Posted on 12/19/2007 1:19:19 PM PST by GOP_Raider
{does anyone who how crow tastes fried? I may need the recipe}
Just when Illinois started to finally do something, they just shot themselves in the foot multiple times.
Thank god for the traditional matchup though. I’m sure USC loves it.
The PI call on the end of SC’s TD drive didn’t help either.
And now it’s 35-10 SC. Does make you wonder though if the Trojans would have been given a better game had Ohio State not gone to the BCS title game?
If it's anything like fried magpie it should be good eatin'! ;)
Is anyone watching USC think they aren’t the best team in the country right now? If not for Booty’s injury, they would be undefeated right now. There is no team in the coutry that could stay with USC right now.
I will say this, though; it’s a down year for the USC Song Girls.
Totally agree here, USC is playing better than just about anybody right now. That having been said, they may not have beaten Oregon with a healthy Dennis Dixon regardless of all the injuries, but if they had stayed healthy they are playing in N’Awlins next week.
With this performance by USC, there is a small chance that the AP vote may go to USC.
It would be nice to see what USC could do against a proper opponent, but they are doing what they were expected to do and beating up a much undermatched opponent. Don’t know that makes them the greatest team in the history of football - which is what the Musburger/Herbstriet USC Sexfest wants you to think.
Current Conference Standings :
Sun Belt 1-0 MWC 4-1 SEC 5-2 Pac 10 4-2 Big 12 4-2 Big 10 3-4 Big East 1-2 WAC 1-2 ACC 2-5 CUSA 1-4 MAC 0-1 Indies 0-1
Thought y’all would like a little love from the Houston Chronic Illness blog:
SportsJustice
A sports blog with Richard Justice
January 01, 2008
Guns up! Red Raiders come from behind to win another bowl game.
Comeback? Are you kidding me? Texas Tech didn’t even have to break a sweat this time. This simply was a nice finishing touch to another season in which Mike Leach proved again that he’s one of the best coaches in the country. It’s your loss, UCLA.
Next season could have a Texas Tech flavor in the Big 12. The Red Raiders return the core of a team that went 9-4 and ended OU’s national championship hopes. Tech finished the regular season first in the nation in yards and sixth in points.
(In a survey conducted by the Temple University SID office, Texas Tech is second nationally with 63.3 percent (or 76 players) of its 120-man roster consisting of freshmen and sophomores. Of the Raiders’ 66 regular-season touchdowns, 35 came from freshmen and sophomores. Defensively, freshmen and sophomores accounted for more than 50 percent of the tackles and 70 percent of the sacks.)
The Red Raiders rallied from 14 down in the fourth quarter to defeat Virginia 31-28 Tuesday afternoon in the Gator Bowl. Alex Trlica’s 41-yard field goal wrapped it up with two seconds remaining.
That was small potatoes compared to last season when the Raiders came from 31 down in the second half to defeat Minnesota 44-41 in the Insight Bowl. Tech was down by 24 at the start of the fourth quarter. Trlica’s 52-yard field goal as time expired forced overtime.
Leach has said many times that bowl victory propelled the Raiders into this season. “No one believed we could do it, but we did,’’ Tech quarterback Graham Harrell said.
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Trlica has a double major—finance and accounting—and that reminds me to mention academics. I know, I know. You don’t want to know how the sausage is made. But Texas Tech proves you can win football games and graduate players. Mike Leach is graduating 79 percent of his football players, according to figures released by the NCAA last fall.
Mack Brown and Bob Stoops could learn a few lessons from Leach. Attention, parents: if you’ve got a kid considering playing college football and if you think graduating is important, you might consider Texas Tech.
Mack Brown is graduating just 42 percent of his players. That’s the worst in the Big 12 and far below the 67-percent national average. It’s slightly below OU’s 44 percent. The only major football programs with lower rates than UT are Georgia (41), Arizona (41) and San Jose State (36).
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Mike Leach has fully embraced his inner pirate. Leach laughed off the whole idea that he’s been nicknamed a pirate and said, “You don’t really select your nicknames or identities they pick out for you, so I could do a heck of a lot worse.”
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After researching Texas Tech, Virginia coach Al Groh concluded Texas Tech’s offense was like nothing he’d ever seen before.
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Though Leach is laid back off the field, it’s not unusual for him to launch into loud, angry tirades on it. Danny Amendola said Leach dished out some of that during a bowl practice back in Lubbock. One afternoon, too many passes were hitting the ground and, therefore, so did the entire offense. Everyone did 20 up-downs, and then it was back to work. “We had a pretty good practice going and we kind of slowed down a little bit, and he jumped us for it,’’ Amendola said. “That’s why he’s so successful in bowl games - the preparation he takes and everything like that.’’
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• Texas Tech is the only Big 12 team to be bowl eligible every year of the league’s existence.
• Texas Tech is also the only Big 12 program to have a winning record every season since 1996.
• Tech won a New Year’s Day for the first time since winning the 1954 Gator Bowl.
• Mike Leach is 5-3 in bowl games and has won five of six.
Given the BCS rules, just which team would you have preferred the Rose Bowl selecting?
I think if they had playoffs the last couple of years, USC would have won the championship for the last few years.
Wow, from Richard Justice even?? Not bad for a drive-by media piece. If I’m one of you Red Raiders, I’d have to be somewhat optimistic about the fact that their defensive contributions were mostly from frosh’s and soph’s.
If any of you ever get a chance to go to Jacksonville for a game, don't hesitate. It is amazing - The Landing is a huge gathering spot with bars and live music. The pep rally was held there yesterday evening and it was sensational. The River is beautiful and there are small ferry boats to take you down to the stadium. Everything has been so much fun.
A cold front blew in toward the end of the game and it is cold here! It was worth every minute of those 15 hours driving from Houston to experience the Gator Bowl!
Guns Up Red Raiders!!!
The Sugar had dibs on Georgia, since it lost the SEC champion LSU to the National Championship. The Rose was not eligible to pick Georgia. They could have picked Missouri the day after it got drubbed by Oklahoma. Would USC’s giving it another drubbing have impressed you?
I almost considered going to JAX for the Raiders/Jaguars game a few weeks ago there, but it would have been around a $600 plane ticket to get me from The Boise to JAX.
But I’m glad you all had a good time and it was a great comeback today.
Well, I would have been impressed with a USC blowout regardless of who they played in the Rose Bowl. But I will concede that the current system sort of forced them into taking Illinois. Unless the BCS and the Rose Bowl really wanted to go out on a limb, piss everyboyd off and select Michigan.
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