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20 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Illinois State

Temple

Kent State

Ole Miss (lost almost all starting talent)

Missouri (since when is Missouri a threat to OU)

South Carolina has an amazing player on each side of the ball. They lost the rest of their DL. They’re the most overrated team in the country.

That leaves needing wins against:

-Michigan

-Auburn

-Texas (neutral site)

-@Tenn

-@Bama

-@LSU

OU beat two of those teams this past year. Winning 8 games against that schedule is not a feat of strength.

 

 

 

 

If OU wins less than 8 game this year, Burnt Vegetables is gone.   

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2 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:

If OU wins less than 8 game this year, Burnt Vegetables is gone.   

And then the fun really begins- a coaching search where it is clear that the HC shares authority with Nagy. 

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It is possible that they will fall for some line of reasoning to the effect that BV was hamstrung by the chain of command issues as regard personnel. While this may be true, it is unlikely to be the reason for last or this season's on-the-field results. If they give BV more time while vacillating on their org chart model, they might even dig themselves deeper. One can hope.

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2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

This is easy to type, yet harder to support. The buyout will be huge for a school and AD in financial trouble. The House Settlement isn't going to make things better, either. The act of buying out the HC, who was just extended in the 2024 summertime, his entire staff (which isn't a cheap staff), and then the buyouts for the next staff likely drives the package to north of $30M from a donor base that struggles to compete in NIL already. 

The pros and cons, as of now, for being the HC at OU are as tilted towards the cons more than any time in college football history. 

Pros:

-winning tradition

-national-ish brand

-the university and the state care more about winning in football than almost any other priority

-proximity to talent rich DFW

Cons:

-lack of full control over player or coaching personnel (new)

-weak NIL/no way to create a competitive advantage with $50,000 bags under the table these days (new)

-comparatively weak corporate NIL to rival and other national brands (new)

-rivals/semi-rivals are strong in NIL (new)

-rebuilding in a powerful conference

-location

-fanbase patience

The project at OU will not be the same as it ever was. Whoever takes over when Venables leaves, whether this cycle or not, will be taking over a roster subjected to terrible S&C concepts. That roster will have recruiting classes that finished in the bottom half of the SEC recruiting rankings repeatedly. The roster will have also been picked clean of most of the actual talent by wealthy rivals and powers. The fanbase will be expecting the new guy to "win now" just like Stoops did in a different era, followed by ebil Lincoln Riley doing the same. It will be awesome to watch.

 

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lol, they might actually bring in Trejan Bridges.. former 5 star WR that was kicked off the team after being arrested and charged with a robbery while at ou. 

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34 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

lol, they might actually bring in Trejan Bridges.. former 5 star WR that was kicked off the team after being arrested and charged with a robbery while at ou. 

…as Brent Venable’s “Soul Mission” becomes “Sole Mission”. 

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7 hours ago, closetojumping said:

This is easy to type, yet harder to support. The buyout will be huge for a school and AD in financial trouble. The House Settlement isn't going to make things better, either. The act of buying out the HC, who was just extended in the 2024 summertime, his entire staff (which isn't a cheap staff), and then the buyouts for the next staff likely drives the package to north of $30M from a donor base that struggles to compete in NIL already. 

The pros and cons, as of now, for being the HC at OU are as tilted towards the cons more than any time in college football history. 

Pros:

-winning tradition

-national-ish brand

-the university and the state care more about winning in football than almost any other priority

-proximity to talent rich DFW

Cons:

-lack of full control over player or coaching personnel (new)

-weak NIL/no way to create a competitive advantage with $50,000 bags under the table these days (new)

-comparatively weak corporate NIL to rival and other national brands (new)

-rivals/semi-rivals are strong in NIL (new)

-rebuilding in a powerful conference

-location

-fanbase patience

The project at OU will not be the same as it ever was. Whoever takes over when Venables leaves, whether this cycle or not, will be taking over a roster subjected to terrible S&C concepts. That roster will have recruiting classes that finished in the bottom half of the SEC recruiting rankings repeatedly. The roster will have also been picked clean of most of the actual talent by wealthy rivals and powers. The fanbase will be expecting the new guy to "win now" just like Stoops did in a different era, followed by ebil Lincoln Riley doing the same. It will be awesome to watch.

