My initial thoughts.

Wow.  Ok, that hurt a bit.  I can tell you that just absolutely nothing worked today, and there is something we can learn from that.  I really don't think that this loss says much about us as a team.  I reject what Herbstreit said, that "this says something about Tech down in the trenches".  Here is a fact.  Sometimes you just hit a streak where absolutely nothing goes well or right for you.  I mean, these guys didn't even look like our Red Raiders.  They were stumbling around on the field, falling down, running into eachother.  I can tell you, back when I was an athelete, I had days like that.  Days when absolutely nothing could go wrong, when everything you touched turned to gold, where you could see the end before the beginning, when everything was easy and nobody could stop you.  And I have had days where it seemed like my shoes didn't fit, and like one leg was longer than the other, or like the ground was tilted.  I had practices on the basketball court where I could have shot free throws for 24 hours and I wouldn't have made 20%, and I was a 94% free throw shooter.  If you ever played any game at any level, you know those days.

Don't get me wrong.  We just played the best team in the nation in my opinion, and they smacked us right in the mouth.  They get all necessary kudos from me.  But I have to think that something was deeply wrong with the team tonight.  Some glitch in the matrix or some miss in the corealis effect or something.  I've known those days.  Anyways, if I were the coaches or the team, I wouldn't try to overthink this thing.  I wouldn't sink into a "Tin Cup" period of self reflection, wondering if we were hypernating when we should have been pronating, and buying a lot of self-help gadgets and psychology books.  I loved that Leach went for the Touchdown at the end, and then went for the onside kick.  Loved it.  It reminded me of Tin Cup hitting ball after ball into the lake.  Sometimes you have a bad day and you just have to be yourself and get through it.

I want to also say that I am very well pleased with the Tech fans, and I really hope to not see much of the crap we have seen from some other teams fans after a loss (or a sucky season)...

I don't want to read anyone pouting or bad-talking other teams we have played or will play; or pontificating that us losing the game was actually a good thing, because that leaves us room to improve... like aggie.

I don't want to read any crybaby excuses (like longhorn).  We didn't get beat by the refs, and this was not the result of being the fourth game in our "gauntlet".  We weren't tired, beat up, hormonal, or PMS'ing.  It wasn't the OU fans, and I am mostly sure the city of Norman didn't conspire to gas the bus.  I'm not saying that we shouldn't take whatever restaurant fed the team off the "approved" list, but I'm saying those aren't the reasons we lost.

I hope (and I know) that most Tech fans are glad to be where we are, we are happy to have such an excellent team, such an awesome coach, and we are pleased us punch for a beautiful season of incredible football.  I can't wait to see how it ends.

Y'all remember, wherever you go, and wherever you talk football, to give the great Oklahoma Sooners their props.  What a game, and what a performance.  I tip my cap to them, and congratulate them on a great win.

I look forward to the Baylor Game, and to see how things unwind.

What a year.

Peace

Tired of always having to have your team prove itself on an actual field?  Are you sick of little things like "losses" keeping you from automatically being given whatever you want?

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I want to also address some of the media spin about the Tech win...

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UT fans and writers are already preparing themselves for a loss to Tech.

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Texas is the best team in the country. No doubt. That’s why they’re #1. Sometimes #1 gets beaten.  They can have a bad day.  They can run into a team playing way over it's collective heads.  They can underestimate a team that has yet to be really tried. Tech has thrived on the lack of respect and the doubt this season. If Tech wins, they will have beaten the best team in the country, and a team that has proven they deserve to be in these types of games.  I want to see Tech get its props if that happens.

The upside for Tech is that before every game so far, everyone has dismissed them, bad talked their defense, and guaranteed that this was the game they would lose. After every game, the same people (and the Big 12 hating east coast media elite) have then trashed the team Tech just beat by saying “well, they just weren’t that good”. That is what some folks are now saying about Kansas. But they just won’t be able to say that about Texas…

Texas is as good as we think. Knowing that will help Tech. Texas and their fans dismissing Tech can only be in Tech’s favor.

Everything will have to go right for Tech to get a win.  But I think they can do it.  Listen, there are two main things that will contribute to a Tech victory in Lubbock:

1. If Texas trips up… at all. They need to play nearly a perfect game, which means they need to score on virtually every drive without a turnover. If I were uT's coaches, I would assume Tech is going to do so, even if they may not.

2. If Texas players come into the game with an attitude of dismissing a very good Tech team... the same attitude evident in some of the teams we have played this year, and the same attitude now evident on the Texas blog.

I warned the overconfident KU fans not to do what many of your fans here are doing. Mack Brown himself said that many Texas fans were “stupid” because they had the luxury of not watching film of OSU. I suggest some of you watch the film of the Kansas game.

Granted, KU is not Texas. Texas gets all the respect from us it is due.

Coach Mack Brown had this to say about some Texas fans:

"You all are fools," Brown said. "Absolute fools."

Brown said he even heard some people talking during the week about a burnt orange blowout (against OSU).

"It's really an advantage when you don't watch film," he said. "Because then you can be stupid."

I predict a Tech win, because I don’t believe Texas players or their fans have any idea what to expect in Lubbock. If Texas comes in with the right idea and mindset, they will win. I don’t think they will.

Peace