Landry Jones intercepted 5 times as Nebraska upsets Oklahoma
BY JAKE TROTTER, Staff Writer, jtrotter@opubco.com
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Published: November 7, 2009
Modified: November 8, 2009 at 9:57 am
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska intercepted Oklahoma freshman quarterback Landry Jones five times to lead the Cornhuskers to a 10-3 upset Saturday night at Memorial Stadium.
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The five picks were the most ever thrown by an OU quarterback.
Jones' first interception proved to be the most costly, leading to the only touchdown of the defensive struggle.
Early in the second quarter, Nebraska cornerback Prince Amukamara stepped in front of a Jones pass intended for Adron Tennell and returned the interception to the OU 1-yard line.
Two plays later, Husker quarterback Zac Lee found Ryan Hill for a 1-yard touchdown pass.
Said Nebraska coach Bo Pelini: "That interception kick-started us."
Husker free safety Matt O'Hanlon finished what Amukamara started.
O'Hanlon had three of the other four interceptions. The first he returned 30 yards to set up a 28-yard field goal by Alex Henery.
O'Hanlon's last pick ended the Sooners' final attempt to tie the game with just a few seconds left in the fourth quarter.
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OU will be fine. This year was a perfect storm of bad crap that can happen to a team. Everyone stands to take a little blame. Players, Coaches, and we as fans that maintain unrealistic expectations year in and out. Credit part of that to the media as well as the way that the coaches handle the media and recruiting services which make us think kids are stars because they dominate other high school kids.
We are having the year people would have expected had Sam and Jermaine gone pro last year. Had that happened, a 3 to 5 loss season would seem pretty realistic. 2005 seemed to be a very similar situation.
By the way, every powerhouse has a couple of down years, so why should OU be exempt? We'll be back on top soon.
Let's go get drunk in San Antonio and beat a Big 10 team.I wouldn't even have the team practice. they should just go party with us and see if this changes this slump we're experiencing.
What could it hurt?
Jay was right.I was wrong.
El Prez, Deer Creek
OU is a bad football team...and OU fan this is the beginning of some down years...book it
However, many of you have very short memories. Landry threw his picks in his first true away game. He threw high because he was rattled and his mechanics were off. Our staff, Wilson and Heupel, couldn't get him calmed down nor call plays that would settle him down due to a total lack of effort on the Oline's part.
But just a few years ago, a red-shirt freshman in his first true away game got rattled, got happy feet, lost his mechanics, and constantly overthrew his recievers. Colorado won that day with a last second field goal and the qb for Bradford.
The problem is Patton and Wilson, not Landry
Louis Friend, Norman
An offense would also help.
I'd take any of them back but Long. And, I'd take Mangino, Leach or Sumlin back as offensive coordinator over Kevin Wilson.
2. Jim Harbaugh (better get him before Michigan)
3. Gary Patterson
4. Charlie Strong (would be ironic considering where Stoops came from)
5. Turner Gill (would be ironic considering where he came from)
Even with the shortage of talent there is no excuse for such awful playing.
We can't settle for this.
Hold your heads up high Sooner fan, it isn't the end of the world. Oh and how about a little credit to the Nebraska D.....lot of talk about the Sooner D, but I think Nebraska's might be better.
...ou suuuuuuuuuuuuucks!
2. Jim Harbaugh (better get him before Michigan)
3. Gary Patterson
4. Charlie Strong (would be ironic considering where Stoops came from)
5. Turner Gill (would be ironic considering where he came from)
Coach Stoops is still a great coach, but I am afraid his philosophy at OU has become stale. I think Stoops would and could still be successful, perhaps a place like Georgia where Richt may not last too much longer. Stoops has been very successful at his first head coaching job, but like Mack Brown (on his way to perhaps his second National Championship), who was successful at NC, maybe it is time for Stoops and OU to part ways. Stoops would take any program like Georgia to the next level, and conversely I think a Kelly, Harbaugh, or Patterson would bring OU back to a National Champion it was nine years ago, under the best coach at the time--Bob Stoops.
If OU can somehow win these last three and show some semblance of mental disipline---then the Alamo Bowl might be the proper destination for this team... maybe.
I don't mind getting beat if the other guy is good and is really on top of their game. Nebraska was neither of those last night. They just were fortunate they were playing a football team which was bent on beating itself.
El Prez, Deer Creek
I feel like our hurry up downs result in a vast majority of wasted plays.
Declining a bowl offer would eliminate this team from an extra 5 weeks of practice. Something this team desperately needs. I get the idea behind your comment, but that is a horrible idea.
I bet you voted for Obama.
