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23 minutes ago, Horn Dogg said:

I know we joke about it, but OU might actually be turning into Nebraska or Minnesota.  Let’s continue to beat the shit out of them for decades to come!

I wouldn't be surprised to see OU alums turn to land grabbing the captagon market from the vacuum left by Syria to prop up the football team. 

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9 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I wouldn't be surprised to see OU alums turn to land grabbing the captagon market from the vacuum left by Syria to prop up the football team. 

I have no idea whether “captagon “ is your typical word to text issue or if this is some sort of thing in current events. 

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4 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I have no idea whether “captagon “ is your typical word to text issue or if this is some sort of thing in current events. 

It's real:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Captagon_industry

Syria is the main manufacturer of a drug called Captagon, which really only gets distributued in the middle east. No one in America had really heard of it until the fall of Assad's regime unless they were extremely well travelled in the middle east. Apparently it's been the main source of the country's revenue for quite awhile. 

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Yeah, the WSJ had an article a couple of weeks ago, kind of a “here is the illicit drug that is real popular in the ME that you have probably never heard of, but will know about it soon”. 
 
The connection to OU recruiting- it’s the meth of the ME. 

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23 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

Is the WR coach toxic? Is the QB room a cesspool?

There is nobody left on Offense at this point...

 

Surely they are getting the hint and give up and can Venables now right? If he stays there might be nobody left on that team that played at OU this year after the spring window

Lol, Venables buyout is 45 million, and they just double downed on him. He's not gonig anywhere. 

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Is the WR coach toxic? Is the QB room a cesspool?
There is nobody left on Offense at this point...
 
Surely they are getting the hint and give up and can Venables now right? If he stays there might be nobody left on that team that played at OU this year after the spring window

He will fall flat on his face in 25 and they’ll fire him after next season.
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1 hour ago, Laxtonto said:

Is the WR coach toxic? Is the QB room a cesspool?

There is nobody left on Offense at this point...

 

Surely they are getting the hint and give up and can Venables now right? If he stays there might be nobody left on that team that played at OU this year after the spring window

This was noted after Venables brought in Jones to coach WR... hasn't aged well:

"Following the end of Brent Venables's first season as OU's head coach, he brought coach Emmett Jones to Norman, and he's been working his magic ever since. Coach Jones is, without question, one of the most effective recruiters in college football, period. He was Oklahoma's secret weapon in the recruiting war, but now everyone knows his name.

By no accident, Coach Jones now leads one of the nation's most talented and deep wide receiver groups. He recruits, develops, and puts talent where it needs to be. He's a player's coach, and his players love him.

Jones' pass catchers look primed to lead the Sooner offense in 2024. Air raid playcalling, provided by new offensive coordinator Seth Littrell, will only highlight the Sooner receiver corps. Names like Nic Anderson, Jalil Farooq, Jaquaize Pettaway, Deion Burks, and Jayden Gibson will become household names under an air raid attack.

The Sooners' receivers are deep at each level of the scheme. They have a deep mix of big-body receivers (Anderson & Gibson), slot speed demons (Pettaway & Thompson), and deep threats (Burks & Farooq). It is reasonable to say that 6 of the Sooners' top receivers could start on any SEC roster.

Coach Emmett Jones is a new-age football coach. His roots are deep in the high school world, which gives him immense power and legitimacy on the recruiting trail. He's a down-to-earth, humble workaholic who can get intense when needed. Besides legendary offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh, Coach Jones is the most gifted and sought-after position coach on the Sooners staff."

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20 hours ago, statsman said:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oklahoma-sooners-unofficial-40/id1114209557?i=1000680069528
 
This is awesome. They discuss the portal and…

-how much they need offensive talent, and how difficult it is to get it interested in the 2025 Oklahoma Sooners. (They have no receivers)

-how much more difficult it is to retain offensive talent than they expected (budgeted for)

-they believe they have a $14M budget, and how that should be competitive 

-how they hate where the sport is, and how they wish there was a salary cap. 
 
I love this. 
 
In the mid ‘70s, as Royal was complaining about OU and others buying players, against the rules, Switzer was mocking him. He would say, “Texas just has a bunch of lazy, old coaches that just don’t want to work at recruiting. He would do better if he worked instead of pointed fingers.”

To OU, now, I would say, “Maybe you guys should stop complaining about how the game is, now, and just work harder”.😂

Fucking A this. Switzer needs to die a painful death from tertiary syphillis.  I hope they go hat in hand begging the MVC to take them in as a member.

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7 hours ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

I think Gerry ot Bobby said Burks is likely to transfer. Whoops. 

On Sooner Scoop, they’re optimistic that they will reach a deal to retain him. (Which is hilarious, that they have to dig deeper to get their slot possession receiver, with less production than Drake Stoops, and who was injured most of the year, to return). 

