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Post by qcomdrj on Sept 19, 2004 10:38:58 GMT -5
Texas Tech-TCU
Well, I didn't get the feed here in Tennessee, but at one point the teams were tied at 21. Then TTU apparently decided to start playing and ended up with 70. How'd that happen?
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Post by PJ520 on Sept 19, 2004 11:06:38 GMT -5
That was crazy. Tech always has a great offense no matter who their QB is.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 19, 2004 19:52:29 GMT -5
What a depressing game for us Horned Frog fans.
The first half was a decent game. It was a defensive slugfest for about 10 minutes or so of play, and then TCU came alive. By about 6 or 7 minutes into the second quarter, we'd put up 21 unanswered points. Then Tech came alive and tied it up by halftime. As the second quarter ended, I thought maybe I might have a seat at a great football game.
Boy, was I wrong. The third quarter began, and soon Tech had scored another 7 points...then another...then another. TCU forgot to come out and play another half. We just laid up and died, letting the Red Raiders trample all over us. I think Tech had gotten up to 56 before we scored again. Near the end of the third quarter (or was it the beginning of the fourth?), we got two touchdowns (complete with extra points) in fairly rapid succession, getting TCU fans' hopes up. Then Tech turned around and scored twice more (the first one was on a turnover play) to finish us off.
Were it not for my getting to visit with a close cousin who's a freshman at Tech, getting pretty wasted off of Seagram's 7 the night before the game in the hotel, and actually having fun playing as part of the quarter of TCU's band that actually went to the game, I'd have regretted coming all the way to godforsaken Lubbock.
A few cheers and jeers:
Cheers to Texas Tech for pulling their heads out of their asses near the end of the second quarter and redeeming themselves after a loss to piddly little New Mexico.
Jeers to Texas Tech fans started yelling "f**k you, TCU!" at the band more than half an hour before the game started. Yelling "Boo!" or making fun of us is one thing, but simply yelling profanity for no reason is just plain classless.
Cheers to...actually, I have no more cheers, just jeers.
Jeers to TCU, for forgetting to play for a whole game.
Jeers to the officials, for making piss-poor calls - affecting both sides of the ball - the whole game, starting with TCU's first touchdown, which should have been a touchback for Tech.
I think I'm done.
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Post by LOBOFLYER on Sept 20, 2004 1:55:52 GMT -5
"Piddly Little New Mexico" Your so full of S#!T! Enjoy whatever wins you do get this year because you are going to be a cellar dwellar in the MWC!
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Post by LOBOFLYER on Sept 20, 2004 2:05:17 GMT -5
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 20, 2004 7:03:04 GMT -5
Ah, Lobo, your immaturity is good for a laugh! Here's hoping you win the Mountain West so we can prove you wrong about your school as well!
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Post by TTURedRaider67 on Sept 20, 2004 22:53:18 GMT -5
RED RAIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 20, 2004 23:04:50 GMT -5
Yep. Congrats. Your team really impressed and surprised me. I'm actually hoping they can pull out all the stops and manage wins over Texas and Oklahoma (kinda doubt it'll happen, though).
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Post by tigerbait99 on Sept 21, 2004 17:15:02 GMT -5
What a depressing game for us Horned Frog fans. The first half was a decent game. It was a defensive slugfest for about 10 minutes or so of play, and then TCU came alive. By about 6 or 7 minutes into the second quarter, we'd put up 21 unanswered points. Then Tech came alive and tied it up by halftime. As the second quarter ended, I thought maybe I might have a seat at a great football game. Boy, was I wrong. The third quarter began, and soon Tech had scored another 7 points...then another...then another. TCU forgot to come out and play another half. We just laid up and died, letting the Red Raiders trample all over us. I think Tech had gotten up to 56 before we scored again. Near the end of the third quarter (or was it the beginning of the fourth?), we got two touchdowns (complete with extra points) in fairly rapid succession, getting TCU fans' hopes up. Then Tech turned around and scored twice more (the first one was on a turnover play) to finish us off. Were it not for my getting to visit with a close cousin who's a freshman at Tech, getting pretty wasted off of Seagram's 7 the night before the game in the hotel, and actually having fun playing as part of the quarter of TCU's band that actually went to the game, I'd have regretted coming all the way to godforsaken Lubbock. A few cheers and jeers: Cheers to Texas Tech for pulling their heads out of their asses near the end of the second quarter and redeeming themselves after a loss to piddly little New Mexico. Jeers to Texas Tech fans started yelling "f**k you, TCU!" at the band more than half an hour before the game started. Yelling "Boo!" or making fun of us is one thing, but simply yelling profanity for no reason is just plain classless. Cheers to...actually, I have no more cheers, just jeers. Jeers to TCU, for forgetting to play for a whole game. Jeers to the officials, for making piss-poor calls - affecting both sides of the ball - the whole game, starting with TCU's first touchdown, which should have been a touchback for Tech. I think I'm done. It is such a pitty ybriktcu, I guess we are both in the losing column this week. I really thought that game would be better.
