This Oklahoma team JUST LOOKS DIFFERENT: OU Screenshot Megathread

[statsman 5421]

From 1999-2020 (and probably 2021), OU had a superior coach to Texas. Mack Brown was very good for a decade, but Stoops was a great coach. 
 
Thats a quarter century of superior coaching, sometimes very superior. An entire generation of Sooner fans came to believe there is something unique about Austin and OKC that makes Sooners line up better and play faster and harder than Longhorns. It will be a while before they believe any different. 

Edited June 30, 2023 by statsman

[LateAughtsHorn 588]

49 minutes ago, statsman said:

From 1999-2020 (and probably 2021), OU had a superior coach to Texas. Mack Brown was very good for a decade, but Stoops was a great coach. 
 
Thats a quarter century of superior coaching, sometimes very superior. An entire generation of Sooner fans came to believe there is something unique about Austin and OKC that makes Sooners line up better and play faster and harder than Longhorns. It will be a while before they believe any different. 

That's what these dipshits don't get. They had a better coach that didn't fall asleep on the job and try to crater the program on the way out. We hired shitty coaches. 

There's nothing special about "OU DNA". Well, maybe there is, but not in the way they think. 

 

Edited June 30, 2023 by LateAughtsHorn

[billfromlaketravis 11359]

Here’s the big question: Can they afford Heupel?

[kilroydos 267]

2 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Here’s the big question: Can they afford Heupel?

No.  Not because there's no money, but because the amount it would take to get Heupel back on campus for any kind of role would be double what he would take anywhere else.  He was rightfully pissed at being made the scapegoat for some of the decisions Bob made for the offense and the failures on the other side of the ball.  As long as Bob is hovering anywhere around OU, Heupel will show up when Tennessee comes to play.

[billfromlaketravis 11359]

2 minutes ago, kilroydos said:

No.  Not because there's no money, but because the amount it would take to get Heupel back on campus for any kind of role would be double what he would take anywhere else.  He was rightfully pissed at being made the scapegoat for some of the decisions Bob made for the offense and the failures on the other side of the ball.  As long as Bob is hovering anywhere around OU, Heupel will show up when Tennessee comes to play.

I hope you’re right. OU falling up into Heupel would suck. 

[kilroydos 267]

3 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I hope you’re right. OU falling up into Heupel would suck. 

It was a strange situation, he was absolutely being groomed to take over, but never seemed to show the flashes of leadership or innovation you might expect out of someone who really wants to be a head coach.  Once he was let go, it seemed to both light a fire under him and let Bob know he needed to find someone he could turn the reins over to entirely. 

[Thiefery 4967]

29 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I hope you’re right. OU falling up into Heupel would suck. 

as long as bob has an office there and has all the freedom of the world around that dept..Josh is staying away

[statsman 5421]

Did Lincoln Riley come in after Heupel was canned? Yeah, that’s a burn. 
 
That said, that program will jettison anyone if they get in the way of winning. Ethics, scruples and principles are not the pillars of that program. 

[SamsCorner 395]

18 hours ago, statsman said:

Did Lincoln Riley come in after Heupel was canned? Yeah, that’s a burn. 
 
That said, that program will jettison anyone if they get in the way of winning. Ethics, scruples and principles are not the pillars of that program. 

Firing a guy who is an obstacle to winning is immoral?

[kilroydos 267]

Yeah, how dare Charlie Strong get fired.  Proves Texas is a mercenary organization.  Is nothing sacred anymore?

[Scholz 11933]

Maybe a more elegant way to say it is blowu will protect winning coaches even if they recruit and cover up for multitudes of girl beaters the likes of Joe Mixon.

That is immoral and the oklahoma way.

[statsman 5421]

7 hours ago, SamsCorner said:

Firing a guy who is an obstacle to winning is immoral?

Presumably, when they signed Venables, they committed to a plan. They probably agreed this plan would take a few years. Jettisoning him as soon as a shinier prospect comes along, despite where they may be in the plan they committed to, is telling. 

[totallynotabuttpirate 5342]

No way they're going into the SEC with a 1st year coach. He's going to get 3 years a least. They'll just Fat Mack/Strong/Herman/Jimbo and force him to hire new coordinators and then fire him shortly thereafter.  

[kilroydos 267]

7 minutes ago, totallynotabuttpirate said:

No way they're going into the SEC with a 1st year coach. He's going to get 3 years a least. They'll just Fat Mack/Strong/Herman/Jimbo and force him to hire new coordinators and then fire him shortly thereafter.  

We can only hope it starts with Roof.

[Scholz 11933]

They’ll keep Jeff Lebby that’s for sure. He’s their kind of people.

[statsman 5421]

On 7/2/2023 at 11:23 AM, SamsCorner said:

Firing a guy who is an obstacle to winning is immoral?

Your point is well taken