Open Post | Weekend, Aug. 14th – 16th (UPDATE Sat., 1:19 pm)
Posted on: August 14, 2015
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– OK Preps Central: Brandon & Alex have brought you news throughout the week, be it here on the site and/or on Twitter, of what’s shaping up to be a rather OK Preps-centric weekend for the Sooners in terms of unofficial visitors. So we figured it made sense to quickly recap things here with a list of those expected to be in Norman.
* 2016 OL Tramonda Moore (Oklahoma City, OK)
* 2016 LB Calvin Bundage (Edmond, OK)
* 2017 CB Justin Broiles (Oklahoma City, OK)
* 2017 CB Tre Brown (Tulsa, OK)
* 2017 ATH Quindon Lewis (Moore, OK)
* 2018 RB Devontae Lee (Oklahoma City, OK)
* 2018 QB Casey Thompson (Moore, OK)
* 2018 OL Brey Walker (Moore, OK)
– Marvin Terry: Caught up with a source yesterday on Dallas South Oak Cliff 2016 OLB Marvin Terry, who recently named a Top 5 that included: Miami, Oklahoma, TCU, Texas Tech & Georgia. For those that don’t remember, Terry picked up an offer from OU back in February at the Sooners’ first Jr. Day event back in the spring. The Bulldogs, however, have not offered at this point, but are a team Terry has always really liked. With that in mind, though, you have to think Georgia would be at the back end of that Top 5 until, or if, they extend an offer.
Terry is currently working on setting his official visits for the fall, and I was told that it is looking like the West Virginia game will be the best weekend for him to visit OU. Which makes sense considering the numerous other names that have also already scheduled official visits for that same weekend. Terry also said he has already decided on seeing the Hurricanes the weekend of September 19, when they host Nebraska. These were the only official visits that he has mentioned thus far.
Miami is trying to sell Terry on the fact they are bringing the talent/swagger back to The U, and Texas Tech is coming hard after him as well. The Hurricanes and Red Raiders sound like they are the Sooners toughest competition at this point. However, Terry has already visited Norman multiple times this year and, according to my source, the Sooners are sitting in a nice spot. – (Alex King)
– Ed Oliver: We brought you the news earlier this week about the possibility of elite 2016 DT Ed Oliver using one of his five official visits to check out Norman. I had a chance to follow up with Oliver again earlier this week, and it seems as though he and OU DL coach Diron Reynolds have developed quite the connection. “He (Reynolds) is a really good dude and you can tell he knows football,” Oliver said.
And while that may not necessarily sound like a ringing endorsement, what you need to know about Oliver is he isn’t exactly one to delve into his thoughts and emotions to people publicly. Oliver did however go on to say that OU was his first offer and that’s something which is not lost on him. He said the OU coaches have done a good job staying in touch throughout his recruitment, even after his commitment to Houston, and though he has not yet set an exact date, he maintained a visit to Norman will happen.
Oliver strikes me as a young man that committed early and is now simply continuing to weigh his options. There is certainly no denying his obvious connections to both the Houston staff and that area, so if OU has any chance there it will definitely be an uphill battle. But the first step in the process is getting a kid on campus, so we’ll see if they can make that happen and then let the chip fall where they may.
As we noted earlier this week, Ed Oliver’s teammate, Tyrie Cleveland let us know that he will take an official to OU. Oliver told me that he and Tyrie hope to make their official visit to Norman together. – (Brandon)
– UPDATE (Fri., 11:19 am):
Am told that Dalton Wood was at practice today but is not yet participating
— TFB Sooners (@TFB_Sooners) August 14, 2015
– UPDATE (Fri., 6:52 pm):
Father of DE Austin Roberts, #Sooners commit, says his son's paperwork has been approved. Headed for Norman in the morning.
— Eric Bailey (@EricBaileyTW) August 14, 2015
– UPDATE (Sat., 9:22 am):
In Norman 🅾🙌
— ™ (@TramondaMoore) August 15, 2015
– UPDATE (Sat., 9:30 am):
2017 Tulsa Union DB Tre Brown(@T_Brown25) has made it #OU for unofficial visit. @TheFbBrainiacs
— Brandon Drumm (@Bdrumm_Rivals) August 15, 2015
– UPDATE (Sat., 10:49 am):
#okpreps @GoSouthmooreFB 2018 OL(#OU offer) @BreyWalker , 2018 QB @LilThurm & 2017 ath @2goneGetloose made it to #OU for unofficial today.
— Brandon Drumm (@Bdrumm_Rivals) August 15, 2015
– UPDATE (Sat., 1:01 pm):
2016 #Sooners offer @_TMOE55 & 2017 DB @JustinbroilesJ,both from John Marshall(OKC)on unofficial today @OU_Football. pic.twitter.com/EsYoOTjiIC
— Brandon Drumm (@Bdrumm_Rivals) August 15, 2015
2018 @GoSouthmooreFB OL & #Sooners offer Brey Walker(@BreyWalker) on unofficial today w/@OU_Football players. pic.twitter.com/sqDZyhBf9l
— Brandon Drumm (@Bdrumm_Rivals) August 15, 2015
– UPDATE (Sat., 1:19 pm):
🅾🙌🏾 pic.twitter.com/7GZOxMTf1R
— Justin Broiles (@JustinbroilesJ) August 15, 2015
Productive day In Norman! pic.twitter.com/rEZ9tcYgCu
— Tre Brown (@T_Brown25) August 15, 2015
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BOOMER! Always love to see an OP!
2nd!
If you ain’t first, you’re last.
Grissom looked good last night.
Ed Oliver would be a huge get. That guy is relentless, fast, strong and agile. I don’t care if he’s undersized the guy just makes plays. If OU can get him, it’s going to be fun watching him blow up plays
Rumor on campus is that on August 15th, Texas will still suck. Can you confirm this?
Texas sucks on days that end in Y. August 15th is a Saturday…So yes Texas will indeed suck on the 15th.
There was a recent potsherd excavated just outside of Tyre that seemed to read, in part “…and to the north of that place, the wind did always blow strongly, and that because that place, Texas, did, indeed, suck so hard.”
Scholars at Tel Aviv Institute of Archaeology are unclear regarding the connection between this ‘Texas’ and Tyre, but suggested that other recent finds point to a trade in ‘dancing girls’ and fertilizer from Texas in exchange for glass beads, small mirror fragments and cotton candy from Tyre.
That was a great read in a round about kind of way.
Yours truly
G. Homatree
btw this was meant for Bob Edwards Post lol
texas is suck; texas was suck, and texas will always be suck.
In precised technical terms: For all times t > 0, if Texas(t) is well defined then Texas(t) = suck.
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At New York’s Kennedy airport today, a person later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a drafting triangle, a compass, and a calculator.
During a press conference the Attorney General said he believed the man was a member of the notorious al-Gebra movement and the FBI intends to charge him with transporting weapons of math instruction.
“Al-Gebra is a fearsum, transverse cult,” the Attorney General said. “As a group they seek means of average solutions by extremes, and sometimes randomly go off on tangents in search of absolute values. A member of al-Gebra may use acute alias such as ‘x’ or ‘y’ and refer to himself as an unknown identity, but we have determined that he is likely to belong to a common denominator — the axis of medieval that coordinates in every country.” The Attorney General continued, “Al-Gebra functions as a bunch of standard deviations that have been tribal since the time of Noah’s arc,” a remark that struck a chord with the media. “They are inordinate in terrorism, of that I’m abscissaly sure.
They use degrees of irrational subtrahend to create differences and conditional inequalities among friendly, discriminant nations, leading to arguments and making us less functional and coefficient in attaining our goals. And they have the international mobility of a swarm of loci. Give them an air matrix to inflate and a plot to set it on, and they can live anywhere. If necessary, we will pursue them to the corners of this Earthly sphere.”
