Sooners News Daily 8.28.15
Posted on: August 28, 2015
FOOTBALL
‘OU’s Orlando Brown recovering from the loss of his father’ (NewsOK)
‘Jordan Thomas prepared for high expectations at cornerback’ (TW)
Four Downs: Nearing game week with Matt Dimon, Nick Hodgson and Orlando Brown: http://t.co/WLSNx2GDJM pic.twitter.com/001hGDEJhK
— Oklahoma Football (@OU_Football) August 27, 2015
OU football: Little did Tinker Owens know the little boy he signed an autograph for would someday be OU's star… http://t.co/rGIWz5c9uM
— Ryan Aber (@ryaber) August 28, 2015
Kirk Herbstreit's playoff picks: Ohio State, LSU, Arizona State… And Oklahoma http://t.co/5rWnOnQmrO
— Jake Trotter (@Jake_Trotter) August 27, 2015
CBS Sports writers make Big 12 picks for 2015 http://t.co/VYR6JDRDlA
— Jon Solomon (@JonSolomonCBS) August 27, 2015
Who is Baker Mayfield? Meet the @OU_Football QB Ready To Dance Past Big 12 Defenses http://t.co/ImHNI7ttq2 pic.twitter.com/UlVnY1kpWb
— Campus Rush (@SI_CampusRush) August 27, 2015
AUDIO: @OU_Football QB Baker Mayfield talks w/ @BradenGall and Coach Houston Nutt about being named the starting QB https://t.co/LAfnm3IzRl
— SXM College Sports (@SiriusXMCollege) August 27, 2015
Notre Dame RB Greg Bryant leaves program, opens recruitment http://t.co/2Pd6InxjKP pic.twitter.com/ubyr2NRERW
— SN College Football (@sn_ncaaf) August 27, 2015
OTHER
New sod was laid down in the OF at OU Softball Complex Wednesday. Check out the timelapse of the #Sooners new field! pic.twitter.com/fIUZO4lIFZ
— Oklahoma Softball (@OU_Softball) August 27, 2015
116 Comments
First!
Don’t care!
Sprinkles are for Winners!
Yup!
LOL!
Nice article on Orlando Brown. I hope he keeps improving and becomes a monster at LT.
Sounds like the light came on for Thomas…hope it translates on the field.
I didn’t see anything about this last year, does anybody know anything else about it? I’ve never heard of BS doing this before to a HS coach.
http://texas.247sports.com/Bolt/High-school-coach-claims-Stoops-rejected-Texas-DT-as-a-recruit-38975010
Sure doesn’t sound like Stoops.
Very interesting article to say the least……….
I don’t get it. Help me understand.
No can do; I don’t get it either. First off—–is there any truth to this whatsoever?
Gotta consider the source for starters.
Of course the source caught my eye. One of the reasons I asked about it here. Figured Jordan or K would know something.
We’ll have to get SD’s ………… opinion on this matter to know if it’s fact or fiction.
Yeah, he’d know BS if he tasted it. Good call.
an AA-S writer trying to pick on Bob Stoops…color me surprised
Just like OU fans here and everywhere over exaggerate things about Mack Brown, etc., these coaches probably did the same thing. He might have touched him somehow, but not like they want to joke about it. Stoops likes to leave athletes on good terms, b/c sometimes these athletes turn around and want to go to OU (DGBIII, Lampkin, etc.).
I take it that the article is referring to Cody Ford? Not sure why Stoops would be so upset as to push a guy out of the way…I would call b.s. (not Bob Stoops…although, if you have his number, I’d love to give him a ring).
The story is referring to Poona Ford, a DT for Texas.
This is a bullshit story. Not unexpected from a shorthorn website, especially one from 247. Bob Stoops. for one, isn’t a jerk. And two, he’s too smart to alienate any HS coach.
Just trying to deflect attention from the fact that their coach is total tool.
You got it brother.
I can’t believe the Tulsa World thought this valid enough to re-print.
I can believe it. Tulsa World is the home of Hoover.
It’s not a coincidence that this garbage comes out right after Lampkin joins OU and Texas is left with 0 2015 DT commits
That’s a short confusing story that leaves more questions then it answers. I’m sure Stoop’s memory of what happened is radically different. I don’t see why he was trying to give his information to Stoops if he WASN’T considering OU so why would he mention other schools and not Oklahoma when asked?
Exactly! And this is a story on a Longhorns website, go figure.
THat would be very out of character behavior for Stoops. I would call BS on that one as well.
