Call it “Great Coordinator/Shitty Head Coach Syndrome”.
Arlington Heights 14, Dunbar 26
TCU 31, at Wyoming 20
#6 Oklahoma 41, at Texas A&M 25
at #10 Nebraska 25, Northwestern 28
at Dallas 23, Seattle 13
Well, well, well.  Looks like some  Stop Six football team watched a little of the Southwest-Heights game film last week.
Bomb, bomb, bomb.  None of them fewer than 27 yards (hey, that’s not bad for a HS quarterback).
Nice going, Ged Kates, you dumbass.  You get to end your season on the Jackets’ first two-game losing streak in at least five years in a couple of days.  If I were the FWISD sports director, I’d reassign your ass now.
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Well, Denizens?  What’d I Tell Ya™ about A&M???
A&M will give OU headaches the first half, then get blown away in the second. No worries.
No worries, indeed.  28 third-quarter points turned a 13-10 squeaker into the expected laugher.  Two late Aggie touchdowns (when OU had basically stopped caring all that much) made it look a lot closer than it was.
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Looks like the Cowgirl faithful is starting to agree with me re:  El Choko.
3rd & goal, 2nd quarter, El Choko goes back to pass, sees nothing, takes off up the middle – and gives himself up around the 2.
Cowgirl faithful:  “BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
The Seahags being the Seahags, though, tied it at 6 towards the end of the first half, then Dallas made the adjustments it needed and put up 17 unanswered.  Game was never really in doubt – these are  the Seahags, after all.
Give Seattle credit for one thing, though:  They watched tape, too – of how Philthy gashed the Cowgirl defense on the ground.  Marshawn Lynch – 23 carries, 135 yards.
DeMarco Murray had another nice game – 139 yards on 22 carries plus 4 catchs for 47 yards.  Felix who?
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Gary Patterson has a plethora of running backs at his disposal – Ed Wesley, Matthew Tucker, Waymon James, Aundre Dean, and so on.
So you figure that, if one of them is being a complete clusterfuck that day, he can sit that back down and go to another one.  Right?
Hello, Matthew Tucker.  Dipwad fumbles inside the red zone – inside the 5, for Cthulu’s sake – not once, but twice.
Not only that, Pachall threw a pick at the 10 when they should’ve scored near the end of the half.
WTF?
Seriously, this game should’ve wound up something like 52-20 or sum’pin’.
Oh, well, not to worry.  Wyoming’s better this year than most other years, but it still wasn’t good enough to beat the Frogs.  After spotting the Pokes a 10-7 lead, and a halftime tie, TCU shut ’em down the rest of the way, save for a field goal in the third.
Pachall 17-24-227, Waymon James 181 yards on 22 carries, Ed Wesley (who himself lost a fumble) 19 carries, 120 yards, and Butterfingers Tucker even had 90 yards his own self.  Not a bad day at the office.
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Dave Campo.  Norv Turner.  Les Steckel.  Wade “Coach Stay-Puf” Phillips.
All good coordinators on either side of the ball.  All lousy head coaches.
Add Bo Pelini to that list.
A shitty Northwestern Wildcat team came into Lincoln and fucking had its way  with the Huskers.  Especially on offense.
With its backup quarterback.
Second-string quarterback Kain Colter ran for two touchdowns and passed for another as Persa cheered him on from the sideline.
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Persa injured his left shoulder in the second quarter when he was slammed to the ground by defensive end Eric Martin. Persa tried to play a couple more series, but he was on the sideline with his left arm in a sling after halftime.
Hell, even the third-string quarterback  had his way with ’em.
Colter, who typically shares playing time with Persa at quarterback, took all but four snaps in the second half. He ran for 58 yards and completed four of six passes for 115 yards. Third-string quarterback Trevor Siemian came in and went 3 of 4 for 67 yards.
I think I’ve seen enough of Bo Pelini as a head coach.  This guy ain’t gonna return Nebraska to prominence.  Not in the Big Ten, not in the Big XII – not ever.
This week:  2-3 (El Choko’s win counts as a loss).  Overall:  38-11.
The PFW will return tomorrow, when we mark the end of Arlington Heights’ season.