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  1. 39 minutes ago, Go Pokes said:


    Thank you and we apologize for the aggy shirt. If you see anyone wearing it, punch them in the face.

    The shirt is the shirt. First Ok St win in so many year so fans should get to celebrate.

    The Pokes have among the top 5 coaches in the country. Gundy's no longer 40, but he's still only 54. I'm surprised that his name didn't get mentioned in the FL or LSU searches.

     

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  2. 6 minutes ago, Hornlover said:

    It's just getting started, but there is a lot of talent in the portal already.

    https://247sports.com/Season/2022-Football/TransferPortalTop/

     

     

    Last year the first wave didn't really crest until after the second signing period.

    Apparently Florida State has staffing in Oklahoma recruiting for the portal 🤣🤪

    https://247sports.com/college/oklahoma/Article/SCOOP-Florida-State-staff-in-Oklahoma-meeting-with-transfer-targets-176825130/

  3. On 9/25/2021 at 3:52 AM, quigley said:

    Hopefully, this class will be different, but OU's history of signing early commits is pretty poor.

    Some notable early commits who ended up elsewhere:
    2018 Cam Rising (starting at Utah)
    2019 Isaiah Spiller (starring at A&M)
    2020 Drew Sanders (starting LB at Bama) and Jase McClellan (2nd in carries at Bama)
    2021 Brock Vandagriff (Georgia)
    2022 Luther Burden (tbd) -- gone in Novemeber

    2023 Four out of the seven already gone

    All were recruited to the offense, just like the 7 current commits in the 2023 (Sanders was recruited as a TE).

    Wow

    How prescient was this post? 🤣🤣🤣

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  4. 7 hours ago, Lonestar88 said:

    I’d gladly take them both. The last OU transfer WR you said was mediocre went to Miami and broke all of their single season receiving records.

    Not just Rambo. Jaylon Robinson caught 55 passes for 979 in 2020 for UCF. I don't think he had a single catch at OU.

    Please tell me why Dennis Simmons is considered a good WR coach.

  5. 7 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

    Wiley was bad because he over trained the players getting them muscled up and they would lose flexibility and have a lot of soft tissue injuries. A lot of muscle pulls. Of course, he also had to deal the the Mad Dog bullshit and the S&C was a clusterfuck during late term Mack Browntion.

    OU didn't have that. In fact, LB change of direction improved and injuries were generally minimal. Quickness didn't really get better. Overall, I thought he was ok.

  6. 2 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Why are these guys hitting the transfer portal so quickly? I'm not complaining, but it doesn't make much sense. Are they not interested to see who OU hires? 

    Specifically about Haselwood, there were rumblings about him portaling last year after the season. The thought this year was that he'd go the draft if he had a good year or the portal if he had a bad year. He had on 23 catches in 3 years at OU. He was a willing and good blocker at the WR position but not irreplaceable.

  7. 4 minutes ago, golfclap said:

    @quigley
    I wonder if BV will make a run at trying to get Schmidt back? Any rumors around that? 

    Don't know who they'll get for S&C. I know Schmidt was Stoops guy, but I don't know if BV had similar feelings.

    Related question about Wiley. I was dubious about Wiley for early on based on the negative feelings about him on this board, but OU's strength and conditioning seems to have been OK with him. Specifically, OL and DL had very few injuries. I disagree with the strategy of larding guys up on the OL, but he seemed to do it. The DL wanted to get quicker, and they seemed to do that.

    Why is Wiley bad? Could Wiley have improved between his UT and OU tenure?

  8. 30 minutes ago, quigley said:

    Yeah, I remember the discussions. Someone else was asking. I think we largely agree.

    Bendenbaugh is a Leach disciple also. Bill played for Leach and also coached on his staff at Tech while Riley was there so I don't think it's just one has Leach influence and the other doesn't. The interesting thing is that there are guys that fit the mold of the early Bedenbaugh lines at OU (Nate Anderson, eg) that don't seem to be getting any run.

    OL portaling out would be a massive loss because of low OL numbers last year and likely low recruiting numbers this year.

    @golfclap

    OU's scrubbed Riley, Simmons, Grinch, and football operations director Clarke Stroud from the university webpage. Bob Stoops has been added as interim coach.

    Interestingly, Bedenbaugh is still on the OU website. Bedenbaugh came to OU before Riley, and Bedenbaugh's wife is from Oklahoma. Maybe he stays for now and sees who the new head coach will be. Maybe we'll learn if OU's declining run game efficiency is due to Riley or Bedenbaugh. If Bedenbaugh leaves, OU should target Sherrone Moore, former OU OL and current Michigan OL coach.

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  9. 7 hours ago, texasstrong12 said:

    Theo Wease is in the portal. 

