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Tinker Town: "I will go on treating college football like it is just another one of my life's experience, and do the best that I can with it. Even thought that it is just a sport, I can feel very serious over it. Real life, and death, is of course another matter. I will not prevail against death, But just maybe with a little smarts. I will be able to push that finial day away from me as long as I can. That is if I don't start suffering. Suffering with a aliment that I can't control. If that comes first. I will check out quicker then otherwise.
In a way then, death is a release from life. And in some cases, a welcome release from pain. Natures opium. Living is what is so hard to do. How we get so damn very tired from working hard. Slaving to feed, cloth, protect ourselves. Life is full of pain and suffering that drives us wild sometimes. Just the knowledge of what we have done, and what we still must do. Can bother a guy to drinking, or worse. Life is the real challenge. Death is nothing. Just one long nothing. So now I will go on living as I have been. Only in a declining old age why. A mere shadow of what was once so strong, and now just old. The real trouble is you and me love the action. The more action the better, as long as it don't hurt. But that of course, is another story."
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It was one of those amazing scenes you only get from college football. And it was at this moment quarterback Johnny Manziel executed his best run, sprinting from his postgame TV interview duties to join his teammates just at The Fighting Aggie Band had reached the "saw Varsity's horns off, saw Varsity's horns off" portion of the presentation.
For all of y'all not from Texas, "Varsity" is the University of Texas, and beating The Longhorns biggest rival in Oklahoma, 41-13, in this Cotton Bowl felt almost as good as taking a saw to Bevo. Especially because, afterward, Sooner Nation had to tip their caps and admit they had been Johnny Football-ed.
"He's the best player I think I've ever played," Sooners defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said. "He's got magic in him. He'll have a chance to win four of them Heismans if he stays healthy."
For any of y'all who did not have a Manziel crush on Johnny Football before A&M's Cotton Bowl W, welcome aboard.
A few quick things: This is not simply about his stats, although that is where most will focus. Yes, the redshirt freshman helped A&M to 7,000 yards this season, a first by an SEC team. Yes, in this win, he rushed for 229 yards and two TDS, and passed for another 287 yards and two more TDs. Yes, he had a huge role in beating Alabama and getting them to this game. Yes, he won the Heisman. These are just numbers and awards. The impact of Johnny Football, the real impact, is much bigger and much harder to quantify, especially if you are not from around here.
What Johnny Friggin' Football did was justifiy The SECession of A&M from The Big 12 this season, provided a solid slap to this four-team playoff The BcS plans to unleash on us in a year, re-established Aggie dominance in the fight for football hearts and minds in Texas and even provided fair warning for Oregon coach Chip Kelly.
Can a single kid, a freshman at that, do all of this?
Yes he can. So you start with Johnny, you have to start with Johnny because he is the catalyst. A&M athletic director Eric Hyman tells a story about the first time he watched the Aggies practice. It was August. He had just taken the job, coming from South Carolina in the SEC.
So did he think A&M had what it took to compete in that league?
He looked at the defense and he thought about a Prozac prescription. Then he looked at the offense and thought "damn," as in wow. He told Aggies coach Kevin Sumlin that he really liked this quarterback. It was at this point Sumlin told him that was the backup. He then pointed to the slightly smallish kid wearing No. 2 and said, "That is our starter."
In the coming weeks and months, he came to appreciate the kid who played the game like a video game. What he did Friday, slaloming through the Sooner defenders and tip-toeing along the sideline, was very much what he did all year.
Only better.
And by doing so, he pumped life into what has otherwise been an yawn-fest of a BCS bowl season. Anybody want to defend no playoff now?
We had a chance for an Oregon-A&M shootout in a playoff game with that winner possibly facing the winner of 'Bama Notre Dame, or any of the delicious other possibilities that come with an eight-team playoff.
"We knew what the rules were before the season. You have your schedule. You play your games. You try to win 'em all. That's the way college football is set up right now," Sumlin said, artfully dodging if he wished for a playoff considering how well his team is playing. "That means every game you play is important."
Well, every game except the last one.
"The way things are set up now, no, there's no reason to ask (what if)," Sumlin said.
Instead we watched Oregon pound Kansas State and Louisville beat Florida and yet another beat-down of Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl. Can we just let them win one? So in a bowl season marred by mostly boring, inconsequential, noncompetitive games played in front of blackmailed fans and universities and empty seats, the Cotton Bowl was a bright shining star.
It was packed. It was electric. It was not competitive after halftime.
A quick word on Oklahoma and more specifically coach Bob Stoops: He got clowned. His short staccato answers afterward revealed his embarrassment that Big Game Bob has gone from a nickname to a punch line. And herein lies the lesson for Kelly and possibly 'Bama coach Nick Saban as well.
Leave. Leave now.
Because Stoops used to be Kelly, a highly coveted college coach, mentioned for various NFL openings and this Dallas Cowboys job in particular. He stayed because Sooner Nation loved him.
What he has learned is love is fleeting, and absence not permanence fuels desire. And just like in all levels of football, you are only as good as your quarterback.
He also got Johnny Football-ed. We all did really.
Coming into this season, virtually nobody thought A&M was going to be competitive in its first season in the SEC. They were giggling from Tuscaloosa to Death Valley.
"You know when I went to SEC media days hearing all that negative talk about how they didn't think we were going to be able to compete," Aggie offensive lineman Luke Joeckel said. "Me and the other guys that came back went to the weight room, went to the field and told everybody and put a chip on the entire team's shoulder to prove them all wrong."
It was not just at SEC media days. Varsity was giggling, too.
The thought in Austin was they had screwed up in College Station. They were stepping into an arena in which they could not compete. They were destined to be No. 2 in Texas for a while.
Absolutely, the Aggie players, coaches, administrators and fans were thinking about this as they swayed in the corner of the end zone and "goodbye to Texas university, so long to the orange and white" just as the quarterback the 'Horns passed on joined them.
They, too, had been Johnny Footballed.
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Oklahoma defense still in decline
January, 5, 2013
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ARLINGTON, Texas -- After yet another Johnny Manziel touchdown, Mike Stoops didn't hop and scream. Didn't track down the defender who missed the assignment. Oklahoma's otherwise fiery defensive coordinator simply took his headset off and hung it at his side. He didn't say a word. There was nothing to say.
Friday night, it was Johnny Football's turn to sock it to this punching bag of an Oklahoma defense as Texas A&M rolled to a 41-13 pasting in the AT&T Cotton Bowl.
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"Best player I've ever seen," said Stoops, who also said the same of Austin after he rushed for 344 yards facing the Sooners.
During the offseason, head coach Bob Stoops brought his brother back to resuscitate a defense that had been on the mat the previous two seasons.
Like they had been for decades, the Sooners were dominant defensively through Mike Stoops' first stint in Norman. SEC dominant. Championship dominant. Even against Heisman winners. Ask Florida State's Chris Weinke.
But it has been five years now since the Sooners were serious national title contenders past October, and hope-for-the-best defense is a major reason why. Yet even with the regime change from Brent Venables to Mike Stoops, the defense continued its decline in 2012.
For Jake Trotter's full column, click here.
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