Sooners News Daily 7.22.16
Posted on: July 22, 2016
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Ohio St. game is a sellout. I mean you had to figure this was simply an inevitability, right? Regardless, OU made it “official” yesterday.
The first 2016 home sellout has been announced: https://t.co/YWmaS03835 #Sooners pic.twitter.com/jG0cj1lxmy
— Oklahoma Football (@OU_Football) July 22, 2016
Samaje Perine, on the cusp of greatness, remains humble: https://t.co/uLeCqMUdAZ #Sooners pic.twitter.com/P7qvCyL85Z
— OU Daily Sports (@OUDailySports) July 21, 2016
https://twitter.com/GoesslingESPN/status/756113294239363072
This week's Mailbag is primarily about zone blitz schemes.
Kidding: Big 12 expansion, of course.https://t.co/OIScv5eo52
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) July 21, 2016
Real talk.
.@BarkingCarnival breaks down the Big 12 expansion candidates, where solid 7 BYU races ahead of the pack. https://t.co/KWXEfGioRG
— Burnt Orange Nation (@BON_SBNation) July 21, 2016
https://twitter.com/TomFornelli/status/755841373467648001
OTHER
Buddy Hield Receives Hero's Welcome in the Bahamas. Story from The Bahamas Weekly: https://t.co/Xmn9dRlK3y #Sooners pic.twitter.com/HySkADnBJO
— Oklahoma Basketball (@OU_MBBall) July 21, 2016
Olympic Update: @cbrooks_wpr voted #TeamUSA captain! #SoonersInRio🇺🇸
STORY: https://t.co/HXfTSfhhR4 pic.twitter.com/5603KfuFTC— Oklahoma Men's Gym (@OU_MGymnastics) July 21, 2016
Congrats to the program-record 11 #Sooners who earned Scholastic All-America honors! ➡️ https://t.co/mtZ1lho1OO pic.twitter.com/Kfk5lgzrTi
— Oklahoma Women's Gym (@OU_WGymnastics) July 21, 2016
Oklahoma State forward dies after collapsing at a team workout: https://t.co/y00dx5M5KT
— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) July 22, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkOKkS7mKfY
Oh dear.
134 Comments
Early reading material… I like it!
Way to go Jordan! After it early – thanks!
Great SOONER Friday to all –
Perine, Simply and humbly the best.
Sweet Perine. Can’t wait to see the OU backfield dazzle and damage this season.
BOOMER!!! Good morning, fellow Brainiacs!! Thank you for early news!
SOONER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Metz, great Sooner Friday to you sir! Jordan was up very early getting us NEWS.
Morning football Friday Cush
METZ!!
J.r.
JR!
CUSH!!
SOONER! ! ! ! ! (yes, prayers to Coger’s family)
Excited but still a little uneasy about the Ohio St. game. Predictions are all over the place. Here’s hoping Bob can even the score with Urban instead of going 0 for 2.
Top of the morning everyone, I’m all in for heading to the SEC or Big 10 but can we agree not to take Okla State with us! Boomer!!
‘Lectric – Howdy. I’d take a fat pig and an ugly dog just to get out of this Cluster…
Good point!
Got that right
Yes no Okie Light now if we add Houston and Byu i’m good with staying.
Nope, get the F out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SEC Big ten no pac12 I don’t want games at midnight our time.
Big 10?? seriously? look at Nebraskas home slate this year and tell me you would be excited about any of those games.
Yep. Feel sad for those that can’t find reasons why it would be best to stay in the Big 12.
If it’s BYU and Houston, it’ll be the best they could do. I can go with it. But how do you split divisions? I’d rather not have a split. Top two teams play in the Big 12 title game…even if it’s a rematch. This will avoid problems like the SEC has with a dominant West team facing a 3 loss East team.
Can’t have 12 teams and not have divisions. We aren’t going to play an 11 game conference schedule.
Need to add four teams. All conferences will eventually have 16, might as well start laying the groundwork.
The question is, of the available teams, who adds value to the Big XII? You don’t add just to add. Sorry, not a shot at you and don’t mean it to sound that way.
I think just about anybody that has been mentioned adds value on some level. Just like Maryland and Rutgers added value for the Big 10. Or Mizzou added value for the SEC. Or Colorado and Utah added value to the PAC.
Who adds the MOST value? No idea. That question isn’t as simple as who has the best football program today. I think we can all agree that if we can make the uniqueness of BYU work, they probably bring the most to the table. If the coaches and AD’s don’t think Houston will dilute the Texas talent, they probably make a lot of sense. I’ve long wanted Cincinnati, and Memphis along side them makes a lot of sense.
UCONN has a good market, but doesn’t really fit location-wise.
The problem as I see it is the B12 has been so blind and so slow to act that we are left with scraps. The B1G, Pac 12, and SEC all added legit P5 squads to their membership (largely at our expense) while the B12 failed to be proactive in any meaningful way, and as a result there are only lower tier teams left to choose from. It’s like the B12 has become the JV league. BYU and Houston are competitive teams that would at least add to the competition of the league, but I just think in the long term OU would be much better served by joining the SEC. The B12 is dying and has been for years, and I don’t think we can continue to live in denial for ever. If it’s dead, bury it and move on.
