GQ03

Man, I'm a little embarrassed that so many fans left the stands by this point. I know the game was in hand and maybe it was extremely hot in the stadium or something but it wasn't that long ago that Strong and Herman were on our sidelines while we were getting thumped by the likes of Oklahoma St & BYU. I would think we'd savor times like this. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Weaver was my first thought but then I thought about mimicking last year's starting lineup and potentially running & gunning from the start with Larry in the lineup.

@Gerry Hamilton with the news of Tramon Mark likely being out for tomorrow's season opener, who would you go with to replace him the starting lineup? Larry, Weaver or Kent??

The way that rivalry goes is the games are close at Jordan-Hare and complete beatdowns in Tuscaloosa. Even with Bama down, I'm not sure anyone expects this Auburn team to go on the road and keep it within 20 of the Tide.

You still think Presley is higher in the pecking order than Pryor?

He had them convinced "nobody believes in us" after they won the first national championship on the way to the 2nd one.

Perfect game for Aaliyah Chavez to attend on her OU official visit.

Bobby, we are going to whip their @$$. I'm conservatively picking 34-13 but I really want to go to 45-13. They have nothing offensively to threaten our defense. Nothing.

New Mexico was his dream school and they wouldn't give him the time of day. He went the juco route and then ended up at New Mexico St and then transferred to Vandy.

@Gerry Hamilton, so is this basically a first come first served type of situation with Sims, Simpson, Mathis, Mbatchou, Wynn, etc?? First two to commit are in and then we shut it down....??

I'm pretty sure I saw that the game would be 3:15pm on the SEC network. Edit: I posted at the same time as Blake.

I guess it was Reed of A&M but I originally assumed it was Ryan Williams. Durham would've been a good choice too.

I agree but when you only have 3 games to go off of then you have no choice but to judge the full body of work and to this point that game represents 33.333% of what we've seen and that didn't show me they were a clear top 2 team in the country. They're good but I don't know that they're better than Ohio State, Georgia, Ole Miss, Tennessee, etc.

Alabama didn't look all that great vs a not good South Florida team.

Theirs has been viewed as tougher because not only is there the SEC schedule with Tennessee, Texas, Georgia, LSU, etc but of their 4 non-conference games 3 of them are against in-state power 4 programs in Miami, UCF and Florida St (I know) whereas as OU's toughest non-conference is either Tulane or Houston in addition to Temple and Maine.

I live down the street from where Hawkins played his HS ball and I don't recall him setting the world on fire back then. I just don't see him coming in and turning losses into wins. This seems more like a going from Swoopes to Heard like situation moreso than Rattler to Williams.

Man, things really are different in Florida than they are in Texas.

Was he not doing that at Texas?

If it plays out like that then there's a good chance Miami is the #4 seed and Notre Dame the #5 seed depending on what happens in the Big 12.

Was at the game this Saturday sitting in the Clemson section and I feel for Clemson fans. They are extremely frustrated with Dabo but can't do anything about it because he's a made man there. He's basically untouchable. Very similar to what Mack Brown thought of himself late in his tenure except he's not the greatest coach in our history while Dabo is. They look so much like 2010-2013 Texas that it's scary.

Isn't he also a former teammate of Peyton's or did their paths not cross in Indy??

He just has to stay healthy and the sky is the limit (or the ceiling is the roof) for him.

Its going to be interesting to see what they do with him and the other guards. You've got 5 guys on the perimeter that you'd be comfortable starting but can only start 3 of them. Maybe its not a big deal if they can sell two on having Sir'Jabari-like roles. Larry is tougher because he's the only true point on the roster with a bunch of natural scorers.

• 16 teams in conference • Play 18 conference games • Play OU/Arky/Aggy home and away • Play everyone else once • Non-conference will be padded with buy games after bigger games with Ohio St, UConn, NC State and two of Syracuse/Tech/St Joseph.

Agreed. I love horns basketball and while some of my posts may read as if I'm a sunshine pumper, I can definitely see the bottom falling out of a roster like this if things don't break right. We've got a lot of score first guys that came from losing programs. The optimist in me says they learned from those situations and are now willing to sacrifice and do the little things that contribute to winning but we're still talking about young guys with aspirations of going to the NBA while thinking they have to score to get there. Some of them still haven't figured why there are guys playing in the summer league that will average 20+ ppg and not sniff an NBA roster while there will be other guys averaging 5 ppg contributing to playoff teams in the NBA. RT has assembled a good amount of talent and it will take a valiant effort from the entire coaching staff to get this group to buy in but IF they do...look out!!