He complemented this with the supplementary remark, “As the Greek philanderer Isosceles once said, ‘Never forget that there are three sides to every triangle, and sometimes two of them are normal.’ ” The Attorney General added, “As you can tell, I am not diagonally opposed to that prime concept.”
When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush obtusely said, “If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes. Next to bisectual marriages and those polygonists in Utah, I’m concerned about the significant places of such weapons. Tomorrow I intend to go to the hill and address Congruence about this situation. I have a volume of suggestions and a finite series of common solutions for them to consider.”
The President also warned, “These weapons of math instruction are without parallel and have the potential to decimal everything on a scalene never before seen unless we become exponents of an infinity Higher Power and begin to factor-in random facts of kindness. If we enter a phase in which all nations are integrated in all degrees of purpose, that steady state will give us slope for a better tomorrow, and we will all be infinitely better off. In such a case we could have our pi and eat it too.”
The President further declared, “I am gratified that we have been given a sine that al-Gebra is protracting this situation with calculusing disregard. Their murky statisticians plan to inflict plane of new dimensions on every sphere of influence,” he added. “Under these circumferences, we must differentiate their roots, make our points, draw our lines, and proportionally intersect these people throughout whatever area of the domain they range. And, above all, we must make sure that they can’t get their hands on radii active materials. That is one thing you can secant you? What we need is a higher quotient of linguists embedded with our troops so that they can interpolate the gibberish that al-Gebra uses to communicate. If we had that capability, we could periodically reach new limits of success as easily as falling off a natural log. Anything short of that could lead to some real, not imaginary, complex circumstances.”
The Secretary of Homeland Security added, “As our Great Leader would say, ‘Read my ellipse.’ The one angle that I am uncertainty of is that although al-Gebra will probability try to continuously multiply in theorem, their days are numbered as we draw the hypotenuse ever tighter around their necks.”
from: http://daryld.com/weapons-of-math-instruction/
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I’m a mathematician, I don’t like you.
Yes, Everyday !
CONFIRMED.
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Now, how will you be greeted at the texsa TFB site?
I wasn’t able to watch any of the games last night. Does anyone have a recap of the Sooners that played? Thanks!
I watched the Cowboys game while packing for vacation!! Praise Jesus
Hanna had a few catches and played pretty well until he got hurt in the 3rd quarter. Something to do with his knee and will miss a couple of weeks it appears
By Monday Jordan my have a synopsis of how all the former Sooners did in the games. Now, it may not happen during the preseason, but he definitely did it during the regular season.
Just off hand, Grissom looked disruptive and was mentioned by commentators on more than one occasion. Ripkowski made a couple of tackles on special teams. Damien Williams looked good as usual. He actually knocked a db out of the game on a 17 yd swing pass. That’s all I got.
what position for grissom………thxs
He was moving all around. Played some DE in a 3 man front, played some stand up LB on the edge, andeven moved inside to DT when they brought in a rush package on a 3rd and Long. He had 1 TFL
Not a worry per say…but Bundage is coming this weekend and if he commits, then I doubt we take Terry. But I have a feeling that Terry is the better prospect. So what does OU do? Because we STILL NEED to keep a spot open for Caleb Kelly.
Bundage has said he wants to wait until NSD. If that holds up then Terry will have every opportunity to grab that spot.
I wouldn’t wait til nsd for bundage. He’s good but I have him below terry and clearly below kelly.
That’s my thought as well.
I seriously doubt there will be a spot for anyone but Kelly come signing day….and in that vein I believe that Kelly will decide SOONER, rather than later. Spots are filling up and guys waiting until NSD could miss out.
That is why I am hoping Bundage waits for NSD.
me too…but I think he is more into OSU than OU anyway. OU never even came up in that interview you posted yesterday. To me, that speaks volumes. We’ll see.
We’ll take both he and Terry. However it would be in Bundage’s best interest to commit. Because he could be that NB i.e S/LB hybrid OU has been missing for a while similar to Keenan Clayton. Which would allow players like Steven Parker to stay at safety permanently.
Bundage is the missing piece to the 4-2-5 defense imo. We need to get him at all costs. I hope he doesn’t wait till signing day like he has said in the past and miss out on a great opportunity where he could play right away.
Good to see the “Love” for the OK kids !!
I like Oliver but like Daniels, and Southall just as much. Obviously though if you OU can land Oliver that means more of a chance with Cleveland and he is the BIG ONE.. Imo
Daniels and Oliver would be a huge get for OU
Love seeing a list full of Okies.
Yes sir!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Think Tre Brown gets an offer this weekend? Also wish Draper was visiting.
Wouldn’t surprise me at all and, frankly, there’s an argument to be made he probably should have one already.
With the awesome LB’s we are getting this class, we don’t need Draper. He can be an aggie.
Hey K, still gonna post the write up on the QB’s from the scrimmage?
practice notes went up and, fwiw, there really wasn’t a “scrimmage.” They kind of informally hold scrimmage sessions in most practices, but I believe their first ‘full on’ more formal scrimmage is being held tomorrow.
Not sure that anyone else really cares but we were excited and blessed to be a very small part of the upgrades (temporary fence). This is not an advertisement by the way, just thought it was cool to be a part of.
Should have asked for season tickets as payment….
I did! No luck.
right on
Can you see practices from the temp fence? If so, you need to make frequent inspections.
Haha I bet if that were the case Bob would have some privacy screen put on ASAP.
So glad I just graduated. That is another big parking lot taken away. Parking will be miserable this year on campus.
It was bad back in 2004 when I graduated, not sure it will ever get better.
Sometimes I miss Norman till I think of this, or sitting in traffic on Lindsey or sitting in traffic Robinson, or sitting in traffic on 12th.
You guys did my fence too. Good job BTW.
Appreciate the feedback. Thanks for your business!
I drive by that Owasso location all the time headed to the John Deere dealership.
OK, tomorrow we are three Saturdays away from game day. Time to start putting together your Season Preparedness Plan. For those of you who live out of state and watch at home like me, let me recommend the following three week plan.
Week 1 – Review last season. How did your equipment work? Was the screen big enough? Was the sound clear enough? Did you have adequate grill capacity? Were the family members properly respectful of game time? Come up with a list of items to upgrade or replace. Come up with a list of family members to be upgraded or replaced.
Week 2 – Upgrades and replacements. Base on the list from Week 1, its time to go to Lowes, Bust Buy, and eHarmony for those upgrades/replacements. Spend the weekend installing and testing. Note installation of new family members can take awhile so you may want to start earlier in the week.
Week 3 – Dry run. Pick a pro game and pretend its an OU game. Run through your game day experience. Is all your equipment working? Did you forget charcoal for the grill? Does the family respect game time? Replace or fix any as needed. If you have new neighbors don’t forget to scream at the TV and yell at appropriate times, want to make sure they aren’t going to call the cops.
Remember proper preparation is the key to any successful venture.
May need an alarm clock or make sure you know how to do it on your phone as we may have a lot of 11am games.
Yeah you’re probably right although the last 3 games should be prime time games.
Who can sleep the night before a game?
It’s been getting harder and harder for me to drink all night as I get older, so I sometimes find myself awakening from a slumber, albeit unintended, due to that weakness in stamina. It’s just a matter of getting into “game shape” and maintaining that fine line between consciousness and my friends pulling me away from 7-11’s door at 4:00 am where I am intending to urinate on the front of their premises due to their refusal to sell me their watered down beer. That is because of my own lack of planning, I realize, but I apparently have a failing in my character when highly intoxicated, that attempts to blames others for my own lack of preparation. I shall address that failing forthwith and be a better man for it.
