Maybe I have the wrong title.....but I don't believe for a second that Lisa Salters asked Mack Brown after a HUGE and pivital call blew up in his face why he made such a risky call. Kudos to Mack for answering it.

After the game...just minutes, Salters has Colt McCoy and asked him what he flet like missing out on his final game in the National Championship.

Let the moron reporters ask the idiotic rhetorical questions after the game at the press conference. I believe those questions were forced upon thsoe questions by someone in her ear. I absolutely can't stand it when reporters either do crap like that or are pretty much forced to do it. Great reporting...just like Jim freaking Gray.

I didn't root for Texas for 1 second the past 4 years......I will root strongly for Colt McCoy on Sundays for a long long time.

I would have laughed forever if McCoy would have said...

"How the hell do you think I feel, Lisa! I just sat out the national title game, my last game, and my team might have won with me in the game. What a ridiculous question. Is that what ESPN pays you for."

...or something like that. He's too good of a person to do that though.

ironman02 wrote: I would have laughed forever if McCoy would have said...

"How the hell do you think I feel, Lisa! I just sat out the national title game, my last game, and my team might have won with me in the game. What a ridiculous question. Is that what ESPN pays you for."

...or something like that. He's too good of a person to do that though.

Yes. that would have been a nice reply by him.

yeah mccoy showed pure class after the game in that interview, was very impressed

The McCoy question was kind of rough but I felt like the Brown question was definitely warranted as I guarantee most everyone in the country was truly wondering what the hell Mack was thinking with that play call. Could have done without the McCoy.

Remember the 98 Big 12 title game?

Bill Snyder took over the worst program in college history 10 years prior and gradually built them up to prominence. UCLA loses to Miami early in the day, and Kansas State is a win away from playing for the national title....then Texas A&M scores in overtime to end that dream.

Coming off the field, Jack Arute runs up. "Coach Snyder, can words express how disappointed you are right now?"

McCoy gets an A+ in class......hats off to that young man.

producers are morons who don't have a clue. i wish just once or twice a reporter would tell them "no, I'm not asking that"

NNN wrote: Remember the 98 Big 12 title game?

Bill Snyder took over the worst program in college history 10 years prior and gradually built them up to prominence. UCLA loses to Miami early in the day, and Kansas State is a win away from playing for the national title....then Texas A&M scores in overtime to end that dream.

Coming off the field, Jack Arute runs up. "Coach Snyder, can words express how disappointed you are right now?"

Jack Arute is a hack! I have a friend whose dad is a coach at OSU and he said that Arute is a jerk on the sidelines. e runs around asking guys stupid questions trying to find something interesting to say to get himself on the broadcast as much as possible. He said that of all the sideline reporters he's ever seen, Arute is the worst to deal with.

I hope that the players/coaches know that it's not entirely up to the reporters what questions they get asked. Right before Lisa asked McCoy how he felt, I was hoping she reminded him she was just doing her job. Sideline reporter has to be one of the hardest jobs in television mainly for the reason you are asking people questions usually at the wrong time.

Sadly, Mack's answer may have dumbed him up a bit. Well it's as about safe as a play as we can call? Uh....pitching teh ball in the air into the middle of a pack of players is not safe and not likely to run for yards to get a FG.


There was 15 seconds left on about the 30....the initial play of the series was to run the clock out......stick to it. Lord that was stupid.

Have sideline reporters EVER served a real purpose?

I guess getting injury updates from athletic trainers is worthwhile, but every question they ask can be answered with common sense, however, it's really fun to see things like John L Smith's meltdown against Ohio State.

Ironman92 wrote: Sadly, Mack's answer may have dumbed him up a bit. Well it's as about safe as a play as we can call? Uh....pitching teh ball in the air into the middle of a pack of players is not safe and not likely to run for yards to get a FG.


There was 15 seconds left on about the 30....the initial play of the series was to run the clock out......stick to it. Lord that was stupid.

And hey, I'm not justifying the play call, but after the game Mack said that it's one of the highest percentage pass plays they call, and he said it's never been intercepted. Can't call a play expecting too high of a pass and the RB not being able to corral it.

lhslep134 wrote: Have sideline reporters EVER served a real purpose?

I see it as crossing the line between covering an event, and becoming part of it, which is (as I understand it) a basic journalistic no-no.

anymore they can't even get injury updates... schools are getting more and more private with their information nowadays

I don't have a problem with a sideline reporter,but they should NOT be allowed to engage a coach or a player at any time during a game...I'd love one time time for a coach to tell one of these "journalists" to get bent--in so many words

I'd love for someone to ask those questions to Bobby Knight.....lol

^^^^

you'd get knocked on your ass lol

darbypitcher22 wrote: ^^^^

you'd get knocked on your ass lol

or hit with a chair!

I thought Brown and McCoy both handled bad questions at bad times with class.
Hell, either one or both could have pulled a Tom Brady and acted like they couldn't hear the questioner and then ran off the field!

I'll catch hell for this...but I thought the shovel pass was a good call. It can't get much safer than that. The chance of busting it for 25 yards in 10 seconds was slim...but a lot safer than dropping back and getting blindsided and fumbled as was the case late in the game.

Here's my problem. The receiver bobbling the damn ball not once...but twice. Dude...catch the ball...it's a 2 yard soft flip. And secondly...dude....tackle the guy after he picks it. It doesn't matter that he weighs 500 lbs. He's a football player and so are you. Tackle him. Same goes for the other 3 Texas players that had clean shots at knocking him down...including the feeble effort by the quarterback and one of the lineman who tried to body block him. That play...as horrible as it was...should have only rsulted in a long field goal attempt.

20-6 is not nearly as bad as 24-6. As we all found out in the second half.