Sooners News Daily 11.5.14
Posted on: November 5, 2014
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We didn’t really need further proof that Chris Fowler (or anyone at ESPN for that matter) was full of it when he went on his little rant a couple weeks back, but now you have it. (Awful Announcing)
In a monarchy, The KING is crowned, not elected!
Nice work by @MissOklahoma & @Barry_Switzer #Election2014 pic.twitter.com/xBnoKYubCb— Pete Moris (@PeteMoris) November 5, 2014
Bob Stoops tells Toby Rowland on his radio show that they will probably wear the new alternate uniforms on Saturday vs Baylor. #Sooners
— SoonerSportsNetwork (@OUontheAir) November 5, 2014
College Football Playoff Rankings. #CFP25
1. Mississippi State
2. Florida State
3. Auburn
4. Oregon pic.twitter.com/TvpOh3YUl9— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) November 5, 2014
Sumlin: first call after the 59-0 Alabama game was from OU coach Bob Stoops. Had good talk.
— Kate Hairopoulos (@khairopoulos) November 4, 2014
Another award for @trevor_knight9! He was named the @CampbellAward Player of the Week. pic.twitter.com/W24Q9URuKt
— Oklahoma Football (@OU_Football) November 4, 2014
Adrian Peterson has reportedly reached a plea deal, will not serve jail time http://t.co/EB860urgAs pic.twitter.com/6PjdBlnJNO
— NFL on CBS 🏈 (@NFLonCBS) November 4, 2014
BREAKING: Attorney for Winston's accuser says #FSU conduct hearing will be week of Nov. 17.
— Matt Baker (@MBakerTBTimes) November 4, 2014
OTHER
Sophomore Jordan Woodard named to Bob Cousy Award Watch List: http://t.co/GFdZcrEz1R #Sooners #takeNOTICE. pic.twitter.com/xblD10Ipl0
— Oklahoma Basketball (@OU_MBBall) November 4, 2014
Updated national title odds for OU men's b-ball = 66/1. Other #Big12: KU 18/1, ISU 25/1, UT 25/1, BU 100/1, KSU 100/1, OSU 200/1
— Jordan Esco (@Jordan_Esco) November 4, 2014
Funny every year.
Welp, this is something.
Wait for it…..
Certainly has a Disney feel to it.
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The “I ate all your candy” clips are hilarious!
Makes me appreciate my kid more and more!
It’s tough being a kid…and having them.
Macfarland looks awesome. Thanx for the vid.
Methinks the clip pretty much showed the whole movie.
Really? I hope not.
I teach at a high school just six miles north of McFarland. I can completely understand the cultural confusion shown in the clip ( I was born and raised in Norman). Hope they don’t play the racism up too much. Latino cross country runners in this area are extremely respected as several have gone on to get college scholarships and been invited to Olympic team tryouts- and that started a few decades before 1987. But it is a rough town as is the one I work in. Latino and Mexican drug gangs prey on our kids.
You’re super close to that school, huh? Everybody speaks Spanish there I guess? Costner’s facelift makes him look like a different guy. He doesn’t look like he’s pushing 60, so that part of it worked. But he’s a different dude.
Not as much as you’d think. Mechanization of farming has taken away a lot of the fileld work these last twenty or so years. It’s getting harder and harder for farmers to find people to pick table grapes. The pay is ok for that kind of work but it’s so seasonal that many try to find something more steady, which is easier to do as immigration enforcement is absolutely zero in CA unless it involves drugs. These kids are very different from the LA area kids. For the most part, the kids from these farm towns are respectful and appreciative of what is done for them. I walk into shops and restaurants in town and grown ups will come up say hello, call me by name and tell me their kid or niece or nephew or grandchild has my class (AP US history).
ESPN is a marketing machine and they have single handedly influenced the BCS and now the Championship Playoff. You will never convince me that they aren’t aware of this. It’s marketing 101: bombard your audience and they will think of your product when they make their choice.
If you don’t believe me, take this test: brand association. I will write down a product, you associate it with the brand you’ve seen on TV, read about or talked about with a friend. But before you post your answer, be sure that you have not read what another reader has posted.
Write the first brand that comes to mind.
Coffee
Computer
Car
Retail Store
TV
Headphones
Cell Phone
Cell Phone Company
Tires
Jewelry Store
College Football Conference
Folgers
Mac
Toyota
Macy’s
Turner
Bongo, Bust, B-logo, anyhow..
Samsung
Att
Hancook
Kay!
S.E.C.
You know, I didn’t expect the SEC answer. LOL!
Thanks for the educational exercise. Good way to start the day.
Am I the only one to say BC Clark for jewelry? C’mon, y’all…
That jingle always stays stuck in my head way to long. Thanks….for bringing…. that up…
I don’t believe for one minute that they (ESPN) are influencing the committee members. If you, and other “common folk” can see thru it, why do you think the folks on the committee can’t? I think the teams are ranked pretty fairly when you look at the entire picture. Don’t like seeing the SEC teams up there? Then maybe the teams that play them in the OOC portion of the schedules need to start beating them. The Big 12 had two chances this year, and we didn’t get it done.