Get a SECOND fridge for beer! Stock up on Monday (just before watching game-film). While I usually have to stop due to being bloated rather than intoxicated, I still cannot run out of beer (or chips, salsa, smoked meat, peach cobbler, ice cream…well, all those things are necessary, right?)
Try Mekhong whisky and coke. Something in it keeps you awake. Perhaps the formaldehyde
or after a loss ..
Good advice! I can only grill before night games. Grilling after a game is too dangerous since I am distracted by joy or distressed beyond reason. At my age, my single live-in family member respects my football agenda and I have my viewing room to myself all day. As for equipment, I am surprised that I didn’t need new equipment due to viewer destruction during last season, but I think I was too shocked by some outcomes to brutalize the defenseless box or flatscreen.
I think I am READY. I will take your test-run advice on an upcoming pro game.
Good. Sounds like you are ready for some football.
After 59 years of following Sooner football I have it all down.
The only thing I do differently each year is trade in my one year old dvr at the end of August so I don’t have any fears of a glitchy hard drive.
That’s a very good idea.
If your DVR hard drive crashes, then there are always sketch artists…
And the key to grilling…make sure the cook is properly marinated.
Grill- Check
DVR-Check
Cold Beer-Check
OU gear-Check
70 inch Flat screen-Check
Computer to check in with TFB updates during games-Check
Oversized, comfortable chair- Check
I’m all good BOOMER!!
How early do you expect us? SOONER!
SOONER!
You are truly set. I’m beginning to wonder why after 24 years of going to games in frequently crappy weather why I didn’t follow your lead and watch big screen high def TV in comfortable chairs at home years ago?. No bathroom lines, no drunk’s beer farts wafting in the stands, cheaper food & drinks,, no rain or extreme summer heat, no annoying female s getting up to go to the bathroom every 10 minutes. I could have bought a number of 70″ TVs over the years for what I’ve spent on tickets.
JB, I get out for one home game a year. This year it’s the WVU game. Next year will be the Ohio State game with my family, one of my younger brothers and his wife that is a tOSU alumni. Other than that I am chilling at the house, on the edge of my seat, screaming like a banshee for the Sooners. A neighbor here in So. Cal is a big Tennessee fan, so he and his family are coming over to watch that game. And yes, when I show up at Memorial Stadium they do say….”Welcome Back Cotter.”
That is awesome!
Question: Not counting those here who never drink (like EasTex) , am I the only one who does not and never (okay, once) has imbibed before or during games? I’ve never wanted my senses dulled in any way during games.
As a student, there were plenty of game days where I woke up hungover as hell, but I had my own game day ritual to clear that up. I always woke up in the morning, usually sixish, and I kept a gallon jug of ice water in my mini-fridge. I’d take 4 ibuprofen, drink that gallon of water over the course of a half hour. I would always be the only person awake in the fraternity house, so I’d jump in the shower and take about a 45 minute hot shower since I had a virtually limitless hot water supply. I’d get dressed, watch a little ESPN, eat lunch when family arrived, then walk to the stadium and cheer until I was hoarse.
I think the only time I ever consumed alcohol during a game was taking a small swig-not a gulp- from a frat brother’s flask at the cotton bowl in 1993 when we beat ut 38-17. I didn’t enjoy that swig either.
1st post. Learned the valuable lesson of watching games at home almost a decade ago. 55″ Led TV, tempurpedic bed, surround sound, case of guinness in beer fridge and bathroom 10 feet away, at halftime I walk out the backyard and play a par 5 and a par 3 before the second half starts. And the best….I don’t have to drive home.
It’s still better in person. Especially with all the upgrades coming.
I’m sure I’ll catch a game this year as I’ve always enjoyed the game atmosphere. But it was always a family affair for us which made it fun. Now, my father’s no longer with us, mom’s too old and physically unable to go to games, my brother works Saturdays (and his wife is an oSu fan), and my sister, the other OU grad in the family, lives in Dallas and works many, many hours, often through the weekend. It just isn’t as fun to go to the games as it used to be. Yeah, I’ve gone with friends but again, it isn’t the same. Enjoying the game with family was always the most fun.
I spend a lot of time on Amazon today, looking for upgrades. Sent my ascot and smoking robe to the dry cleaners. Placed an add for hired-help to verbalize loudly at the teli.
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Being married to a Razorback (she’s alumna)…I can definitely relate to the respectfulness of family members portion of this.
Remember Duct Tape can be handy in those situations.
Bob, stop. LOL!
As long as it’s camo duct tape for Razorbacks….
Ditto. She’s beginning to love some OU, though. And her son begged me to buy him a Sooners jersey last weekend. Of course, I obliged.
Pshhhh, not as bad as being married to a Poke :/
This is fantastic advice! TV – check. Sound – It will do. Cable – changing to better provider this weekend. Family member replacement can be tricky though. Its like recruiting, it takes time and commitment (pun intended). However, I don’t think I can replace the spousal unit as she has purchased tickets for my son and I to attend the TCU game. So as much as I get annoyed when she yells at me for yelling at the TV, I think I am going to keep her around.
Well sounds like Duct Tape might not work in her situation. In such cases sending her shopping is often the best tactic.
actually replacing a worn out unit with a newer, younger model is the best call to make. a person is usually happier and can sleep better.
I’m almost prepared to reinstate my alcoholism and weekly irrational emotional outbursts.
Do you know of anyone who rents out small folding bleachers and those tow-behind projection screens? After I disovered the video-out jack on the outdoor speaker control module, I’ve been dying to go full on watch party mode.
I would say build rather than rent.
Fix patches in wall from Baylor game.
Yeah, the loss of my TV was no big deal, needed a bigger one anyway.
Just needed a new remote. 3rd one. Need to make them sturdier.
need to soundproof the walls so one can curse and not be heard by the children or neighbors or inlaws.
Why would you curse? All you ever watch is your favorite team…OSU.
We all know your walls are padded.
Don’t think I’ll need to upgrade spousal unit. She became enamored of OU football in 2013. She’s made the sun room into a media room. Crimson blackout drapes and Creme walls. 70 inch Samsung TV with surround sound. Reclining theater seating for four. OU stadium rug and several OU fatheads. Bar with two bar stools. She does get a little loud when screaming at the TV though.
Nice
That’s good. No need to fix what’s working.
Does your wife have a sister?
Check game times (where available)
Book flights to/from OKC to be there in time to get to Norman and return the day after the game
Book rental car
Book rental car
So James Hale just said on the Sports Animal that he hasn’t heard the story about Dalton Wood being at school and enrolled. Talk about being outta the loop. ?
No kidding. In fact just last week he reported that there are rumors that OU might be upgrading the stadium and some of the facilities.
Are you sure he is in Norman? According to everything I heard ( except for what was posted on here last night) he has been in contact with Coach Bowlware and Coach Gundy and has preliminarily enrolled, but was still in McAlester as of last night. I’ve heard he hasn’t yet talked with Stoops about rejoining the team.
K just tweeted (I am assuming he runs the TFB twitter) that he was at practice watching….
If so, that is awesome! Hope he stayed in some semblance of shape this summer.
To be fair, it takes some time out of one’s regular schedule to gather up all of the checks from your subscribers and then drive them to the bank.
And to pull up TFB’s website and find out what’s going on, as BleedCrimson pointed out
I believe he said “Let me check my Sources”. :-0
This deserves MANY up votes!
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Jeremiah Johnson was my dad’s favorite movie.
And mine (actually a tie with The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Love TOJW!
Jeremiah Johnson is my dad. Thank you.
Nice.
Sports animal? He left or got fired from kref again?
He was doing the daily 10:30 Bedlam radio
Want to make sure to point out that the 2018 visitors OU is bringing in this wkend could very well be the top 3 prospects in the state at their positions for their class. For those that don’t know much about Lee, check out his highlights here from last year as a freshman on varsity. Kid is also a freak in the weight room and says he can squat 600lbs already.
http://www.hudl.com/athlete/4342310/highlights/166471375/v2
He is what, 14?
