To be fair I don’t think that we are going to lose this game. I don’t think it’s going to be close. I also was standing in the stands when we were barely beating Houston in the fourth quarter, albeit Houston should be twice as talented as Maine. There are people, though who legitimately think this game may be close, and that we may even be upset, especially now considering the weather is going to be nasty and we already turn the ball over enough as it is.

A fun thought experiment: let’s say we do lose to Maine and all hell breaks loose and Brent is fired.

What head coaches are even available? Who would you like to see?

I think the Italian Saban, Cignetti would be on speed dial and I wouldn’t be mad about it. He’d bring ole Mike Shanahan with him.

People, what does Norman have to offer when compared to other places. Convince me as a recruit to come to OU.

Austin- Tesla, The MotherShip, Arguably the best restaurants in the country, Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Kill Tony, incredible rivers.

Athens- Atlanta not far away, booming industry, filming studios filled with celebrities all the time. Great food. Fan base that isn’t afraid to actually look like fanatics.

I could name more but I want this too be short.

OU has a very small window to stay relevant regardless of our history. Recruits weren’t alive the last time OU was dominant. We don’t have enough culture on campus to bring recruits in. OKC is boring. Not enough tradition. If we aren’t in the playoffs next year, we take the first step into 1000 years of Nebraska.

Unless we bring an incredibly charismatic coach that can pull kids out of the south, out of the back yards of REAL SEC teams. If we can’t do that. Then us as fans have to change our standard for success. We will run off every 8-4 9-3 coach which Nebraska would love.

Thats it.

I can't believe I'm making this post and I can't believe this isn't some kind of political post based on the title I wrote up. But I've gotten several DM's from people asking me things about certain rumors and information being presented right now. This has spiraled so far out of control that I wanna do my best to clear things up because it's annoying the piss out of me and I also think that.... certain things are going to be presented in certain ways going forward. But with that said I wanna address said things starting with:

> All the receivers have quit on the team and are pissed off they didn't get the money they were promised.

I legit have no idea how and why this rumor started but it's complete and total nonsense. Our receivers are hurt and it's as simple as that. There is no grand conspiracy. None of them are planning on leaving or declaring and are sitting out the season to protect their NIL/Draft equity. That's so far from the truth it makes my face hurt.

Now as a follow up I do want to say I cannot and will not guarantee any of them stay at this point. You fire Emmett Jones or you make a bad OC hire or BV gets fired and shit can be derailed and who knows what's gonna happen. But as of right now all of them, and I mean this sincerely, are fucking hurt. But that's that. They aren't leaving or planning to as of right now. And if you wanna say I'm hedging because I can't guarantee they won't leave then go for it. But that has everything to do with who they hire and if Emmett is retained. And if BV some how loses to Maine and things just implode. I can't see into the future with that stuff. Otherwise I would be a billionaire and Oklahoma would have every elite player known to man kind.

> BV was forced into hiring Seth by the AD or the Boosters or both!

Nope. He made a bad hire. Brent fucked up the Ted Roof hire and he fucked up the Seth Littrell hire. But that was his decision and his decision alone to make. Anything said otherwise is a conspiracy people are making up to make themselves feel better about how bad this has all been

> BV made Seth try to run Lebby's offense and his together

Short answer is yes. Long answer is sort of but it's real complicated and I don't think any of you, or I for that matter, care about the context of that. BV fucked up, well sort because it's more complicated than this, that decision. And again I don't think the context matters outside of the results here anyway.

> Oklahoma would have been fine if they had kept Raym and Green this offseason

This is categorically false. The tl:dr of this entire thing is that Bill Bedenbaugh has had a severe weak link at least one position going back every seasons since 2019. Whether that be Felix Finley, Erik Swenson, McCade Mettauer, and so on and so fourth. You can handle with that with elite talent every where else and when you play in a league where trench play is dog shit. You can't get away with that in the SEC. And even if Green and Raym were here we still have two pretty meh tackles in a league where that gets you killed. And we'd still have one of the worst RG's in the entire country.

> Cale Gundy is coming back to Oklahoma

Nope. There are too many sour feelings and outside complications that prevent that. Which kills me because Nepotism be damned I think he'd be the best assistant on this staff outside of Todd Bates

> The defense is bad when I was told it was elite

This is a very complicated topic with sixteen different rabbit holes to go down. When fully healthy and with a complementary offense this defense is probably top five in the country this season. But it's not fully healthy and the offense is shooting them in the knee cap every game. They're banged up, their depth got fucked up because a couple young guys are in the dog house, and our heir apparent NFL corner has been playing both ways since like Tennessee week. Dez Malone and Kanai Walker are backs up who play well in that role if we're healthy. We're not and they're in roles they shouldn't be.

> JJF called an elite game the O-Line just fucked it up

Nope. JJF didn't call a good or bad game he just called a game against a defense that didn't take us seriously and that didn't have any film on what he was gonna run. I'm not going say there wasn't progress but anyone trying to make more of it that it was is either high of hopium or is feeding you information that someone wants out there.

