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  1. I am sorry this happened to you. Here is something everyone should do (you, too, if you haven’t already):

    https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/taxes/tax-identity-theft-ip-pin-irs-ab021643?st=DPHj1X&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

    Wiler, if you discover someone else has already opened a SS# account with your wife’s SS#, you have to address it (well, you don’t HAVE TO, but you really need to)

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  2. 9 hours ago, sdm said:

    Dude in the back is sports writer Berry Tramel of The Oklahoman. He always looks totally unimpressed.

    Tramel just declared bankruptcy after giving all his money to Stoops, Switzer’s SIL and the Toby Keith estate, after a failed venture. He is thinking, “I can eat enough at the free breakfast buffet to get me through the day, and pocket the per diem meal allowance…”

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  3. Tangentially related to OU- Jim Donnan was OC at OU from 1985-1989 (replaced Mack Brown!). (still researching Switzer’s misdeeds) 
     
    How is Jim Donnan not in jail? He ran a $90 million Ponzi scheme 2010-2012, with this other guy that did go to jail. They told ”investors” that they had purchased goods that already had ready buyers at high profits, and it was guaranteed to return great profits. They paid returns out of the funds from new investors. Donnan, from his career as a coach and TV talker, knew a lot of fairly high worth people (coaches and players) that were fairly unsophisticated about finance. 
     
    it went to trial (in Georgia, I think), and Donnan’s claim that he didn’t know it was a scam worked in court (the Feds had a lot of evidence that he absolutely knew it was a scam). Are juries just biased to believe (somewhat) successful coaches? 
     
    Side note- it sounds like Switzer and his SIL were early investors, and helped introduce later investors. As the scheme was unraveling, Switzer was able to get Donnan to give him his nut back, but then had to surrender that to the feds for repayment to others, as they investigated and took over control. Switzer was sued by later investors, but won in court. 

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  4. 2 hours ago, Thiefery said:

    Guess his silent is beginning to leak out 

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    It will be awesome (and completely foreseeable) if Bentley commits to OU, O’Neal goes elsewhere, and then Arbuckle ends up somewhere else in 2027, taking Bentley with him. 

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  5. The Ags really are phenomenal baseball fans. Is there any other fanbase with greater support for less results?

    I almost suspect that part of it is a sick reaction to how great Texas baseball is. 

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  6. 8 minutes ago, huge said:

    Why the hell were those two targeted?

    Seems pretty random.

    Not really. They were Jews. 
     
    https://www.wsj.com/us-news/the-final-moments-of-two-promising-lives-cut-short-by-a-gunman-fixated-on-gaza-7f6bcba0?st=U9nUxn&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

    The killer registered for the event (as typical for Jewish events in the western world, you have to register to find out where it is, for safety of attendees), an intra-faith meeting on alleviating suffering in Gaza, so he could execute (the article explains how he shot them from behind, finishing off the girl as she tried to crawl away) a couple of Jews. Despite all the noise on this thread, it wasn’t Likud he was targeting, or Zionists or Israelis. He was looking to kill Jews. 
     
    Somewhere along the way, this guy decided he really hated Jews, a condition that has existed in this world for a couple thousand years, without interruption. 

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  7. 24 minutes ago, Not a cat said:

    You deserve to get treated like Mrs Lacewell good and hard if you're dumb enough to trust Switzer. He was also the defendant in a landmark SEC (exchange not conference) insider trading case.

    It’s actually interesting case law now. He lied his ass off, to avoid prison, of course. 
     
    It is so weird. You’d think OKC would be a big city, but the same grifters seem to have their hands in every grift, like a low budget 1980’s movie.

  8. 7 minutes ago, gernblansten said:

    Big Dog isn't a nickname for Bob Stoops. Toby Keith had multiple "Big Dog" entities and a "Big Dog Daddy" album or somesuch. Below would be a much more informative article on the matter. Tramel filed bankruptcy about six months ago.

    https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/sold-out-the-rise-and-fall-of-americas-most-ambitious-sports-media-company/

    That’s fantastic. Let me tell you, you go down some interesting and crazy rabbit holes when you google “Barry Switzer arraigned”, “Barry Switzer charged” and so on. I’m going to write a long post about it. 
     
