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From: ron@uokvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: sportsmanship - (nf)
Message-ID: <3494@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Oct-83 23:15:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 27 23:15:46 1983
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uokvax!ron    Oct 25 16:50:00 1983


i just don't know. i guess it depends where you come from, or what kind
of football you like to watch.  this weekend i watched ou romp iowa-state
49-11.  did i feel bad?  (yes, i'm an ou student...)
HELL NO!

in that game ou had 7 (seven!!!) different people score.  how many other
teams can say that??  (could northwestern have 7 people score in a season?)
ou attempted 10 passes the entire game (all in the second half from the
second string q-back)  you were suggesting running plays where the team
would have less chance to score?? what do you want them to do, have the
q-back drop back and fall down??  ou RAN all over i-s.  RAN. in fact, they
ran for 399 yards, two backs over 100 yards for the day.  what's
more basic than a simple off tackle dive??  if a team can't stop our
running backs, (yes, even the 4th stringer out there who doesn't even 
have his name on the back of his jersey...) they shouldn't complain
or recieve sympathy.  they've simply been beat.  hell, the only reason
it wasn't worse was ou fumbled (and lost the ball) twice inside i-s's 
10 yard line.  it was i-s that kept trying the 'big play'.  we simply 
ran up the middle, THEY threw the ball 35+ times....

i get sick of hearing people put down ou {nebraska...} for crushing
teams.  these are quality football teams with BIG(big=high scoring) 
offenses.  why would they want to run up the score??  do you think
they REALLY care how bad they beat i-s?  they're trying to give
everyone some experience for the big games (nebraska, texas...)
people at i-s {northwestern, tcu...} should be glad the BIG offenses
DON'T try to run up the score.  you'd be surprised what they can
they can do if they really want to (for example, nebraska's 48 
points scored in the 3rd quarter(!!!) against colorado)

let's reverse it all.  do you ever see people putting down great
defenses??  do people pitch a fit if they get shut out??
"boy, that really makes me mad.  they didn't let us score the
WHOLE game.  they should have stuck in their 4th (not 3rd) string
defensive.  they should have used defensive sets that allowed our
offense a chance to get more long gainers."  see the analogy?  doesn't 
it sound ridiclous when put in this context??  


	in defense of quality football, and NOT limiting the scrubs, 
		ron

ps. sorry mom, sorry dad.  (both TCU grads. go horn-frogs!)

...ctvax!uokvax!ron