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Once Is An Accident, Twice Is Coincidence...

First, I'd like to preface my remarks by saying everybody likes a good conspiracy theory. With that in mind, here we go...

Lee Barfknecht wrote an interesting article in Saturday's Omaha World-Herald http://www.omaha.com/article/20091219/BIGRED/712199807.

Big 12 Commish Dan Beebe isn't saying whether or not the Pelini Brothers were disciplined because of their angry outbursts at the end of the Big 12 Title game (translation: they were).

We've all heard about Bo yelling "BCS!!! That's why they made that call!!!"And Carl yelling "You should be ashamed to accept that trophy!!!"

The last half of the article brings up a couple of other comments that cost two other coaches some money:

Mark Mangino fined $5,000 for saying "You know what this is all about, don't you? BCS. That's right. That's what made the difference on the call in front of their bench--dollar signs."

Mike Leach fined $10,000 for commenting about "atrociously bad calls" and "the sham" of instant replay.

The common thread? All three of these teams--Nebraska, KU, and Texas Tech lost controversial games to......TEXAS!!!

As the old saying goes, "Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy activity."

Comment however you want on this. Like I said, everybody likes a good conspiracy theory.

Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, call your office.

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by KWashburn on Dec 20, 2009 9:02 AM CST reply actions  

That's the way it has been since The Big 8 made their deal with the devil!

Those bastards down south have whiner and manipulated ever since we bailed their collective asses out of trouble. Simple Texas arrogance has been prevalent all along. I say let the S.O.B.’s loss as an independent, which some rumor mills have them doing! While were at it, let Mizzou go to the Big 11 too. Pretty good chance they will win some conference championships in that D-II conference!

by jon's only friend on Dec 20, 2009 1:29 PM CST reply actions  

I've held my tongue for the past 2 weeks,

but it’s time to rant. I’m sick of hearing about this UT conspiracy theory. Was there not one second left on the clock on Dec. 5th? YES. And we still had to make sure the best defensive lineman of the decade, possibly the best ever, didn’t throw our o-line aside like rag dolls and block Hunter Lawrence’s career long 46 yard field goal. I remember that game against Kansas in 2004. That pass interference call was ticky-tack at best, and if I was a ref I wouldn’t have called it. I remember it well, it kept our drive alive. I also remember Kansas having a lead that they couldn’t hold on to. I remember Kansas holding our offense for 3 downs on that last drive, forcing 4th and 19. I remember Vince Young scrambling to pick up those 19 yards, then throwing the game winning touchdown. That game DID NOT come down to one questionable call made by the officials. Also, the 2004 Kansas game was the 2nd to last game of the season and at that time it looked like Texas would not make a BCS bowl because Cal only had one loss and were ahead of us in the polls. Longhorns were quite shocked when we got the nod over Cal for the Rose Bowl. It seems strange that the officials would think, “We need to make this call so that Texas MIGHT keep driving down the field, win this game, beat A&M next week, then hopefully Cal or Utah will lose in the next two weeks, Texas can go to a BCS game as an at-large team, and we can all have a little bit bigger payday.” Lots of thinking to do on one call. I was at the ‘07 Tech game, and I personally do not remember any “atrocious” calls against either team. What I do remember is Leach’s hilarious, incoherent speech about pigs or bacon or something after the game, and seeing Michael Crabtree averaging about a zillion yards after each catch and thinking “This kid is going to be scary in Lubbock next year.” It would seem strange that the officials could influence a game so much that the final score is a 16 point difference, though. I felt like the officials in the UT-Tech game in ‘08 missed many, many offensive holding calls, but that didn’t cause Texas to lose by any means. Tech played better, and was a more complete team that night. Just like Texas played better than Nebraska two weeks ago. Not much better, but better. As far as Dan Beebe goes, yes it’s true. He’s the grand wizard in our master conspiracy to take over the universe. That is why we got screwed out of the Big XII game last year. That’s why he has refused to change the Big XII tie-breaker rule for the past year now, despite lobbying from the #2 in the chain of command Mack Brown (I thought Mack Brown always got his way, by the way). Dan Beebe also loves losing $4.5 million for his conference, which is what Hunter Lawrence and the Texas-loving officials cost the Big XII on Dec 5th by putting 1 second back on the clock and making the 46 yarder. Texas is 88-24 against Big 12 teams since 1996, including 8-1 against Nebraska. It seems to me Texas is just better year in and year out than most teams. After the Big 12 game, all Texas fans could do was heap praises upon the toughest opponent it had played in over a dozen games, while the opposing coach hurled insults at our players and coaches. We have to hear the conspiracy theories every year from red raiders and aggies. But you are Nebraska, don’t stoop to their level. You used to terrify everyone for the first 5 years of the Big XII, and you will again one day (probably soon). There is no conspiracy. All the $$$ in the world couldn’t make our o-line deny Suh from picking up our Heisman contender QB and nearly throwing him out of JerryWorld. I hope ya’ll kill Mike Stoops’ team in the Holiday Bowl.

by UTgrad'08 on Dec 20, 2009 5:45 PM CST reply actions  

Do I Detect A Thin Skin Here?

