Co-Pub of
@SoonerScoop
of On3.
#Sooners
/
#OKPreps
recruiting LeVar Burton. Too much soccer, Top Gun, & love of 'power' football. Always anxious to unfollow.
Calvin Thibodeaux (
@CoachThibbs
) was emotional as he huddled his guys up & prayed one last time before the game. Can tell this one meant a lot to the
#Sooners
assistants.
TCU stuns Baylor
Baylor stuns OU
OU beats the doors off of Texas Tech
Texas Tech currently beating the life out of Iowa State
Iowa State beat Oklahoma State
Oklahoma State beat Baylor
The Big 12 is a spinning ball of a death.
"Sooners are going to be hurting to recruit on offense."
"QB recruiting will be a problem going forward.
"OU can't recruit in Texas anymore."
@_JacksonArnold_
and
@Coach_Leb
blowing up some narratives today.
Had heard this was in the works but
#Sooners
QB Signee Nick Evers has his first NIL deal and...he's giving it all away.
Pretty amazing indication of the kind of kid he is.
Oregon has been DECIMATED by injuries, opt outs, etc. AND they lost their head coach.
They are still giving a ton more effort than the
#Sooners
saw from Florida last year.
Alabama lost dogfights to Auburn and LSU - a pair of top 12 teams. Georgia lost to a 4-8 team and got HOUSED by LSU…
One is 5, the other is 13?
It doesn’t really matter but it also doesn’t make any sense.
Can this comparison stop?
Riley was literally talking with media about his pleasure with the administration about 12 hours before telling that same admin he was taking the USC job.
OU had voiced their complaints, publicly and privately for nearly a decade.
Need an idea of how big potential 5-star OT
@CaydenGreen3
is? Here's him today at the
#Sooners
spring game with former
#OU
star and current Kansas City Chief
@ZEUS__57
at today's spring game.
Shared a story I heard earlier this week on
@SoonerScoopCC
about Cain.
Let me put it simply, dude is sticking it out with his guys and I think is a near must-keep for whoever the next head man is.
I know that this 22’ class, and the current players are capable of big things for the Sooners leading into the SEC. There’s just something special amongst this group and I believe it’s time us recruits get active on Twitter! What do y’all think Sooner Nation??
#PutOutTheFire
I'm part of a pod well known for giving
#Sooners
fans a hard time but man...hats off to the fans today, I never dreamed people would have to be up in the upper decks.
Peyton Bowen, Nic Anderson, Gentry Williams, Jackson Arnold, P.J. Adebawore, Makari Vickers, Kip Lewis, Jaren Kanak...
It's just insane the guys who are flashing for the
#Sooners
and are just absolute pups at the moment.
Give Venables a little time to talk to this team and I'd guess the bloodletting stops VERY quickly. His energy is infectious. I can attest, even in 103 degree summer camp heat...dude makes you feel lazy if you aren't running.
I'm going to stop you right now, I DO NOT want to hear about
#Sooners
defense giving up yardage. You can't leave ANY defense on the field this long, you just can't.
Watching this
#TCU
game it's clear that every team in the Big 12 has two versions of themselves.
1. Who they are nine games a year.
2. Who they are against Oklahoma.
Baby girl’s had a lot of football in her 8 years. She’s “over it” & was off to the side with my phone. He broke from the commotion for our little girl to feel included. It’s a simple gesture but impactful. People and relationships! ♥️
@OU_Football
Like I said earlier, the conversations are somewhat different than what we're all used to hearing and clearly parents and families are connecting with the message.
This our 3rd Visit and it was a completely different vibe!! I would be happy knowing my son was in the hands of a man so great!! OU y’all have something special!!
#BoomerSooner
🤞🏾
Lincoln Riley is one of the best offensive minds in the sport but it sure feels like he has let 'Caleb run around and do stuff until something emerges' become about half of the playbook.
What is Fowler talking about 'the Volunteers haven't often needed to go to third down'? Are we under some illusion that Tennessee has been marching up and down the field?
They are averaging 2.7 yards per carry and don't have 200 yards passing.
Finally, so much was made of recruiting being better at USC than the
#Sooners
could accomplish.
I said it was crazy at the time but USC, coming off a HUGE 2022 and OU coming off the worst in nearly 30 years?
OU has 13 4/5 star commits. USC has 16 total commits...
People mocked the hire of Shane Beamer and with smoke, mirrors, and some duct tape, he's got them bowl eligible and with a top 20 recruiting class in the country. Congrats to him and them.
From everyone I've talked to so far. I'd say it's pretty much pure unbridled anger and total shock. Somewhere between those two compass points.
#Sooners
"I love it. Jalen is a great player and I’m excited to get to play with him. It’ll be great competition for sure.” -
@SpencerRattler
is all aboard
#Sooners
landing
@JalenHurts
.
HOW MANY TIMES CAN THIS BE COVERED?
OU DOES NOT OWE OSU ANYTHING.
Be mad, that's justified. But acting as if OU owed OSU something because they happen to be in the same state and played each other since before commercial airlines existed is petulance.
.
@OU_Athletics
has done irreparable harm to their brother institution. They have played in the same league since 1920, played football since 1910 and chosen money over all of it all while acting like this hadn’t been planned since the new SEC deal was done
I'm not saying this is all on Arnold, OU's OL is getting 'whooped', Booger is right about that.
But Arnold has had three AWFUL turnovers, two of them immediately after OU got momentum.
Everyone will want to talk about the defense, I get it but that offense has GOT to figure out their identity and stop with these HUGE 20+ minute droughts.
#Sooners
I get that
#Sooners
fans will be mad about some of what transpired and it's understandable. But that said, OU had to just make a handful of plays in the last 20 minutes of football and just didn't.
Last three weeks for
#Sooners
defense?
BU:
AVG. Total O: 439.5
Against OU: 307
TCU:
AVG. Total O: 407.7
Against OU: 204
OSU:
AVG. Total O: 475.6
Against OU: 335
Averaging 158.9 total yards per game LESS than season average.
FIVE-STAR 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 COUNTDOWN
At No. 13 is Oklahoma QB commit and new five-star Jackson Arnold
@_JacksonArnold_
“The ball pops off his hand, he’s a phenomenal decision-maker and a big-time gamer”
@adamgorney
Full list of updating five-stars here:
I don't know what to make of it but there isn't a guy I speak to right now who talks about meeting the
#Sooners
staff who doesn't say the word 'genuine'. It's so consistent I keep thinking there is some form of hypnosis happening.
College Football is great because of Fans, Tradition and Competition…… All of that is The University of Oklahoma! ⭕️ I’m staying 100% Committed to
@OU_Football
!
#Boomer
#CHO23N
@OU_CoachB
I keep thinking 'it's just year two for USC' and it's true...but let's be real it's basically year seven. This is the same style, same problems, etc.
It's all so familiar.
Narrative will be that
#Sooners
defense was 'bad' in this game. But let's be real you all have seen 'bad', that wasn't it.
Oklahoma has given up 305 yards so far and 118 came on two plays.
You can't remove plays but ISU doesn't have 200 yards without TWO plays.
Got this thought from a coaching buddy...
#Sooners
would be more effective in the second half if they'd have simply taken a knee on every snap and ran each play clock to :01.
Jacobe Johnson is a guy who has ball skills that few DBs in the country can match. Would have been a high-end recruit as a WR. Big-time first INT for the
@1BroncoFootball
,
#OKPreps
product.