Sunday, January 31, 2010

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Don't eff w/us...

Last Saturday we were at basketball with The Playmaker. Our record was 2-0 on the season, but more importantly, the kids had been having fun. Everyone has improved since last season (most of the kids played for us last year) and we continue to (as Larry Brown says) play the right way. Each possession someone new gets to bring the ball up the court. We look to pass to the open man. We all play tight D. And everyone goes hard to the boards. Most importantly, everyone has a good time.

And so it was that we were having the usual chat with the opposing coach. (Hello, hello. What time do you want to start the game?) Only this convo had a twist. The coach lowered his voice and pulled out a clipboard. "I just want to show you something." He pulls out his roster and points to five kids. "Great player. Great player. Good player. Great player. Good player." Upon hearing us say NOTHING, he continues. "I'm just telling you, I've got a great team. I don't know why, but they gave me way too much talent. I just want you to know that."

Our response? "That's fine. No worries." And then we walked away.

As the boys were getting ready for the game, we went and huddled with Our Cru. It consists of three dads we're tight with, as well as our assistant coach -- who happens to be our dad. (Kind of a Lane and Monte Kiffin thing.) The responses ranged from who cares? to what a prick!

We split the kids into two groups (making sure to separate the talent, especially our two Big Guns). They scored the first time down the court. It was their only lead of the entire game.

As things began to get out of hand, the coach tried something unheard of in the 1st/2nd grade league: He actually tried to draw up a play. Coming out of a break, his point guard yelled, "Play 1!" That resulted in him dribbling while his four teammates stood around in a state of confusion. When he tried to pass the ball, The Playmaker picked it and ran down the court for a layup. After that, no more plays were run. Classic.

We ran by, around, past and through them. When it was all said and done, the score was Bucks 50 Clippers 26. The Playmaker had 14 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists. For the first time ever, he was not our leading scorer. His friend Alex actually had 18 points.

Not surprisingly, the other coach had nothing to say after the game.



Friday, January 29, 2010

Friday thoughts...

Win some, lose some, as Oklahoma lost out on the second ranked player in the country (Jackson Jeffcoat) today but gained a top 30 player (and top 5 LB) in Corey Nelson ... Classic story on Johnny Trigg packing a gun in his boot ... We will never forget when Our Guy Brent said this about a highly touted freshman baller: "He's an Olympic marksman who's learning how to hunt" ... If you want pizza, you want Mack & Manco ... We have yet to meet anyone who says they will be getting the new iPad ... This week, The Guru has us using a fluoride rinse every night ... Yes, we realize we never posted last Saturday's hoop roundup -- we will try for tomorrow morning ... Does anyone else remember LaBradford Smith throwing down for Bay City, Texas?!? ... Happy Friday!


Thursday, January 28, 2010

Today's burst of snow...






Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Three & Out...

1. We saw the new Apple Tablet today! Our first impression is that for $499 most people won't want to deal with the awkward size -- roughly 8x11. For five bills you can get a stripped down laptop or a zooped up netbook. Now there will be some people who will buy it because they will buy anything that has an Apple logo. But for those who speculated the tablet would be as popular as the iPhone -- sorry, we just don't see it.

2. No one cares about the Pro Bowl! No one cares and no one wants to play. What if they went with the NBA's idea of a rookies vs. sophomores game?!?

3. Quality television shows abound! We will get into specifics in a later entry, but our DVR is maxing out with a ton of shows that we watch every week. We are hardcore fans of at least seven different shows right now.





Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Men by numbers...

1  Eric Mitchell, 1985

2  David Akers, 2007

3  Keith Williams, 1986

4  Jamelle Holieway, 1985

5  Glyn Milburn, 1990

6  Dr. J, 1977

7  Bert Jones, 1978

8  Juan Samuel, 1984

9  Lonnie Finch, 1986

10 Larry Bowa, 1977

11 Caldwell Jones, 1982

12 Mike Boryla, 1975

13 Wilt, 1967

14 Peter Edward Rose, 1980

15 Chris Abner, 1980

Monday, January 25, 2010

Best we can do...


Sunday, January 24, 2010

Buddy Ryan


Saturday, January 23, 2010

Saturday night...

