T. Boone’s line on UGA-OSU: Cowboys by 363 points
I’ve picked Georgia to lose to Oklahoma State by 10 points. T. Boone Pickens, who has more money than Arthur Blank and I put together, likes Georgia to lose by 363 points.
When I read T. Boone’s “predicted” score of 387-24 in a post by Terrance Harris on Fanhouse — thanks to observant reader Dink for the tip — my first thought was that the oil wildcatter has obviously been scouting Willie Martinez. But after reading Dave Sittler’s original column in the Tulsa World, I’m not sure this was an actual prediction. Sittler used the word “requested,” which is a bit different.
Example: I would like to request that Mr. Pickens give me 165 million bucks, but I’m not predicting he will.
T. Boone is 81. (He and the fourth Mrs. Pickens traveled to Athens in 2007 when OSU lost to the Bulldogs. Both Boone — his pals drop the “T” — and Madeleine spent some time in the press box. They seemed nice.) Three years ago the oilman gave the OSU athletics department $165 million. The refurbished edifice Georgia will enter on Sept. 5 is, you’ll be shocked to discover, named Boone Pickens Stadium.
TBP is already on record as believing his Cowboys will enter their regular season finale against Oklahoma unbeaten. Sittler quotes Pickens thusly: “I know I stuck my neck out in that Tulsa World column when I said we’re going to be 11-0. And I still believe that’s what we’re going to be, but it’s going to be tough getting there. We have to beat Georgia first if we’re going to be 11-0, so I think we’re going to win that game.
You’ll also be shocked to know I have some experience being on the wrong end of a projected blowout. I picked the Rams to beat the Patriots 42-3 in Super Bowl XXXVI, and the Patriots not only beat my 39-point spread but won the doggone game. So now I’m thinking T. Boone might have jinxed his ‘Boys. And, since I’ve also picked OSU, jinxed me.
Great, I say. Just great. Give a guy $3 billion and he thinks he owns the world.
(Oh, and here’s another column on T. Boone, this by Jenni Carlson of the Oklahoman. If her name rings a bell, there’s a reason. Her column provoked the infamous Mike Gundy rant, for which we should all be eternally grateful.)
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JB
August 21st, 2009
8:42 am
Yellow fuzz, use your mind to speak, not your Arse………Do think a coach who has averaged 10 wins a year for 8 years in the SEC for God’s sake is going to lose 6 games. In your dreams. Hell, UGA won 10 last year with one arm tied behind their back( 22 players hurt) Dawgs win 9 or 10 this year. also beat Tech.
WBK
August 21st, 2009
8:43 am
Anyone NOT blaming Willie Martinez is not doing their homework!
LSU TIGER
August 21st, 2009
8:46 am
Tech is a joke. 38-3……………..I was at LSU/Ga game. Tech lucky to catch Ga. sleeping. Dawgs will rip heads off this year. I wish we could play them regular season. It was a fun beat down to watch. Go SEC.
WTF???
August 21st, 2009
8:47 am
I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again, hard to throw touchdown passes off your back. Ask Colt Brennan…..
Dawgie Style
August 21st, 2009
8:48 am
Hey Ramble…shut up and get me a beer loser…..We own you…and it will be back to reality this year….. 7 0ut of 8 and 33 out of the last 46……….
Put that in your pipe and smoke it…..you will always be the second best team in the state…now do me a favor and go find me one of those dot headed girls…..i need a hummer
TIGER MIKE
August 21st, 2009
8:50 am
If the Georgia team that played us would have shown up against Tech, they would still be picking up jacket pieces. I guess that’s where the phrase on any given Saturday comes from. Tech was soft and easy. I’ll take Georgia 8 of 10 playing Tech.
m
August 21st, 2009
8:52 am
I loved those tight pants on the LSU players……..I wish we could of Scored on them….if you know what I mean…….