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Post by tigerbait99 on Sept 21, 2004 22:37:46 GMT -5
"Piddly Little New Mexico" Your so full of S#!T! Enjoy whatever wins you do get this year because you are going to be a cellar dwellar in the MWC! TCU will be a great addition for the MWC. Beginning next year I think it should be TCU and Utah at the top. And by the way....CUSA is probably a stronger conference than the MWC, and TCU has done well in their over the past few years, so what makes you think they will suddenly become cellar dwellars next season. TCU and Utah will dominate the MWC for the next few years.
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Post by qcomdrj on Sept 21, 2004 22:57:18 GMT -5
I've respected the Raiders (althought not necessarily liked them) after they handed it to Clemson in the Tangerine Bowl a couple years back. I hope they finish well in the Big XII this year, maybe be Texas State Champs like a couple years back.
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Post by AFWX on Sept 23, 2004 12:04:26 GMT -5
TCU will be a great addition for the MWC. Beginning next year I think it should be TCU and Utah at the top. And by the way....CUSA is probably a stronger conference than the MWC, and TCU has done well in their over the past few years, so what makes you think they will suddenly become cellar dwellars next season. TCU and Utah will dominate the MWC for the next few years. I am a bit suprised TCU is joining the MWC, Its not a good geographic fit. And as far as them dominating the conference, I highly doubt that. I dont think they will be at the bottom but they will not be at the top either. For the last 4 years UNLV has been picked 2nd or 3rd every year and they do well to finish 6th or 7th. On the opposite end of that coin, UNM has been picked last or 7th in the last 4 years and they always end up 2nd or 3rd. The point is the competition is the conference is very stiff and any team in the conference can beat any other team in the conference. Wyoming is a classic example, the last 2 years 11 of their 14 conference games were decided by less than 8 points (4 Games went to OT). And they are the Worst team in the Conference. There are too many solid teams for ANY team to be dominate.
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Post by YbrikTCU on Sept 23, 2004 14:28:24 GMT -5
See, AFWX, that's what I love about the MWC! It's such an up-in-the-air conference! No real dominators, no real whipping boys. Well, each year, someone ends up obviously at the top and someone else ends up very much at the bottom, but year-in, year-out...it's just that there's no Oklahoma or USC shutting everyone else out of the conference perennially. And I think that makes for a very interesting conference. As much as I love Texas and the Big 12, it's just a boring conference right now because of the domination of one school. Many Big 12 schools are playing great ball, don't get me wrong - and by the way, I would love nothing more than for Tech to suddenly light the South on fire and go on to win the conference, and it doesn't take a genius to figure out why I want that - but Oklahoma just shuts everyone else out. When Texas and Texas Tech and some of the Northern schools (more than just K State on a fluke of a game) start beating Oklahoma, I think I'll start expressing more than a simple, passive interest in the Big 12 again. For now, I'll be watching the likes of the SEC, the Big Eleven, and mid-majors like the MWC and - for at least one last year - C-USA.
Yeah, I agree, TCU doesn't fit into the MWC geographically AT ALL. That's one reason why I think Houston should be brought in, so we can sort of have a travelling partner. The problem with the conferences right now is that some schools - like TCU, Southern Miss, Memphis, Houston, et al - have nowhere to go besides some conference like C-USA, a geographic fit but overall a pretty crappy conference that's well below their playing level except for a few schools, or Mountain West, a great conference that's out of the way geographically.
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