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kilroydos

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  1. Agreed. And that's not even dealing with the cratered '23 recruiting class and the length of term for Lebby. Arguably, the better OU does in the near term, the faster they have to deal with replacing an OC who wants to be a head coach somewhere in short order. This transition isn't over, and I hope Venables has a list of guys at OC who can step in quickly in the next year or two. It could go very well, or extremely poorly. The only thing I don't think is likely is a 9-3, then 8-4, then 7-5 type decline. It either improves or disintegrates when the SEC move happens.
  2. I'd love for some combo of booster/bagman to finally get pissed off enough to announce that they're tired of Saban claiming credit for what they built.
  3. The moral gymnastics required to distance himself from the fact that "someone" paid players to attend his school, but it wasn't him or the on-field coaches specifically...
  4. Stoops in 2020 really overachieved and outperformed his perceived ability, especially in his reliability and catch radius. This year was a big step backwards in most circumstances. People have wondered for two years why he was seeing the field over more "talented" receivers. With the attrition and lack of push from underclassmen, I wouldn't expect his snap count to go down this year.
  5. That's the rumor. He's never going to come out and say it, but I worry that's the case. Even with Clemson, it worked until it didn't and they couldn't do what Saban did and reload when injuries hit hard. The tradeoff is processing out highly-ranked and talented players like Georgia and Alabama. You operate with much thinner margins and a couple of bad evals can really tank a season or two. Nobody bats an eye when Saban tells a five star they've got to pound sand because they've been recruited over, that's just how the machine works. You try that when you've sold yourself as a caring, righteous man of god and we will see what breaks first. I've been wondering when the bloom would fade from Dabo's rose in that regard, and I don't love Venables setting himself up in the same way.
  6. Some folks are still saying this is a part of Venables/Dabo's rules about taking visits after committing. I think it's fair to take an offer or the status of "committed" seriously and to be more judicious with it than some programs are. I just feel like a lot of this culture change is performative and means nothing. I'm also aware I'm not the target audience, so if 17 year old football players and their families need to see a bunch of acronym posters and semi-religious messaging, then that's the game as it's played. Same with all of the keyboard warriors pleasuring themselves to the thought of athletes puking from workouts, etc. It's not unique to OU, but it's not at all what I enjoyed about following the team. I also think the beat writers at large are saying the same things they used to say about Lincoln up until this season. "Cares about players as people" "Family atmosphere" "Genuine and honest". It's all true until it isn't, and it's all great unless it doesn't work. 2023 is a huge opportunity to recover a cratered class, and if it doesn't happen, that's a genuinely large hurdle to clear with a move to the SEC on the horizon.
  7. I don't know why I held on to a little hope for this one. I guess just because he didn't immediately decommit. It had to be too high a bar to clear for a new staff combination.
  8. I wondered why this one was taking so long. This is the official final deconstruction of the Riley 2023 class.
  9. Cornbread waffle, maybe? I'm into it.
  10. OU used an almost identical design for their welcome sign for recruits this weekend. Further proof there's little to no difference in any of these creative positions. Let's see drone footage, reflected neon hallways in tinted visors, and let's make absolutely sure we show how "icy" our whites all are...
  11. What did kobefan824 do? That's a lot of power that I don't think is safe with one person...
  12. It's a hoodwink game, man. Drew Sanders was told in no uncertain terms how his career would go at Alabama at LB, then it happened, now he's transferred. It's going to happen again and again with the top-flight schools who can recruit over very talented players. The closers close and the players who get scraped off are the ones to pay the price.
  13. Also true, and they've got a new guy coaching his position, so that means something. I'm sure he'll improve next season.
  14. Our daughter's name is not one of these, but she gets called "Olivia" about 100 times a month because of this phenomenon.
  15. This sort of happened with Tristan Leigh a year or two ago. He signed with Clemson and dragged OU and a few others through the next month or two, potentially exposing them to a violation. Consensus at the time was that if it's the player misleading, the institutions aren't responsible.
  16. It ends here. I can promise you that. All of my cousins are guys, so any of our forbidden love doesn't produce offspring.
  17. When the mother-in-law and brother-in-law come over, it's 80/20 against. Weird genetics over there.
  18. I bought the version with the knob on top, because I'm the only right-handed person in the house.
  19. I know I'm going to have a quiet chuckle when they lose a game they shouldn't, but I think just about every fan feels that way about other teams.
  20. It's worth mentioning that Manning won't be coaching DBs at USC under the same Coordinator and Head Coach. Even they know he was not right for that job, which begs the question of why they let him do it for so long in Norman.
  21. I don't understand this hire, either. He's a glorified bag man who hasn't done well in an on-field role anywhere. He's Bryan Carrington. He's Chip Vines. OU already HAS a Chip Vines...
  22. They're putting this out publicly as a development opportunity versus a money one. I have zero inside information, but if it leaks that he's getting a ton of money from somewhere without a credible QB coach/OC, that's going to ruffle feathers as you said.
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