> No one wants to come coach for BV at OU because he's a dead man walking

You guys want the truth? Brent is on the hot seat. It's not boiling to the point he's going to get fired if we lose out this season but if we lose out in spectacular fashion or god forbid we lose to Maine he's gone. I have more to say on this but it would just infuriate the fuck out of all of you and I don't care to get into an argument over it. So I'll just say this if BV is fired heads are going to roll in every facet relating to the football program and some of the AD.

Anyway so yes Brent is on the warm seat that's getting hotter by the loss. But anyone trying to tell you we couldn't hire an OC because they won't come here in fear of BV being fired after next year is trying to sell you a position and propaganda they're getting. I cannot stress this, and I mean cannot, enough that the insider sites or people who know the program and can't anonymously give you info are coming from a biased position. I'm not getting into the specifics of this because I know a lot of you like the insider sites and radio guys but for the love of Christ please please please take everything you hear, even from me, with a boulder sized grain of salt

I think I'm probably reaching the character limit so I'm going to wrap this up. But if you guys have questions you want answered I will do the best to my ability to do so with the little info I have access to.

Ah but to head off one question I think I'll get I cannot answer or speak on the medical staff weirdness. I don't know what's going on with that outside of people are getting fired in that department at the end of the season. Couldn't tell you what's going on there and quite frankly I don't really care. I think that's something that's being propagated as a real problem when it's a small issue that's going to resolve itself. We've just been smited with injuries on a biblical level.

Also I don't keep up with recruiting anymore outside of kids that my coaching friends know. But yeah. I hope this clears up some stuff going around because this shit is spiraling outta control right now. Like guys if you have friends or know people that are dm'ing players to kill themselves or to quit being pussies and faking injuries and that their family should be arrested for stealing money from the school you need to report those dudes. It's getting real real real nasty and crossing lines that are never acceptable.

So just to get this out the way, we know BV has been disappointing unfortunately and his seat is warming up. There’s been some talk from fans about firing Brent next year if he doesn’t do well. Also shitty extension by Joe C.

This year his buyout is 44m. It would be stupid to fire him this year, so I took a look at the coming years buyout.

• 2025: 37.2m
• 2026: 29.4m
• 2027: 21.7m
• 2028: 13.6m

The buyout the next couple of years still seem high as hell. Do you guys see us putting up that money to get rid of Brent if he doesn’t get this figured out? Or are we cooked?

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Somebody get that man on scholarship!

It was a piss poor scheme and play calling!

This first quarter is all I needed to see to confirm that Seth Litrell is a football terrorist. The team looks energized, Arnold is playing great, and our OL is playing half-decent.

BOOMER!

Offense looked a lot better and I like the aggressiveness on going for it on fourth. I don’t like the play call felt like we should’ve ran it again. But it gives me hope for the rest of the game. Do yall the the offense might actually be something this game?

Ole Miss, one possession, one td. How do we respond?

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Line: MISS -19

O/U: 48.5

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Let's say I'm in Vegas (which i am), should I take the 20 points or lay them?

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It's almost certain that he won't play. We have never had a "doubtful" player play. I don't think we've even had "questionable" players play this season.

I read that he tweaked something in practice on Tuesday.

We simply cannot go a week without more bad injury news, can we?

Also, Sawchuk is doubtful. He hasn't had a lot of success running this season, but I was hoping with Littrell gone he'd get some play. Sawchuk is also probably our best blocking RB, and he's good at receiving the ball. He has a quad strain, and a similar injury kept Anderson out early in the season (until it was upgraded to a quad tear and he was ruled out for the season). So it could be another long road with Sawchuk.

All of these injuries on the offense this season are unreal. Something has to be wrong with our training program.

They all suck this year. OU, OSU, Tulsa all horrible.

It's painful. I watched 3 minutes against South Carolina and turned it off.

I’ve read several places now, but Oklahoma recently received another five star running back recruit, but I can’t confirm this anywhere.

This isn’t a lazy post, I’ve looked all the usual places so I’m just wondering if it’s hearsay or something that’s actually happened but hasn’t made the usual news sources yet.

Im a lifelong sooners fan that was born in 06 and wasn’t able to experience his career with the sooners. but as i read his stats he was heisman runner-up his freshman year but his sophomore year it seems he was very underwhelming. what exactly happened to make his stats take a fall?

From X @opinionatedpoke. I thought if I had to see it, you should too.

Is this the biggest OU has ever been an underdog? I can't remember them ever being +21

What are the chances we can get Cale to come back. He’s someone that bleeds OU and that’s something we need right now

Can we confirm?

Please sweet dear baby infant Jesus.

I do still think BV could be the guy. What he has done to turn around what was one of the worst defenses in D1 football is unquestionably impressive. His hire of Zach Alley was inspired.

If we still had Lebby we’d be 6-1 and a playoff contender. When Lebby left, BV made a fatal mistake in hiring Littrell rather than going outside of the program and finding a real, in-demand OC. I have to believe he realizes this.

I am willing to give him another year with a new offensive staff. I think this defense coupled with a top-20 offense is a national title contender. With the amount of talent we have on that side of the ball, there’s no reason we can’t be. Last year we had the 3rd highest ranked offense in yards per game. If BV brings in the right guy to turn the offense around, we may look back on this year as a fluke.