You see that’s my point: they influence what someone decides. It’s a lose-lose. If they pick the SEC, it’s bad and if they don’t pick an SEC team, their decision has been influenced. It’s almost like having your best friend report to you: you will do everything to not show favoritism to your friend. Is that fair.
It ‘s not about another conference having their chance. It’s always been subjective but no conference has ever had anyone marketing for them.
But take the test and see how many of your answers are similar to those of anyone who takes the time to post.
Your falling for it too…. you say the Big12 had 2 chances this year, but it was a WVU team that has 2 losses in the B12 that nearly beat a Bama team who only has 1 SEC loss.
BAMA(#5) = 1st/2nd best team in SEC should beat the 5th best B12 team whose ranked #25th.
Auburn (#3)= 2nd/3rd best team in SEC got shutdown by prob the 3rd best team in the B12 and squeaked out a win due to missed field goals.
If Bama played OU again, and Auburn played TCU then I would imagine the SEC is 0-2 vs the B12 and the precious rankings would be much different. There isn’t enough cross conference scheduling to say one conference is much better than another. You cant just look at it as the SEC beat the B12, you need to look at where those teams rank in their own conference.
In my opinion the B12 and SEC are basically even in strength due to the matchups above being so close.
I think what you say above is exactly what the committee is doing. They are not putting conferences against one another, rather they are picking each team individually to decide where they belong.
The schedules haven’t played out. So talking about Big 12 losses for WVU and SEC losses for Bama doesn’t mean squat. Bama isn’t finishing the SEC with only 1 loss. If THAT is going to be your argument, you can’t make it until the end of the regular season. You are also splitting hairs. That two Big 12 loss WVU team could easily only have one loss. That one SEC loss Bama team could easily have two.
I disagree. Call a spade a spade. when you lose, you lose. there is a line of one and two loss teams. you lose, get in the back of the line and work your way to the front. I do agree that in the end it should work itself out.
Couldn’t disagree more on your line comment. Just b/c you lose later than a team that lost a couple of weeks ago, doesn’t automatically put you behind them. I don’t get that line of thinking at all.
If you are third place at the Daytona 500, and you spin out (take a loss) you don’t get to go back to 4th.
That may be the worst analogy I’ve ever heard in my life.
opinions vary.
Oh, and I don’t completely disagree with your statement that the Big 12 and the SEC are pretty close. I think they are. But don’t the standings reflect that? The SEC is on top where they are b/c they’ve earned it. MSU hasn’t lost. Auburn and KSU have one loss, but Auburn beat KSU.
#4 OU loses to #24 TCU, OU drops to 11th
#3 ole miss loses to #24 LSU, ole miss drops to 7th.
#11 OU loses to top 20 KSU, OU drops to 19th
#7 ole miss loses to #3 auburn, ole miss drops to 11th.
So it took ole miss 2 losses to drop as many spots as we dropped for losing 1 game.
Totally seems fair.
Dude, that completely ignores what happened with other teams that were ranked between where a team started and where they fell to. You got those details?
2 loss ole miss is still ahead of 1 loss baylor, if that tells you anything. Baylor owns a win over a top 6 team, just like ole miss, and both played weak OOC schedules.
when ole miss lost to LSU, they stayed ahead of a michigan state team who hasnt lost since week 2.
ole miss is still ahead of 2 loss LSU, a team it lost to just 2 weeks ago.
I could go on and on with examples, but I really dont need to.
Pretty obvious SEC teams get more of a cushion when they lose, while teams like OU, oregon, etc, ALWAYS lose 7+ spots when they lose.
So If you have one loss and then you lose again you should jump to the front of the line of the two loss teams. How is that fair? I believe you lose go to the back of the line. Then you have to wait your turn like everyone else. This IS how the SEC stays at the top.
That is nonsense. A loss is just that, a loss. After each week, you re-evaluate all teams again. Some teams will have good losses since the previous week. Some will have bad losses. Some will have good wins. Some will have bad losses. There is no magical formula to treat all one loss or two loss teams the same. It depends who they are playing/beating/losing to. And it depends on other teams. If you are ranked 10th and lose to the 25th place team, how far you fall depends on a lot of things, but it certainly depends on what those teams directly below you do to. If they are losing, you may not fall as far. If they all win, and some of those wins are impressive or big, you may fall farther.
Okay, explain to me why Michigan State, who lost early to a ranked team(Oregon), has taken so long to get back to the top ten or why did OU drop almost out of the top 20 with two losses to ranked opponents. By your line of thinking if you take a “bad loss” or a “good loss” (I didn’t know losing was good) then we have to consider who you lost to. Right?? OU lost to a ranked opponent on there field by 4 and a ranked opponent at home by 1, right?? Ole Miss lost to LSU (was not ranked) and Auburn by the same margins and they were ranked almost the exact same the first time they lost. At that time OU fell from #4 to #11 and Ole Miss fell ONE spot, so don’t tell me that my opinion is “nonsense” when I have explained(with facts) why I believe this. I am sure that I could find more facts to base my statements on. I am also realistic that a number 4 team shouldn’t drop to 20, but come on man!!!! Now that I have gone on about this, can you please explain to me why SEC teams should jump the line when they lose? Please don’t say because of certain variables be specific.
