how bad would our football team beat our basketball team

[campbest]

This is great. Back when I was finishing up at OU, there were a group of fraternity guys who would play up at the Huff a lot and would consistently beat Lendy, Iggy, Nic Harris, Duke, Braxton, Macon, Pooh, etc. If a bunch of out of shape frat guys (who are probably drinking three nights a week) can beat, or at least hang with some elite level Division I football players, safe to say the bball team could take care of them. I know our team has a deficiency in the basketball IQ category at times, what do you expect a football player to have? The only reason those football players seemed so good at the Huff was because they were in shape.

Are we talking street ball here? I mean, if we are going to go on a real game there is no way a group of football players would survive without picking up five fouls. Everyone in high school had that one guy on their team who played football and hacked everyone...same thing here.

What are you going to tell me next? That Michigan State's bball team can put on pads and run shop on the Akron Zips? Please.

 

[Max Power]

That's why you have 85 man rosters. Duh.

oh so you you have an 80 man bench. You know i will still take the bball team

 

[Max Power]

This is great. Back when I was finishing up at OU, there were a group of fraternity guys who would play up at the Huff a lot and would consistently beat Lendy, Iggy, Nic Harris, Duke, Braxton, Macon, Pooh, etc. If a bunch of out of shape frat guys can beat, (or at least hang with) some elite level Division I football players, safe to say they the bball team could take care of them.

Are we talking street ball here? I mean, if we are going to go on a real game there is no way a group of football players would survive without picking up five fouls. Everyone in high school had that one guy on their team who played football and hacked everyone...same thing here.

What are you going to tell me next? That Michigan State's bball team can put on pads and run shop on the Akron Zips? Please.

Finally someone gets it

 

[Sam]

This is just a funny thread.

 

[campbest]

This is almost as good as the "Danielle Robinson could be OU Men's PG" thread we had last year. What a joke.

 

[Max Power]

This is almost as good as the "Danielle Robinson could be OU Men's PG" thread we had last year. What a joke.

I missed that one! I would have loved to have read some of that stupidity

 

[Edmond_Sooner]

At least we would be more athletic...

Has there even been 1 dunk in a game this season????

 

[CokeSooner]

Until they got tired. Its a 40 minute game. Football players are not in that kind of shape. They don't run up and down the court, cut, post, cut again, run back down the court, keep up with their man cutting, posting, cutting again for forty minutes. They run for a second or 2, hit an opposing player, whistle blows, 35 second break for 3-15 times then have a 5 minute break. They would GAS

You can fit a lot of conditioning in 2 weeks.

 

[Max Power]

You can fit a lot of conditioning in 2 weeks.

Have you ever played both at a level higher than little league in the same season? It takes more than two weeks to go from football shape to basketball shape

 

[CokeSooner]

Have you ever played both at a level higher than little league in the same season? It takes more than two weeks to go from football shape to basketball shape

And yet in two weeks significant progress can be made, so their conditioning is better than regular football shape.

 

[Max Power]

And yet in two weeks significant progress can be made, so their conditioning is better than regular football shape.

Ok so they made progress but still aren't in basketball shape. so they still get gassed before the end of the game. Whats next you going to ask for a month to get ready? 2? 3? Face it the football team would not beat the basketball team in a game of basketball. Just like the basketball team would not beat the football team in football.

 

[oSuJeff97]

Ok so they made progress but still aren't in basketball shape.

Yeah... not to mention they aren't basketball players.

About the only players, generally, on college football teams who could play would be bigger corners or safeties... guys who were in the 5'10"-6'2" range who were super quick and could run some point guard or shooting guard, assuming they had ball skills.

Somebody like R.W. McQuarters comes to mind... he was actually a decent backup point guard on OSU's basketball team during his junior year. I could see someone like Sam Bradford contributing as a shooting guard.

Other than guys like that, practically every football player would either be way too short or way too heavy/slow to contribute on a Big 12 basketball court.

 

[Max Power]

all the sooner fans that don't get this above post should be ashamed of themselves. You just got schooled by an aggie. SMH

 

[OUhoops11]

Go watch the football team play basketball at the Huff sometime. It's worse than the NBA All-Star game. They don't even try to guard unless you can get a big swat. Every shot is either a fadeaway three from 35 feet or a dunk. There are about 90 turnovers because of horrible passes on attempted alley oops. It's entertaining, but it's not even close to good basketball.

 

[AdaSooner]

Are we talking street ball here? I mean, if we are going to go on a real game there is no way a group of football players would survive without picking up five fouls. Everyone in high school had that one guy on their team who played football and hacked everyone...same thing here.

Exactly! This may not be OU's best team (understatement), but there is no way they would lose to a bunch of football players. Even a guy like Murray or Pooh Tennell last year, who were top 100 hoopsters coming out of high school, would struggle to make shots, play defense or keep up with the speed and conditioning after being away from the game so long.

We've had these discussions before, and it's fun to do it again. But I'd bet my last dollar that the basketball players would win 9 out of 10 games, and it may be 10 of 10.

 

[Romulus]

Go watch the football team play basketball at the Huff sometime. It's worse than the NBA All-Star game. They don't even try to guard unless you can get a big swat. Every shot is either a fadeaway three from 35 feet or a dunk. There are about 90 turnovers because of horrible passes on attempted alley oops. It's entertaining, but it's not even close to good basketball.

Go watch this years basketball team.....

 

[Dem Coltz]

The correct answer to this thread is it depends on who's coaching who. Commence Capel bashing now!

 

[gosooner2]

This is almost as good as the "Danielle Robinson could be OU Men's PG" thread we had last year. What a joke.

I agree why ruin a good basketball player by giving her to capel?

 

[jrich02]

Heck, everyone considers Marshall Moses to be a small post man, and he's basically the same size as Gresham, but 2 inches taller. (listed at 6'7 and 255).

I completely agree with your side of this argument, but just wanted to comment that there is no way Moses is 6'7.

 

[thebigabd]

At least we would be more athletic...

Has there even been 1 dunk in a game this season????

Thats a good question... i havent seen one dunk this year.