Sooners News Daily 4.21.14
Posted on: April 21, 2014
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Congratuations to the OU Women’s Gymnastics team who are your 2014 Co-National Champions. (Sooner Sports)
FOOTBALL
Maybe the book on Baker Mayfield’s eligibility for this coming season isn’t necessarily closed after all. (NewsOK)
Despite playing the entire day against the second team D, Texas’ offense looked highly suspect in their spring game on Saturday. (AP)
* And I’m thoroughly confused as to how you’re making your team ‘Texas Strong” by going 1’s vs. 2’s to spare your team’s wittle fweelings.
More on Tyrone Swoopes’ struggles. (ESPN)
A rational and objective take on Texas’ offensive struggles. If you care about following what goes on in Austin, nobody covering that team does a better job than Scipio Tex, in my opinion. (Barking Carnival)
Apparently Texas LB Steve Edmond hasn’t watched much of Texas football over the last several years, or Saturday for that matter. And while this story regarding his comments gets a little carried away, the gist of it addressing the stupidity of what Edmond said still rings true. (Fox Sports)
Sure seems like ‘Max Wittek to Texas’ is inevitable. (ESPN)
RECRUITING
Not to be Debbie Downer, but I feel like this has to be asked. Why doesn’t stuff like this seem to ever happen when OU holds big recruiting events? (AL.com)
2015 DB & OU offer Keivon Ramsey committed to Texas over the weekend. (Twitter)
The basketball team had an important recruit in over the weekend. (Twitter)
OTHER
Saw a mixed bag of opinions on this Blake Griffin “incident” from the weekend. Some called it bush league. Personally, I thought it was hilarious. (Yahoo)
Women’s gym also had the individual national champ on beam. (Sooner Sports)
OU Softball took down Texas over the weekend and further tightened their grip on first place in the Big 12. (Sooner Sports)
Unfortunately, OU Baseball suffered a really bad series loss to WVU. (Transcript)
Sooners doing what we do, beat OSU. (Sooner Sports)
Men’s tennis also beat OSU (man, it must suck to be a Poke fan) and in doing so won a share of the Big 12 title. (Sooner Sports)
Random, but kinda cool.
21 Comments
Overall, not a bad weekend to be a Sooner. Women’s Gym. finally grabbed that ever-elusive national champioinship (w/ the highest score ever at the event), Men’s Tennis won at least a share of a 3rd-straight B12 title, and Women’s Softball took the Texas series.
Now if we could just grab something nice in recruiting….
OU women getting it done. Congrats to the gymnastics team and ‘thanks’ to the softball squad.
“Not to be a Debbie Downer”, you make me laugh Escoe! You should have said “AS a Debbie Downer”.
Hope Mayfield has some success with the NCAA but I just don’t see it, unless they feel obligated based on the new rule going into effect.
I can not wait to see our defense terrify the tejas offense this year.
Can I hate bama any more than I already do?, They must have them one hell of a bag man down there.
Congrats to all the Sooners who won big over the weekend!, Come on baseball, step it up a little.
I know, I know. Though I do feel like I’ve been somewhat unfairly painted w/ a brush that seemingly can never be undone 😉
FWIW, I couldn’t agree more with your point about OU recruiting. For a program riding high with a lot of perceived momentum from the Sugar Bowl, its a bit of a head-scratcher that we’ve had two junior days and a Spring Game that haven’t produced a single commitment. In fact, the only action we’ve seen in recruiting in the past couple of months is a decommitment from our highest rated recruit. Something still seems amiss.
Not to mention guys that were high on ou committed to other big 12 schools. Weathersby jones and Humphrey.
It appears the Sugar Bowl momentum OU had going in recruiting has slowed to a crawl. The team is going to have to go out and get it done, grabbing another B12 title and at least get into the final four, to re-ignite the fire and turn the recruits heads. And they got off to such a fantastic start. Meanwhile, guys at the top of the OU board are starting to look elsewhere.
We can count on the staff to close strong but it would be nice to have 8-12 recruits by now like most of the other top tier programs. By signing day we should have another top 10-20 class and pull in another full class of 25 or so with the amount of seniors on this team.
