Report: OU wanted out of Fiesta Bowl

[Lasher]

Remember this?

NEW YORK - Oklahoma could have been playing Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl if an agreement between the teams, their conferences and the Orange and Fiesta bowls had been approved by BCS officials, according to an SI.com report.

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SI.com reported late Monday night that Oklahoma athletic director Joseph Castiglione contacted Fiesta Bowl officials after the Sooners won the Big 12 title on Dec. 1 about the possibility of using that clause to get OU matched up against the highest-ranked team available.

"If we weren't going to be in the 1 vs. 2 game, we wanted to know if there was a possibility to play the highest-ranked team out there," Castiglione told SI.com. "At that point, we didn't know which team that would be."

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/colleges/articles/1218ousnub.html

Hope they feel like we were competitive enough to have given them a good game. ;-)

[Hubert Flottz]

1. COWARDS and

Losers!

I think WV and VT would have been a good game against another better team than OU.

Wait till next year!

[Lasher]

2. On that one day no team in the nation could have beat WVU

And did you watch the playoff? We would have easily defeated Ohio State. If not for that stupid Pitt game we would have been champs.

The saddest words of song or pen
are those that say what might have been

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Re: "The saddest words of song or pen"

I hope we change our tune this fall!

And I hope Rich gives back those stolen files! The man has got to be a freakin' republican!

[Lasher]

4. They might stock trout up here next week.

Interested?

[Hubert Flottz]

5. They stocked them down here almost 2 weeks ago.

They are just now starting to bite good. We might be able to get out on the ice about Tuesday, if it gets as cold as they are saying it will.

[Lasher]

6. Been looking for this video clip

CSTV whined about an earlier version, claiming copyright infringement, and got it taken down. I guess this one is legal since there's no editing of it.

Sports pundits laughing about how WVU was gonna get humiliated in the Fiesta Bowl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMXW9X8rDjQ

Edit: Oooo, here's another naysayer making an ass of himself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHb5E1BPNQ4&feature=related

[Hubert Flottz]

7. "OU wanted out of Fiesta Bowl"

Even clanking the old magical Ruby Slipper type cleeties together with all alacrity couldn't have saved the Sooners from that disaster!

I think that might have been the best win ever!