Alright guys up in Jasper, Texas checking out Timpson and Groveton meeting at a neutral site in the first round of the Texas 2A D1 playoffs.

And Timpson is home to Oklahoma receiver offer Terry Bussey.

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I'd expect some considerable highlights from Bussey who is kind of the do it all and is the trigger man for a 10-0 Timpson squad.

Here chilling at Will Rogers. Flight leaves 5:30, on our way 👍

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For those interested, presale starts 6/22 @ 10am, I however do not have a presale code yet.

Presale code is DOWNHERE, per below posts.

Rough Riders this weekend, smh.

Any guesses? Trying to make travel plans from SWMO to work in some tailgating.
Advanced forecast that day of a high of 45 with evening temps in mid-30s.
Would love a 2:30 kick ...

The man in my avitar is my father who served in WW2 and I have a brother that served during Vietnam, a son that spent a year in Iraq and a year in Afghanistan and a daughter who retired as a Colonel in the Army. I’m proud of all of them and the sacrifices they gave to our country. Happy Veterans Day to all the vets out there. Your country loves you.

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Anybody have any insight on Redmond playing this weekend? At the 8:00 min mark Dusty asks him a pretty specific question about their running backs and run game and he pretty much side steps the answer saying he has Tuesday class and basically hasn’t watched film yet. I know he was banged up in Baylor game, but I’d hope the reason he’s not watching opponent film by Wednesday is bc he’s not playing as opposed to not watching film bc he just hasn’t it. I fear it’s the latter based on his production this year.

With OU’s defense being a mess and watching @Josh_M ‘s MMI. I’ve grown an interest in learning more in depth defensive schemes and coverages.
What are some trusted YouTube channels and books that are good resources to learn more about the science of football

Edward crushing it on their Thursday night picks show. How’d you get hooked up with those dudes @Eddie_Rado ?

Pony express. If you have not seen this it's a must watch. On ESPN U.

Here's the official release from the University ...

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NORMAN — University of Oklahoma head baseball coach Skip Johnson announced the signing of 12 high school seniors and two junior college transfers on Wednesday, the first day of the national signing period.

The new class of Sooners for the fall of 2023 is comprised of seven pitchers (Noah Bentley, Kasey Crawford, Jacob Gholston, Parker Hutyra, Kannon Kemp, Colby Langford and Ty Zahradnik), five infielders (Isaiah Lane, Tarris Murray, David Sorg, Jason Walk and Jaxon Willits) and four outfielders (Murray, Walk, Dakota Howard and Barrett Riebock)

“We have an identity on offense and an identity on the mound, and we recruited to that identity,” Johnson said. “The athletes in this class have the physical and mental skill set to play all over the diamond, and the pitchers have big arms with a lot of upside. Our staff, led by recruiting coordinator Clay Overcash and associate head coach Reggie Willits, did an outstanding job of putting together this class of players.”

Of the 14 members of the early signing class, eight are ranked among the top 55 prospects in their respective states (six among the top 25) and all 12 high school athletes are rated among the top 500 players in the nation (three among the top 300), according to Perfect Game.

Two of the Sooners’ signees are from Oklahoma while eight come from Texas. The four others hail from Arkansas, California, Georgia and Kansas. Click here for complete information about OU’s 2023 signees.

Name Pos. Ht./Wt. Hometown/School

Noah Bentley RHP/UTL 6-2/190 Celina, Texas/Celina HS
Kasey Crawford RHP 6-4/195 Olathe, Kan./Olathe West HS
Jacob Gholston RHP 6-6/202 Flower Mound, Texas/Flower Mound HS
Dakota Howard OF 5-11/173 Van Alstyne, Texas/Van Alstyne HS
Parker Hutyra RHP 6-3/195 North Richland Hills, Texas/Birdville HS
Kannon Kemp RHP 6-6/225 Weatherford, Texas/Weatherford HS
Isaiah Lane IF 6-1/170 Chula Vista, Calif./Eastlake HS
Colby Langford LHP 6-1/162 Blanchard, Okla./Murray State College (Okla.)
Tarris Murray OF/1B 6-2/195 Plano, Texas/Prestonwood Christian Academy
Barrett Riebock OF 6-2/195 Rockwall, Texas/Paris Junior College
David Sorg IF 6-6/240 Fort Smith Ark./Southside HS
Jason Walk IF/OF 5-10/160 Acworth, Ga./Harrison HS
Jaxon Willits IF 6-0/190 Fort Cobb, Okla./Fort Cobb-Broxton HS
Ty Zahradnik LHP 6-7/220 Keller, Texas/Keller HS

Going to goldees bbq tomorrow for the first time. For anyone who has been lately do you have any advice as to when I should get there?

