Sooners News Daily 3.31.14
Posted on: March 31, 2014
Okay, we’re trying something new here at The Football Brainiacs. I’m pretty confident most, if not all, of you are familiar with this style of ‘blogging’ as it is a common — and in my experience, popular — practice amongst the online community.
But as with everything we do here, the goal is to give the people what they want. So we’re going to try this on a trial basis to start and then pending your feedback, we can either make it a fixture of the site or discontinue it altogether. So please be sure to let us know what you think in the comments below.
FOOTBALL
Classic Berry Tramel article here declaring this OU team has no “star power” despite Trevor Knight being included (realistic or not) on some Heisman watch lists. (NewsOK)
If you were wondering what Rhett Bomar was up to these days . . . (DCTF)
The last addition to OU’s 2014 recruiting class, long-snapper Wesley Horky, has a pretty cool story. (NewsOK)
BREAKING: There will be pressure on Trevor Knight to perform this season. (Tulsa World)
Sterling Shepard is embracing his leadership role. (NewsOK)
There will be neither a shortage of talent or depth along the defensive line in 2014. (Norman Transcript)
With a need at the WR spot on the outside, remember the name Jordan Smallwood. (NewsOK)
The spring is a key time for OU’s offensive line. (Norman Transcript)
The local media isn’t doing Sooners RB Alex Ross any favors in terms of tempering expectations amongst OU fans. (Tulsa World)
RECRUITING
We’ll have to check with K to see if he can follow up with Gibson’s people and see if this was just ‘knowing your audience’ or if this blurb is any more substantial.
Out of all the visits ESPN JR 300 ATH Torrance Gibson took this past week he said Tennessee, #Auburn & #LSU stood out the most. #Vols
— Derek Tyson (@DerekJTyson) March 30, 2014
OTHER
Barry Switzer and Star Trek is something you don’t hear paired together everyday. (Tulsa World)
Baseball took two-of-three from KU over the weekend, but lost the chance for a valuable road series sweep in walk-off fashion yesterday. (Sooner Sports)
Your No. 1 ranked men’s gymnastics is bringing another conference title (their third in a row) back to Norman. (Sooner Sports)
Softball swept Iowa State over the weekend, securing run-rule victories in all three games. (Sooner Sports)
Women’s tennis had a successful weekend with wins over both Kansas schools. (Sooner Sports)
Meanwhile, men’s tennis bounced back from a loss earlier in the week against Texas to get their first Big 12 victory this season with a win over TCU. (Sooner Sports)
If you’re interested in free money (though I can’t guarantee you’ll ever collect).
https://twitter.com/PapaBearAntonio/statuses/449398113678016512
29 Comments
Thanks Jordan, now I can just cancel newspaper subscriptions because you give me all the news here in one place! 🙂 Trying to put Hale out of a job?
As far as Gibson, why is that tweet so shocking? He came to OU during spring break and even most coaches were on the road. I don’t see anything to be upset about.
What has PapaBear been smoking? Get me his bet lined out STAT!
re: Gibson – I guess I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s shocking per se. But if some were to read into it, they might come away w/ it not being as promising for OU’s chances is all. Though, I’d very much agree that at this point there w/b little to be upset about.
Gibson has been a long shot from day one. I know Super K has hope because he has some close contact but the average fan is just hoping for the best and expecting reality. Keep up the good work BTW.
Not surprised, even before the visit. I just think the allure of an immediate (or sooner) start will be too much a pull for a kid like TG. I see Auburn leading this one guys, unfortunately.
Tennessee is making quite a push for him, plus the amount of Vols tweeting him to go there is ridiculous. So I could see the Vols along with Auburn being at top for him.
We made LB Justin Hilliard’s top ten & LB DeBerry announces his leaders tonite @ 1730 central.
Take it fwiw, but Gibson has continued to reiterate what was said in the tweet above in a couple other interviews. No mention of OU in any of those that I’ve read.
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It sounded like he spent a lot of time going over the offense with Coach H but, in the end, didn’t see himself there. If he’s set on the sec with Auburn and UTenn as leaders, great. Coach H can move on. As far as the links, meh. It’s cool as long as you do what TFB does best, give the masses football/recruit breakdowns and not more
reporter speak fluff. TFB is different and a grateful Sooner Nation thanks you!!
This format is perfect makes FB a one stop shop for information!
Appreciate the feedback!
Ditto. Really nice job. Making we wonder why I would go back to any other OU message board. The conversation here is crisp, clean, and on message. It’s a pleasure not having to read through all of the pre-adolescent garbage on other boards. Thank you! Boomer!
I like this format, even if it was a once a week type of post. Love to read lots of articles.
Great format Jordan. Your efforts are much appreciated. As for Gibson, I’m not surprised. He was always a longshot. A very longshot. Maybe now Josh can focus his efforts on another Trevor Knight-type prospect. I’ll take one of those any day.
Sounds like mostly positive feedback, so I’ll go ahead w/ this (at least for now). If things change or you’d like to see something different, please just let me know.
Thanks, y’all
I”M JUST NOT SURE THIS IS A GOOD IDEA! I’m on FB about half the day already and it is going to be very hard to keep my job if you keep this up! LOL! JK
I don’t typically have a need to go to any OK news sites (since I don’t live there), and miss out on a lot of OU articles, so it’s nice to have them all in one place. Thanks, I like this.
Right on
Always good info from the best OU site around! BOOMER!
I like it. The only thing I wish you guys had is a forum where us regular visitors could discuss topics
I’m not that interested in a page that links to other websites and their stories. Quite frankly, I’m more interested in hearing the opinions of the Brainiacs’ staff than the same old reporters spouting the same old shite.
The landthieves aggregator does the same thing.
amen
I don’t entirely disagree w/ any of you on this side of things. It’s why I’ve been hesitant to do something like this in the past. But some seem to like it for whatever reasons they find it helpful. We’ll see how it goes, not necessarily a permanent thing at the moment.
Also, fwiw, my plan isn’t to link to any and everything OU related article (or whatever) simply b/c it’s OU related. I couldn’t possibly agree more w/ your stance on “the same old shite” as you put it. Thus, I don’t plan on linking to that kind of crap.
It’s a work in progress and quite honestly it’s meant to serve primarily as a compliment to what I’d like to believe are the main features of this site, much like what you’ve suggested, educated opinions and intelligent insight. That will continue to be the focus, this is more for slower news days when there isn’t a ton to talk about (like this time of year) and, let’s be honest, more of a content driver.
Not OU related, but UCLA is taking OOC scheduling to a new level
2014: Texas
2015: UVa (weak link)
2016: A&M
2017: A&M
2018: OU
2019: OU
2020:
2021: LSU
2022: Michigan
2023: Michigan
2014: LSU
Nice. The home and home with UCLA will keep OU’s footprint on the west coast solid.
I hope that whatever the issue is, it get resolved quickly. Miss the practice updates
Actually, I was wondering about Bomar and actually meant to do a search the other day to see what he was up to. Thanks.
So does Tramel think Shepherd is chopped liver?
Hambone has an OU teaser up as of a few hours ago.
http://youtu.be/Fis7-OFuJas