 

In other words,  OU should just become a Softball school much like Nebraska is a Volleyball school .

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12 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:

If OU wins less than 8 game this year, Burnt Vegetables is gone.   

I talked to a handful of sooner ticket holders at the stars game this past weekend and they all said unanimously that if Brent doesn’t go 8-4, then he’s done in Norman. 

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12 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

I talked to a handful of sooner ticket holders at the stars game this past weekend and they all said unanimously that if Brent doesn’t go 8-4, then he’s done in Norman. 

Tell them to go back to their shitty state.

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On 4/10/2025 at 11:08 AM, Longboard Horn said:

Lol funny you mention that because most of them that I talked to drove down from OKC, Norman and Tulsa for the game. 

If you dont mind me asking is that you in your profile picture? (No homo)

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https://youtu.be/neKOJMndYKc?si=fSuYhW08Tj-BWH0Q

 

Evaluating the Current Roster and Building a Unified Grading System

  • Jim Nagy emphasizes the importance of collaboration with the coaching staff and is working to establish a unified grading system, which will include a color-coded scale and a getability scale 05:39
 
  • The goal is to find starter-level players to upgrade the roster, and the team will be ready to act if any top players become available in the transfer portal 09:27.

Roster Construction, Fund Allocation, and Evaluating High School Players

  • The team has models in place for roster construction and fund allocation, but it's challenging to learn the new market and allocate resources effectively without knowing the market 10:04.
  • Evaluating high school players is a new challenge, as it requires forecasting their growth and development over the next few years, but focusing on instincts, movement, and play style can help identify top talent 12:47.
  • The team is looking to target all levels of players, including FCS and G5, to find the best talent, and relationships with coaches at those levels are important 19:18.

John Mateer and current roster has some players who are standing out, including some young guys in the secondary and on the offensive line, such as Fusisi Fj 25:11.

  • Scouts will not be able to go out and see high school players immediately, but by August 1st, a list of approved scouts will be created, and some may be allowed to go out on the road 29:01.

 

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Posted
11 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

Maybe it is, maybe it’s not 

Just wondered how bad that neck piece hurt? Just started my back, first session was absolutely terrible. 4 more to go. 

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Just because someone is a rival doesn't mean you hate them.  The hate (if there's any left) that OU and Texas have for each other is a fraction of what it used to be.  The schools and fan bases have found each other to both be rational players unlike some of the others.

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18 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Just because someone is a rival doesn't mean you hate them.  The hate (if there's any left) that OU and Texas have for each other is a fraction of what it used to be.  The schools and fan bases have found each other to both be rational players unlike some of the others.

i think it switched a bit after being in the same conference for so long.  aggy now beginning to play us in football again flipped that.. Once(if ever) ou gets back at a high level in football consistently again, I'm sure the hate will blossom and replace aggy.

But for now, the cold war with aggy >> ou

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39 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Just because someone is a rival doesn't mean you hate them.  The hate (if there's any left) that OU and Texas have for each other is a fraction of what it used to be.  The schools and fan bases have found each other to both be rational players unlike some of the others.

I hate those fuckers for being shitty human beings who disregard violence against women over and over for football Ws.  Now our aggys are complete dumbasses but at least they're not Baylor or Blowu low character pieces of shit.

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1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

 

As far as football goes OU is our biggest rival. But for all other sports it's definitely A&M.

I'd probably most agree with this.

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22 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

i think it switched a bit after being in the same conference for so long.  aggy now beginning to play us in football again flipped that.. Once(if ever) ou gets back at a high level in football consistently again, I'm sure the hate will blossom and replace aggy.

But for now, the cold war with aggy >> ou

Hell at one point Arky was probably our biggest rival in football.

