Photo Attribution: US Presswire
Winners: Oklahoma prisoners (do you play football for OSU?), Gundy, visors (lots of TV time), ESPN (you listened to the broadcast), morning games (as a blogger, I love them).
Losers: Austin Hays’ hands, Greeks, Justin Horton’s achilles, the eight Iowa State DBs who dropped pick sixes.
Best play: The INT by Daytawion Lowe, if only because I almost forgot how to spell the word “interception.”
Worst play: Justin Gilbert got burned so hard in the first quarter on a stop-and-go up the OSU sideline. If Iowa State didn’t have QBs that would have competed for time on my intramural team they could have army-crawled into the endzone.
Best player: Walsh, though I’m eternally perplexed by him, did a great job on one of the best defenses in the Big 12. It’s not always pretty but you can’t deny how good he was yesterday.
Worst player: Austin Hays (where is C.J. Curry and all of his stars?)
Uniform Heisman: I have no idea why but I loved Justin Horton’s white shoes. Maybe they were the only thing reminding me that OSU is, in fact, not a prison yard team.
“God, why?!” moment: Honestly, after Iowa State’s first drive I just thought “this revenge thing isn’t going to go as planned, is it?” Also, the fraternities/sororities leaving early was embarrassing (but expected):
Good job filling the stands, Greek students. You guys are the best. RT @brendon_wm: twitter.com/brendon_wm/sta… #okstate
— Pistols Firing (@pistolsguy) October 20, 2012
Quote: Gundy: “We just beat the #24 team in the country by 21 points so I hope my son liked it.” In response to his son being pissed about OSU only scoring 20 at KU1.
Photo of the game:
Epic mullet #okstate @pistolsguy @cowboysrff twitter.com/cg0012/status/…
— Craig (@cg0012) October 20, 2012
Tweeter of the game: @carsonc5 was spectacular. You should definitely be following him.
Stat of the night : Iowa State has only given up three 300+ yard passing days in the last two seasons, two of those were to OSU and both of them were 400+.
The “clearly doesn’t look at Vegas lines” award:
Upset Baby!! Thats what im talkin about! #CowboyNation
— Justin Gilbert (@Su4erman) October 20, 2012
- Who wasn’t though, right? ↩
It does not bode well to me when your (preseason) all Big 12 corner is so pumped about beating ISU on homecoming. I thought he would be underwhelmed like the rest of us…
Justin Gilbert needs to get with the program! Is that seriously how he tweets after a game that I saw him make one play…one play!!!???
So glad for the win (I’m too young to have a stroke…I’ll save that for the KSU game) It was a great day of football…Pokes still have some things to work out (as always) but a solid win nonetheless. And I know I shouldn’t care as much as I do, but it really pisses me off that the Greeks bailed after their “award” announcement. Pathetic. (and yes, expected…but still…the optics…)
Well hope Lunt is ready….Walsh is out for season.
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-state-football-j.w.-walsh-out-for-season-with-knee-injury/article/3721177
Do you guys realize how much sleep the Greeks had in the last 48 hours before the game? Give them a break, good grief. They give their heart and soul for those house decks the last few weeks. If they want to leave when we are up, let them. If not for them, this would not be “America’s greatest homecoming”.
Get a life guys.
Amen! Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the Greek system makes Homecoming. Yeah, it may have looked bad but the sections next to Gallagher Iba were pretty bare, too. The 11:00am kick didn’t help either.
Really? So they spend all of this time on homecoming things to “support” their school, but can’t manage to stay for a close football game any longer than to get their 10 dollar trophies? Not to mention their constant cheering for themselves at completely random times. It was embarrassing really.
Yep…come on Greeks. Homecoming is about the TEAM, and you folks vacated in the middle of the battle. Seriously. That didn’t happen when I was in school…back in the dark ages…
If OSU gave out a “Heart of a Champion Award” I’d like to be the first to nominate J-Dub! Can’t believe he played the rest of the game and never said a word about being hurt. Gamer!
