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[cartman]

They've announced the official UT party. It's this Sunday, at the stadium, and the gates open at 3:30pm. If we get enough people, we can have a FOFC crew in attendance.

http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=40&url_article_id=1890&url_subchannel_id=&change_well_id=2

[LoneStarGirl]

well i have tons of friends going but I unfortunatly am in Mississippi. I bet its going to be a blast

[sooner333]

I won't be there, but you guys can come up to Norman for next year's championship party :)

[Joe]

when's the sooner fans going away party for VY?

[sooner333]

when's the sooner fans going away party for VY?

We're talking about a QB who had a worse record against OU than Major Applewhite here. Yeah, OU fans are happy, but I don't think he's unbeatable by any means. Tremendous athlete, would have been hard to beat, but no direct road to the national championship if he stayed next year.

[Huckleberry]

We're talking about a QB who had a worse record against OU than Major Applewhite here.
LOL. Hilarious.

Yes, let's count the 1998 win over John Blake's Sooners. That's a good measuring stick. Better yet, let's count the 1999 win over Stoops' first team that everyone conveniently forgot when I heard "Mack Brown has never beaten Bob Stoops" about 300 times the last few years. Good stuff.

Yes, Applewhite's 2-1 record with those wins show that Vince Young wasn't great because he was 1-1 against the Sooners. That's the kind of superb analysis I'd be willing to pay for.

[Cuckoo]

LOL. Hilarious.

Yes, let's count the 1998 win over John Blake's Sooners. That's a good measuring stick. Better yet, let's count the 1999 win over Stoops' first team that everyone conveniently forgot when I heard "Mack Brown has never beaten Bob Stoops" about 300 times the last few years. Good stuff.

Yes, Applewhite's 2-1 record with those wins show that Vince Young wasn't great because he was 1-1 against the Sooners. That's the kind of superb analysis I'd be willing to pay for.

I don't think that's what he was trying to say, and I think you know it Huck. He was just saying that Young, although a "tremendous athlete" is not unbeatable. And while OU is certainly happy he's gone, beating Texas with Young at the helm wouldn't have been impossible.

Now, personally I think it would have been near impossible. I'm willing to eat a bit of crow on Young as I never thought he'd turn into the QB he was this past year. OU will certainly be better next year than they were this year, but Texas would have had a huge edge with Young.

[Cuckoo]

DOLA

And in case anyone wants to know, I'll be unable to make the UT party. I'm washing my hair.

[Vegas Vic]

I won't be there, but you guys can come up to Norman for next year's championship party :)

The next Sooner party will start during the middle of the 3rd quarter of the RRS on 10/7/06. The Cotton Bowl will be crimson on one side and light blue on the other side.

[sooner333]

Yes, Applewhite's 2-1 record with those wins show that Vince Young wasn't great because he was 1-1 against the Sooners. That's the kind of superb analysis I'd be willing to pay for.

a) not what I was trying to say, b) I'm going to chalk it up as 1-2 against the Sooners, as Young took more snaps and had more turnovers in 2003's game, playing as early as the third series. Chalking up the loss for Mock would be like chalking up the 2001 win to Hybl...inaccurate.

[Hammer755]

The real party at Royal Stadium will come in September when the Buckeyes break UT's win streak. :D

[Senator]

It is good to be #1.

[sooner333]

It is good to be #1.

absolutely. enjoy every minute of it, sometimes it is easy to take for granted...even for a program that has been down (35 years for you, the decade of the 90s for us). I'm glad you are enjoying it rather than worry about VY like many texas fans.

[cartman]

The Sooner nation's envy knows no bounds. Why else would they be showing up in a clearly labeled "Texas fans" thread and start posting about a mythical future party? Gotta feel sorry for these attention whores. They just can't stand the thought of Texas winning a championship, so they try to steal the limelight back with pathetic attempts like these. Example #1: sooner333's signature.

[st.cronin]

Go Patriots!

[Senator]

absolutely. enjoy every minute of it, sometimes it is easy to take for granted...even for a program that has been down (35 years for you, the decade of the 90s for us). I'm glad you are enjoying it rather than worry about VY like many texas fans.


Well, as you age you see the players come and go. Someday there will be another QB that people talk about.

[Huckleberry]

Nothing personal, sooner333, it just seemed so completely random to bring Major Applewhite into the discussion.

With that in mind, you should update that signature to:

National Championships since Chris Simms became the starter at QB for the University of Texas: Texas 1, Oklahoma 0

:D

[sooner333]

Applewhite is pretty random, I will admit, but I was simply stating a QB who had a better record than VY...James Brown would work here too...although Major did it against better OU teams (props to Applewhite for landing an OC job so young...who knew that the 2000 OU/UT battle would feature two coaches who would be at major positions in just six years time).

As for the sig, cartman wanted me to update it from my outdated quote on Mack Brown from the 2000 game...which I did. I guess I could arbitrarily pick any date, such as 2001 (Texas 1, OU 0), 1984 (OU 2, Texas 1), or integration of football teams (OU 4, UT 1), but I picked 1970. I guess to be accurate, I could have done since 1950 (the beginning of modern college football), and done OU 7, UT 3...but I didn't feel like it at the time.

As for being envious...the only thing I would be envious of is the crystal football...but not this season, beacuse we just didn't have the talent to do it this year. As for attention grabbing, smack has been talked a bunch over the years in this rivalry, so is anyone really surprised. The only times we've ever really been nice to eachother is after we blew eachother out. I didn't talk much trash after the 2000 game (wasn't at the 2003 game), and didn't get much back at me this season. Other than that, it's always been prevalent, and I wouldn't expect many to think otherwise. My message was basically enjoy the championship while it lasts...we're coming for next year.

[Vegas Vic]

National Championships since Chris Simms became the starter at QB for the University of Texas: Texas 1, Oklahoma 0

:D

As a Sooner fan, I've got nothing but fond memories of Chris Sims. Based on his performance last Saturday against the Redskins, I guess he must have had some horrid flashbacks of (the real) Roy Williams and Teddy Lehman. :D

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[cartman]

I stand by my attention whore statement. The last two posts prove my point.

[Cuckoo]

I stand by my attention whore statement. The last two posts prove my point.

Hmm... I wonder if cartman has ever posted in a thread marked OU or Oklahoma. I bet he has.

Come on cartman, settle down.

[cartman]

Hmm... I wonder if cartman has ever posted in a thread marked OU or Oklahoma. I bet he has.

Come on cartman, settle down.

Were my posts the majority of the posts in those threads? No. It's kinda sad, really.

[Cuckoo]

Were my posts the majority of the posts in those threads? No. It's kinda sad, really.

Yeah, it is sad. Because that would seem to speak more about the interest from Texas fans than anything else. ;)

[Huckleberry]

As a Sooner fan, I've got nothing but fond memories of Chris Sims. Based on his performance last Saturday against the Redskins, I guess he must have had some horrid flashbacks of (the real) Roy Williams and Teddy Lehman.
No, it was more like the Holiday Bowl his sophomore year. Hitting wide receivers with perfect passes in the end zone that they dropped. Back then it was freshmen. This time it was a rookie.