The Fake Lonnie Finch

Austin Haywood: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-t25-oklahoma-haywoodtransfers http://www.soonersports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/haywood_austin00.html Signed by OU in 2010. Redshirted 2010, played in 6 games and caught 6 passes this year. Is quitting now and transferring a midterm. Third or fourth OU offensive player to quit and leave the team since the fall practice began. Former 5-star halfback Jermie Calhoun was the big name to leave. Can't really see why this kid would leave OU because the two guys ahead of him are both seniors. Must have got into a pissing match with the coaches and lost. If we ever decide to use a tight end, this kid has some skills. Hopefully, his high school coach has one of our former Big 12 coaches' cell phone numbers.

Possibly. But, with my wife having to go for a half in the regular seats...she's picky about who is around the kids. I'll likely end up just handing them to students or someone milling around without tickets. Hell, it won't make a difference. They'll be so few people there they will be able to sit anywhere once they're in. New stadium, same song and dance, I suppose.

Good to know. I'll give the wife the tickets during the buffet time. Boy and I will stuff ourselves with the extra hotdogs and frito pies that'll free up with wife and daughter being in Club buffet.

Rick Firefighter and I have had our disagreements. But, in the long run, he's bought in more than I have. I refused to buy season tickets and went walk-up route until this season because I didn't want to contribute to mediocrity. He's watched, and paid to watch, a lot of bad football. Doing things like taking care of the canon and whatnot as well. That means something. My kids love the canon! Well...the boy loves the canon because he's five and it's a form of gun. The girl, it scares...but, she's a little girl. Loud noises are supposed to scare little girls. I think Rick Villareal was in a no-win situation here. The problem, to me, is two-fold, though; and, not of his making. First, we don't have a loyal fan base. It doesn't take much to knock them off the path. So when a few whine about the Rangers, we move. Second, this is homecoming and more people have scheduled arrivals and travel around it probably more than for other games. Many may not live in DFW and could care less about the Rangers, but likely want to see the newfangled stadium. In the end, Rick V. did what he thought was best. I'd have kept it at 6 p.m. solely for the fact that homecoming does mean more travel from more people. If it had been a non-homecoming game, I'd have switched it and done so a few days earlier to give people more lead time with plans. Go Cardinals!

Unlike the aluminum fartlicks who choose the World Series over homecoming, our family will be at the game Saturday with all of our Mean Green crap on. Here's the dilemma...and, it's not a bad one...it's just one: -We've got our four season tickets -We've got the Club seats we won at the Coaches Caravan -We have no babysitter because everyone around us, family and friends, has either kids in sports Saturday or they are going to the State Fair before it closes. -Our Granbury family is knocked out because of the game time switch. Our plan was to have my wife and her sister take the Club seats and me and the nephew sit in the regular seats with the children. Plan will now have to be altered. We really want to get the Club seat experience during a game to determine whether we want to upgrade next season. So...we're looking at just not using a couple of tickets. I'm thinking that boy and I can take the Club seat in the first half, wife and daughter can take the Club seats in the second half. KA-POW! It's nice to have options?

That would be a nice problem to have. Baby steps. Always, baby steps.

My guess is he's battling things internally. This is a group of coaches that works kids on and off the field. Many of them weren't used to that. Dodge was busy making good fathers and brothers of them all. Many probably haven't been cussed since high school. Still, I expected that McCarney would play guys no matter their eligibility level. On the radio show, he was talking about how well the redshirts were doing in practice. Well...who cares? Get them on the field now when we need them. We are thin at receiver. Put Chaz Sampson in there. Is he going to be slower than Breece Johnson and Casey Schutza? Is he going to have a harder time catching the ball than Tyler Stradford did? Put him in the game. Now that Freddie Warner is out, pull the shirt off of Swarn and throw him into some nickel situations. What is it going to hurt? We were already getting burned in the secondary at key times anyway. On the show, Mac talked about Swarn not being big enough yet. Come on, man? Have you seen that skinny kid that plays safety for Tulsa? Dexter McCoil? You could snake a clogged drain with that kid and Tulsa's been playing him since he was a true freshman. The whip-like McCoil #26 below. Tulsa's skinny Dexter McCoil never redshirted. Tulsa's Dexter McCoil...so thin, you could fax him from game to game. Look at Deion Sanders, for crying out loud - he still doesn't have any calf muscles! If a kid's an athlete, he's an athlete. Get Swarn out on the field and see what he can do. Hell, the kid's not a running back or receiver. He's a defensive back - he's the one who's supposed to bring the pain! Empty the bench and try to win. Tired as hell of season after season after season of rebuilding. No one else puts on the field success on hold the way UNT does, bro. It's our hallmark.