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1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Just because someone is a rival doesn't mean you hate them.  The hate (if there's any left) that OU and Texas have for each other is a fraction of what it used to be.  The schools and fan bases have found each other to both be rational players unlike some of the others.

I know you’re a Sooner. I almost negged you in this, but I really hate to neg. 
 
OU is the one to hate. 
 
I hate OU for Barry Switzer, who learned the Wishbone from Bellard, at Royal’s instruction, as a favor for Royal’s alma mater. Switzer repaid the favor by mocking Royal when his purchased players were beating Texas. 
 
I really hate OU for 2008 (still!), when Stoops got some coaches to vote Texas artificially low, to make sure that Oklahoma made it to the B12 CG, and the resulting BCS CG and Heisman for Bradford (and not Colt). 
 
OU is the enemy. The agreement between Texas and OU to leave the B12 was more akin to the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact (a temporary agreement to be honored until it suited one party’s purposes to betray the other) than any real alliance. 
 
It’s not about OU’s casual indifference to any crimes their players may commit; it’s that OU will do anything they can to win. It is their identity, fed by decades of insecurity and feelings of inferiority as a state. 
 
Texas is in the same conference, will always play them every year, and shares a recruiting territory. They are the enemy. 

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3 minutes ago, statsman said:

I know you’re a Sooner. I almost negged you in this, but I really hate to neg. 
 
OU is the one to hate. 
 
I hate OU for Barry Switzer, who learned the Wishbone from Bellard, at Royal’s instruction, as a favor for Royal’s alma mater. Switzer repaid the favor by mocking Royal when his purchased players were beating Texas. 
 
I really hate OU for 2008 (still!), when Stoops got some coaches to vote Texas artificially low, to make sure that Oklahoma made it to the B12 CG, and the resulting BCS CG and Heisman for Bradford (and not Colt). 
 
OU is the enemy. The agreement between Texas and OU to leave the B12 was more akin to the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact (a temporary agreement to be honored until it suited one party’s purposes to betray the other) than any real alliance. 
 
It’s not about OU’s casual indifference to any crimes their players may commit; it’s that OU will do anything they can to win. It is their identity, fed by decades of insecurity and feelings of inferiority as a state. 
 
Texas is in the same conference, will always play them every year, and shares a recruiting territory. They are the enemy. 

I mean, fuck OU, they're obviously our big blueblood rivalry, but you're proving his point - the last majorly hateworthy thing you mentioned was almost 20 years ago. I was in high school, and our current players were barely born. A&M manage to do something cringeworthy and annoying related to us every other week.

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5 minutes ago, statsman said:

I know you’re a Sooner. I almost negged you in this, but I really hate to neg. 
 
OU is the one to hate. 
 
I hate OU for Barry Switzer, who learned the Wishbone from Bellard, at Royal’s instruction, as a favor for Royal’s alma mater. Switzer repaid the favor by mocking Royal when his purchased players were beating Texas. 
 
I really hate OU for 2008 (still!), when Stoops got some coaches to vote Texas artificially low, to make sure that Oklahoma made it to the B12 CG, and the resulting BCS CG and Heisman for Bradford (and not Colt). 
 
OU is the enemy. The agreement between Texas and OU to leave the B12 was more akin to the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact (a temporary agreement to be honored until it suited one party’s purposes to betray the other) than any real alliance. 
 
It’s not about OU’s casual indifference to any crimes their players may commit; it’s that OU will do anything they can to win. It is their identity, fed by decades of insecurity and feelings of inferiority as a state. 
 
Texas is in the same conference, will always play them every year, and shares a recruiting territory. They are the enemy. 

All that, but you hate neg repping someone more than you hate OU. 

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Here's an OU update on transfers from an "insider" at Sooners Illustrated. Spoilered below and highlights next:

-They've already given up on landing Endries and are moving on towards other TEs. They're going after yet another FCS TE after having already signed on, plus another from legendary football program Kennesaw State. 

