I'm wrong a bunch, but I feel like our field goal kicker sucks! I'd rather go for a 4th and 20 than let him kick over 20 yards?!? As a fan, I guess I'm just used to OU having great kicking all the time, every season.
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Not wrong...not sure where he came from, but that has to be a big recruiting need.I'm wrong a bunch, but I feel like our field goal kicker sucks! I'd rather go for a 4th and 20 than let him kick over 40 yards?!? As a fan, I guess I'm just used to OU having great kicking all the time, every season.
I 100% agree. Pitiful, see your thesaurus. Let's go for terrible, shitty, pathetic, inept...He is pitiful..,tells you a lot about what a damn train wreck special teams is. Coach/Coordinator should be shit canned. No delay…on the plane back to Norman.
Maybe the problem is that the coach doesn’t have anyone with talent to coach. Just saying. Who is the special teams coach anyway? Like the old saying “you can’t teach stupid”.He is pitiful..,tells you a lot about what a damn train wreck special teams is. Coach/Coordinator should be shit canned. No delay…on the plane back to Norman.
I meant 20 yard's! 😁40 yards? Hell. he missed a Chip Shot
I was wondering the same thing, about who the special teams coach is.Maybe the problem is that the coach doesn’t have anyone with talent to coach. Just saying. Who is the special teams coach anyway? Like the old saying “you can’t teach stupid”.
OU came close in 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1987 as well..Oh yeah there’s plenty of us seasoned veterans here. We should have won a Natty in 77
OU came close in 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1987 as well..
And maybe in 1957 and 1958.
I didn't realize all that, but it makes sense. I don't think anyone has ever made the winning kick. I'm definitely watching Saturday morning.It's actually 33 yards which is a different deal. I was never even a moderate athlete. But when I was a manager in high school, just with just a tee, a ball and me, I could make a 25-yarder pretty consistently after a lot of practice. There's a reason they do 33 yards. It's better than a decent challenge. They also snuggle up the surrrounding fans, so that a good athlete can't back up quite as far as they need to give it a good shot.
Also, the former quarterback, Kirk Herbstreit doesn't do a good job of holying for the kick. His leg crowds the ball, further limiting the kicker's shot at giving it a really good kick. And there's a whole lot of pressure. I guess they're up to $100K, now. It was over 90K last week. A lot of us who can make a free three over three quarters of the time, would be challenged to make one shot for $90,000. There was one kicker a little over a month ago, who made a pretty good straight kick, but it came up a little short.
All those factors were intended when they set this up. Add to it the shortness of time to prepare for it, with many trying is less than kicking shoes, and these results aren't very surprising.
Game is today my man, 30 minutes from now!I didn't realize all that, but it makes sense. I don't think anyone has ever made the winning kick. I'm definitely watching Saturday morning.
Was talking about College GameDay. 23 hours later.Game is today my man, 30 minutes from now!
There was yet another fumble on the Phelps hit that they gave back to OU and the Nebraska fans were absolutely livid about the call. The killer was Sims' fumble inside the NU five yard line. We outplayed NU all game but turnovers destroyed us. Alabama beat Penn State for the NC in the Sugar Bowl but we were better than either of those teams. We beat Nebraska in a rematch in the Orange Bowl in a game that wasn't nearly as close as the final score.The 1978 game is the one that sticks out in my mind. OU fumbled the ball 9 times at Nebraska and lost by 3 points. Of course, the Sooners got revenge in the rematch at the Orange Bowl, but that loss at Nebraska cost OU the national championship. The other thing that I remember about that loss is that Kelly Phelps nearly got beheaded on a kickoff return. Still one of the hardest hits I've ever seen in a college football game.
I just watched the video of Kelly Phelps taking the hit. Damn, I'm surprised his helmet stayed on!The 1978 game is the one that sticks out in my mind. OU fumbled the ball 9 times at Nebraska and lost by 3 points. Of course, the Sooners got revenge in the rematch at the Orange Bowl, but that loss at Nebraska cost OU the national championship. The other thing that I remember about that loss is that Kelly Phelps nearly got beheaded on a kickoff return. Still one of the hardest hits I've ever seen in a college football game.
Imagine how bad the other guys must be.He is pitiful..,tells you a lot about what a damn train wreck special teams is. Coach/Coordinator should be shit canned. No delay…on the plane back to Norman.