Good Lord!
update added
WOW…It would be really cool if we could get Moore for the 16′ class. I love hearing about these in-stae guys!
I think there could be a good chance to get Moore and hopefully Little just because of the state of the OL right now. Next year, NIla, Ty, Farniok, St. John, all gone. The competition in my opinion will be more wide open than this year. Orlando will probably be the only guy to hold down the LT spot. We’re losing OLs almost as fast as we’re gaining them.
College football
I saw that TFB tweet about Snoops son, thats crazy.
Not seeing it, mind sharing?
He quit the team to pursue other passions through his film production company. He is going to continue taking classes at UCLA though.
Sorry was on the other thread…here is it
https://twitter.com/TheFbBrainiacs/status/632223878740230144
I’ll be leaving for basic and AIT in just one week from Tuesday. So if Super K or anyone else has any big news for me, Tuesday would be the day to do it since I’ll be having to turn my phone off till December when I come back!! I’ve watched OU games my whole life and this is going to be difficult!! I made the mistake of telling my sister that missing OU football was going to be the hardest thing for me while I’m gone. I forgot that my girlfriend was sitting next to me and also that my sister is getting married the weekend of Thanksgiving. Needless to say I got blasted by both of them! ha Boomer!!!
God Bless you. Which branch?
As for those two gals, they need to get their priorities straightened out.
Army National Guard. 45th infantry division. I’ll be a basic rifle infantryman. I’ve already graduated college, just looking to get out of my comfort zone and make myself a better person. Short term sacrifice leads to long-term gain. I’ll have to watch the games on YouTube when I get back December 10th.
I appreciate anyone who wants to challenge and improve themselves, especially when they serve in the military!
That’s great. Some advice from another infantry man and national guardsman. As soon as you can, try to become an officer. Stay for twenty and get that NG retirement.
Excellent.
As RocketCity states below, go OCS since you have a degree.
In basic you will learn team building, if one member of your squad fails you all fail. Cooperation is crucial. I couldn’t shine boots/shoes to the high luster like some did. I found another guy that had the same issue, but we were bunk dressing SOBs, so we did the bunks for the guys that would shine our boots/shoes. Always a solution to a problem.
Good luck, see you back around Bowl Season!
Hey bro, is Wood there or not? It’s getting old.
Sounds like you and I both saw on another site that he IS NOT there, as has been reported.
Im not sure whats going on really. Nobodys really seen him yet. Just heard he was on campus.
Best of luck to you. My grandfather was an infantryman in the 45th during WWII. Landed at Anzio, fought the Nazi’s, received 3 purple hearts. He had some incredible stories. That guy was greatness!
Sooner!
Pay attention and come back soon. Hopefly well have a nice NC game waiting for you.
Thank you for your service young man, all the best in training.
That’s a nice list of some okie talent!
Yep and I’ll be severely disappointed if we don’t sign all of them!
https://twitter.com/EyeAmTruth/status/632241498336038912
What happened? Isn’t he the DB OU backed off at the last minute?
Yeah which probably means he will sign in 2017
Thanks, Zack. What’s been going on in your world?
Besides hitting refresh a thousand times a day waiting for football to start?? Nothing
He is the one that tried to commit late but we took Stevens instead…always worried about his academics
Nailed it.
I bet we get him next year we was high on his list and Bob stoops found him and liked the the kid, just think we offered him to late
I think we had questions about him qualifying …and it looks like we had a reason for taking Stevens instead of him with the last spot since he didn’t qualify
That’s why we waited so long to offer him but when we got word he passed his act we offered him. I just think we waited to long cause when he committed to ksu our offer was still on the table
I think he tried to commit on his OV but Bob wouldn’t take it and we took Stevens with the last cb spot around the same time..I think we wanted to get the guy that had the best chance to make it on campus and thats why we didn’t take him…if he is going to NEO now then apparently he wouldn’t have qualify (just a guess on my part though)
Yeah hope nothing but the best for him. On a different note I met met Maurice Chandlers mom the other day super nice lady this kid can’t wait to get on campus and play he is excited about the opportunity to wear crimson and cream i see the next great db to come out of lawton.
Yeah I really like Maurice..when I watch the hudl of him and DeDe..I noticed that Mo had a int on him and maybe another breakup plus a pretty good lick on him on a bubble screen…another words DeDe didn’t do anything on him…yet De had like 140 yards in the game
Welp….guess that, at least in part, ‘splains that. Kept hoping he’d end up signing with OU. Hope it hits home that classes are a priority.
I figure this is as good a place as any to ask… does anyone know of a watch party (or just a place to watch) in the Tulsa area for the first game? I never like buying the PPV stuff.
Not sure where to go in Tulsa ask sooner Ray. I’ll either visit hudsons or go down to Norman for the day.
see the above Zack.
Last year i went to Buffalo Wild Wings
You can join with the OU Club of Tulsa at the Fox and Hound, NE corner 71st & Garnett. We will have it. Ask for Gladdman when you get there.
I love bringing in all Okies at once like this with no out of staters. Start building the relationships between these guys. Get the majority to commit and they will put heavy pressure on the others to come along. Bring back some of that Okie fire we have been missing.
How ironic is it that not more than 7 months ago a large portion of the fan base was up in arms about the state of our future at LB. Now we are debating about who we want to jump first at the last open spot(s) in this cycle before the season even begins.
I don’t see the irony. LB recruiting wasn’t where is needed to be and deserved the criticism it got.
Yeah ironic I don’t think is the word but it has done a 180 degree turn recently with signing DeBerry & McGinnis last year and Jon-Michael Terry, Bryce Youngquist, and Pernell Jefferson verbal commits this year and still sitting in a good place with Caleb Kelly, Jordan Carmouche, Dontavious Jackson, and Michael Divinity is sure differnet that it has been at OU in a long time at LB
OK I edited – ironic is now awesome. Everyone OK now?
I agree! It is awesome!
I don’t know about everybody but I know I will sleep better!
I would feel better knowing it was awesome sauce.
/but that’s just me
There’s definitely a lot be optimistic about with the most recent guys. I think there was a lot of criticism outside of just here about the LB’s and the defense in general and it lit a fire under some of the coaching staff. I don’t know how many more LB’s will commit, maybe Divinity and Kelly. I’m not expecting Carmouche or Jackson at this time, to be honest. It should be exciting to see the LB core grow this season though.
I agree with this statement, last real good recruiting class at LB was when Wort, R. Lewis, G, Jones, and J, Bird all came in and statistically speaking it was our highest rated class, but really none of them where great, let’s be honest and that was BV recruits. It’s just a matter of finding the right kid to play for you, Travis Lewis was a RB became a hell of a LB. Exciting to be in on some great kids this year. Think OU fans want all LB’s to be Lehman, Calmus, Marshall, Lofton, Dan Codyor the Boz lol, not likely but we have been blessed at the LB position. Hope that all these kids are what we need them to be.
or perhaps let it marinate for a minute and see what happens. but i’m sure they listened to you guys and changed their ways
Agree. DeBerry and McGinnis got OU moving in the right direction and early word is DeBerry is going to be as good as hoped. Still have to get these ‘verbals’ signed, but with the current verbals and hopefuly Kelly and still looking at taking Terry and having to turn away some kids that were at the top of the board…yeah.
I actually liked the class of Bolton, Evans, and Bond the year before…McQuinnie (sp) as well but he didn’t qualify…Bond is going to make plays for us this year..Evans and Bolton both add some decent depth inside was well…we took inside guys that year (besides Bond) and OLBs the next cycle
True. Not the ‘headliners’ but really excited about Bolton. Bond looks like he is going to get some significant minutes.