So in my long diatribe, I referenced experience as a key issue. Well, let me give you some stats that will make you shake your head.

White 4 year starter
Reggie 1st year starter
Stripling 2 game starter
Kelly 1 game starter
Redmond shy of 2 years with multiple injuries
J Johnson Transfer
Coe 5 game starter Juco
Downs 9 game starter...this year
Lulu transfer shy of 2 year starter
Stutsman 1st year starter
Bowman freshman a 5 games
Lawerance 8 games
Broiles 2 year starter
Washington 2 years

Name one player that could crack the rotation at any of the top ten schools. This is no excuse...it's the reality. We are up against father time and we need more of it.

This was from BV by the way. The stats.....not the comment.

And on we go with our seventh year of the Sooner Survivor Series - the annual Big 12 Survivor Pool.

The rules are simple:

---(READ THIS ONE CAREFULLY, AGAIN) as there are only 10 Big 12 teams we always spend the end of the year filling out the regular season schedule. Well, to keep me from hating my life while filling out 500+ winners (until my BELOVED upset comes in) we’re going to do it in reverse. The first four weeks will be picking ONE winner from three hand picked games around college football. You don’t need to pick the winner of each, you simply pick the winner of ONE of the three games. If you’re right, you advance, if you’re wrong, your season ends early.

---Starting in week five, you’ll pick one Big 12 team each week that you think will win that week's game. If your team wins, you advance to the next week. When a team you picked loses, you are eliminated from the competition. Remember you ARE NOT picking against the spread, these are straight up win/lose scenarios.

---Once we've started the Big 12 segment and you've picked a Big 12 school, you cannot pick them again the rest of the season. This means you have to pick carefully and assess for things like bye weeks, matchups, etc.

---There are no byes for participants. In other words, you have to pick a team every single week. You have to watch later in the season to make sure you have a team to pick every week, because if you get into a situation where every team you have left is on a bye week and can't pick a team, you'll unfortunately be eliminated.

---Also, you MUST have your picks in before the first game on the docket (it will always be the first game listed below).

--- If anyone (or multiple people) can make it all the way through 14 weeks without losing, we'll use the bowl weeks as tie-breakers.

If anyone has any other questions, please feel free to write them below!

And now, here are the options for Week Three.

PRIZES:

1st Place: Free Year of SoonerScoop.com (50$ Gift Card to your choice of Amazon, Best Buy, etc.)
2nd Place: Free Six Months of SoonerScoop.com and your Scoop Shirt of Choice
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4th and 5th: Two Free Months of SoonerScoop.com

Nov. 5

Texas Tech @ TCU (11:00a)
Baylor @ Oklahoma (2:00p)
Oklahoma State @ Kansas (2:30p)
West Virginia @ Iowa State (2:30p)
Texas @ Kansas State (6:00p)

