Maybe if we can do this better than the Knights of the Roundtable, we’ll get a pizza party!! Or at the very least, our very own RMN certificate of achievement, suitable for framing!!
1. Mizzou seems to come out flat in the second half the last two ballgames. I’m sorry, I thought the half was an opportunity for the team to make the necessary adjustments to your game plan based on what transpired the first thirty minutes of the contest. I’m not going to be a whiner and say “Pinkel is too stubborn” like most Mizzou fans have been lately, but it’s a trend that I find alarming. Perhaps I’m being a bit too critical, as it really is only two ballgames, and it’s hard to count Nebraska as weather played a major factor. Let’s just say it takes four quarters of quality football to win a game and I’ve not seen that from the Tigers in Big 12 action yet.
2. Nebraska pulls out the North this year. I hate saying that, but I’d hate saying Kansas even more. The North has a lot of work to do, obviously, but I believe that Cousin Bo will be the last man standing this season. Which is kinda nice, because it’ll add an air of respectability to the rivalry when we go up to Lincoln and kick their tail next season.
3. PICKS
Oklahoma at Kansas – OU
Colorado at Kansas State – KSTATE
Iowa State at Nebraska – HUSKERS
Oklahoma State at Baylor – OKIE ST
Texas A&M at Texas Tech – TECH
Texas at Missouri – MISSOU (unless we are putting money on this thing)
4. Willy Wonka always gave me the hebbie jebbies. I’m sorry, those friggin little midgets running around the factory??? That’s just not natural!! I was scared of little people most of my life, and I’m north of six feet! To this day I still don’t like chocolate (little known fact about brik, share with your friends at the next trivia contest, it’s sure to become a classic soon).

Although I didn’t fail on par with tigers and chiefs fan, he outperformed me on all levels. I feel shame…

1 – Biggest cause for alarm after your team’s showing last weekend? Biggest cause for excitement?
Biggest cause for alarm – our ability to not matriculate down the field. Excitement ? Defense. We are hitting/tackling guys like the Big 12 South does. It’s exciting to watch.

2 – Deep down in your gut, who do you think wins the North this year?
Us. But how deep down are we talking? I know it won’t be Kansas so that makes me feel good.

3 – Picks!

Oklahoma at Kansas
Colorado at Kansas State
Iowa State at Nebraska
Oklahoma State at Baylor
Texas A&M at Texas Tech

And of course…
Texas at Missouri

4 – With Where The Wild Things Are set to give an entirely new generation of kids nightmares, admit it: what “children’s” movie gave you nightmares when you were growing up?

1 – Biggest cause for alarm after your team’s showing last weekend? Biggest cause for excitement?
The all or nothing vertical only passing is starting to wear on me, BTBS suggested the run lanes would be there, and they were …until the second half.

2 – Deep down in your gut, who do you think wins the North this year?

NU, but mostly because their fans need it more, we can’t have ‘the best fans in the nation’ booing their own players. This does not compute with the national sports media.

3 – Picks!

Oklahoma > Kansas
Colorado > Kansas State (This is my gamble for the Big 12 this week)
Iowa State < Nebraska
Oklahoma State > Baylor
Texas A&M < Texas Tech

And of course…
Texas = Missouri (they tie; the fan wants to go with Mizzou, the logic suggests this isn’t possible therefore it is a push)

4 – With Where The Wild Things Are set to give an entirely new generation of kids nightmares, admit it: what “children’s” movie gave you nightmares when you were growing up?

With the beginning of the movie in the corn screaming at Elliott, I was freaked from there on out. I don’t think I slept for about 2-3 days after. Phone Home my ass!! GTFO more like it!

Just kidding.

Away we go.

1 – Biggest cause for alarm after your team’s showing last weekend? Biggest cause for excitement? The lack of a reliable backup quarterback. I know a sprained ankle isn’t a life or death injury, but clearly since Suh rolled up Gabbert, kid hasn’t been the same.
Biggest cause for excitement: Hey, we have a defense! Provided they get a chance to rest. I think the Texas game will be closer than I thought in the preseason.
2 – Deep down in your gut, who do you think wins the North this year? I’ll stick with Nebraska—ugly loss to Tech notwithstanding. Kansas’s margin of error was slim—and they shaved it all off with that loss to CU.
3 – Picks!

Oklahoma at Kansas Both teams need the win. OU comes out solid against a reeling Jayhawks program
Colorado at Kansas State Who really knows? I think CU will win close in this one. This is a hunch pick.
Iowa State at Nebraska Nebraska comes out strong against an improving, but not great Cyclones team.
Oklahoma State at BaylorI’m staying away from the Cowboys bandwagon right now, but I’ll consider hopping back on for next weekend
Texas A&M at Texas TechBecause nothing makes Mike Leach happier than beating the Aggies. This one’s for Graham Harrell!!
And of course…
Texas at MissouriThoroughly uninspired performance by the Longhorns last weekend. Mizzou will be buoyed by a homecoming crowd. But I think Texas is a bit better.
4 – With Where The Wild Things Are set to give an entirely new generation of kids nightmares, admit it: what “children’s” movie gave you nightmares when you were growing up?