Although, I will admit...Arky State and Louisiana aren't as handcuffed as Mac has been in following in the footsteps of four years worth of high school coaching and recruiting.

Winnah!

KA-POW! Just got the e-mail from the athletic department. Looks like you jogged them into action! The only way this works for the athletic department in the general public is to tell people what they are doing. But, I doubt we'll see it on any local newscast either. If they're going to do this, why not publicize it?

This. Because the football game will be in the fourth quarter when the baseball game begins. The baseball fans were never coming to the game anyway. We'll be lucky to get much more than 12,000. My kids will have plenty of room to run around the end zone again.

Coaches want to coach.

The disappointing thing is to have all the rah-rah in the offseason...the open letters to the students, etc....and, then, to turn it towards a full rebuild halfway through the season? Many of us expected a different mindset out of this group of coaches.

The upside for Osborn is that he's only a sophomore. He can still transfer and have two years to play somehwere else. I've written off the pipedream of a 5-7 season...and even 4-8. If Thompson is injured to the extent some here say he is and we have to go with McNulty, this thing ain't gonna fly any better than it is now...which is pretty poorly. Good luck defense. For Lance Dunbar's sake, thankfully we have two bye weeks remaining to recover from opponents keying on him.

The problem is, it's homecoming. Many people who are traveling and maybe haven't been to see the new stadium are screwed if they can't leave earlier. It's a give up move, for sure. On the ridiculous assumption that a hardcore Rangers fan is at the UNT-ULM game, you have to suppose that person will be fine missing inning number one as the UNT game winds down. And, maybe misses inning two walking back to the car. And, maybe innings three and four driving home, depending on where in the metroplex they live. But, this isn't the kind of fan that will be at Apogee Saturday anyway. And, for the bandwagoners - the majority of the Ranger fans - it's not like it's Game Seven. It's just the first game. Disappointed with the give ups around here lately. It's horse poop. Go Cardinals!

Can no longer +1 people today. Didn't even know that existed. I must have been in a good mood today. KA-POW!

Good point! I stand corrected.

The time change has screwed up our little plans as well; had some family coming up from Granbury. It's a scratch for them now because they can't leave two hours early from my nephew's weekend games. This is the week we've got the Club level tickets we won at the Plano Coaches' Caravan. Maybe we can scramble something together, or just give those away. Either way, the athletic department can't win with this one. I think it might be less of a deal if it weren't homecoming and people hadn't planned with that in mind. Still, one set or another was going to be screwed - the Mean Green fans or the bandwagoning Ranger fans who happened to go to North Texas for college. The people who want to watch the Rangers weren't going to settle for listening to the first couple of innings in their car as they left the game. With a 4 p.m. kick, the game won't end before the World Series begins anyway. They were never coming to the game in the first place. I don't think the athletic department is going to see that much of a difference in the crowd no matter what they do. If the team doesn't win, though, there is no leverage anyway. Hopefully, McCarney can someday change the attitude of the alumni.

So, all you are saying is, give peace a chance?

Saw a couple of other links that showed him as a 1st Team All-District point guard on Killeen Ellison's basketball team as well. Kid has to be a leader to have been point guard and quarterback. Whatever, he sure looks the part physically. It'd be interesting to figure out what he was doing in 2010 - the lost year when there is no information on him. Maybe Brett will pursue a story on this kid.

Well, force field or no, McNulty hasn't moved the ball when we've needed it outside of practice time. Maybe the NCAA can be convinced to let us keep McNulty's practice stats as his official record.

Bad news on Warner. He's a really good player. Loved watching him blow up receivers on screens during the Indiana and FAU games. The kid brings it. Here's hoping for a speedy recovery for Freddie.

3-4, but who's counting: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/teams/ppd

Seems like a good athlete. Was he here in 2010 just as a student? SFA - 2008 - Defensive back http://sfajacks.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/delgado_ivan00.html http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p=8&c=1&nid=2741776 http://statesman.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?sport=1&pr_key=58642 http://www.maxpreps.com/news/2B6U4IKCWk-mfxaLI5J7oA/remember-these-names.htm http://ccc.rivals.com/cpevent.asp?Key=24660 http://www.directathletics.com/athletes/track/1814643.html CISCO JC - 2009 - Quarterback http://corsicanadailysun.com/highschoolsports/x546110948/Navarro-rush-defense-faces-a-challenge-in-Cisco http://www.njcaa.org/colleges_college_player.cfm?sid=11&collegeid=1686&category=Roster&slid=5&teamid=93392&athleteid=270910

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