Scoreboard Stoops ticks me off

Something happened this weekend that made me so mad that I was yelling at the TV more than I usually do. I had to take a second dose of my medication and wash it down with a six-pack just to get calm again. It's something that really bothers me, and I think I have to address it. So this is a memo to Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops: "Stop running up the score!!!"\nWe get it, your team is good and the rest of the Big 12 isn't.\nThis past weekend, with the outcome clearly decided, Stoops left his starting offense in for the entire game. Not only that, but with the score 30-0 and less than two minutes on the clock, he had his quarterback, Jason "The Heisman Thief" White, throwing to the end zone on four consecutive plays. It was a clear attempt to simply make the game look like more of a blow-out than it already was. It was also selfish, classless and downright mean. \nThey were playing one of their arch rivals, Nebraska, in a matchup in which both teams have immense respect for the other program. Apparently Bob missed that memo.\nMany analysts are calling it the worst moment in the history of the rivalry, and I absolutely agree. And when Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso and I all agree on something, there is a problem.\nThis isn't the first time this has happened with Stoops at the helm, either. Last year, he was lambasted for leaving his starters in well into the fourth quarter against Texas A&M, running the score to 77-0 before time finally ran out. Honestly, Jason White won his the Heisman Trophy last year because he threw so many touchdowns, at least a third of which were in garbage time. Plainly, he didn't deserve it, and we all know it. I wish a reporter would just ask him once: "So Jason, how does it feel to have Larry Fitzgerald's Heisman on your mantle?"\nFor an example of how it should be done, look at Pete Carroll and his University of Southern California Trojans. In this weekend's 49-9 blowout of Arizona, his Heisman candidates, quarterback Matt Leinart and running back Reggie Bush, didn't even see the field during the fourth quarter. \nSo why does Stoops do it? Maybe because he doesn't think his team's performance is enough to speak for itself. Maybe he feels like he has to run up the score to impress the voters, although it doesn't seem to be working as Auburn is slowly creeping up on the Sooners in the polls. \nSo why am I writing this? To implore you, the reader, to root as hard as you can against coach Stoops and his Sooners. There is no reason for them to get a free pass into the title game after all they have done to hurt the sport of college football. Last year, they were wrongly placed in the Bowl Championship Series title game against Louisiana State University after being pasted by Kansas State in the Big 12 title game, then White inexplicably won the Heisman Trophy, and now this year they have repeatedly embarrassed opponents for no good reason. It's not right and it is not the example coaches should set for their players. \nI know a lot of you don't care about this issue, but if you've been on the other side of a blowout you know what I mean. Actually you should all know what I'm talking about. You're IU football fans, right?