-They're targeting an FCS WR and calling it scouting. They were very proud of themselves for landing the Gibson guy out of UA Pine Bluff and crowing about being another sooner WR wizard. They do this every spring. That dude broke his femur or something and may not be back for the fall. Onward and upward, some poor bastard from Illinois State looks like he might be the next big thing. 

-They're so fucked at Kicker that they throwing a 6 figure offer at the guy from Texas State, apparently. I guess Sideshow Bert is a bargain for our mere $25k+ and we should be thankful to be keeping him or something. 

 

Spoiler

We're officially in it.

The spring window is in full force. The transfer portal is stockpiling new names almost by the minute and now, players available are beginning to take visits across the country.

Daily updates are rolling here at Sooners Illustrated. The latest? That here:

- A position of priority for Oklahoma in the spring portal is and has been kicker. The Sooners are in desperate need of another specialist given the current outlook of the room.

We reported before the portal opened that Texas State kicker Mason Shipley was a name quickly being connected to OU behind the scenes. Now, a couple days since, Shipley is currently on campus visiting Oklahoma.

If everything goes well and makes sense for all parties involved, there's a very real world where this moves quickly. The Sooners want to get one of the best kickers available in this spring window and Shipley fits the description.

- Xavier Loyd is a wide receiver that's been mentioned here quite often. He tells Sooners Illustrated he's aiming to visit Oklahoma next week, a date isn't finalized but the trip is on the table. The Illinois State pass catcher is quickly building a competitive portal recruitment.

- Prior to the window beginning, we talked about Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama being the three big brands expected to be in the tight end market. We then reported yesterday before Cal tight end Jack Endries officially entered the portal that Texas, Indiana and Oklahoma were the programs being mentioned the most. A few hours later, Endries completed his paperwork and booked a visit with the Longhorns. Texas is expected to put together an aggressive package for Endries and the Longhorns already have a prediction in their favor. If the Sooners are perceivably behind both Texas and Indiana in the Endries sweepstakes, it's likely OU turns elsewhere. The only redirect would be if the Sooners can get Endries to trip to Norman before making a decision.

- On the tight end front, a popular social media name is none other than Tanner Koziol. The big pass catcher formerly of Ball State chose Wisconsin during the winter window but is back in the portal and available in the spring.

Hinted at this yesterday, but as time plays out, I'm not overly sure how aggressive OU will be. Koziol's quick exit from Wisconsin is, at the very least, something programs have to consider and there's long been belief the asking price can be a bit high.

There are a lot of layers here that could lead to OU being patient with pursuit.

- A couple of tight end names to monitor: Missouri State's Lance Mason and Iowa's Gavin Hoffman.

I'll have more on each name soon, but Oklahoma is going to be involved with both moving forward. Mason was one of the most productive FCS tight ends in the country while Hoffman is a younger player but a former four-star recruit with lots of upside. 

Spoiler

We're officially in it.

The spring window is in full force. The transfer portal is stockpiling new names almost by the minute and now, players available are beginning to take visits across the country.

Daily updates are rolling here at Sooners Illustrated. The latest? That here:

 

- A position of priority for Oklahoma in the spring portal is and has been kicker. The Sooners are in desperate need of another specialist given the current outlook of the room.

We reported before the portal opened that Texas State kicker Mason Shipley was a name quickly being connected to OU behind the scenes. Now, a couple days since, Shipley is currently on campus visiting Oklahoma.

If everything goes well and makes sense for all parties involved, there's a very real world where this moves quickly. The Sooners want to get one of the best kickers available in this spring window and Shipley fits the description.

- Xavier Loyd is a wide receiver that's been mentioned here quite often. He tells Sooners Illustrated he's aiming to visit Oklahoma next week, a date isn't finalized but the trip is on the table. The Illinois State pass catcher is quickly building a competitive portal recruitment.