    Lord, what a mess but this shit is enjoyable. 

    All 3 of the 2019 5-star WR recruits are now gone. Wease had 45 catches for 666 yds. Haselwood had 23 for 337 yds. These are the career stats for both players. Neither displayed great separation ability or hands. Haselwood was a good down-field blocker. Best of luck to them both.

    The only two OU receivers that are important to keep are Mims and Mario Williams. I hope they stay.

    I'm really baffled as to why people consider Dennis Simmons a top flight WR coach at this point. His success early, Shepard (who was good pre-Simmons), Westbrook, Brown, Lamb, has been tempered by disappointment over the last two years. The uneven recruiting has left OU with depth issues in the WR room.

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  10. 10 hours ago, golfclap said:

    Murray is terrible as a RB coach and the inability to develop even one RB who can pass block combined with a FR QB holding the ball too long saw clean pockets give up sacks. 

    We talked about this while it was happening but Riley is a Leach disciple and loves those HUGE OL guys. BB would've never offered a guy like Darrell Simpson in the pre-Riley days. Even with his 5* rating I have doubts about him pursuing Brey Walker in that same class. Just not the kind of OL guy that Bedenbaugh wants. He's always targeted guys with good lateral quickness, hence the strength of their OL in the counter game and the ability to scoop the backside and gain a numbers advantage. It's just two guys not on the same page, imo. 

    It also matters that Wiley took over for Schmidt. Schmidt is a cockface but knows what he's doing, while Wiley is one of the worst S&C in p5. 

    Yeah, I remember the discussions. Someone else was asking. I think we largely agree.

    Bendenbaugh is a Leach disciple also. Bill played for Leach and also coached on his staff at Tech while Riley was there so I don't think it's just one has Leach influence and the other doesn't. The interesting thing is that there are guys that fit the mold of the early Bedenbaugh lines at OU (Nate Anderson, eg) that don't seem to be getting any run.

    OL portaling out would be a massive loss because of low OL numbers last year and likely low recruiting numbers this year.

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  11. 1 hour ago, golfclap said:

    NSIAP - ou247 - BB and Grinch ::

     

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    Have been able to confirm that Bill Bedenbaugh and Alex Grinch intend to follow Lincoln Riley to USC at this time. 

    Don’t be shocked if there isn’t more to follow suite. Just know that right now, unless Grinch or Bedenbaugh are offered a job here with new staff, they are expected to be following Riley to USC.

     

    Bedenbaugh and DeMarco Murray are the two guys I hope leave. OU OL regression in the running game has been massive. It's on these guy's plates.

  12. 2 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    They also get in Austin as well.

    What happened to the OL? You even got the former 5 star from Tennessee, Bray Walker was a complete bust. I just don't understand how the OU line has struggled so much the last couple of seasons.

    The OL pass blocking is generally good, despite a high sack rate. There have been some issues this year with blitz pick up. The blitz issue is attributable to OU rolling out a RS-Fr center and RB blitz pick up issues. The Sooner QBs also have had a tendency to hold the ball forever and leave clean pockets, frustratingly.

    Run blocking has regressed, partly due to development and partly due to scheme. A lot of the really good offensive linemen OU's had weren't highly rated recruits but program guys that Bedenbaugh developed. That development basically stopped from the 2018 class on. From that class on, OU's gotten contributions from 2 out of 15 (!) OL recruits. Included in that are 4 top 100 recruits (1 5-star, 9 total 4-stars). So talent acquisition isn't the problem, but several of these presumably highly talented players have gotten ZERO run yet are still in the program. I was hoping that some of the seniors would opt out of the bowl game so we could see what we've got in some of the younger OL in live action.

    The GT counter is the Sooners bread and butter play, the play that sets up so much their neat misdirection. The strength of the Sooners from mid 2015 - 2018 was OU could tell you that that play was coming and still get 6 yds off it most of the time. Defenses caught up, the pullers aren't as nimble, and Riley's been slow to vary the play design. OU's success running the ball this year has been with zone blocking schemes. OU hasn't had a back with great wiggle/run-after-contact + long speed since 2017 also so some of those 80 yd runs have now become 30 yd runs.

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  13. 10 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    I’ll enjoy Bendbaugh leaving about as much as any other coach in the last decade.

    The way his OL gets away with holding is one of the most infuriating things in CFB. 

    Not last night. The holding is working less well too. OL regression was one of the most glaring problems with the Sooners.

  14. 22 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    The OU boards love them some Shane Beamer. 

    That seems like it would be a terrible hire and about best case scenario for Texas fans. So please do it OU. 

    If Shane wants to go back to Norman to do special teams, great. Otherwise, no thanks.

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