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CFB insider claims Texas A&M to Big Ten expansion becomes real-time possibility as conference realignment hits Aggies coast

Hope A&M leaves SEC - want to see teams leaving this conference.

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Finally. For a couple of decades I've been clamoring/saying, "In the future you can pick the camera angle you watch the game from. My belief has always been you can see the play develop best from behind and above the offense.

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Exciting New Analytical Technique from alboo

Traditional aphorism "It's never as good as it seems and it's never as bad as it seems"

I chose to emphasize the bad with result it's worse than it seems.

6 turnovers- including Crunch time

87 yd fumble return TD 2sec left 3rd

INT OU 12 yd line

FUMBLE OU 19

562 yds offense only 24 pts, balanced 361 air, 209 run

Allowed 354 yds passing, NCAA stops ranking at 130th 298 game, gave up big plays of 57 and 42

Held AZ to 29 running yds, anomaly this usually means victory

AZ 105 yds 4th quarter

OU not score in last 21:59 of game

AZ 25 points in last 15:02 of game

Our superstar player, Billy Bowman, was 10th on number of tackles. His two tackles equaled number of tackles by our offensive slot receiver Drake Stoops.

Our season long leading tackler, Danny Stutsman, was 4th with 5 tackles. Only games worse Kansas, 3, got injured early, and 73 - 0 Arkansas State win was pulled early.

What could have changed the game? Our leading receiver, faster than fast, Brenen Thompson only had two catches. He was knocked out of the game on his second catch for twenty yards. If he had played the whole game we could have put him on an island with only one defender to cover him. Then Jackson Arnold could have launched the ball in front of Thompson with no danger of an interception.

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Police investigating after dead longhorn found outside Oklahoma State frat

What upsets me is at an ag school and especially an agricultural fraternity there lawn is just dirt. Oklahoma State has developed numerous strains of grasses some which would meet these nerds and they are very available for those seeking advice. Maybe there is an explanation - ex new utility lines put in or fraternity had an event that involved sandy dirt brought to the house.

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Psalm 38

NOOOOOO!

If Andy Kotelnicki the Kansas Offensive Coordinator was willing to make a lateral move and leave his longtime friend Lance Leupold - which I did not think he would do. Thought he would only leave for a head coaching job

This is the guy I think we should have snatched up. He is not only brilliant, but, dare I say, out of the box. Not tied to any existing offense family tree!!!! I may be too carried away and not seeing reality at all but but but..........

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Popped up on YouTube during The Oklahoma Breakdown with ikard and Lehman

Targeted just for alboo

or all watchers of the show?

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Ikard and Lehman - who I look to for football wisdom have spoken (I'm giving it to you in a fraction of the time they take.

1. Jeff Lebby was a driving force, if not the driving force, in getting OU's NIL program to where it is

2. Lebby was a huge hire (Saban did want him) and Gabe didn't expect him to stay at OU longer than three years at the maximum till hired away with a head coaching job.

3. Jeff Lebby is a fun guy to be around. That is expressing it way too simplistically. Venables is extremely intense, very very direct, "you are with us or you're not.". Lebby was a counterpoint to that defensive coach mindset. Being fun to be around is important to 18 to 22 year olds who are going to have their lives consumed with football.

4. Coaches leaving with Lebby? No one, makes a lateral coaching position move from Oklahoma to Mississippi State!

5. New offensive coordinator is an extremely important hire. Candidates:

Joe Jon Finley is tied very closely with Lebby. He might get a position as the named offensive coordinator at Mississippi State, but Lebby would call the plays.. Advantage that the players wouldn't have to learn a new system and vocabulary with an outside hire. (Personally I don't see this as important after observing kids jump in the transfer portal and go from being an important contributor to a star in another system in just 9 months.

Seth Littrell - is on staff as an analyst. This is a job that pays very little and is frequently filled by head coaches and coordinators that have been fired. They rehabilitate their careers till they get their next big job. Was head coach at North Texas till getting fired. He was on OU's last national championship team. His offensive philosophy is out of the Air Raid family - Mike Leach, Lincoln Riley. This is somewhat different than the Art Briles offense Lebby came from

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When I took this pic somewhere in my head was the title of a blog post, "The unwinding of a life."

