ONE LAST DELIVERY

Hopefully Fitzgerald stays in freezing-ass Evanston for as long as he would like via a pattern of nine and 10 win seasons, but I’m gonna have to reserve my judgment on a man who takes his coaching “values” from Gary Barnett, as so explained during the telecast.

Guess there weren’t any strippers in Evanston that Gary felt his recruits could party down with.

One of the Oklahoma D’s claim to fame to was the Mizzou game.

Thus puts it all into perspective, doesn’t it?

Nice rear entry wrap around bear hug from Daniel to that assistant coach. He and Bill Stewart would make a nice couple.

Fitzgerald is a good coach and the Cats had a good season, but the Mizzou loss is really an epic fail, not only for blowing the lead, but for all the penalties down the stretch and allowing Mizzou to catch its own punt late in the 4th quarter. This loss and the Indiana loss never should have happened. The Cats should be 11-2.

If you think closing on a Manor in the 404 today is bad, imagine if you had done it 2 years ago.

The new 3 most important things in real estate=Location, location and timing…

Ack!

Wrong thread.

@bob dobbes

I didn’t realize there were many people claiming fame of any kind for the OU D. But if they were going to, I think Mizzou would be a minor player in the argument, which would more likely hinge on the Tech game.

That was the worst I’ve seen Mizzou play in a long long time. It’s common knowledge around the Big 12 that Daniel rattles easily, but the rest of the team (besides Maclin) seemed intent on shooting themselves in the foot, hand, ass, and any other crucial joint or ligament that could help them win a football game. Kudos to Northwestern for playing to win. They look like they’re on the way up. Mizzou looked like they knew their brief moment in the Big 12 sun was coming to an end.

@ D-Nice

Yes, the Indiana game was brutal, but have you looked at the Wildcats’ injury report for this year? Vandy, Rice or Stanford would have been hard-pressed to win two or three games given the same adversity. (I no longer include Duke as a peer program, since they have essentially gone the Coach K route and scrapped admission standards for their football players.) No post-WWII NU team—not under Parseghian, not under Agase, not under Barnett, and not under Walker—has ever overcome injuries like this.

You have to remember that a college coach is not pro coach. Yes, some of Fitz’s in-game decision-making has been bad. But a college coach is a game coach, general manager and (at Vandy, Rice, Stanford or NU) an academic advisor all rolled into one. Fitz is doing a good job. To call this game an “epic fail” or say the ‘Cats should have won 11 games is petty in the extreme.

Now that I have criticized pettiness, allow me to engage in some hypocrisy: Where the f_ck were the holding penalties against Mizzou? Sour grapes on my part, but ACC, SEC, and Big XII (read “SWC”) crews always protect teams from the other Confederate conferences in bowl games. Replace that ACC crew with one from the Big East, and Northwestern wins this game by 7 or 10 points.

@ westbrooke

FWIW, Mike Hankwitz is probably the best defensive coordinator in college football. Bielema was extremely, extremely foolish to let him go.