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kilroydos

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  1. I think that's the question. Is there a need to do it the same way? It worked for Clemson because Dabo pushed his faith so much. Now with NIL, is the methodology equal, or behind the times.
  2. What's his age versus Joe C.? Would he be seeing this as a successorship if Joe is ready to go in a few years?
  3. Indispensable part. They needed someone with a vision for how to compete in the new climate, and a history of getting that off the ground in two of the biggest success story programs of the last 20 years.
  4. Valai is a "recruiting coordinator" who demanded to be put in an on-field role. It went as well as you might expect. Every move Venables is making seems like it's targeted at recruiting and building a donor network to support players/recruiting. No idea if that's going to work long-term, or if the existing OU fan infrastructure can support that commitment. Side note: we already have Chip Viney, why do we want Valai??
  5. I heard the opposite story, that Venables pitched him as a 3-tech and A&M told him he could play the edge. Who knows what's real, though.
  6. TBD, I suppose. Nothing announced ahead of time, this year.
  7. Apparently Kanak is in the OU student portal and will be an early enrollee. Per Eddie Rado and Bob P.
  8. Kanak has been showing up in some of the nightly Sooner Twitter spaces on his own, so we know there's at least interest there from his end. Venables is working hard to not come across the way Lincoln has, and some OU fans aren't happy. They see anyone who decommits or puts their name into the portal from Clemson as free game, and it's hard to argue that. Don't pursue active commits, don't pursue rostered players, sure, but if a player initiates contact or expresses interest, there's got to be some kind of response. We don't know what's going on behind those conversations, though. No player in any of those situations has commented about Venables, as far as I know, so it's pure speculation.
  9. I think the timing of his Greg conversation is meant to imply that he is throwing in against Logan, but the misdirect is that he was selling out his own wife. That's the Evil he's talking about. Being able to say "what's wrong?" to his wife with a straight face at the end means that Tom has finally learned the lesson and given himself over to the worst impulses. He even said it to Kendall weeks ago. "I've never seen Logan get fucked...not once." No chance he's going up against that to support a wife who won't even pretend to love him anymore.
  10. He wants him there as someone he trusts and is naturally "below" him in the pecking order. It's the most honest relationship in the entire show. It's the Nero story referenced before.
  11. The thing that's encouraging to me about Venables is that he's bringing some infrastructure guys with him.
  12. I do wonder how much of it was expressed "strategy" and how much was a reaction to a push against competition. Publicly, Riley always said he wouldn't ever take just a body, he wanted only guys who he could project as Heisman, Round 1 guys. Realistically, he brought in Chandler Morris and Tanner Mordecai, both of whom were good, but not world-beaters. The other vision is Ohio State, who just brings in what they can and lets go whoever gets beaten out. This is probably closer to what the new normal will be.
  13. I can only speak to the OU side of things, but one prominent OU site had a fucking no-shame white nationalist show up and show off last night. I'd take a million Reddit CFB posters over that shit.
  14. He's in there for a second, but damn, they just ran out of time for him...
  15. Hey, we just got left out of nowhere for the hot secretary. We thought we had time before we really had to hit the gym and look into dying our hair back blonde. Besides, who gets after it better than a scorned woman?
  16. Absolutely. There's a huge discrepancy between the reaction to his name on OU-centered boards and the Reddit community. Reddit tends to be where the more reasonable and human posters show up, and they're pretty universally against this hire. It varies from "this isn't a good idea" to "I have inroads to Joe C. and I'm seeing what can be done". OU boards just want someone in place to help recruiting and they don't really know or care about the Baylor stuff apart from Lebby being asked to leave the field for potentially stealing signals a few years back.
  17. Honestly, unless there are terminators coming to coach those positions, I don't know why you let either Cain or Thibs go. Scuttlebutt is they weren't moving fast on connecting with Cain and he took the open offer at USC. Not so much a decision as a lack of decision forcing an outcome. I don't like that. I'd prefer if BV made a call and had a plan versus just allowing it to happen.
  18. Letting Cain go makes a little sense, but Thibodeaux is a guy Venables knows and has had some success recruiting and coaching. This one is weird for sure.
  19. I've never loved the fan-centric thinking that seems to crop up all the time. "Hire X to coach the position he was great at!" almost never works out. You don't hire the guy who was naturally gifted to teach other people. They don't generally have to study the game, learn and prioritize technique, etc. It's happening again because Roy Williams (OU) has been active on Twitter, fans are asking him to come coach safeties. Blows my mind. You know who was good at teaching safeties? Bob Stoops, who was slow, undersized, and out-athleted just about every time he took the field. THAT is someone who knows how to get the most out of what a player has.
  20. Definitely not, just speaking to the cognitive dissonance of a program seen in that light that has a verifiably strict compliance group.
  21. From what I understand, it's been strict since Bomar and the others were hiding things from Compliance. It's absolutely ironic considering the historic perception of the program, but OU Compliance has an active Twitter presence and is working their asses off. You don't get players having to pay back an extra $4 serving of pasta at a team dinner if Compliance isn't all over every aspect they can be.
  22. Agreed. No way he actively sabotages or tanks, but split focus and conflicting priorities lead to poor results, depending on your perspective.
  23. It's the eyebrows. They get in the way of connecting with recruits, so he made the decision years ago to proceed without.
  24. Stoops and Manning were in Tulsa to see Robert Spears-Jennings at 10:37 on 11/29 and Xavion Brice in Arlington on 11/30 Manning's coaching buddy posts something on 11/29 at 10:49 (Presumably PST) congratulating him on coming out west with #FightOn tags, etc. Reports of contact via phone with Domani Jackson (Mater Dei) comes out 11/30 referencing the student's quote that Manning "used to coach at OU" and was going to "have Grinch get in touch" from conversations that happened 11/29 Manning Has not resigned or been removed from his duties at OU as of now
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