Yes. Perhaps the criticism helped to motivate some people.
Perhaps it’s causal or at least coincidental to the coaches realizing the problem and correcting it.
Wood will have to pass the Schmitty test before he can practice I believe
The names Dalton
I thought you’d be bigger.
You already fooled me once, ain’t happening again…Shifty. 🙂
HAHAHAHHAHA
James Dalton. That’s who my son is named after
name’s*
Buy me a keyboard and Ill do better…#coffee on keyboard= bad grammar
From the tater tot archives.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/60/01/6f/60016fc1aad97125acc9bd52fb6b4a14.jpg
Looks like 1974 wants their ad page back, hehheh.
The names…..TRAAAAAMONDAAAAAA!!!!
http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x439/JaegerPanzer/Godzilla/Godzilla6_zpsbbf272d6.gif
name’s**
buy me a keyboard and Ill do better….#coffee on keyboard = bad grammar
Fanks
wellcum
*welcome
So glad you didn’t divide that word with a space. 🙂
Tramonda-ous.
I might just be a little salty but… When harbaugh went Michigan I thought it was great! Great for college football in general to have him and Meyer renewing that rivalry and I always kinda liked as a coach and his personality. But did you guys hear about them switching to Jordan brand? Like I said I might just be salty but he is really getting on my nerves with the stunts he is pulling… I know he sent like lil Wayne a Michigan jersey and I think some other celebs. Sending letters to recruits girlfriends… There has been other stunts he has pulled too that I can’t think of off the top of my head too. It just seems he is trying to persuade recruits with anything except football and school, and feel like he is kinda making a joke of college football. I just not too many kids make decisions based off these things and realize they made a mistake and screw up their future because of it I guess.
He’s always seemed like a little baby, to me. They deserve each other
I remember when we beat them in the Sun bowl…Broyles was schooling their dbs all day and I just had a feeling he had his guy try to take Ryan out on a punt return…hes a good coach but comes off as an A hole sometimes
BOOM WITHDRAWALS!!!! ?
Most of y’all have heard of the coach at Pulaski Academy in Arkansas, the coach who seldom punts.
Well, he has come up with another statistical observation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2015/08/13/the-highly-successful-high-school-coach-who-never-punts-has-another-radical-idea/
Hard to argue with the logic.
Yay, math!
It is fascinating that he is being very successful at it yet no one else wants to try it. I was thinking earlier today after watching some of our old clips how stunningly effective a pitch can be when the person is already coming at full speed, unblocked, to receive the ball, and how we ought to have it in our tool bag for a few special occasions with the amazing talent we have at running back. No one is going to outrun Ross, get a hand on Mixon or even think about stopping Perine with a simple tackle when they’re already full out heading up field. Maybe it is just a fantasy but it would sure burn some people if we did pull it. Not the whole triple option- just a well done, quick lateral preplanned up the sideline…
Will they have kickoffs, or scrums?
This coach on-side kicks most of the time.
They could scrum unless they play in Oregon…..those officials can’t seem to keep track of the ball.
Dunno. He wants 3 players to touch the ball so he has more big plays. You are also going to have lots more turnovers. A little knowledge of statistics can be a dangerous thing.
From my Friday beer drinking point of view, the wishbone option is risky but a thing of beauty when practiced and properly executed. The forward pass was once considered risky but when practiced and executed is very rewarding. Combining the two with a catch and pitch as an offensive game plan as opposed to a trick play is crazy and brilliant. If practiced enough I could see it working for a while.
Was it ’73 we did that hook and lateral to Nebraska?
I can remember a couple of those in my head throughout the years but don’t pin me down on a year right now. LOL.
Peacock killed them with a hook and lateral in ’76, is that the one?
I cringe everytime I hear the words “Hook and Ladder” and “Statue of Liberty”. Dang blue field guys.
Damn those smurf ballers!
The 76 game. Belvins to Rhoades who pitched to Peacock.
As the article mentioned, trick plays usually work well because they are unexpected.
Now everyone and their mother knows whats coming when he yells rugby.
1- They know its a pass
2- They know its going to be a short route, dont have to worry about flags, posts, go routes, etc.
3- they know the guy is looking to pitch as soon as he catches it
Gaining possessions by not punting/onside kicks is fairly easy to calculate the risk vs reward.
Basing your offense around trick plays all the time has entirely too many variables to draw an accurate conclusion, unless he has some sort of complex algorithm that takes all those variables into account, which i kinda doubt.
I agree with exiled, drawing conclusions off statistics can be a dangerous thing. If your interpretation is wrong, your conclusion will be too.
I’m not pumping this coach, don’t know or follow him, but every crazy hair brained idea he has tried so far has worked regardless of the ridicule. I’m just curious to see if this next experiment of his produces anything. LOL.
Not punting/ going for onside kicks all the time isnt exactly revolutionary, not the 1st time ive heard of a coach doing that.
Now a hook and lateral on every play? thats hair brained lol.
Im also curious to see how it turns out. I dont think he will be as successful with that idea.
Saw this quote from some dude on twitter…
“Frank Alexander and Kony Ealy start at DE for #Panthers. Rivera looking for one to step up to play every down opposite Johnson.”
Lets go FRANK!
How much longer do we have to wait for this Lumpkin thing to come to fruition? We have been screwed a number of times by either the NCAA or other schools. Cory Nelson denied a hardship, Taco Tech playing hardball with Mayfield (losing a year), now the Whorns over Lumpkin. A. Roberts in Arkansas…
I don’t see him helping this year anyway….so I patiently wait.
He probably needs a rs even though he’s a solid player and already pretty big. But he’s had no college workout regiment so there’s no way he would be able to contribute at a high level this season.
That’s exactly the reason I think texsa is screwing themselves by slow playing this thing. In the end it’s really not going to matter this year.
I don’t have a problem with texsa on this issue. I think strong has to take a hard stance with where their program is. If he gets walked all over by one recruit who felt misled, who happens to have made it known OU is a very possible destination, then what will stop the next kid from doing the same thing.
Stoops is at a point in his career where he can and should be more PC.
Lets not tell him that…get him on campus and then tell him hehe
He has tweeted that Aug 21st is the day when Texas starts classes and when he expects to be officially denied admissions.
Thanks.
I think it won’t hurt the team for lampkin to take a redshirt year. I’m looking forward to see what he’ll do in 2016 if he chooses OU once he’s finally denied in a week or so.
update added
Good news!
No, Great News!
Almost feels like we should get a BOOM just for the extra wait…
Everything is slowly coming together.
https://youtu.be/qDaGc0Dysh8
Excellent!
I want a Brey boom! And a Tramonda boom!
As if the tweet earlier about samaje running right at someone. This is more proof that the knee is fine
https://twitter.com/ou_football/status/632358791871262721
He gets some real height! I was expecting the flip, but not that much hangtime.
His core strength is remarkable.
About to wrestle a gator.
Something tells me that TFB will not receive a Christmas card from OU this year…
https://twitter.com/ou_football/status/632367602241683456
Damn, in these tough times, trolls are taking jobs as sources. 🙂
seems difficult to get the straight on this guy…….
What in the wide-wide-world of sports is a’goin’on here?
I get 99% of my info here, but on the surface, it appears someone deep inside the program is trolling TFB. They have spun this same sort of thing at least a couple times. I’m just a spectator so I’ll just sit back and watch the show.
I have seen this before, the term ‘agent provocateur’ comes to mind.
Also could be leaking different false info to different people, and seeing what gets published where. Easy way to find out who’s leaking and where they are leaking to, if that’s a priority.
Exactly.
Think they’d do that to track down your sources? Kinda like the Nixonian era.
