Thursday night went to the movie, Pawn Sacrifice, about chess master Bobby Fisher, as you know a single minded genius, the intrigue around him, and things playing on his mind and others Heavy. And I was reminded of our chess master in some ways. Constant prep. Distractions. Minimal resources at times....
Sat morning got up, turned on the computer and the always present Solitaire game come up....I'm at 254 daily solutions straight. Couldn't and haven't solved that one. Bad vibes.
Listened to the KU game on the way to our game. Early on I'd thought that they would have nothing left when we get to them. Friends at the our game laughed when Isay that they are improving and we might have nothing left....I'm worried.
Standing in line on the west side just before going down to the seats: A very tall 50 something guy not in purple chatting with someone beside him. From the gist of the conversation I'm guessing that he is one of the OU guys that preps film of opponents. Just there as a fan. He commented that they had worked hard all week on the film and thought they had pin pointed most of our weaknesses. Back to the movie. Fisher and his 2nd, a priest in the movie, kept prepping right up to the matches. But Fisher won the final big math set by doing a Snyder and coming up with new approaches that the others weren't ready for....think Kody at OSU. I really was starting to doubt.
Five or six plays and all doubt was gone. It is obvious that in our bend, don't break defense that all you have to do is have one 11 yard play every 3 plays and you score. We would have 5 guys standing there to make sure they didn't make 12. No risk taking at all. Maybe we don't have the horses to take risks.
And then the field goal attempt: I doubt HCBS was thinking to score just to keep our long scoring record alive. It was already pretty obvious that we might be able to trade TDs and stay in the game, but not trade a rook for a pawn. You have to be aggressive.
Poor Kody: Thrown in in desperation. Almost a sacrifice. Team down. Minimal prep and warm up. OU had seen the film and knew the drill. Almost expected result.
I stayed until the end in spite of my spouse wanting to leave. 57 years of KSU FB and I 'know' that no matter what, some play will happen to add some brightness. Didn't.
So the crowd left. It's been worse. I remember way back in an icy rain sitttng in my duck hunting suit on about the 15th row moving sideways along the seats, always sitting on the line of scrimmage while other fans sitting in their cars would honk their horns when Dev would report of our guys doing something good. I was the only guy on that row. Occasionally the report was better than the play.
Sorry about the rant again. We'll get to a bowl. I'm afraid of KU. See you in a few weeks. Be there.
Sat morning got up, turned on the computer and the always present Solitaire game come up....I'm at 254 daily solutions straight. Couldn't and haven't solved that one. Bad vibes.
Listened to the KU game on the way to our game. Early on I'd thought that they would have nothing left when we get to them. Friends at the our game laughed when Isay that they are improving and we might have nothing left....I'm worried.
Standing in line on the west side just before going down to the seats: A very tall 50 something guy not in purple chatting with someone beside him. From the gist of the conversation I'm guessing that he is one of the OU guys that preps film of opponents. Just there as a fan. He commented that they had worked hard all week on the film and thought they had pin pointed most of our weaknesses. Back to the movie. Fisher and his 2nd, a priest in the movie, kept prepping right up to the matches. But Fisher won the final big math set by doing a Snyder and coming up with new approaches that the others weren't ready for....think Kody at OSU. I really was starting to doubt.
Five or six plays and all doubt was gone. It is obvious that in our bend, don't break defense that all you have to do is have one 11 yard play every 3 plays and you score. We would have 5 guys standing there to make sure they didn't make 12. No risk taking at all. Maybe we don't have the horses to take risks.
And then the field goal attempt: I doubt HCBS was thinking to score just to keep our long scoring record alive. It was already pretty obvious that we might be able to trade TDs and stay in the game, but not trade a rook for a pawn. You have to be aggressive.
Poor Kody: Thrown in in desperation. Almost a sacrifice. Team down. Minimal prep and warm up. OU had seen the film and knew the drill. Almost expected result.
I stayed until the end in spite of my spouse wanting to leave. 57 years of KSU FB and I 'know' that no matter what, some play will happen to add some brightness. Didn't.
So the crowd left. It's been worse. I remember way back in an icy rain sitttng in my duck hunting suit on about the 15th row moving sideways along the seats, always sitting on the line of scrimmage while other fans sitting in their cars would honk their horns when Dev would report of our guys doing something good. I was the only guy on that row. Occasionally the report was better than the play.
Sorry about the rant again. We'll get to a bowl. I'm afraid of KU. See you in a few weeks. Be there.