Wow. What a day of basketball. Too physically and mentally wiped to upload. (Can you say Urban Meyer Burnout?!?) Anyway, check back tomorrow for the dope. In the meantime, enjoy this flashback.




Friday, January 22, 2010

Friday Thoughts...

Rex Ryan may actually be a better head coach than father Buddy, but he's not nearly as entertaining as the old man was ... Mark McGwire should just go away ... Caught part of Bright Lights, Big City today and had totally forgotten that Jack Bauer used to be Tad Allagash ... Classic McInerney line: Tad is always on his way but seldom arrives ... We'll say it again: If John Wall is the top NBA prospect, then the 2010 draft is going to be awful ... DVR'd the season premiere of Being Erica and it was a great opening ... If Jerry Jones was our father, we'd be A) Loaded and B) Absolutely horrified and embarrassed ... We are still pissed at how the Brent Suicide Pool ended ... That audio tape of Bobby Knight's tirade in practice 20 years ago is perhaps the single greatest clip of its kind ... One day we want to go home to West Virginia ... Lastly, The Guru says more fish -- so we are set to grill some salmon and swordfish tonight ... Happy Friday!


Thursday, January 21, 2010

Wi-Fi by the fire, 1.0

1. If you don't like watching ESPN's Pardon the Interruption, you are a communist or a loser. (Or simply not a sports fan.)

2. The Guru says to drink green tea. So that's what we are drinking while typing this.

3. We really miss college football. A lot.

4. Buster Blanton is worth 8 mill a year?!? Wow.

5. Oh, don't worry. We are still working on the dinner list of five. It's just not easy.

6. Playmaker Update: The Bucks won last Saturday, 38-16. The Playmaker led the way (again) with the following stat line: 12 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 rejections.

7. We remember Tony Kimbro. (Push yourself, Tony, push yourself!) Do you?!?


Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Scott Brown! (And what he means!)

1. Osama's Obama's reign will end in 2012!

2. Mitt Romney can now start making plans to move into the White House!

3. We won't have to give up our hard earned money to support lazy peeps looking for handouts!


Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Monday, January 18, 2010

Season over...

The Saints won and the Chargers lost. And so our Brent Suicide Pool came to an end. Goodbye potential $400 and hello second guessing.

Our thinking was the Chargers would win. Next week we were going to take the Colts over them. And then we were going to pray that the Vikings ended up in the Super Bowl. Those were are our only teams left. Well, we could have played the Jets over the Chargers -- but that never entered our mind.

Ugh.



Sunday, January 17, 2010

Ha Ha...

Very funny, indeed. But have they no grammatical clue?!? The guy's adulterer's name is Woods, not Wood. Hello?!?



Saturday, January 16, 2010

Her turn to shine...

We are no stranger to posting the athletic exploits of The Playmaker. But today we want to sing the athletic praises of The Playmaker's Sister. On her 11th birthday, she recorded a career high 8 points in her basketball game this morning. She exploded for 6 of those points in the second quarter. One was a driving layup in which she got hacked but still managed to convert. (She missed the free throw attempt.)

So, Happy Birthday and congrats on the best game of your young career.

***(Don't worry. There will be a Playmaker Update tomorrow.)

UPDATE: We forgot to add that The Playmaker's Sister is having six friends sleep-over tonight to eat pizza and watch DVDs. Ugh! Just kidding. Maybe not...




Friday, January 15, 2010

RCM 2 the rescue!

After trying unsuccessfully on our own for over two weeks to get the home office wired for WiFi, we called in The Big Gun.

RCM, in the area for a short time, came over this afternoon. Nearly three hours later, all of the numerous issues were resolved and we are now wireless.

So a big Shout Out to him for his time and effort!


Thursday, January 14, 2010

Best we can do...

The Messiah

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Wow...

No one saw this coming. Looking back, someone should have connected the dots. Southern Cal loses cool Coach Pete. Who the hell could ever fill that guy's shoes?!?

Lane Kiffin, of course.

Kiffin does things differently than everyone else. He's a new breed of college coach. He Twitters. He Facebooks. His wife is gorgeous. His motto is, If you ain't almost cheating, then you ain't working hard enough.

Why send an old man to recruit a high school stud when you can send two smoking hot college girls?!?

Kiffin is the perfect guy to replace Coach Pete.

