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Originally Posted by xowest
The game was not stolen. Yes, there was a bad call. However, Oklahoma could have won the game by not letting Oregon score and get in a position for an on-side kick, not letting Oregon score after the on-side kick or by simply making the field goal at the end of the game.
Stoops is lucky that the bad call has taken the focus off his coaching. It was totally unexplainable to run AP with no timeouts left and 17 seconds on the clock, when a short pass would have made the kick a gimme' or an incompletion would have stopped the clock.
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Yeah, I disagree with you,
1.) Stoops and the Offensive Coordinator made the right call. The clock starts when the ball is placed......so it was actually smarter to run the ball, try to gain some yards, and then spike it......rather than try to throw the ball, which eats up clock time, and risk having the ball dropped or intercepted. If the pass was dropped there would have only been enough time to kick a field goal.......from around 50 something yards rather than the 44 yarder they got after the run.
2.) The game was stolen. Plain and Simple. You can't blame a defense for losing a game after they made two very good defensive plays and were completely screwed. It seems you forgot about the blown pass interference call....that set up Oregon inside the 20 after the onside kick fiasco.
3.) It doesn't matter what happend before the onsides kick. Oregon scored, bid deal. OU was still up by 6 with, what?, a minute left? I mean, by this reasoning you could go ahead and say that none of the calls would have mattered if OU had held Oregon scoreless all day. C'mon you're smarter than that.