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OU Recruiting 2025: Truck Balls and Broken Dreams


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Outside of getting two good OT's, I really don't think the OU class is very good. They signed 10 DBs and WRs last cycle, then proceeded to get 10 more this cycle.

They seem to have the Herman syndrome of just signing a billion receivers every year and calling it depth.

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4 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

 

 

Nobody bats 1.000. It's hard to argue with how WR has been handled, particularly since Marion left.

Thompson was at Texas long enough to collect substantial NIL, never learn the playbook, whine about playing time, and then get pushed into the portal.

He then turns around after landing at OU to talk shit about Texas along with his mother. Then he fails to learn the playbook and plays little as a backup until this season, as the OU WR room continues to get worse. A starter early in 2024, he's now predictably injured and not contributing.

my dirty fun hobby is looking up momma thompson on twitter and seeing her replies (not to UT fans) to ou fans who question her son's ability to contribute to the team consistently..  

she use to have a horde of white knights who would come to her aide whenever any negativity came to her or her son.. but it's getting pretty sparse now.. :)

 

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15 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

I spend a lot more time in Miami vs Oklahoma.  And probably have more intel w their program.  I don’t really get it but they are still loaded with cash even with Ruiz struggling.  OU can’t match their money imo.  And Miami is kind of fun of you have a little cash.  Pre NIL you could say most cfb players were priced out of the fun.  Today, it’s a very attractive destination for recruits.   

Cartel money. 

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1 hour ago, ClubWhatever said:

The other WR they have who probably could play here is Nic Anderson.  Unfortunately for him and Arnold he's been hurt too.  They've held his status close to the vest but I've seen articles saying he's cleared.

He’s “cleared” but that’s been true of other WRs on their roster who have suited out and not played. 

Anderson’s injury was supposedly a pretty serious groin strain. Those are tricky in terms of healing them up properly during a season. 

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1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:

Cartel money. 

You know, the Sooners and Hurricanes had some great outlaw program tilts in the ‘80s (won by Miami mostly). If they played now, can you imagine the conflict in the concourses between the cartel guys and the Indian Casino guys?

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3 hours ago, closetojumping said:

He’s “cleared” but that’s been true of other WRs on their roster who have suited out and not played. 

Anderson’s injury was supposedly a pretty serious groin strain. Those are tricky in terms of healing them up properly during a season. 

He’s still hurt. 

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On 9/17/2024 at 11:58 AM, closetojumping said:

 

 

Nobody bats 1.000. It's hard to argue with how WR has been handled, particularly since Marion left.

Thompson was at Texas long enough to collect substantial NIL, never learn the playbook, whine about playing time, and then get pushed into the portal.

He then turns around after landing at OU to talk shit about Texas along with his mother. Then he fails to learn the playbook and plays little as a backup until this season, as the OU WR room continues to get worse. A starter early in 2024, he's now predictably injured and not contributing.

The best thing for him would be for his mommy to stop spouting ridiculous shit on twitter and to every single reporter that wants clicks...There are lots of insufferable parents out there but I dont think I have dealt with any as obnoxious personally

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OU got a new baseketball stadium and "entertainment district" passed to try to make Norman be less boring.

Looks like it's going to be way off campus, which honestly just sucks all around.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/sooners/2024/09/18/ou-basketball-arena-norman-oklahoma-entertainment-district-approved/75273556007/

 

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6 minutes ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

I was wrong. Tennessee came back to earth. Ou defense isn't actually bad, but unfortunately for them they're gonna look bad when we pile it on to the tune of 56-10. 

Tennessee inexplicably ran the ball 50 fucking times, well against type of them running their typical offense. It’s almost like Huepel didn’t want to blow the doors off his Alma mater once he knew he could do whatever he wanted on the field. Stop it. 

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6 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Tennessee inexplicably ran the ball 50 fucking times, well against type of them running their typical offense. It’s almost like Huepel didn’t want to blow the doors off his Alma mater once he knew he could do whatever he wanted on the field. Stop it. 

You're right. I was just hoping for a score of 40- 14 or something. 

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9 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Tennessee inexplicably ran the ball 50 fucking times, well against type of them running their typical offense. It’s almost like Huepel didn’t want to blow the doors off his Alma mater once he knew he could do whatever he wanted on the field. Stop it. 

I think it’s explicable. Their defense was crushing the life out of OU. Why risk sacks, fumbles, or interceptions in a QB’s first road start when there’s absolutely no need?

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7 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

I think it’s explicable. Their defense was crushing the life out of OU. Why risk sacks, fumbles, or interceptions in a QB’s first road start when there’s absolutely no need?

Which is still counter to the point that Tennessee “came back to earth.”

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2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Which is still counter to the point that Tennessee “came back to earth.”

I wasn’t really speaking to that aspect, just why what Heupel did was explicable. 