- Prior to the window beginning, we talked about Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama being the three big brands expected to be in the tight end market. We then reported yesterday before Cal tight end Jack Endries officially entered the portal that Texas, Indiana and Oklahoma were the programs being mentioned the most. A few hours later, Endries completed his paperwork and booked a visit with the Longhorns. Texas is expected to put together an aggressive package for Endries and the Longhorns already have a prediction in their favor. If the Sooners are perceivably behind both Texas and Indiana in the Endries sweepstakes, it's likely OU turns elsewhere. The only redirect would be if the Sooners can get Endries to trip to Norman before making a decision.

- On the tight end front, a popular social media name is none other than Tanner Koziol. The big pass catcher formerly of Ball State chose Wisconsin during the winter window but is back in the portal and available in the spring.

Hinted at this yesterday, but as time plays out, I'm not overly sure how aggressive OU will be. Koziol's quick exit from Wisconsin is, at the very least, something programs have to consider and there's long been belief the asking price can be a bit high.

There are a lot of layers here that could lead to OU being patient with pursuit.

- A couple of tight end names to monitor: Missouri State's Lance Mason and Iowa's Gavin Hoffman.

I'll have more on each name soon, but Oklahoma is going to be involved with both moving forward. Mason was one of the most productive FCS tight ends in the country while Hoffman is a younger player but a former four-star recruit with lots of upside. 

 

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13 hours ago, HuttNuts said:

I absolutely hate ou more. I talk about aggy more because they constantly do hilariously dumb/wierd shit.

I always assumed most of you hate ou way more than aggy as a football program, but hate aggy fans far more than ou fans because of aggy’s unique brand of weirdness and obsession with literally anything longhorn. I work and interact with lots of ou fans and most are normal people in day to day life (with some egregious exceptions I won’t go into here). The aggys I met while in law school and while living in Dallas were something else, just bizarre personalities from first encounter.

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I hate OU as a program, but Sooner Fans themselves you can actually talk rational football with 

I hate the fiber of everything A&M is because they are functioning retards from the Chancellor, to the fans, to the gay ass milk men. There is nothing redeemable about them across any part of their system, their fans, their traditions. 

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On 4/16/2025 at 12:10 PM, texifornia said:

I mean, fuck OU, they're obviously our big blueblood rivalry, but you're proving his point - the last majorly hateworthy thing you mentioned was almost 20 years ago. I was in high school, and our current players were barely born. A&M manage to do something cringeworthy and annoying related to us every other week.

Yes, the "hate" is ancient history.  Whenever I go to the game in Dallas, I sit on the 50 yard line, which is always intermingled with fans from both sides.  There's not hate at all.  Good natured ribbing, yes, but it's not the 90's when people were getting into fights in the West End.

Last time I sat next to a guy whose daughter went to Arky and we had a good chuckle about that and our unholy trinity of fandom.

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On 4/16/2025 at 12:05 PM, statsman said:

I know you’re a Sooner. I almost negged you in this, but I really hate to neg. 
 
OU is the one to hate. 
 
I hate OU for Barry Switzer, who learned the Wishbone from Bellard, at Royal’s instruction, as a favor for Royal’s alma mater. Switzer repaid the favor by mocking Royal when his purchased players were beating Texas. 
 
I really hate OU for 2008 (still!), when Stoops got some coaches to vote Texas artificially low, to make sure that Oklahoma made it to the B12 CG, and the resulting BCS CG and Heisman for Bradford (and not Colt). 
 
OU is the enemy. The agreement between Texas and OU to leave the B12 was more akin to the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact (a temporary agreement to be honored until it suited one party’s purposes to betray the other) than any real alliance. 
 
It’s not about OU’s casual indifference to any crimes their players may commit; it’s that OU will do anything they can to win. It is their identity, fed by decades of insecurity and feelings of inferiority as a state. 
 
Texas is in the same conference, will always play them every year, and shares a recruiting territory. They are the enemy. 

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1 hour ago, Nueces River Rat said:

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The female version would be a 50 year old woman that looks 60, wiry, wrinkled leathery skin, lots of makeup and barb wire tattooed around her biceps. 

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