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  1. On 1/4/2024 at 4:01 PM, mdmost said:

    Ted Roof, Ted Roof, Ted Roof has been fired. We don't need no water let the motherfucker burn.

     

    OU making moves on defense . Venables got his defensive guy 

  2. Venables is a monster coach on defense and OU found a rising star as Offensive coach.   Texas and OU will play again and it will be up inthe air who wins.  What was more obvious is OU was more physical and more ready.  So yes coaching was the difference because Ewers played great ( except the interceptions) and the team clicked most of the day.

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  3. On 10/7/2023 at 3:05 PM, lilMAC25 said:

    The 4 runs on the goal line?

    Up tempo with 4 min left leaving OU with plenty of time to drive for the winning score?

    Running the ball on 3-9?

     

    Im sure there are plenty of other instances.

    that goal line stand was difficult to comprehend. their DL was not supposed to be this sturdy.  But overal they were the more physical team .  

  4. On 4/25/2023 at 3:18 PM, TrashMaster G said:

    Why do we care how good the backup QB is?

    because Gabriel , who was out last year, is injury and concussion prone, and OU is much deeper this year.  Arnold , is much more dangerous either way, 

    Horns have to win the Big12 this year.  enough is enough .  

  5. This year RRR will be different obviously , as OU has a good back up QB in Jackson Arnold. A scary QB . 

    But the horns should still win by 2 Touchdowns 

  6. 1 hour ago, bschoolprof said:

    Sark is who he is. He’s a nice guy and recruits well (for now) and will hang on for another few years. But we will never win anything of significance with him at the helm. Then it’s on to the next hire we fuck up. 

    Very true . He looks over his head here at Texas . Not sure he has the ability to be a head coach at a top tier program .  Sad to see this after all this time . Players are not reacting well to him nor is he a good gameday coach . A new coach search will probably be needed by next year if this this continues .

  7. 7 hours ago, Hozz said:

    Ok so everyone agrees we have underperformed for 12 years across 4 head coaches, right?  This is just bad luck?  A coincidence?  Just a guy that won a national title who got lazy and then 3 bad hires IN A ROW?  Meanwhile the Big 12 is filled with examples in that same time frame of no name fuck faces at historically mediocre programs who had better records with objectively less talent.  But it's our head coach that is the problem?  Fuck that.  Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

    Sark wardrobe and body language seems to indicate his mindset is messed up. This could get ugly quickly. There is a reason he failed at USC . Ewers has regressed as the year unfolded 

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  8. On 10/9/2022 at 9:51 AM, victory88 said:

    Riley masked a lot of ou’s deficiencies with his scheme and constant influx of elite QBs.  We’re see first hand the difference when Quinn is playing vs Hudson/Thompson/Swoopes/Heard etc.  All of the sudden the offense is humming and clicking.  Props to Sark for getting the right pieces in place and we’re seeing week to week improvement which k haven’t seen on the 40 acres since the mid 2000s.  Ou replaced both their coordinators, good ones at that.  Lost all their elite talent except for Mims and Gray. Those idiots expected not to lose a step introducing new schemes.  We saw here first hand what the veer and shoot looks like when you don’t have the personnel to run it paired with a bad defense.  Sark had lots of the issues last year but at least we were able to game plan to the point that we led most teams into the 4th quarter.  Ou couldn’t do anything.  Their coaches need to at this point dumb down everything and focus on effort and fundamentals.  We’ve seen first hand how long it takes to get rid of the losing mentality and build a culture.  Ou’s culture was all Riley and now that he’s gone, they have no fucking identity and those players have no confidence in themselves and their coaches.  Fuck them, they deserve this.  I can’t wait to see them roam a decade plus in mediocrity.  This is going to be a major rebuild for them.  Atleast Sark had the pedigree to bring in top QB talent even when we are 5-7.  I can’t imagine they will be able to bring in any elite quarterbacks to play in that system and with a OC that doesn’t have any skins on the wall.  

    The portal will help OU speed up their recovery. They have an elite 5 start QB coming next year , Jackson Arnold.  Plus Venables is a defensive guru who will figure things out eventually.OU looks like Texas last year but a bit worse i think . But things change and big time programs with deep pockets rebuild faster. Except for Nebraska and Miami andI USC who i think made terrible coaching and organizational decisions. OU will stick with Venables at least 3 years. 

    Lincoln riley certainly masked a lot of the defensive issues with his high potent QBs and offense.  OU conceded many points last year and lost to baylor and OSU and shoudl have lost to Texas ( if not for Caleb Damn williams )  Tulane and Nebraska in Norman.  So this is a talent drain that has been developing for a while.  Lincoln did a number on OU for sure by taking Caleb williams .  It is a QB game . Look at the horns with Ewers and without him.  

    Bottom line , Texas has to win the big12 and no more slippage please.  Sark has to beat Baylor and OSU , period.

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  9. 13 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Prop bet- total yards from scrimmage for Worthy and Bijan combined 

    Texas- 55

    OU- 10

    Worthy + Bijan- 250 combined yards. The stars show up for Texas as each guy goes over 100. 
     