So it's good bye Tennessee and hello Southern Cal. So long, Southern Belles and BBQ. Hello, Crips and Bloods.

He is already getting face-kicked all over the place by the media. Some have questioned his actual coaching credentials (5-15 with the Oakland Raiders and 7-7 at Tennessee). Everyone is calling him a whore because he was in Knoxville barely a year.

But ask yourself this: Where would you rather coach? In the SEC with the likes of Florida and Alabama, as well as about 20 other schools with top notch facilities? Or USC, where you turn down more 4 star recruits than most teams actually sign? Who scares you in the Pac 10? Oregon? Some years, yes. Beyond that? With all due respect to the Arizonas and Stanfords of the world -- there's not much to keep you awake at night.

Unless the NCAA Feds swoop into town and actually kick the sheeeet out of the program, Kiffin will keep Coach Pete's dynasty up and running with no problems at all. He's got Dad to run the D. (And Pops will be the smartest guy in the Pac 10). He's bringing Ed Orgeron, widely hailed as the top recruiter in the land, along with him. And there are even rumors that he is hoping to get Norm Chow back back from UCLA.

If that happens -- anyone not named Florida, Alabama and Texas is screwed. Dad will coach the D. Chow will murder foes with his X's & O's.

And what will Lane Kiffin do? He'll take his cool and hip self, along with his trophy wife Layla, and he will recruit like a MOFO.

Southern Cal won't even miss a beat.


Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Monday, January 11, 2010

Joe & Joe both blow...

We never liked Joe Theismann as an announcer. He always talked way too much. And when he did, he did so with a tone of I am so much smarter than you or anyone else.

We barely remember Joe Gibbs doing some studio work in the '80s. His voice was terrible and he spoke in a monotone voice. We think he once fell asleep while talking. If not, we know we sure did.

So it was on Saturday that NBC came up with the brilliant idea to pair the two together for the Browns - Jets game. It was, perhaps, the worst announcing team (they were teamed with Golden Domer Tom Hammond) in recent memory. The only time Theismann shut his mouth was to try to get his old coach to say something, anything.

With under five minutes in the game, the Bengals had the ball and trailed the Jets, 24-14.

Theismann: "Coach, is this four down territory?"

Now, what Gibbs should have said was: "You frigging idiot! Of course it's four down territory! You are down by 10 points in the playoffs with less than five minutes in the game. Are you effing stupid?!?

Instead, Gibbs said: "Yes, this is four down territory."

Wow. Such riveting commentary.



Sunday, January 10, 2010

Hmm...

College football is officially over for the next seven months.


The Eagles got whipped by the Cowboys last night and are out of the playoffs.

Today, the Patriots played even worse than the Eagles (how is that even possible?!?) and got beach-slapped by the Ravens to exit the playoffs with barely a whimper.

As Robert Redford said at the end of The Candidate, "So, what do we do now?!?"


Saturday, January 9, 2010

And so it begins...

The Bucks opened their official season today with a 24-20 victory. The Playmaker led the way with 12 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks. He hit his first five shots of the game and shot 6-10 overall. The Bucks sprinted out to a 14 - 4 lead before getting selfish on O and lazy on D -- which led to a stern 90 second tongue lashing on the sidelines from the Head Ball Coach. Order was restored and the kids got the W.



Friday, January 8, 2010

It's all about the coaching...

Too tired to comment completely on last night's less than stellar championship game. It was poorly played and poorly coached. And if we're a Texas fan, we'd probably have closed the garage, turned on the car and gassed ourselves this morning. (We were concerned that Herbie might do that after the game. The game in which he spent nearly four hours talking about Texas and cheering them on. He's the smartest man covering college football, but we lost a lot of respect for him last night as he was so biased for the Longhorns it was disgusting.)

So as we wait for Coach Pete to leave Southern Cal (just ahead of the feds, no doubt), we will leave you with something perhaps he and only few others can relate to. On the eve of The Playmaker's first basketball game of the season, we feel it is appropriate to release our fall coaching record for football and soccer.

19-1-1. Seriously. 19-1-1.

Of course, it's not our style to brag.

Happy Friday Night.



Thursday, January 7, 2010

Dolt McCant...

