I remember is Walden.
We were guilty of that vs Utah in 2010 and got smoked. That score was bad but it wasn't close to how far off we were to matching up.
I could see this being similar to our North Dakota game, Rocco comes out sharp and we jump on them, they play decent the rest of the way but are kept at arms length. Houston played OU ok abut that said more about OU than Houston IMO. OU has big time issues offensively, that let Houston hang around. I think we're better offensively, get a couple early scores and they fade.
Depends on your definition of "far" but in general that's just not true.
If some of you are doing this much pearl clutching for the worst team on the remaining schedule I don't know how you're going to make it through the season.
ISU absolutely could lose, but it would be a surprising and infuriating result given what we know about this team.
- Mar 27, 2006
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Maybe they're trying to spell Tabbouleh? That's my best guess. You'd think the stand would lead with shawarma or falafel. Tabbouleh is more of a side than a main.
And delicious. The Green Olive in DSM has a good one
The case for Houston is very similar to the case for UConn (only UConn is more so) --
-- both reside in a gigantic metro area where nobody cares about them (if UConn counts for NYC)
-- great basketball (UConn more than Houston but both are powerhouses historically)
-- terrible football (Houston has had more periods of success than UConn ever has, of course, and I would imagine a school in Houston has access to more talent than one in the Northeast)
-- BY wants to add them anyways despite these drawbacks
-- Houston was mostly added to backfill the conference to give it the numbers to have some chance at survival... which is less of a factor but still a factor if UConn ends up in the Big 12
I wonder which of the first four adds you'd keep (if any) if you knew the Pac-12 schools were coming. I would imagine BYU and Cincinnati would be a "yes" but I wonder about UH and UCF.
I would imagine UH and UCF would be in the ACC now had the Big 12 passed on them. I wonder if they'd still gone for SMU at that point (maybe?) and the NorCal schools (who might have been better off in the long term to stay with the Pac remnants as it reconstitutes itself picking over the Mountain West).
We're not clutching our pearls. We're just rolling our eyes at folks who post the obvious (that we should win a game where we're a 12.5 point favorite) and dismiss others who have concerns about a possible upset.
And yes, these kinds of upsets happen weekly.
Week 0:
Florida State was a 10.5 point favorite over Georgia Tech and lost at home.
Week 1:
Virginia Tech was a 13.5 point favorite over Vanderbilt and lost.
Week 2:
Florida State was a 16.5 favorite over Boston College and lost at home.
Week 3:
Notre Dame was a 28.5 point favorite over Northern Illinois and lost at home.
And for the record, I'm fairly confident ISU will beat Houston, but winning a conference game on the road is never easy regardless of the opponent, so I wouldn't be shocked if we have one of those awful nights where we end up beating ourselves.
Keep drinking young grasshopper… you are in the rear view mirrors of the great ones!
I was pleased that we ran our offense all game against ASU. We tend to score big when the running game is going. I’m loving our rotation of RBs right now.
I have to wonder what kind of confidence UH has inside their locker room right now.
I'm not convinced you can take anything away from the OU result other than Oklahoma still has a lot of that signature Lincoln Riley softness to them, and they thought they could just show up and turn it on if and when they needed to. It's not something new IMO opinion out of OU.
Which makes the move to the SEC all the more dumb, but explainable given their front running arrogant attitude. They made a deal with the devil when they hired an offensive wizard that stripped them of their toughness, and they are a very long time removed from the OU defensive days. It's not fixed and the SEC is a terrible place to try and fix it on the go.
