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What better news to start this thread with than this?

That leaves two offensive commits - we'll see if they stick with new OC Ben Arbuckle coming in.

4-star Long Beach (CA) Narbonne QB Jaden O'Neal: https://www.on3.com/db/jaden-oneal-155076/

4-star Frisco (TX) Lone Star TE Ryder Mix: https://www.on3.com/db/ryder-mix-176969/

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5 minutes ago, BornAndRaised said:

No sky is falling doom shit, but this is a really good hire for them imo. He was the Executive Director of the Senior bowl. He definitely has an eye for talent.

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Real.Recruiting.

 

Nagy didn't offer

 

Diamond in the rough, 3 star takes..

 

In Nagy we trust..

 

Anymore I miss?

Posted
20 minutes ago, kilroydos said:

I'd argue it's a good hire AND doesn't fix the problems.

It’s only a good hire if the guy is calling the shots on personnel, like a NFL GM. And that’s assuming that he’s actually good at that these days. 

It’s bizarre looking from my view. It pleases me. OU looks lost at that this point. 

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21 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

It’s only a good hire if the guy is calling the shots on personnel, like a NFL GM. And that’s assuming that he’s actually good at that these days. 

It’s bizarre looking from my view. It pleases me. OU looks lost at that this point. 

No offense Mr. Jumping, but we have been lost for around 4-5 years. 

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38 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

It’s only a good hire if the guy is calling the shots on personnel, like a NFL GM. And that’s assuming that he’s actually good at that these days. 

It’s bizarre looking from my view. It pleases me. OU looks lost at that this point. 

He may be good at evaluating players going to college for his Senior Bowl duties, but is that apples to apples for the HS to college transition.  The skills involved are the same / very similar, but obviously at a different point of development.

Posted
2 hours ago, Atticus said:

Meh hire, and it isn’t gonna fix their problems

They could always try shock therapy 

1 hour ago, Pdawg88 said:

No offense Mr. Jumping, but we have been lost for around 4-5 years. 

Don't call him "Mr. jumping". He's a degenerate. He spews verbal retardation. This is a message board, not a hearing in congress 

Posted
3 hours ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

They could always try shock therapy 

Don't call him "Mr. jumping". He's a degenerate. He spews verbal retardation. This is a message board, not a hearing in congress 

Well yeah, everyone on Surly is a degenerate 

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6 hours ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

Don't call him "Mr. jumping". He's a degenerate. He spews verbal retardation. This is a message board, not a hearing in congress 

Well said Doctor Spock. We will now hear from the mirror fogging regard from ponchatula. Mr Carton, you have five minutes.

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On 2/26/2025 at 3:25 PM, Pdawg88 said:

No offense Mr. Jumping, but we have been lost for around 4-5 years. 

That's fucking dumb.

Five seasons ago OU went 9-2, won the conference, won the Sugar Bowl and finished #6 in the AP poll

Four seasons ago they went 11-2 and finished #10 in the AP poll.

OU has been lost since they drank the Kool Aid about how shitty Lincoln Riley was and that the secret sauce at OU was the culture. Then believed they could bring back a guy who had NEVER been a head coach, who put together a staff only slightly better than Charlie Strong did at Texas, then signed him to an extention and now are in the wilderness until they can raise enough to make him go away and bring in someone who is actually good.

4-5 years?! Fuck off.

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1 hour ago, NoName said:

That's fucking dumb.

Five seasons ago OU went 9-2, won the conference, won the Sugar Bowl and finished #6 in the AP poll

Four seasons ago they went 11-2 and finished #10 in the AP poll.

OU has been lost since they drank the Kool Aid about how shitty Lincoln Riley was and that the secret sauce at OU was the culture. Then believed they could bring back a guy who had NEVER been a head coach, who put together a staff only slightly better than Charlie Strong did at Texas, then signed him to an extention and now are in the wilderness until they can raise enough to make him go away and bring in someone who is actually good.

4-5 years?! Fuck off.

OU never hires coaches who have been a head coach. They've hired two since WWII and both of them lasted one year. All the rest of their head coaches were previously assistants. 

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5 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

OU never hires coaches who have been a head coach. They've hired two since WWII and both of them lasted one year. All the rest of their head coaches were previously assistants. 

That's a wild stat and absolutely correct, so my bad there. To be fair a bunch of those hires were internally promoted, but still.

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3 hours ago, NoName said:

That's fucking dumb.

Five seasons ago OU went 9-2, won the conference, won the Sugar Bowl and finished #6 in the AP poll

Four seasons ago they went 11-2 and finished #10 in the AP poll.