This portable stereo was purchased in 1980. It was quite expensive then. Much more than what a comparable device would sell for in the 90's that played CD's. (Originally intended to be a blog post it quickly turned into journaling about my life and grief.)

My mother and I would listen to Toby Rowland and the Sooner Broadcast crew on this while we watched the television broadcast with the sound off.

So I have an attachment to this stereo. I know part of it is pride in thrift. I have many items I still use I bought in the 80's. There is more, a desire for the past to still be here. I've always related to Jay Gatsby, the protagonist in The Great Gatsby who says to the narrator, Nick, "Can't repeat the past? Old Sport, why, of course you can.". (The past is a theme of the book and it extends and applies so far back to the topic of wealth in America to the dutch colonists coming to settle New Amsterdam.). While I am Scottish one could interpret this pride in thrift as aspirations to attach myself to The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

So my mother died January 1 of this year, 2023. So, of course, I Iistened to the games this year and experienced the Sooner Football season for the first time with no nuclear family.

Spent too much time there tying stereo and my deceased mother to theme of wanting to repeat the past.

So I first thought "The Unwinding of a Life" was about my mother. No, it is about the unwinding of my life. I knew in late 2022, my mother would not make it through 2023. So I found around Christmas and looked through old photographs of my mother, my family, my parents wedding, holidays and birthdays in the modest house I was born in. My baby book was there and a few keepsakes from when a toddler. Obvious this was moving, remember thinking how much they loved me and how nice the life my mother and father, and grandparents had built. The house was modest but it backed up to a very small warehouse, two rental houses, and the hardware store owned by my father and grandfather. Once again hitting on thrift, Protestant Work Ethic...

So I looked at their life as my life because my life never launched it started to up till 1992 or a little before.

By the 2010's I had come up with plans for what I would do once my parents were gone. Volunteer, travel or volunteering that included traveling.

While my mother's health was declining I was also depressed because I needed to be here with her and I had no job or something to do.

Now she is gone and I am just stuck. Haven't done much of anything other than have arm and wrist surgery mother so wanted me to get to have. Once I in Dallas, 2021, and she didn't tell me about being in hospital till after I got home; she wanting me to get hands etc operated on. That was the week before OU -Texas, due to her health I didn't go. The game turned out to be probably the most dramatic come from behind victory in the history of the game. Immediately after we won my Mom was crying. I asked why and she said because I didn't get to go.

(This seems horribly written, pretty sure I used to be better.)

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The Sooners need linemen bad. Do we have ones in the pipeline - portal, juco I don't know about? What recruiting sites show as recruit commits, isn't enough.

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If we lose Jeff Lebby to a head coaching job at Mississippi State, for a new coordinator I have been an admirer of Charlie Weiss Jr's mind for a few years. Charlie Weiss Jr. currently has the job Jeff Lebby had before coming to Oklahoma, Offensive Coordinator at Ole Miss.

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In defense of Lincoln Riley's record

2022 11-3

2023 7-5

In 2023 he had a winning record and played

4, 6, 14, 16, 17

Us Sooners have had some bad years equal to Riley's 2023, thank goodness people weren't trying to fire Bob Stoops. And Bob Stoops almost quit coaching the year before Lincoln Riley was hired.

2014 8-5

2009 8-5

2005 8-4

Sure I have my grudges with Lincoln Riley, but trying to fire him with a winning record when he took over a team that went 4-8 is ridiculous.

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The Oklahoma we get vs TCU

Most likely score just over 30 points, it be a one score game and be determined by who wins in turnovers.

8 Big 12 games

5 were one score games wins and losses

3 games the offense scored less than 25

2 big wins scored over 50

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A chart from last week, with a stat I failed to see it's importance. BYU statistically was so bad I could barely believe it. On a chart of 25 most frequently referenced stats - 12 of those BYU was ranked 100 or worse. Also there were 5 stats they ranked between 75 - 99.

Going into OU game they had a 5-5 record. Their record at home was 4 - 1. Why? (Other than two drastically inferior opponents). Altitude.

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I think we have defensive injuries we aren't disclosing.