I wrote that post in the spirit of “run it up the flagpole, see who salutes it.” Looks like it’s mission accomplished, Husker fans. I feel like Jack Nicholson’s Joker in the first Batman movie: “Oh, I got a live one here…”

Something to ponder: Why would Lee Barfknecht bring up the Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas Tech incidents with Texas being the common denominator? Is it possible…quite possible, that Barfknecht’s “disciplinary action” angle is just a cover for the true direction he wanted to take his column? Lee’s probably a smart enough journalist to know that his readers are going to start connecting the dots and reading between the lines.

Like I said, everybody likes a good conspiracy theory.

UTgrad, you protest too much…

by Section 37 on Dec 20, 2009 6:46 PM CST up reply actions  

Texas

“That is why we got screwed out of the Big XII game last year.”
—You didn’t get screwed. The rules clearly state that if there is a three-way tie for first (I know, the fact that Texas Tech actually did tie for first with UT and OU kind of gets in the way of your ‘we-go-screwed’ theory). the team highest in the BCS standings. But make no mistake, if the rule could have been changed without anyone noticing, it would have been.

“We have to hear the conspiracy theories every year from red raiders and aggies.”
—Because they have had to put up with it year-in and year-out. Plus, they are right in your back yard. They have a birds eye view of the fact that you have to control whatever conference you’re in, whether it be the SWC or the Big 12.

“Was there not one second left on the clock on Dec. 5th? YES.”
—My problem with the situation was this: If the tables had been turned, and NU had thrown the ball out of bounds to stop the clock, and the clock ran out, would the officials have put one second back? NO. The Texas fans would have started a riot in the stands, Mack Brown would have been crying like a baby, and the officials would have been running for their lives (that is, just before they would have been fired by the Big 12).

by hskr4ever on Dec 20, 2009 7:17 PM CST up reply actions  

UT Grad?

and you apparently don’t know what a paragraph is? Figures.

by CPC on Dec 20, 2009 7:30 PM CST up reply actions  

wait a minute

the opposing coach didn’t hurl insults at your players and coaches.

That never happened. You can accuse us fans of something, but don’t go accusing our coaches of something like that.

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by Jon Johnston on Dec 20, 2009 8:06 PM CST up reply actions  

"I’m sick of hearing about this UT conspiracy theory."

Of course he’s sick of it because he knows it’s true.

by hskr4ever on Dec 20, 2009 10:14 PM CST up reply actions  

Nebraska

simply needs to get better. I am tired of Husker fans whining about this game, we lost. We didn’t get beat on a call or a grand conspiracy by Beebe and Mack Brown. We got beat because of our horrible, terrible, inept, and embarrassing offense. That offense, no matter who’s to blame, wasted a national championship caliber defense simple as that!! If they were even close to being poor we only lose one game, and BCS bound we’d be. If they were close average we are playing Alabama in Pasadena. So good luck in California Longhorns whip ole Saban and the Tide and take it to the SEC.

by Huzkerfan on Dec 20, 2009 8:57 PM CST reply actions  

Huzkerfan

If it were any other Big 12 team, I would agree with you. But not THEM.

by hskr4ever on Dec 20, 2009 9:12 PM CST reply actions  

Check

out this coincidence….the Big XII title game was played in Texas. The University of Texas is….wait for it……….IN TEXAS! Something tells me Beebe and Brown were hatching this plan with the Skull and Bones Society, the mafia, Osama bin Laden, Vince McMahon and Chase Daniel in the basement of CIA Headquarters in Langley VA.

I also heard that if you arbitrarily arrange words from Operation Bluebook, the Warren Commission Report the 9-11 Commission report will tell you that Texas would beat Nebraska on a last second field goal in the 2009 Big XII Title Game.

"Where do you put the bayonet?" (upon seeing a flamethrower fo the first time)

by 96operator on Dec 20, 2009 11:19 PM CST reply actions  

And they want to keep it in Texas.

Permanently. No, no it’s all fair though.

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by JLew on Dec 21, 2009 9:27 AM CST up reply actions  

Ha Ha Ha Ha! Ha Ha Ha Ha!

;)

Get off your knees Greg, you're blowin' the game.

by kriess on Dec 21, 2009 9:51 AM CST up reply actions  

I agree totally with the biased officiating

But to me the one second clock call was right in the rule books. Though the worst calls were all those bs pass interference calls and a total lack of holding calls against ut o line against some guy named suh

by huskermic on Dec 21, 2009 5:25 PM CST reply actions  

Doesn't change

the fact OUR OFFENSE IS HORRIBLE, worse than our defense was till the light came on towards the end of last season. Even with all the missed holding calls and ticky tack pass interferences, it doesn’t change the fact we needed to make first downs. Just one more first down at any point in that game time runs out on Colt McCoy and and Mack Brown no matter what the refs do. Instead of a grand total of 5 it would have been a grand total of 6 first downs for the game, not to much to ask I think. Texas has one of the better defenses, I will give them that, but we made them look like world beaters.

by Huzkerfan on Dec 21, 2009 7:25 PM CST up reply actions  

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