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6 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

He had trouble with accuracy beyond 15 yards. I don't know whether that was his thumb or not, although it seems logical, but I do know that whatever it was, it was physical. 

Agreed but a lot of that seemed like decisions and footwork to me. Both of Muhammad's picks were thrown almost without looking and while turning or off the back foot. The kind of stuff he has always seemed to do against quality defenses.

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Here's an article about Jayden Gibson leaving the team, as of today. If you'll recall, the sooners have been decrying his absence with the WR corps since he went down last August. They rushed him back in the spring and he got hurt again, but, by golly, he was going to be fine for the 2025 season, per Venables in May, and that was going to make a big difference! I've been mocking the notion of his return throughout this thread. 

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NORMAN — Oklahoma and wide receiver Jayden Gibson have parted ways.

Oklahoma coach Brent Venables said Wednesday, when asked during the SEC coaches teleconference, that Gibson is "no longer with the team." The Sooners' fourth-year head coach did not provide any further details on the reasoning Gibson's departure from the team.

As of late Wednesday morning, Gibson was still listed on Oklahoma's official online roster.

Gibson has been sidelined since August 2024, when he tore the patellar tendon in his knee. He missed the entire 2024 season and was set to return this year, but he sustained a setback with his knee before the start of spring practices while running routes on air.

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The last update Venables provided on Gibson's status was in late May at SEC Spring Meetings in Destin, Florida, when he said the 6-foot-5, 186-pound receiver was "on schedule" to return toward the beginning of this season.

Midway through the regular season, Gibson has not appeared in any games for the 14th-ranked Sooners, and he has not been spotted on the sideline in street clothes. He was with the team at the start of fall camp, when he was seen on the field doing light stretching but not participating in practice as he continued to work his way back from injury.

When Gibson was last healthy during the 2023 season, the Apopka, Florida, native caught 14 passes for 375 yards and five touchdowns during a bit of a breakout sophomore campaign. He averaged 26.7 yards per reception and established himself as one of Oklahoma's top downfield threats in the passing game. His average depth of target was 23.3 yards downfield, according to Pro Football Focus, and he made four contested catches on six contested throws during the 2023 season.

He was expected to see an increased role in Oklahoma's offense last season before sustaining a ruptured patellar tendon in fall camp. Gibson was one of five Sooners wide receivers to miss significant time — or in his case, the entirety of the season — during that program's frustrating 2024 campaign.

Oklahoma's wide receiver corps this season has been led by Arkansas transfer Isaiah Sategna, former Purdue transfer Deion Burks and Southern Illinois transfer Keontez Lewis, while the Sooners recently welcomed back Arkansas-Pine Bluff transfer Javonnie Gibson, who returned from a broken leg he sustained during spring practices.

 

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5 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Here's an article about Jayden Gibson leaving the team, as of today. If you'll recall, the sooners have been decrying his absence with the WR corps since he went down last August. They rushed him back in the spring and he got hurt again, but, by golly, he was going to be fine for the 2025 season, per Venables in May, and that was going to make a big difference! I've been mocking the notion of his return throughout this thread. 

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NORMAN — Oklahoma and wide receiver Jayden Gibson have parted ways.

Oklahoma coach Brent Venables said Wednesday, when asked during the SEC coaches teleconference, that Gibson is "no longer with the team." The Sooners' fourth-year head coach did not provide any further details on the reasoning Gibson's departure from the team.

As of late Wednesday morning, Gibson was still listed on Oklahoma's official online roster.

Gibson has been sidelined since August 2024, when he tore the patellar tendon in his knee. He missed the entire 2024 season and was set to return this year, but he sustained a setback with his knee before the start of spring practices while running routes on air.

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The last update Venables provided on Gibson's status was in late May at SEC Spring Meetings in Destin, Florida, when he said the 6-foot-5, 186-pound receiver was "on schedule" to return toward the beginning of this season.

Midway through the regular season, Gibson has not appeared in any games for the 14th-ranked Sooners, and he has not been spotted on the sideline in street clothes. He was with the team at the start of fall camp, when he was seen on the field doing light stretching but not participating in practice as he continued to work his way back from injury.

When Gibson was last healthy during the 2023 season, the Apopka, Florida, native caught 14 passes for 375 yards and five touchdowns during a bit of a breakout sophomore campaign. He averaged 26.7 yards per reception and established himself as one of Oklahoma's top downfield threats in the passing game. His average depth of target was 23.3 yards downfield, according to Pro Football Focus, and he made four contested catches on six contested throws during the 2023 season.

He was expected to see an increased role in Oklahoma's offense last season before sustaining a ruptured patellar tendon in fall camp. Gibson was one of five Sooners wide receivers to miss significant time — or in his case, the entirety of the season — during that program's frustrating 2024 campaign.

Oklahoma's wide receiver corps this season has been led by Arkansas transfer Isaiah Sategna, former Purdue transfer Deion Burks and Southern Illinois transfer Keontez Lewis, while the Sooners recently welcomed back Arkansas-Pine Bluff transfer Javonnie Gibson, who returned from a broken leg he sustained during spring practices.