PT
August 21st, 2009
8:54 am
I am more worried about Arkansas than Okla St. They (OSU) have set them selves up for a nightmare. UGA 38-24
SuperB
August 21st, 2009
8:55 am
Georgia is a lot tougher than T. Boone thinks. The Dawgs are also tough on the road. Still I ask, why in the name of Enron did Damon Evans schedule a game in the middle of nowhere against a team like this? It’s a no-win situation. Can we get rid of this guy?
Dangerous
August 21st, 2009
8:56 am
I think Colt is still pissing blood.
Dangerous
August 21st, 2009
8:59 am
I love this game. GA hammers on Okl ST, Okl ST plays others in Big 12 tough and all lose street cred on the national scene.
RAMBLE ON!!!
August 21st, 2009
9:02 am
Dawgie style, I don’t let PBR in my refrigerator, sorry boy keep dreaming.
LSU Tiger, reading you post is like reading quotes from The Incredible Hulk in his comic book. “LSU SMASH YOU YELLOW HUMANS!!!”
How many grades did you compete before you dropped out of school?
Don’t give up on that GED.
DawginLex
August 21st, 2009
9:03 am
Rambler,
As close as it is to the opening of the season, it is time to start the college football season truce. No more appearing on UGA blogs by members of the nerd herd. I likewise, will cease and desist from venturing over to the nerd herd blogs. Of course the traffice will be lessened considerably on the nerd blogs without me.
UGA 36
OSU 35
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August 21st, 2009
9:04 am
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LSU TIGER
August 21st, 2009
9:04 am
Enter your comments here
DawginLex
August 21st, 2009
9:04 am
traffic. no e on the end
LSU TIGER
August 21st, 2009
9:06 am
Hey Ramble, your post about the big bad jackets is like reading a fairy tale.38-3.
bored by halftime…..38-3 LMAO…………..Rambling wreck does makes sense though.
Mutley
August 21st, 2009
9:07 am
If it is by 363 points do you think CMR will finally get a clue about Willie?
RAMBLE ON!!!
August 21st, 2009
9:08 am
now do you really think that’s going to happen dawginLex?
I’d have no problem with it, but your fellow fleabags live on our blog.
Not Disappointed
August 21st, 2009
9:09 am
T Boone has passion for his OSU. I can relate, but if Joe Cox is up for the game it could be a close one. I do feel OSU may have the edge, but the quarterback play will be the outcome of who losers or wins. I think Oklahoma State’s QB is currently hurt or something????
Well Gents, Ladies and “Mark” it’s almost time for College Football!
Mark Bradley, you forget my coffee with two sugars! You can play staff writer on your off time. I catch you blogging on the job again and you’re out of Here!…… “Ramblin Wreck!”
LSU TIGER
August 21st, 2009
9:09 am
Tech has a blog ?
Chris
August 21st, 2009
9:10 am
68th!
Good one Mark. That’s a bold prediction. Wasn’t the biggest thumping in college ever something like 222-0…Tech?
DawginLex
August 21st, 2009
9:12 am
Rambler,
Given your great amount of influence amongst your GT brethren, I figured it was easily accomplished.
PT
August 21st, 2009
9:13 am
This honestly will be Georgia best team ever under CMR beside maybe 02. Look at the Line, the depth, a 1st rounder at WR(Never had one) the speed on D, no arrest(a new focus) everything points that way. Probelem is this will be Floridas best team ever, Techs best in 20 yrs plus 2 other out of conference BCS teams, UT and Auburn will be better. Vandy and UK get better every year, and South Carolina gets up for us more than any other team. 8-4 is always possible in this league. When you have the talent UGA does so is 11-1. I say 10-2 with a win over Ohio in the citrus
RAMBLE ON!!!
August 21st, 2009
9:14 am
LSU TIGER, answer my question boy.
HOW MANY GRADES DID YOU COMPLETE BEFORE DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL?
or were you kicked out?
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2009
9:14 am
Ramble On off the UGA blogs? Come on now, don’t ask a man to give up his one connection to college football.
DawginLex
August 21st, 2009
9:14 am
Mark,
You are giving a UK education a bad name.
397-24=363???????????????????????
