I heard the OU game announcers saying they expected the Sooners to be severely challenged by Tulsa this week in Tulsa. They actually sounded pretty concerned. Just saying.......Quote:
Originally Posted by T1
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I heard the OU game announcers saying they expected the Sooners to be severely challenged by Tulsa this week in Tulsa. They actually sounded pretty concerned. Just saying.......Quote:
Originally Posted by T1
There ya go. Glad you're setting the bar high. :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cool Hand Clyde
Severely challenged? If OU only beats Tulsa by 30 will that be severely challenged? How about only 25? OU is ranked at 3 for a reason; they have back so much of the team that throttled Alabama. I'm not ready to say our team is horrible. What I saw gave me lots of hope over the bad team of last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
:laugh: Amen! HAHA! Great post. That's what I dislike about Holtz. He makes the easy things look hard.Quote:
Originally Posted by maddawg
What if Tulsa stays within 14 points? Or 10. Or God forbid, BEATS OU?Quote:
Originally Posted by Docman5
Wrong! Dykes staff left the cupboard bare with his JUCO recruiting and zero/NADA recruiting history nor contact list for Holtz at all. They were deleted.Quote:
Originally Posted by theprofessor
That's BS. Don't be foolish, Tyler. Dykes did exactly what he was hired to do -- WIN! He did it, and he did it well. His teams were incredibly exciting to watch, and brought our university more respect than we had ever experienced. While in Ruston, Dykes won a conference championship, earned a Top 25 national ranking and competed in a very high quality bowl game. And because of his success, Tech eventually earned an invitation to CUSA.
I could go on, but his results speak for themselves.
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Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS
If you are talking to me my above are just the facts. We have a few really good ones from that period. A few. But his JUCO recruiting hurt as did the deletion of the recruiting data set.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
Yes, I was talking to you, Tyler. You don't have any facts. You're just bitching about "bare cupboards" like Holtz. I gave you facts.....things that actually HAPPENED!!Quote:
Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS
If it was so easy to get Jucos, then Holtz should do it. God knows, he needs the wins. Patton & company sure worked out pretty well.
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He left the cupboard bare and recruited too many JUCOs. The same reason our starters this year have only 25 starts total as a team.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
Boo hoo. Then Holtz should go recruit somebody. We're now in year 2. For the most part, the best players I still see on the field for us today are Dykes recruits.Quote:
Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS
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That's because Holtz is trying to actually build something in Ruston, unlike Dikes, by Red Shirting as many H.S recruits as he can.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
.....while apparently LOSING as many games as he can. :laugh: Hell of a strategy. If he keeps losing games like last year, he'll have a hard time getting any quality recruits to come to Ruston.Quote:
Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS
He recruited Dixon and King out of high school, and much of our great secondary. Not to say that his JUCO recruiting was perfect, but had he stayed, he may have been able to continue doing so with success just like Bill Snyder from Kansas State (as someone mentioned before); if he could have done that for last year, we may just have made a bowl game. But he left, Holtz came, and Holtz wanted to start from scratch with mostly green high school recruits. I'm not saying that that philosophy is wrong, but it will take 1-2 years for that method to gain success. Had Holtz also gone after more JuCos and transfers last year (he has recruited some both years), then who knows, he could have continued Tech's success right off the bat.Quote:
Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS
I don't really know what went wrong at SFlorida, but maybe it was his recruiting that messed him up. He did well the first year with his predecessors recruits. He had a leg up at ECU because he had helped his dad at SouthCar. Maybe he didn't recruit the right staff to help him recruit, or whatever. History will tell us how good Holtz is by the end of the year...
Holtz is just milking this job for extra time. He buys time by telling "fans" like Tyler that he's rebuilding the program from the ground up. Everybody knows that's a 3-5 year rebuilding project. Unfortunately for us, all the fans and support will be gone by then.Quote:
Originally Posted by BearDawg137
http://youtu.be/i0BTdo6qGwoQuote:
Originally Posted by parisdog
Is that what the previous coach at USF did to Holtz too??Quote:
Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS
I'll be the first (that I've seen) to say it. I've seen some great teams over the years, and I just don't think this OU is that great. I'm not buying into all the talk about them being a title-contending team. I'll be surprised if the Sooners make it to the playoff.
I thought they looked great in the 1st quarter. Reminded me of that LSU team that was beating us 49-0 at halftime and went on the win the national championship. 2nd and 3rd quarter wasn't so great. Their subs were about like us in the 4th quarter.
Wow. Seems like total lack of preparation. Isn't the holder supposed to make sure everybody is on the field and in the right spot? Isn't a coach supposed to do the same? At worst, it should have cost us a timeout.Quote:
Originally Posted by BearDawg137
The fact that we can't get lined up properly after months of practice is the most ridiculous thing I've seen. Not once, but twice. And nobody caught it until after the play.
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i...1vaI2MAsWX4AygQuote:
Originally Posted by Bigdog13
Middle school teams do it all the time without making mistakes. Of course, they have real coaches.Quote:
Originally Posted by touchdown123
At this point in Dykes career he was 5-8 and people were talking about getting rid of him. He then lost 3 of the next 4 with the sole win being a close game with Central Arkansas. I'm still holding out hope that Holtz will turn the corner this weekend.
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Originally Posted by RougeDawg
Very good point.Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeDawg
Hell, I thought we looked like a halfway organized football TEAM in the loss to OU. I think they will blow several Big12 foes out of the building worse than us this year. What did y'all expect? Sokol settled in, despite terrifying pressure. They went for it on fourth down several times. We made some plays and have something to build on this week. Sure, we were drubbed, but it wasn't like Penn State back in the day. Apart from the one season of excellent offense (and sucky defense), there's not a team in Tech history that would've fared much better. Am I wrong?
Looking back, it appears that our Dawgs settled in and played pretty well (considering who the opposition was) starting midway through the 2nd quarter. Unfortunately, the inability for Holtz to get his team ready to play well from the initial kickoff is reminiscent of last years woes. He's gotta fix that. We need 4 solid quarters of work out of our team, not just two.
We weren't sharp coming out of the gate in both halves.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
You just missed an ACT question.:icon_razz:Quote:
Originally Posted by boxerdog
Agreed. And that was a hallmark of Holtz's team last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by boxerdog
Dang! Either half?Quote:
Originally Posted by maddawg
No matter the point of discussion, we can always come back to proper use of the English language. Nice job Tech grads!!Quote:
Originally Posted by boxerdog