OU Sooners vow there will be no fiesta in Miami this go-round
BCS title game
By Jake Trotter
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Published: January 1, 2009
In the weeks leading up to last season’s Fiesta Bowl, many Oklahoma Sooners couldn’t wait.
OU defensive lineman Gerald McCoy talks to the press during the final University of Oklahoma media luncheon on Monday, Dec. 22, 2008, at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla. Photo by Chris Landsberger
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For the trip, that is.
Many players discussed how they were going to spend their free time in
Phoenix more often than how they were going to outmaneuver the
West Virginia Mountaineers.
The result of an unfocused team was an embarrassing 48-28 loss, a fourth consecutive
BCS bowl defeat.
This time, even though OU is traveling to sunny
Miami for the BCS National Championship on Friday, the mentality is different, the Sooners say.
"You haven’t seen one player talk about going down there to have fun. When they mention fun, it’s after the game, not before,” said defensive tackle
Gerald McCoy, one of the team’s captains. "This is not a vacation. We’re not going down there to party.
"We’re going down there to play a game.”
Underscoring that mindset, the Sooners have moved curfew up. They will also spend just six days in Miami before the game, a day less than they spent in Phoenix.
"There is not going to be any party-type atmosphere,” said cornerback
Dominique Franks. "We are going down there for one thing and that is to win a national championship.”
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were from Tx. that got caught wasn't they. You got to be the biggest a-- there is in Tx. I live in Tx. and am ashamed of people like you. I know there are a lot of people who live in Oklahoma who will root for the Longhorns.