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  1. Buffalo to Kansas last year is another example
  2. Agreed. Should've recognized that the issues he had in high school wouldn't magically disappear. The OU 9.95ers hinted he was weird but that mostly got buried behind the rah-rah stuff. There was the "sitting behind a great leader like Jalen Hurts taught him something" narrative. That breaks down because Hurts seemed separate from the team start to finish. The final red flags that should've gone up were that the OU offense tailed off at the end of the 2019 season, unlike what had happened with Mayfield/Murray. That was shoved aside because the Sooners stomped a Florida team that was an empty suit. In defense of OU fans, Mayfield and Murray were douches also. Seems like they were at least hardworking, focused on football and didn't alienate their teammates.
  3. I don't expect that UT fans will listen to OU football players podcasts, but it's publicly available if you're interested (podcast on the prairie). The hosts stated that they could see Wms (congratulations, you used a standard abbreviation) was a more effective QB in preseason and Rattler was creating mischief after he was benched. Do homework before leveling the critique.
  4. Who went with Dart on his OU visit? To my knowledge, there aren't restrictions on the number of transfer candidates you can host so more the merrier.
  5. Context brother. Part of the reason for OU's disastrous 2021 season (based on expectations), was the preseason and in-season QB drama with 2 high upside guys, Rattler and Williams. That didn't work out well I think we can all agree. I think we can also all agree that Lebby tampered/recruited Gabriel to OU. Why would Lebby go and get another QB to compete with a guy he pulled off UCLA's campus? If OU did bring in Dart, the Surly crowd, correctly, would be saying the Sooners were recreating the QB fiasco. Check the receipts, before Caleb left, I said OU should be looking at Gabriel as his replacement. In Williams absence, I think we can also agree that Gabriel is as close to an incumbent starter as you'll get based on his familiarity with Lebby and his system.
  6. This was also expected (but is disappointing).
  7. Sooners still shockingly without a serious replacement for receiving targets (the lone TE transfer is more of a blocker so far in his career). I wonder if they move Bowman to offense and Wllis strictly to WR because right now they only have 9 WR, including 2 true Fr. Only 3 WR have significant experience.
  8. ??? Understanding Caleb Williams was leaving, Gabriel was the #1 reasonable replacement in my mind. I think OU learned "talent wins out" doesn't always apply. Gabriel provides a very high floor.
  9. OU certainly needs Trigg (the SC TE transfer) more than Dart. Dart going to OU complicates things as much as he helps. OU's 2021 QB drama is a perfect example of why. Surprising no one, there's stuff leaking out about how Rattler was a divisive figure after he was benched. Trigg has been projected to Mississippi also, unfortunately.
  10. After Kiffin moves to ___________ (? Auburn) next cycle, who'll be Dart next coach?
  11. Have you also figured out I feel comfortable being the outsider?
  12. Some of you complained I post too much. Now, I'm lazy?
  13. Too much Eng Lit class It's hard to care anymore where he goes. More interested in what he does wherever it is and what SC does. And @Gil Bang , I think, thinks SC's OL will be good next year and I'm more interested in why that is. If SC does have a good OL, it significantly raises their prospects early because Riley's already proven he can take a team that lacks good offensive/defense balance far.
  14. Moving on from Wms talk. Do you think SC's OL is going to be good next year? I saw the Trojans play only a couple of times in 2021 and recall thinking they were bad.
  15. Madison is sort of an idealized version of a college town for me. I've have some great times there too.
  16. RE: Caleb W going to SC and it's relevance to SC's recruiting otherwise. The Wms family was assured by Riley that Riley would be at OU for his 3-4 yrs (the thought was the Riley would go to the NFL). Wms not going to SC at this point could be that SC's roster sucks, or the Wms feel that Riley lied to them. So this is a specific case. Recall, the SC staff (mostly) was able to recruit to Norman. I think they'll be able to recruit to SC when the Trojans have a bag game/NIL program operating. At this point the whole idea of where Wms goes has gotten boring hasn't it?