    Nack to “Sellout Crowd”- an Okie should know better than anyone that Switzer being attached to a project is a warning, not an enticement. 

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  9. Thx. Googling, it does look like “Big Dog Holding” was the founder of “Sellout Crowd Media”. 
     
    Yes, Tramel should have had an attorney look at the loan. 
     
    Yes, if the dudes in “Big Dog Holding” were decent guys doing business with someone they have known professionally for decades, signing papers they knew he was unfamiliar with, they would have made sure he understood that he was personally on the hook for the loan, and not the venture. Given who they were, you could argue Tramel should have known they weren’t good dudes, … except he had spent most of his career explaining to his readers that they were admirable guys. 

  10. 10 hours ago, 'stache said:

    Trammel didn’t start the network he was tricked into joining and as you say tricked into a personal loan. From what I’ve read about the situation Stoops and Keith look pretty bad. If it was a scam they’re rich enough to let those defrauded like Trammel off the hook but they’re defending the lawsuit. Fuck them all lol.

    Was the “Big Dog” group associated with the creation of the failed venture? Or, was Tramel offered an opportunity to have an ownership share, and he sought out “Big Dog” for help in funding? The former looks a lot worse than the latter. 
     
    Also, is OKC not big enough to have other people involved in shady ventures than Switzer and his SIL? Because it looks like they are attached to every scam and scheme. 

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  11. Reading more, evidently, when Tramel borrowed the money, he didn’t realize that it was written as a personal loan to him, and he is personally on the hook for it. 

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  12. I think this story belongs here, and not the new 2025 Sooner thread. It is a weird one. 
     
    https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/funders-of-defunct-sellout-crowd-media-startup-sue-over-business-debt/

    Some Oklahoma sportswriters (including Berry Tramel) started a news site exclusively for Oklahoma sports. They borrowed money from “Big Dog” (evidently the nickname of Bob Stoops. The site failed and Big Dog wants its money back (it’s gone). 
     
    Big Dog is funded by Stoops, Toby Keith’s estate and Hunter Miller (Switzer’s SIL and partner in that -again weird- Ponzi scheme Switzer and Donnan ran about 15 years ago). 

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  13. 28 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    How does BV sit w/ the Oklahoma media? Has he done enough glad handing, given "insider" access, and general ass kissing to convince the media hacks to carry his water ? Or are they anxiously waiting to pull out the long knives?

    Not that traditional sports media matters much these days, but I'm curious if they have their own Kurt Bowels-types up there who want to drop a 3lb shit in BV's oatmeal on the reg.

    The Oklahoma media is trained. No one goes off the reservation 

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  14. 3 minutes ago, immamac said:

    If they get blown out by Michigan I don't think they recover mentally. 

    If they get blown out by Michigan (in week 2, I erred above in saying Game 1), they are a crappy team. Michigan is probably starting true freshman Bryce Underwood, and as talented as he is, he is a work in progress. 
     
    Id love to see it, though. 

  15. We will know about Oklahoma by their sixth game, the RRS against Texas. 
     
    Their first six games have three sacrificial lambs - Illinois State, Temple and Kent State. Game 1 is hosting Michigan, which should be a little worse (a little better on offense?, definitely worse on defense) than the team that Texas played last year. Game 4 is Auburn- a really good roster in a “prove it” year for Frieze. Game six is Texas. 
     
    If Venables were to circle three games for extra focus next year, those three would be it. Mateer will be playing hero ball in those games and dishing against the three scrubs. Texas is the game they most want to win, but they really, really don’t want to lose to Auburn, led by Jackson Arnold (who, despite all his flaws, QBed OU in its signature win against Bama last year). 
     
    If OU starts 6-0, they have a great shot at the playoffs, even with the murderer’s row they finish with. 5-1, and Venables has a good shot at keeping his job.

