When did you realize the wheels were coming off?

[OUReality]

We have several posts opining on what went wrong for the team this season. My question is WHEN did you realize this team was on a downward spiral? I think many recognized their deficiency on defense early on, but the offense made up for it.

I started getting concerned something was seriously wrong during the game at Alabama. Didn't like their effort against (what I considered) an inferior team. That is not to say I thought they would go 3-7 to finish the rest of the season, but it didn't look like the same team that dominated the early season.

Did anyone notice more serious problems earlier when they were winning? If not, when?

 

[oudna]

I wasn’t concerned with blowout in Manhattan at all
How the end of the OSU game played out a little head scratch
Alabama, seemed like we were trying to rest guys, deeper rotation
Home squeaker to a struggling Baylor was concerning
Home loss to WVU, I knew we weren’t good

 

[sperry]

We have several posts opining on what went wrong for the team this season. My question is WHEN did you realize this team was on a downward spiral? I think many recognized their deficiency on defense early on, but the offense made up for it.

I started getting concerned something was seriously wrong during the game at Alabama. Didn't like their effort against (what I considered) an inferior team. That is not to say I thought they would go 3-7 to finish the rest of the season, but it didn't look like the same team that dominated the early season.

Did anyone notice more serious problems earlier when they were winning? If not, when?

Alabama was when I realized that this team wasn't as good as we thought they were early on. But I thought that meant they were a 5-6 seed type team instead of a 2 seed. The Texas game in Norman was really the game where I had to accept the fact that OU was just not a good team any longer.

 

[DenverSooner]

The losses at KSU, Texas, ISU and OSU were very troubling. Good teams win on the road.

 

[TheMont]

Alabama was a turning point for me. I heard at least 3 different interviews with Lon before and after the game where he said something along the lines of how it would've been more beneficial to have a bye week but the conference thought the Big 12/SEC Challenge was worth it, etc.... and the team played exactly like that: that they didn't really want to be there. That was the first time I thought maybe this team didn't have a strong competitive fire.

 

[Jccouger]

I thought we might just be going through a mini slump up until the ISU game. From there I knew things were unraveling but didn't realize we flat out sucked/stopped trying until the Texas game at home.

 

[Romulus]

the mental breakdown at the end of the OSU game was my bat-signal this team is in trouble

 

[BanjoCharley]

Alabama, where Trae ran up for the first time in several years if not forever, a guard who could play with him, crushed his confidence.

 

[psk2080]

The first West Virginia game and the first Kansas State game. Both games gave the blueprint on how to stop OU and how to stop Trae. I felt like both of those games were a precursor of things to come in conference play.

 

[sooner8693]

the mental breakdown at the end of the OSU game was my bat-signal this team is in trouble

Ditto. Then the loss to WV at home was when I first saw signs of a team that had quit or was quitting.

 

[WTSooner]

First game when we gave up 89 points to Omaha.

 

[sooner333]

Probably at Texas and the inability to hold a lead against a marginal team.

 

[sooner 1234]

When the media started calling Young the possibly best college player ever .

I knew right then this would end bad .

 

[hoopsaustin]

the mental breakdown at the end of the OSU game was my bat-signal this team is in trouble

This. They didn't even want to guard for 3 more secs to win a game on their rival at their place?? Not competitors, weak

 

[opsooner]

The losses at WV where we collapsed, at KSU where we stunk, and at okie lite where we gagged. By that time I knew we would not win a game away from LNC and that we would probably lose at least one at LNC. There were signs before that but after those losses it was clear we were not going to play team ball any longer.


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