FB: American Southwest Conference

[Weak Safety]

There does come a time in a blowout when sportsmanship can take over and hold the score down.  

I agree.  Maybe a good time for sportsmanship to take over would be when the score is 54-0 with the ball on the opponent's 27 yardline after blocking a punt and there is 01:40 remaining in the game.

      M 4-8  M22   Jonathan Russel punt 5 yards to the MC27, downed (blocked by Bla.
               Springston).


      U 1-10 M27   MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR drive start at 01:40 (4th).
      U 1-10 M27   Jarvis Thrasher rush for 2 yards to the MC25 (Cody Warner), PENALTY
                   UMHB holding 10 yards to the MC35.
      U 1-18 M35   1st and 18.
      U 1-18 M35   Adrian Turner rush for 4 yards to the MC31 (Cody Warner).
      U 2-14 M31   Jarvis Thrasher rush for 31 yards to the MC0, 1ST DOWN UMHB,
                   TOUCHDOWN, clock 00:41.
                   Joel Munoz kick attempt good.

[Ralph Turner]

But where is Jarvis Thrasher on the the depth chart?

And which string of lineman was blocking for him?

[ccowboyz1]

Bill,

With all due respect and far be it from me to take up for Mike Leach but Tech didn't beat Sam Houston by any more than UMHB beat MC.  Cody Hodges came out early and I believe Tech played 3 QBs in that game.

On the other hand, according to the UMHB web site, Andy Padron hit PJ Williams for a 22 yard touchdown pass with no time left on the clock in the 3rd quarter and they were already ahead by a 34 - 0 margin.  Then, ahead by a 54-0 margin, UMHB blocks a MC punt with less than 2:00 minutes left in the game.  UMHB starts their last drive with 1:40 on the clock and scores again with 41 seconds left in the game.  A lot of coaches would consider taking a knee to run the clock out.

I wasn't at the UMHB game and I'm sure I do not know the rest of the story but those appear to be some of the facts.

[ccowboyz1]

Ralph,

I'm not sure where Jarvis is on the depth chart but he had already scored earlier.  He was the leading rusher in the game.  I think the main point here is up 54-0 with 1:40 on the clock...what is the right thing to do?

[minni]

ahhhh screw it all.  HSU Cowboys please beat whoever you play every week by 100 pts.  Im sick of all this bs.  If you can beat someone by 100 with third string players i dont care.  If you beat HSU with third string players by 100 then do it.  I dont care.  I dont care about Mike Leach and I sure as H*LL dont care about MAck Brown and the Longhorns.  I do care about the Cowboys and Coach K and them going out and wrekin face all over people.  So who cares whether you win by 1 or 100 just go out and mash their faces in it and play HSU football.  Sportsmanship to me is knockin people on their a*s and picking them up and doing it again on the very next play.  Coach K has always told us that the scoreboard is for the fans and people like us and as players we shouldnt even worry about what it says.  So basically take it how you want but to me it says go out and beat the holy h*ll out of people and everything takes care of itself.  No one seems to care when UMHB does it so why should us as HSU people care when we do it.  So tomorrow when we take the field dont get mad if we win by 50 or more.  Not saying we will but crap guys just go play unbelievably hard. 

[Toby Taff]

Personally, I don't care if HSU or UMHB does it, especially against a conference opponent.  As for Tech, there is a difference in beating down a school at a lower level of play than an in conference team that's just not as good, but I have to think that if you are Sam Houston 1)you know there is a possibility you might get plowed 2) Your playing the game to get an idea of where you stack up.  Props to SHSU. 

The problem with not running up the score in some cases with HSU and MHB is that the skill level is so different that to avoid it you have to go less than full speed and that always equals bad news.  I can see arguments that say throwing bombs in the fourth quarter when you're up by 50 is bad form, but if you're just running your offense and it happens, oh well.

[Toby Taff]

Temple Daily Telegram Article leading to today's UMHB-HPU game. 

http://www.temple-telegram.com/sports.php

[etbualum]

guess we dont have to worry about that TLU HSU matchup anymore.

[Josh Bowerman]

Wow.  What a day!

[dsc]

guess we dont have to worry about that TLU HSU matchup anymore.

...or how much HSU and UMHB will "run up" the scores!

Just shows a team has to be ready EACH Saturday...and not look ahead.  Congrats to HPU and ETBU!

Looks like a great Homecoming weekend in Abilene next week!

[sethhpu]

Great game HPU! Played the entire game and finished strong. Finally put it all together.

[Josh Bowerman]

According to the ETBU release, they defeated the "14th ranked TLU" Bulldogs.

14th ranked by whom?  I can only assume Don Hansen, but don't know.

[Pat Coleman]

Yes. But that doesn't mean they can promote it on our Web site. Thanks for the heads-up.

[Josh Bowerman]

Didn't mean to get anybody in trouble...   

[Pat Coleman]

Nah, just means I had some editing to do.