I agree. But a lot of people who have followed recruiting ( this is the 1st time I have followed) say it makes no difference that we are losing offers to Big 12 opponents and even de-commits – I disagree – but OU sure needs some positive news on the football side.
I haven’t followed much until the last year but I’ve looked at previous classes and even some say the recruiting fell off from 2009-2013 and was the reason for the coaching changes I would disagree. The classes were ranked fairly high it was just poor development.
For me if the kids committing early are into flashy uniforms and very little history of winning then I’m ok with missing out.
I agree with you. But why do we have to win the Sugar Bowl (beat Alabama) to entice recruits? Don’t get me wrong, It was an awesome win! But, haven’t we already established a foundation of being one of the very top college football programs in the country? It just seems to me OU shouldn’t have to dog fight for some of these recruits and still miss out. For example, being pressured to offer a younger brother who has not earned his way. In my opinion, that is like saying the player is bigger than the program. Maybe someone can expound on why OU’s recruiting success doesn’t necessarily mirror OU’s winning success. Meaning we usually finish better in the polls (AP, Coaches, BCS) than we do at recruiting.
I watched ESPiN yesterday and from the highlights of the tx scrimmage i thought Swoopes played lights out. They showed 3 td’s from him and never mentioned the interception nor the fact he was seeing the second team defense. I did notice that his first TD throw was a hail mary not a good pass but man, less than 100 yards in a half against the 2s? Mike and Bob will have that defense so fired up i’d be scared to play OU. Plus, the first string OL let 4 sacks happen from the 2 team DL…we need to decimate this team next year.
I am a bit baffled at recruiting. I got faith in da coaches, but I’d like to see some… “I’ll take my skills to the University of Oklahoma”
On the Blake griffin thing there’s no way to tell if he intentionally did that. Either way it is kinda funny but if stern was still running things it would probably result in a $15,000 fine.
Yeah, I personally thought it was hilarious regardless of whether it was accidental or intentional, but I’m more inclined to believe it was the latter.
Griffin is just a funny dude. Has he hosted Saturday Night Live yet. Lebron would light that show up,too.
How many OU lady gymnasts does it take to make a pretty picture.
The current low numbers on the “committed” class for OU are rather low, but I think a lot of these kids are simply waiting for official visits in the Fall. I’d rather get some solid recruits after they have played some of their senior year rather than get guys simply based on projections. Concerning Texass, I expect them to have a really impressive signing class in 2015 because the new staff can dish out the line about recruiting guys who fit their system and the current upperclassmen are there just for depth, thus younger guys will get playing time so they can develop with the new systems.
The Texass spring game— probably about as unimpressive as OU’s offense. Then again many of the posters on this site said you can’t really take much from the spring game (this after my post of how unimpressive Knight was compared to Mayfield).
By the way, it’s two days since the Texass spring game and they still suck!
I don’t get what’s going on with the recruiting either. Not one commit out of the spring game? Sure looks like Baylor is going to have a top ten class and it seems like we’ve lost a lot of ground to Baylor and ATM in recruiting the state of texas.
It’s frustrating. Blue chippers should be racing to OU just like they do Alabama. That statement is not meant to reflect arrogance, but rather the rich tradition and recent success OU has displayed. Plus all the facilities to go along with it. I’m sure Nebraska could argue this as well, although it’s been a while since they’ve dominated. It irritates me when the pundits rates us outside the top ten. We should comfortably be in the top handful every year in recruiting. I take it personal sometimes even when I know better. I guess it’s called allegiance. I hope kids like Parker would commit early and carry the OU flag until NSD.—On a positive note, OU defense looking salty boyz! If the chemistry blends and balances correctly it’s gonna be electrifying. Maybe the best we’ve ever had. I hope Wilson proves he has the hips to play corner. He can sure run but I need to be convinced he can turn his hips to follow a quick receiver.
One of the first things I thought of when I heard about all the commits for Bama on Saturday was the movie Idiocracy.
http://youtu.be/sZHCVyllnck