Keep your heads up

On the bright side, it took an absolutely almost perfect game for atm and about as low and putrid as Tech could play for them to win by only 22 points (with 7 of those with less than a minute left. I don’t hold that against them, though…remember last year?). I was at this atrocious thing some called a football game. These were the game killers:

-5 or 6 turnovers??
-85 yards of penalties in the first half??
-QB situation unsettled and very questionable.
-Defense overworked and could not stop the run at all. Gray, Michael, and Johnson ran at will for what seemed like about 7 yards a run while the receivers were left open time after time.

More specific plays I remember:
-Potts interception in end zone right before half that would have made score 28-21. Instead atm comes out after half and scores in 2 minutes to make it 35-14. Game over.
-Tech’s only interception getting called back for bonehead offsides call.
-Doege’s momentum killer while refs sort out (for about 5 minutes) and somehow overturn a reception that “hit the grass” (indisputable evidence? With about 3 cameras in the whole stadium? Quite questionable in my book).
-Momentum killing Jeffers fumble. Last chance to keep it close evaporated. This just stamped the overall notion that Tech could get nothing to go right in this game. For every good thing that happened, two bad things followed.

Just a couple more things…
-Did anyone else see Doege limping around after he ran that one close to the endzone? My first impulse was to think of those surgically repaired knees.
-If we can get half of these bad breaks to go our way against Kansas, we should have a chance. But the defense is going to find out a way to contain Reesing. He’s seen us once last year in the thrashing, so you can bet he’ll come prepared.

I agree totally. Get those TTU T-shirts on and support the team. Regardless of how the game went they work hard for TTU pride. We don’t want to sound like a bunch of whiners. Pat them on the back—that’s what they need right now. You think the team loves it.
Only thing frustrating is that Coach Leach (with his PR) always puts the blame squarely on team—I disagree. Both offensive and defensive coaches did not do their jobs for this week. Accept it, own it, coaches and EVERYBODY NOW GET BEHIND THE TEAM. IT’S THE BEST THING WE CAN DO FOR TTU NOW!!!

Hey I’m with PCraw. This was my first game this year and I have hear louder cheering at a 6-man football game. As a fan, I felt the students really never got into the game fully (minus when Deoge came in). At that point, I turned to my wife and said “This is how loud it should have been all night!”

With the new stadium seats, we really have to use it to our advantage! So, let’s get behind our team and get a little rowdy when the Jayhawks come to town next week!

that the attendance did not beat last year’s record crowd vs UT? Even with an additional 6000 seats?

I truly believe if Sheffield would have started this game would not have even be close. For some reason, apparently our defense needs a Quarterback to be worth anything and give their best effort. Unfortunate it has to be that way, but that is just how this team functions. Hopefully we can win out and get to 10 wins in anticipation for another HUGE year nexy year w/sticks making a run at the Heisman.

It’s funny because at the beginning of the year, I was expecting the 9 win season, but I would have paid $1,000 for one of those 3 to 4 losses NOT to be to the Aggies. Oh well, I’ll be there this weekend with a nephew who is busting his but in Band in High School so he can be in the ‘Goin Band, and a neice who really wants to go to Tech as well. Put it into perspective that my wife and I will be showing these teens the place we met and had the best 4 years of our lives, earned the degrees to put us in professional schools, to show them the place their grandparents met over 50 years ago. There’s more to our University than football, and I can’t wait to experience it once again this weekend through the eyes of a 14 and 15 year old.