 

Hope he lands somewhere, gets a chance to play OU, makes a sideline catch, and punches Venables square in the dick

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Other random and somewhat humorous OU stuff right now:
-OU is down to two OTs - Fasusi and some back-up transfer. They're claiming Simmons could be back soon, but also not explaining what his injury is and they're vague about the whole thing.
-The fans are arguing amongst themselves on several divisive threads and I am not sure which one is the most entertaining. They're flummoxed that USC and Riley are performing well after expecting Michigan to shred them. Numerous guys want Bedenbaugh gone while others are questioning the fandom of those posters doing so. On the Big 12 vs Venables quote thread, a mod has defended Venables' take and he's getting run over by his constituency. 
-No one can understand what the fuck is going on with Ott not getting PT, but numerous posters are simply unwilling to believe that it could be a byproduct of Demarco Murray not being very good at his job. 
-There is a growing consensus that Fatty Arbuckle sucks and they need Kevin Wilson's "uptempo offense" installed, with Wilson playing a bigger role on the staff. This is the same guy that was run off from Indiana after getting them to two consecutive bowl games and then only getting two seasons at Tulsa before being shitcanned there as well. Both places pushed him out because his team, his admins and the booster base all wound up hating him. He fits right in at OU, I guess. 
-They have a decent-sized faction of fans who honestly believe that they would have won the game on Saturday had those meddling refs not ruined things for them. This same group is projecting a 5-3 SEC finish with a win at SCar and then a sweep of their home SEC games remaining, Ole Miss, Missouri and LSU. 
-Another faction of posters is actively pleading for Venables to get shitcanned so "Nagy can get his guy" in there, with a return to top 10 national status being all but assured with that change. 
I'm enjoying witnessing where things are heading for the sooners and their program. 

Rumors from a low level on staff is ott is a head case. Whatever that means and you would’ve thought they would know that before buying him in the portal. Or maybe they did and thought the juice was worth the squeeze.
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28 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Mateer has struggled with accuracy even before he got hurt (in snaps/games I've seen). His mechanics are lazy. 

So a Johnny Football wannabe without a Mike Evans to bail him out?

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1 hour ago, William Bludworth said:

I'll raise you a man who knows no bounds when it comes to money and keeping "their man". 

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Ross Bjork may be giving the thumbs up here, but his eyes say, "Please get me the fuck outta here".

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2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

The fans are arguing amongst themselves on several divisive threads and I am not sure which one is the most entertaining. Numerous guys want Bendenbaugh Flood gone while others are questioning the fandom of those posters doing so. On the bathroom quote vs Sark thread, a mod has defended Sark's take and he's getting run over by his constituency. 

Interesting. Let's replace a few names and see how they compare 

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2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Other random and somewhat humorous OU stuff right now:

-OU is down to two OTs - Fasusi and some back-up transfer. They're claiming Simmons could be back soon, but also not explaining what his injury is and they're vague about the whole thing.

Yeah, the way he got injured was hilarious. The play was over, but an OU OL pushed or DL (who was already on the ground) into the back of Simmons leg and his knee and/or ankle got destroyed. He's not coming back any time soon with the way they took him off the field.

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Have the same fans that want Nagy to pick a HC looked at Nagy's recruiting class this year? There isn't anything there to brag about - it's worse than the typical coach transition class. Why trust the same guy to get a good HC?

This class stacked on to the past couple of classes and it is easy to see that there are many dark years ahead for OU. I don't think the portal can solve the woes of recruiting this poorly.

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Seeing ou being so downtrodden and shitty makes my Justice Haynes miss  travesty look like we won the golden ticket. Their Offense, and the RB room in particular are so shitty, it makes the ou Van Fleet area of diarrhea look like the Amber Room in St. Catherine's Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. 

We at least looked competent in the second half with replacing that walking fecal impaction with Brooks during Sark's dumbassary after being down 3 scores to that mouth breathing luddite, Napier. 

I sincerely hope and pray Burnt Vaginals gets at least one more year. That's all I want. Just one more year because next season we will be fucking back. 

This is how we should be feeling seeing them suffer after we wandered the desert for 12 years. 

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4 minutes ago, Danimal said:

This class stacked on to the past couple of classes and it is easy to see that there are many dark years ahead for OU. I don't think the portal can solve the woes of recruiting this poorly.

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12 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

Yeah, the way he got injured was hilarious. The play was over, but an OU OL pushed or DL (who was already on the ground) into the back of Simmons leg and his knee and/or ankle got destroyed. He's not coming back any time soon with the way they took him off the field.

Such karma. When their cheating doesn't work, they always resort to dirty play.

Posted
3 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

Yeah, 14 points in 5 seconds would have had the Sooners leaving earlier than they did.

That would have completely crushed their souls. It would have been glorious. 

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4 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

Now I'm not necessarily one to pat myself on the back, but...

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I pretty much called exactly who Mateer was this offseason. He looks like a Heisman guy against overmatched competition and puts up great stats, but once he faces good defenses that aren't at a big talent disadvantage, he starts throwing a lot of intercept-able balls and struggles to complete more than half of his passes.  Sometimes he could salvage those performances with his legs, but he's going to struggle to do even that against good SEC defenses.  OU's expectations got set extremely high with a joke of a first 5 games leading to a bloated #6 ranking. They're in for a rude awakening from here on out and I can't wait to see it.

In summary:

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I remember your specific post because it immediately made me feel much better about them getting him. There was one other poster who also called it, maybe CTJ or one of the other recruiting board guys. 

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4 hours ago, William Bludworth said:

Buddy, name a single time Strong ever even lucked into a 10-win season, or started 5-0. 6-7, 6-7, 5-7....in the Big XII.

Sam Pittman, in a much more difficult conference, has one 9-win season, and two 7-win seasons. He's better than Strong. 

Even Billy Napier had one 8-win season at UF. Again, in a much more difficult conference.

Charlie Strong is the worst coach to coach at even a helmet school, much less a blue blood in a conference that was just a notch ahead of the WAC. 

No one alive today, who has coached at a blue blood/new blue blood are worse than Charlie Strong. 

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