July 1st Festivities at OU official Entry into the SEC

[OUSOONER67]

Should be a lot of fun and pretty Historic day as well.
Temps wise its gonna be Hot!

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[frou]

I wont be there, but I sure hope its televised or at least filmed. I'd love to see it!!

 

[OUSOONER67]

I wont be there, but I sure hope its televised or at least filmed. I'd love to see it!!

I am guessing it will be, ESPN will be there, Finebaum and Dusty Dvoracek as well as many others I am sure. I think the SEC is gonna make sure its a big deal for exposure for the Conference. Finebaum said as much the other day saying that this is a huge occasion, way way bigger than the previous 2 times the league expanded, Arkie and S. Carolina in the 90's and Aggie and Missouri about a decade or so ago (duh).
May be able to tell a little more about it Sunday as I believe the Horns are doing theirs then, followed by OU on Monday.

 

[22LR]

I'd be in Norman tonight if tomorrow wasn't such an important work day. We've all been waiting for this moment for 4 years now. I'm very excited.

A side note about OU's opener against Temple on Friday, August 30th. Toby Rowland will not be doing his morning radio program on KREF. The guy filling in for him? Joe Castiglione. That's going to be awesome.

 

[lawrencesooner]

I don’t follow the part about Toby. Care to elaborate?

 

[Salt City Sooner]

I don’t follow the part about Toby. Care to elaborate?

He’s in the hospital. A poster on another site said he had a ruptured anyeurysm while mowing.

 

[22LR]

I don’t follow the part about Toby. Care to elaborate?

He is the play-by-play radio announcer for OU and will be busy with game prep that day and saving his voice for the call of the game that evening. So Joe C. is filling in for Toby.

 

[22LR]

He’s in the hospital. A poster on another site said he had a ruptured anyeurysm while mowing.

Hadn't heard that. If true, that is horrible.

 

[hOUston...]

No more Big 8, Southwest Conference, quality network TV shows, Plymouth Barracuda, Houston Oilers and 99¢ Orin’s cheese pizza.

 

[Salt City Sooner]

Hadn't heard that. If true, that is horrible.

Now I’m wondering about the veracity of said report. I’m watching the Oklahoma Breakdown on YouTube; they specifically said it’s June 30th at the top of the cast. They had Toby on from his house & he looks fine to me.

Edit, link:

 

[Salt City Sooner]

Amendment: about a half hour in, they said it was being recorded on the 25th.

 

[22LR]

Amendment: about a half hour in, they said it was being recorded on the 25th.

Yep. He’s in the hospital. Something to do with kidneys. Man, that’s tough news about a great guy.

 

[OUSOONER67]

Amendment: about a half hour in, they said it was being recorded on the 25th.

Watched that last night. Damn.
Heard him say he was 50 on the podcast. Too young to have troubles like that. Its been so hot and if he was doing yard work I wonder if it was heat related.

 

[OUSOONER67]

Heard Joe C say yesterday that every coach at OU they talked to was excited about the move to the SEC. He said the ones that were not are not here anymore. 😁

 

[22LR]

I'm very impressed with all the quality posts the SEC has made on social media (especially Facebook). I've seen more fan-oriented official posts out of the SEC in two days than I saw in the past five years out of the Big 12 office. The Big 12 is asleep.

And fan interaction between schools is unbelievable. So much banter (good and bad) going on. The volume of posts are amazing. I don't see much, if any, of this going on between Big 12 schools. So glad we're in the SEC now.

Texas has been getting clowned big time all week. They deserve it.

 

[OUSOONER67]

Might as well get used to these. We will be in them now going forward and most of them are pretty funny.

 

[Soonerborn59]

Gotta give those guys credit. They make fun of every team.

 

[Medic007]

Heard Joe C say yesterday that every coach at OU they talked to was excited about the move to the SEC. He said the ones that were not are not here anymore. 😁

This is in fact what he said. It's how he said it and the facial expression that make Joe C. Joe C. Cracks me up thinking about it again.

BTW, rumor (wink) is Joe C. ran the 5K the night before and had basically been living at the stadium thru the weekend. The welcome party at the stadium last night was decent. Drone show was pretty cool. Once it cooled off, the ending crowd covered the entire field plus some of the lower bowl. The SEC Commissioner was there. He'll be on scene for the Aug. 30th game.

 

[Salt City Sooner]