Football question

[hoopsaustin]

I really didn't like the decision at the end of the first half. Yeah, 9 points on fg's is bad. but our guy has been really good and someday he will miss but until that day, dance with him.

no second half points and turnovers in Dallas gets you beat every time.

losing to Texas always sucks.

The before half interception debacle was malpractice and BV should be lit up about it from journalists and his superiors

 

[SoonerBounce13]

Never said he will. But I’d rather win 10 or 11 games a year and lose in the playoff like Lincoln did than be a team that is under .500 in conference games under bonehead Brent.

Lincoln would have been eaten alive In the sec.

I 100 percent would take the program where it is right now vs where it was at the end of Riley’s tenure

 

[hoopsaustin]

Lincoln would have been eaten alive In the sec.

I 100 percent would take the program where it is right now vs where it was at the end of Riley’s tenure

You're crazy then bc LR is still adding heismans and is better than anything BV is doing.. bv is ending our bowl streaks and ending seasons with losing records.. Sadly, 5-7 isn't off of the table this year even..

Riley at usc: 31-15

Bv: 27-18

 

[Eielson]

Never said he will. But I’d rather win 10 or 11 games a year and lose in the playoff like Lincoln did than be a team that is under .500 in conference games under bonehead Brent.

You keep acting like he's a lock to win 11 games and make the playoffs, as if he wasnt 15-11 the past two years.

He inherited an incredible roster with multiple Heisman trophy winners from Bob, and then proceeded to get worse every single year. He was simply our version of Larry Coker/Frank Solich.

 

[Eielson]

Sadly, 5-7 isn't off of the table this year even..

That might take the cake for stupidest take in this thread. And Wichita has said some really stupid things.

 

[hoopsaustin]

That might take the cake for stupidest take in this thread. And Wichita has said some really stupid things.

That's fine. I obviously hope I'm no where close to right.

BV has two times lost 3 games in a row and I never thought id ever even witness that since John blake..

 

[SoonerBounce13]

You're crazy then bc LR is still adding heismans and is better than anything BV is doing.. bv is ending our bowl streaks and ending seasons with losing records.. Sadly, 5-7 isn't off of the table this year even..

Riley at usc: 31-15

Bv: 27-18

lol ok

 

[WichitaSooner]

Nagy's big score was ott.... we need to scout/test for heart and toughness. Ott should never play another down. Give Tatum run again over ott

I don’t disagree on Ott, but at this point, I feel like they could have Barkley and prime Bo Jackson in the backfield and Brent, BB, and DeMarco would still produce a terrible run game. What worries me about Nagy is that he did whiff on his first big move, and now we are just told to have faith in his evaluation process and not worry about where some of the high school commits are rated.

 

[WichitaSooner]

You're crazy then bc LR is still adding heismans and is better than anything BV is doing.. bv is ending our bowl streaks and ending seasons with losing records.. Sadly, 5-7 isn't off of the table this year even..

Riley at usc: 31-15

Bv: 27-18

Yea I’ll never get this. It is such revisionist history. Fans were a little annoyed with Riley his last season, mainly because of the job talk and the inconsistent play. But even his biggest critics back then knew that our floor under him was going to continue to be two or three loss seasons. And for all the talk about how he couldn’t have competed in the SEC, let’s not forget that his playoff games were against absolutely elite teams. That LSU team, the Bama team … it’s not like he was playing and losing to teams at the bottom of the league. I’m pretty confident he could have put together a squad to, say, beat a Mizzou team playing a terrible backup quarterback last year. Or, ya know, I think he had a good track record against Texas. His team also probably wouldn’t have committed 42 first quarter turnovers at home against S. Carolina.

 

[Eielson]

That's fine. I obviously hope I'm no where close to right.

BV has two times lost 3 games in a row and I never thought id ever even witness that since John blake..

Our remaining games are all losable...but also all winnable. The odds of going 5-7 are comparable to going 11-1, which is essentially zero.

Our offense is nothing special, but our defense is in discussion for best in the country, and almost impossible to push out of the top 10. Very real chance that the defense will put up more points than the opposing team at least once this year.

 

[Eielson]

Yea I’ll never get this. It is such revisionist history. Fans were a little annoyed with Riley his last season, mainly because of the job talk and the inconsistent play. But even his biggest critics back then knew that our floor under him was going to continue to be two or three loss seasons.

He has averaged 4.7 losses per season thr past three years. I don't think you know what a floor is.

 

[hoopsaustin]

I don’t disagree on Ott, but at this point, I feel like they could have Barkley and prime Bo Jackson in the backfield and Brent, BB, and DeMarco would still produce a terrible run game. What worries me about Nagy is that he did whiff on his first big move, and now we are just told to have faith in his evaluation process and not worry about where some of the high school commits are rated.

No one bats 1.000. But Ott was a catastrophic miss. We could have obtained more OLs or WRs or some real TEs

One thing I will say is that it was great to let our bums/cancers leave from last year. For example, sharp and anderson. They combined for 2 catches tonight for 13 total yards..

