If the on-side attempt was successful, y'all would've thought it was genius. The real lesson is to not get in the situation to have to make that call in the first place. Probably wasn't a brilliant play call, as you said, but Big Ned has to get better. That's the bottom line...
Was a fun day watching the Texas and Aggie backups tear it up. Manning had a couple of drives towards the end of the 2nd quarter where he looked like he was going to show some nerves, then he blew the doors off the game in the second half.