ou - CU

[Doomsday]

As a Colorado grad I was pretty excited to see them come back and pull out the big upset. It appears they are finally headed in the right direction for the first time in a while. Hopefully Hawkins can get a few decent draft classes and turn things around. The Big 12 is there for the taking, what a joke it was been as of late.

 

[dbair1967]

ok people...everyone remind me again how great Bob Stoops is

been saying it for years...most overrated coach in college football, and he keeps proving me right

David

 

[Mavs Man]

This one brought a smile to my face ...

... until I caught the score to the UT-Kansas State game.

No room to talk trash, here. It sucks that we're this close to the Red River Shootout and we're both coming in after a loss.

 

[MC KAos]

the big 12 is really pathetic, its really sad. btw i think lsu and usc will loose at some point this year too, its gonna be a chaotic year for the bcs, mark my words!! (or mark this post, whatevs)

 

[NickZepp]

After watching the last few years when OU lost to a bad OSU team twice. OU lost to A&M that wasn't very good. A bad TCU team, Oregon last year. There's just a long list of games where OU showed signs where they have no real gameplan to beat those teams. I don't think OU really gameplans anymore. And if they do they don't change those to fit situations. Bob Stoops is probably the poorest gameday coach OU's ever had outside of Blake.

Colorado may be lucky to win one more game. They aren't may not even beat anyone on OU's schedule. Talentwise OU should have won this game by at least 50. But they weren't prepared for anything Colorado did in the 2nd half. And they weren't prepared for a bad run defense. It was a poor coaching mismatch.

 

[Doomsday]

Colorado's defense played extremely well in this game. They arent a good team but lets not take anything away from them.

 

[Danny White]

Well, that's what I get for getting ahead of myself in a season.

Despite the early score, the team was flat for the entire game. The offense never got on track throughout.

The team was just not mentally prepared from the get-go.

As far as Cody Hawkins... he was solid. His big obstacle in moving to the next level is that he's so short. He's listed at 5'11" and that may be generous.

 

[NickZepp]

Colorado is flat out a bad team. Probably the worst team OU's played this year. But they were a much better coached team.

 

[MC KAos]

i wouldnt feel too bad guys, its happening all over the country, if it would have been just UT that lost id be jumping off the congress avenue bridge right now!! haha

i think you will have a good amount of home underdogs win today in the nfl too

 

[NickZepp]

i wouldnt feel too bad guys, its happening all over the country, if it would have been just UT that lost id be jumping off the congress avenue bridge right now!! haha

i think you will have a good amount of home underdogs win today in the nfl too

It just happens to OU every year.

 

[mr.jameswoods]

OU choked. The players didn't execute, and I think a lot of fans are for executing the offensive coaches. Malcolm Kelly was never even looked at...

Congrats to CU. They played smarter, and they got the win. I don't think they are the better team, but that's why you've got to play the game.

The Red River shoot-out has two teams limping in.

You can't blame the coaches. The loss isn't suprising. As talented as OU is, this is a young team. They got psychologically owned in this game. The players were getting intimidated and overwhelmed by the crowd which was evident by the poor tackling at the end of the game and receivers dropping easy passes. We were just sloppy!

 

[NickZepp]

You can't blame the coaches. The loss isn't suprising. As talented as OU is, this is a young team. They got psychologically owned in this game. The players were getting intimidated and overwhelmed by the crowd which was evident by the poor tackling at the end of the game and receivers dropping easy passes. We were just sloppy!

Yes you can blame the coaches. That's exactly why OU lost to a bad team.

They weren't prepared to play in the altitude against a bad Colorado team.

Arizona State, Colorado State, and Florida State ran all over this Colorado defense. This isn't a good Colorado team. Colorado is the worst team OU will play outside of maybe Iowa State.

All OU did was try to run a vanilla offense and they didn't really try and run a good defense. They were effective on defense till later part of the 3rd quarter.

 

[mr.jameswoods]

Yes you can blame the coaches. That's exactly why OU lost to a bad team.

They weren't prepared to play in the altitude against a bad Colorado team.

Arizona State, Colorado State, and Florida State ran all over this Colorado defense. This isn't a good Colorado team. Colorado is the worst team OU will play outside of maybe Iowa State.

All OU did was try to run a vanilla offense and they didn't really try and run a good defense. They were effective on defense till later part of the 3rd quarter.

That vanilla game plan produced a 24-7 lead early in the third quarter so it was obviously working. The coaching staff wasn't responsible for the 2 interceptions. They were not responsible for the several dropped passes or tipped passes the receivers failed to hold onto which killed drives. Bradford's first 3 passes were perfect but the receivers couldn't bring the ball in or they couldn't hold onto it. The coaches were not responsible for the missed tackles on those punt returns. The coaches were not to blame for the overturned play in the 4th quarter in which Bradford's pass was too low. I don't care how bad Colorado was. Any team can beat another team on any given Saturday especially when the momentum shifts to their side and when they are playing at home. Even scrubs can start playing lights out when they feel the emotion from the crowd and good teams can get paralyzed in the same manner. This was just an emotionally immature Sooner team that caved into the pressure from the fans and the momentum shift. The Sooners lacked poise

 

[Dallas]

It just happens to OU every year.

