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  1. 31 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    You make a bunch of great points.  I’m clueless on why he’s so bad at recruiting outside of WR/QB.  

    I think it comes down to quality of assistants in most cases.  His best recruiter by far was always Cale Gundy, and that gift predated him by two decades.  Bedenbaugh is an excellent coach and evaluator, but is not a headhunter on the recruiting trail.  I also wonder if Riley's skills as a coordinator make it hard for him to identify and teach those things to other coaches on staff.

    It goes back to why transcendent athletes are often poor coaches.  It's impossible for a Wayne Gretzky to teach someone to play like he played, and he has no idea how to maximize the talent or adjust around the skills of those around him outside of being a player himself.  Extend that one level higher to transcendent coaches.  Imagine Lincoln giving advice to a young DBs coach or DC like "Just perfectly remember what worked best in this situation the last twenty plays and call a perfectly disguised coverage to bait the offense into going to your strength."  Great, but what if that coach doesn't have the eidetic memory and intuition about tendencies that Riley has for the offense??

    Now Riley's lost the teachers, the evaluators, the planners, and the trainers that all build upon each other's work to make a complete team.  He's relying on himself and another generational talent to make up for it all, and if QB1 isn't absolutely note perfect every snap, then Saturday happens.

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  2. 19 minutes ago, Pdawg88 said:

    This guy gets it. Nothing better than a swirl before a home game. My wife and I park right by there for every home game and have one on the way in. You can get pretty fucked up on them. Never tried the queso, too much of a boozer. I’ll be in Norman tomorrow, might try it at lunch. 

    Story goes they put Everclear in the sangria part of the swirl, so a couple of those are a problem.

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  3. 43 minutes ago, Liquor and Poker said:

    I guess maybe a lot of blowouts are closer than the score indicates but when it was 37-20 the game felt pretty even to me.  Opposite of 1st half against Kansas where it felt like KU was getting boatraced but the score didn’t show it. 

    This is 100% true.  How often does a team score forty in the first half, doubling up the other team, and it feels like a close game?

  4. If my kid were coughing up blood because of a football-related injury, I'd have a hard time wanting to see them out there getting hit again the same way a week later.  It wasn't even a weird, non-contact or odd circumstance, just getting drilled in the chest on a tackle.

  5. 1 minute ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    Im here bc OU fans only care about football and it’s all many of them have.  Totally agree with that post.  It’s just too important to suck for long - but look at NE.  Ha

    I'm here because the majority of OU fans online are painfully unfunny and have no sense of self-deprecation about how ridiculous college football is, whether it's going well or poorly.

    Plus, getting someone else's point of view of what's happening in the program is always entertaining, and sometimes enlightening.

  6. More on Kanak...

    Apparently it was a pulmonary contusion, lung bleed that he tried to play through until he was coughing up blood and unable to catch his breath.  Talks about it on his podcast:

     

  7. 5 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    Was thinking about this earlier, but there are probably fewer 5 star interior DL than any other position most years outside of maybe TE. So when you have 30 five stars in a cycle and only 3 or 4 of them play DT, the margin for error becomes slim. Then add in the fact that this state only produces 5-star interior DL maybe every couple of years. So you are oftentimes looking out of state and going against school like Bama and Georgia who get who they want in the front 7 right now. And then add in whatever the hell you want to call what A&M does. 

    Just not a recipe for consistent success in reeling in 5-star DT. This doesn't even factor in the suckage of the last 13 years which hasn't help. 

    There just aren't many programs that consistently land that level of talent in any reliable way.  I saw a report that the only 5-star DL signed last cycle outside of the SEC were Woods at Clemson and Adebawore at OU.  That's it for everyone not named Bama, Georgia, and LSU.

  8. 4 hours ago, irishtexan said:


    The potatoes really are the star. I had to actually reserve some of the fat/brine from the pan so the potatoes would brown up the way I like, and then poured that mixture back over the plated dish. Chef’s kiss. Will make again.

    That's a really good idea.  The time it takes to get the potatoes done can ruin other parts of a dish.  I struggle with getting it all timed out correctly, and I'm absolutely trying this the next time I do a recipe like this.

  9. 3 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    I hope you’re right. OU falling up into Heupel would suck. 

    It was a strange situation, he was absolutely being groomed to take over, but never seemed to show the flashes of leadership or innovation you might expect out of someone who really wants to be a head coach.  Once he was let go, it seemed to both light a fire under him and let Bob know he needed to find someone he could turn the reins over to entirely. 

  10. 2 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Here’s the big question: Can they afford Heupel?

    No.  Not because there's no money, but because the amount it would take to get Heupel back on campus for any kind of role would be double what he would take anywhere else.  He was rightfully pissed at being made the scapegoat for some of the decisions Bob made for the offense and the failures on the other side of the ball.  As long as Bob is hovering anywhere around OU, Heupel will show up when Tennessee comes to play.

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  11. 12 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

    They serve lobstah rolls in the fucking McDonald's near where I grew up in CT. Insanity.

    I worked in Nova Scotia for a week or so, and some of the other attendees had families of lobster fishers from the south side.  One said her dad swore that the McDonald's lobster roll there was the best you could get on the whole peninsula.  Never woulda guessed.

  12. 4 hours ago, Llewelyn Moss said:

    Taco Mayo was serving seasoned potato rounds with tacos (and the taco burger) while Del Taco was still a gleam in its daddy’s eye. 
     

    Or, we might say:

    Taco Mayo

    a) slams

    b) goes hard

    c) all of the above 

    There was a Taco Mayo in the bottom floor of one of the dorms at OU when I was there.  Never an amazing idea for a whole meal, but you could get down to the pennies on your meal plan points with dollar menu items, including a tortilla chili pie.

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  13. Just now, Brisketexan said:

     

     


    Agreed on all points…yet, at Cafe Pasqual in Santa Fe, they make an amazing grilled chicken with green chile and manchego sandwich on toasted cornbread. Only cornbread sandwich I can think of, but it’s great.

     

     

    I'd absolutely eat a sandwich on cornbread, but I'm also fine with a McGriddle on a pancake, so I'm pan-pain-ual, it seems.

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