The OU fans that posted on here were generally very respectful (had that one Sybil-like 'dude' with multiple handles who had to be banned), and from what I have heard from others the reception at the game was an across the board hit. Hope you guys run the table and somehow win the B-12 championship (which would be good for us as well since that would mean a KSU loss or two).
Look forward to the game next year, and trust that your fans will be treated with similar courtesy in South Bend.
Respect your team and your coach. Haven't seen it yet, but heard that Coach Stoops was respectful in his press conference (and not whining about the refs/etc like some of your fans/messageboard posters; and, we have those types too).
As our week was led off by a thread about Coach Kelly on one of the OU boards,
all in good fun. Thought we could return the favor by highlighting the Top-12 (in the spirit of the name of your conference if not the number of teams) excuses that Coach Stoops was offered by the OU communications staff to convey at his post-game press conference (
all in good fun of course; some of these poke fun at our fans too, as well as your rival):
12)Was so caught-up LOL-ing watching Texas struggle in their nail-biter with that tough Kansas team; didn't get to the field until 7:59pm ET
11)Tried to follow the advice from that Leon-drummer-dude on Gameday and 'run it down ND's throat'. To paraphrase Peyton Manning: "Idiot picker"
10)We like to run considerably more plays than our opponents. Unfortunately, during our first drive, our center ran one more play than our QB
9)Had seen the stats on ND's running game and told my brother that "we need a defensive scheme that circles the wagons and stops ND from running". He came to me Friday morning with: "we can only find one frickin' wagon". Clearly, I hired the wrong brother.
8)We were just unlucky that Kenny Stills' PMS cycle coincided with the game
7)Trying to be proactive, I worked on my gameplanning last Saturday afternoon by reading the Irish Envy BYU gameday thread
during ND's game against the Cougars. I was convinced from reading that thread that ND would be no threat to us
6)I was unable to get any good coaching advice this week from OUR messageboards, as all of our fans were posting on THEIR messageboards
5)IrishPat183 swore to me that ND had no home run threat in their backfield with GAIII out of the game. Pat's clearly better at rating safety prospects for the NFL draft - and I don't mean that as a compliment about his NFL evaluation skills
4)"Hello!!" (
translation: I spent my entire week trying to recruit a kid who has a viral youtube video)
3)I was working on raising our graduation rates above 50%;
what were you fighting for?
2)Interrupted during critical points of the game by both Jason White, and then Billy Sims. They were filling out their Heisman ballots and wanted to know how to spell
Manti Te'o
1)Clearly THEIR "Play Like a Champion" sign works better than ours.
Good luck the rest of the season, and in your (hopefully BCS) bowl game
