This is so much of a repeat of last year. When will anybody be happy again? Does OU have to win a NC every year? Some of you (myself included) simply cannot enjoy football any longer unless there is a victory. And even then we complain about the victory. When Stoops finally steps down, how long are we going to give the new guy a chance to succeed before the death threats begin?
There's something about Stoops that just isn't the same. He may appear to coach the same with a few variables. He may suggest he still has the fire, but that isn't the case. There is just something about a coach who has lasted as long as he has that the game does indeed pass him by. It is time for him to retire with one NC to look back on. I cannot explain it but there are little suggestive intangibles of a person's personality, their psyche, that taps into an individuals soul that people see and respond to in a positive way. His soul-fire has died. He used to have it. Now he simply goes through the motions. He still actually goes through emotions, but they are not the same. You may see him on the sidelines yelling and providing and outward appearance of pissed-offness, but inwardly there is just something that is missing. I have a hard time trying to explain it, but that's why you hear coaches and people say the game has passed them by.
For me the fun of college football is fading. I think my soul-fire for football is dying too. I'm getting too old to worry about the motivation of a bunch of kids on a football field. I look at football fans and the badge of honor worn by them for their favorite teams. I've worn my OU badge since 1970. I used to have my a.m. radio by my side listening to Joe Washington run, then go outside and imagine myself running like Joe. But the days in front of the TV are fading. Thank goodness for live TV recording. When OU fumbles a game like the last one, I simply hit delete without wasted time.
I am slowly losing it with the NFL too. I've spent many wasted hours yelling at the TV and getting angry where it spills out into my life. Jeez Louise. Not once has Bob or any other coach called me to apologize for the loss that wasted my time. Yet, I let these kids playing on a football field invaded my emotional territory and I am getting too old for it. I want OU to win as bad as anybody, and then they don't. So what. Place this next to a person dying of cancer and it doesn't necessarily rise to a high importance of life.
The end.
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There's something about Stoops that just isn't the same. He may appear to coach the same with a few variables. He may suggest he still has the fire, but that isn't the case. There is just something about a coach who has lasted as long as he has that the game does indeed pass him by. It is time for him to retire with one NC to look back on. I cannot explain it but there are little suggestive intangibles of a person's personality, their psyche, that taps into an individuals soul that people see and respond to in a positive way. His soul-fire has died. He used to have it. Now he simply goes through the motions. He still actually goes through emotions, but they are not the same. You may see him on the sidelines yelling and providing and outward appearance of pissed-offness, but inwardly there is just something that is missing. I have a hard time trying to explain it, but that's why you hear coaches and people say the game has passed them by.
For me the fun of college football is fading. I think my soul-fire for football is dying too. I'm getting too old to worry about the motivation of a bunch of kids on a football field. I look at football fans and the badge of honor worn by them for their favorite teams. I've worn my OU badge since 1970. I used to have my a.m. radio by my side listening to Joe Washington run, then go outside and imagine myself running like Joe. But the days in front of the TV are fading. Thank goodness for live TV recording. When OU fumbles a game like the last one, I simply hit delete without wasted time.
I am slowly losing it with the NFL too. I've spent many wasted hours yelling at the TV and getting angry where it spills out into my life. Jeez Louise. Not once has Bob or any other coach called me to apologize for the loss that wasted my time. Yet, I let these kids playing on a football field invaded my emotional territory and I am getting too old for it. I want OU to win as bad as anybody, and then they don't. So what. Place this next to a person dying of cancer and it doesn't necessarily rise to a high importance of life.
The end.
For a signed copy of this dissertation, please call me at 1-800-867-5309