That’s what I’m thinking. They said he hadn’t reported. Not sure what they mean by that but there were multiple reports he’s enrolling and should be in Norman. So I think I’m gonna go with TFB is just too close and the football tweets are just trying to cover up the smoke.
and then they did something unheard of…the went public refuting said claim…never seen Stoops come out and refute message board talk
Who is ” OU_Football”? Is it Stoops? I don’t know what to believe anymore.
It’s because of the new , TFB Whorn’s version…. Someone’s pissed
Wow, a real life double knot spy! Exciting stuff.
I wonder if that mean he isn’t at school period or just hasn’t made it to practice?
aka dalton houdini
I just wish the person who told TFB he was at practice had a photo to let TFB post and clear the air. Especially since it seems the OU football Twitter account has been trying to refute TFB reports.
This is why I questioned this report earlier this morning. I found it rather doubtful that he was at an early morning practice when a reporter supposedly spoke with him last night at his girlfriends house in McAlester.
I will repeat what I’ve heard. He has spoken with coaches Gundy and Boulware, but that’s it. Reports of his return are premature IMO.
There is a skunk in the chicken house when it’s reported that he was at practice then a statement comes out that he was not……someone is being played here.
With the addition of lampkin this class is going to be one of the deepest in recent memory no weekness at any position.
Quarterback lol
We did bring in Connor McGinnis in as a preferred walk on…. 😉
And Reece Clark
Landry about to attempt a game winning drive… 2:54 left, down 23-21 to Jax. Landry is 18-34, 146 yds, 1TD, thus far.
Edit: Attempt failed. Landry failed to convert a 4th and 2. He is now 22-40, 177 yards. Looks like he’ll get one more chance with 1 minute remaining. Only needs to direct them to field goal attempt..
Edit: Second attempt fails for Landry as well. Had a nice 3rd down conversion for 17 yards, then 3 straight incompletions and a sack on 4th down. Finishes 24-46, 200 yds, 1 TD. Man needs a big game next time out, or this might be it in Pittsburgh for him.
Did Colvin have a good night?
Not sure..I havent been watching, only following gamecast… stats say Colvin had 2 tackles.
Only game I can see right now with my package is Bronco’s/Seahawk’s
That was a nice throw on the run
Sometimes he’s Landry and sometimes he’s Laundry. He doesn’t seem that much improved for having spent two years in the NFL getting better trained and conditioned and 10,000 hours of game tape. Looks like the same old guy- good, not great, with strange lack of consistency at important times.
Had 2 dropped tds
Is Dalton Wood really there? People are saying he is not.
Same people saying “shoulder fatigue?” I kid, not really.
I’m fatigued just keeping up with this sh&t. 🙂
I’m tired of that word fatigue.
It will be ok, you’re probably just fatigued. 🙂
It’s National Enquirer type nonsense. We clearly know this kid has a flair for the dramatic. Geez.
Now that we know Dalton was never there….Dalton Woods=Quincy Russell?
Quincy made it to campus, just never made the field. Dalton is definitely more bizarre…
So awesome to hear Roberts will make it in tomorrow (pending OU being ok with the news breaking…??).
Roberts headed our way.
It took so long because he was swinging by to pick up Lampkin and Wood. :-0
Can Roberts play OLB. Meaning, redshirt, learn the position play in ’16. Next year could be
OLB – DeBerry
ILB – Alexander
ILB – Evans
OLB – Roberts
He’s 6’6″ 265. Seems a little big.
2 inches taller than Geno Grissom last year. Same weight.
More good news on ex sooners, my Pats signed Casey Walker. From free agency to the world champion, love it!
I hope he sticks this year. I believe he was on the team for a few games last year when Wilfork was injured and played well.
They haven’t disclosed terms but my guess is that it’s a long term contract
Is Finch back with the Pats, too?
He was waived in the off-season. He’s now in the CFL with the Ottawa Blackhawks
Cool, looked at his twitter profile and it still showed Pats stuff.
Ye, dude was really bummed. I think he might still have a chance back with the Pats, he was really close to making the roster
I’m still surprised he didn’t make the roster. They love small, shifty guys, and he was doing work last year.
Tramonda is in the house…..
He is the house!
update added
update added
Thanks, Jordan!
https://twitter.com/JustinbroilesJ/status/632558712595439616
Is Dalton Wood really on campus? I’m hearing people say that he’s not.
Schrodinger’s Dalton.
Big Bang Theory reference?
Schrodinger’s cat reference.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat
Yes. I learned about the Schrodingers cat theory on the show (Big Bang) Nice!
Who needs a college education when you have such great sit coms out there.
What should the over/under be set for this weekends BOOM count? 1.5?
Great to hear about Austin finally headed to town. I bet he’s chomping at the bit. Tiger missed the cut so guess I’ll do yard work.
What is wrong with Tiger?
Man to be honest it kills me to watch. He actually didn’t hit it bad at all but was terrible on the greens. It’s purely mental now IMO. I think he’s close to getting this new swing dialed in. Then it’ll be fun and interesting to watch play out. Just shy of 40. I believe he will win again, perhaps even a major.
I’m like you: I lose interest when he’s not playing.
mental and he’s also off the steroids now…
That’s a tired comment.
To many younger hungrier players that are just better. Bottom line, Tiger wants to be multi billionaire with a lot of power. Golf was his avenue to achieve the elite status. Inside, he is still looking for inner peace. He will never achieve this until he looks above.
Don’t write him off.
Maybe one more, but he’s moved on. Can’t hit it 330 all the time in the middle like the young bucks. He wants to be donald trump.
I’m elated about Roberts. I think that guy might can play. Wish he could have made it earlier, but at least we have him. If he started too late, I wouldn’t mind him RS and have him 2 more. He plays Tapper’s position, doesn’t he?
Be played DE at NEO, so yes. DT in HS.
Any chance of scrimmage notes today?
better than decent chance, yes
Thank you.
True that!
THANK YOU… and thanks for putting up with OUr neediness, much appreciated TFB team!
I think that’s the same as saying, “You’re saying we have a chance.”
update added
https://twitter.com/Adr97D/status/632580452172234753
…….. listening to espn radio fb talk this morning, couple of analysts picking horn toads to win it all……..
Well, if that is the case, we’ll be right there with them do to the fact that we had a lead with 6 minutes left and had left points on the field in the first half on their home field.
new yr, new circumstances, who knows……..prediction is all it is, but some are looking at toads and giving them a legit shot, that’s what I thought interesting
We don’t really know how they would have stacked up against the other playoff teams since they got left out. I feel like they would have had as a good a chance as any of the other four though and this year is no different. Hopefully I will say the same about us come December!
I think TCU or BU would have done just fine last yr if picked for the ball. It’s a toss up every yr, IMO, on who will win out of 4 teams picked. It could have been them as well as OSU.
As a truck driver, I listen to a lot of college football talk siriusxm. Yesterday had a program on with SI Andy Staples, he picked OU over baylor and tcu to win Big12
I can definitely see that happening if all the pieces come together but… that really depends on a lot of players that have never even played in crimson and cream. I hope he’s right though.
I don’t know, the O-line seems to be tight with all players with some experience to previous starters, receivers getting much better, the D being improved and Cody seemingly moving up in the QB battle, I like the similarities of this team to the 2008 and the 2000 teams. Staples pointed to Stoops history after down years as his basis along with superior talent and incredible attitude that is leaking out of fall camp with the players.
The experience at LB gets overlooked by some. If our secondary is as improved as we all hope then we will wreck havoc on defense.