The Neverending Story. I mean, seriously, how can you be a 6 or 7 year old and look at this
without having nightmares?

I’ll mess it up somehow…

1. The lack of consistency in offense/lack of TE play. I know that Alexander is getting the underneath routes and making magic with them, I think he could do a lot more if there was a TE a level underneath him dragging the opposite direction. I’m excited that our Pass coverage seems to be holding up better. and it’s young.

2. I think Mizzou can still take the title, but it’s not going to be pretty.

3. OK/KSU/NU/Bayor/Tech win
  Mizzou loses but McCoy’s hand pays the price

4. never scared by a “children’s movie” Just that hardcore.

That, and my grandparents let my cousins and me watch Fatal Attraction when I was little…needless to say, that movie freaked me out in ways I didn’t even understand for another ten years. But that’s not a “children’s move” per say…just a movie I (shouldn’t have) watched as a child.

1 – Biggest cause for alarm after your team’s showing last weekend? i don’t like the 5 wide/no back set when we have 3rd or 4th and <5 to go. especially when gabbert is not a credible threat to run. very frustrating
Biggest cause for excitement? the defense mostly eliminating the big plays that plagued them last year

2 – Deep down in your gut, who do you think wins the North this year? nebraska, unless they play green at qb, no wait… unless they play lee at qb… um, what?

3 – Picks!

Oklahoma > Kansas
Colorado < Kansas State
Iowa State > Nebraska
Oklahoma State > Baylor
Texas A&M < Texas Tech

And of course…
Texas < Missouri

4 – With Where The Wild Things Are set to give an entirely new generation of kids nightmares, admit it: what “children’s” movie gave you nightmares when you were growing up?

it’s not a movie but this show terrified me. my dad and i used to watch the 3 stooges and benny hill every night, then this would give me frickin nightmares

not being allowed to view your own website at work because you spent too much time on your own website at work and ended up getting it blocked always makes me feel bad.

(by the way, my only complaint about SBN is that it always mucks up my numbering of things)

Numero Uno – My cause for alarm is actually our status at running back currently. I am reasonably convinced D Wash has lost a step from last year, which is saying something since he was rarely 100 percent. Behind him, Devion Moore is a worthy backup, but cannot seem to go more than a play or two per half before he gimps off. Kendial Lawrence is not seeing reps for whatever reason, and our QB is now pretty much immobile to boot. That, and proven WR depth beyond this season

My biggest cause for celebration would be the culmination of the careers of Alexander and Perry, along with the play of the defense in some respects. I am still not thrilled at how little pressure our ZOMG DE’s are getting, but I like how the unit is playing for the most part. I am just more happy than anything for DA and Perry who are hopefully elevating their stock to see their names called over the three days of the draft.

Number Two – I think you still have to give it to NU, who I think will beat kU (even at Lawrence)

Three – OU over kU, and I have a feeling it is an angry OU team and kU’s defense may look bad against them
I had to look at where the kSU game was to pick the winner, so kSU close
NU over ISU
OSU over BU
Tech over aTm, and it may be by a lot
and I’ll pick MU…why the hell not

Quatro – I am with Bill C on the witch, and while this is not a child movie either, I saw it at a fairly young age (8 I think) in the theatre and it scared the crap out of me.

Why on earth my parents let me stay up that night I’ll never know, I was probably 6 or 7 and Invasion of the Body Snatchers was on TV. Still to this day, creeps me out.

1) Mental Mistakes There were so many times during that Oklahoma State game where I felt like we gave them the game. We just flat-out didn’t execute.

2) Either us or kansas (notice the ‘k’ is not capitalized. kansas is not a proper noun and never will be). It all hinges on that final game.

3) OU over ku, K-State over Colorado, nebraska over ISU, OSU over Baylor, Tech over A & M, MIZZOU OVER TEXAS!! CALLING IT NOW!!!

1- Lack of offensive line production. They have GOT to clear holes for the offense!

2- Missouri. I am serious about this, NU has no offense, kU has no team motvation. MU at least can do somethings well…(BTW…CU is a REAL darkhorse for this division….)

3- OU kU...OU (they can't be THAT lousy with Landry Jones at QB)      CU KSU…CU (Why not…they have a QB now)
     ISU @ NU…NU (ISU comes crashing to earth)
     OSU @ BU…OSU (due to BU not having ANYTHING resembling an offense)
     A&M @ TTU…TTU (A&M has given up…Never thought I would see the day)
     UT @ MU…UT (UT is just tougher than we are right now)

4- I don’t remember…

1) Alarm: OSU’s camera elevation sucks. Why don’t they just film the game from a blimp?
Excitement: Home game with better camera angles.

2) Nobody will win it, but someone will poorly represent the north in the title game or maybe pull a KSU 2003.

3) Oklahoma at Kansas
Colorado at Kansas State
Iowa State at Nebraska
Oklahoma State at Baylor
Texas A&M at Texas Tech
Texas at Missouri

4) Babes in Toyland
http://www.hulu.com/watch/50153/babes-in-toyland-capturing-the-troll

we got so much more out of it than I initially thought.