Right. It’s fact that Strong has alienated several Texas HS coaches. Thus, IMO, this is just a deflectory piece of fiction.
Saw that this morning. I agree ?with John Garner.
Thanx! I think I’ll run for office now. LOL.
John, go back to Univision. Lol!
I’ll need a comb-over!
I know for an absolute fact that I don’t know if this story is true.
I also know for an absolute fact that I don’t care if it’s true.
Saw that yesterday as well. Sounds like a major crock of you know what, IMO.
That’s what I thought. If this had happened this way, why are we just now hearing about it? Wouldn’t it be used as a negative in recruiting against OU.
Exactly. Something like this is so fabricated because it is an obviously contradictory behavior pattern to the year-after-year consistent behavior of a class act, Coach Bob Stoops.
Let’s see a Texas site relaying a story about a Texas player from Texas and they said something bad about Oklahoma. No bias there. I think after sixteen years here we would have heard more of this kind of stuff about Stoops if that were his way of operating. Given the source I think I will pass until I hear something from another source.
What’s weird is I found it linked on the Tulsa World site.
I don’t find that weird
Apparently he wasn’t even considering OU, so why was did this coach even go up to Stoops? And if he did push this guy in front of other college coaches, we would have heard something about it, as it could have negatively affected OU recruiting. Longhorn site, nuff said.
yeah exactly. “push” could be a relative word in this story. I do believe Stoops is arrogant sometimes, but unless he was walking somewhere and this guy came up to him and kind of blocked him in so that he could share info about a player that wasn’t even considering OU, then I doubt it was anything more than a pat on the chest as Stoops walked away. But, it is good to know that the only reason we beat Texas was because we were recruiting players who Texas overlooked. To think that I thought it was because we were just better. Shows what I know.
If Texas was overlooking players like AD, Tommie Harris, Brandon Everage, Derrick Strait, etc then Mack stayed around 10 years to long.
I think Texas actually did overlook Derrick Strait. He was from Austin and I don’t think they even offered. But yeah, I get your point. This was just their way of saying that “OU didn’t beat us. We beat ourselves,” to make them feel better about a couple bad beatdowns.
You are 100% correct. They didn’t even offer Strait.
stoopsed that funny
Hey coach Stoops I k ow your at a conference and you evaluate talent year around but I have a kid you should really look at. He was committed to Louisville where coach Strong coach strong leaves goes to Texas and he is now considering Oregon, and Texas where Charlie Strong took a job. So can I have 10 minutes of your time. The coach dosen’t even say this is a kid who is I tereted if you would contact him. This coach who wanted his 5min of fame and to tell all his buddies hey Stoops was asking about one of “my guys” and got pissed because it didn’t workout in my opinion.
Nice piece about the uncanny connection between Tinker and Baker. Thanx!
Got a kick out of the CBS panel of “experts.” Especially Dennis Dodd. Anyone who cites last season as the sole criteria for this season’s prognostication is no expert.
If they haven’t balled, they’re no expert.
Dodd has proven time and time again that he is no OU fan.
Wouldn’t care if he dogged OU based on a real analysis. But just citing last year’s record and a misrepresentative defensive stat is lazy and unprofessional. Hack.
Is that why all the experts love Auburn who I believe won 7 games last year and now is a top 10 team? Totally agree with you. You have to look at last year but you have to at it closely.
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Curious if TFB has anything new on Lampkin. That coach of “the team that shall not be named” is going to let him loose from the LOI or not? And why all the drama from him?
Apparently OU is proceeding as if Lampkin has cleared his LOI issues. Or so it seems from the practice reports I’ve read.
Yeah, I read that on DOK, as well as that bone head down south has not yet made a final decision. That’s just cold…no class.
Ya but according to all the texas boards and my whole family who are horn fans they are all screaming tampering. They all believe that OU did something and Lampkin failed on purpose to get out of LOI and come to OU. If they really believe that then I understand them fighting it but seems like they have drug their feet rather than fight it.
So just say no and get it over with. This dragging it out is just wrong.
James Hale was at our OU Club of Tulsa meeting last and explained the deal. Texsa high schools have an “exit test that consists of 4 parts, language being one part, in order to attend a texsa university. The language section is a 2 parter. He took the test twice, passing the fist 3 parts both times and failed the 2nd part of the language section on his second try. Doesn’t sound like he tried to tank it.
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The thing w/ that is there’s no restrictions on him practicing, regardless of his eligibility issue. So I don’t know that I’d read too much into him practicing just yet.