No, I understand. Legit question. But I really feel like BYU and Cincy add immediate value, and Memphis (and perhaps Colorado St?) are good long- term prospects. Memphis is a great road trip for the fans, and expands recruiting into sec country. Plus, Fred Smith has ‘expressed’ a possible willingness to open up his wallet if the Tigers get into the Big 12- and look what Phil Knight did for Oregon.
I think that BYU, Houston and Cincy bring the most to the table. The only issues I have (and I know my opinion doesn’t mean squat) is BYU and their unwillingness to play/travel on Sunday. Houston makes sense because of proximity but then we have a quasi-SWC again. Memphis can make the same proximity claim but they bring very little to the table — and probably even less now that Fuente and Lynch are gone. USC/UCF add a fertile recruiting ground but can you imagine the baseball team having to travel that far for a two/three game set? UCONN, well they have women’s basketball. Just my two cents.
No, I understand. Legit question. But I really feel like BYU and Cincy add immediate value, and Memphis (and perhaps Colorado St?) are good long- term prospects. Memphis is a great road trip for the fans, and expands recruiting into sec country. Plus, Fred Smith has ‘expressed’ a possible willingness to open up his wallet if the Tigers get into the Big 12- and look what Phil Knight did for Oregon.
I agree, SoonerfanTU. Why can’t we have a simple, random, round-robin each year, with OU playing Texas and Oklahoma State every year. Some years OU doesn’t play Kansas, some years they don’t play TCU.
I think OU and Texas should only play once a year. The Red River Rivarly (Rumble) is its own championship, and shouldn’t be diluted with a second game. I agree, we don’t want the inbalance of the sec, so maybe send TCU to the North, and send Kansas to South.
Here! Here! The Great Plains rules! Wish no part of the sec or the Big Freeze 10.
SOONER!!!!! Sparky
Metz!
Sooner!!
The pump up video gets me fired up for September BOOMER!!!!!!!!!
Doc! It is Sooner-inspiring all right. Let’s run the stadium steps! Okay, a little strong for an old guy – I’ll run the stadium STEP.
I’m ready let’s go.
SOONER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BOOMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SOONER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes I agree but unless I missed it how can you have a video without Millards run against. Texas SUCKS!!!!!
I have to say I kept waiting for it to the end. Texsa = Blackhole for SUCKAGE!!!
An end to texsa suckage will never be found!
Truth. Morning!
SOONER!!!!!!!!!!
SOONER!!!!!!!!!!
Jordan kicking it early today!Hands of stone looks good,i so wanted him to woop sugar!
Did Fornelli write that article in 2012 and just recycle it?
Texsa with Nebbish would be interesting – in particular if officials cheat AGAINST texsa for the first time since the battle of the Alamo. I think the BI6 should cheat texsa if they take them, just to give them a dose of reality saying “you ain’t the big damn dog any longer – you’ve always dished it. Can you take it?”
43 DTG!! Knight to Saunders, Sooner Magic!! BOOM!!
https://youtu.be/utrRNVv9Cms
That never gets old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never!!! I’m going to watch it at least twice more until we beat them in the post season again this year.
No. No it doesn’t 🙂
No. No it doesn’t 🙂
watching these highlights and all I can think is how Trevor Knight could look this good in this game and just so, so bad in a lot of others.
It’s a great mystery.
no doubt…and now the Aggies get to ponder that question all season long.
Jeffery going to eat bbq!
Yep, hope he likes it.
Hopefully coach Cooks isn’t in charge of the smoker lol. Saw a pic he posted of him grilling out for the DB’s and that meat looked WELL done lol
Yes he is!
When you see Okudah has been added to the BBq list
What’s up with that?
I’m not sure I understand your Question. What’s up with what? Lol.
It is the name of the SNL sketch that the gif is taken from.
Woooooo-WEEEEE what’s up with that, what’s up with that?!
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Oh my bad lol. You had be confused as hell lol.
And now the Governor of Texas >demands< that Houston be added to the BigXII. This alone sums up the intent and vision of the state at large regarding the neo-SWC and the auxilliary schools that comprise the Big 12-2.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2016/07/21/gov-greg-abbott-demands-houston-in-any-big-12-expansion/87422924/
Perine/Mixon behind Brown at LT will be unstoppable. CANT WAIT!
Samia is a hoss too. I’d love to see Evans take charge of that RT spot so we can slide that athletic beast Samia inside. He reminds of me of the Cowboys Zach Martin. Zach played LT at ND then the Cowboys slid him inside and he’s been a total monster. I’m just glad we won’t have charmin ultra soft trying to pave the way for Samaje and Joe.
If this is to happen, does Samia go to LG to be over there with Brown or stay on the right?