Lets make changes in Norman, period... The way we have performed the last few years, anyone can come in and coach better than stoops right now..
Oh yeah, might as well make a kicker change too... Stephens was only 11 for 12... those look like pretty good numbers compared to what we saw last night.
What a shame
Before you call me out on my fanhood, I am kidding around.
I'm not big into fans getting on message boards and calling for coaches to be fired or for lighting into a kid like Landry--and I'm not going to start now.
But until the football IQ on this team and staff improves and we actually give ourselves a chance to win close games--we won't.
A bowl game? To me, the concept of a bowl game used to be a reward to a team for a special effort and a special season. Putting the injuries aside---OU should have enough talent to still be an 8-4 football team.
If OU continues to play mentally sloppy, (Frank Alexander penalty as a perfect example)and finishes 7-5, then it would be my hope as a lifetime OU fan that we politely decline any bowl offer and begin the process of becoming a smarter, hungrier football program which quits beating itself in close games because of the same mental mistakes.
Injuries are one thing, being a stupid football team which doesn't give itself a chance to win is something which should be correctable.
El Prez, Deer Creek
Band exhibits more teamwork than our scholarship football players. Band woulda got at least ONE touchdown. Jeesh
Andre Ware was right on!
It's a sad day in the glorious history of Sooner Football. Our coach gets paid $3 million a year and also recently received a $3 million bonus but is unable to diagram a touchdown play. He can't recruit a field goal kicker and calls for a Hail Mary on second down with over 30 seconds to play. Will you help?
One player does share blame though, the great pretender Jones, who has shown he has no pocket savvy and can't throw under pressure. Sure hope he's not the guy next year, be another lost year if he is.
The Bob Stoops of this season is the same Bob Stoops that won a N/C in his second season. That was an amazing season and added much to us all to experience it as fans. But, remember this, there are and will continue to be coaches that are at (and maybe above) the level of Bob Stoops and there are top-level players that are as equally drawn to other schools.
Look at USC and the consistent upsets by lower ranked teams they have experienced in recent years. Where was Florida five years ago? How about Mack Brown and the struggles against OU in Bob Stoops first years. This is the nature of college football. Get over it. Get a life and look at college athletics from a bigger perspective.
We have one of the premier coaches in college football; coaching wise and character wise. Support the team through highs and lows. Support the man that represents the ideals that lead to success on the field and in life.
That, rather than getting your self-validation only from the success of the team, gain from the vicarious association with the coach and program that extols characteristics and values that can propel us all to greater personal achievement.
But, surely my sentiments are in vain and ripe for ridicule and the ridiculous expectations a extreme criticism will summit.
Bob, get the he11 out of OK. We need a mediocre coach for another 10 years with no chance of winning anything to help us grow the he11 up get a life.
Sincerely,
Immature arsole...
Stuart, Brooklyn - Nov 8, 2009 at 12:28 am
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I have to respectfully disagree with you. I think there needs to be some coaching changes - specifically on the offensive side. I'd also like to know who decided to put Tress Way in to kick the field goals instead of Stevens. We would have won the game had we made all three of them.
The defense, once again, was great and did their job by holding Nebraska to a field goal. Landry Jones was the one who gifted the Huskers with their only touchdown. I'm not impressed with Jones. Freshman or not, he has had enough games under his belt to play better than he did tonight, even if it was just a tad better. I wonder if he has, or will ever have, the mindset and talent to keep playing at the college level. I only hope Stoops and company has some better QB prospects for next year.
1: This is an historic rivalry that used to rival OUvsTexass
2: In the past, we had Freshman with a 'sense of history', for instance Jamelle Holieway. (These guys had "balls", and used them in games like this)
3: How many "warm-up" games does Landry need before he realizes that every turnover KILLS! A team can dominate in the statistics--which OU did--and still lose if the MAIN Man in control of the ball does not PROTECT THE BALL!! And stop f-ing going for field goals if your field-goal kicker can't make it!!
4: Barry Switzer was honored!! That is wonderful, because he had a gift, the gift of TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OPPONENTS' MISTAKES, and making them 'PAY FOR THEIR MISTAKES'!! HE did this countless times against Nebraska and Tom Osborne, even when OU was the underdog!!
5: I am an alumnus who now resides in Tucson, Arizona, where Mike Stoops is now the Head Coach, and his college football acumen is beginning to blossom and become productive. I trust that Mike's older brother Bob can turn things around at Oklahoma, but until I see proof at Oklahoma of BALLS-OUT PLAY, then I will look locally, because it has started to happen here in Tucson!!!!!!
And, I've had enough of Al and Jim tonight too.