So can I, for the same reasons you mentioned. We do seem to have our DBs back, plus the backups (hardly any at S) and some talented new backups who may be playing full time by BU/TCU. I see a big jump in the DBs b/c they have a year under their belt of seeing B12 Os, more pressure on QB this yr (rushing 4 instead of 3 pretty much playing contain the QB). LBs better than we’ve been in a while, plus depth, DL I think will be improved w/Walker and Tapper. Tapper had health issues I see fixed for this year, plus we have much better depth at all positions across the front. I see 3 QBs who can play in this system and look good, and the best RBs in the nation, plus depth there, and better WRs than we’ve had in a long time. I see a big improvement over last yr and we weren’t that far off last yr.
In case you were wondering what happened to some former Sooners:
Current Sooners in Pro Football Player Team League OU LettersNo.Pos.Ht.Wt. Brandon Braxton Toronto Argonauts CFL 2005-200869OL6-6315 Dominique Franks Winnipeg Blue Bombers CFL 2007-200943LB6-0200 Bronson Irwin Omaha Mammoths FXFL 2011-201376OL6-4315 Javon Harris Omaha Mammoths FXFL 2009-201221DB5-11206 Lendy Holmes Texas Revolution CIF 2005-2008–DB6-0230 Ronnell Lewis Boston Brawlers FXFL 2009-201156LB6-2253 Mossis Madu Hamilton Tiger-Cats CFL 2007-201026RB6-0197 Jamarkus McFarland B.C. Lions CFL 2009-201276DT6-2305 DeJuan Miller Tri Cities Fever IFL 2008-201124WR6-4217 Jesse Paulsen Duke City Gladiators CIF 2010, 2012–DB6-1205 Brian Simmons Hamilton Tiger-Cats CFL 2006-200959OL6-5310 Adron Tennell San Jose SaberCats AFL 2006-200917WR6-5210 Dominique Whaley Blacktips FXFL 2011-201222RB5-10205
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Great, thank you for posting this. Nice to see so many former Sooner players doing well in the game.
First time poster, love this site! What position/technique did we recruit Austin Roberts to play?
Welcome. Boomer!
Welcome ! I think Def end.
welcome aboard, thanks for reading!
And yes, as tag said below, Roberts will be a DE, possibly some stand up OLB as well.
Welcome – AND – looking for a BOOM kinda week-end!!!
Welcome to the big leagues.
Where do we stand on scholly numbers for 2016? For the sake of this question lets assume Dalton Wood either doesn’t show or doesn’t stay.
OU currently has 12 seniors on scholarship and 81 total scholarship holders.
That does NOT count anyone who is NOT here (Roberts, Wood, Lampkin) and anyone not currently on scholarship (Baxter).
Doing the simple math, if all 4 of these players end up here and on scholly, that’s 85.
Usually you have 6-10 schollies open a year due to attrition (leaving early for NFL, dismissal, transfers, quitting football), so expect a class of 20+-2.
Don’t forget Nick Hodgson. I know that won’t affect next years numbers as he is a SR, but apparently Stoops said he would put him on scholarship.
He’s counted; so is the punter Jack Steed.
The 12 seniors are: Neal, Shepard, St John, Darlington, Kasitati, Farniok, Tapper, Striker, Bond, Lindley, Shannon, and Hodgson.
Should have known you’d be on top of things! Lol. Good work.
Thank you, my friend. 🙂
Nice group of seniors. If Sanchez goes,do you think anywhere from 6-9 of those guys will be drafted?
I’m not good at the draft, but certainly Shep, Darlington, Kasitati, Tapper and Striker are draft possibilities. That’s 5. Bond and Shannon are possible for late round or free agent signings.. Hodgson should get signed as a free agent.
Here’s my take on recruiting. Barring attrition, OU has the following returning for 2016 (Verbal commits for 2016 are in parens). I’m including Roberts at SDE, but not Wood or Lampkin:
Offense:
WR – 9 (2)
OT – 8 (0)
OG – 4 (1)
OC – 1 (0)
TE – 2 (0)
FB – 1 (0)
QB – 3 (1)
RB – 5 (0)
Defense:
SDE – 6 (0)
3-technique DT – 2 (0)
NT = 5 (0)
OLB – 2 (3)
ILB – 5 (0)
CB – 8 (2)
S – 6 (1)
Special Teams:
PK – 1
Punter – 1
Snapper – 1
On offense, the most important needs clearly are 1 more OG, 1 OC, & 1 RB. On defense, the more important needs are at least 1 3-technique DT (Lampkin would fit here), 1 inside LBer, and 1 more OLBer (Kelly). That’s 6. Even if Jarvis Baxter earns a schollie, they probably will take 1 more WR, 1 OT, 1 DE, 1 more 3DT, 1 NT, & 1 more CB. That’s another 6 for a total of 12 for a class of 22, which would require attrition of 9.
Sooners make the Top 20 (yes, seriously) cut for 2017 LB Anthony Hines.
https://twitter.com/2017D1Prospect/status/632588070680817665
esco……..just for fun, give it a stab………dalton houdini woods……..what’s the deal
No body wants to touch this. No matter what is reported Dalton is going to make you look like a fool. The problem obviously has not been with the reporting but rather with Dalton. Reporters have to begin to ask themselves if they can take Dalton at his word. Can you believe anything Dalton says he is going to do?
Not sure I follow. I believe the question Lane Gilstrap and others have been asking is whether Dalton Woods is in Norman as TFB reported he was, or is he not, as everyone else is saying? Did Dalton attend yesterday’s practice as reported by TFB, or did he not? As you are aware, OU Football put out a statement saying Dalton was not at practice and has not reported to Norman. It is hard for me to imagine the football team putting out that info if it were not true.
I just wish TFB would address this issue in some manner. Either say that they stand by their story and explain why, or say that their information or sources may have been wrong. Lots of people are wanting to know what is going on.
Thanks BoomerDave
Can someone please address the Dalton Wood situation again please?
According to my source,* he gone.
*Source: Just a hunch. A really skeptical hunch.
Wha time is the scrimmage or has it already passed?
ended a while ago
update added
So, we still haven’t offered that DB from Tulsa yet?
I’m sure we will hear about the commitment before we will the offer.
Hope so, otherwise this kid is going to turn into my version of Draper.
I still have no problem with how they handled draper. I was more concerned about the 2016 class which if everyone stays on board and if they add Kelly and possibly another (not bundage) then they can turn their focus to 2017.
Oh, I didn’t have a problem with how they handled Draper either. Rather, I’m saying I really want Brown, and I can’t understand why they haven’t offered him yet.
And fwiw he tweeted out that he had a productive day so I take it an offer might have been made or should be expected soon.
I share the same concern. We need to bring in the best in-state talent. It’s great to get highly rated players but your core should still be strong with in-state guys who’ve lived and breathed OU football and understand the rivalries like OU-Texas on a level beyond just, “Oh yeah, it’s a big game.” I hope they put the full court press on Levi and Tre
A Boom! for the weekend would be Tramondous.
That’s a good one
I saw what you did there!
Brilliant.
That dude Brey walker is only going to be a SOPHOMORE?!?!?!?! He’s samaje, offensive line edition haha.
Looks like he’s ready to step in and compete for a spot immediately!
I can see that trend developing, OU going after plug and play guys that are grown men at the age of eleven haha.
That’s a big dude. If this was baseball and he was from the Dominican then we would need to see some identification.
NICE
Big boy for sure.
Taller than Nila and bobby Evans at his age is what really jumped out at me.
He seems to really love OU right now.
Hard to not love OU when you’re from the Moore/Norman area. I hope his spot on the 2018 roster is sealed but there’s so much time in between now and then and so many suitors.
update added
Big recruiting weekend ! Did anyone commit ?
We definately need one Moore guy on the O-line.
Where is Bundage?