Sooner Survivor Series 2022

@Amase47 – UNC, UTSA, WASH, WVU – KSU, OSU, UT, BU, OU

@chasejamy – UNC, TTU, LSU, TAMU – UT, OSU, OU, BU, TCU

@JLawrance – UNC, TTU, WASH, WVU – KU, KSU, OU, BU, TCU

@jvancuren – UNC, UTSA, WASH, TCU – UT, OSU, OU, BU, TCU

@nwsoonerfan – UNC, BYU, LSU, TAMU – KU, OSU, UT, BU, TCU

@okcsooner2008 – UNC, TTU, LSU, TAMU – UT, OSU, OU, TTU, TCU

@rds57 – UNC, BYU, WASH, WVU – UT, OSU, OU, BU, TCU

@RedHillsSooner – UNC, TTU, CUSE, WVU – UT, OSU, OU, BU, TCU

@SonOfTodd – UNC, TTU, LSU, WVU – UT, OSU, TCU, TTU, KSU

@T_diddle – UNC, BYU, CUSE, TCU – UT, OSU, OU, TTU, TCU

@texarksooner – UNC, UTSA, LSU, WVU – KSU, OSU, UT, BU, OU

@whatawin – UNC, TTU, LSU, TCU – UT, TCU, OU, TTU, KSU

@Wilann – UNC, UTSA, WASH, TAMU – UT, TCU, WVU, BU, OU

According to a comment on TexAggs made by Jason Howell, he said “I’m also hearing Longhorns confidence is growing with Hicks” also saw he’s potentially gonna be at the UT game this weekend

if we lose Vasek to UT and they pick up Ant Hill along with Hicks we are ****ED

First, some transcriptions from last night.

Level of frustration?
I've been asked this many times, many platforms, everything. Like what do you look for in these early games? It's carryover. I look for carryover. We talked so much of getting downhill, getting to the paint and if they collapse crush us. We had charges, bad shots. We had a number of guys making, trying to make turnovers -- when you go look at it bunch of guys that we were taking care of the ball. Like being simple. We had a handful of turnovers by guys trying to make really home run plays that don't usually come off ball screens. I saw us trying to do a lot of things and they did that. They sped us up, alright. They sped us up. There's one particular time that they denied our guy the ball and it went to Otega and then we drove it all the way up and just took a shot. That's what they want you to do when they're denying the point guard. So we've got to, we've got to -- I didn't see much carryover like what Tanner and Jacob said. The team we saw in practice, you know we've been fairly efficient in practice moving the ball, sharing the ball, high assist lower turnovers. But six assists, 21 turnovers, you start the season you start trying to do things you can't do. But you've got to settle them down. We've got to be way more solid. Way more solid.

Grant got bullied and then exhausted?
“Those are (what) we called body blows. Those are exhausting. I saw it at halftime. Our guards were pretty exhausted at halftime. Even when they came out of starting lineups, you could see they were all physically strong. They were denying the ball back in the press. We had to work hard just to get the ball back. I thought (Grant) had to work, extend a ton of energy. You’ve got to credit them.
We need other ball handlers to step up. Grant had 5 or 6 turnovers. Those numbers have not been what Grant’s done in practice. He’s been high assist, low turnovers. 2 assists, 5 turnovers, that’s not been him. So we’re going to continue to grow other ball handlers to do some things. But those are body blows. They were physical down the stretch.

Porter takes ownership?
My job is to get us better and to lead through this. It’s a long basketball season. This is not going to define us. How we react to this is going to define us. That’s going to define us, how we react to this. And I only know one way, that’s to look in the mirror, find out where we’re going to get better, and have all of them do the same and be closer than we’ve ever been. Not the time to get splintered. Super disappointed. Really, really disappointed, and we’ve got work to do. That’s what we’ve got to do.

Why in the world was Bamisile sitting, only playing 3 mins in second half?
“We went with some veterans. We’ve got to learn to trust defensively some guys. We had a lead and it wasn’t as much as scoring, we’ve got to have good defensive possessions. We ran a nice little inbounds play for him, full court, we got Joe a layup on that coming out of a little timeout. I’ve got to keep moving Joe in more because Joe can score, Joe can go downhill. And the more Joe learns the defense, the better we’re going to be.

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My thoughts:

- You cannot start Jalen Hill and Jacob Groves together as long as Joe Bamisile is healthy. It makes zero sense. I didn't think it was a wise move for the exhibition or Monday. It cannot work. That lineup is too slow, not athletic enough. Talking about going with veterans but leaving in Los also doesn't resonate. Bamisile needs to be out there for his athletic ability. He can do things nobody else on the roster can. Period.

- Yep, find another confident ball-handler. I firmly believe that's going to be Uzan, but you could tell the whole team looked kinda spooked when Sherfield went down cramping in the final minutes. Nobody was that calm influence. Or as Porter would say, the 'take us home' guy. Sherfield is going to be that guy, but you're gonna need someone else for moments just like Monday.

