If Jaden Davis and Justin Harrington perform well this year, that is truly an indictment on Manning and on Grinch.
I remember how excited everyone was when we got Grinch. If you go back to the commie site, you will see that I was firmly in the Pete Golding camp and not as much a fan of Grinch.
I moved to Washington when he was still the Wazzu DC for Leach and they still got clobbered by UW. I didn't care for his smaller (and theoretically faster) "speed defense" philosophy as I knew it would get wrecked by Alabama or Clemson in a playoff setting.
But we hired him, and I thought maybe since Urban Meyer hired him, he'd be a good coach. Maybe with OU talent, the experiment might work. I encouraged fellow OU fans to be patient and give him 2-3 years because of how far our defense had fallen.
That first season seemed promising, but it went downhill from there. This is precisely the reason I wasn't upset, hurt, or jilted in any way when TBOW left in a flash for USC. I'd just had a conversation with family the week before that we could not compete on the SEC with TBOW because TBOW was sticking with Grinch. Fortunately, I believe we have addition by subtraction with the substraction of TBOW & Grinch. We now have a defensive staff capable of recruiting and producing a championship-caliber defense.
Illustration reminded my of a rhyme my Dad had learned and recited for us kids back in the 1950s.
Once a big molicepan
Saw a bittle lum,
Sitting on the sturbcone
Chewing gubble bum.
" Hi! " said the molicepan.
" Better simmie gome. "
" Tot on your nintype! "
Said the bittle lum.
Is there a translation for this century??
It's hard to swallow looking back at how many years have been wasted at Oklahoma having a defensive staff full of clowns. Including Moops, my God we've wasted a lot of seasons and talent.
Illustration reminded my of a rhyme my Dad had learned and recited for us kids back in the 1950s.
Once a big molicepan
Saw a bittle lum,
Sitting on the sturbcone
Chewing gubble bum.
" Hi! " said the molicepan.
" Better simmie gome. "
" Tot on your nintype! "
Said the bittle lum.
Is there a translation for this century??
And now we know why Pat Fields never left the field (and also why he transferred when Grinch left).
Pretty damning.......
"The rumblings were that Grinch refused to take his guys off the field, despite the better talent being on the bench at the safety position. If the previous staff had stayed, I believe many more players on both sides of the ball would have chosen to transfer out of the program. Particularly safeties, and wide receivers."
Give me third-round pick from Oklahoma — Brian Asamoah. Currently listed on the depth chart behind free agent acquisition Jordan Hicks, Asamoah will have plenty of opportunities to carve out a role. He’ll contribute on special teams early. And in the Vikings new defensive scheme, he will find himself rotating in at linebacker plenty.At Oklahoma, Asamoah led the Sooners in tackles in each of the past two seasons, and his 4.56 time in the 40-yard-dash is flying for a linebacker. He may not draw a ton of starts given the veterans ahead of him, but he should have ample opportunity to make an impact. With Ed Donatell’s defense shifting to a 3-4 scheme, Asamoah can establish himself in the middle of the field and help a secondary that desperately needed it a season ago.
It's hard to swallow looking back at how many years have been wasted at Oklahoma having a defensive staff full of clowns. Including Moops, my God we've wasted a lot of seasons and talent.
I couldn't agree more. After the 2014 season, I was absolutely stunned that Bob fired Josh Heupel and Jay Norvell and hired TBOW. It's not that I thought TBOW was a bad hire and our offense definitely improved with his hire. My problem was how embarrassingly bad the defense was. Bob fired the wrong problem.
I think our offense was like 23rd in scoring in 2014, not as high as our usual. But Bob also wanted to add more of the Dana Alt RPO offense, and took away much of the HUNH, fast-paced offense. Our defense, however, was ATROCIOUS. Other than the obvious nepotism, I could not believe Bob carried Mike that long and didn't encourage him to go work for Mark at Kentucky, and/or bring in a defensive coordinator/co-coordinator to take over the defense.
We became the old WAC of the 80s and 90s (e.g., BYU & Wyoming). Lots of offense, zero defense. As a child of the 80s watching great OU defenses of the mid-80s, it was hard watching the Blake years, then the later Stoops and most of the TBOW years.
Oklahoma still has more talent that the ones ranked above them. To think they go 7-5 means you think BV is a really bad coach. While he may not end up in the HOF, the guy has been a very successful coordinator and has been mentored by three HOF coaches. Nothing he's done to date has suggested he will fail big time. Whoever compiled this ranking either based it on six month old Twitter research or is a troll.