Alabama 21 - Texas 14 Originally, in our two pools, we went with the Crimson Tide, 24-17. Upon further inspection, however, we don't think it will be that high scoring. So we have scaled back our point total just a bit. Alabama has Heisman winner Mark Ingram by land and future Pro Bowler Julio Franco Jones by air. Plus, they have a simply kick-ass D. Texas has but the passing combo of Colt "I have zero Heismans" McCoy and his "special friend" Jordan Shipley. Alabama will counter that with Nick Saban's brains, along with BFF Bob Stoops, who spent several days in Tuscaloosa showing the Tide how to give Texas a beat-down. All that, plus the fact that the Longhorns struggled against good defenses in Oklahoma and Nebraska, will spell National Title for Alabama.

Roll Tide!



Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Brent NFL Suicide Pool...

For the past six weeks we have been one of two players left in the $400 pool. Ironically, both of us guessed wrong on the Broncos in weeks 15 and 17. So after 17 weeks we head into the playoffs waiting for one of us to blink first. You can only pick a team twice, so of the 12 playoff teams, the Patriots, Saints and Ravens are officially off the board for us. On the other hand, the Cardinals, Eagles, Jets and Bengals can still be picked twice. (As if any of them would ever win twice during the tournament.) That leaves the Packers, Cowboys, Colts, Vikings and Chargers as teams we can pick once in the playoffs. At this point, it's very tempting to take the Bengals over the Jets, save the Cowboys possibly for later and not even mess around with the Cardinals, Eagles or Packers this weekend. Still, picking the Bengals in a playoff game is downright dicey. So that leaves us leaning towards taking the Cowboys (for our final time) over the Eagles.


Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Hmm...

Frigging awesome...




If you don't like this, you are a communist.





Monday, January 4, 2010

1843

Dickens: "Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker's-book, went home to bed...He decided he would honour Christmas in his heart, and try to keep it all the year."

Simple Equation...

Buddy Ryan > Andy Reid

Sunday, January 3, 2010

It's been snowing for THREE days...

The year ended with snow. And the New Year started with snow. Snow that has lasted for three days. Surely that is a sign that twenty-ten will be a great year for all.

The snow started New Year's Eve.

And continued through today, January 3.


Which meant, of course, a continuous fire for 72 hours.

This morning.



Saturday, January 2, 2010

Andrew 22, version 5.0* (*First one of these in over a year)

This is the fifth edition of the column, which is a blatant rip-off of (1) Pat Forde's "40 Yard Dash" column that he pens during the college football season. (He also does a college basketball one, but it is his pigskin one that coaches, players and fans anxiously wait for each week.) Of course, our version comes with a twist. Instead of 40 things pertaining to college football (Forde's runs the gamut from coaches and players to cheerleaders and college bars), ours is 22 things pertaining to...well, whatever is on our mind at the time. As for the name of the column? It honors (2) Andrew Toney, the single greatest under-6'4"-offensive-threat in history of the NBA.

In the olden days we’d get up on New Year’s Day and watch all the bowl games, starting with the Cotton Bowl at 11 and ending with the Sugar and Orange Bowls simultaneously at 8. In between there was the Fiesta Bowl and, of course, the Rose Bowl. It was always a beautiful day of games. Around 2 PM we would start eating the homemade cold cut platter, along with gargantuan calzones from the local market.

Some 25 years later, the New Year’s Day bowl format has been turned upside down on its head. And the cold cuts and calzones have long since been replaced. Yesterday, it was (3) Chinese Food. We watched parts or all of the five game schedule yesterday. We can’t remember a more entertaining New Year’s Day worth of games. Here’s our take: (And if you don’t want to read it, we promise not to have (4) Our Dad call and use his power and influence to try to get you to. On the other hand, we also promise not to (5) lock you in a dark closet.

