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You mean USC's DEFENSE looked good. I've never seen such horrible offense coming out of the Trojans during the second half.

Bones, hope you're feeling better, glad you're back and I'll be looking for your next preview. Your blogs are always top notch.

I am looking for anyone who has news about Florida's placekicker Caleb Sturgis. He started out as the kick-off kicker at the beginning of the year and now I can't find any news about him. Lord knows we need a placekicker to compete with the Big Boys. Thanks.

>>Bones, hope you're feeling better, glad you're back and I'll be looking for your next preview. Your blogs are always top notch.

i echo norka's sentiment. it is that time of year. i have a cold myself...trying to decide if i want to use my sick days for when i really need them or save them for the beach..

anyways--i wish mikey would putter out at AZ and go back to norman. brent venables looks cool with the play sheet strapped on his manly forearms, but getting scorched the last 4 BCS bowls has me calling for his job. i guess i like bob stoops, hell i was glad they faked that punt on 4th and 6 even if they came up a tad short.

but old brent needs a co-defensive guy calling some shots. if its not the secondary, its something else (usually the secondary).
and reynolds going out shouldnt cause the entire thing to collapse, as you pointed out.

loved how OU put up 35, but damn if you let them come back and hit you harder. that kick off return by speedy gonzalez shipman sucked, as did his 2 other TDs or however many.

sam bradford threw for 5 TDs!! and yet, precisely as was stated, OUs defense somehow couldnt stop them. hell there was one dropped pass in the endzone by some fat guy #99 that was a gimme, yet they go and convert the next play. sheesh

i attribute any incoherency to the nyquil.
would that i could always use that excuse.

ps fat guy #99 for texas...who is that guy? a fullback?

Week 7 thoughts. Any chance you could carry out the top 25 when you do your review of the week? I just am interested in your opinion on all the teams. Get well soon Bones.

Hey DoIt4Johnny, thx for the well wishes (norka and bourbonheel too) good luck with your cold as well. According to the Longhorns' roster 99 is a DT, he must be a multi-purpose player. Strange to put someone that big in a pass catching role. Didn't matter that he dropped that pass for sure, Texas could do what they wanted on Saturday. Venables said they were using a tested and tried scheme that has worked for ten years... maybe it has against Baylor and the 'directional schools' (SE Louisiana Tech State or whomever, lol), but against an experienced QB who has been putting up 50 pts per game... hmmmm. Wonder if that's a scheme they used against West Virginia last year or USC in the N.C. game a few years ago, etc. I loved the fake punt too but I also think it was an indication of how little faith they had with the D's ability to stop the Horns. I'd love to see Mike come back too, maybe we should seek out some Arizona boards and start pretending we're disgruntled Wildcat fans.

bourbonheel87, I'll expand my top teams soon but at the moment there's still so much unsettled. My top 5 has been virtually obliterated each week. It's almost strange when one of the teams hangs on for a week. After seeing what happened to ECU, Fresno St. and Wake Forest I'm very suspicious about hot lower profile teams. I was big on Utah for a while but now I'm wondering. I still feel BYU isn't worthy of top 5 status. Maybe top 10... but when your signature win was against UCLA, and your potential future best games are against TCU and Utah... I don't know. Anyhow I'll try to expand as soon as I feel I have a better grasp of who's who.

>Venables said they were using a tested and tried scheme that has worked for ten years... maybe it has against Baylor

precisely, it has worked for 10 years during the regular season against teams not ranked in the top five. sure, he raves all about it when OU (barely) beats iowa st. or baylor, but where was it when coachless W VA ran it up last year.

and please o please dont get me remembering that boise st game. oh boy, here come the chest pains. where the **** was that tried and true defense against that *** ****** statue of liberty play? or the 4th and 35 before that when they lateraled the ball 6 times to score.
notwithstanding the exact plays...ah forget it. now i'm sour.

anyway.feel better. mizzou beating UT will help my recovery, to be sure!

The problem with pointing out the "flawed" Big 12 defenses is that you have failed to point out the extremely unproductive SEC offenses. You can argue that the offenses in the SEC play badly because of the good defensive play, but I'm not buying it. The SEC offenses are far worse than the Big 12 defenses.

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Originally posted 11:37 PM ET  10.14 by DoIt4Johnny

i wish mikey would putter out at AZ and go back to norman. brent venables looks cool with the play sheet strapped on his manly forearms, but getting scorched the last 4 BCS bowls has me calling for his job.

Don't worry. It won't be long before some poor team comes along and makes Venables their head coach.

DWS, Florida's lowest point total this season has been 26. Hardly unproductive. And with the SEC winning the last two (and 3 of 5) national championships I've got to believe their D does give them an advantage. Your 'Horns beat USC in a great shootout, I still thank Texas for that game and I don't thank Texas often, lol. However, OU's D has failed them in big games numerous times lately and if they're winning the Big 12 most (!) years and many of the Big 12 teams play a similar game then I have to agree with the fawning SEC D fans.
Also, I'm sure you're right, someone can use Venables, but he hasn't improved the OU D over any of the previous coordinators since the Mike Stoops era. Great coaches sometimes need to find a great fit.

Sorry, edit... he (Venables) hasn't improved over any of the previous seasons... each year there's an important game where there's an embarassing lapse in D.