If it’s up to me then I’d leave him at RG that way the line is somewhat balanced between the 3 we bring back. We need a nasty dude next to brown then have that right side of the line super athletic with Evans and Samia. Like other people have said on here; Samia, Brown and Alvarez are locks for starting spots. Brown is a lock at LT and Alvarez is a lock at C so I think whoever steps up in the other spots is how we’ll place Samia. If a RT steps up then we slide him inside and if a guard steps up then I assume we leave him at tackle. Having flexibility will be nice. I just want at least two guys on the sideline who will be ready to step up at any given moment.
Agree. Also Samia’s athletic enough to pull him around to the left as well.
Throw in a little Rodney Anderson for good measure. Three-headed monster
Abdul Adams may figure into the riches of depth as well.
https://twitter.com/BrandonTFB/status/756431112906289152
Thanks for nuthin. 🙂
O well tweets still no worky
It was Brandon speaking about todays OP.
So another fake OP post by you. Sam’s going to be mad.
I did not say it was up!Just that it will be.
You say that, but then have hidden the evidence.
Went to his twitter page, came back and I see it now.
Hope that’s not a preview of the OP.
Howdy ladies and gents.
Dave football morning.
Metz! Football!
Howdyyyyyyy (in my best Minnie Pearl voice…..and hat)
No, it’s how-deeeeeeeeeee!!
How-DEEEEEE!!
https://youtu.be/zjX1LpSow_g
Hey Dave!
Good Friday morning fellow Brainiac’s!!! “It is another great day to be a SOONER” Shout out to all the lurkers, #SS17 and #ST18. Get out there and seize the day!!!
TGIF, 47! Just one week away from the big BBQ. Hoping for a B??M big enough to spray that ‘que all the way to the Lou!
Maybe I could get permission from the mod’s to be a reporter for a day and get into that BBQ. I could do interviews of all the talent and maybe get some insider info. Maybe hand out some free “BOOM” shirts.
I’ll nominate you. Now go round up enough votes to carry that motion. All I ask is that you send me a rib and some brisket ?⚪️
Just one rib? With all the BIG guys going to be at this BBQ there may not even be enough for them!!!
I tried to seize the day. It threw up on my shoes.
That is no good sir!!! You under the weather today?
No, the day was just too big for me! Going to play it safe and return to bed!
Okie Dokie!!!
Walter, next time just bag the darn thing.
43 DTG
Rod
Shoate AA 72-74; Billy Pricer 54-56; Weldon Ledbetter 79-82
Rod Shoate
Really sad watching Rod slowly whither away. Knew several people in his family
He’s still the best player ever from my hometown and Spiros had a few
Yep! Was a great player! I remember watching him play a couple of times in HS, I graduated from Pocola in 81.
Class of 97 myself. Lived in Pocola for 5 years or so my Sis still lives there
Rod Shoate was tremendous.
THE BEST LB EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The all-star, all-time group would have some amazingly good backups… But I think the top 3 are: 43, 44, and 28.
Can’t leave out 85, that guy dominated. Shoat changed the LB position in college football. Period. It went from big guys who couldn’t run that fast to a very fast LB who could hold his own. Like I said, Shoat started the modern LB position.
I figure he’s a DE (although hard to say with old “Okie 5 linemen). That starts another group roll call.
Darryl Hunt. One of the best we ever had and he would stop a runner in his steps.
Yep, but 85 seems to be a DE. Hunt was superb!
Hunt & Cumby ILB at their best.
Better remember George Cumby also.
#28, he’s there – JK. He is a first team, all-timer with Shoate and Bozz.
I added Darryl Hunt to the mix too. go watch his hits, unreal.
Pump up video is great.
Need a weekend OP!!!!!
Hearing CeeDee back to OU is gaining momentum.
Sometimes that dream school isn’t what you expected?
I’m more of a Bloodsport guy myself.
OP is up and it is LOADED: https://thefootballbrainiacs.com/ou-oklahoma-sooners-football-recruiting-cameron-rising-ceedee-lamb-jacob-phillips-kobe-boyce-jeffrey-okudah-kerry-cooks-open-post
Jordan, I’ve read a couple articles like the one you posted today on OU & UT leaving ASAP from Big 12. I would LOVE for this to happen but how realistic is this thinking.
very, very, very little chance of it happening, sadly
Bummer but Thx.
Sing it out NOW Metz!
Not sure if this has been posted anywhere yet, and no, before you ask, I was not searching the tejas tfb site, someone on LT posted the link, but it is interesting…
http://texas.thefootballbrainiacs.com/2016/07/big-12-expansion-and-texit/
So, maybe expansion is a smoke screen to bolt the Big 12? Could be, but I would think it is a legitimate attempt to stay relevant.
I speak with SEC fans constantly during business conferences, and in 5 years they’ve all said a) the SEC wants Oklahoma, and b) the SEC doesn’t want Texas.
C) They don’t want OK State, either.
Prayers for ok state. They have endured a lot of tradegy, especially their basketball program.
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