Sooners News Daily 5.22.15
Posted on: May 22, 2015
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Samaje Perine in at No. 8
CFB's 15 BEST Offensive Players (via @NFL_CFB): 1. T. Boykin 2. L. Tunsil 3. N. Chubb 4-15. http://t.co/5d0glM7eek pic.twitter.com/3ZQsCcFrwC
— NFL (@nfl) May 22, 2015
ICYMI yesterday.
The #Sooners have agreed to a Three-Game Series with Tulane starting in 2017! More: http://t.co/kMOjJkSXKL pic.twitter.com/bb6ilZHHeb
— Oklahoma Football (@OU_Football) May 21, 2015
Check out this updated list of future non-conference schedules. Including Ohio State coming to Norman in 2016: http://t.co/2SM7PCoja4
— Oklahoma Football (@OU_Football) May 21, 2015
Keith Ford is headed to Texas A&M. Interesting decision considering the offense they run and their recent track record of RBs. (247)
Sooners check in at No. 6 on this ranking of the Big 12’s DB units. (ESPN)
Sam Bradford's first time wearing #Eagles green. #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/L7I2UaQmwJ
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) May 21, 2015
#Eagles QBs, RBs and specialists came through today. Looking good, @DeMarcoMurray: http://t.co/TsYSlAWEQc pic.twitter.com/b7OJ8Om8JA
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) May 21, 2015
Former Texas A&M & Carroll QB Kenny Hill will be in class at TCU June 1 & was on campus to watch TCU spring practices, he told me tonight
— Travis L. Brown (@Travis_L_Brown) May 22, 2015
OTHER
OU's Shelby Pendley was helped off field after collision in practice. Didn't appear to put weight on right leg at time but was walking later
— Graham Hays (@grahamhays) May 21, 2015
Patty Gasso on Pendley's foot: "Nothing much but a little bit of a tweak. I don't think it will be any problem. I don't know enough."
— Graham Hays (@grahamhays) May 21, 2015
Tasin Pitches Sooners to Friday. Recap: http://t.co/dwqY5jqssp Highlights: http://t.co/FeDeovmdW8 pic.twitter.com/5whnS7sfin
— Oklahoma Baseball (@OU_Baseball) May 21, 2015
Tough cut, indeed. Pendley's resume is as good as anyone. https://t.co/Oksyr5oIPq
— Jordan Esco (@Jordan_Esco) May 21, 2015
OU’s Paige Parker with an appearance here.
Check out ESPN's @Sport_Science feature on the movement of softball pitches: http://t.co/d13bmp2x02 pic.twitter.com/leo5kwh72p
— NCAA Softball (@NCAAsoftball) May 21, 2015
Well, crap.
#Sooners’ Run at Individual Championships Ends RECAP: http://t.co/lGWNHrtLrB pic.twitter.com/t9RRLvuWOi
— Oklahoma Tennis (@OU_MTennis) May 21, 2015
Smooth (and, I’m sure, fake).
If you weren’t ready to cry on a random Friday, consider yourself warned.
48 Comments
First!!!!
Like a boss! Gonna miss ford even tho I heard he was bad mouthing ou.
Details? I know its easy for rumors to propagate, so I’m curious as to the source. If Aggie Yell is a cesspit
I read on a 247 page last night that he was talking about the coaches and the school in a negative way. How much of it you can believe im not sure.
Sorry to hear that if true. Sounds like sour grapes. I thought he was a class act.
Here’s a quote: “I want to play for a coach that wants to see me succeed academically and treat me more like a man,” he said. “My last coach treated me like I was in high school. I want someone who will be straight up and really, really talk with me.”
Okay, Keith that is an honest perspective. But only one perspective. I just would like to ask if you were first on the depth chart would you have left? You started to fumble, something OU RB’s don’t do…and got hurt, came back and fumbled. We have 2-3 backs that are better than you. I forgot another fumbler is in Aggie land as well. B Williams…so two peas in a pod.
Exactly!! He would probably have spent time on the bench. Roy Finch with all of his talent never fulfilled it IMHO because of poor decisions and attitude that kept him off of the field. That said, Finch toughed it out and stayed w/o the whining to the Press.
Ford said “it was nice to hear how much they put back into there academics because that is something I never experienced at ou”
My experience was you only get as much as you put in. Everything requires hard work and dedication.
OU has tutors and mandatory study halls and guys get in trouble for missing study halls. Not sure how he wasn’t supported. This seems more a conflict with Boulware than anything. Oh well, good luck to the young man….hope he does well.