Just my two cents: to be clear first I am a Greek, and have season tickets. Graduated in 2010.
The mass Greek exodus is expected and saddening, but what most people don’t understand is that for the most part it is the sororieties that leave at halftime. Them mixed with the heat/sun and morning game coupled a mass exit. When I was in school my fraternity brothers and i would stay through halftime and sing the alma mater at the end. The girls that we were paired up with left as soon as the awards were announced. (most of them bought tickets from other students that did not want to attend.) so to finish my soapbox rant I would just like to point out that it isn’t just the Greeks to blame and it also annoys me when people unfairly call out a section of the student body.
FWIW I stayed through halftime, got a sunburn on my face, my mom had to leave bc of heat exhaustion, and after halftime a lot of people in and around my section did not reappear after half. Enough people that my whole family (7 including my mom who reappeared for the 4th) sat together with plenty of elbow room.
This and people don’t realize that they haven’t slept in 48-72 hours getting the house decks ready.
Please just look at the picture above and tell me that everyone is to blame. I understand there are a few of you who stay, but i do believe you should at least be slightly embarrassed by your Greek friends.
If you look at my first post I do say that this is saddening. Personally I cannot look at that picture and pick out which greeks are still there because everyone looks like they are wearing the same color…… But my point is don’t automatically assume it was all the “greeks” fault. All I know is that a morning game and very hot temperatures and sun resulted in a lot of people in and out of the student section to not return to the game and that when I did sit in the student section (2-6 years ago) the mass exit was mostly made up of lovely women that did not care about the games outcome in the first place. That is all.
So we can’t unfairly call out the Greek student body, but you can blame it on the women?
Not that I’m disagreeing with you on many women leaving, but having sat in the student section this Saturday, surrounded by Greeks, I can assure you that both men AND women left. It is what it is, but you can’t blame it entirely on women. I didn’t look around after the mass exodus and go hrm, there’s nothing but men left here! It was definitely still the expected 50%.
And yes, I do understand the a lot of Greeks were tired (and many apparently hungover, but that goes for a lot of people at an 11 AM Homecoming kick off =( ). I actually don’t even care that they left, it gave me a lot more room to relax and watch the game. I guess all I’m saying is that you can’t blame it on Greek women. I’m not a feminist by any means and I see the flaw in that.
Easy solution. Announce awards after the game is OVER. Or maybe even before the game starts. The students pack it in for every other game. This trend of not staying for the Homecoming game is bizarre. This of all games should be one of the best attended.
Now I didn’t mean that as an antifeminist ploy guys…. lol. More what I saw when I was in the student section (2006-2010) most of my fraternity brothers stayed. And I wasn’t in the student section this weekend so i concede to your guys insight. Mainly it just rubs me the wrong way when peoples opinions come off as hate on greeks because of some peoples (most likely greek) decisions to leave early. But I completely understand the disappointment, I just wanted to express my opinion that I felt like there were a lot of open seats across the stadium after halftime bc of the heat and that not all greeks leave. Thanks guys for listening.
As an alum of the Greek System and as someone who spent three years in college as a Homecoming director, I always get offended when people scoff at the Greek system for leaving games early. Sororities and Fraternities leave, this is true. I did it. It was literally the only game that I would leave early each year. I am a very dedicated OSU fan and have been my entire life. But I still do not regret leaving those 4 games early to celebrate or enjoy the last few hours of that Homecoming season with my fellow directors.
Does it look bad on TV that they leave at the half, yes? But these students have spent 12 hours of their lives every week for 8 weeks, and the 48 hours before the game building these structures for the ALUMNI to come back and enjoy. Oklahoma State has “America’s Greatest Homecoming Celebration” because of these students. And instead of getting a “Thank you” from Alums, all they ever hear are complaints because they left one game early to celebrate their accomplishments.
So I’ll be the one to say thanks to the Greeks for helping make Walk-Around this year one of the largest and most successful Homecomings OSU has seen. You did good.