Oklahoma spin cycle

[OsasTheDestroyer]

Last one to the field, first one off. Well said gerry.@Gerry Hamilton

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[OsasTheDestroyer]

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Awkward...  🤣

[qaertyisthatdude]

Notice the trend of OU’s 5-star recruits going there and not living up to the ranking?  Jackson Arnold, Taylor Tatum, now David Stone?  There’s probably more than that but those are some names that came to mind.  Sounds a lot like 2010-2022 Texas.  We’ll see if Michael Fasusi can turn that trend around in Norman.

[Bobbers]

1 hour ago, qaertyisthatdude said:

Notice the trend of OU’s 5-star recruits going there and not living up to the ranking?  Jackson Arnold, Taylor Tatum, now David Stone?  There’s probably more than that but those are some names that came to mind.  Sounds a lot like 2010-2022 Texas.  We’ll see if Michael Fasusi can turn that trend around in Norman.

That is interesting because the guys in Norman made a lot of good decisions over the last 25 years.  The Stoops era was VERY good for them.

In the last three years though, they appear to be making some very questionable decisions, such as hiring Venables as HC.

Did the brain trust there get old and retire?  Are the wheels starting to fall off in Norman?

[qaertyisthatdude]

1 hour ago, Bobbers said:

That is interesting because the guys in Norman made a lot of good decisions over the last 25 years.  The Stoops era was VERY good for them.

In the last three years though, they appear to be making some very questionable decisions, such as hiring Venables as HC.

Did the brain trust there get old and retire?  Are the wheels starting to fall off in Norman?

Who knows.  Stoops had an incredible run there.  Multiple conference titles, Heisman trophy winning QBs and (gulp) a winning record over Texas.  Despite all that success, he only won one title in year two with John Blake’s players.

Even Lincoln Riley benefited from what Stoops left behind at first, but if you paid close attention, the cracks began to show even back then.  They never fielded a competent defense due to keeping Mike Stoops too long and Riley’s philosophy towards defense in general.  So while they continued to win conference titles, beat Texas, produce Heisman QBs, etc., they never had a competent defense to go any further than that.  Slight regression each year Riley stayed until he bolted for L.A. in the middle of the night.

The BV hire seemed like a home run to Sooner nation.  This was the guy to make the defense look like early ‘00s OU defenses again and make the transition to the SEC seamless.  But he whiffed on his coaching staff hires (especially OC) and here they are now.  Regressing to the mean.  Not as bad as they were in the ‘90s but not the power they were in the ‘00s and ‘10s.

If ‘25 goes the way I think it will, the new Nebraska talk might be valid.  We’ll see if Mateer, Arbuckle, and Nagy can save their future.

[K. Baughman]

[qaertyisthatdude]

2 minutes ago, K. Baughman said:

Jim Nagy cleaning house

[Tuco Ramirez]

14 hours ago, OsasTheDestroyer said:

This never gets old.

[THookem]

 

[Ace Recruiter]

26 minutes ago, THookem said:

 

Lol. Dude begging people not to talk bad about a player in order to keep him. If he's looking at social media to decide to stay or go, he's not worth it. Let him go. Or not. You're ou and you suck no matter what.

[K. Baughman]

Bad optics and a dumpster fire regardless.

[thatdude2]

2 hours ago, K. Baughman said:

The site I was member on had Okoye turning out to be better than Simmons. It’s only been one year, so I guess the jury is still out. Just saying that to be nice. 

[thatdude2]

2 hours ago, THookem said:

 

I actually thought about it this morning, and I could see him returning unless another school is willing to pay over 500,000 for unproven production.

[qaertyisthatdude]

13 hours ago, qaertyisthatdude said:

There’s probably more than that but those are some names that came to mind.

Whoa this list is far longer than i thought…