Sooners News Daily 7.10.14
Posted on: July 10, 2014
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Couple days old, but always good to hear positive updates on our guy The Ryan Broyles. (DFP)
Games involving OU make up approximately half this list of the Top 10 games in the Big 12 this coming season. (Fox Sports)
Conning your bosses into paying your way to Italy, writing about it, and casually tossing in the occasional ‘OU’ to justify said paying of your way is a hell of a gig if you can get it. (NewsOK)
UT President has indeed been forced out. (Twitter)
Texas Tech sold out of season tickets for the first time ever. (Twitter)
Humility has never been the Aggies strong suit.
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Crazy story about a mountain climber being found after 32 years in ice. (MSN)
I’ve held out this entire World Cup so far, but now you’re getting a soccer video.
Trying to decide which looks worse, this or Sharknado 2
Looks like Ridley Scott trying to recreate the magic of Gladiator, but I’d bet against that happening.
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Tech loving them so Kingsbury. He did put together a young and charismatic staff. Coach Curtis looks he’s in good enough shape to be on the field now.
Didn’t you put up a soccer related video yesterday?
True. But it was obviously in the same vein as today. I’ve done my best not to subject those here who don’t care to any real World Cup coverage/discussion.
Hoping for a healthy season for Ryan.. The last years have been rough, knowing how potency he brings to the middle. Hope this one works out
It still sickens me when I remember him on the sideline in the TAMU game when he hurt his knee.
He will always be one of my most favorite and memorable Sooners.
Absolutely. He was crushed, absolute beast
I love your “soccer video” above. It was much more fun watching that than a kicky ball match.
LOVE that RB video!
Dang I hope Ryan can have a huge season without injury.
LMAO at that soccer video. So true. So great.
Taco Tech…Fearless Champions? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
For the first time ever they sold out season tickets…for a 60,000 seat stadium.
Alrighty, then. This calls for House of Pain.
Is that a helicopter pad on top of the TAMU scoreboard?
One of the best atmospheres I’ve ever attended at a game in Norman. Great night.
“It’s a stompin’ in Norman folks, an old fashioned stompin’!”
Wish I could have been there, as it was I’m surprised my neighbors didn’t call the PD for a noise complaint.
I don’t know who Dave Curtis is, but he should get out more often.
Lol^^^
Talk about WTF…
I guess if you count throwing batteries, tortillas & general idiot-ness
So that’s what they mean by an “electric” atmosphere.
Most likely… Lubbock is easily the worst atmosphere ever in terms of actual games. I know they have upgraded the stadium some since my last trip out there, but it’s seriously a joke. It’s a good thing for beer… That’s all I got
And for Trichomoniasis.
Dude you know it’s TRUE….
Did I ever tell you of the time I spent Christmas in Lubbock visiting my girlfriend? http://youtu.be/9POPPTmsDBY
You shouldn’t ever utter those words! I’ll take the bait, but don’t say it loud… PS: I just found my camera since going south bend. Lol. The last few pics are killing me. Not losing my rental car, but not far from it… Man that was fun. Even if it was a phone battery sucking campus
I probably got all of about ten pictures that day and they were from my brothers phone. Very weird. Never seen a battery die so fast.
We made our minds up to start tailgating again this year. You gotta cone by.
I will come by! Count on it! I made hotel reservations for Tennesee already. Hoping to have a good long fun injury free weekend 🙂
I did take a picture of the scoreboards at every score & final if u want ill email them….
Did I tell you we had to walk from the other side if campus (were the bars are) back all the way across ND to that dumb parking lot. I swear it took an hour. Last car in the lot! Lol!
Send those to me for sure.
I will be at all the games and will make the playoffs too.
Two things: Are you going to Neyland next year? Are you going to Morgantown this year?
Neyland for sure. I would like wvu, but that trip is big pain in the ass. When is it?
They changed the date a few months back, but I think it’s the third Saturday in September, maybe. If I had to fly I wouldn’t go, that’s just too much work. However, I think I could leave the office and drive there in ten hours. That might be worth it.
Sent pictures. Yes if I could drive it I would. But that would be like 8 more fr here I think. I sure am not flying. Lord getting to Tally was bad enough!
