Most of you probably saw this yesterday. I'm just catching up as I don't normally get the Vikes' games where I am, unless I'm paying $4 per beer in some douchy sportsbar, glued both to the Minnesota game and my laptop.
As you've undoubtedly heard, Sam is done as a Sooner. He'll have surgery with Dr. Andrews wednesday and then rehab for the draft. Great person, great Oklahoman, great Sooner. Your statue in Heisman Park awaits. Thanks for all you did Sam, and good luck.
68% career pass percentage
8,147 yards
86 touchdowns
1 Heisman, 2 Big 12 Titles (3 if you count his 2006 RS year), 2 BCS games, 1 BCS Championship Game appearance.
So OU beat their first ranked opponent of the year, and sure it was Kansas (who maybe end up being the Big 12 North Champion) but when you are 3-3 I don't really think that you can be choosy about lauding progress.
Another year - another Post TX hangover game. I don't believe we've ever lost one of these in the Stoops era and the trend needs to continue. We've got to find a way to win away from Owen Field, we've got to find a way to win a close game. KU is a decent team, 5-1 record and ranked in the bottom part of the top 25 for most, if not all year. Their team is a tale of 2 units, they are good on offense, not so good on defense. Let's examine the matchups.
We were told Sam was having a presser on Wednesday and the given reason was to announce he's having surgery for his injured shoulder, he's hanging up his Sooner shoulder pads and school officials can go ahead and start working on that statue in Heisman Park.
If things seemed pessimistic on the offensive side well things are significantly better on the other side of the ball. For starters, right now OU has not lost anyone to a major injury, and a number of Sooners are having all conference years. OU's in the top five of almost every major defensive category, and looks like they could stay there all year long.
The only real concern on the defensive side is that there's a good chance OU could lose 8 starters putting them back in rebuilding mode on defense in 2010, and at some positions backups are not really getting much work at all. It definitely brings a level of concern that perhaps OU in 2010 might right the ship on the offensive side of the ball to only then have a rebuilding defense.
The dude picked the TU "Golden Eagles" to beat us earlier this year so take it for what it's worth.
Chris Brown:Kansas (+7) over Oklahoma. This is the part of the season where OU is supposed to wake up: All three of their losses have come on the road against ranked opponents, they've had time to digest their injuries, and their offensive and defensive lines should be able to dominate against lesser opponents. Kansas, on the other hand, squandered goodwill and a perfect record to previously dysnfunctional Colorado; we always thought the Jayhawks were pretenders, and now we know. Or do we?
I see this game playing out differently. OU is still emotionally dealing with the status of Sam Bradford, even if by all rational accounts he is gone for the year. And Kansas's look-ahead loss may have just been that: Todd Reesing and his head coach, former OU assistant Mark Mangino, know that if they're ever going to have a chance to beat Stoops, this is likely it. I think OU makes enough mistakes and squanders enough opportunities in the red zone for Reesing to register probably the biggest win of his career.
Some interesting and valid points in there obviously, but I just don't see it. Unless a full on implosion/meltdown is underway in our camp that we know nothing about. The way this season has gone I wouldn't doubt it.
This review is going to have a heavy slant towards what needs to happen the rest of this year, and what needs to happen for next year since right now most of OU's major goals are behind them not in front.
So where does OU stand right now? And what if anything can we expect for the rest of the year? And where's that going to leave OU for 2010. (I hate looking ahead, but unless OU starts getting in sync on offense, and UT starts losing. It's Cotton Bowl/Holiday Bowl/or Alamo Bowl time).
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