  17. @Tex Pete I encourage both of you to dig just ONE millimeter deeper on the problem. Yes, nursing salaries are going up. That isn't the problem. Complaining about nurses salaries is problem #1, especially now, when thousands of nurses have died from on the exposure caring while they were caring for people.Early in 2020, in NYC, is a particularly instructive example of why you either pay for nursing or people die. Staff shortages, among other shortages, wrecked NYC hospitals. This is why death rates (case fatality rates) specifically in NYC at that time are higher than at any other point in the pandemic. And your care suffered whether you had the infection or not because there wasn't staffing for other standard services because those services were redirected for care of infected people. Problem #2 is that hospitals in the NE didn't lose money during 2020 and 2021 because Federal funds bailed them out so that's how we all pay for it. Ask your wife's boss. And nursing salaries in the NE cities, relative to cost of living are worse than other parts of the country at baseline. Ask you wife's boss about these staff. And why was it a necessity that hospitals make money specifically in during this time when other industries didn't? Hospital closures have accelerated with with increasing corporate ownership in the space. It's because of thinking about shareholders, not patients. When you're sick you'd gladly pay for someone to care for you. Hopefully there are nurses trained and available to do this. Paying them for their board skills, now in a time when they risk illness and death, is the least we can do.
  18. Is this another form of your humor? Complaining about nurses' salaries during a pandemic? Forest-trees??? Fyi, everyone is paying the bills. Your knowledge of this appears limited, but think about this next time you complain about "someone not knowing what they're talking about" on a topic.
  19. I look at him as an Edge. He's as big as an incoming freshman as Bonitto is now as 3rd or 4th year player.
  20. There are degrees of fanboy's and this guy's among the worst. Other OU fanboys have acknowledged Campbell's going to UT for a month. Campbell and Caleb Williams are going to be at OU in fall 2022 to run the wishbone coached by Switzer. Prove me wrong.
  21. "They're both Isaiah Simmons starter kits. " We ALL agree. That's why I said starter kits. Not every OU fan is saying that OU's 2022 defense is going to be the 85 Bears. That said. The guy who coached Simmons, Travis Lewis, Curtis Loftin, and yes, Teddy Lehman is now back at OU and has clay to mold.
  22. They're both Isaiah Simmons starter kits.
  23. The "reputation" ranking of the USNews rankings comes from administrators, who, in my experience don't care about sports scandals at all. They view the athletics department as a separate arm of the institution. As such, from the examples you listed, UNC would be the only REAL one that may have registered because the integrity of an academic department was compromised. So that may have impacted the the impression of the people who vote on these things for USNews (which is a deeply flawed system, but that's another story). The Duke lacrosse scandal was fabricated, but it took about a year for that to come out. In that time, the story definitely hurt Duke. Duke aspires to an academic class where it's the only Southern school (no Vandy/Emory aren't included) and sports is relatively devalued. Having a scandal involving a preppy sport at the Southern school with race, gender, and violence definitely impacted Duke's reputation. Ironically, of the scandals you mentioned, the one that was fabricated is that I recall ever being mentioned at work with a truly negative attitude behind it. The other stuff has always just been brushed off as "boys-being-boys" to get an advantage playing games. Guess different industries have different water cooler talk.
  24. Thanks. Better than I thought!
  25. @Chango Funny thing is that OU's got another guy whose height, weight, and track numbers are almost the same as Kanak's, Jayden Rowe. Kanak played Kansas 5A ball (~ 1000 student enrollment). On defense, he played the "just run to the ball" position. Rowe played CB at the highest level of Oklahoma high school ball (3500 student enrollment). I don't have any information on Rowe's strength numbers, but hopefully the ability to cover will translate as a college S, NB, or LB. After you visit Rowe's 247 page you'll probably be able to guess why Kanak gets more press than Rowe. https://247sports.com/player/jayden-rowe-46112803 Hopefully OU's going to get two guys in the 2022 class who fail as badly as Teddy Lehman.
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