OU has been lost since they drank the Kool Aid about how shitty Lincoln Riley was and that the secret sauce at OU was the culture. Then believed they could bring back a guy who had NEVER been a head coach, who put together a staff only slightly better than Charlie Strong did at Texas, then signed him to an extention and now are in the wilderness until they can raise enough to make him go away and bring in someone who is actually good.

4-5 years?! Fuck off.

If you look back at those last teams that Lincoln had and don’t think they were shit I don’t know what to tell you. They won a bunch of close games to shitty teams. You could tell years ago that they were in the way down. Beating up on the Big12 and then getting smacked in the playoffs. 

Posted
7 hours ago, ClubWhatever said:

You are your QB.  Their QBs were good, they were good.  Their QBs were garbage, they were garbage.

I do think the Littrell situation fucked up Jackson Arnold something fierce.  He's going to be better outside of Norman in the future.

Posted
12 hours ago, Pdawg88 said:

If you look back at those last teams that Lincoln had and don’t think they were shit I don’t know what to tell you. They won a bunch of close games to shitty teams. You could tell years ago that they were in the way down. Beating up on the Big12 and then getting smacked in the playoffs. 

Sorry but you can't be in the wilderness and go 11-2

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Posted
6 hours ago, kilroydos said:

I do think the Littrell situation fucked up Jackson Arnold something fierce.  He's going to be better outside of Norman in the future.

We will see.  The next great Guyer QB will be the first.

Posted
8 hours ago, kilroydos said:

I do think the Littrell situation fucked up Jackson Arnold something fierce.  He's going to be better outside of Norman in the future.

On this board, we were selling Arnold before he ever stepped onto your campus.

He’s a camp hero with a helicopter parent from a system offense with no elite skills. He had no business being ranked the way he was. Contrarian rubes like that fatfuck pedophile Mike Farrell ranked him over Arch Manning … just because. They wanted everyone to know how smart they are.

Arnold may play better at Auburn, but there’s nothing there to get excited about other than his overrated recruit ranking pedigree. 

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29 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

On this board, we were selling Arnold before he ever stepped onto your campus.

He’s a camp hero with a helicopter parent from a system offense with no elite skills. He had no business being ranked the way he was. Contrarian rubes like that fatfuck pedophile Mike Farrell ranked him over Arch Manning … just because. They wanted everyone to know how smart they are.

Arnold may play better at Auburn, but there’s nothing there to get excited about other than his overrated recruit ranking pedigree. 

The fact that he hit the open market and his best offer was a bad Auburn team with a HC about to be fired says a lot.  If he were good, any number of good teams would have offered.

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Just now, Aqua Buddha said:

The fact that he hit the open market and his best offer was a bad Auburn team with a HC about to be fired says a lot.  If he were good, any number of good teams would have offered.

His performance and the fact that he got benched for a stretch last year tanked his value, no question.  Maybe I'm an optimist, but I think his preparation and coaching situation were so incredibly poor that it's hard to imagine him not having a better season in the next two years.  He's not winning a Heisman or anything, but if he can regain some confidence and get into a system that allows him to see the field without running for his life after the first read, he's going to be fine.

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Tex Long said:

It is still puzzling to me (other than $$$) that a head coach who is so lacking in understanding of how to football, that he dumps Gabriel for Arnold, still has a job. 

How much say did he have in that decision? The NIL money men would have roasted him alive if he kept Gabriel at the expense of Arnold last off-season. He still may have preferred Arnold over Gabriel but I don't think that decision was entirely in his hands.

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Just now, HuttNuts said:

How much say did he have in that decision? The NIL money men would have roasted him alive if he kept Gabriel at the expense of Arnold last off-season. He still may have preferred Arnold over Gabriel but I don't think that decision was entirely in his hands.

Then he's a fucking moron.

But we already knew that.

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Posted
3 hours ago, Pdawg88 said:

He will be gone after this year so it doesn’t matter 

He should be, but I think it may depend on whether a sooner alum will step up with a bag of cash to send him on his way.

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5 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

The fact that he hit the open market and his best offer was a bad Auburn team with a HC about to be fired says a lot.  If he were good, any number of good teams would have offered.

To be fair, if your top 5 receivers play less than 200 snaps combined, you are going to struggle. Add in missing in the offensive lineman portal, and their schedule, you are gonna struggle. 
 

however, when he played the bowl game the season before, he had some highs, but the same issues followed him. Happy feet, no read progression, and getting the ball out late. OU hiring Littrell, who had never coached QBs ever didn’t help. 
 

they’ll be better this year, if healthy.

