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  1. 44 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    I think the Michigan win will age OK. They won 8 games and beat Ohio State without an offense last season. Surely Underwood’s arrow is pointing up and they can win 9.

    I’d tell OU to tap the brakes on “program defining win”, but who’d listen? 

    I think it's both this coaching staff's defining win, and something people are overreacting to compared to what it means for the season as a whole.  They found a way to win against a talented (unprepared) team even though there were a ton of mistakes.  There were something like 75 recruits in attendance, so this was very much a push all in situation that could have cratered their ability to even compete for the next couple of years.  Also true is that the run game was uninspiring, zero turnovers caused, and there were receivers free that better offenses would have found.

  2. 18 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

    Joel Klatt is suggesting that Burnt Vegetable is stealing signs. Do we have any information on this?

    He's always been someone very keyed into the shifts and calls from the opposing offenses.  The debate is whether he's getting that information from in-game and game tape study, or if there's some other extraordinary method ala a Connor Stallions.

  3. 10 minutes ago, yoladu said:

    Eureka Springs is a pretty interesting outlier.

    and near by... for you architecture nerds, the Thorncrown Chapel by Fay Jones.

     

    I have a cousin that worked with Fay Jones for a while and we got to tour the studio and see the initial drawings for the chapel.  It made a huge impression and when my dad got remarried, he did it at Thorncrown.

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  4. 25 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

    Y’all should ask Jerry Jones to be your final authority on who you sign. 

    I've seen some fans out there speculating about what it would take to get some of the PIF money from the Saudis.  Maybe we let one of their failsons run the show?

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Fud said:

    "It's a program that mimics the NFL and the coaches aren't involved in evaluations!"

    (most NFL teams bring coaches in for evaluations later in the process, and not having a coach sign off on a scheme fit is a potential point of failure) 

    Technically they do address this:  "said if the coaches aren’t fully on board, the player will not be recruited because his staff will not force any players onto the coaching staff who they don’t buy into fully."

    Whether that's going to be successful in practice...who knows?  It certainly isn't successful everywhere in the NFL, and you only have to look for the Cowboys notes in this thread to see how it could go poorly.

  6. 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    It sounds like they’ve separated recruiting and coaching to the extent possible. Like, here’s your team , coach them. 

    Phantom Island just did an episode about this, but coming from the angle of asking if the days of the workaholic coach are falling into the past.  With the context we have, it does seem relatively easier to find people who are good at eval, people who are good at gameplan/scheme, people who are good at talent acquisition, and people who are good at talent maximization versus finding 11-15 unicorns who are great at all areas. 

    I'd still pay good money to hear the unvarnished truth about what happend with Thad Turnipseed and the AD's office.  It can't have been as simple as "he wanted to build a new basketball arena and they refocused fundraising on NIL."

  7. — Nagy noted that Jaydn Ott is continuing to put on more and more weight, and currently weighs more than he ever has... but he's also faster than he's ever been as well, and the sports science department has helped Ott immensely in packing on that weight while maintaining the burst

    "And, and he's four inches taller, and his uncle works for Nintendo and he can play the new Mario whenever he wants"

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  8. 7 minutes ago, statsman said:

    Burks is a good example of how programs should be careful in the portal and NIL era. 

    This is exactly the issue.  OU's staff haven't shown much of an ability to attract top-flight talent at some key positions, and so they're constantly scrambling and overpaying for what they have.  This means they're overleveraged on talent with no margin for error.

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  9. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    He averaged 7.9 ypc, your mods hinted at him being reluctant to return to the field throughout all of October and most of November, and he had a long of 20 yards on the season. Prior to the season, from the spring of 2024, through magazine write-ups in June, through media days, and then through scoring his only 3 tds against an absolutely shitty Temple team, your talking heads and coaching staff told anyone and everyone how fucking great he was. What a steal he was! What was Purdue doing letting him get away!!

    Then? He got hurt against Tennessee and had to be begged back onto the field. Once injured again, he was done and talking of transferring. Your idiots running things with NIL overpaid to keep him. 

    He's a pedestrian slot WR who can't handle the physicality of the SEC. He'll be an afterthought riding a bike by the Texas/OU game. 

    Oh I never said he was great, just that I don't think he quit on the team.  I think once the other WRs started to leave/get more seriously injured, Burks became a higher retention priority than he would have been otherwise.  In an ideal roster situation, you're exactly right that he's a depth piece with speed and above average hands that can be a change of pace.  Given the reality of the room, he's been treated like a #1, for better or worse.  No idea what he's going to look like this year.

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  10. 8 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    Deion Burks...quit the team via "soft tissue injury". 

     

     

    This is the only piece I might take slight exception to.  He fought to get back on the field after missing seven calendar weeks and got a really nasty concussion near the end of the game he returned.  He may or may not be any good this year, but prior to the injuries, he was getting open in front of two QBs that were psychically incapable of staying in the pocket to find an option later in the play.

  11. 26 minutes ago, TornACL said:

    La Carreta is solid. I used to go to Miami all the time for work, and the ropa vieja and rice always hit the spot before flying home.

    Don't sleep on Kuva if you're down in the low number gates. Vaca Frita slams.

    Versailles is only good for a drive by cortado to go.

    I used to travel to Miami often for work, staying right by the airport.  You could do a lot worse there than the Latin Cafe 2000 right outside the airport  Marriott compound.

     

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  12. 5 hours ago, Pdawg88 said:

    He’s robbing the university and has been as long as he’s been a coach. He is a joke. The TE room is as bad as I can remember, including the 90’s. Plus he looks like a complete dip shit so it’s hard to take him serious at all. 

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    I'd certainly feel a lot better about the situation if any of the TEs had either performed to expectations or improved in any marked way over the course of his time in Norman.  But other than that, great dude, no notes.....

  13. Just now, Aqua Buddha said:

    The fact that he hit the open market and his best offer was a bad Auburn team with a HC about to be fired says a lot.  If he were good, any number of good teams would have offered.

    His performance and the fact that he got benched for a stretch last year tanked his value, no question.  Maybe I'm an optimist, but I think his preparation and coaching situation were so incredibly poor that it's hard to imagine him not having a better season in the next two years.  He's not winning a Heisman or anything, but if he can regain some confidence and get into a system that allows him to see the field without running for his life after the first read, he's going to be fine.

  14. 7 hours ago, ClubWhatever said:

    You are your QB.  Their QBs were good, they were good.  Their QBs were garbage, they were garbage.

    I do think the Littrell situation fucked up Jackson Arnold something fierce.  He's going to be better outside of Norman in the future.

  15. 9 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

    Pork rib with the pork belly still attached.

    I'm hoping to do a set of those once the weather warms up a bit.  The big Asian market up here carries that cut.

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  16. 3 hours ago, statsman said:

    There is also the continued fascination with Cale Gundy to rescue the program. 

    It makes zero sense.  He was always a plus recruiter and a reliable position coach at both RB and WR, but never called plays, never showed any propensity for design or theory, and couldn't keep himself from doing something dumb and getting fired.  That's who you want back in the building?  If he were a lights-out QB guru or a Leach-style innovator, maybe I could see talking yourself into it, but come on.

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