That said, whether they came back to earth or not remains to be seen and could still be related to taking the air out of the ball, more or less. It will take some actual offensive firepower on the other sideline to see whether Tennessee will only open it up against outmanned teams. Maybe he did it not to embarrass OU. Maybe he did something like Sarkisian did in Ann Arbor: we got this, let’s just get out with as little risk as possible. Maybe he was afraid OU’s defense could make his young QB enough of a liability.

With no tangible basis, I tend to think he was OK with essentially choking out OU and, had it been necessary, they could’ve thrown the ball around more and scored more. More “conscious decision” than “came back to earth” except to the extent a reasonably competent defense would contribute to the latter. 

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OU's cornerbacks blow, their O-line blows, and at least one of their QBs blow.  Their LBs are good, the D-line doesn't seem horribad, and their receivers are fast but an open question given the O-line and QBs.   Heupel could have made it worse.  I think it's going to be a long season in Norman.  I expect our WRs to have a track meet October 12.

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Ah I remember when those of us who watched Arnold play were just biased haters when we said Arnold wasn't that good. He played at Guyer, we watched multiple full games of the guy, he was a low 4 star prospect at best. Fringe high 3 star. One of the most confusing 5 star ratings I've seen. 

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1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

Apparently the dude was swayed by Iowa State. Oklahoma has lost two DTs recently and now they’re going to have to reopen recruiting the position. 

Also, they should really look into Bear Alexander in the portal. 

Is Bear trying to redshirt to transfer again? At what point does he just try to get the NFL money? 
 

I never thought I would say this, but thank you Ketchum! He blew the Bear to Texas deal. 

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28 minutes ago, FreeHorn said:

Is Bear trying to redshirt to transfer again? At what point does he just try to get the NFL money? 
 

I never thought I would say this, but thank you Ketchum! He blew the Bear to Texas deal. 

i don't think he was even starting at SC anymore

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  • 3 weeks later...

They are all somehow convinced we were recruiting at the same level from 2010 to 2021 as we are now. Other fanbases think the classes Sark has put together are basically equivalent to everything in the Strong and Herman era because it helps their narrative if they repeat that so much that it becomes fact for them. 

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5 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

Lol. Yes the problem was your compliance department, not your shitty school and poor alumni base as a result. 

Also good fucking luck fixing your medical staff. 

This shit never fails to both amuse and terrify me. Poster after poster, at fanbase after fanbase, look at the Texas situation and our ability to outbid for players, and somehow use that to illustrate/justify the idea that Texas ALWAYS fucking cheated, and ALWAYS paid for players. When it's glaringly fucking obvious that if we had, we wouldn't have fucking sucked ass during the 90s, and from 2010 to 2022. And yet all these motherfuckers somehow look at us buying players now and say "See, that proves that they've always bought players!" Nevermind the last 13 years where we gargled fucking crank and elite talent wouldn't touch us with a 10 foot pole. 

It blows my mind.

The average person on the internet is a complete fucking retard. 
this site is the easily the smartest free message board community I’ve ever seen, and yet at least 10% of what’s posted on here at any time is so stupid that it burns. 

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7 hours ago, RabidM said:

I agree with Huckleberry.  If we weren't going to cheat, we should have been turning everyone in who was cheating, at least in regards to Texas prospects.  We let the field get slanted against us hard. 

In the 1980’s, Texas was one of a few schools in the region turning SMU in for their egregious cheating. SMU responded by hiring PIs to investigate other schools they suspected of turning them in. They dug up the most minor stuff on Texas, compiled and submitted it (and leaked to the press). Texas got a couple of probations out of that, allowing SMU, OU, TAMU and the rest to say, “You’re no better than us!  We just have better teams.”

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9 hours ago, RabidM said:

I agree with Huckleberry.  If we weren't going to cheat, we should have been turning everyone in who was cheating, at least in regards to Texas prospects.  We let the field get slanted against us hard. 

It was so infuriating.  Aggy helped speed things along by bringing the cheaters into the state.  All they ever wanted was to trade us for bama and we laid back and took it for 10 years.

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5 hours ago, statsman said:

In the 1980’s, Texas was one of a few schools in the region turning SMU in for their egregious cheating. SMU responded by hiring PIs to investigate other schools they suspected of turning them in. They dug up the most minor stuff on Texas, compiled and submitted it (and leaked to the press). Texas got a couple of probations out of that, allowing SMU, OU, TAMU and the rest to say, “You’re no better than us!  We just have better teams.”

Texas and Texas Tech got soft probations for players reselling their tickets.  Rice was lightly dinged too.  Everyone else was cheating their brains out in outrageous fashion.  Fred Akers would have retired at Texas if not for the illicit bullshit emanating from A$M, SMU, OU, TCU, Baylor and Arkie.  It all still pisses me off to this day.

 

 

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