I’m pretty sure he “only” said 387, just to let you know. It was a typo on your part, not a math error. On, on UofK…………….
robodawg
August 21st, 2009
9:15 am
OSU against good defenses last year:
Texas – 24
Texas Tech – 20
Oklahoma – 41
That last one is worrying, but the others show that the Cowboys can be contained. As long as we can move the ball (on a mediocre defense, let me add) I don’t foresee a blowout. Either UGA wins big or this will be a close one, but we won’t get blown out.
Spike
August 21st, 2009
9:15 am
Dawgiestyle.. GATA, brother!!
chazzo
August 21st, 2009
9:15 am
One thing I am sure of: Pickens, Bradley, NCAA 2010, and AJC blogs all have something in common. They have absolutely zero effect on what happens on 9/4. Predictions are like a–holes. Everybody’s got one. No need to show it.
JaxDawg
August 21st, 2009
9:17 am
RAMBLE ON!!!
August 21st, 2009
8:36 am
Fleabags start the season getting blown out, and finish the season getting blown out.
yellow fuzz
August 21st, 2009
8:15 am
georgia will be 0-3 when they finally win against Arizona State. BANK on it!
georgia will be 5-6 when Tech ends their pathetic season. The only bowl game you azzholes will see for a while is the g-day bowl in the spring. Losers.
Thanks for the laugh this morning, I needed it. The only thing that will be more hilarious is coming on here around 7:30pm on Sept. 5 and seeing Yellow Fuzz and Ramble On’s posts after we dismantle OSU. Then again it will probably be something like “UGA got lucky, or OSU is overrated, or “they still won’t be able to stop the triple wing T wishbone h-back option” or whatever GT’s running these days.
UGA 38 OSU 24
Go Dawgs!
Dangerous
August 21st, 2009
9:21 am
This game will not be determined by Okl St’s QB. All the DAWGS that play that day my friend will be responsible for Okl St’s gloom and doom!
PT
August 21st, 2009
9:22 am
Tech will stall when all the coaches simplify the defense scheme to stop a very simple High school offense that a kid can operate. The defenses in college football a so complicated due to the spread and speed of the game, and when you need to take the breaks off and be disciplined it causes your players to actually play slower. That is a fact.
RAMBLE ON!!!
August 21st, 2009
9:24 am
AltamahaDawg, good one!
misterwax
August 21st, 2009
9:24 am
grammar…..Example…Boone has more money then I (have)….correct….do not use more than me (have)
He has more money the Arthur Blank (has)….correct….do not use him (has)…..maybe say more money than he (ever will have), etc…don’t use him in the comparative case
He has more money than Arthur and I (have)…….not More money the him and me (have)…..
Unless of course, you don’t care to admit you really weren’t taught well (not good) in public schools….Cowboys win using good grammar and sentence structure….
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!
RAMBLE ON!!!
August 21st, 2009
9:26 am
PT another fact, you are an idiot!!!
Herschel Talker
August 21st, 2009
9:28 am
EDDIE – you are an idiot! Mark’s grammar was perfectly correct. It’s “I,” not “me,” because the word “do” is implied, as in “who has more money than Arthur Blank and I (do) put together.” Quit being so arrogant when you don’t know the grammar rules, you fool.
MARK BRADLEY – you have to call out this moron Eddie on this!
RAMBLE ON!!!
August 21st, 2009
9:30 am
Herschel Talker likes men who like men.
DawginLex
August 21st, 2009
9:33 am
PT,
gotta disagree with you on the GT offense. The offense will work at a high level this year IF Nesbitt can pass and keep defenses honest. Teams that can be disciplined and tackle effectively will stop a lot of the running game but CPJ is going to add more to the offense including faking the run-twice, and then throwing. Can Nesbitt pass?
The other key to their season is the defense. The D line is rebuilt and that is why he has changed the scheme to hide the shortcomings at DT and take advantage of the speed at LB and the secondary. I still believe the D will cost them a couple of games in shootouts like 38-35 and stuff like that.
That is why I am excited about UGA because we have depth on the OL for the 1st time in 7 years and depth and talent on the D line and at LB. Our secondary is young but extremely athletic and will get better as the year goes on.