We actually want to start with one game from New Year’s Eve. It had been four years since Oklahoma last won a bowl game. So long, in fact, that Sooner Bad Boy/Attempted Program Wrecker (6) Rhett Bomar was the starting QB. And so it was that we had little hope of the Sooners reversing their downward trend this bowl season. They were awful away from home this season and beyond the injuries to 2010 first round draft picks Sam Bradford and Jermaine Gresham, they were forced to start a third string guard and a fourth string center. Factor in Stanford coach (7) Jim Harbaugh’s penchant for beating Big Programs and irritating Big Name Coaches (hello, (8) Pete Carroll) and we picked against the Sooners in both of our Illegal Brent Bowl Pools. We were happily wrong (though we actually won the game in one of the pools, as The Cardinal covered the +9 spread while losing, 31-27). Even better, the game gave us Great Hope for the 2010 season. Freshman QB Landry Jones was 30-51-418 and 3 TDs. (Interesting side note: JUCO QB Cameron Newton is a former 5 star recruit who “left” Florida not because of Tim Tebow, but because he got caught “borrowing” someone’s laptop without asking. Anyway, after a year in the Tri Valley League minor leagues, he is ready to sign with one of the 50 schools offering him a full ride. As Landry Jones was brutally inconsistent this season, OU moved to the top of his list along with Auburn, which had two great things to offer: a job vacated by senior QB Chris Todd and an offense created by offensive coordinator (9) Gus Malzahn, who definitely gets one of our Five Dinner Invites. But when Jones tore Stanford to shreds, Newton committed to Auburn that very night.) In addition to Jones, two other freshman came up LARGE. Redshirt rookie DeJuan Miller (hailing from, of all places, New Jersey) had his best game of the year with 6 catches for 84 yards. And true frosh Ronnell Brewer had a monster game at defensive end. Factor in a recruiting class currently ranked number one by Rivals.com and Oklahoma should be back on top next fall.

Onto January 1, 2010 bowl games. (10) The Outback Bowl was probably the most entertaining game of the season. Certainly the fourth quarter was the best quarter all season. Auburn had a 14 point lead with under five minutes to play before Northwestern tied it on an Auburn fumble, a stupid Auburn penalty, a missed Northwestern extra point, a two point conversion, a missed Wildcat field goal and another missed Wildcat field goal that was saved when Auburn, gulp, ran into the kicker. Unfortunately, the kicker, (11) Stefan Demos, was injured on the play. Later in overtime when Northwestern needed an extra point to tie, coach Pat Fitzgerald opted for a fake. Alas, holder Zeke Markshausen was tackled at the 2-yard line. What a game. Oh, yeah – Wildcat QB Mike Kafka attempted 78 passes. Repeat…78 passes.

Following that, we zipped out for the Chinese food and left The Playmaker home to monitor the games with his grandfather. When we returned home with the grub, they were watching West Virginia sprint out to an early lead over Florida State. Having picked FSU in both pools, we were not the least bit worried. There were two (12) Stone Cold Locks yesterday. The Seminoles weren’t losing Bobby Bowden’s last game (not with close to 300 former players on the sidelines or in the stands), nor was Tim Tebow going out a loser. Two random items: Watching Bowden throw down the burning spear before the game (a site that caused pandemonium among his players) was spine chilling. And CBS sideline reporter (13) Tracy Wolfson is downright yummy looking – a fact that no one else seems to recognize.
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While that was going on, we frequently checked on the Penn State-LSU game. The Capital One Bowl Game in Orlando was played on a field that was an absolute disgrace. (A fact that several national media pundits pointed out. In a huge coincidence, no doubt, the good folks in Orlando announced they were replacing the sod this week and that never again would such field conditions exist.) The other thing is (14) Our Guy Lester. It has not been a good season for Coach Miles down in Baton Rouge. His Tigers suffered four losses. Equally damning were the numerous times Miles was downright clueless with clock management in crucial spots. Beyond that, Lester looked literally disinterested for long periods of time during the fall. His defense looked un-Tiger-esque. And his quarterback, Jordan Jefferson, after starting for two years, is still no good. All of which spells more of the same next fall. LSU Nation will not take kindly to another four loss season. You read it here first: After next season we think Rich Rod gets booted from The Big House and that Lester leaves LSU for Ann Arbor.