Got the pics, thanks. Of the few pics I did end up with I do have TD Jesus, 1st down Moses and
The Basilica, but not much else.
We drove to Tally for the same reason. Well, that and so we could golf along the way.
Can you send me the basilica? Mine were too dark…
Absolutely.
Thanks. When we went it was like 2 am. Lol
Fixing to message a ridiculous story to you.
Oh my god! I can’t make it stop! Yes, Lubbock
True story, LOL!
Omg. If I could figure out how to link it I would. I am not skilled
Ring that bell!!!
What? Expendables 3 is going to rock!
The soccer video is hilarious!
Hope it has a Fry And Die scene.
That RB tribute video is one of many reasons I hope I live a long time. I would love to see a great number more of highly-successful OU running backs. Because of my childhood activities, I did not really get into college football until I got to OU in 1997. Even since then, however, I have already seen a handful of great backs. Here’s to living long enough that I get to see at least a dozen more!
You are in for years of fun.
I started following the Sooners in the mid 50’s and there has always been a great RB in all that time. The video couldn’t possibly include them all unless it was an hour long.
And I’d be totally okay with that hour-long video! 😀
I heard from a very reliable source that 70% of the TTs season ticket purchasers were snatched up by Kingsburys ex girlfriends and the mothers of recruits.
LOL!
LOL.
This is awesome. Thanks for that moment.
On the Aggies:
I grew up thinking I’d go to a&m. My grandfather was a walk on lineman at a&m and in the corp, my father ran track there, and my wife was a starting pitcher on the softball team. In all my years, I had come to envision Aggies as an extremely loyal fanbase with humility, honor, and integrity. I’ve thrown those notions out with the garbage.
My dad was glad to see Manziel and Evans move on. Couldn’t stand to watch the on field antics. If you listen closely, you can hear my grandfather turn over in his grave with every cash money sign manziel flashes.
The university doesn’t know how to handle this new found attention. It is like watching a less successful version of the 80’s Miami teams. Can’t wait to play them again. 84-0 next time.
I went there for Grad school and enjoyed those two years. Always had respect for the institution and its honor code.
The way their QB was embraced and that the honor code was not valid when it came to him, I have lost almost all respect for TAMU. I say almost, because as you pointed out not every TAMU grad approves/approved of Miley Football.
Yeah, they pretty much threw the HC out the window.
The hubs family has significant Aggy ties, suffice it to say old money/tradition backers of A&M are appalled, those still living that is. My peers who are A&M grads are flat out impossible to deal with
I really hate ATM. I wish them nothing but fear and pestilence.
Aggy is my least favorite team in the entire world, any sport, and it’s not even close. Aggy fan is my least favorite fan base in the whole entire world too. I also strongly dislike all aggy traditions, especially Reveille, Muster and Gig ’em.
Aggy. Oh Aggy. The upgrades & such is literally so Aggy… They weren’t even breaking even the years in the big 12…
A couple of months ago, Beergut wrote an article (I know, I know, but I just can’t help it) advising the mid-majors to stay out of the CFB arms race. In typical Beergut/aggy fashion, it was equal parts self-indulgent, misinformed and delusional.
At one point he even went so far as to suggest it would be unethical because the mid-majors with their limited resources would likely have little choice but to pass some of the expense onto the students. Um…, I guess he didn’t get the memo that aggy is charging all students additional fees for the upgrades, regardless of whether they ever go to a game or not.
Oh Aggy. Oh beergut… Seriously douchenozzle, the A&M athletic dept had to take out a loan a few years ago… They were way past just being “in the red”
I remember something about that. It was somewhere in the $15 million range or maybe more. They had tried to keep it quite but it came out during a review or audit or something. Stupid aggy.
Yep. Stupid Aggy. And their stupid stadium. And their inferiority complex…
It’s all about UT. Always has been always will be. Poor aggy.
aTm has to do something to sell out all those extra seats. It’s a shame that the Manziel hype is going to end in a lot of debt and mediocrity for that football team
I noted, in the Running Back U video, that none of the tacklers who didn’t have facemasks led with their head…hmmm.
Perhaps before your time, but I saw Night Train Lane play. He never led with his helmet.