Firing Mike wouldn’t be easy for anyone, but especially not for Lincoln since he was Bob’s hand-picked successor. But it will be even more difficult because Mike will become untouchable in major college football after being fired. His reputation as a tone deaf coach who is not a good Xs and Os coach, has no self control, and no respect from the players will make unsuitable elsewhere. Firing him at OU will effectively end his college coaching career, unless he’s willing to coach outside of the Power 5 conferences.

Anybody know who the hot up and coming defensive assistants are out there? We haven’t been good on the defensive side of the ball in nearly 15 years. Something has to change.

Will he bring Bud Foster as the DC with him. We'll pay him $2 million. Even pay Beamer Jr. an extra $100k. ****! Just get me someone that has a clue!! FUMS!

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November 10th vs LSU

QB: Murray / Kendall / Mordecai
Ex: 1460 pass yards 17/2, 285 rush 4 TD. Murray On Pace For 4088 pass 48 TD 798 rush yards 11 TDs. Heisman here we come.

RB: Sermon / Brooks / Pledger
Ex: Mark my words, this is the game Brooks stakes his claim in OU's backfield. Dude gets north/south so quickly and has subtle yet effective cuts in the open field.

FB: Meier / Hall
YWR: Calcaterra / Morris / Willis
Ex: This group has a combined 4 TD receptions on the year. Not too shabby.

HWR: Tease / Basquine / Stoops
Ex: This group has a combined 7 catches. wuff.

XWR: Lamb / Miller
Ex: Lamb is now 31st in OU career receiving yardage with 1155. OPF 974 rec. yards.

ZWR: Brown / Robinson
Ex: Brown 544 yards, 5 TD. OPF 1523 yards. Would be 3rd best all time season by WR and one yard behind Westbrook's Belietnekovdofdfjietv season. He's 14th in receiving yardage at OU.

RT: Ford / Ealy
RG: Samia / Robinson
C: Humphrey / Alvarez
LG: Powers / Hayes
LT: Evans / Swenson

EDGE: Jackson / JMT
Ex: Jackson has 35 tck, 4.5 TFL, 2.5 sacks. OPF 98, 12.5 and 7.

NG: Gallimore / Faamatau / Overton
DT: Bledsoe / Lott /
SDE: Mann / Perkins
Ex: Perk has 12 tck, 4 TFL and 3 sacks. As a freshman OPF 33.5, 11 and 8.5. That's insane #s by a freshman.

WLB: Bolton / Kelly
Ex: Bolton has 62 tck, 4 TFL, 1.5 sacks, 1 PBU, 2 FR, 1 TD. OPF 173.5 tackles.

MLB: Murray / White
Ex: Murray has 64 tck, 6 TFL, 3 sacks (team leader). OPF 179, 17, and 8.5. That's All American #s.

SLB: Jones / Bonitto
Ex: Hopefully Jones is back, I think we'll need to go heavy vs. UT.

CB: Norwood / Brown
Ex: If they don't start Brown....burn it down.

CB: Motley / Brown
Ex: Same as above.

SS: BRH / Parker
FS: Haughton / Barnes
NB: Broiles

Overall, the D is getting more TFL and sacks. Last year we had 79 TFL and 26 sacks. This year we're OPF 109 and 42. We're OPF 4 guys over 10 TFL (Murray, Bolton, Jackson, Perkins). Last year Obo was the only one, next highest was Murray and Ward with 7.5 each.

'19 Outlook

QB: Kendall / Rattler / Mordecai
RB: Brooks / Sermon / Pledger
FB: Hall / Tillman / Saltarelli
YWR: Calcaterra / Morris / Willis
HWR: Henderson / Robinson / Stoops
XWR: Lamb / Miller / Bridges
ZWR: Wease / Crawford / Rambo
RT: Ford / Ealy / Swaby
RG: Robinson / Moore / Alexander
C: Humphrey / Ogar
LG: Hayes / Simpson
LT: Walker / Swenson / Wilkins

EDGE: Jackson / Redmond / Jones
DT: Gallimore / Faamataua / Thompson
DT: Bledsoe / Lott / Kelley
SDE: Perkins / Mann / Thomas
WLB: Kelly / Asamoah / Draper
MLB: Murray / White / Perkins
SLB: Jones / Bonitto / Daley
CB: Norwood / Washington / Baldwin
CB: Brown / Edwards / Davis
SS: BRH / Parker / Morris
FS: Sylvie / Barnes / Yell
NB: Broiles / Yell / Fields

To Michigan

My SIL has two young boys and is dealing with their dead beat dad. She needs to take him to court and get parental rights changed/health insurance information so they can get treatment ...he won’t return phone calls/texts/won’t talk to her at all, he won’t give her any insurance information...dude is a real POS. His cousin is his lawyer and does whatever he says...she doesn’t have the $$ to spend on a lawyer.
Any Scoopers have any insight to navigate these waters...know of any lawyers that do this type of work pro bono in the Norman area?
Thanks in advance.

