Day 50 - OU Football in England
While evryone here is celebrating England's victory in the Ashes (I don't know anything about cricket, so I can't say any more about that), I thought I'd share some of my thoughts about OU football this year.I might just be the biggest OU football fan in England. I have been recording the games on my computer in Norman, converting them to AVI/DivX, downloading them from my home web server, and watching them here in England. Sure it's not quite the same as being in Norman, but it's still OU football and I still love it.
The TCU game - Unfortunately, I already heard about the outcome before I was able to watch it. While I was in Rome (of all places!) an American tourist saw my OU shirt and asked "How did OU lose to TCU?". For a while I thought it was a joke, so it didn't quite ruin it for me. But I wasn't as surprised about it as most people. TCU is a good team. I was expecting a close game, and that game could've gone either way. However, TCU losing to SMU last week makes me wonder, as SMU is terrible.
The Tulsa game - That one scared me for a while. OU outscored Tulsa 95-0 in the past two years. I was hoping Bomar would have a good game so I could think TCU was a fluke because of Thompson. He didn't. However, after the bad start, he didn't have much of a chance. The entire offense was "hand the ball to Peterson". Sure he made some big mistakes, but he also made some good decisions and showed good running ability. And Peterson had some spectacular runs!
I think OU has a lot of potential this year. Give them time. Once the QB completes some passes and gets some confidence, and the offensive line shows up, I think the passing game will come. Once that happens, the combination of Peterson and an athletic QB like Bomar (or Thompson) will be deadly. (If it still doesn't happen, maybe they should think about scrapping Chuck Long's offense and start running the wishbone!)
The defense has already looked pretty good and will only get better. I wouldn't be at all surprised if OU beats Texas again this year and wins the Big 12 title. Maybe that's too optimistic. But if it happens, I'll have proof that I predicted it on Day 50.
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I hope you're right. That's what Pa was saying before the season started.
Mom just got an OU hat for me. Yay! I'd been wanting one since I got one for Pa!
P.S. - I have a blog! Would you mind if I put a link to your blog on it?
I dunno... if we lose, I'm going to have ot get out of Dallas for a while, that's for sure... But I've NEVER put my money on OU before in October, and I'm not about ot start. I leave that up to all you hard-core fans instead.
It seems to me that one of the key things we're lacking this year that has been so powerful in previous years is an offensive line that gives the QB time to act, and a defensive line that doesn't. Matt, what do you think? This is mostly a criticism of offense, although I think our defense is certainly not what it has been in recent years.
The Ashes is the contest between England and Australia. Basically the Australians win it most of the time. This is the first time in 18 years that England has won it.
Needless to say that is a big deal.
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Do you think you can come every day for 140 days on http://www.fansworldcup2006.com to make England win the competition ?
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