Credit where it's due, I say, and I certainly do remember your denigrating the 'bone back when you were the Tribune picker. You were right then and you're right today. A&M embarrassed themselves on a variety of levels. Franny apparently never saw or heard of the destruction of OU's mighty wishbone in the mid-eighties. As he threw a poor-sister's version of it at a mediocre Miami team last night it alluded him that the guy at the helm, Randy Shannon, was part and parcel of the defenses that dismantled it back then. Embarrassing for the conference (not that the conference has much honor to defend these days) and for the state of Texas (sorry, but I'll exclude the 'great' in that comment), and, humerously, embarrassing for collies everywhere. Alabama fans are going to be wallowing in schadenfreude come December when Franchione is given his pink slip.

WSMITH: You sent me to the dictionary for "schadenfreude." Who says this blog isn't educational?

Nora...attagirl. So now you can educate me. What the heck was I talking about?

Sorry Gene.
I thought you went to New Podunk.

Looks like Vegas had the OSU Tech game pretty close. Hope has now been restored for this Poke fan, as long as we are playing at home. I will no longer dis Gundy. Orange Power!

WSMITH, you do know alot about TU. But nothing about the Carlson article. She had no facts and all speculation. Since her article, wrote in third person as Tony Lindseys knee she has been a joke!! I'm still not sure if Gundy is the right man to lead OSU, but I am behind him 100% on his actions at the press conference. And from the applause he got from the other reporters, they also must think Carlson is a joke.

Incredible buffoonery. I, too, read the article and I don't know how anyone can say it was contrived. Read any sports article you'd like...the great majority report facts the same way (i.e. it isn't necessary to quote every fact you report, never has been, never will be...it's unreasonable; nor is is always necessary - or ethical - to cite a quoted source). A great deal of what she reported was indeed third person but a good deal of it was also personal observation (she was there...were you?). Stop looking at the Aggies through your Elmer Fudd (Boone Pickens) colored glasses and be fair.

Stick to your pathetic Conference USA teams Smith