- Make layups. No other analysis necessary. Jalen Hill, Tanner Groves, make the layups.

- If TGroves is gonna need breathers, which is OK, get Sam Godwin more involved. If Yaya Keita isn't your guy and Luke Northweather is still working to get to 100 percent, Godwin has played some ball before. He looked good in the first half, IMO.

- It went from 35-29 to 43-29 and then 46-34 before the bottom fell out. As Lamar Wilkerson (Sam Houston) got hot from 3, you could tell OU was trying to get the clock to zero instead of trying to win. There were a lot of bad losses in college basketball Monday, but OU might have topped 'em all. Maybe.

- Hope it's a wake-up call for Moser when it comes to lineups. He's talking about being athletic and going downhill, but he didn't coach to that principle Monday evening with the personnel that was often out there. There are enough chances to make this up (Villanova, Arkansas, Thanksgiving tournament), but man, already a big hole to dig out of early.

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Signing day eve

We are a day away from the signing period beginning. FWIW, been told there will not be a signing day press conference with Moser on Wednesday. O...K. So we know Jacolb Cole is signing, what's up with Kaden Cooper and Sebastian Mack?

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I haven't heard anything new about Mack, strangely enough. UCLA sorta lingering out there, while OU and Florida State have been the real teams in the race. The belief is Mack will sign early, but he hasn't said one word about when and doesn't sound like he has notified any schools what's what. Bruins fans are leading a social media charge to get Mack to UCLA.

Cooper? I heard this afternoon from two sources Cooper has made his decision. It'll be Alabama or OU. What both sources also said is Cooper has not told anybody what that decision is. But I do expect him to announce, if not tomorrow, at least during this period.

On Nov. 8? I'd go OU for Mack and Bama for Cooper. The Sooners are still being ultra-aggressive for both and will maintain that energy the entire way. Will update if learn anything new in the upcoming hours.

For the five (?) people still reading this weekly, thx and here ya go

DaShaun White
Return of Bowman?
He’s been big, real big. He’s a guy who is going to bring a lot of plays to the field. He’s going to make a lot of plays. He’s going to be in the right position. He’s going to talk. He’s going to anticipate. I know me and him on the same field, it was nice to get him back.

Alignment issues in Week 10?
That’s on the players 100%, starting with me. I know I had quite a few misalignments. It’s something we’ve been given time after time. We just have to get it down and slow things down in our head. However we get that done, person by person, it’s what you have to do to get it done.

Stopping the run?
You don’t get lined up, you don’t know where to put your eyes, you don’t know where to fit. That sort of deal. One really big thing is we have to communicate to each other a lot better. That’s been something that today we tried to take up a notch.

Clock ticking on OU career?
No doubt. You keep hearing from the coaches that time is ticking. We sit in the meeting room and it has the amount of days of practice left. We are like ‘dang.’ There’s 18-19 days of practice left. It settles on you. I’ve just tried to be present all year long. It’s not something I’m worried about. I’m just trying to remain present in all the moments.


Brayden Willis
Mistakes & finishing?
No, it’s just being able to finish. We just realized some points where we’ve got to finish. I think that the biggest thing, just going back and looking at the film and looking at all the mistakes that we made and just saying, ‘Oh man, we could have finished better.’ But that’s in the past. That’s last week. Now we can take that to hopefully out to West Virginia.

Age separation on roster?
Yeah, a little bit. But not so much of the age thing. It was just the turnover. It was the turnover. There’ s a lot of people that departed, and it’s just a weird roster makeup, to say the least. But our guys do a great job of responding, they do a great job of staying together. So with that type of resolve we have on the team, we’ll learn from it and we’ll carry it on to next week.


CJ Coldon
Ready to go to WVU?
I haven’t heard too much besides it’s in kind of the middle of nowhere. When I think about West Virginia, I think about a lot of trees, a lot of woods and like, the raccoon hat. I think about that, but I’ve been one time and it was traveling through, just going to Florida to, I think, AAU nationals. I used to play basketball when I was little so that’s the only time I’ve been in West Virginia.