 

[hoopsaustin]

Our remaining games are all losable...but also all winnable. The odds of going 5-7 are comparable to going 11-1, which is essentially zero.

Our offense is nothing special, but our defense is in discussion for best in the country, and almost impossible to push out of the top 10. Very real chance that the defense will put up more points than the opposing team at least once this year.

Not with our no TOs against teams with a pulse trend..

 

[WichitaSooner]

He has averaged 4.7 losses per season thr past three years. I don't think you know what a floor is.

Not at OU he didn’t. He made a stupid decision leaving and taking a job at a place that had become largely irrelevant, and where the fan base had checked out. At OU, he never lost more than two games.

Funny enough, though, even with him averaging that many losses, you know who has done worse? That’s right, his replacement, who has averaged 5.7 losses.

 

[Boom Soon]

Call me crazy but I think BV should open up the QB competition. Mateer had about as bad as a game as Arnold did against Tennessee last year. I understand Hawkins may not be much better but BV is coaching for his job from here on out. The seat his red hot. He’s gotta do anything to win. The status quo will not work against the rest of the schedule.

 

[WaymanFan]

What bothers me the most about the game was the fact that the Texas coaching staff made GREAT halftime adjustments, but OU's staff did not. It looks like OU had a great gameplan early on, but we all know that there are coaches on the other side of the field. When they can adjust and we can't, the result was a three-score loss. I knew our offense would struggle even with a healthy Mateer because our running game is so bad. What I didn't expect was Texas to convert 3rd and long after 3rd and long throughout the second half.

I thought after we became the last FBS school to force a turnover, they would come in bunches. I was wrong. As for one obvious adjustment by the defense that could have been made, why didn't BV disguise some corner or safety blitzes to get Arch off his game once it became apparent we weren't going to get to him with a 4-man front? We gave him the confidence he needed. The game in Columbia is huge because it's all top-15 schools on the schedule after that.

 

[BCSooners]

Not at OU he didn’t. He made a stupid decision leaving and taking a job at a place that had become largely irrelevant, and where the fan base had checked out. At OU, he never lost more than two games.

Funny enough, though, even with him averaging that many losses, you know who has done worse? That’s right, his replacement, who has averaged 5.7 losses.

He also didn’t have the #1 schedule in the country for 2 years in a row. Last year was bad, yesterday was bad, this season has been good. I think BV has had better game management this year, end of half yesterday was bad. I don’t think anyone needs to worry about Mateer or Arbuckle leaving anymore, but they are huge upgrades over last year. It’s 1 game where Mateer was clearly off. Let’s see what the rest of the year looks like before y’all start with this nonsense.

 

[Eielson]

Not at OU he didn’t. He made a stupid decision leaving and taking a job at a place that had become largely irrelevant, and where the fan base had checked out. At OU, he never lost more than two games.

Yes, because he took over a loaded roster and then Coker/Soliched us down. We were unequivocally worse every year and this was the trajectory we were on. We saw first hand the roster issues under Rattler, when were struggling every week with teams struggling to go .500. Caleb is the only thing that saved us that final season, and also the only reason he had success at USC.

The USC job has plenty of resources and some of the most NIL, as evidenced by Pete Carroll creating a dynasty only rivaled by Saban at Bama this century. He just doesn't have what it takes to win a title.

 

[mict085]

I guarantee you if Riley played our schedule the last 2 years, he’d have a losing record. If BV had Riley schedule the last 2 years, he’d be winning 9-10 games per year.

I know that going to trigger Wichita because he hates BV.

 

[WichitaSooner]

He also didn’t have the #1 schedule in the country for 2 years in a row. Last year was bad, yesterday was bad, this season has been good. I think BV has had better game management this year, end of half yesterday was bad. I don’t think anyone needs to worry about Mateer or Arbuckle leaving anymore, but they are huge upgrades over last year. It’s 1 game where Mateer was clearly off. Let’s see what the rest of the year looks like before y’all start with this nonsense.

Arbuckle has not been a huge upgrade. Our run game is somehow even worse despite adding a good freshman and the biggest star in the portal. Our rotations in the backfield remain a mess. And like last year, we virtually never throw downfield and stretch the defense.

I was thinking about this yesterday: a few months ago l said that I didn’t think we have a single lineman who is top half of the conference. Several people pushed back and said that as long as our starters were healthy, our line would be very good. Well … about that. Fasusi will hopefully have a great career, but he’s definitely not at the elite level yet. And no one else is playing very well. I can’t envision a worse run game, and the pass protection has fallen off the past two games. I guess Kent St wasn’t just a lack of focus and vanilla game plan after all.

And while Brent deserves most the blame for the final segment of the half, Arbuckle deserves some for the lack of urgency throughout the drive. When you only have one timeout left and.are at midfield with around a minute to go, you can’t afford to let 20 seconds run off the clock. Hell, the first series of the game, we used tempo effectively, but when we actually needed to play fast, we acted as if we had limitless time.