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Story added:

https://oklahoma.rivals.com/news/sooners-lose-rodney-anderson-for-season

My God......Dean Blevins reporting the loss as a "nightmare" and "devastating". Sensationalize much?

Back-to-back recruiting weekends and just not that much, sorry.

Start with Marcus Hicks, Kori Roberson, Jonathan Perkins and Stacey Wilkins (via Kelvin Hicks):



- Will try to catch up with Perkins. He's been pretty elusive, but we'll certainly attempt to track him down to see how his official went. We'll see Hicks next week (Sept. 20) and we've been in touch with Wilkins and Roberson quite a bit so not really urgent.

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(Downs, far left, should end up being one of #OKPreps' top prospects for 2021)

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- Caught up with 2021 Weatherford TE/ATH Ethan Downs. Sounds like he had one heck of a time. Downs isn't 6-4, but I don't think that will deter OU from an eventual offer. Downs was at OU's camp in the summer and returned this weekend.

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Ethan Downs:

"I had a great time. The game was fun and exciting and my favorite part was pre-game and walking out of the tunnel. We were standing on the sideline and people were yelling, 'Ball!' and my dad got hit in the face from a ball from the pitching machine! He took it like a man though, just stunned him. It was hilarious." - Downs

Looks really slow, missing holes and struggling to read blocks. Man we need to let pledger get some run.

Huge get for A&M, I thought we had a great shot at him

With Wease being the number 2 player in the country what should we expect next year?

Lightning has passed - game on!

SMU up 7-0... fantastic 51-yd run

UPDATE: Have been told by someone close to the program that Gumbs' family wants him closer to home because his mother is in poor health. I would expect we'll hear all kinds of things as to why this happened. But I hate sitting here saying something like that isn't genuine.

ORIGINAL REPORT: Just confirmed through sources at OU that Gumbs and his family have decided he will leave the OU football program. We had heard some rumblings right before the start of the podcast and I wanted to make sure this wasn't just a kid that was frustrated and telling people he was going to leave before he really sat down and talked it over with the coaches.

After researching it some more, I can confirm the staff is aware and has been told by the Gumbs family that their son will not be returning to OU after he went home following his knee injury.

It sounds like this was a decision made by the family more than the player. Just the feedback I'm getting. Josh can probably update you on the history with Gumbs and his father and how much drama there was getting him to OU in the first place.

But we can confirm, Gumbs is leaving OU even though the coaches did everything they could to convince him to stay.

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From OU:

NORMAN— University of Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley announced Wednesday that sophomore defensive end/linebacker Addison Gumbs has decided to transfer due to personal reasons.


Gumbs, from Hayward, Calif., played in four games last year and totaled eight tackles and a pass breakup. He sustained a season-ending injury on Friday.


"Addison did a very nice job while he was here," said Riley, "and we certainly wish him the best."

I feel like I have to say this with the way the board has been the last 12 hours or so. But the podcast won't be live right after the game. It won't help you to keep asking where is the postgame podcast, where is the postgame podcast. There are several things that have to happen before we even start recording the postgame podcast.

1) The postgame press conferences have to take place.

2) Eddie and Bob have to get their stuff for the site done first and foremost.

3) I have to rush back to the studio to do the Sports Animal locker room show.

4) I have to cut up audio.

5) Eddie and Bob have to get to the studio.

6) We record the podcast for about an hour. So that will put us roughly 4-5 hours after the game is over before we even finish recording.

7) uploading the podcast means even though the game starts at 11:00, the podcast won't be up until evening. It usually takes me a couple of hours once we finish before it is out there for the world to gobble up.

8) During night games, we won't podcast until Sunday. That could change a bit on the road. But we'll have to play that by ear. The entire goal is to have these podcasts up last Sunday night so you have them to download Monday mornings for your commutes to work, etc.

PODCAST LINKS:

Soundcloud
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So I know that Nebraska is making a decent amount more money in the Big Ten than they would if they were still in the Big 12, but just as far as fan experience goes, do you think the fans wish they were back in the Big 12 or are the happy in Big Ten country?

Addison Gumbs sustained a non-contact knee injury during Friday’s practice and will miss the season

No update on Austin Kendall. Riley says they are optimistic. I can add they carted Kendall off during a timeout late 4th quarter.

Other than that everyone is good.

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shoulders can be tricky especially for a LB. hopefully just a stinger.

How much credit for these coaches today ? Fundamentally sound ? staying in your gap ?? It’s a whole new world .

Does OU ever bring back John Blake for any sort of recognition. I know he didn’t have any real success here but is he blacklisted from ever returning? Will he ever be included in any sort of coaches recognition etc? Just curious. Was thinking about this the other day.