Can’t wait for football
PT
August 21st, 2009
9:33 am
No Ramble, you are. You speak total jealously of the UGA program. I would not even open my mouth if all we could do is win 20% of the time against a rival. Dont be fooled by this offense. Coaching will adapt. Not taking anything away from you backs as they are NFL players. Tech is and always will be a 7-9 win program
Hillbilly Deluxe
August 21st, 2009
9:34 am
T Boone Pickens is just another con man. Remember how when oil prices were high he was going to get us all switched to natural gas? Said he didn’t need anymore money he already had plenty, just doing it for the good of the country. Mysteriously enough, when oil prices went down where he wouldn’t make so much money, his natural gas idea slithered off into the night. Similar scenerio with his wind farms. He’s just another gas bag who likes to hear himself talk and get press.
As for OSU-Georgia, I don’t follow college football so I don’t really have a clue but I’m thinking no team could get in kickoffs and 3 and outs quick enough to win by 363 points.
Bob Smith
August 21st, 2009
9:34 am
RAMBLE ON – you talk a big game considering you’ve had one year of success. You sound like Bulldog fans after Donnan beat up Spurrier in 1997. They had anointed a new era. We know how that turned out. A statistical Techie geek such as yourself should be familiar with “sample size” and know that one good year isn’t enough to justify your trash talking, you imbecile. When UGA wins the next 7, you can have your moment in the sun again in 2016.
PT
August 21st, 2009
9:36 am
Dawginlex, agree to a point. Read my post. I was being an Arse about the High school offense. My point is the defensive coaches need to simplify. Coach Willy M went to a simple 4-4 d last yr. Probelm was we did not tackle. His scheme worked
Chris
August 21st, 2009
9:38 am
My first inclination is to look at the Texas Tech/Ole Miss Cotton Bowl. As a general rule whenever one of those June Jones triple veer, double jelly wingbone, shoot and poot offenses run up against a fundamentally sound defense, it gets exposed.
However, I just used the two words ‘fundamentally’ and ’sound’. While most discussion of this game is centered on Willie Martinez, I’m thinking the real key to GA winning centers on Cox not getting rattled first game and throwing more than one pick.
Also, unlike the Texas Tech and Hawaii offense of short, quick slant passes, OSU can really run the ball.
Herschel Talker
August 21st, 2009
9:40 am
RAMBLE ON – I’ll take that as flattery that you like my lines enough to steal them. And you like men.
DawginLex
August 21st, 2009
9:40 am
WM’s scheme worked for the first half. Then, the other team adjusted and we didn’t. Also, the offense in the 1st half scored points and in the 2nd half we fumbled on a KO and got away from abusing the GT secondary throwing the ball the way we did in the 1st half.
A lot of that is coaching. A lot of it was a lack of depth on the D line. The turnovers killed us too.
RAMBLE ON!!!
August 21st, 2009
9:44 am
Bob, maybe I a student of history as well and realize that every year GT has beaten UGAg, they did it the next year too. For the last 30-40 years or so.
Maybe, I also realize we got the same team with more experience coming back, while ya’ll have lost 3 1st round draft picks, and a QB whose game experience is against a team that hadn’t won a game in like 17-18 previous tries (Colorado).
PT
August 21st, 2009
9:46 am
You are correct, they went weak and we did not move which put our saftey on the pitch. Coulnt get there
Mark Bradley
August 21st, 2009
9:47 am
No need, Herschel. You guys took care of things for me.
And T. Boone’s spread was indeed 363 points. He predicted 387 points for OSU, not 397. Another mistake on my part. I’m having a terrible week. I apologize. I will, I promise, do better.
BruffDawg
August 21st, 2009
9:49 am
OSU can run the ball against teams who are suprised by a running play. Beating the option style teams all comes down to play by your defensive ends. Two years ago good ends for UGA and we beat fla. Last year no good ends and we lose to FLA and GT. If we have production at the defensive end position, we will beat OSU, FLA, GT and LSU.