Tigers learned terrible lesson
Published: 12/2/2007 8:44 PM
Last Modified: 12/2/2007 8:44 PM
Too busy listening to the Oklahoma basketball game and the Fiesta Bowl teleconference -- hoops in left ear, Stoops in right -- to give you anything original of my own tonight. I think OU fans will be too glad to read from special guest star Neil Woelk of the Boulder Daily Camera instead:
"There are plenty of lessons to be learned from OU's thumping of Mizzou in Saturday night's Big 12 championship game. Among them: don't taunt OU coach Bob Stoops by proclaiming publicly that you should've beaten him the first time you played. It just ticks him off.
"Remember in 2002, when Colorado went to Oklahoma, committed three turnovers early and lost 27-11? After the game, then-CU coach Gary Barnett said the Buffs gave the game away, and said he couldn't wait for another chance to play the Sooners. Stoops just laughed and said he didn't know mulligans were allowed in football.
But the when the two teams met in the title game, Stoops left no doubt, burying the Buffs, 29-7.
"This year, it was a similar story. Mizzou lost to OU in the regular season, then spent the entire week prior to the title game saying they'd given the game away. Again, Stoops just laughed publicly -- then sent his team out to deliver a sound thumping to the Tigers, who will have no excuses about giving this one away. There is no doubt about who the better team is."
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
Sports Writer
