Doods,
I went off the rails yesterday, and I apologize. I haven't read ensuing responses, and if y'all ripped me a new one, I deserved it. While I meant the content of what I said, the presentation was ill-tempered, and y'all deserve better*. What I should have said was something like "I can understand from a Texas fan's perspective why it would seem that way, but I'm confident that the players were not faking injury in the process of getting their butts handed to them, and here's why...**" I wish that's what I had said, and I'm not sure why message board chatter gets to me sometimes. It wasn't even mostly here....one of our boards got flooded with Longhorns about the same stuff, and I wound up taking it out here.
Don't know what else to say other than my bad. I got bent out of shape over something stupid. Wish I could say it was the first time.
So yeah....some of those plays happening after negative plays (not when you fake that, if you're faking), the team having no history of doing such a thing (sadly, Texas is not the only team to whip our defense uncharacteristically silly, even in O's short tenure), but mostly the injury report....that several of those guys actually left the field and will now miss games awaiting medical clearance...all is enough to make me stick to my opinion. If someone else sees it differently, I am happy to agree to disagree and I have no conclusive proof my team wasn't pulling something shady. That's how I should have put it and where I should have left it.
*the ones of you I know, anyway. The rest of you might suck.
**Well, most of the incidents. I kinda wondered about one of those instances myself. Guy got beat on a 3rd and long for a first down, was clearly gassed, and had the look of one thinking "I suck and I'm done. I think I'll just lay here." Then came back in the game a play or two later.