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Published September 19, 2006 12:09 am - No remedy, but Boren may help Commentary By Clay Horning The Norman Transcript Here’s what I can’t get over.There’s this onside kick and everybody goes after it and it’s not really clear who has it and the officials come rushing in and there’s this brief moment of unpiling the players and one of the officials, all emphatic and everything, swings an arm around to signal it’s Oregon’s ball.
Only Allen Patrick had the ball. Find a long enough replay and you’ll see a couple of Sooners pointing toward Patrick, who other replays show to have clearly pounced on the ball after it squirted out of the scrum and then stand up without a care in the world even before the referees converged on the pile. He had no care in the world because he had the ball. He knew the Sooners had dodged the bullet because he had the ball. And a moment later, there’s this official signaling it’s Oregon’s ball. How can that be? Whatever he saw, it wasn’t a Duck with the ball. So write it down. The officials cost the Sooners the game. They did not unduly influence the game. They did not miss a call or two. They did not make mistakes. They flat won the game for Oregon. I don’t believe the fix was in. I believe they were that incompetent. On the other hand, this is the first time I’ve ever seen the fix theory carry weight in any sport other than boxing. Because if you knew everything you know now, having seen everything you’ve seen now, before any of it ever happened — impossible, I know, but stay with me — what’s more plausible, incompetence or corruption? Corruption. In the aftermath, I still can’t buy it. But what happened may be more unbelievable. So bully for OU president David Boren. 
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