Fiesta Bowl

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[QUOTE=asterion]
It was a modified Statue of Liberty play. The classic Statue of Liberty play has the tailback take the ball from the upraised arm of the quarterback. This was a little less obvious but still rare and still deserves to be called a Statue of Liberty play. To me, this particular one looked more like an extreme draw play.
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One reason I’m happy to have instant replay is that the trick plays tend to fool me as a layperson fan. The play gets over and I’m going, “Waitaminute. What just happened?”

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Papa Tiger came to bed and said the game had under a minute left but it was late and he had to get up early and since Boise State was down by one TD, he’d give up on it. I suggested he turn it on in the bedroom and watch the last bit.

Boy, was he glad I did. We both about had a heart attack before the game was over. And I don’t even like football!

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I TiVo’d it. I was gonna scout some talent for draft time.

It was scheduled to run 3:45 and running low on space I chose not to add extra time to it.

So my TiVo recording ends with 4 minutes left in the game.

Gee, did I miss anything good?

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Earlier this week I was quietly rooting for the other Big XII teams to do well so Texas would get a little respect for next season. Once it became obvious that the conference sucked ass during bowl season, I was able to engage my usual hatred of a&m and o.u.

Boy, was that a great game! Take that sooners!! I went to Texas and I was born there… so it’s innate to wish the worst for the Normans. I wavered a bit because of the storylines of Adrian Peterson and Paul Thompson - two Texans, by the way - but as soon as I saw Barry Switzer’s crooked ass on the TV the hate flowed like the Colorado River.

Bob Stoops has not done well on the national stage as of late. He doesn’t have anything to be ashamed of this year, though - o.u. played decently but Boise State just wanted it more, I guess. In fact, they should get some grief for blowing their fourth-quarter lead.

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Simply awsome. Second best game behind last year’s Rose Bowl. (even if we lost :frowning: )

The whole second half I had the feeling it would not go BSUs way. They just weren’t doing much. After Ok scored the 2 pointer after 3 trys, I figured it would not go well. The interception was a major letdown. I wanted to see BSU hang in there. But there was time left and I knew they wounldn’t sit down. Damn! They got back to a tie!

First play in OT, if figured, “Well, it was heading that way anyway. At least they made it this far” (I was telling people at a Christmas party they were going to pull it off).

Going for 2? What enormous BALLS!
Your rock, Boise State!

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OU grad here. I thought the ending kind of sucked.

Actually, as poorly as OU played for 3 quarters of the game, it would have been a shame if BSU hadn’t won. This was the first game I’ve seen in a long time where it was obvious that Stoops got out-coached and out-gambled.

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KRM, I’d have to agree with you. I’m not sure where Stoops’ head was, but it didn’t seem to be at the game I was watching. And OU didn’t really start playing until the last half of the last quarter. I mean, come on guys, we usually get TWO good quarters a game! (But then again, it was a bowl game, so I should probably be grateful it wasn’t worse.)

Hippy Hollow, I though you were someone I could like, and now this! A longhorn?!? Oh goodness gracious me, I feel faint!

But we can always join together in hating Switzer. Nobody hates Switzer like someone who grew up in Norman in the Seventies, trust me on that. :slight_smile:

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Here’s the last 1:30 of regulation and OT.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4290184382815369007

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I’ve heard “hook and ladder” and "“hook and lateral”.

I’m not sure about the current status of the discussion. This is the first time that I’ve seen a big time Hook and Ladder in the age of the internet, though. I suspect there’s some heataed debate out there somewhere.

One thing that nobody has mentioned much is that on the modified Statue of liberty, the left defensive end and the outside linebacker pretty much sniffed it out. But, the tight end gets a nice down block on the left defensive end and the linebacker is still kind of open. The left tackle comes around the tight end and just cleans up the linebacker and the end, who is coming off the tight end.

It also strikes me as a little strange that the coach of BSU didn’t go for 2 at the end of regulation (like Oregon State’s coach) , but went for 2 on his first chance in OT.

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The key to that hook and "ladder"al was that the guy who caught the ball started trun, just a few steps, but it completely got the defense going the wrong way. Usually when I see it run, the lateral is done immediately and isn’t as effective.

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A good friend of mine who is a rabid OU fan sent this message to me after the game.

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[QUOTE=Trunk]
I’ve heard “hook and ladder” and “hook and lateral”.
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My take was always that the pass-lateral-run in a playbook diagram looked vaguely like hooked-together firemen’s ladders. The problem is that the lateral is the hook, so “hook and lateral” doesn’t make any sense.

I think it was the first play of the first overtime, in which Oklahoma blew in 25 yards untouched, that convinced him that his defense was spent, and was unlikely to stop OU in any number of overtimes.

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[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig]
My take was always that the pass-lateral-run in a playbook diagram looked vaguely like hooked-together firemen’s ladders. The problem is that the lateral is the hook, so “hook and lateral” doesn’t make any sense.
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Sure it does. It’s a literal description of what the receiver’s job is on the play. The “hook” is the little comeback route he runs, and then he laterals the ball.

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[QUOTE=redtail23]
Hippy Hollow, I though you were someone I could like, and now this! A longhorn?!? Oh goodness gracious me, I feel faint!

But we can always join together in hating Switzer. Nobody hates Switzer like someone who grew up in Norman in the Seventies, trust me on that. :slight_smile:
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Well, red, you can’t be all bad if you hate Switzer. Some of your fellow sooners seem to think that he’s a god, instead of an evil cheater. (Even though I give him dap for realizing that Black kids could play ball, and beating Darrell Royal’s lily-White teams with his rainbow coalition teams.)

Can’t argue with results (great winning percentage, guns and drugs, Charles Thompson, and Brian Bosworth)!

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Yes, “hook” is the name of a route a receiver runs. Looks something like a candy cane when you draw it up.

After executing a hook, he laterals. So it’s really “hook and lateral”

Hook and ladder is kind of a pun, because of the type of fire truck, and that’s what sticks in people’s minds.