Anyone have any word on how the kicking duties are shaking out? Who is winning the punting battle between Steed and Seibert? As for place kicking, do you see a split of duties with Seibert long and Hodgson short? I’m really liking Hodgson’s accuracy and how he is competing and not conceding the kicking duties to the highly touted Frosh.
scrimmage notes are up: https://thefootballbrainiacs.com/ou-oklahoma-sooners-football-scrimmage-notes-8-15-15
seriously you guys our too good to us!
G-Day minus 21
Jacob Guetirrez. Good football player, even better person. Love to hear these kind of stories about our Sooners.
https://youtu.be/PWgCXtfNeE0
So fellow
TFBers, how is your season preparedness planning going? Have you come up
with your list of items/relationships that need to be upgraded or replaced?
One item you may want to consider is your emergency treatment
kit. Remember there are three kinds of emergencies that your kit may need
to treat.
1) Medical emergencies. Keep in mind that the goal of your
medical emergency kit is to keep anyone having a medical emergency stable and
pain free until after the game is over. You don’t want to have to deal
with ambulances and police sirens in the middle of the game. We recommend at
least three pints of blood per family member cross matched with their blood type.
Sufficient sedatives for all family members is recommended. These
can also come in handy if a family member is being disruptive during the game.
2) Tailgating emergencies. We recommend purchasing a spare
refrigerator and or freezer for keeping tailgating supplies on hand. As a
good Sooner fan, it’s important to be an ambassador for the world’s greatest
football team. We also need to be prepared to perform intervention for
those people that have become addicted to dangerous substances such as ESPN or
SEC. Inviting them to watch a Sooner game can be the first step in their
recovery and that means being able to feed them right. So stock up.
3) Football emergencies. Unfortunately there is
little we can do as fans to prevent football emergencies. All we can do
is treat them after the fact. The best treatment for a football emergency
is copious quantities of ethyl alcohol. Make sure and label it properly,
you don’t want to drink the isopropyl alcohol in the medical kit. You may
want to try one of the various forms of flavored ethanol since large quantities
may need to be consumed.
Finally don’t forget the Duct Tape.
You know me Bob, No matter what win or lose it’s always a great day to be a SOONER!!!!! Now let’s do this #Chase4eightonourwayto48. Boomer!!!
We need Moore booms
Did Bundage make it to campus today?
No. According to those I talked to, he did not make the trip to Norman today.
Thanks Brandon, hopefully we can get him on campus soon!
Brandon, do you think that means they may have told him he is too late? Just wondering because I honestly do not see a spot for him if the coaches feel good about Terry.
He’s a tweener and it doesn’t look like we have enough scollys to go around plus he’s seems a bit arrogant and not showing ou any love with that being said he would be a perfect nb in our defence
Hey, it’s almost CFB season so why not release a playoff commercial with every SEC team in it and only TCU and Baylor representing the Big 12.
Although you can see a little horse in back of the thumbnail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cy2CLLFbJs&feature=youtu.be
I did see KU, ISU, OSU and KState in there as well… a definite, deliberate snub but who really gives a s#it about espn anyway? Amateurs.
Well from a marketing perspective, which is what I do, it’s not good. ESPN has a very broad reach, especially with recruits. So you want to win and win big when you’re on a nationally televised channel. It’s all about getting that brand awareness, my friend.
The next 3 weeks is going to be excruciating. Having to wait to see this new offense open a can of Whoop-A$$ on Akron. If the D plays half as well as I hope they do, it will be a laugher by half. Would love to see the “Hang half a hunerd by halftime”.
The Zips will soon learn, as the Sooners skate through them, there is ONLY ONE OKLAHOMA…
http://media1.giphy.com/media/hr6p5UHdDn8RO/200.gif
So what you are saying, is “Half a hunerd by half to Zip”?
I’m saying NO half measures.
/just sayin’
I am with you there. If your gonna mess up, do it going full tilt.
Loadholt reportedly tore his Achilles and is out for the season. What a bummer!
Looking forward to hearing about this group in an update later today. Thanks TFB for the great info and twitter pics.
* 2016 OL Tramonda Moore (Oklahoma City, OK)
* 2017 CB Justin Broiles (Oklahoma City, OK)
* 2017 CB Tre Brown (Tulsa, OK)
* 2017 ATH Quindon Lewis (Moore, OK)
* 2018 RB Devontae Lee (Oklahoma City, OK)
* 2018 QB Casey Thompson (Moore, OK)
* 2018 OL Brey Walker (Moore, OK)
I’d like that too. But I do understand that you guys have actual LIVES and might need some hours for yourselves and your families.
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Getting to know opponent #1…..Inside Akron Zips Football: Sacrifice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H22Y_PKPx-E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_RrG20F8zY
I don’t see a point to this video.
Probably just me.
Yeah me neither. I guess Akron has to do whatever it can to try and hype their players and fans up.
Lots of motion, pulsing sound track.
I wonder how many Zip fans will make the trip?
I’ll guess 2 or 3 hundred fans. Family and friends of players, a few students and the teams cheerleaders. 🙂
Hope they love prancing ponies and shotgun blasts. 🙂
Dude, Boomer and Sooner do not prance. They HUNH gallop.
True, but they don’t know that and galloping doesn’t rhyme with ponies. 🙂
Neither does prancing, but I get what you meant. 😉
How about PDQ Ponies? Ruf/Nek Racers?
Haulin’ horsies?
Likey.
They had a helluva package to make the trip to Norman. I think it was $700 for round trip, hotel, and game ticket.
Can’t be many tickets available.
$780
OK, I thought some of the stuff soonersports.com did was lame, until I saw this.
Okay, then.
This was an assignment in videography 101. The assignment “Use as many sports cliches in a video as possible. Your video can be no longer that 2 and a half minutes.”
Unfortunately, whoever did this didn’t get a good grade. The had all the cliches, but they took six seconds too long.
Akron long snapper trick shots….
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/akron-long-snapper-hits-moving-target-from-upper-deck–video-221358008.html
Where is my boom? It’s Sunday and there should be a boom
Would love to hear a Tramondous BOOM!!
I’m looking for a Tramondous BOOM!, a TREmendous BOOM!, or Breymendous BOOM!!! Actually, I’m very greedy, so I’m looking for all 3 BOOMS!!!
http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/jon-greenberg/post/_/id/1165/kevin-white-news-shows-bears-cant-be-trusted
Another reason, if you needed one, to dislike ESPN. He got roasted quite a bit in the comments
Put this way at the top of list of why I hate espn and in general the media.
Yeah it sounds like he wanted to write an irresponsible article about not being able to irresponsibly jump the gun on everyone else. How about “I hope White ends up ok and gets to chase his dream sooner rather than later” instead of this hot garbage
“Irresponsible” and personal it seems.
……http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/johnehoover/john-e-hoover-sooners-helping-sooners-impacts-lives-of-former/article_0002424a-1b8d-541a-af6d-73b0bcfdd605.html
Great article.
does anyone know when Sam Bradford plans on suiting up? I noticed he didn’t play today.
He’s not supposed to play until next Saturday, Baltimore I think.
thanks
seconded
Replay of the Tennessee game on Fox sports Oklahoma. FWIW.
just tuned in…….the season looked bright that nite, little did we know
Man perine is very exciting to watch. Can’t wait to see what Mixon can add.
Just as I remember it. Zone read worked some, Tenn goofed up several reads on D. OU Receivers did make catches. The Tenn 1st half TD (made it 13-7 at the time) came after a third and 10+ was successful on a 4 yd pass and missed CB tackle followed by a safety turned around for a long TD – a snippet of problems all season.
On the bright side, that WAS then and this is a different team.
Very exciting times ahead.
I have a question. Is it bad form or bad luck to post a current player on the count-down?
Yes. ?
What’s up with Whaley?
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No idea.
Don’t do it.
/Joe John Finley-Michael Thompson-Keith Stanberry
lol
/and Zac Henderson AA, Randy Hughes AA if i can find a pic