It does happen to OU every year. Why they come out flat against teams they should be dominating is beyond me.

It's frustrating to say the least. Very frustrating.

Yes - the Big 12 is stinking it up this year.

Ill hang this one on Stoops. The Sooners were not ready to play Colorado and that blame hangs right w/ Stoops.

Hawkins had an Ok game. I won't say he was the reason Colorado beat OU. The running game of Colorado was what the problem was late in the game. The Sooners could not stop it.

Our D was on the field ALL day long because our WR's refused to catch the ball. That and Wilson kept trying to run the ball over and over and over.

Look - When it's 3rd and 8. Throw it to the #$%$# TE. Will ya?

Not Finley - Gresham. Throw is to ole Gresh next time.

Of course Gresh has to be in the flippin game to start with. Don't get me wrong. I like Joe Jon Finley. His hands stunk this game tho.

 

[Dallas]

That vanilla game plan produced a 24-7 lead early in the third quarter so it was obviously working. The coaching staff wasn't responsible for the 2 interceptions. They were not responsible for the several dropped passes or tipped passes the receivers failed to hold onto which killed drives. Bradford's first 3 passes were perfect but the receivers couldn't bring the ball in or they couldn't hold onto it. The coaches were not responsible for the missed tackles on those punt returns. The coaches were not to blame for the overturned play in the 4th quarter in which Bradford's pass was too low. I don't care how bad Colorado was. Any team can beat another team on any given Saturday especially when the momentum shifts to their side and when they are playing at home. Even scrubs can start playing lights out when they feel the emotion from the crowd and good teams can get paralyzed in the same manner. This was just an emotionally immature Sooner team that caved into the pressure from the fans and the momentum shift. The Sooners lacked poise

It was Colorado's home coming weekend.

That's why they won. Everyone knows it was a trap game from the start.

$#%$# Home Coming Queens!!

 

[MC KAos]

It just happens to OU every year.

yeah, oh hey OU fans, when does OU get oregon at home? i still cant get over how OU got jobbed in that game!

 

[Dallas]

yeah, oh hey OU fans, when does OU get oregon at home? i still cant get over how OU got jobbed in that game!

I don't know if OU will ever play Oregon again outside Norman. Yes - it was that bad.


Ducks lost to Cal on Sat. That was GOOD to hear.


Freakin HATE those cheating Quackers

 

[mr.jameswoods]

It does happen to OU every year. Why they come out flat against teams they should be dominating is beyond me.

I agree but this isn't limited to OU. Texas lost to K State. Florida lost to Auburn. I know that Auburn is a lot better than Colorado but Florida is still a lot better than Auburn. There are other examples. We are just OU fans so we tend to be harder on our own team but this kinda thing happens to other teams too. We just don't notice it because we are focused on our own team. I don't blame Stoops. Boulder is a tough place to play. We tend to struggle there. You have a young team that beat it's previous 4 opponents with ease. There is nothing a coach can say to prevent a young team from being overconfident with the type of success we have had. That's just youth and inexperience. It shouldn't have happened but I'm not suprised it did.

 

[ddh33]

OU isn't that young, and there really isn't an excuse.

There's plenty of blame to go around for that loss, and neither players nor coaches should be excused. It was that bad.

But yeah, it's happening everywhere. That probably says something about the number of good players in high school and the limited scholarships, the better coaching, etc.

 

[NickZepp]

That vanilla game plan produced a 24-7 lead early in the third quarter so it was obviously working. The coaching staff wasn't responsible for the 2 interceptions. They were not responsible for the several dropped passes or tipped passes the receivers failed to hold onto which killed drives. Bradford's first 3 passes were perfect but the receivers couldn't bring the ball in or they couldn't hold onto it. The coaches were not responsible for the missed tackles on those punt returns. The coaches were not to blame for the overturned play in the 4th quarter in which Bradford's pass was too low. I don't care how bad Colorado was. Any team can beat another team on any given Saturday especially when the momentum shifts to their side and when they are playing at home. Even scrubs can start playing lights out when they feel the emotion from the crowd and good teams can get paralyzed in the same manner. This was just an emotionally immature Sooner team that caved into the pressure from the fans and the momentum shift. The Sooners lacked poise

The offense scored 1 TD all game on a 2 play drive. The other 2 TDs were off short drives because of INTs by Wolfe. The offense had 1 sustained drive all game for a FG. And the defense couldn't defend a guy that looked bad in all of his games this year. OU won't face a team much worse than Colorado it's really that simple.

And I agree OU isn't a young team. But they are young at QB. That didn't stop Colorado who was young and pretty bad at QB.