The Rose Bowl is often a snooze fest, as the Big Ten entry annually gets abused by the more athletic Pac 10 team. Except that (15) Coach Pete’s SC Trojans decided to take the season off and were replaced by...wait for it...the Oregon Ducks. Ohio State and Oregon in the Grand Daddy of ‘Em All?!? ZZZ. But it actually turned out to be a good game (26-17, Buckeyes). Even more shocking was the fact that (16) Terrelle Pryor was frigging awesome. That statement has never been uttered in this space and we didn’t think it ever would. Instead, we have reveled in pointing out how Pryor is the most overrated recruit in the past 10 20 years. But for yesterday, at least, he was nasty. And it wasn’t even his running (though he did tote the rock for 72 yards) that did it. It was his passing. Terrelle Pryor throwing and completing long passes?!? Hell, Terrelle Pryor completing any passes?!? Who knew?!? Seriously. Who frigging knew?!? Yet there he was, completing 23 of 37 passes for 266 yards and 2 TDs. (Did (17) The Sweater Vest even let him throw 37 times all season?!?) The downside, of course, is the fact that Pryor will now be on top of everyone’s Heisman list for the next 8 months. Yes, people, his Rose Bowl performance, combined with the fact that Tebow can no longer play college football (much as he would like to), make Terrelle Pryor The New Face of College Football.

That led us to the final game of the glorious day. The Gators and the Bearcats in the Sugar Bowl. Actually, Fox announcer (18) Brian Billick would like you to refer to them as the University of Florida and the University of Cincinnati. And how do we know this? Because for the first two hours of the game, whenever Billick mentioned either team, he always added the prefix UNIVERISTY. It was irritating enough to make us want to shotgun mass quantities of bottled fluid intoxicants at rapid speeds. Then we remembered that the game was on Fox and that, well, Fox has no idea what it’s doing with college football because, duh, it doesn’t broadcast games during the season. Which gets it into uncomfortable situations like last night when Billick was broadcasting his first college football game ever. Ever! However, someone clearly got into his ear and said, “STOP effing using the word UNIVERSITY! Just do what EVERYONE else does: Call ‘em Florida and Cincinnati!” Once that happened, Billick was actually pretty good. He was at his best when talking about various players’ chances in the NFL. With one Super Bowl ring on his finger, he knows what he is talking about. (He’s skeptical on Tebow as an NFL QB, but likes teammate (19) Riley Cooper as a wide out.) As for the game itself, it was a dud. The University, errrrrrrrrrr, Cincinnati was clearly outclassed by the Gators. Still, they gave a spirited battle and made it a “respectable” 51-24. (If a 27 point loss can even be respectable.) There were two HUGE developments. 1. Tebow turned in a performance every bit above and beyond his norm as Pryor did. He completed his first 12 throws of the night. By the time he was pulled in the fourth quarter, he was 31-35 for a whopping 482 yards. For the greatest college player of all time, it was his finest game. 2. Other than that, the only real thing people cared about was whether (20) Urban Meyer would ever return from his “leave of absence” and get back on the Gator sideline. One high school recruit said Meyer told him he would “definitely” be coaching when the 2010 season starts in the fall. However, many media people are on record as saying he will never coach again. So it was that we stared a hole into the HD TV looking for the slightest sign from Meyer. For nearly the entire game the normally electric coach was placid, if not downright somber. At one point we wrote the following on our legal pad: “Meyer = subdued. Will not coach next season.” ***True story: Less than one minute later, Cincy scored to it 51-24 with 3:43 left in the game. Logic dictated that interim Bearcat coach (21) Jeff Quinn (the guy sporting the same gold chain around his neck that Jimmy Connors wore in 1980) would try an on-side kick. Suddenly the Gators called timeout and Meyer frantically called over his kick return team and screamed at them to defend the onside kick. Because a 27 point lead with under 4 minutes to play is never a sure thing! It was at that moment we knew for sure that Urban Meyer would be coaching next season. A fact that he confirmed 15 minutes later during the post game celebration to fish-out-of-water-sideline guy-Chris Myers. (By the way, Cincinnati didn't even bother trying the onside kick.)

A few minutes later it was almost 12:45 AM. After nearly 14 consecutive hours of watching college football, we went to bed.

(22) Happy New Year.




Friday, January 1, 2010

New Year's Resolutions...

This is basically the same set we've used for at least the last two years. Not sure what that says about us, but here they are...

1. Be a better father, husband, coach and teacher.
2. Keep the home office clean and organized.
3. Get the weight below the Mendoza Line of 200 and keep it there.


OU finally wins a bowl game...