    Bonus- tell your best/worst/funniest story about the Texas OU week. 
     

    I once got hit in the neck with a pool cue at the starlight lounge, after watching us lose 66-13, after having a flat tire on my truck, breaking my jack, having to spend 3 hours using a screw driver to operate the jack while surrounded by (and helped by) homeless people. After all that happened I woke up, drove back to law school, got all the way to the Oklahoma border before realizing I had forgotten my laptop in McKinney and had to turn around and go back and get it. 
    This was likely one of the worst weekends of my life. 


    I’m not doing justice to this story. I wrote it up on LFZ and it became a little famous for a while, but I’m banging away on my cell phone right now waiting to board a cruise ship so I’m sort of half ass-ing it here. 

    But y’all, y’all can definitely do better when you tell your stories. Or just make a prediction if you want. 

    Texas 44

    OU 31 

     

  10. 35 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    This is great.  Gonna squeak by Kent state then go lose to Nebraska.  I’m not 100% sure on the kent state part but Nebraska is happening.  SEC ready.  

    seems the OL is still struggling.  Nebraska will be a tough outing for OU.   Red River rivalry looking like a win for Texas

  11. 8 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

    He got Ewers. Who the fuck wants to come as the 3rd Qb? Texas played their asses off. The game plans were great. At some point you hav ego just tip your hat to Bama and stop looking for some BS ecmxcuse to blame on coaches 

    many QBs out there to pick from the portal .  Sark had a great gameplan regardless. defense was fantastic,

  12. how come sark never picked a viable 3rd string seasoned QB from the portal ?  he knows QB injuries against Bama are posssible.  to have just a freshman Malik as 3rd string QB is crazy. plenty of good QBs out there at the portal.

  13. 3 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

    Dammmmmmmmmnnnnn!

    This Alabama team is being anointed to god-like status. 

    Well the last time I saw an opponent receive so much hype was when I was strolling across the Rose Bowl grounds two stepping to Big and Rich and shot gunning Buds with Ted Ferguson the Budweiser Daredevil.

    As a result of all the hype, I am reversing course and now… 
     

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    Good analogy. I hope the horns show up and make a huge statement. Sick of the Bama dominance and saban arrogance. Hope sark has a plan. horns cannot lose by a score like 48-12  , otherwise it will be a bad omen for Sark

  14. 21 hours ago, Trojan Man said:

    There's some revisionist history in here.  Riley was Stoops' OC for a couple years before he took over.  OU went from 8-5 the year before hiring Riley as OC to 11-2 in the two years he was OC.  He played a major part in having a strong program to run.  If you want to discredit what Riley did because of what he inherited from Stoops the same thing applies to anything Venables accomplishes in the next couple years, but somehow I doubt all the asshurt Sooner fans now claiming Bob Stoops was personally responsible for every achievement over the last 5 years will give any credit to their former coach if Oklahoma does well this fall.  Before Riley coached them, Tech didn't think Mayfield was worth a scholarship and everybody thought Murray's future was in MLB instead of the NFL.  Neither of those guys were considered locks for winning the Heisman and going first overall in the draft pre-Riley.  Same with Jalen Hurts.  If he stayed at Alabama he goes pro in something other than sports rather than becoming a starter in the NFL.  Rattler was a bust, but those 3 plus Caleb Williams are all the real deal.  80% hit rate on QBs will get the job done.

    As for recruiting, I was only bringing up defense because that's what we're discussing.  Unsurprisingly, offensive recruiting is going better.  For 2023 USC has commitments from the #2 QB (per 247), the #1 WR, a very high 4* WR who could be bumped up to 5* and a couple 4* RBs.  USC is the favorite to land the #1 TE.  Riley also brought in a borderline 5* RB and a high 4* WR in his transitional class last year.  This is all without throwing wads of cash around as USC just started its collective (sanction PTSD has caused USC to be overly cautious on NIL), another reason for optimism.  I expect USC's 2023 recruiting class to finish in the 8-12 range.  Currently it's 13th, but like I've said there are numerous elite targets still out there USC is favored to land.  9-10 wins this season and Riley is flipping some blue chips this fall.  2024 onward, once the collective is fully functional and relationships are established with recruits/HS coaches and other programs can no longer negatively recruit using Helton's reign of failure and USC is 1 of 2 programs west of the Rockies in a super conference, I expect top 5 yearly.

    Sark is an amazing recruiter, but he won't win anything of note with the classes he signs.  The good news is if you nail the next hire you can expect instant success because the cupboard will be fully stocked.  If we replaced Sark with an average coach instead of the most clueless dipshit in college football USC makes at least 1 CFP appearance in 2016-17.  Thanks to Sark those teams were loaded with NFLers on both sides of the ball, but shitty coaching and a dash of Pac 12 schedulers fucking us over prevented any CFP berths.

    good points overall but here are some pointers from my perspective

    1- Lincoln did improve the OU offense indeed , but it has become stale the last 2 years and many defenses found it out. Note the disaster against LSU , and the losses to KSU twice and other games which OU barely won .  They should have lost the West Virginia game in norman ( managed only 14 points or so ) and it was all blamed on poor rattler.  OU almost lost to tulane and to nebraska in Norman .  needless to mention the defense under grinch was a disaster.  OU should have lost to the horns if not for divine intervention and a crazy few palys by Caleb.  Will see how he does with the offense at USC , albeit the big 12 defenses are a tad better than the pac 12 . 

