Sooners News Daily 4.18.14
Posted on: April 18, 2014
Busy Friday as we head towards Easter Sunday. Celebrating or no, enjoy your weekend everybody!
FOOTBALL
Spring Spotlight: Blake Bell. (SI)
At least one Alabama player doesn’t think the OU offense that shouldn’t have even been on the same field as them. (ESPN)
Gabe Ikard responds to said Bama slight. (Twitter)
Davin Joseph and Corey Nelson are getting a look from the Cowboys. (Twitter)
TCU is picking up a transfer QB from Texas A&M. (DMN)
Apparently Peyton Manning came by the OU offices yesterday (that’s Baker Mayfield on the left).
That SB Nation ‘Bag Man’ article got the Taiwanese animation treatment and it’s pretty amazing.
BASKETBALL
Can’t help but feel Tulsa could have done better than Frank Haith. (Tulsa World)
I mean technically this is sports related.
RECRUITING
Sooners offered 2015 five star WR Calvin Ridley yesterday. (Twitter)
OTHER
It is *insert current time here* and Texas still sucks. OU Softball reminded them of that last night. (Sooner Sports)
I’m almost at a loss when it comes to this OU Baseball team. (Sooner Sports)
The OU women’s gymnastics team starts their run for a national title tonight. (Transcript)
Less than a year into his tenure as Auburn head coach, Sunny Golloway says he has already come to a crossroads. (AL.com)
A live reading of Space Jam that includes Blake Griffin. Why, yes, thank you. (The Big Lead)
49 Comments
In the ESPN link about alabama, I was amazed at how little credit they gave to Oklahoma’s offense being better then they were. I guess reality sucks!!! Did anybody else notice this or am I just completely bias??
no credit was given at all…nice catch
Shepard is still running wild on Collins and co…seriously they couldn’t contain him…the refs did when they whistled him out of bounds when he wasn’t…Shep should be disappoint at the level of play he had to go up against after all of the hype and talk of the sec…Sheps says welcome to the B12 bama
Landon Collins needs to watch what he says. If I remember correctly he was only on the field because of injuries. Bama had to be gifted the BCS CG in 2011 and were lucky Ohio State wasn’t eligible in 2012. Bama has had some lucky breaks in the past years
Gabe Ikard had some thoughts on the comment
https://twitter.com/GabeIkard/status/456995382958907393
and Bob Stoops is 3-0 against Bama. Glad Ikard isn’t afraid to tweet back
I think Bama would have destroyed Ohio State in 2012.
Doesn’t matter it would have been Notre Dame vs Ohio State in the BCS CG, both were undefeated
That’s right. I forgot Bama lost to A&M.
Not sure why the Peyton Manning pic got taken down. I’ll try to find it elsewhere and repost.
got it
Why was Peyton Manning in Norman?
He spoke at OSU the day before, I think he just stopped by either on his own or at the request of the coaches.
He’s making some college stops, apparently. He recently visited Tuscaloosa.
Saying the team that just embarrassed you on national television didn’t even belong in the same field as you is just beyond ridiculous. The whole country could and did see that if any team didn’t belong on the field that night, it was Alabama.
The “butt hurt” is strong in Landon Collins. He pisses and moans like his mother on NSD. Like someone in the Twitter feed said, “Take your ass-whoopin’ like a man.”
So is there a school yet that hasn’t offered jaylon lane? It seems like he gets an offer every 6 hours.
It wasn’t just the secondary Landon. Your offensive and defensive lines got their asses whipped also. Luckily you had Derrick Henry or it would have been a real train wreck.
I’ve talked to several Alabama fans ( funny how that crowd has grown over the last five years) since the Sugar Bowl and I didn’t hear a single one say what that dude said. In fact, they mostly took the loss with good things to say about OU.
Landon Collins is just an idiot that is full of himself
I personally don’t like the offer to Ridley, he can obviously play and seems to have great speed and vision but I don’t like flashy players like he seems to be. Kinda reminds me of Kenny Stills, and I was personally never a fan of his either. Again not that he wasn’t a good player just seemed like a prima donna.
Yeah cause we sure wouldn’t want another Kenny Stills around here…
Me personally no… But to each his own right. I feel like he could have been much better than he was and I thought it looked like he gave up on a lot of plays, but I’m not him for all I know he was giving his all every time. Again I thought he was a good player but could have been much better.
Brain damage is strong in this one.
like I said it’s my opinion, you don’t have to agree with it.
Just out of curiosity what is it that you found so great about Stills? Again he was was a good player but not even close to one of the best that Stoops has had, I wouldn’t even put him in the top 10
Wish all the WR would block like Stills!
Yeah. I’d love it if all of WRs ran downfield and got blocks in like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvMkDj899F0
I’ll concede that point, but not what I was talking about at all
Stills didn’t want to go over the middle I’m ok with that he was an excellent receiver and yeah prima donna is not an attitude you want if you want to compete for championships. But man he had/has all the talent you could want in a wide out. I like the current attitude of this team going forward.
That was kind of the point I was trying to make but you worded it much better than I did. I don’t mean to knock stills he is a great receiver it’s just the attitude that I prefer not to see in any of the guys on OU’s roster.
Yeah I agree it sucks but a lot of these guys know they’re playing for a chance at the nfl but some guys would rather stay healthy long enough to get to the nfl and then show everything they’re capable of. Look at demarco to a lesser extent after his knee injury early in his ou career he didn’t fight too much for extra yards. And then as a rookie for Dallas he looked like a steal because he showed what he really could do.
Any one know who Matthew Hobson is? I guess he was at OU the other day talking with Norvell. Couldn’t find him on 247, espn, rivals.. Any Info from TFB?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlePOYJCUAA2QrX.jpg
I can’t tell who he is. It looks like he knows Tim settle somehow not sure if he’s from the same school/town or if he may be part of the family that’s from okc. Looks like settle is trying to help him get noticed though.
http://new.berecruited.com/athletes/2267096
Not sure how reliable that is.
If it’s not Lane, then it’s Mbanasor
https://twitter.com/DemetricDWarren/status/457187736328630273
The more offers they get, the better we look when we land them. 🙂
Right on cue lane got offered by Florida.
Really wish I knew about this Dakota Allen guy. Journalism at its finest.
http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/2014/04/questions-remain-in-sooners-secondary.html/
Lol could have taken 15 seconds to look at the roster, but who needs that anyways.
Nothing about Ridley makes me say”wow” but if the coaches think he’s worth recruiting then I’m all for it.
Who is that girl shooting baskets, and is she looking for a nice accountant-type to settle down with?!?
She’s an SI Swimsuit model. She’s also been photographed for something called Victoria’s Secret, whatever that is.
Actually, this accountant has dibs 😉
So…over/under on this Collins guy’s total games played next season. 0.5 games. I’ll take the under
Landon Collins? He’ll play in all of them baring injury or other reason to miss games..he’s a talented safety but he needs to realize that Shep and other guys on our team are just as talented and on that day Shep was taking him to school
And Bester, too.
Do you think saban liked those comments? It made him sound like he wasn’t there when ou stomped their defense.
I don’t know if Saban liked them or not but I don’t think they were worthy of a benching especially with the depth of their back end (I fig they were litter w 5star dbs but apparently they have some issues)