You going to bowl?

...For real? For real. One year ago tonight.

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“It's not the year that I foresaw for us. None of us thought… we expected much, much greater for ourselves,” tight end Brayden Willis said. “But I will have pride and I do have pride knowing that I am the kind of start, that jumpstarted the Coach Venables era. And I haven't been able to kind of reap the fruits of my labor right now.

“But I know in the future, when they go and they win the title and the natty, I’ll know I had a hand in that and that I was kind of the start of that era. So, I take tremendous pride in finishing it the right way. To finish the season off and propel them into the next era.”

Danny Mac, the cardinals play by play announcer just got arrested, it’s his 3rd dui in 11 years. I was surprised they took him back after the first one, shocked after the second one, but a 3rd one, he gone.

Rest in peace, coach. I spent three summers down there in Bradenton. I never got to hit with Nick, naturally, but I did watch a 13 year old Maria Sharapova blast backhands off the clay with him for a half hour once.

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OU and BV deserve exactly what happened to them tonight. This team is a dumpster fire and completely shitting the bed again on national TV is a fitting way to end the most embarrassing season in OU’s long and storied football history.

BV may be one of the greatest DCs in CFB history, but he obviously doesn’t have what it takes to be a HC/DC. The Sooner’s defense has made every QB they played look like a future #1 draft pick. On those rare occasions when they do line up correctly, there’s not a single guy that can reliably take the correct angle, get off a block or make a tackle. The DBs are so poor in coverage, that they are effectively giving WRs a first down just to keep from getting beat deep. There is not one player on that defense that would start at any Top 10 program - and only a couple that would make the two deep. Yet, that is largely the same group that will take the field to open next year.

It will be astonishing if some defensive recruits don’t reevaluate their options in the next few weeks given what can only be described abject failure in every possible aspect of the game. This defense is literally a caricature. A team trying to look hapless, helpless and heartless would be hard pressed to look any more impotent than what was displayed tonight.

The humiliating losses to WVU and TT should tell Sooner fans all they need to know about what’s on the horizon. Nebraska is a case study in how to rapidly tank a program with a dreadful hire and a conference change. OU did it even faster!

BV and Norvell.

Is there any chance whatsoever that any player who we get out of the portal is NOT an All-American next year and future first-round draft pick? Doesn't seem so....

UPDATE: 4:05p - Wanted to add to @Eddie_Rado's thoughts from earlier today on Austin Stogner.

I've heard from a few places that he is very likely to return to Oklahoma and perhaps pretty soon.

UPDATE: 3:34p - OK, have had a few conversations today and I am told that Oklahoma has done some checking around on Myles Slusher, the former Broken Arrow standout who has been at Arkansas the past three seasons.

During his time in Fayetteville he has played in 23 games and the Sooners were interested in both his experience and game.

However, I'm told that at this point the Sooners are still sorting out where he'll fall in their hierarchy.

I'm not sure something won't come of this but it feels like right now it may be a bit of a wait and see approach.

UPDATE: 2:36p - Alright guys have had a few conversations in the past few hours that make me think Oklahoma is ahead for the McCullough brothers - 2023 safety Daeh and Indiana linebacker transfer Dasan.

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I know I had mentioned Dasan and Notre Dame due to their father, Deland, being on staff for the Irish but I've heard from sources both around Norman as well as some in coaching circles that his grades may not fit into the Irish's VERY narrow transfer window.

I feel like Ohio State is going to be the primary competition in the pursuit of Dasan though I've also been told that Oklahoma's NiL work is already well underway and the Sooners have had a strong plan going into this for a while.

I won't be shocked at all if both are on campus in Norman this weekend but obviously we'll keep checking and get a verdict on that.

ORIGINAL: OK guys, a few things to go over here for a bit...

*I spoke a bit with David Hicks Sr. about the in-home visit Todd Bates made on Saturday and Hicks Sr. put it about as accurately as anyone I've talked to in regard to spending some time with Bates...

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"(It) went well coach Bates always makes an impression," he laughed.

In speaking to some others it sounds like there continues to be cause for optimism, and the Sooners got a slight shot in the arm with the news of A&M analyst Nick Williams heading to Boulder, Colo. to help out Deion Sanders and the Buffs.

"He's been very active in Hicks's recruitment and is a guy they've got a lot of comfort with," said one source.

I get that no one is going to buy into anything on him right now but let's just keep monitoring it for the next few weeks as things figure to get more and more interesting.

**A few travel notes, I'm told Brent Venables will join Bates in seeing Ashton Sanders on Tuesday, Dec. 6 after he makes the rounds in Seattle seeing Jasiah Wagoner and Heath Ozaeta.

My assumption is that he'll continue making the rounds on the West coast and perhaps see Tausili Akana this week.

What makes that interesting?

There's been some buzz that the Sooners have made a big run at Akana over the past few weeks and for Venables to use his lone in-home this week? Would seem to indicate some confidence in their standing - you'll notice he's ONLY visiting commitments at the moment.

Again, I need to confirm he's going in-home with Akana this week but that's my understanding and if it's correct, it may say quite a bit.

***Peyton Bowen at this point, we all just wait. He'd mentioned making a decision before Friday but obviously that came and went and both Notre Dame and Oklahoma have completed their first round of in-home visits.

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My belief remains that for Bowen, the Sooners clearly lead. I still am hung up on the Sooners convincing his mother that they'll be a quality option for her son. I think that happens but it's a reasonable hangup considering the faith she has in Marcus Freeman and co. at Notre Dame.

I really don't see A&M nor Oregon as very realistic at this point and anything outside of sticking with his commitment to the Irish or joining Jackson Arnold (as well as Bowen's girlfriend) in Norman feels like a longshot. What's odd is that with Bowen "it feels like he could pop at any point" and as another source told Scoop last week "there's some of it that feels like if he gets the go ahead from his mom, this all wraps up pretty quickly."

What’s this about Matt Miller reporting ou is trying to get him to come back @Josh_M @Eddie_Rado

Coming back to LSU. Dude was the number one receiver in mock drafts before the year. I’m starting to think Mims comes back.

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I really like their coach Sean Lewis. Jenni Carlson actually asks some decent questions. Interesting to here about his Lebby connection. Knew he was from the Briles tree via Babers at Bowling Green. Also didn't realize he played with Jay Valai at Wisky. Lewis would be my out of the box replacements for Lebby should JJF follow him. I bet OU could pay him more as OC than he's making at HC there.
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Usually don’t watch, but has had several opportunities to discuss USC loss and has passed!

OU fans in Tulsa get tickets and plan on going to this game now. It is next Saturday. It was an incredible atmosphere last year but Arkansas fans clearly outclassed us.

Im hoping Bowen flips. What do y’all think?

Saw it on Twitter… how the hell does he have eligibility left?

Two alleged “5 Stars” bolted ...Brey Walker and Clayton Smith. Never to the life of me could figure out why either one could not crack the starting line up. Quite the purge and flee thing going on these days...

Per 247

Breaking news: Spencer Sanders is in the portal. I know we owned him but should we take a shot on him? He is better than DG.

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