Rock bottom? Seems like it has to be. Given a week to regain their pride and confidence, to recalibrate after being torched by Kansas State, the Sooners got to go away and prove that’s not who they really are. It wasn’t. Turns out they're capable of being so much worse, falling 55-24 inside TCU’s Amon G. Carter Stadium.
The difference between being a good writer and a fan is I'm lost for words on our Sooners..You found some and your correct on everything. My only solace is I'm old enough to remember 1999 the year Bob Stoops was hired...Sooners were not very pretty that year. 2000 they won it all... Who was Bob Stoops DC that year?... Good article Clay.
So all these seniors transferring. If this is what the future of football is at the college level not one senior has to go to one day of class they can eat sleep and play football by the time this semester is over and they flunk all their classes and get kicked out of school the season is over.
I’m not so sure that the NCAA has given enough rope to allow the systems to hang themselves. So they can come back and say see what happens when we allow all these crazy opportunities to student athletes we’ve been trying to protect you for years and everybody has not respected our decisions.
Go back and get the depth chart of K State offense of lineman singers almost all singers.
Look at the depth chart of TCU seniors on the office of line all seniors a redshirted junior transfer equals a senior 22 and 23 year old are knight and day better than 18 and 19 year old in college football you look at any successful football program the teams that win or the teams with experienced meaning years of playing time and maturity at the offensive line.
When you let players transfer this is what you’re going to get seniors on one football team.
Go back to all the games that Oklahoma has lost Boise State every single offense of lineman was a senior for Boise State. Almost every single lineman on the office for K state what is a senior. I spent time with my family yesterday instead of watching the sooners lose again I did not know what the score was until the game was going on for an hour. The university better start dropping those prices and the NCAA needs to cut this foolishness of allowing these players just to cut and run to the next team and quit paying 18 year olds hundreds of thousands of dollars by the public. Unless you want to watch every single California team steal everybody’s players like they stole Oklahoma’s. If you want money for the athletes which they need to have money but not an endless amount of money give it to the team put a cap on it for each player that is equal because those linemen deserve the exact amount of money but that star receiver quarterback or running back gets. And if monies given to the football team don’t give it to the volleyball girls team keep it within where it was given
Garth brooks gave money to the track team and the athletic Director took it and spread it out over the whole sports and Garth never gave another dime they fired the athletic Director at OSU.
Defense wins championships at the Offense has to score to get you to the championship game. 0 to 0 don’t get you to the championship game. Since the Stoops era there have been three outstanding offense of coordinators Lincoln Riley was one of them.
I posted you before the season started and shared my information with you and my knowledge of football now you can see what I was talking about.
With that being said I am 100% behind the head coach. But you don’t get a left-handed quarterback and you don’t get an offensive coordinator who is not proven himself and I’m sorry old miss is not a place you go to get proven the office of coordinator‘s gotta go. And get a real quarterback the only people who want left-handed quarterbacks is because you can’t get anybody else.
When I heard that BV had Dillon Gabriel in the fold, my first thought was: Cool. It'll be great to have a mobile QB who will spread 15-20 yard receptions all over the field without so much dependence on the long downfield bombs. Fast forward a few months and, lo and behold, our small new QB cannot hit those wide open receivers all over the field. The guy showed way before today that he had a proclivity for overthrowing open men, but today was the clincher. This guy is no Big XII QB! Worse yet, his backup couldn't get on the field at either Norman High or Norman North. He was scared out of his mind. I actually hoped they would go to a full run-only setup.
So, realizing we have zero offense, we should have been OK with the vaunted—at least for the past month—BV's defense on the field. Whoops! Wrong again. That would be the defense that can't tackle, can't pressure the QB, and a secondary that has no clue whom to cover or what to do once they actually find the right man on the field. The final straw was when an OU secondary guy actually made a smart football play and cut in front of a TCU receiver with the ball coming into his hands...except he never kept the ball in his hands. He let it go right through his fingers and deflected it directly into the waiting arms of the intended receiver! A comedy of errors. A ship of fools. Anything would have been better than this non-competitive bunch of OU players and coaches.
In all of the pre-season lauding of the brilliant defensive mind of BV, a lot of history got swept under the rug. I sat back—what else can a fan do—and thought that it might work out better than BV's first time at OU. Give it awhile and see. That bit of time turned into a month of season with decidedly up and down results, and last week's loss and today's brought me out of my reverie. The images that leapt unasked for into my mind were of Mike Stoops and Brent Venable's, unable to field even an average defense during the 2000s. We were so sick of both that we booed them out of town on a rail.
Bottom Line: The K-State loss was the warning, and today's massacre was the deliverance of all our misgivings. That OU team—both offense and defense—that took the field today was so woefully unprepared as to be an embarrassment to the entire Sooner nation. Either the OC and the DC are completely incompetent or we have recruited and transferred in the biggest group of dunderheads ever to trot onto a college football field. Add in that your best—not very good at all—QB is now apt to miss at least one game, maybe more, and we saw what a lack of skills the backup possesses, this season has spun wildly out of control. How can a team the caliber of an OU not have anything better in mind than our number 11 as the backup QB.
