CHOKELAHOMA

Nope…not coach “cant make an aggie win” franchione….what about veneble? what about that tx def coordinator? They wouldnt put up with this choking a bowl game crap. I like stoops…not hoping on any kind of band wagon…just time to move on. and i beg to differ about your comment on him being college fb best…looks like that’s urban meyer.

if you dont like it o well….im tired of losing big games…apparently you dont mind choking jubanator.

I think htownsooner may be taking this a bit too far with his demands for Stoops to be fired but I completely understand the anger and discontent. I myself have spewed obscenities tonight because I am so sick and tired of seeing OU lose games when the other team is given more than a week to prepare. This is a repeated pattern that points directly to preparation and therefore coaching. The problem with all of this is how mad can you get at a guy who has been in 4 national championships in 9 years?

ok you try living in texas to defend the sooners everyday…some of us have actually found life outside of winds sweeping down the plains…dont doubt my ties and loyalty…yes i remember john blake, i played then. i remember when the only strong push in norman was an aubrey beavers pass rush and then praying to God PJ would catch everything thrown his way. chokelahoma is just something you get used to hearing living outside of norman.

Htown, I have lived in Htown, and currently reside in another major city in Texas. I too played during the Blake era. I do defend the Sooners but honestly I dont have to very often. Most level headed Texas fans that I come across daily realize that good ole boy Mack only has one Championship. The same number as Stoops. If anybody wants to talk about a program stacked with athletic ability that should be winning a National Championship every year its Texas. It is time for Stoops to shake up the staff because of the inbreeding that has happen for too long. We have promoted from within instead of going out to get the best possible coaches in every spot.

By the way, you missed the best part of the Blake era: Hey uhh Brandon you ran the option in highschool right? Ok well go in there and run it! You’re our new QB

Let me preface this by saying I’m a Texas fan.

I really can’t fault OU for running the ball on 4th down on the 1 yard line. That entire drive their OLine had been blowing UF’s line off the ball and they were averaging, what, 9 YPC? I just thought it was a mistake to do it to the left side when it was the right side that was dominant all night. Additionally I’ve always been an advocate of going for it inside the three yard line because even if you fail, you put the opposing offense in an awful position.

Bradford’s second INT wasn’t his fault either, it was a great throw and a great play by the defender.

I’m not really sure why Stoops is getting the blame for this particular loss. The only mistake I saw that goes directly on him was the FG try from outside the kicker’s range. All the other coaching mistakes were play-specific ones which were clearly called by the relevant coordinator.

The biggest failure to me was that, having discovered that they could run the ball on UF, OU decided to run it on every play instead of mixing runs and passes. You can’t do that against an equally/more talented opponent. I can only think of one drive in the whole game when they both ran the ball and threw the ball more than twice each. They really seemed to just be alternating between throwing the ball on every play one drive, then running it on every play the next.

OU played much better than I thought they would on defense. The real difference maker in the game was clearly Harvin, not Tebow. Tebow was ineffective until the threat of Harvin taking handoffs was introduced.

At times it seemed like Bradford had a concussion. I know that his thousand yard stare isn’t unusual but he seemed really out of it to me in the second half.

I would note that the ACC refs actually calling holding really crimped OU’s OL. Big 12 refs seem to ignore blatant holding on a constant basis (yes, they ignore Texas’s holding too) and I have no idea why. It really puts us (The Big 12 in general) at a disadvantage when we get used to just tackling opposing DEs and then all the sudden can’t do it in big OOC games.

Even though OU didn’t cover the spread they outplayed my expectations.

He has the Sooners competing for the Big 12 and the National Titles every year and thats good enough for me. I’ve been around long enough to remember Bud, Chuck. Barry, Gary, Howard and John, and Bob is the cream of the crop. He’ll be wining a lot more before hes through and hopefully he’ll be doing it all at OU. In his 10 year tenure we have beaten the Longhorns 7 times. Check the history books for how many of the teams we play year in and out have beaten us even twice in that 10 year period. The bowl losses are dissapointing but we have at least been there. You can’t win those games if you aren’t there to play them.

I forgot about ‘99. Who’s counting. I have a lot of respect for Mack Brown, but he’s far from a legend yet.

Coming from this Florida alum, I was in school when Bob Stoops helped the Gators win their first National Championship. I was also around when we were screaming for Bob Stoops after Steve Spurrier left Florida. Around that time, Florida was losing its luster even though we did get one more SEC championship out of the Ole’ Ball Coach before he left, folks were starting to grumble about getting rid of him as well.

The only thing Spurrier did by leaving was giving Bob Stoops a pay raise, players like Jabbar Gaffney bolting to the NFL, and an AD giving us Ron Zook. I tell you, don’t ask for another coach. You might end up like Florida and have some awful years.

I know it’s a hard pill to swallow, but I’d rather have a coach that’s consistently in a BCS bowl than a flash in the pan. Boise State was the talk of the town two years ago, what happend this year? 12-0 and then a loss in the Poinsettia Bowl to TCU, and many people probably don’t even know or don’t care. Don’t be too eager to get rid of your coach. There are plenty of schools out there capable of having a top caliber team who’d pay big money for him.