Stoops, Barnett
meet in Big 12
clash of titans
Keith Whitmire
The Dallas Morning News (KRT)
Saturday’s Colorado-Oklahoma
game is a much-anticipated
matchup of the Big 12’s two divi
sion leaders. The teams haven’t
met since 1999, although they al
most collided last year in the Big 12
championship.
It will be Oklahoma’s unmerciful
defense against Colorado’s power
running game, led by the nation’s
leading rusher, Chris Brown.
But most of all, it will be a meeting
of the minds. Colorado coach Gary
Barnett and Oklahoma coach Bob
Stoops are, if not the two best coach
es in the league at the moment, cer
tainly the two most intriguing side
line commanders.
Stoops has a national title and a
reputation as a gambler who knows
the odds better than the house.
There’s little mystery to the
straight-talking Stoops, unless you
want to know about a particular in
jury or what trick play the Sooners
will pull next.
Barnett, on the other hand, can be
a hard guy to figure out. He’s still
known mostly for the resurrection
he conducted at Northwestern, lead
ing the perennial Big Ten doormat to
the Rose Bowl.
But the last two years, he’s revived
Colorado’s program in midseason.
This year’s run to the top of the Big
12 North is looking remarkably simi
lar to last year’s Big 12 title run.
A year ago, Colorado had a heart
breaking loss in the season opener,
looked totally outclassed in another
loss, lost its starting quarterback and
had an internal controversy between
a player and a coach.
That’s all happened again this
year. The Buffs opened the season
with a 19-14 loss to rival Colorado
State, recalling last year’s two-point
opening loss to Fresno State.
Starting quarterback Craig Ochs
went down to an injury, just like
last year, and the Buffs looked terri
ble in a 40-3 loss to Southern Cal.
Just like last year, when Ochs went
down and the Buffs were throttled
by Texas, 41-7.
Barnett deserves some credit, too,
although he probably deserves some
blame for the slow starts the last two
seasons. He’s not perfect and cer
tainly has his detractors in the Col
orado media.
Two seasons ago his motivational
tricks — including a threat to re
move the logos from the Buffs’ hel
mets — couldn’t revive a 3-8 season.
But this season the Buffs look as if
they’re ticketed for the Big 12 title
game again.
Even if Colorado turns in a USC
like performance on Saturday,
which is a possibility given OlFs
speed demons and goblins on de
fense, recent history says you can
never count out these Buffs.
(c) 2002, The Dallas Morning News.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
The Weekly Sports Poll
Now that’s more like it. Now
those sports fans are coming
out of the woodwork. Hey,
sports fan, nice to meet you.
Ready to do it again?
The Weekly Sports Poll
shattered all records for
participation as 43 people
weighed in on how many
games they thought the
Oregon football team would
win over the rest of the season.
Yes, the words “shattered,”
“43,” and “poll” were all in the
same sentence right there.
Come on, people, let’s show the
world how Oregon fans really
love their sports. Vote in this
week’s poll.
We think we’ve got a doozy of a
question for this week, too.
Everybody’s talking about it,
everybody’s dissecting it, so tell
us: What do you think about
the new Duck? If you were at
the game last week, you saw it
hatch out of its egg. You saw it
crawl around the field like it
was the “Green Goblin” or
something. So now, tell us what
you really think about it. Go to
www.dailyemerald.com, click
the “sports” link and scroll
down a little bit, cast your eyes
to the right-hand side of the
page and cast your ballot.
Last week’s poll results
went a little something
like this:
41.9 percent of the people
thought Oregon would win six
more games this season.
39.5 percent said “four."
16.3 percent said “two."
2.3 percent said “none.”
Looks like it’s good to be in the
minority on this one; it’s now
impossible for the Ducks to win
six more games this season.
Get out the vote.
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