| 02 November 2009
Happy Monday Cougs. Big thanks to our friend Lucas, who made the trip down to San Antonio to check this Halloween game out vs. the Irish. Lucas was cool enough to provide the following recap to the blog! Note....check out the picture above. Look at the very lop-left, to the last seat in the whole place. It's hard to tell from this picture, but yep, it's a Coug in a #17 jersey, sleeping one off. I'm sure none of you have EVER been there before??
Here you go. Enjoy the recap, and GO COUGS!
Good Morning Cougar Nation,
SeanHawk reached out to me yesterday to get a first hand experience of the weekend. So it started with a 10am flight from Seattle to Austin on Thursday morning, and the flight was full of Cougar Fans. If you ever make the trip to San Antonio and hate to take connecting flights, it was well worth my parent's extra couple hundred dollars to fly to Austin and make the hour drive; I was planning to go regardless, but when the Old Man decided to make the trip, it made things way more flexible on the old bank account.
So the whole River Walk experience was unbelievable. Think Bourbon Street, but 2 million times cleaner. Think Mill Ave in Tempe minus the oodles of bleach blonde jail bait. And whatever you do, don't think of University Ave on Muttlake! Tons of cool little bars and restaurants, set about 50 feet below street level, with cool man made river that goes between it. Things got a little crazy after a few Hurricanes at the World Famous Pat O'Brien's! Then we wandered to Dick's Last Resort where apparently after I went home for the night, The Old Ball Coach Jim Walden stood up on a table and lead a bunch of drunk Cougs in singing the fight song.
Saturday started with some Bloody Mary's and some more River Walking; oh, and did I mention there is no Open Container Law on the Walk?
Moving on, we finally made our way to the Alumni Association Pre Funk at Sunset Station. For a measly $45 each you could wait in 30 minute lines to get the 2 beer limit. Good thing it was all you can drink and the "bartenders" could be bought. Butch, President Floyd, the cheerleaders and Jim Sterk all made cameos. There was also a guy rocking Tom Tuttle jersey. I must say, it was pretty fricking sweet to see 5000 Cougs doing what we do best, getting down!
The Alamo Dome itself is huuuuuge, think Kingdome, but way bigger; oh and there were no ceiling tiles that fell. So as the game started and we got to our seats, I bet I was asked by at least 10 different UND "fans" why so many people traveled to watch a crappy football team. Man I got sick of that question, but I just told them that is what we do. It was fun to point out which idiots didn't actually go to Notre Dame.
Read on...
As the game got started, it was clear to me this team is vastly better than the one I saw play against Stanford and Hawaii in September. That being said, we still have a long way to go. Jeff Tuel over and under threw lots of passes to open receivers. Forzani had his man beat down the sideline by a good 4 yards, and Tuel hit the DB right in the hands. And what was that whole school yard Hail Mary play at the end of the half? One bright spot was Carl Winston, man I am excited to watch him grow and mature. In the 4th Quarter my buddy handed me his sideline pass and so I made my way down to get some up close action! The one thing that stood out to me was the number of calls and no calls the Irish got. Lots of missed holding penalties, that the Zebras did call on us. There was a blatant offensive pass interference that wasn't called on a Irish td, and that "late hit" out of bounds as the game was winding down happened right in front of me. What a stupid call.
All in all it was an amazing experience, and if Coach Wulff gets these boys into bowl contention in the future, and we wind up in the Alamo Bowl, I will be one of the first signed up to come down here! And a few final thoughts; Charlie Weis is even fatter in real life than he looks on tv, and if I hear one more mariachi bands play the ND fight song, I am going to stick their trumpets where the sun don't shine!
Go Cougs!
Thanks again Lucas. Sounds like a great time, almost like a bowl game?? With the new Alamo Bowl agreement with the Pac-10, hey, who knows, maybe someday we do end up there again?
Moving on, this week's blog ballot. The Sutra did this week's version, as the mighty Yucks vault up to #3. After Saturday's crushing of the Trojans?? Even I have to admit....they deserve it.
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
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| 1 | Florida | |
| 2 | Texas | |
| 3 | Oregon |  6 |
| 4 | Alabama |  1 |
| 5 | Cincinnati | 1 |
| 6 | Boise State | 2 |
| 7 | Iowa | |
| 8 | TCU | 2 |
| 9 | Georgia Tech | 2 |
| 10 | LSU | |
| 11 | Penn State | 2 |
| 12 | Southern Cal | 7 |
| 13 | Pittsburgh | 3 |
| 14 | Utah | 5 |
| 15 | Houston | |
| 16 | Ohio State | 2 |
| 17 | Miami (Florida) | |
| 18 | Arizona | 4 |
| 19 | Wisconsin | |
| 20 | California | |
| 21 | Notre Dame | 4 |
| 22 | Virginia Tech | 8 |
| 23 | Oklahoma State | 11 |
| 24 | South Florida | |
| 25 | Auburn | |
| Last week's ballot | ||
All for now. GO COUGS!
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