Posted
59 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

He should be, but I think it may depend on whether a sooner alum will step up with a bag of cash to send him on his way.

Apparently $34.9m after the end of 2025. That's not Jimbo money, but it's not cheap. The key thing is it's not a lump sum, so I don't think there's any question they could afford it. 

I didn't do a lot of research. Just a quick google search. But the articles I came across whining about UT's schedule compared to the Sooners were awesome. 

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5 hours ago, Pdawg88 said:

He will be gone after this year so it doesn’t matter 

I doubt it. OU is going to be a good team next year. People haven’t looked at things critically yet, but when they do, they’ll see that OU has a lot going for it. The schedule is unforgiving, but getting to 8-5 is a solid outcome and Castiglione isn’t an idiot. 2026 could be hideous. 

53 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

Apparently $34.9m after the end of 2025. That's not Jimbo money, but it's not cheap. The key thing is it's not a lump sum, so I don't think there's any question they could afford it. 

I didn't do a lot of research. Just a quick google search. But the articles I came across whining about UT's schedule compared to the Sooners were awesome. 

OU is having all kinds of panic regarding the House settlement and competing in NIL. They’re worried more about ensuring softball and gymnastics remain competitive than figuring out a new way squeeze blood from the stone in football. That’s a seachange driven by a clear-eyed view of the landscape as NIL has rapidly changed the game. 

No one needs 2500 words on how football is OU’s identity and they’ll do whatever it takes. It is known.  What is now known as well is that they don’t have the weaponry in storage left to maintain that war. As they retreat and rally the ranks, the hills they’re going to die on are the two in which they honestly think they can continue to win titles. 

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There’s talk of Harold Hamm endowing the department from my Oklahoma fan friends. Still doesn’t give them the long term artillery to be a continued dominant force. Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, Georgia, Oregon and Alabama aren’t going anywhere. Aggie shouldn’t either, but I’ve learned Aggie will always Aggie.

Posted
1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

I doubt it. OU is going to be a good team next year. People haven’t looked at things critically yet, but when they do, they’ll see that OU has a lot going for it. The schedule is unforgiving, but getting to 8-5 is a solid outcome and Castiglione isn’t an idiot. 2026 could be hideous. 

OU is having all kinds of panic regarding the House settlement and competing in NIL. They’re worried more about ensuring softball and gymnastics remain competitive than figuring out a new way squeeze blood from the stone in football. That’s a seachange driven by a clear-eyed view of the landscape as NIL has rapidly changed the game. 

No one needs 2500 words on how football is OU’s identity and they’ll do whatever it takes. It is known.  What is now known as well is that they don’t have the weaponry in storage left to maintain that war. As they retreat and rally the ranks, the hills they’re going to die on are the two in which they honestly think they can continue to win titles. 

Alabama "will do whatever it takes" but if you don't have the money, you don't have the money. 

They need a new coach, though. Venables ain't it. And if you don't have the right coach it doesn't matter what resources you surround him with. They pulled the trigger too quickly with the extension they gave him, but at that time they thought he was the answer. I still think if they go 6-6/7-5 this year they figure out a way to fire him and hire another up and coming assistant from somewhere and hope they land another moonshot the way they did with Stoops. 

Posted
2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

I doubt it. OU is going to be a good team next year. People haven’t looked at things critically yet, but when they do, they’ll see that OU has a lot going for it. The schedule is unforgiving, but getting to 8-5 is a solid outcome and Castiglione isn’t an idiot. 2026 could be hideous. 

OU is having all kinds of panic regarding the House settlement and competing in NIL. They’re worried more about ensuring softball and gymnastics remain competitive than figuring out a new way squeeze blood from the stone in football. That’s a seachange driven by a clear-eyed view of the landscape as NIL has rapidly changed the game. 

No one needs 2500 words on how football is OU’s identity and they’ll do whatever it takes. It is known.  What is now known as well is that they don’t have the weaponry in storage left to maintain that war. As they retreat and rally the ranks, the hills they’re going to die on are the two in which they honestly think they can continue to win titles. 

8 wins? You can’t be serious! 

Posted
7 hours ago, Pdawg88 said:

He will be gone after this year so it doesn’t matter 

35 million buyout if fired in 2025, but monthly not lump sum Sumlin style. Fully guaranteed contract and buyout would be more reasonable. 

Plus another say 15-20m to buy out a coach. Another 10m for staff.

So that's say 30m next year plus whatever they are paying BV.

That's a LOT of money.

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