Sour grapes. It’s well known that OU retains a small army of tutors to keep their players academically eligible.
Some kids simply aren’t cut-out for college.
Keith was taking digs at Boulware here:
http://tamu.247sports.com/Bolt/Keith-Ford-looking-to-start-a-new-chapter-will-it-be-at-AM-37352520
Thanks. I have lost respect for the young man. It’s unfortunate how easy it is to blame others for your issues. If I do poorly in class, I say that the school doesn’t take academics seriously. I could be wrong, but I’ve heard stoops is one of the more harder coaches in this aspect, not that he needs to tell a grown man to go to class
Many high schools today simply do not prepare young people for college (much less life in general) and kids like Ford wind-up at schools like OU simply because they’re really good at sports.
Otherwise…………………….
It’s been reported that Ford didn’t go to class and was also skipping meetings and/or workouts. So he got suspended. He has no one to blame but himself. Time to man up, Keith.
I wish him well at A&M, but he needs to keep his mouth shut and take care of his business.
I wish your English prof would have been more harder on you.
“more harder” ???
Hopefully Pendley can go, she will be needed.
I believe that is the expectation.
Samaje Perine>Nick Chubb
SEC > Big12 per ESPN
I’m with you there. I don’t buy either Elliott or Chubb as better than Perine. But if one is, it would be Elliott, not Chubb.
We have to win the first game tonight in Alabama if we don’t with a true freshman in paige parker we won’t win the super regional.
Nice complement paid to Bob Stoops by Kevin Sumlin here:
http://tamu.247sports.com/Bolt/Sumlin-has-high-expectations-for-AM-37383579
Nice.
Did you read the article from that page about Keith Ford? Dude said that A&M cares more about education than OU…and if that wasn’t enough, he said that he wanted to sign with A&M out of high school. What the hell? I appreciated his candid interview about why he was leaving, but why the hard feelings?
I was surprised by his interviews as well. The Boulware comments not so much, since he had already gone on record about that, but the comments about OU not supporting him in academics was terrible. That would also include his beloved coach Gundy, wouldn’t it?!
Hard to tell, but I had the sense that it was all directed at Boulware…
I agree that Boulware is the main target, but he only recently became Ford’s position coach. Since Keith has two years in the program, to say that he NEVER experienced people caring about him academically at OU, would implicate everyone on the staff.
This quote made me laugh:
“Brandon told me that it was very laid back up there and he said if you do what you need to do that everything will be fine,”
Keith, dude……….if you did what you needed to do at OU, everything would have been fine.
Hey, Jordan, if that vid about the girl flopping is a fake, how about removing it because it certainly isn’t funny.
hahaha….as Joker would say, “Why So SeRiOuS?!?!”
That was a good one.
Nobody bats 1.000, even this guy 😉
I chuckled…
Damn you Jordan. It’s Friday and you go and bring us this sad crap. It’s supposed to be a happy “it’s a three day weekend” kind of Friday.
I like the 15 for 15 picks. Samaje is on it and no one from Texas is. Oo-aa!
So Chubb is ranked ahead of perine? Wow
Chubb is in the Sow Eating Conference. Didn’t you know?
Why, ev’ry thang is betta down dere. Ya’ll come back, now. Ya, heah?
It doesn’t matter where he’s ranked, it matters how he performs. I have no concerns about Perine’s performance this fall.
Similarly, it doesn’t matter where OU is ranked in May, it matters whether they win their games in the fall.
This is true. I’m just saying perine as a true freshman last year (if draft eligible) would have been the first running back taken in the draft last month.
I agree.
Really cool to see Bradford and Murray back in side by side.
OP is up: https://thefootballbrainiacs.com/ou-oklahoma-sooners-football-recruiting-robert-barnes-cam-roane-chris-brown-brey-walker-keith-ford-texas-am-asante-samuel-benjamin-sapp-ed-oliver-treyveon-williams
I lost a lot of respect for Ford yesterday. There is a good discussion further down the thread, but I can’t respect someone that won’t hold himself accountable for his own actions.
Anyone have any idea why Alvarez and Webb withdrew from the doubles competition?
That Batkid video is flat out amazing. Things like that make me still believe in humanity and the good in people. If you haven’t watched it I highly recommend you do and if you are having a bad day it will turn it around. What a beautiful thing that was!
Amazing is right! Great story! Just what I needed today. Thanx Jordan. I much prefer that kind of story to the vid of the fake belly flop performed at the beach. Nothing fake about that story or the kid.
You weren’t lying about the Batkid video….. Sheesh, sweaty eyes!