I’m glad you are asking me easy questions.
On Michigan State – Because they’ve played a completely crap/junk schedule. When your wins are against Jacksonville St., Eastern Michigan, Wyoming, Purdue, Indiana, Michigan, and a solid but not great Nebraska team, there aren’t many wins on your resume that are going to impress the Committee. That is about as mediocre a group of wins as a team can have at this point.
You bring up OU. Hasn’t OU been the top 2 loss team nearly the entire time we’ve had two losses? Just like we currently are. Why? Because we have a couple of solid wins and our two losses were close games. The Committee looks at that. And I’m glad they are ranking teams how they said they would. By looking at all factors. OU has probably played better ball, not even looking at resumes, then any other two loss team.
I don’t even get what your last sentence is asking for. Quit looking at what conference a team is in, and look at their resume. Look at their SOS. Look at their wins, their losses. Look at how they’ve played. All of that matters. All of that is factored in. And it’s not just big name schools when it comes to SOS. LA Tech helps our SOS tremendously. Heck, even UT probably isn’t hurt us as much as you might think. They have a lot of losses, but none of them are particularly bad. This all factors in. Exactly which Big 12 team do you think has a more impressive resume, all things above considered, then what SEC team?
TCU
Over who, Oregon? Or just Bama?
Ou’s strength of schedule is 10, ole miss is 3rd. Pretty comparable.
ole miss has lost twice in the last 2 weeks, while our losses were a little earlier in the season, so why are they 4 spots ahead of us still?
When an SEC team loses to another SEC team, the losing team drops around 4 spots. For everyone else, its 7 spots when you lose.
No one else gets the benefit of the doubt like they do.
This doesn’t even make sense. If the order of teams are based on timing, and the SEC is so tough, it makes since that they’d have teams losing late, that would fall to the back of the 1 loss or 2 loss line. That seems to be the opposite of what you are saying.
Also, there is no “line”. It works out that way, for the most part, but there are always exceptions. WVU has three losses, yet they are ranked above some 2 loss teams. Why? Because their three losses were to 3 pretty darn good teams in Bama, OU, and TCU. At the same time Duke only has 1 loss, yet is ranked behind several two loss teams and is only one spot ahead of WVU, a three loss team. Why? Because they’ve played a crap schedule, and lost to a team that itself currently has three losses.
The Committee is now ranking teams much more like they rank the teams in March Madness for basketball. SOS, resume, and all that jazz matters a lot more. That is why you could see a two loss team ahead of a one loss team. Sorry, but I think a 2 loss OU or TCU or KSU teams probably deserves a playoff spot more than a one loss ND. Might not be a perfect example at the moment, but I’ll let it stand. Same with FSU. If FSU losses a game, I’m not sure there won’t be some 2 loss teams with better resumes.
I am glad someone else saw that. I was thinking what would happen if MstU lost to Alabama when they play each other? Would they drop to four or would they get in the back of the line with all the other one loss teams?
Jamblu
Dell—Linux OS
Bentley
Fry’s
LG
Koss
Samsung note
ATT
Pirelli
Uhh…hmmm…Zales?
Big 12
Coffee-Folgers
Computer-Dell
Car-Ford
Retail Store-Khols
TV-Vizio
Headphones-Beats
Cell Phone-Samsung Galaxy
Cell Phone Company-Sprint
Tires-Goodyear
Jewelry Store-Kay
College Football Conference-Big 12
jewelry store has to be BC Clark and their anniversary sale
Is it bad that I got SEC on all of them?
I’m not surprised at all, Toats. Not at all.
I just don’t understand how some people are so blinded by the SEC/ESPN loveshow. I look at it from a straight business standpoint. ESPN has $2.25 billion invested in the SEC. If Coke were to invest $2.25 billion in to the Olympic’s they would want to ensure that the Olympics looked like a success and Coke products were placed everywhere. ESPN is just guarding their investment. Think of lobbyist in politics, they give/donate to millions politicians so their viewpoint/field on industry are taken care of.
The following video clip is from College Gameday before the TCU-WVU game.
Apparently WVU fans still don’t like Pitt…at all.
**Fair Warning** Very ****NSFW****
http://youtu.be/A15NEtKKroQ
Never heard of the sh%t pitt, is it a new BBQ place? 🙂
Actually, it is eat s*@t, Pitt.
Sorry Tex, I meant to be funny there.
Danged pixels, they are so two dimensional.
My driver might be shorter than that one but unfortunately my drive looks about the same
Josh : its my ‘putter’ that causes most of my problems these days !!!!
Life is tough !!!!!!! To have a beauty standing next to you and be too old to do anything about it.
A really nice piece on Eric Striker at SI.
Very good indeed. Based on his raising and the type of person he is, wouldn’t be shocked if he finished his education at OU.