Bonitto out this week...

[kcstorm06]

This would be a bigger thing against WVU. Still hurts though. Wish him a speedy recovery. Bookie may be out too.

 

[iasooner1]

Hopefully both are available for WVa. Would be huge if Bookie could make a big difference with no glaring mistakes or penalties to end his career as a Sooner

 

[CTOkie]

Bookie evidently has never been "reeled in" as far as playing smart, disciplined football. His so called "intensity" is reckless and is an "all about me" display that is far too prevalent in both college and especially NFL football.

 

[humblesooner]

CT - Just posted elsewhere that Bookie's type aggression before the whistle is what OU's defense needed after the previous administration's soft defense.
But, it is after the whistle - well after the whistle - that is a problem IMO.
Most recent point is Bookie pointing in an opponents face after a big 3rd down stop, not just a quick point, but one that lasted halfway across the field. He was daring the officials to make that call. And he put his defensive teammates right back on the field after they worked so hard to get the stop.
Bookie is routinely pulled for one play, then sent right back in games. He knows he can get away with those antics.
LR runs the risk of other players seeing this and copying his "me, me, me" actions. You try to reign them in after letting Bookie get away with it for years and you risk locker room dissention.

 

[newnasty]

You try to reign them in after letting Bookie get away with it for years and you risk locker room dissention.

I believe everything you posted is spot on friend, but I also think they are allowing himback on the field to avoid locker room dissention now, this year.

 

[kcstorm06]

LR said the team D was going to be knocked down two notches if Bookie was benched. He is undersized and poorly disciplined. Players should never be entitled a starting position just because they are a rah rah rah guy. To keep getting burned and making dumb penalties is destructive to the team...he costs us at critical times of the game being a lunkhead. Rewind to Iowa State game. For every one good play there were 5 bad ones.

 

[ShamWowed]

CT - Just posted elsewhere that Bookie's type aggression before the whistle is what OU's defense needed after the previous administration's soft defense.
But, it is after the whistle - well after the whistle - that is a problem IMO.
Most recent point is Bookie pointing in an opponents face after a big 3rd down stop, not just a quick point, but one that lasted halfway across the field. He was daring the officials to make that call. And he put his defensive teammates right back on the field after they worked so hard to get the stop.
Bookie is routinely pulled for one play, then sent right back in games. He knows he can get away with those antics.
LR runs the risk of other players seeing this and copying his "me, me, me" actions. You try to reign them in after letting Bookie get away with it for years and you risk locker room dissention.

"To thy own self be true". I could be way off base here, but LR does not strike me as a disciplinarian. As such, the players would know if he were to get out of character. I love the drill instructor mentality of coaches but that is not who LR is and if he were to change, the players would see through it. LR needs bulldog assistant coaches to reign in the players in my opinion.

 

[CTOkie]

Riley should be free to enact discipline to any player at any time during the season.....otherwise it's the inmates running the asylum.

 

[CTOkie]

"To thy own self be true". I could be way off base here, but LR does not strike me as a disciplinarian. As such, the players would know if he were to get out of character. I love the drill instructor mentality of coaches but that is not who LR is and if he were to change, the players would see through it. LR needs bulldog assistant coaches to reign in the players in my opinion.

Agree.
After watching the show on Saban and Belichick a few days ago, I came away with the opinion that they are clearly the best two coaches in football.
Teamwork is their main ingredient.
Saban also has said:
There are three things we cannot have....we can't have complacency....we can't have selfishness....we can't lose our accountability. Evidently, he recruits players who accept those guidelines BEFORE they come to Alabama.

 

[Belldozer1]

Agree.
After watching the show on Saban and Belichick a few days ago, I came away with the opinion that they are clearly the best two coaches in football.
Teamwork is their main ingredient.
Saban also has said:
There are three things we cannot have....we can't have complacency....we can't have selfishness....we can't lose our accountability. Evidently, he recruits players who accept those guidelines BEFORE they come to Alabama.

What’s interesting about Saban’s teams are how well disciplined they are. If any team had the right to trash talk during games, they do but I don’t really recall anything but good sportsmanship from the while they’re beating teams down.

 

[ShamWowed]

What’s interesting about Saban’s teams are how well disciplined they are. If any team had the right to trash talk during games, they do but I don’t really recall anything but good sportsmanship from the while they’re beating teams down.

I agree. It is one reason I do not root against them unless we play them. They strike me as quiet professionals in a way. They do their talking by playing outstanding football. I think there is a fine line though. Football is an emotional sport. So having a Bookie and certainly Perkins sometimes pay dividends to the other players.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

"To thy own self be true". I could be way off base here, but LR does not strike me as a disciplinarian. As such, the players would know if he were to get out of character. I love the drill instructor mentality of coaches but that is not who LR is and if he were to change, the players would see through it. LR needs bulldog assistant coaches to reign in the players in my opinion.

LR is more of a Pete Carroll type. Imo

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

What’s interesting about Saban’s teams are how well disciplined they are. If any team had the right to trash talk during games, they do but I don’t really recall anything but good sportsmanship from the while they’re beating teams down.

As a poster said earlier, bama's the gold standard love em or hate em.

 

[Soonerborn59]

Not a Saben fan but I have to admit the man is a great coach. Every year his teams play with discipline and he doesn’t put up with players like Bookie. If Bookie pulled that crap at Bama he wouldn’ see the field for a while.

 

[Plainosooner]

Not a Saben fan but I have to admit the man is a great coach. Every year his teams play with discipline and he doesn’t put up with players like Bookie. If Bookie pulled that crap at Bama he wouldn’ see the field for a while.

At Bama, I don't think Bookie would see the field ever.

 

[CTOkie]

At Bama, I don't think Bookie would see the field ever.

I doubt if he would even see the Alabama campus.

 

[newnasty]

All correct. But Saban's Bama is different from just Bama. The CFB landscape is gonna look different w/o a Saban Bama.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

All correct. But Saban's Bama is different from just Bama. The CFB landscape is gonna look different w/o a Saban Bama.

No doubt about it. Saban has owned CFB since he took over the elephants.