I expect this to get tied up with the NCAA. Not terrible for this to be a redshirt/lost year the way all this went down anyway I guess. My horn fans are angry. But they are always angry.
Although sketchy, it appears Lampkin’s performance has been so good Stoops now believes he is an immediately contributor so he practices on the premise such an ability to play will exist at some point either a week from Saturday or very soon thereafter.. The one piece of film at practice was, well…impressive.
It was revealed late in yesterday’s thread that his video was a fraud and that he punked Danley. Apparently the OL responded to him quite vigorously the following day.
“Vigorous” is probably too kind a description..
We need this rivalry to become heated again. It’s been too cordial lately, in my opinon.
Yep. Back to Royal versus The King. “Barry sent spies to our practice.”
Oh! Bummer.
Strong doesn’t have a choice.
“RELEASE THE KRAKEN”!…. *LAMPKIN
Texas is definitely still fighting it. That’s really all we’re at liberty to say at the moment.
My thoughts…..
Jordon, I am trying to think of one time that Stoops refused to let a player transfer and play, if the NCAA said ok. In truth, Texas probably has that right. But its just not the classy thing to do, and certainly dragging it out is just plain wrong.
Thats not what a longhorn friend of mine, who is friends with the admins on one of their boards is saying.
He said they are giving up the fight, theres nothing to be gained from it.
They are considering tampering charges, but probably wont follow through, as the case would be tough to win.
Maybe that’s how things eventually play out, but I know where our info is coming from and as of yesterday this was not the case.
I dont want to put my friend on blast by publicly posting the admins response, but ill email it to you guys, and you can tell me what you think, if you care to.
Sent it via the contact section of the site.
I read somewhere last week ( I cannot find the link again!) where C. Strong said they would protest it to the NCAA as if the kid had done all of this intentionally. Strong was very adamant in the article that they are not giving in easily, and will appeal until the kid has to sit the year, or something to that effect..
Texas IMO is NOT even close to warrant being called the “team that shall not be named”. Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself. We do not fear Texas, and no matter how much they hope to, Texas shall never engender fear in the hearts of the Sooner Nation.
You mistake disdain and disgust for fear. Rethink it.
Glad Greg Bryant decommitted from us.
The number for the day is 8. And as always “It’s another great day to be a SOONER” #chase4eight
thinking of #8…that dead leg move Jalen Saunders put on the Alabama DB, whoa that was nice
Tried to find the video. No luck. 🙁
posted a link above
This one? https://youtu.be/vCGZN-fnNQc
Today is my son’s 8th birthday! This synchronicity has to mean something…I think it means we win a NC this season…
thanks for the signs. that PROVES it sooner fans. w/o a doubt
Happy Birthday to your son. And the other day went to eat and my guest # was 47. Coincidence? I think not!!!
Thanks! It’s definitely all coming together…all these 8’s and 47’s and what not. We cannot be denied!
#chase4eightonourwayto48!!!
Im 56 think we put that number up our first game
Sounds like a good number to start things off. :-0
Happy bday Toats Jr.!
Thank you, sir!
I’ve been lifting for 8 weeks today…I only do 8 reps in each set. I’ve gained 8 pounds of muscle. I now weigh 188.8..coincidence? I think not!!!! it’s time for #8
Now that’s a lot of 8’s.
https://youtu.be/zk1U3tD9v7U?t=48
Do you do 88 lbs 8 reps for 8 sets?
That should be done on the 8th day of the week.
Sicario looks fantastic. Really good. Imagine the backfield we may have if Greg Bryant hadn’t decommitted from us. Oh well best of luck to him.
I’d say we avoided a nightmare when Bryant decommitted.
What’s up with Bryant?
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/13525926/former-notre-dame-fighting-irish-rb-greg-bryant-opens-recruitment
my opinion he was a prima donna who committed to OU, and felt like we weren’t “sexy” enough of a school.
because there was no real reason given for the decommit
He didnt want to compete with the other 5 star RB from the same class.
Would you take him now?
No. Why would I?
I wish someone could put in my backyard lawn that fast.
Benicio Del Toro is the man. The Hunted is one of my all time favorite movies of his.
Awesome knife fighting scenes!!!
http://www.hudl.com/athlete/3329542/highlights/282681794/v2 Local kid at Western Heights. #41
Serious question, no trolling. Has ther ever been a kid from. Western Heights? Ever?
That is a good a legitimate question. I honestly don’t know. I know him personally, he is a haus at 6ft/ 218lbs and 16 years old.