My shower thought today: Let’s say we unexpectedly crush it this year and make the CFP. As a result, top tier recruits not currently on our radar want in. Couldn’t we afford to take some of our culture guys that may not see the field off scholarship and pay their scholarships through NIL? Likewise, some of our “bread” could be enrolled as grey shirts with the same understanding in order to develop with the best.
The delusion here is assuming teenagers are rational on either side of this particular Blue fence. Either way, early reports are that he’s been a good teammate so far. Having several studs ahead of him on the depth chart probably helps. He can’t think he’s always the best player on the field or even in the position group.
Because High Schoolers are known to make good decisions… especially when a group of them is voting on something. Sounds like young jaded boys partaking in groupthink after being publicly spurned. Maybe he’s cancer or maybe the team had other cancerous members leading the charge. Maybe he WAS cancer but that lesson has turned him benign.
And Pat Fitzgerald is a great coach and developer of young men. Nothing against Venables, but NU is a much better place to grow if you have the smarts for it. That said, football football football so OU has that going for them.