How many years are remaining on that fat BV contract?
The difference between being a good writer and a fan is I'm lost for words on our Sooners..You found some and your correct on everything. My only solace is I'm old enough to remember 1999 the year Bob Stoops was hired...Sooners were not very pretty that year. 2000 they won it all... Who was Bob Stoops DC that year?... Good article Clay.
So all these seniors transferring. If this is what the future of football is at the college level not one senior has to go to one day of class they can eat sleep and play football by the time this semester is over and they flunk all their classes and get kicked out of school the season is over.
I’m not so sure that the NCAA has given enough rope to allow the systems to hang themselves. So they can come back and say see what happens when we allow all these crazy opportunities to student athletes we’ve been trying to protect you for years and everybody has not respected our decisions.
Go back and get the depth chart of K State offense of lineman singers almost all singers.
Look at the depth chart of TCU seniors on the office of line all seniors a redshirted junior transfer equals a senior 22 and 23 year old are knight and day better than 18 and 19 year old in college football you look at any successful football program the teams that win or the teams with experienced meaning years of playing time and maturity at the offensive line.
When you let players transfer this is what you’re going to get seniors on one football team.
Go back to all the games that Oklahoma has lost Boise State every single offense of lineman was a senior for Boise State. Almost every single lineman on the office for K state what is a senior. I spent time with my family yesterday instead of watching the sooners lose again I did not know what the score was until the game was going on for an hour. The university better start dropping those prices and the NCAA needs to cut this foolishness of allowing these players just to cut and run to the next team and quit paying 18 year olds hundreds of thousands of dollars by the public. Unless you want to watch every single California team steal everybody’s players like they stole Oklahoma’s. If you want money for the athletes which they need to have money but not an endless amount of money give it to the team put a cap on it for each player that is equal because those linemen deserve the exact amount of money but that star receiver quarterback or running back gets. And if monies given to the football team don’t give it to the volleyball girls team keep it within where it was given
Garth brooks gave money to the track team and the athletic Director took it and spread it out over the whole sports and Garth never gave another dime they fired the athletic Director at OSU.
Defense wins championships at the Offense has to score to get you to the championship game. 0 to 0 don’t get you to the championship game. Since the Stoops era there have been three outstanding offense of coordinators Lincoln Riley was one of them.
I posted you before the season started and shared my information with you and my knowledge of football now you can see what I was talking about.
With that being said I am 100% behind the head coach. But you don’t get a left-handed quarterback and you don’t get an offensive coordinator who is not proven himself and I’m sorry old miss is not a place you go to get proven the office of coordinator‘s gotta go. And get a real quarterback the only people who want left-handed quarterbacks is because you can’t get anybody else.
When I heard that BV had Dillon Gabriel in the fold, my first thought was: Cool. It'll be great to have a mobile QB who will spread 15-20 yard receptions all over the field without so much dependence on the long downfield bombs. Fast forward a few months and, lo and behold, our small new QB cannot hit those wide open receivers all over the field. The guy showed way before today that he had a proclivity for overthrowing open men, but today was the clincher. This guy is no Big XII QB! Worse yet, his backup couldn't get on the field at either Norman High or Norman North. He was scared out of his mind. I actually hoped they would go to a full run-only setup.
So, realizing we have zero offense, we should have been OK with the vaunted—at least for the past month—BV's defense on the field. Whoops! Wrong again. That would be the defense that can't tackle, can't pressure the QB, and a secondary that has no clue whom to cover or what to do once they actually find the right man on the field. The final straw was when an OU secondary guy actually made a smart football play and cut in front of a TCU receiver with the ball coming into his hands...except he never kept the ball in his hands. He let it go right through his fingers and deflected it directly into the waiting arms of the intended receiver! A comedy of errors. A ship of fools. Anything would have been better than this non-competitive bunch of OU players and coaches.
In all of the pre-season lauding of the brilliant defensive mind of BV, a lot of history got swept under the rug. I sat back—what else can a fan do—and thought that it might work out better than BV's first time at OU. Give it awhile and see. That bit of time turned into a month of season with decidedly up and down results, and last week's loss and today's brought me out of my reverie. The images that leapt unasked for into my mind were of Mike Stoops and Brent Venable's, unable to field even an average defense during the 2000s. We were so sick of both that we booed them out of town on a rail.
Bottom Line: The K-State loss was the warning, and today's massacre was the deliverance of all our misgivings. That OU team—both offense and defense—that took the field today was so woefully unprepared as to be an embarrassment to the entire Sooner nation. Either the OC and the DC are completely incompetent or we have recruited and transferred in the biggest group of dunderheads ever to trot onto a college football field. Add in that your best—not very good at all—QB is now apt to miss at least one game, maybe more, and we saw what a lack of skills the backup possesses, this season has spun wildly out of control. How can a team the caliber of an OU not have anything better in mind than our number 11 as the backup QB.
How many years are remaining on that fat BV contract?