Communication in the secondary?
It’s been good, first of all, but we just have to be better overall. As a secondary, we have to community. Everybody has to communicate on the defense in order for us to be successful out there on the field. We’ve just got to communicate and that sets us up to be in the right spots.

How does the complexity of this defense compare to Wyoming’s defense?
It is very difficult. I was in the system for five years, four years already, so coming here and not having a spring ball, it’s very difficult to learn and super complex. So definitely got to put the extra time in and just be tired watching it every day.

What can you learn from the pass interference you had Saturday?
I panicked. I knew that right then and there. I just panicked from the game plan. I thought it was gonna be something different, and you can’t guess out there. So definitely a good learning experience. A bad play by me, but it’s something you can learn from and get better from.


Isaiah Coe
Cast on hand?
“It’s definitely something that I did not expect to happen, but I’m used to it. I had the same kind of injury in high school my senior year, so I definitely have experience playing with it, but it’s still a cast at the end of the day. First game, I’m just glad the first game’s out and (I’m more used to it). It definitely was something that I had to adjust to.”

Facemask penalty?
“Man, I felt bad. I felt bad as soon as it happened. Especially because the way the play was set up, obviously that wasn’t my intention to get a penalty, but I wasn’t just trying to let him keep blocking me. Especially since the play was over, that was probably the main thing that I tried to stop them, like the play was over. I just was like: okay, the play is over, I’m not trying to him dump me to the ground and finish me. That’s when I was really on the sense of like let me just try to grab something so he can let me go and the play would just be over, but I ended up grabbing his face mask and we all know what happened. It was definitely not my intentions at all, 100%, but you’ve got to live with what we do. Coach Irv, Coach V saw it, he knew what I was trying to do. In the moment obviously he’s mad, but we had a team meeting and all that and he addressed it. He understood what was happening in the situation so he was just trying to tell me to be more disciplined and be smarter in that situation.”

Staying positive?
“It’s definitely frustrating, but that’s what comes with being at Oklahoma. We understand the magnitude of where we’re at. We understand that we have an uphill, we see around this building all the banners, the 50 conference championships, the seven natty’s, so we understand what we have to live up to. We don’t back down from the pressure. We understand that when we rise up we’re gonna be just fine. We’ve just got to live and get up the next day and try to get better each and every day. Not try to do too much, but not try to do too little.”

Forecasted to MSU. Not good. But probably bogus predictions tbh.

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@ Josh_M will OU be a player for him? This article does not mention OU except for his recent offer? Is this more bad stuff from the National guys?

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Put together some of the best Bedlam touchdowns since 2003. Thought y’all would enjoy!

Hoping we can find a few more on the 19th to add to this collection!

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As I was reading the 4 part series that the Clemson Rivals site did on BV near the beginning of his tenure, one of the quotes about the early days at Oklahoma w/ Stoops really stood out…

“Our first year at Oklahoma was so hard. There were so many things we needed to change, and it started with attitude and work ethic. They were just a model of dysfunction when we got there. A lot of guys had overinflated opinions of themselves. Some guys who were really highly recruited couldn't play. Just a lot of internal issues, trying to teach guys how to win, how to be a team.”

I’d bet that, given the opportunity, he’d say that it’s been just as hard, if not more so, this time around. There are plenty of guys on the roster that everyone wanted coming out of HS, but a lot of them are tremendous athletes not great football players.

Brent also talks about going from a KSU LB room that included AAs Mark Simoneau, Jeff Kelly and Travis Ochs - all of whom he’d plucked from the JUCO ranks. He basically said that KSU couldn’t get the time of day from elite HS players no matter the results on the field or what they did or said as recruiter. So, part of the reason he ultimately decided to come to OU was the ability to secure commitments from elite talent.

Personally, the realization that this guy has been through this before and knows how to dig out, even if it means bringing in some JUCOs and transfers to fill gaps, is reassuring. Sure, he had more to work with on relative basis at Clemson, BUT he and Bates developed those guys in ways that Kevin Steele couldn’t/didn’t. Again, it tells ne that he knows what to do with talent when he signs it - and that has been missing at OU for a while.