I know you’re a Sooner. I almost negged you in this, but I really hate to neg.
OU is the one to hate.
I hate OU for Barry Switzer, who learned the Wishbone from Bellard, at Royal’s instruction, as a favor for Royal’s alma mater. Switzer repaid the favor by mocking Royal when his purchased players were beating Texas.
I really hate OU for 2008 (still!), when Stoops got some coaches to vote Texas artificially low, to make sure that Oklahoma made it to the B12 CG, and the resulting BCS CG and Heisman for Bradford (and not Colt).
OU is the enemy. The agreement between Texas and OU to leave the B12 was more akin to the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact (a temporary agreement to be honored until it suited one party’s purposes to betray the other) than any real alliance.
It’s not about OU’s casual indifference to any crimes their players may commit; it’s that OU will do anything they can to win. It is their identity, fed by decades of insecurity and feelings of inferiority as a state.
Texas is in the same conference, will always play them every year, and shares a recruiting territory. They are the enemy.