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I think there's a lot of truth to this.
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Hurts has an extremely small chance of amounting to anything in the NFL. Sloppy with the football and slow on his reads. He's a good leader and teammate, but Riley had him running about half the playbook last year.
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13 hours ago, mulletpelini said:
If by sooner you mean that they'll be testing on ou fans, I'm all for it.
OU fan here. Your point is well taken, but I'd love to get in on early vaccine testing.
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10 hours ago, hpslugga said:
With OU? Beating them is a euphoric occasion, and they’ll tell you the same damn thing when they speak of beating Texas.
Can confirm. Beating Texas is the pinnacle of nearly every season whenever it happens. I never got even close to the same feeling when OU beat Aggy--just a sense of terrible relief and a sudden urge to shower (except for 77-0; that shit was euphoric).
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And Mike Stoops *still* didn't get fired after that game. It's legendary for all the wrong reasons among OU fans. 854 total yards for each team. Jesus.
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2 hours ago, closetojumping said:
I like a lot of our match-ups, having seen OU 3 times this season. The okie above is correct - the OU defense sucks. It's not average, it is bad. The secondary is really fucking bad.
That considered, I worry about two key match-ups.
1) Brown vs Locke - Locke is basically incompetent when isolated in coverage in the passing game. Brown is about as electric as we'll see this year. I expect him to score at least once if Locke winds up having to deal with him.
2) Lamb vs Boyd - We all know that Boyd will shit himself with stupidity on at least one play in each game, and Lamb is an elite talent. I expect Lamb to score at least once as well.
I'm not worried about the Kyler Murray, dual-threat aspect in this game. Orlando seems to prepare his plans to account for specific QB capabilities, whatever they may be. We run into trouble when the QB the defense has prepared for goes down or gets subbed. We've seen this with Maryland and both years with KSU. We clearly prepared for Delton, and then had trouble accounting for Thompson last week. In 2017, we witnessed the opposite.
Herman and crew need to come out expecting to score more than 30. You guys can talk ball control, and I get it up to a point, but thinking that OU isn't going to put up somewhere between 28 and 42 seems silly. Texas can't turtle on the game if we get the lead.
We need Ehlinger to play an excellent game. If he's accurate and mentally competent, that will be huge. If he shows up as though this is the first time he's seen a football field, it really doesn't matter what everyone else does, we're struggling to win in that event.
Spot on. Against Baylor, the OU front seven actually got lots of pressure; there's some athleticism there. The secondary is a fucking disaster, though. And Mike Stoops is our very own Tim Beck.
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As somebody from the enemy side, I agree completely that the key for UT is to play ball control. Army almost beat us with that approach (and should have won, honestly) and Baylor did it well, too. Baylor's problem was that OU"s offense demolished them, but Texas has a far superior D. I know some of you have mixed feelings about Sam, but he's very capable of dinking and dunking down the field against OU"s atrocious defense (both passing and running), which can't get anybody off the field. That's the major worry from the OU side. The ewok as you call him (yeah, he looks like one) is electrifying, but even great offenses can be slowed down, as UT has shown against OU more than a few times recently.
I would argue that UT's biggest worry is OU jumping out to a fast lead. It happened last year and UT clawed back, but it wouldn't be smart to repeat that pattern.
Other thoughts:
--OU's offensive line isn't as good as last year; in fact, it's only so-so in general.
--OU's receivers are really fucking fast, but they're small. UT will want to leverage the size advantage against the QB and WRs. OU killed Baylor by getting Hollywood and CeeDee into open spaces. Watch for the tunnel screen to Hollywood--if he gets space he'll shoot into the open field.
--The loss of Rodney Anderson has been huge. Sermon is a force, but he needs space to get going. He's a good receiver, though. Kennedy Brooks emerged last week, but he has virtually no PT under his belt.
--OU's defense is exactly as bad as you imagine, worse probably. Ronnie Perkins is legit, but he's a freshman. Bookie hasn't been as good as Stearns. Motley is feast or famine (usually famine). DTs are meh. Kenneth Murray is physically gifted, but still sometimes misses assignments. Big receivers have killed OU, so if Johnson is serious on Saturday he could be in for a huge day.
I wish everybody a safe trip this weekend.
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Evidence is starting to add up that while Izzo may be a great coach, he's also a scumbag.
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I think Russell is getting a bit undervalued. His sheer number of championships, stint as a player-coach, and huge social impact are remarkable.
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As OU fans learned the hard way two years ago, it's not fun playing Nova in a national semifinal.
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5 hours ago, 'stache said:
I recall Capel sucking at OU. Surprising to me that he was considered a successor to Coach K. Seems they could draw in any big time established HC they want.
He was terrible. And dirty as hell.
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I'd guess Nova over Michigan in the final, but predicting this tourney has been a fool's errand.
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9 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:
During the hoops season, I saw on most mock sites he was a late lottery pick...im pretty sure he played himself into the late first round in this tournament.
Not only is he unlikable, but he shot like absolute shit in the S16/E8. I dont see one part of his game that transitions well to the NBA unless he somehow becomes a sniper. I thought he had a much better tournament as a freshman 4 years ago than he did when he was a senior.
Agree with this. He came up small as a senior in the tourney. Not a good look, especially for a guy nobody likes in the first place.
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Of all the incredibly asinine, embarrassing shit we've seen about aggy on this thread, this right here is the most damning example of the cult in action.