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  16. 2 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    Hilarious... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    Oklahoma’s QB situation earns top ranking from ESPN

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    Mateer has the Sooners at the top.

    ByChip Rouse|May 19, 2025

    As pointed out in a recent article, we are at the inevitable point of the college football offseason when all sundry of lists and rankings begins to pick up steam in the news cycle in anticipation of the 2025 season.

    An article by ESPN's David Hale cited five teams and 11 players, including Oklahoma newcomer John Mateer, as being at the "top of the class" for the 2025 season. In particular, the analysis examined the depth and strength of the quarterback position and ranked how set the teams are at the most important position on the field, differentiating them by tiers.

    According to the ESPN analysis, the quarterback situations at Oklahoma, Clemson, LSU, Penn State and South Carolina are the strongest of all FBS teams as we go under the 100-day mark for the start of the 2025 season.

    ESPN ranks Oklahoma QB situation as 'top of class' entering 2025 season

    Hale's article noted that the biggest names at the quarterback position -- Drew Allar at Penn State, Cade Klubnik at Clemson and LSU's Grant Nussmeier -- have earned their place at the top of the sport as a result of past performances. LaNorris Sellars of South Carolina and OU's Mateer, on the other hand, had a few "Heisman moments" last season. ESPN also ranked Mateer as the No. 1 transfer in the country just last week.

    "Mateer flourished in the relative obscurity of Washington State," Hale wrote, "and now will be tasked with reviving Oklahoma's program under the glare of the SEC spotlight. Both players scratched the surface of greatness last season and enter 2025 with massive expectations."

    According to Hale, in the College Football Playoff era 14 players have posted a single-season stat line of at least 4,000 passing yards, 40 touchdowns, 9 yards per pass and no more than 10 turnovers. Mateer missed that mark by 36 yards last season.

    Mateer's 2024 accomplishments included 53 broken or evaded tackles, the most last season among FBS quarterbacks. Also no quarterback who averaged at least 9 yards per pass attempt last season had a lower rate of off-target throws than the Washington State transfer's 9.4%.

    Behind Mateer at OU is Michael Hawkins Jr., who started four games last season as a freshman, and recent Mercer transfer Whitt Newbauer.

    ESPN also ranked the quarterback situation at Florida, Miami and Texas as Tier 1b ("So hot right now") right below Oklahoma and the others. Tier 2 ("Pretty darned good") included Arizona State, Baylor, Georgia Tech and Iowa State.

     

    I’m just happy that the “Hale” that wrote this article isn’t the “James Hale” that was an OU insider-writer for so many years, after getting out of prison for running a Pinzie scheme. 

  17. The concern would be DeLoitte instituting a de facto salary cap, while the good ole boys go back to dropping bags under the table. 
     
    There is an alternative, if things work out that way. Like minded schools, that don’t need a salary cap (Texas, yes, TAMU, tOSU, ND, Michigan, maybe UGA, certainly Oregon, maybe Florida, Miami) could form their own league. The only league without a salary cap will, in short order, be a premier league. (And the ratings for this league will be amazing). 

  18. 11 minutes ago, gatormarc said:

    Regardless of what impact Stanford elitism may have had on Pac12 expansion, I figure there has to be more to the statement of them not playing well with others in their conference than that.

    I’m sure Stanford has an attitude that they’re better than everyone else. To be fair, they are better than everyone else. 

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  19. 16 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    So you are saying that if I pick 6 at the bar early, I should take that as the equivalent of a 9/10, but if I take a 6 at the end of the night I’m desperate?

     

    It depends. Are you one smooth motherfucker? If so, yes. You are probably taking that 6, early, because you are aware of traits that raise her worthiness. 

  20. 8 hours ago, notre dame joe said:

    We were discussing who needs the game more, SC or ND?  I posit this as another playoff casualty.  Neither school needs this game because any 1 loss season = a playoff berth.  The legacy of rivalries was built when, not only one loss could doom you, but teams needed a big win to impress the voters.  We had undefeated seasons with no title and Texas had I think 1970. 

    Notre Dame needs more tough games 

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