    2- if lincoln reaches 9 wins in the regular season then he has certainly elevated and he could have a good run.  The defense and the lack of physicality of his OU teams are hard to forget however since he esssentially took the same staff from Norman to LA. 

    3- Not sure why you think Sark will fail here at texas.  Last year was not good for sure,  but interesting to note you think he has no chance in austin given all the talent. 

    4- Lincoln is a great recruiter of elite offensive weapons ( Qbs , Wrs . RB). that am sure of .  But am not sure how the defense will stand up to Notre Dame , Utah , and maybe  Oregon .   UCLA and Stanford will be a test .   

     

  15. 21 hours ago, Pdawg88 said:

    He’s too much of a narcissist to do that last part. 

    agree.  there is a strong rumor in dallas media that he will be coaching in dallas in 2-3 years.  Stephen jones likes lincoln a lot. He is seen as a better version of the arizona cardinals coach Kingsberry .  Cowboy fans are not enamored with that idea at all , but want to get rid of McCarthy too.  

  16. 3 hours ago, Trojan Man said:

    I know all about him.  He was at Washington State for a few years and I watch a lot of Big 12 football.  The one thing that has me optimistic about that side of the ball is defensive recruiting.  I don't know what OU's defensive recruiting looked like when Grinch was there, but it's off to a strong start at USC and USC has a higher recruiting ceiling than OU.  Last year coming off a 4-8 season in a transitional class with a staff hired a couple weeks before Early Signing Day they held on to a 5* CB and a high 4* S.  In the transfer portal they landed a 2021 freshman AA LB from Arizona State and another LB who was a freshman AA at Alabama in 2019 before injuries derailed his career.

    As for 2023 recruiting USC has won recent commitments over Ohio State and Texas for high 4 star front 7 players and is in a pretty good spot with a couple 5* DEs, a high 4* DT and a few more mid 4* defenders.  I'm confident USC will clean up in the transfer portal on both sides of the ball under Riley.  Once the games start, when the stink of the Helton era begins to fade and USC's staff has proof of concept they can point to at their current job when recruiting, I expect recruiting to pick up even more.  At minimum the cupboard will be restocked for whoever replaces Grinch.

    Yes he has done some good recruiting for 2023  , but Texas is doing better  , and by the way so is OU. Both are higher so far than USC .   Riley needs to solve the defensive issues and that starts with recruiting elite defenses to survive the Big10 move.

  17. 4 hours ago, Trojan Man said:

    Speaking from firsthand experience, I'll take Riley over Sark 100/100 times.  You don't go 55-10 with 4 conference championships and 3 playoff appearances and 2 Heisman winners in your first 5 years as a head coach by accident.  For comparison, Saban didn't win his first conference title in a major conference until year 8.  The one complaint I have is I am not a big fan of Grinch's philosophy and scheme.  I would have preferred a different DC hire.  I don't think Grinch is terrible and I'm not starting "Fire Grinch" threads anywhere, but he is slightly above average at best.  USC can and should do better.

    let me explain why as i have watched riley carefully for 5 years.

    1) riley inherited a humming OU team with 2 Heisman QBs already recruited by Stoops ( Mayfield and Kyler).  Riley is a great offensive recruiter and players are attracted to him , but that is not enough as OU has seen , He has issues developing QBs . Spencer rattler bolted to South Carolina for a reason. Another stud QB left OU to SMU and flourished.

    2) The OU defense regressed under riley.  Improved for a bit after he fired Mike Stoops , but mot enough.

    3) Riley is a great recruiter and is very cerebral in offensive football, but loses games unexplicably due to some in game managemen issues.  He lost twice to Kstate and was outcoached by Iowa state and other coaches in the big 12 several times. 

    4) Grinch will have issues improving USC's defense .  His style does not fit top tier teams.

    5) lincoln brought with him most of the staff that lost unexplicably last year to Baylor and Ok State and almost lost to Kansas by the way , and the horns should have won that game if not for a meltdown and the heroics of caleb williams. 

     

    Bottom line , i think riley will improve USC to 8-3 -7-4 regular season but will plateau , especially against top tier defenses and BIg 10 defenses.  Riley could bot to the NFL by 2025 under pressue as losses pile up in the Big10.

     

  18. On 8/9/2022 at 8:02 PM, Trojan Man said:

    I was banned from commenting on The Athletic a few months ago because I called an OU fan a fucking dumbass for insisting Muschamp 2.0 would be an improvement over Riley.  The jilted ex-girlfriends have been flooding the comments sections of every USC article on that site ever since they lost Riley and I finally got fed up with it.  Anyways, I Googled "college football message board where I can call OU fans fucking dumbasses without getting banned" and it led me here.

     Riley sucks by the way .  too soft .  cannot believe the horns lost 4 games in a row to him .   

    USC will continue to suck under riley

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