This feels like reliving the Blake years. I'm getting used to losing, no big deal and surprised if we ever play a decent team close. Our players don't expect to win anything.
Post by Salish Sea Sooner on Oct 8, 2022 18:27:28 GMT
Well, I think I've watched all the OU football I want to see this season. This truly is worse than watching the John Blake era. Clearly, Brent Venables was not ready to be a head coach.
I can only hope he becomes a quick learner in the off season, because if he is not, it will be at least 3 years before Joe C would make a change, maybe longer. THE only hope is that he figures this out quickly, improves drastically, and recruits a hell of a lot better than we have in 18 years. No more than 1-2 transfer portal players a year since that has proven a failed strategy for OU.
We're in danger of becoming Nebraska. That may be unavoidable with OK being a small population state in the NIL era. We can't outbid texsa or a&m for players. It kind of makes me wish we took NBC's offer to exclusively broadcast our games instead of declining it and letting Notre Dame have it. Maybe that would have built up the national brand better.
At this point I am beginning to wonder if Venables is the answer. I still will give him time but the fact that three games in a row he does nothing different in game and won’t change anything up has me a little worried. No way these dudes lack that much talent.
Post by Salish Sea Sooner on Oct 8, 2022 18:34:01 GMT
One thing to keep in mind is that having Dillon Gabriel might have resulted in us scoring 14 points, but we'd be getting annihilated as bad or worse because Lebby would be trying the hurry up offense, handoff to gray on first and 2nd down with an overthrow on 3rd & 8, burning about 40 seconds total off the clock. In a way, not having Gabriel might be the best thing for this defense by forcing us to use more clock.
Beville has a hitch in his throw. How did this guy get a scholarship as a QB? Just because he is 6'6"?
well, let's see...
Austin Kendall transferred
Tanner Mordecai transferred
Chandler Morris transferred
SR7 transferred
CW transferred
who does that leave on the roster for this year, Rucker and Shafer?
had to go out and grab a couple of left-over warm bodies in a really short time frame just to have a QB room- that room over the past few years has been depleted and there were really no upper-classmen backups left either
Psalm 34:14: "Depart from evil, do good, seek peace, and pursue it."
"what deliverer could break the power of Pharaoh?"
