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Originally Posted by docetboy
I don't want to talk about yesterday's Big 12 CCG. Oklahoma showed up, our offense didn't. That simple, unfortunately.
On the other hand, we now have a nice date in Dallas on January 1st. We just don't know with who yet. I'm personally hoping Tennessee, though Auburn or Arkansas is more likely.
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Your team has a lot to be proud of. Callahan, I think is still learning how to be a college coach all over again. His post game comments (unlike the infamous 'effin hillbillies' retort in '03) were pretty classy. That is all subject to change if he whines about officiating or anything of that nature, but so far -- huge improvement.
Your front 4 on the defense were incredible, Blake couldn't cut it at head coach, but he's clearly an excellent position coach. I understand that they're all gone next year? Your LBs were great at bottling up Oklahoma's run. I think the injury to #71, Trent Williams contributed to that though.
Your defensive weakness is in your secondary. The corners are generally small and they have a really bad habit of getting beat. Grixby was having a real problem with Kelly. He was clearly just out-talented back there. I have no idea why NU's defensive staff didn't try someone else on Kelly.
I'm not sure if it was NU's offensive line being terrible or Oklahoma's pass rush that was great -- perhaps a combination of the two that had Zac so rattled all night. NU's offense relies a lot on good protection and timing. Oklahoma clearly took that away from them with its dominating pass rush. That was probably, more than anything else what decided the game. Zac was hurried into throwing a lot of bad passes resulting in turnovers. If NU's defense wasn't so stout, this game would have been a rout.