Sooners News Daily 8.26.14
Posted on: August 26, 2014
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Barry Switzer, Toby Keith & Joe C. take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. (SSTV)
This sounds pretty scary.
Rex Ryan said Jalen Saunders had a seizure on day before Bengals game. He has been cleared to return to practice, game action.
— Darryl Slater (@DarrylSlater) August 25, 2014
La Tech named a starting QB for Saturday, former Iowa Hawkeye Cody Sokol. (Twitter)
An OSU player believes they have one of the best defensive lines in the conference and in the nation. That’s adorable. (NewsOK)
Crazy story about USC player injuring himself jumping off a balcony to save his drowning nephew. (Yahoo)
Someone will be left out of the CFB playoff, but it shouldn’t be the Big 12. (DMN)
OTHER
Breaking Bad, as expected, dominated the Emmys last night. (Hitfix)
Day-umn!
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You know what sucks? Waking up at 4 am WIDE AWAKE, and having to WAIT for Sooner News Daily.
LMAO….Totally agree but I dig it when Jordan gets an early start
I’ll be rooting for Josh Shaw this season…that’s for sure!
Amen.
It’s funny. I told my wife about Shaw’s “awesome” story. She just looked at me and said – “He’s lying, Do you believe that? He hurt himself in some other way and is covering it up.” A day later…the truth comes out.
It sure seems like Cowlishaw hasn’t taken a look at OU’s out of conference foes over the next decade.
It’s not like Tennessee is a powerhouse in the SEC right now, but to compare OU and Baylor’s OOC isn’t right.
Completely agree. Could also at least mention they have Ohio St and UCLA coming up.
We scheduled Tennessee in 2005. They were 10-3 in 2004, ranked #13, and lost in the SEC championship game to Auburn 38-28 who went on to play in the National Championship. They then beat Texas A&M in the Cotton bowl. We were scheduling a team one game away from playing in the NC, which he dismisses in this article as “Tennessee hasn’t played for the NC in 16 years” Wait a minute! He isn’t using playing in the NC as the basis for his predictions ranking the Big 12 on strength of schedule- he is basing it on where opponents are rated, preseason, and an extra point if your opponent played in a bowl last year. Tennessee replaced not only their head coach but EVERY Coach last year so they were struggling, but these schedules are done almost a decade ahead and Cowlishaw knows it! What a doofus.
I couldn’t even read the entire thing, when he mentioned texass having a tough non con, I tapped out. The last 10 years they have had the softest non con of anyone in the big12.
Looks like he had a conclusion, then set about finding the “evidence” to support it. Is Texas’ schedule stronger than OU’s this season? Marginally at best, but a lot closer in strength to OU than OU’s to Baylor’s.
love the cali connection video, nice find Jordan
It is amazing Shaw did not do any knee damage. I will be rooting for that guy.
I don’t know why these get screwed up sometimes, stupid WordPress. So I’ll repost the videos here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbzdH2ew8zw
Just read the Pat Forde article and predicitons on the upcoming season. Somehow he thinks Ames is a “tough place to play”. He also implies OU is going to lose on the road to either Iowa St or West Virginia and be left out of the playoff.
Very inspiring story about Shaw. Always great to see a young man with such clear character and conviction. No hesitation whatsoever….wow.
fat_daddy33
The 2013 poster curse is claiming it’s last ACL this week. @AColvin114 good luck in surgery @GabeIkard http://t.co/oiAPFsnON0
8/26/14, 10:06
Baylor’s ppg goes sky high because of the non con cream puffs that they schedule to come in and be sacrificial lambs!!
Awesome story about Shaw!
The Shaw story may be bunk… USC is investigating after getting conflicting reports from other sources..
Sweet roundhouse kick though…
Not buying it. He may have been trying to save someone……………but I think he had a friend go along on the jump.
“Cough” alcohol “Cough”
Dude jumped from a second story, but only to save himself…
In defense of Cowlinshaw he noted that Texas’ strength of schedule is somewhat a matter of luck. However UCLA and BYU are annually respectable football schools. Likewise, OU was somewhat unlucky regarding SOS. Tennessee is a traditional power but have been down for a decade. Furthermore Tulsa has been a respectable football program for the last 10 years until 2013. In 2014 both project to be mediocre at best.
SOS is not determined by who you have played the last ten years or the upcoming ten years. It is based upon who you are playing this year. Not good for OU’s strength of schedule but excellent for the opportunity to 12-0.
Cowlishaw’s target market is the University of Texas, aTm, the B12 and SMU. His article was germane for his targeted market just not apropos to OU fans reading through crimson colored glasses.
fat_daddy33
The 2013 poster curse is claiming it’s last ACL this week. @AColvin114 good luck in surgery @GabeIkard http://t.co/oiAPFsnON0
8/26/14, 10:06