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This was noted after Venables brought in Jones to coach WR... hasn't aged well:
"Following the end of Brent Venables's first season as OU's head coach, he brought coach Emmett Jones to Norman, and he's been working his magic ever since. Coach Jones is, without question, one of the most effective recruiters in college football, period. He was Oklahoma's secret weapon in the recruiting war, but now everyone knows his name.
By no accident, Coach Jones now leads one of the nation's most talented and deep wide receiver groups. He recruits, develops, and puts talent where it needs to be. He's a player's coach, and his players love him.
Jones' pass catchers look primed to lead the Sooner offense in 2024. Air raid playcalling, provided by new offensive coordinator Seth Littrell, will only highlight the Sooner receiver corps. Names like Nic Anderson, Jalil Farooq, Jaquaize Pettaway, Deion Burks, and Jayden Gibson will become household names under an air raid attack.
The Sooners' receivers are deep at each level of the scheme. They have a deep mix of big-body receivers (Anderson & Gibson), slot speed demons (Pettaway & Thompson), and deep threats (Burks & Farooq). It is reasonable to say that 6 of the Sooners' top receivers could start on any SEC roster.
Coach Emmett Jones is a new-age football coach. His roots are deep in the high school world, which gives him immense power and legitimacy on the recruiting trail. He's a down-to-earth, humble workaholic who can get intense when needed. Besides legendary offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh, Coach Jones is the most gifted and sought-after position coach on the Sooners staff."

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This is a recruiting thread, so hopefully it’s ok to note that Venables seems to have still not learned the rule of the modern game- “your most important recruits are the guys already on your roster”. 
 
All he is doing his repeating the best practices of the last quarter century of Sooner football, the Stoops Era. These practices were integral to producing hard nosed physical teams. He hasn’t figured out that a whole lot of that doesn’t work when there are not only no barriers for players leaving, but actually enticements to leave. 

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There was an OU Drumm/Thune podcast, where they bemoaned the portal and NIL. They said Mateer would cost them $2.5M(!)

They were also saying that players were insisting on big paydays, because revenue sharing would reduce the size of future NIL deals (I don’t think that is so). I think guys were insisting on big paydays because market prices are set by competition, and market prices don’t care about college football blue blood status or Sooner Magic TM. 

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8 minutes ago, statsman said:

There was an OU Drumm/Thune podcast, where they bemoaned the portal and NIL. They said Mateer would cost them $2.5M(!)

They were also saying that players were insisting on big paydays, because revenue sharing would reduce the size of future NIL deals (I don’t think that is so). I think guys were insisting on big paydays because market prices are set by competition, and market prices don’t care about college football blue blood status or Sooner Magic TM. 

SO weird. This isn't anything like most the #s that are actually thrown around. I wonder why that might be?

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1 hour ago, statsman said:

There was an OU Drumm/Thune podcast, where they bemoaned the portal and NIL. They said Mateer would cost them $2.5M(!)

They were also saying that players were insisting on big paydays, because revenue sharing would reduce the size of future NIL deals (I don’t think that is so). I think guys were insisting on big paydays because market prices are set by competition, and market prices don’t care about college football blue blood status or Sooner Magic TM. 

sooner guy i talk to who knows a few of the players on the team told me that Mateer has a 1.7M deal on the table FWIW

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On 12/13/2024 at 4:14 PM, Js1 said:

 

The Sooners are excited. Last night, Mateer told his WSU teammates that he would not play the bowl game. This morning, it is reported that he is expected to enter the portal. 
 
Look, 95% chance he signs with OU, and they then go on to build a portal class of offensive players. However, OU is not the only school that wants Mateer, although it is the only school that hired his OC and QB coach. Miami wants him as a replacement for Cam Ward. 
 
Odds are he signs with OU, but if it was a sure thing, he would have done so already. It would be delicious beyond belief if he signed with Miami. 

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16 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

I do not think all of the NIL money in the world could convince me to transfer from Stanford to OU.  

I remember in Last Chance U at the Mississippi JC they had a couple of kids that had transferred in from Michigan and Rice.  It was amusing watching their faces in the classroom scenes realizing how far they had fallen.  That's how this guy is going to feel on the first day of classes.

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16 minutes ago, Not a cat said:

I remember in Last Chance U at the Mississippi JC they had a couple of kids that had transferred in from Michigan and Rice.  It was amusing watching their faces in the classroom scenes realizing how far they had fallen.  That's how this guy is going to feel on the first day of classes.

I forgot about that :). The woman who was the guidance counselor for that group seemed like she was herding cats as much as making sure the students were making proper academic progress.  It was mind-boggling.

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